Posted on 11/14/2019 1:26:02 PM PST by Jim Noble
Richard Nixon was elected to his second term as President in November 1972 with 60.1% of the popular vote and 520 electoral votes. Less than two years later, he was removed from office (forced to resign) by a conspiracy orchestrated by the CIA (Woodward), the FBI (Felt), the media (Bradlee, Bernstein) and Democrats in Congress.
At the time, no American was more enthusiastic for his removal than me. I was a true Watergate fanatic. I ate, slept, and talked Watergate. The day he resigned, I was overjoyed.
I was fooled, and many are being fooled right now, in the same way, by the same conspirators, following the same script aiming for the same outcome.
Let me explain.
Nixon had campaign operatives commit a crime (burglary) for the purpose of finding evidence of another crime (prostitution) and to hurt his enemies. He made a mistake doing this. He rationalized it, I'm sure, by reference to the innumerable crimes of the whoremaster John Kennedy and his successor LBJ. This happened in June of 1972. By the time America went to the polls in November, every single American knew the President's men had broken into the Watergate and believed or strongly suspected that he was somehow involved.
Nevertheless, the voters gave Nixon the largest COMBINED popular and electoral vote majority in the history of the nation. But the Deep State did not agree with the voters' verdict.
So, they constructed a narrative which was supposed to take months, maybe more than a year, to play out.
Those of us who were alive in those days remember the drip, drip, drip of revelation after revelation, "discovered" by CIA operative Woodward and leaked to Bernstein by FBI operative Felt. It was SO EXCITING! LIKE A MOVIE! EXCEPT IT WAS REAL!
But, of course, it wasn't real at all. Every "fact", real and invented, was known to the coup plotters from the beginning.
Had the Democrats in Congress opened an "impeachment inquiry" in January of 1973, they would have been laughed out of town. But that wasn't what they were trying to do.
What they wanted, and what they eventually got, was to get Nixon's Republican defenders to coalesce around a defense that the Deep State know was false, could prove was false, and would drop on the Republicans like an atom bomb at just the right moment.
Alexander Butterfield "accidentally revealed" the existence of White House tapes at a Senate hearing. Of course, this wasn't an accident. And it wasn't a secret, not from the CIA, not from the FBI, not from the traitors on the National Security Council and the other Deep State organs (yes, Henry Kissinger, I'm looking at you).
At the time, it was inconceivable that anyone other than "Tricky Dick" could have erased the famous 18 minute segment. But it's much more likely now, after seeing Ciamarella and Vindman in action, that this was done with malicious intent by globalist spies in the White House still smarting over the spanking delivered to McGovern less that 24 months earlier.
The correct defense of Richard Nixon was to confess that his subordinates had done it, to name his predecessors who had done much, much worse, to apologize to the whore involved, and to point America towards her future.
Once again, Republicans are coalescing around a point (no quid-pro-quo) that the other side knows is false, and can prove is false.
Soon, they will have Republicans saying. "Well, of course, we AGREE with our friends across the aisle that IF the President offered something to the President of Ukraine, taht he deserves to be removed, BUT, we know he didn't" - and when teh bad guys produce the tape recording of the phone call they've had all along, out he goes.
Trump's proper defense is, "You're goddam right I ordered the Code Red". anything less is bound to fail.
Does that make Lincoln a socialist, then? I recall him doing similar stuff during the Civil War, including the implementation of what became our income tax.
-PJ
Bkmk
And big media is the communications division for deep state. Deep state controls the news/communications. When the CIA destabilized or covertly aided in the process of destabilizing/overthrowing countries in the past, it always attempts to seize and or control the media. It's an essential part of the process.
Yes, but it is not at all clear who controls who. Big Media is a Big Player.
Not necessarily....see...if it took an Amendment for the income tax to be instituted, and if Lincoln jammed through an income tax without an Amendment, that would make him a Statist, not a Socialist.
Does it really make any real difference regarding whether or not he’s socialist or a statist? The whole income tax thing was pretty much a socialist ideal.
Besides, you want an idea of unrestrained freedom? Look at France during the French Revolution. There was absolutely no law and order there and just mob vigilanteism, and by extension, free because there was absolutely no order or law in place, and that was a very bad thing and arguably a precursor to socialism.
Read “Silent Coup: The Removal of a President”.
The facts there tell a far different story and John Dean is the one who is the main guilty party trying to get possession of a little black book from DNC HQ with his girl friend’s name in it who was a Call Girl and that would be Maureen.
Yes he worked for Naval Intelligence before he became a reporter.
No I don’t think that was the first time, I think JFK’s killing was one also.
But the fact remains that suspending habeus corpus and enacting an unconstitutional income tax emanates from a state vs individual preference. A socialist believes in state ownership of the modes of production. I agree there is likely overlap beteeen socialists and statists (I'd also argue there is overlap between "crony capitalists" and NeverTrumpers and statists). But one is not ipso facto the other.
I wouldn’t call our country a democratic-republic. If anything, that’s France, especially post-Revolution. We’re a Constitutional republic, and if anything, the Founding Fathers deliberately tried to avoid labeling our country a democracy. Besides, democracy IS mob rule.
And just as an FYI, I’m also against anarchism (and unlike some political graphs, I refuse to list anarchism as being of the far right. Actually, I’d list it at the same place as totalitarianism, whether it be communism, fascism, Nazism, or any of that, that being on the far left).
Federalist 10 is all about how a republic can be a check on factionalism begotten by democracy. But I never said we are a democracy. We directly elect our representatives yet the two wolves can’t outvote the one sheep on what’s for dinner.
You didn’t say we were a democracy, that is true, but you did say we were a democratic-republic, which we are not. We are strictly a Constitutional Republic.
And yeah, good thing for Federalist 10. Too bad Thomas Jefferson was against the Federalists.
Woodward was in communications in the Navy. Handled codes and sensitive intel. It’s widely assumed he was CIA after.
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