Posted on 11/23/2019 8:17:27 AM PST by bray
enough brayin
bump
Good job summarizing this horrific episode.
I pray you are right that enough Americans wake up to the depths of corruption in all of the federal government and how it enriches people who enter government.
I consider this a FR classic "impeachment" piece of writing.
I'm sending it on to my non-FReeper list of neighbors, friends and family across the fruited plain. Too many folks were confused and bored by the hearings, tuned them out.....and don't know from squat what the real story is.
Thanks for posting this essay. Well done !!!
Leni
Doesn’t this whole mess equal an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats? It only helps the Democrats and is their idea. In case nobody has noticed, this circus isn’t free. Your tax dollars at work.
Thank you. Feel free to send it wherever you want and have them send it.
Of course it does. They ran it to influence the election and failed miserably. The media is a 24/7/365 infomercial for the DNC too.
Excellent summation of the situation as we now know it. A flock of pirates descended upon a poor Eastern European nation and looted it. And who is yelling the loudest about Trump wanting the Ukrainian Government to investigate corruption? The Pirate Party!
Excellent!
Dems focused on minutiae, and Repubs let themselves for the most part get drawn into defending Trump on the basis of this minutiae. What did he say? Did he mean it? What did he mean by what he didn’t say? Did they really hear him say it, or did someone else hear it?
All of it a silly distraction. Billions went missing in the Ukraine, and several investigations were shut down, from our side and from Ukraine’s side, and the “witnesses” know it, and some of them were themselves involved in shutting down the investigations. Biden is the merest tip of a very big iceberg.
Something like trying to impeach Clinton for Paula Jones, when he was guilty of serious crimes that almost everyone knew about, but none dared to mention out loud.
When did the liberal Dems start setting the standard that the President should follow. Do they want the President to give everything away to foreign powers like Obama did and bow down the the leaders of foreign countries like Obmama. Thank God we have President Trump.
I have been writing about the pillaging of Ukraine for months. You have written a damn good summary of its extent and the corruption that is making sure it continues. It reminds me of how the Deep State, lead by J. Edgar Hoover, eliminated JFK. Today, they are using the power of the kangaroo court to eliminate President Trump.
Corruption in high places has turned America into a banana republic.
Thank you, I appreciate it very much.
They can do what they want since the media has become their broadcasters.
I agree. Thanks for posting this, Bray. Explains how the democRATS exposed themselves...and continue to do so.
Bookmarking to send to all contacts.
Must read.
Leni
They can so long as no Republican files, or SCOTUS doesn’t accept, a suit against "the media.” There are two reasons why both those things should happen:
- ”The media” exists as a cartel. According to Adam Smith, that is the inevitable result of the wire services, which constitute continuous virtual meetings of all major American journalistic institutions:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.You have to be naive as a babe to believe that journalists do not after a century and a half consider behavior which is actually a conspiracy against the public to be unexceptional SOP.
- Under the aegis of the Warren Court’s unanimous but fallacious 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision, Republicans have been unable to sue for libel, and consequently Republicans have not been able to get relief in court from systematic lying by the journalism cartel (and the “liberals” who join themselves to it). According to Justice Scalia, Sullivan is bad law. He explains that in Sullivan Justice Brennan (and the whole Warren Court) claimed that the First Amendment reduced the right of government official to sue for libel.
The fallacy of that is that the Federalists had bigger fish to fry than trying to change libel law. The Federalists were about replacing the Articles of Confederation with a strong Federal government as defined by the Constitution. That was a huge deal in and of itself. The price the Antifederalists were able to extract from the Federalists for ratification of the Constitution was the promise of a bill of rights to guarantee that no rights of the people were subverted by the Constitution. This demand was potentially a poison pill, inasmuch as the rights of the people were a matter of common law and therefore nowhere comprehensively codified. Indeed, common law is organic and still evolving to this day - trying to definitively codify them in the Constitution at a fixed point in time without producing even more controversy was a fool’s errand.
So what the Federalists did was to propose and pass the First Eight Amendments codifying only those rights which historically had been denied by tyrants - and the Ninth Amendment, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” to establish that common law would continue to prevail. The subtlety in the First Amendment - which refers to “the freedom . . . of the press” establishes that freedom of the press is not made absolute by 1A but that traditional limitations for libel and pornography restrictions were untouched by it. Sullivan never claimed that all libel suits were affected by the First Amendment, only those by government officials. And that marks Sullivan as judicial legislation not legal interpretation.
As Scalia put it, it might be a good idea - but if so it shoulda been enacted by a legislature. And in fact it is a terrible idea because it grants “liberals” the right not only to their own opinion but to their own facts.
The journalism cartel should be sued under antitrust and (in the teeth of Sullivan) sued for libel.
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