Posted on 05/06/2018 9:49:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
I dont think anyone (including Mueller) anticipated that any of the defendants would appear in court to defend against the charges. Rather, the Mueller prosecutors seem to have obtained the indictment to serve a public relations purpose, laying out the case for interference as understood by the government and lending a veneer of respectability to the Mueller Switch Project.
Concord filed its response yesterday. Gerstein has obtained a copy and posted it here. Gerstein quotes this biting point: [Concord] voluntarily appeared through counsel as provided for in [the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure], and further intends to enter a plea of not guilty. [Concord] has not sought a limited appearance nor has it moved to quash the summons. As such, the briefing sought by the Special Counsels motion is pettifoggery.
It is no surprise that they have failed to respond to Concords discovery requests. They dont even acknowledge Concord has appeared in the case to contest the charges. Gerstein reports that Judge Friedrich sided with Concord and said the arraignment will proceed as scheduled Wednesday afternoon. Gerstein also reports that Concord intends to assert its speedy trial rights, putting more pressure on the special counsels office to turn over records related to the case.
I wonder if the Russians might not be more clever than Mueller. For whatever reason, the Special Prosecutor is complicating the issue and seeking to protract the proceedings.
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>>In my little Christian church on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, we understand what is happening and believe that Trump was anointed by God.
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Wow, that is really great, freepertoo. Thanks for sharing. It brightened my day!
I just wonder what we (and DJT) can do about it, more than what is being done now.
Thats why, to me, there is only one issue - delegitimating the media. Without the media and its ability to propagandizethe masseswe the people, the Democrats would be dead in the water. Ive been on that case since Carter was a president, and I have some conclusions/recommendations:
- the issue is not the media, it is the specific format of "information which the media are used to propagandize with. Namely, the topical nonfiction format known as the news. Journalism. If you are whining about the media and not laying a glove on journalists in particular, you are a loser. Granted that fiction can be effectively used against us, nobody is going to support censorship of nonfiction, so it is utterly useless to whine about it. But (as a mater of facts and logic, and hence of law) journalism has its vulnerabilities.
- Journalism as we know it is wire service journalism, and all wire services - and most spectacularly, the Associated Press - have a powerful homogenizing tendency. That is, wire service journalism generates "a conspiracy against the public, as Adam Smith predicted of any meeting of people of the same trade. (And the AP wire is a virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets in the US, ongoing since before the Civil War, which by Smiths logic makes a conspiracy against the public inevitable).
- Journalism is known (by journalists themselves, and anyone who cares to look) to be negative. And yet journalists claim that journalism is objective.
- A claim that journalism - known to be negative - is objective is effectively a claim that negativity is objectivity. But that is a statement of pure cynicism.
- The cynicism - the extreme skepticism - of journalism is directed at society rather than government. In fact, cynicism towards society cries out for unlimited government to save society from itself.
- The combination of cynicism toward society and naive faith in government promoted by journalism is precisely what socialist propaganda wants to sell.
- The promotion of socialist propaganda is the conspiracy against the public which a reading of Smith requires us to expect from wire service, and especially AP, journalism.
- The upshot is that the AP and its membership should be sued under Anti-Trust legislation, and the AP itself destroyed. Because the mission of the AP - the conservation of scarce, expensive bandwidth in the propagation of news - is anachronism in the era of plentiful, inexpensive data transmission bandwidth.
- Campaign Finance regulation either has to directly regulate journalism, or it has to carve out exceptions for the membership of the AP to putatively avoid violation of 1A. But freedom of the press must mean that the government cannot regulate journalism and it cannot prevent anyone from being a journalist. The FEC is unconstitutional, root and branch. And the justification of the FCC is very sketchy.
If you whine about the media but cannot call out journalism, you can never make progress. The issue is not that journalism is not objective - of course it isnt, and cannot be - but that the people are indoctrinated with the propaganda that journalism (somehow) is objective. And that the bias inherent in journalism is toward pro-socialist, anti-freedom, propaganda.
That’s right. His arrogance is costing him and he will lose big time.
Then the indictments and prosecutions can start.
“Meet the New Boss”
Nice posting, also like your handle here. Something that the Deep State may finally have to come to terms with...with many, hopefully, doing time.
Congressman Golmert's revelations on Mueller and the FBI
(its long 2 hrs, but worth watching and forwarding)
Thank you very much.
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