Posted on 08/17/2020 6:54:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Congressman Steve Stockman has asked the Supreme Court to hear his appeal from a 10-year criminal sentence on multiple counts involving raising money from just two GOP donors.
You may have heard the term “criminalization of politics.” Steve Stockman’s 2018 conviction is very literally an example. Stockman’s asking the Supreme Court to overturn that politicized conviction should be watched by conservatives who know that a Biden/Harris administration would be a reboot of the lawless Obama Deep State, probably even more vindictive towards conservatives.
Former prosecutor Rachel Alexander said of Stockman:
He was a Congressional whistleblower on Obama administration corruption, with such actions as calling for the House Select Committee to investigate the government’s handling of the Benghazi… exposing President Obama’s payment to the Haqqani terrorist network in exchange for the release of Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, and revealing Hillary Clinton’s violation of the Iran sanctions to allow the sale to Iran of specialized steel used in nuclear weaponry.
Stockman was visited by the FBI within a few days after calling for the arrest of the notorious anti-Tea Party IRS official, Lois Lerner, who was abusing nonprofit tax law to silence conservatives. The judge in Stockman’s trial even refused to let Stockman’s defense mention the name “Lois Lerner.”
The Department of Justice empaneled three grand juries to indict Steve, including one out of the Baltimore office run by Spygate figure Rod Rosenstein, but all three failed to indict. A fourth grand jury, after the government took ample “batting practice,” finally did indict.
General Michael Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell was quoted:
“It is highly likely [the Justice Department Public Integrity Section] targeted former Congressman Stockman and have been extremely and unreasonably harsh toward him because he was so outspoken in trying to hold Lois Lerner, the Clintons, and Obama accountable.”
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Inevitably, Stockman was infected. After an emergency room doctor prescribed him hydroxychloroquine, the prison refused to fill the prescription. As Thomas Lifson wrote, “Someone is trying to kill conservative crusader Steve Stockman.”
The appeals court failed to correct the trial judge for issuing misleading jury instructions that omitted mention of the lawful and constitutionally protected “politics” in which nonprofit organizations may and do engage every day. It was almost as if Lois Lerner herself were directing the prosecution in Stockman’s case.
Steve’s case is literally the criminalization of politics. The court of appeals opinion upholding Stockman’s conviction failed to even once mention the First Amendment in this case about political advocacy, despite ample precedent that he was engaging in protected rights.
Kamala has already said that she coming for us if elected.
If the USSC allows this kind of blatant political weaponization to stand it will set a destructive precedent that undermines the very foundations of the republic.
We are under siege RIGHT NOW. Innocent Americans have been killed and/or gone to jail. Their livelihoods have been looted and burnt to the ground. There is NOBODY coming to save YOU. Not even...
Billy Bagpipes & Hairface Durham in the Department of SELECTIVE Justice/Injustice.
Arm up Americans. BE PREPARED to be UNCIVILIZED toward the UNCIVIL. Don’t unnecessarily put yourself in EVIL’S path.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of...if you can.
The Complete Perversion of the Law
But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others.
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
https://mytuner-radio.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-david-knight-1277232870
LISTEN to Thursday August 13, 2020 #731
The SUPEREVIL should be in SUPERMAX awaiting THEIR EXECUTION...not us awaiting ours.
Know the way
I see rebellion ahead.
And some people naively believe we still have a Constitution that will protect us when not ONE of our elected or appointed would stand to protect the Constitution.
Obama was precisely who the founders were excluding.
The child of a foreigner, born with more than ONE nationality, making it impossible for him to naturally be an American.
I don’t know the specifics in this case but if it were a clear-cut case of prosecution for his conservative political views, why hasn’t President Trump pardoned him? Perhaps this isn’t quite as clear-cut a case as Stockman’s supporters suggest?
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