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.
The DNC and Media are having a field day with Barr, Trump and all of us. McCabe was cleared on one possible charge out of several that he is still on the hook for. Stone can still be cleared without the President stepping in to pardon him. Burr quitting amid all the finger pointing going on is the last thing any of us need.
Poor judge - how did she break lose from the moral moorings of a fine upper middle class upbringing. Now she has to decide whether to confirm her corrupt ways and maintain the deep state Pyrrhic victory over Stone or does she hide her corruption from the bright glare of public scrutiny on a case where everyone is watching, and just this once do the right thing, where there is a large danger that this will get overturned on appeal.
Decisions, decisions, decisions ....
I guess it's really easy. Do whatever you can to poke a stick at that horrible orange man who never should have been president and just fooled the ignoramuses about what kind of a person he really was.
‘It’s now the “JUST US” Department!!’
Been saying his on this site for almost two years and that no one on the dems and deep state side were going to pay...been severely criticized...can’t see where I have been wrong yet! Hope I am...I am all in for TRUMP...if he doesn’t get cheated out of the election in Nov only he has the last chance to finally do something...only he does - no one else will!
She’s a district court judge. They all abuse their discretion on purpose, knowing that the harmed person has a “right to appeal.” A fairly common remark by a trial judge confronted with obvious error is “you know how to take an appeal.”
Trial courts are outcome-oriented (so are the appeals courts), with enough discretion and precedent available - not to mention the use of rank intellectual dishonesty - with the result being that law is effectively the whim of the trial judge. The whim is couched in legal mumbo-jumbo, of course.
She suffers no harm in doubling down. Deny the motion for retrial, sentence Stone to 9 years, and let the appeals court sort it out.
The congress is clearly afraid of these agencies and refuses to hold them accountable or even expose their wrongdoing and malfeasance. In a free country there has to be accountability. Right now there is none.
Trump’s total f’up of Presidential Personnel Management (the worst of any President) has significantly harmed his first term and he will do only marginally better in his second.
He arrived clueless and was a real slow learner. You don’t give the bear warnings that you are going to drive him from his den, show up and then feed it, and expect it to leave.
Kurt S hints at our only defense in a corrupt judicial system: jury nullification.
Thanks.
Not the one I was thinking of.
Maybe I got the title wrong...
“Shut the Fu@k Up Friday.”
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Hi.
“Pot Brothers at Law.”
I can’t figure out how to link.
Sheesh.
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I find it telling that there is no outrage from Barr over the lawless partisan behaviour and corruptiion that has destryoed the reputation, and indeed Americans’ trust, in those departments. Its hard to image anyone in a high position of leadership not expressing disgust and strong disapproval of such criminality. The only conclusion can be that he is either incredibly passive or is enabling and defending such behaviour.
In fact, it appears that Barr is clueless and not even in control of DOJ. His subordinates seem to be running circles around him.
Barr’s passiveness is having a devastating effect on peoples’ confidence (or lack thereof) in our most trusted institutions. He has massive resources at his disposal yet has not so much as even indicted a single person.
We are watching, taking notes, and won’t soon forget who facilitated the breakdown of American law.
Jefferson was absolutely spot on. Centralized government power leads to oppression of the people. And unmitigated corruption as we now see.
A bureaucracy is never good.
That is very possible, but Barr might have nothing to do with that. Most likely it goes to a much higher power.
Trump is the Last President (if Barr continues to sit on his ass).
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You may well be right. The Democrats have probably come to the conclusion that they can never allow another Trump-like person in office again. When they succeed in getting someone elected to the presidency they will see to it that such a populist outcome never happens again. They will do whatever they need to do to prevent that, regardless of the tactics required.
They are practically telegraphing their intentions right now through intimidation, vote rigging, attempts at changing the electoral system, never ending impeachment, congressional harrassment, vote harvesting, unlawful surveillance of political opponents, etc. They are obviously committed to this.
Somebody needs to inform Hannity. He loves the “hard-working federal LEO’s and their “patriotism.”
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Give them a break. They are so hard-working that they don’t have time to report corruption and malfeasance. /sarc
That judge needs to be impeached. We will need a Republican House, with a majority of at least 20 (to account for RINOs) to make that happen, even in theory.
So I have zero faith in Barr or the entire corrupt system.
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A rational conclusion that has been reached by millions of your fellow countrymen.
It is better to have NO bureaucracy at all than a corrupt one.
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Wait just one minute. We have the BEST bureaucracy money can buy! /sarc
The rot is deep and pervasive. Government workers have attitude, and the power to enforce it.
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The people in government (at least in DC) are mostly there to protect, expand and perpetuate the system. They actually work FOR on another, not to serve the larger interests of the people (taxpayers) who fund their lucrative and comfortable lifestyles. This an observation from someone who has done work for many departments in the Swamp.
They are there for them, not us.
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