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High Ties and Misdemeanors
Am Thinker ^ | February 24, 2018 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 02/24/2019 8:03:13 AM PST by upchuck

Nothing offends people more than unequal justice -- disparate treatment of protected persons and classes. This week, the FBI and Department of Justice’s hash of equal justice became even clearer and the media’s fat thumb on the scales as well.

If you read nothing else this week, read this essay by Lord Conrad Black in the New York Sun, who links the Special Counsel fiasco and the Jussie Smollett hoax and concludes that we just avoided the “biggest constitutional crisis since the Civil War”:

The authors, accomplices, and dupes of this attempted overthrow of constitutional government are now well along in reciting their misconduct without embarrassment or remorse because -- in fired FBI Director James Comey’s formulation -- a “higher duty” than the oath they swore to uphold the Constitution compelled them. Or -- in fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s words -- “the threat” was too great. Never mind that the nature of “the threat” was that the people might elect someone he and Mr. Comey disapproved of as president, and that that person might actually serve his term, as elected.

The extent of the criminal misconduct of the former law enforcement and intelligence chiefs is now notorious, but to make the right point here, it has to be summarized. The fact that the officially preferred candidate lied to federal officials about her emails and acted in outright contempt of Congress and the legal process in the destruction of evidence, was simply ignored by the FBI director, who announced that she would not be prosecuted, though he had no authority to make that determination....

He asserts, and I agree, that the defamation campaign against the president continues with the now-debunked tale of racism by the Covington students and the thoroughly debunked tale of assault on Jussie Smollett.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antitrump; clarice; claricefeldman; claricespieces; covintonstudents; smolletthoax; unequaljustice
Clarice is making a bunch of sense, as usual.
1 posted on 02/24/2019 8:03:13 AM PST by upchuck
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To: bitt; bobfeland; burghguy; Cheerio; ComputerGuy; COUNTrecount; Fedora; FtrPilot; GladesGuru; ...

Clarice Feldman ping.

If you'd like to be on or off the Clarice Feldman ping list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

2 posted on 02/24/2019 8:04:24 AM PST by upchuck (... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
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To: upchuck
...the concept of “hate crimes” is an oxymoron. If you assault or murder someone it’s fair to assume it was out of improper animus. Adding a kicker for “hate” in which attacks on certain classes of people result in enhanced sentences strikes me as an improper “thought crime” punishment, inconsistent with constitutional law.

Clarice 'gets it'...

3 posted on 02/24/2019 8:21:24 AM PST by GOPJ (The Jussie Smollett Media Hoax is a hate crime against Trump Supporters - - John Nolte)
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To: upchuck

Great article.


4 posted on 02/24/2019 8:26:52 AM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: upchuck

It’s the Season of the Hoax, and the great hoax is about to burst. Collusion. If it were a racehorse it would be hyped as Secretariat, and on Derby Day they’d have to roll it out of the gate like a park statue.

A proper DOJ would be appreciated. Some prosecutions might actually rid the nation of this pestilence.


5 posted on 02/24/2019 8:32:38 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: Buttons12

The hoax has been about to burst for two years now, call me when a seam pops.


6 posted on 02/24/2019 8:34:36 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Buttons12

Conrad Black’s column was concise and right on the money. Clarice’s column simply confirms what he said with her usual common sense and brilliance.


7 posted on 02/24/2019 8:37:18 AM PST by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: upchuck

Black’s contention that “Those responsible will pay for this, including at the polls;”

and

“America has survived the greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War,”

make for rosy, comforting windup to his summary of the situation, but they have a pre-WWI motif.

Civility — it’s as dead as chivalry. We’re not resolving any of this at the polls. We had a poll on November 8, 2016. And as for surviving this crisis, it’s hardly over, this is just the end of the beginning.


8 posted on 02/24/2019 8:49:39 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: Spacetrucker
The hoax has been about to burst for two years now, call me when a seam pops.

Nadler's denunciation of the President

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3730211/posts

and other recent grumblings from the rats, strongly suggest they already know what Mueller will be bringing forth. Sounds to me like the bodice ripping has begun.

9 posted on 02/24/2019 9:03:40 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: upchuck

Thanks for the ping, Clarice nails it.


10 posted on 02/24/2019 9:07:30 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: GOPJ

Are non-hate crimes love-crimes?


11 posted on 02/24/2019 9:28:55 AM PST by aquila48
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To: upchuck

Except that the coup happened on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.

All of the subsequent crimes lead back there.


12 posted on 02/24/2019 10:13:16 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Buttons12
Civility — it’s as dead as chivalry. We’re not resolving any of this at the polls. We had a poll on November 8, 2016. And as for surviving this crisis, it’s hardly over, this is just the end of the beginning.

You're right ..

13 posted on 02/24/2019 10:23:51 AM PST by GOPJ (The Jussie Smollett Media Hoax is a hate crime against Trump Supporters - - John Nolte)
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To: Safetgiver

Thank you.


14 posted on 02/24/2019 1:44:29 PM PST by upchuck (... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
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Clarice 'gets it'...

Yes she does. And I agree 100%. Every crime is a hate crime.

15 posted on 02/24/2019 1:51:11 PM PST by upchuck (... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
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To: jazusamo

Thank you jaz.


16 posted on 02/24/2019 1:53:51 PM PST by upchuck (... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
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