Posted on 02/17/2020 3:14:54 AM PST by Kaslin
I want you to tell me, without bursting into laughter, that I am still supposed to respect our federal law enforcement institutions. I keep hearing about these wonderful keepers of norms and rules and stuff deserve our awe, and then I see the tawdry, self-serving and scummy way they operate, and gee – there’s a disconnect. A big one. If the price of our society is submitting to these corrupt and incompetent people of garbage, well, then I say burn it all down.
That’s the only way to save it: to level it and start over.
Let’s review how our guardians of justice have covered themselves in glory in recent days. And by “glory,” I mean “Scat Francisco sidewalk sauce.”
The scumbag Democrat donors remaining in the Mueller lynch mob decided that Roger Stone, an absolutely harmless gadfly whose real crime was being aligned with Donald Trump and therefore with you, should be sent away for seven to nine years for “crimes” that the Department of Injustice promptly gave a pass on to the loathsome Andrew McCabe. This is the same institution that also gave a pass to Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, Comey the Looming Doofus, and those fugly FBI sexting twins.
You would not get a pass.
Then, if possible, it got worse as the garbage Stone conviction was revealed to have been obtained with an anti-Trump Democrat activist as the jury foreperson. Think about that – an active partisan on the jury. The judge – wanna guess who appointed her? – refused to dump this partisan off the jury because of course, a Democrat candidate for office could be neutral and how dare you question the integrity of the system harrumph harrumph harrumph.
Please tell me more about rules and norms.
Stone’s lawyers are seeking a new trial, but they won’t get one because there is manifestly a dual-track system of “justice” and there will be a bunch of excuses and reasons and exclamations of “How dare you question the system’s integrity!” and, in the end, this manifest injustice will be okay because railroading political enemies of the establishment is not an aberration. It is an objective.
I could continue about Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn and that disgraceful persecution, and others, but this is a column and not a book.
Now, in a system where the kind of integrity our garbage federal law enforcement apparatus likes to pretend it possesses actually existed, Roger Stone’s lawyers would have arrived at federal court, new trial motion in hand, only to find the outraged prosecutors already there demanding – demanding – that the court vacate this fatally flawed conviction on their own motion. See, because the goal of the Department of Justice is justice, and…and…and…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sometimes I crack myself up. I’m hilarious.
I like Bill Barr. I think he wants to do the right thing. But he needs to spare us the clichés about the hard-working and honest DOJ staff because that’s not what we see. I trust Barr, but I trust my eyes more, and all I see issuing from his Department is a flow of raw sewage. And don’t tell me “But they convicted Avenatti!” because Avenatti was not a friend to the establishment. He was a threat, an uppity outsider who smarmed his way into position to potentially cut in the line for power. Yeah, the Democrats were totally broken up for him to be taken out.
I’d have fired the Mueller hind-sniffs who tried to set-up the president by recommending the seven-to-nine year stretch. Alternatively, I’d fire them just for that recommendation. It was absolute Schiff when rapists, thugs, and other Democrat constituents regularly coast out of court with much less time. Wait, I thought we had a non-violent convict incarceration crisis, but I guess that doesn’t apply to political crimes, the most serious crimes of all apparently. No, they won’t get fired. They will keep on ruining lives.
They have failed to meet the minimum standards for integrity. You owe them nothing, not obedience, respect, or assistance. Don’t give them any.
You have no reason to cooperate with any of them if they come asking you questions. You’re a fool to do so – they seek to harm you, so you should protect yourself. Stone is where he is because he foolishly chose to testify.
When a federal law enforcement asks you anything, repeat after me:
“I invoke my right to remain silent. Please stop asking me questions. I want my lawyer.”
“Uh, I was just asking you if there’s a coffee shop around here.”
“I invoke my right to remain silent. Please stop asking me questions. I want my lawyer.”
And when you are in court on a jury, and the prosecutor attempts to stand in the golden glow of the United States of America, remember what the prosecutors did to innocent people for daring to dissent and give that lawyer no credit or benefit of the doubt. Listen closely and carefully to the accused. There was a time when an accused claiming he was framed by the feds could be laughed off; now, you should consider it. Ask Ted Stevens – oh wait, he died after a corrupt conviction. Do not hesitate to acquit, because the Department of Justice has proven itself corrupt and dishonest.
“But, but, but, many hard-working, honest blah blah blah blah….”
Save it.
Who was the guy who went to jail for scores of wrongful convictions thanks to the FBI crime lab scandal?
Who is the guy who went to jail for lying about leaking stuff to hurt the Trump administration?
Who is the guy (or Chardonnay-swilling, cankle-having gal) who went to jail for using classified materials for his/her own personal agendas?
Nobody.
Nobody did because the law is not a neutral set of rules equally applicable to all but a weapon used by politicized bureaucrats to neutralize opponents.
You took your reputation and you used it as Charmin because you wanted your pals to win an election. And now we all know the truth and we know what you are.
You are not the enforcers of justice. You are the enforcers of a two-track system that excuses your pals and jams up your opponents.
So, what do we do? I mean, besides refuse to pretend any longer that the feds are Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., instead of seedy little crustaceans like Andrew McCabe or the hard-five sext twins?
Let Barr do his thing. Let Durham do his. I’m not going to Lucy and the football myself into believing that either one is definitely going to serve up the justice upon the Deep State derps that is the minimal requirement for beginning to rebuild the trust in federal law enforcement these hacks flushed away, but who knows? They might do something. In the meantime, we simply need to treat federal law enforcement as what it is: deeply corrupt and utterly untrustworthy.
The other thing is that the president needs to pardon Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, and the others caught up in the scummy attempt to criminalize dissent. And he should commute Paul Manafort’s sentence to time served. Time to use our power to do justice for those who are victims of injustice.
See, the stakes are high. A dual-track justice system is unsustainable in a free country. True, the Democrats behind these injustices don’t want a free country at all, but we do. If we tolerate these injustices, we won’t have one, and the bad guys are not going to like what happens next. This is how they got Trump. They have only gotten worse. Okay, well, more of this is how you get Caesar.
"So I have zero faith in Barr or the entire corrupt system."
That is why I conditioned my observations so:
If that requires overlooking criminality, he might do that (some would say he already has)
It is better to have NO bureaucracy at all than a corrupt one.
Whatever Barr's motivation, if he fails to return a series of indictments he will go down in history as the Atty. Gen. who lost America the rule of law. Journalism will exempt him, history will not.
Bingo! Since we are talking pie-in-the-sky stuff, Congress needs to be reset as well. There is no way a fresh apolitical person elected to Congress can begin to clean it up. Congress is so corrupt that within a year, this person is bullied/coerced/bribed (by money, favors, power) by the in-place corruptors. Thus, the corruptors need to be removed first. Intense term limits, no vesting, use the same medical as you and I are subjected to, no PACs or appointments thereafter for a period of ten years, severe penalties for disclosing (at anytime, while and after serving) what was learned while in office (perhaps strict liability crimes), etc. So simply remove all current Congressional politicians, and let’s elect a whole new set of non-political candidates under the constraints set by the Constitution. Also, repeal some of the amendments. Let’s turn govey “service” into actual service, where no one enters a “pauper” and leaves a multi-millionaire! Enact a mandatory draft for BOTH genders (not 6 or 7 of these bastardized identities), veterans go to the head-of-the-line for jobs, and on and on.
Other than the one where I opined that indicting the top 100 non-violent seditionists won't cure the problem. The rot is deep and pervasive. Government workers have attitude, and the power to enforce it.
Maybe it's better if Barr lets all of 'em off. The people aren't demonstrating that they are very pissed at this point.
Whatever Barr's motivation, if he fails to return a series of indictments he will go down in history as the Atty. Gen. who lost America the rule of law. Journalism will exempt him, history will not.
We seemed to be aligned here. Not knowing more specifically how far you would go with “overlooking criminality”, for me it may be defined as a strategy of selectively overlooking some actors’ criminality to get at others, and should be done if those given a pass are key witnesses subject to a plea bargain,... to get to the bigger fish. Otherwise, a selective overlooking of criminality without such consequence does not correct the problem. The so called guardians of our freedoms who commit crimes must be held to a higher standard, including punishment meted out, as an example to those in the ranks to follow the law or suffer the consequences.
Right now there is no news that Barr is attempting to do this, including with letting McCabe go.
Tear down and reform, just like the Army after Vietnam.
The DOJ, as with many bureaucracies, is staffed with career employees (lawyers in this case) who are democrats. As POTUS has pushed to build up a conservative judicial, Obama and Clinton pushed to staff the government with their people. It is tough for any Republican department head as they constantly subvert the leadership. And unless it is heinous crime the government union contract won’t allow firing them. It is bad and is throughout the government.
My point of view is that “the law” is long lost. All the Trump campaign and presidency have done is shine light on the status quo.
I don’t have any faith in the authors of history either. They will blow with the wind.
I agree with your observation with only the quibble that shining the light on the dirty state of affairs is something at least.
I don’t have any faith in the authors of history either. They will blow with the wind.
While there's a certain amount of truth in the adage that the victors write the history but I am thinking that if we desend into a state of rank lawlessness, history will see these events as a crossing of a Rubicon.
Two great posts in one thread. Kudos to both of you.
First I heard about this. I thought all they did was withdraw their sentencing recommendation and leave it to the sound discretion of a thoroughly corrupt judge to as she sees fit.
I don’t recall that happening. If that did happen how did we end up with the same DoJ attorneys from before Trump?
No argument here.
It didn't happen. The quote you cited is Schlicter imagining a justice system where none exists.
I am so tired of hearing about “the 99% of FBI that are good, hard working people”. Horse hockey! Not a “whistleblower” in the bunch. “Oh, but their jobs were on the line” is the common excuse. So they’re amoral, which is worse than immoral. They know it’s wrong; they just don’t care.
EVERY question should be answered “Lawyer”. Don’t bother invoking your Fifth Amendment rights, they don’t care. Oh, and IF you finally get a lawyer, demand a tape recording before answering any questions.
Hi.
I can’t find the “Shut the Fu@k Up” video to link.
Great wisdom in that video.
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