The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal Conspiracy
We who elected President Trump understood our elected officials and the Deep State were sandbagging Trump and self-dealing public funds. It was no secret that President Trump is no angel, unpresidential, blunt, and crude, and a disruptor. Trump was hired to drain the swamp.
I watched this kabuki theater unfold over the last several years. Through my eyes as a shopworn gumshoe, I will explain what is happening. My investigative curiosity was first piqued by the ATF Fast and Furious scandal and continues through the recent House impeachment show trial. There is a common element running through all of these cons — the actions of an organized crime conspiracy. A group of people either acting alone or in concert with others committed crimes with a common purpose - a criminal enterprise as described in "CRIMINAL RICO: 18 USC. §§1961-1968 A Manual For Federal Prosecutors."
The players acted together – in the usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials, bribery, thefts by fraud including federal funds, money laundering, perjury and the obstruction of justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights, aided and abetted in the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these crimes. Criminals will lie and can't keep their lies straight. Their methods and behaviors are the same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate white-collar financial schemes. The only difference is when more money is involved, the perps are more adept in concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went. Many of these scandals are well known to the American Thinker readers. I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew sever and the Clinton Foundation as an example of how RICO can be used to prosecute the players.
FBI Director James Comey indicted Hillary Clinton for her home brew server at his press conference. Comey then egregiously concluded that there was no evidence of criminal intent purportedly “required” to prosecute. Comey bastardized the Federal Espionage Act in absolving Hillary Clinton. FBI's investigation of Clinton's emails was low-balled. There was never a real search for the truth. The outcome was preordained. My jaw dropped wide open. I knew the fix was in. FBI Director Comey lied to the people with a straight face. Why?
The chance meeting of Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac was no mere coincidence. This chat was not about the grandkids. Bill Clinton was there to convey a specific message to Lynch that there would be no indictment of Hillary. Hillary Clinton's email case must tank. This would have constituted bribery, if AG Lynch was assured she would continue as AG in Clinton Administration. This meeting took place only weeks before Comey's press conference dumping Hillary Clinton's email case.
The Deep State needed Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back the truth would burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an immediate threat to both the Republicans, Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth were laid bare, it would expose the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power, corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds.
High-level government officials and the Deep State committed many serious felonies either in furtherance of or to conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam. In exchange for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who benefited would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI started and stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice as reported by the Washington Post. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is the most damning. Dinesh D'Souza slammed the Foundation in the National Review, as did The Federalist.
The status of the investigation of the Foundation by US Attorney John Huber's is unknown. Rudy Giuliani said there was enough to pursue "Clinton Inc" as racketeering under RICO. The Foundation and its affiliated nonprofits require a real investigation with an in-depth forensic audit to determine where the money went. In financial crimes investigation, the prime rule is "follow the money, honey." Illicit nonprofits have many ways to divert funds by inflating salaries, expenses, and money laundering.
Illegal nonprofit schemes are difficult to prosecute without hard evidence and the testimony of insiders. The motive of Hillary Clinton's use of the home brew server was to conceal emails from FOIA requests that would provide the hard evidence. Hillary Clinton destroyed the data on her server and cell phones with the knowledge of the FBI. It took years for Judicial Watch and others to pry and recover some of these damning emails from the foot-dragging executive departments that were complicit and knew what was going on.
RICO initially was used to target mob families. RICO is also a useful tool to fight white collar conspiracies. They both have the same hierarchy of low-level crooks led by the top players, linked together with a common purpose. RICO has tools to squeeze the low-level operatives to gather evidence to prosecute, jail, and seize assets of the conspirators. The critical element required is a pattern of criminal or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing two predicate crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. The typical five-year statute of limitations for most federal felonies is extended to ten years from the last criminal act or acts committed to conceal the conspiracy, i.e., lying under oath and similar actions to obstruct justice. The prison sentences are steep. The effect is to cut off the head of the organization and not just the low-level players.
The criminal activity extends back to the ATF's Fast and Furious program through the House impeachment show trial to cover up the illegal acts of the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the Department of State, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA. A telltale sign that the DOJ under US Attorney General Barr is willing to play hardball and may use RICO, came when he spoke to the Federalist Society: "Barr accuses liberal 'resistance' of trying to 'sabotage' Trump." AG Barr said this, "shows FBI launched Trump campaign investigation on the 'thinnest of suspicions." AG Barr is the new sheriff in town, he wears a badge, has guns and will travel, can impanel grand juries, indict and arrest people, and is not limited in his jurisdiction, like DOJ IG Horowitz.
The collective actions of the Deep State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential candidate. Once elected to impede and resist the duly elected President. The President's law enforcement and intel agencies were corrupted at the highest level and went rogue.
Organized crime can't exist without corrupt law enforcement. As I wrote in a letter to President Trump earlier this year:
. . . I believe you understand the gravity of the situation and of its importance to the very survival of our Country as we know it. If the people involved are not held accountable for their actions, we will be no different than some Third World Banana Republic.Failure to act will destroy our founding principle of the Rule of Law as stated by President John Adams, "We Are a Nation of Laws, Not of Men" and we cannot allow a two-tiered justice system to prevail.
Ron Wright is a retired detective from Riverside PD, CA. BA in political science CSUF, M. Adm. University of Cal, Riverside. Facebook at Ron T. Cop.
Hundreds of Professors Sign Letter Begging Congress to Impeach Trump
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Hundreds of college professors, referring to themselves as “American historians,” have signed a letter begging the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, claiming that the president has “violated his oath” and citing his “brazen contempt” for the government. The signees even suggest that Alexander Hamilton himself would disagree with the president’s “private life” as a reason for impeachment.
“We are American historians devoted to studying our nation’s past who have concluded that Donald J. Trump has violated his oath,” proclaim nearly 600 professors in a letter to Congress attempting to justify the impeachment of the sitting President of the United States.
In the letter, the signees insist that President Trump’s impeachment is “urgently and justly” required, and claim that the president is guilty of “attempts to subvert the Constitution,” adding that Alexander Hamilton and other framers of the U.S. Constitution would agree.
As of early Tuesday afternoon, 752 so-called “American historians” have signed the letter published on Monday — nearly 600 of whom are listed as college professors.
The group goes on to claim that President Trump has engaged in “lawless obstruction of the House of Representatives,” and accuse the president of having “demonstrated brazen contempt for representative government.”
They also claim that if President Trump had his way, he “would turn the [presidency] into an elected monarch above the law.”
As for the president’s alleged impeachable offenses, the group regurgitates the hearsay utilized by House Democrats in the impeachment hearings, claiming that President Trump has withheld military funding from Ukraine in exchange for favors.
“Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce the country of Ukraine, under attack from Russia, an adversary power to the United States, by withholding essential military assistance in exchange for the fabrication and legitimization of false information in order to advance his own re-election,” reads the letter.
The group also suggests that the president’s personal life is grounds for impeachment, citing Alexander Hamilton, who they say has argued that the republic is “vulnerable to the rise of an unscrupulous demagogue” who is “unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents…”
“Such a figure, Hamilton wrote, would ‘throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind,'” adds the group in their letter, before going on to argue that the president’s actions fit Hamilton’s description.
The signees also claim that if President Trump can’t be impeached, then no one can.
“It is our considered judgment that if President Trump’s misconduct does not rise to the level of impeachment, then virtually nothing does,” affirm the professors and others in their bizarre letter, claiming that the U.S. Constitution is in “clear and present danger.”
“We therefore strongly urge the House of Representatives to impeach the President,” the group concludes.
You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.
Obama or Trump: Who's the Real Russian Stooge?
A sobering -- and telling -- look at the historical record.
December 12, 2019
Ari
Lieberman
Democrats and their socialist allies have been quick to portray
President Donald Trump as a tool of the Russians. Pejoratives like
"Putin's puppet" and "Russian asset" are terms routinely
employed by Trump's shrillest critics with banal regularity.
The Mueller Report, compiled by a team largely composed of Trump
antagonists, conclusively established that neither Trump nor members of his
campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. That fact,
established after wasting $32 million in taxpayer funds, has not stopped
Democrats and their echo-chamber puppets in the establishment media, from
regurgitating tired tropes and talking points steeped in Alice in
Wonderland-like fantasy.
Democrats and elements within the leftist media have absurdly
attempted to portray Trump’s efforts to establish good, working relations with
Russia as an attempt to undermine the republic. However, no such criticism
was ever leveled against Barack Obama when he attempted his farcical Russia
re-set, which ended in disaster. It’s a tired double
standard that Trump and his supporters have become accustomed to.
Despite cautious efforts to foster good relations, the Trump
administration’s foreign and domestic policies have adversely impacted Russia
and its imperialistic designs. In fact, even a cursory review of Trump's record
on Russia reveals that he is anything but Russia's stooge and can more
accurately be characterized as its worst nightmare. I’ve compiled a list of
seven significant actions undertaken during the Trump administration, which
unequivocally supports this assertion.
Energy: In September 2019 the United States
exported more crude oil and petroleum products than it imported, marking the first time that the U.S. was a
net petroleum exporter since monthly records were initiated in 1973. This
startling development occurred under Trump’s watch. Trump reversed his
predecessor’s deleterious energy policies, which were viewed by the energy
industry as hostile. In fact, Obama, who nixed Dakota Access Pipeline and
Keystone XL pipeline, banned offshore drilling in the Arctic and enacted harsh
regulations on the fossil fuel industry, developed a reputation of being
anti-energy. Instead of shoring up U.S. energy interests, Obama did everything
he could to thwart the fossil fuel industry while providing taxpayer subsidies
to failed solar energy companies like Solyndra. By contrast, U.S.
fossil fuel development and production under Trump is now surging. This not
only strengthens America’s national security, it harms Russian economic
interests.
Ukraine: Despite the Democratic narrative, it was
the Trump administration and not the Obama administration that provided lethal
aid to the Ukrainian army to repel Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the Russian-backed proxy takeover of two
provinces in eastern Ukraine was met by tepid action by the Obama
administration. Ukraine had asked the United States for lethal military
assistance, but that request was rebuffed by Obama. Trump reversed Obama’s
pro-Russian policy and authorized the release of military assistance to
Ukraine, which included delivery of highly effective Javelin anti-tank guided
missiles.
Poland: Shortly after taking office, the Obama
administration announced that it would be scrapping a missile defense agreement
that the Bush administration had negotiated with Poland and the Czech Republic.
By 2013, Obama had completely dismantled the concept of a Europe-based missile
defense system, leaving the Poles and Czechs embittered. By contrast, the
Kremlin was ecstatic. Putin had to concede nothing and received a windfall. In
2012, Obama was infamously caught on hot mic telling Russian president Dmitri
Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” to capitulate on missile defense
after the November presidential election. In 2017, Trump partially reversed
Obama’s Russia cave-in by signing a memorandum of
understanding with Polish president Andrzej Duda in which the U.S. agreed
to sell Poland Patriot missile defense systems. The MoU signals to both
America’s friends and foes that America does not abandon allies.
Rebuilding the military: It is no secret
that the U.S. military – which endured severe budget slashings under Obama –
was compromised during the Obama years. U.S. overseas military obligations
coupled with sequestrations put an enormous strain on the military and its
ability to perform its mission. Military personnel did not have a favorable
view of Obama, who saw climate change and not Russia as America’s main threat.
A joint poll conducted by the Military Times and the Institute for Veterans and
Military Families found that more than 50% of those polled maintained an
unfavorable view of Obama while only 36% registered approval. But the toxic
situation existing under Obama was reversed under Trump. The latest version of
the National Defense
Authorization Act, signed by Trump, ensures that the US. Military maintains its
qualitative and quantitative edge over its adversaries, which include Russia
and China. Equally important, morale among America’s military personnel
has surged under Trump.
Syria: When Bashar Assad used poison gas against
his own citizens in 2013, killing nearly 1,500 people including 400 children,
Obama declared that such use of chemical weapons crossed all red lines and
warranted a severe military response. Within a month, Obama reversed course and
allowed Putin to orchestrate a scheme compelling Assad to give up his WMDs.
Despite the deal, Assad was still able to retain some of his chemical weapons
and the means of manufacturing them. Worse yet, Obama permitted Putin, as
interlocutor, to gain a substantial foothold in Syria. Under Trump, Assad’s use
of chemical weapons was met with an overwhelming U.S. military response
signaling to both friend and foe that the U.S. would not tolerate the use of
WMDs by rogue regimes. Trump also ensured that Putin did not extend his reach
beyond the so-called de-confliction zone. In February 2018, a Syrian army
column backed by Russian mercenaries from CHVK Wagner attempted to seize an oil refinery
near the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. They were stopped cold in their tracks by
U.S. military personnel who called in air and artillery strikes. The entire
enemy force was wiped out and the Russians lost an estimated 200 to 300
men. The action signaled to Russia that the U.S. would not tolerate violations
of prior understandings.
INF Treaty: Under Obama, the Russians flagrantly
developed and deployed ground-based missiles with ranges of between 500 to
5,500 kilometers. Obama likely ignored the transgressions in a misguided effort
to get the Russians on board with the JCPOA, colloquially known as the Iran deal.
In 2019 the Trump administration formally withdrew from the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) citing blatant Russian
violations of the accord.
Venezuela: In 2009, Obama warmly greeted Venezuela’s
authoritarian leader Hugo Chavez at the opening ceremony of the Summit of the
Americas in Trinidad. A smiling Nicholas Maduro, Chavez’s successor, was
standing nearby and appeared amused by the encounter. Obama later defended his warm embrace of
one of America’s top enemies by claiming that the U.S. must engage other
countries through humanitarian gestures. During Obama’s tenure, Venezuela
became a center for nefarious Russian, Chinese, Iranian and Hezbollah activity.
Despite the presence of such pernicious actors right on America’s doorstep,
Obama actively opposed sanctions against the
Venezuelan regime even when there was wide bipartisan support for such
measures. Russia maintains a large economic stake in Venezuela to the tune of
over $15 billion. In an effort to prop up
the regime and secure its investments, it dispatched troops to Venezuela
several times this year. When Trump took office, he reversed the pusillanimous
policies of his predecessor by immediately imposing sanctions on Venezuela and
key Venezuelan officials. Trump continues to ratchet up the pressure against
Venezuela by initiating a relentless economic and diplomatic offensive against
its ruling junta. The Trump administration also sternly warned the Kremlin not to
deploy military assets in the region referring to such deployments as a direct
threat to international peace and security in the region. Thanks to Trump’s
relentless pressure campaign, Maduro’s days are almost certainly numbered and
when he inevitably falls, Moscow stands to lose a bundle.
During his tenure, Obama pandered to the Russians. He allowed them
to violate missile treaties, gave them a twenty percent interest in America’s
uranium mining capacity in the now infamous Uranium One deal,
transferred sensitive technology to Russian
companies that would later end up in the hands of the Russian military,
dismantled missile defense shields in eastern Europe, eroded the U.S. military,
prevented lethal aid from reaching Ukraine and stifled the fossil fuel
industry. If the Democrats want to find a Russian stooge, they need look no
further than Barack Obama.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further. Paul Driessen
Hillary Clinton's Russia collusion IOU: The answers she owes
America
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446736-hillary-clintons-russia-collusion-iou-the-answers-she-owes-america
BY
JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION
During the
combined two decades she served as a U.S. senator and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s patrons regularly donated to her family charity when they had
official business pending before America’s most powerful political woman.
The pattern of
political IOUs paid to the Clinton Foundation was so pernicious that the State
Department even tried to execute a special agreement with the charity to avoid the overt appearance of “pay-to-play” policy.
Still, the
money continued to flow by the millions of dollars, from foreigners and
Americans alike who were perceived to be indebted to the Clinton machine or in
need of its help.
It’s time for
the American public to call in their own IOU on political transparency.
The reason?
Never before — until 2016 — had the apparatus of a U.S. presidential candidate
managed to sic the weight of the FBI and U.S. intelligence community on a rival
nominee during an election, and by using a foreign-fed, uncorroborated
political opposition research document.
But Clinton’s
campaign, in concert with the Democratic Party and through their shared law
firm, funded Christopher Steele’s unverified dossierwhich, it turns out, falsely portrayed Republican Donald Trump as a treasonous asset colluding with Russian President
Vladimir Putin to hijack the U.S. election.
Steele went to
the FBI to get an investigation started and then leaked the existence of the
investigation, with the hope of sinking Trump’s presidential aspirations.
On its face, it
is arguably the most devious political dirty trick in American history and one
of the most overt intrusions of a foreigner into a U.S. election.
It appears the
Clinton machine knew that what it was doing was controversial. That’s why it
did backflips to disguise the operation from Congress and the public, and in
its Federal Election Commission (FEC) spending reports.
Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) used the law firm of Perkins Coie to hire Glenn Simpson’s research firm, Fusion GPS, which
then hired Steele — several layers that obfuscated transparency, kept the
operation off the campaign’s public FEC reports and gave the Clintons plausible
deniability.
But Steele’s
first overture on July 5, 2016, failed to capture the FBI’s imagination. So the
Clinton machine escalated. Steele, a British national, went to senior
Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr — whose wife, Nellie, also worked for
Fusion — to push his Trump dirt to the top of the FBI.
Nellie Ohr
likewise sent some of her own anti-Trump research augmenting Steele’s dossier
to the FBI through her husband. Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann used his connection to former FBI general counsel James Baker to dump Trump
dirt at the FBI, too.
Then Steele
and, separately, longtime Clinton protégé Cody Shearer went to the
State Department to get the story out,
increasing pressure on the FBI.
In short, the
Clinton machine flooded the FBI with pressure — and bad intel — until an
investigation of Trump was started. The bureau and its hapless sheriff at the
time, James Comey, eventually acquiesced with the help of such Clinton fans as
then-FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
To finish the
mission, Simpson and Steele leaked the existence of the FBI investigation to
the news media to ensure it would hurt Trump politically. Simpson even called the leaks a “hail Mary” that failed.
Trump won,
however. And now, thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller, we know the
Russia-collusion allegations relentlessly peddled by Team Clinton were bogus.
But not before the FBI used the Clinton-funded, foreign-created research to get
a total of four warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency from October 2016 through the
following autumn.
The Clinton
team’s dirty trick was as diabolical as it was brilliant. It literally used
house money and a large part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to carry out
its political hit job on Trump.
After two years
of American discomfort, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, it’s
time for the house to call in its IOU.
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers — lots of them. So far, she has ducked them, even while doing
many high-profile media interviews.
I’m not the
only one who thinks this way. Longtime Clinton adviser Douglas Schoen said
Friday night on Fox News that it’s time for Clinton to answer what she knew and
when she knew it.
Here are 10
essential questions:
1.
In January 2018, the Senate
Judiciary Committee sent a formal investigative request for documents and
written answers from your campaign. Do you plan to comply?
2.
Please identify each person in
your campaign who was involved with, or aware of, hiring Fusion GPS, Glenn
Simpson and Christopher Steele.
3.
Please identify each person in
your campaign, including Perkins Coie lawyers, who were aware that Steele
provided information to the FBI or State Department, and when they learned it.
4.
Describe any information you and
your campaign staff received, or were briefed on, before Election Day that was
derived from the work of Simpson, Steele, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr or Perkins
Coie and that tried to connect Trump, his campaign or his business empire with
Russia.
5.
Please describe all contacts
your campaign had before Election Day with or about the following individuals:
Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, former foreign policy scholar Stefan Halper and Maltese academic Joseph
Mifsud.
6.
Did you or any senior members of
your campaign, including lawyers such as Michael Sussmann, have any contact
with the CIA, its former Director John Brennan, current Director Gina Haspel,
James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page or former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe?
7.
Describe all contacts your campaign had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal concerning Trump,
Russia and Ukraine.
8.
Describe all contacts you and
your campaign had with DNC contractorAlexandra
Chalupa, the Ukraine government, the Ukraine Embassy in the United States or
the U.S. Embassy in Kiev concerning Trump, Russia or former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort.
9.
Why did your campaign and the
Democratic Party make a concerted effort to portray Trump as a Russian asset?
10.
Given that investigations by a
House committee, a Senate committee and a special prosecutor all have concluded
there isn’t evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, do you regret the actions by
your campaign and by Steele, Simpson and Sussmann to inject these unfounded
allegations into the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community and the news media?
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers to each of these questions. She should skip the lawyer-speak
and answer them with the candor worthy of an elder American stateswoman.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose
work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the
Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in
drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an
investigative columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill.
Follow him on Twitter @jsolomonReports.
ALL
REVOLUTIONS START OUT MESSY AND UNFOCUSED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
The
Party of Antifa Fascists?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
Who are
the “Antifa” mobs? What are they doing to our country? How long will we
tolerate them?
The Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were their latest excuse for tantrums and
intolerance. Dismissing fairness, propriety and due process, they screamed that
mere allegations of misconduct were enough to bar him from the Supreme Court,
despite no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
Vicious
harassment of senators and White House officials in restaurants, streets,
grocery stores, and Senate offices and elevators was matched by ambush tactics
and despicable behavior by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. If Justice
Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings were “an electronic lynching,” those hearings were an electronic
assault on a respected jurist, his wife and young daughters.
When
Kavanaugh fought back, the same Senators and their media friends said he
“lacked the proper temperament” to be on the Court. (Apparently, he should have
just tried to enjoy the experience.)
The fact
is, Democrats and their allies had said in lockstep and from the outset that
they intended to keep any Trump nominee off our highest
court. The Women’s March mistakenly released a statement saying it opposed the
“nomination of XX” to the Court. (They forgot to fill
in the blank.) They view the Court as their supreme state and national
legislature: it’s far easier to get 5 votes than 5 million or 50 million.
In
reality, this ongoing attempted rule by mob (with Portland, Oregon a prime example) goes back to
the 2016 elections that put Donald Trump in the White House. The mobs weren’t
just disappointed that Hillary Clinton had not won. They were enraged. And they’ve remained so ever
since.
In fact,
their furor goes back even further – to mounds of excrement they left behind in
North Dakota, for instance, where they tried to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, by burning and bombing bridges,
threatening local residents and killing cattle. One “peaceful protester” tried
to shoot a deputy sheriff.
In
another example, they enlisted state attorneys general, universities, wealthy
leftwing foundations and private law firms (on a contingency fee basis) to
bring RICO and other actions against scientists and think
tanks that voice skepticism about “cataclysmic manmade climate change.” On
college campuses they have banned, disinvited, mobbed, harassed or just plain
screamed over 300 conservative
speakers into
silence. Being a Republican or wearing a Trump MAGA hat can get you beaten, or
worse.
They
forget President Obama’s dictum: “Elections have consequences.” One is the
President’s right to nominate Federal judges. But from their perspective,
“consequences” must never apply when they lose – and the Electoral College must be abolished when it works
as our Founding Fathers intended: to keep populous urban areas from dominating
presidential elections and imposing a tyranny of the majority. (The fact that
85% of all US counties voted for Donald Trump illustrates this principle in
action.)
In most
of these cases, “they” are the Antifa mobs. Antifa being short for
“anti-fascist.” Don’t be conned.
The
Antifa mobs are fascists! And they have become the
ski-masked thug wing of the Democratic Party.
They (and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kyrsten Sinema, Andrew Gillum, Bernie Sanders and
other favored candidates) certainly espouse socialism as
their vehicle for wealth redistribution. However, in almost every other
respect, their philosophies and actions reflect fascism, which
is generally defined as:
A
political system in which an authoritarian government does not own businesses
and industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and
rights – while forcibly controlling and suppressing citizens and their thought
and speech via stringent laws, intimidation and even violence.
Sadly,
the Democratic Party is slipping further into these tendencies, becoming ever
more closely aligned with these radicals. It relies on Antifa thugs to “rally
the base,” intimidate and abuse Republican voters and
candidates, and get Democrat (and “undocumented”) voters to the polls. Like too
many in the “mainstream” news media, Democrats refuse to condemn the mob
behavior – and say it’s wrong to even call them
mobs. They’re just
concerned citizens, peaceably assembling and seeking redress of their
grievances. Right. (Hint: You don’t like being called fascist mobs? Stop
behaving like fascist mobs.)
“You
cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand
for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton said recently. So instead of civil
debates we’re to have civil war over whose vision and agenda will rule? Is
there something wrong, antiquated or “threatening” about debating issues?
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder said, when Republicans “go low” with their
rhetoric, “we kick them.” Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) incites
Antifa mobs by ranting, “If you see anybody from the Trump Administration in a
restaurant, in a department store, tell them they’re not welcome anymore,
anywhere.”
Now on
top of the speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, censorship, groupthink and
identity politics, Google, Facebook and Twitter control and restrict access to
conservative views; crowd funding sites prevent conservative groups from
raising money; and the Obama IRS prevented Tea Party groups from getting the
tax status needed to operate. When all that fails, we’re supposed to tolerate
mobs and riots.
On
campuses, LGBTQ diversity is virtuous. Diversity of viewpoints or political
affiliation is intolerable. Some say Republicans want to control what you do in
your bedroom. But Democrats want to control everything you do anywhere outside
your bedroom. And Antifa mobs will keep you quiet and in line.
Antifa
thugs fire-bombed a North Carolina Republican office and trashed another one in
New York City, where they left a note that said, “This is just the beginning.”Others knocked a 71-year-old female
congressional staffer unconscious! It even reached the point where a rabid
Bernie Sanders supporter tried to gun down Republican
legislatorsand
staffers who were practicing for a charity baseball event.
Indeed,
death on a large scale, to serve state or other “higher interests,” is another
aspect of fascism. We see that with millions of people dying every year in
Africa and Asia, because pressure groups deny them access to energy, insect control, water
purification, agricultural and other modern technologies,
in the name of protecting the environment from dangerous climate change,
chemicals and biotechnology.
There are
crazy ironies, too. Google helps the
Chinese Communist
Government prevent its citizens from accessing “forbidden” knowledge and ideas
– but then claims helping the US Defense Department with Cloud computing or
artificial intelligence surveillance would “violate its principles.”
Around
many neighborhoods, signs proclaim “Hate has no home here,” in multiple
languages, with an American flag heart logo reminiscent of the Obama campaign
logo – in liberals’ yards. The signs are part of a project that “promotes just
and inclusive communities.” Trump supporters need not apply.
Democrats
appear to be depending on all of this to counter a possible “red wave” – and
regain control of the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. If
they succeed even with just the House, Democrat congressional committees will
investigate, interrogate and try to impeach Trump, Kavanaugh and other
officials. They will impede and obstruct everything the Trump Administration
tries to do.
They’ll
also try to abolish ICE, block the Wall, pack the Supreme Court, take our guns,
bash Israel – and replace the fossil fuels that provide 80% of our energy with
“100% renewable energy” that is so expensive and unreliable
it will bring our industries, economy and nation to its knees, while blanketing
rural and habitat land, damaging
people’s health and property rights, and butchering birds and bats by the
millions.
Our
rebounding energy, employment, economy, markets and living standards would get
rolled back.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further.
Some say
the Antifa-Schumer-Pelosi-Clinton-Holder-Waters strategy will backfire. I hope
that happens, because it would be disastrous if these people run Congress,
America and our lives. But I won’t bank on it.
If you’re
worried too (and you should be), get inspired and involved. Above all, VOTE!
Vote to preserve our democratic Republic, our freedoms, our booming economy, reliable and affordable energy for all Americans – and
equal justice for all, based on the presumption of innocence until proven
guilty.
Paul
Driessen writes books and articles on energy, environmental, human rights and
political issues.
Top
State Official Sounded Alarm About ‘Conflict of Interest’ Linked to Hunter
Biden’s Work in Ukraine
7 Nov 2019Washington, DC115
4:13
The Obama administration allowed former Vice President Joe Biden’s son
Hunter to continue working for Ukrainian company Burisma, even after learning
that the firm and its owner were corrupt, top U.S. State Department official
George Kent testified, according to transcripts released Thursday.
In
2014, the U.S. spent hundreds of thousands in American taxpayer funds on
assisting an investigation into corrupt activities linked to Burisma owner
Mykola Zlochevsky, Kent revealed.
During
his closed-door deposition on October 15, Kent told House impeachment
investigators that he raised concerns about Biden’s lucrative position in 2015.
According
to the transcripts, Kent, a
deputy assistant secretary charged with overseeing U.S. policy towards Ukraine,
testified:
The
first time I was in Ukraine as acting deputy chief of mission in the period of
mid-January to mid-February 2015, subsequent to me going into the deputy
prosecutor general on February 3rd and demanding who took the bribe and how
much was it to shut the case against Zlochevsky I became aware that Hunter
Biden was on the board. I did not know that at the time.
And
when I was on a call with somebody on the vice president’s staff and I cannot
recall who it was, just briefing on what was happening into Ukraine I raised my
concerns that I had heard that Hunter Biden was on the board of a company owned
by somebody that the U.S. Government had spent money trying to get tens of
millions of dollars back and that could create the perception of a conflict of
interest.
The
United States spent “roughly half a million dollars” in support of a
Zlochevsky-linked investigation in 2014 — the year Burisma hired Hunter, Kent
revealed.
Kent
indicated that then-VP Biden’s staff dismissed his concerns about Hunter’s work
in Ukraine.
“The
message that I recall hearing back was that the vice president’s son Beau Biden
was dying of cancer and that there was no further bandwidth to deal with family
related issues at that time,” he testified.
“That
was the end of that conversation” about Hunter Biden’s conflict of interest in
Ukraine, Kent later added.
Kent
said he first visited the U.S. embassy in Ukraine in mid-January 2015. He
indicated that he soon learned Burisma was corrupt.
“Burisma
had a reputation for being, first of all, one of the largest private producers
of natural gas in Ukraine but also had a reputation for not being the sort of
corporate, cleanest member of the business community,” the top State official
said.
He
testified that he was so concerned about Burisma’s reputation that he put the
breaks on coordinated activity between the company and the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID).
House
Democrats pursuing the impeachment probe have accused Trump of abusing his
power by pressuring his Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a July 25
call to investigate corruption allegations against the Bidens, allegedly in
exchange for aid.
Trump,
Zelensky, and some impeachment
probe witnesses, including Kent, have denied the claim. Other witnesses,
however, have presumed that a quid pro quo took place in which Trump leveraged
U.S. aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.
Kent
testified that he had no “direct knowledge” of the alleged link between
America’s security assistance to Ukraine and the Eastern European country
opening of new investigations.
He
also told investigators that it is appropriate for the Trump administration to
“look at the level of corruption” in foreign countries like Ukraine when
determining whether to provide or withhold aid.
The
former vice president threatened to
withhold aid himself to Ukraine to force the Eastern European country to fire
its top prosecutor in 2016, who had investigated the owner of Burisma for
possible corruption.
Until
recently, Hunter served on the board of Burisma for up to $83,000 per
month despite having no background in energy. His position prompted allegations
of corruption.
Hunter admitted to ABC
News last weekend that his father’s political position helped him secure the
lucrative appointment to Burisma’s board of directors.
Based
on Kent’s testimony, Trump had reason to be concerned about corruption linked
to Hunter Biden’s position.
Fast-forward to today's still vocal Obama gang. Why
no indictments? Mum's the word. Can anyone hold to the
faith in American justice? Those who support the rule of law feel
like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. It's coming — oh,
wait, it's coming...oh, wait... GORDON WYSON
Judicial Watch: Only Crimes in Russia Scandal Are from ‘Obama
Gang’
THE
MAN WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR
Barack
Obama’s Russia Connection
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/barack-obamas-russian-connection-who.html
If
Obama was a fully recruited agent of Moscow, tasked with giving Russia a
significant military advantage over the United States, and economically
weakening and socially dividing the nation, how would he have conducted his
presidency (or his post-presidency) any differently? TREVOR LOUDON
*
We are all victims of the Obama
cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s voters and all Americans who
believe in our free and fair election
Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party
Across the Nation
“Obama’s new home in
Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the
anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said
that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the
“resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
*
“Professor Paul Kengor has
extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David
Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly
Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put
Obama into power.”
*
We are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia –
President Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair
election process.
Will We Ever Prosecute?
Imagine that the local cops know that a gang member, named
William, broke into the pawn shop and stole guns, jewelry, and money. William's
fingerprints, film image, and DNA add to the hard evidence log. The
owner knows it; the prosecutor knows it; William's gang associates know
it. But he is not arrested. Nearby shopkeepers and neighborhood
mothers are asking why he is walking the street. No one explains it;
mum's the word. Could it be there is a grand plan to take out the
gang's leaders? No one knows; mum's the word. Shopkeepers
and residents are about to give up and start moving away from the area, and no
one asks them to stay the course.
Fast-forward to today's still vocal Obama gang. Why no
indictments? Mum's the word. Can anyone hold to the faith
in American justice? Those who support the rule of law feel like
Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. It's coming — oh, wait,
it's coming...oh, wait...
Without doubt, a criminal cabal is an extraordinarily complex
organization, and understanding who did what, why, when, and how is a challenge
to the mental faculties of anyone. But, what happens if the full scope
of activities is never clear? Does everyone get off? Does
complexity confer immunity?
In engineering, there is no perfect answer to anything, so changes
are made incrementally, addressing the problems as they are
recognized. Each step brings a clearer view of remaining problems,
which are then addressed, each in its turn. The completed project is
still flawed, but the solution is practical and productive.
So it should be with a grandiose scheme like the Russia
Hoax. The ringleaders don't have to be handled with kid
gloves. They don't even have to be handled at all. Just
start with the low-hanging fruit, and get as far as possible.
Those old enough to remember My Lai, Vietnam, know that Lt. Calley
and Cpt. Medina were not alone in their actions. However, their
prosecution forever changed the game of passing the buck on war crimes.
So, too, can rabid prosecution of bit players in the Russian Hoax
forever change the landscape in plots involving treason. Those who
would participate at the lower levels must know they are subject to
prosecution, so they remain circumspect in such a re-enactment of the coup
attempt. This would be the Achilles heel of another cabal — those
who are intimidated by the prospect of prison. Those who realize
they don't have sufficient rank to escape punishment will be loath to
participate in such a scheme. Without them, there will be no
operational viability to an unlawful coup.
Admittedly, there are always problems in pursuing a criminal
case. It must be so under our Constitution, but it cannot be
impossible!
Prosecutors don't get all the information, but at a certain point,
for each criminal, evidence accumulates that there is a real and provable
crime. It may not include every transgression of that person, nor is
it the magic revelation, untangling the Gordian knot of the
conspirators. It is a simple criminal act. It is what it
appears, and it need not be put in the context of the big picture — it is as
plain as the nose on your face.
That stage is the stimulus for a prosecutor. It is the
time to move. If the DOJ acts, many of the sins can never be
prosecuted, because the prosecution of their lesser crimes may foreclose
pursuit of other crimes under double jeopardy protection. However,
failure to move puts evidence and witnesses at risk of being
lost. This point has passed for so many of the coup conspirators
that it seems there will be no justice for many of them,
like Lois Lerner.
Why?
A full recounting of all that is already known would be tedious,
and to expound on the criminal conduct yet again seems shrill. It is
not necessary to understand the intertwining of all the crimes before simply
bringing the charges that are facially obvious. But the deferral of
prosecution, for whatever reason it is done, allows many of the cabal to walk
free when they shouldn't. In fact, the indication is that they are
continuing the very conduct for which they should be prosecuted.
Why has McCabe not been charged with lying to the FBI, lying under
oath? Nothing more is needed to start the dominos
falling. Who will step forward to exonerate him? No one
can, and no one will. That omission — of a vigorously supported
defense — will send a message to the others in the coup conspiracy.
Why has Samantha Power not been indicted for violating national
security requirements in unmasking or transferring her unmasking authority to
others? It doesn't pass the smell test that she is too important to
be prosecuted.
Why is Huma Abedin strolling around, free as a
bird? She forwarded classified emails to Anthony Weiner's
laptop. What else is needed to demonstrate a crime?
Did Strzok do anything? Did
Page? Which one lied to Congress? Their
contradictory accounts mean at least one is a perjurer. Sure, there
is more "there" there, but it isn't necessary to keelhaul them; just
send them to jail, and send others a message.
Listing all the cabal members, who are quite obviously criminal,
is not easy — in fact, it is not doable. It need not be the
aim. A public that finds this whole thing partisan or tedious will
not be easily impressed if a 2,000-count indictment naming 43 people is
suddenly dropped. Bringing along the public is certainly part of
sending the message for future conspirators. It probably is better
done gradually.
Removing the context and simply prosecuting crimes is the
method to educate both today's and tomorrow's citizens.
Selecting single actors, and naming obvious crimes, will have a
chance to convince even skeptical partisans that something is
wrong. The lack of support from other participants will indeed
remove most doubt.
The full scope of what has gone on will never be known, but the
lessons for future participants in such a scheme is essential. The
next time, the prosecution will be more severe, more certain, and more
expedient. Protecting the Constitution is more important than
perfect justice. Some miscreants will escape, but they will never
sleep well again. The lesson must be taught.
A DOJ that fails to move loses its credibility and its
honor. The foundation of the Republic is placed at
risk. Without the rule of law, what do we have?
At some point, deferral of prosecution is dereliction or
abetting. Has it reached that point?
Gordon Wysong is an engineer and entrepreneur who has served as a
county commissioner in Cobb County, Ga.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further. Paul Driessen
Hillary Clinton's Russia collusion IOU: The answers she owes
America
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446736-hillary-clintons-russia-collusion-iou-the-answers-she-owes-america
BY
JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION
During the
combined two decades she served as a U.S. senator and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s patrons regularly donated to her family charity when they had
official business pending before America’s most powerful political woman.
The pattern of
political IOUs paid to the Clinton Foundation was so pernicious that the State
Department even tried to execute a special agreement with the charity to avoid the overt appearance of “pay-to-play” policy.
Still, the
money continued to flow by the millions of dollars, from foreigners and
Americans alike who were perceived to be indebted to the Clinton machine or in
need of its help.
It’s time for
the American public to call in their own IOU on political transparency.
The reason?
Never before — until 2016 — had the apparatus of a U.S. presidential candidate
managed to sic the weight of the FBI and U.S. intelligence community on a rival
nominee during an election, and by using a foreign-fed, uncorroborated
political opposition research document.
But Clinton’s
campaign, in concert with the Democratic Party and through their shared law
firm, funded Christopher Steele’s unverified dossierwhich, it turns out, falsely portrayed Republican Donald Trump as a treasonous asset colluding with Russian President
Vladimir Putin to hijack the U.S. election.
Steele went to
the FBI to get an investigation started and then leaked the existence of the
investigation, with the hope of sinking Trump’s presidential aspirations.
On its face, it
is arguably the most devious political dirty trick in American history and one
of the most overt intrusions of a foreigner into a U.S. election.
It appears the
Clinton machine knew that what it was doing was controversial. That’s why it
did backflips to disguise the operation from Congress and the public, and in
its Federal Election Commission (FEC) spending reports.
Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) used the law firm of Perkins Coie to hire Glenn Simpson’s research firm, Fusion GPS, which
then hired Steele — several layers that obfuscated transparency, kept the
operation off the campaign’s public FEC reports and gave the Clintons plausible
deniability.
But Steele’s
first overture on July 5, 2016, failed to capture the FBI’s imagination. So the
Clinton machine escalated. Steele, a British national, went to senior
Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr — whose wife, Nellie, also worked for
Fusion — to push his Trump dirt to the top of the FBI.
Nellie Ohr
likewise sent some of her own anti-Trump research augmenting Steele’s dossier
to the FBI through her husband. Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann used his connection to former FBI general counsel James Baker to dump Trump
dirt at the FBI, too.
Then Steele
and, separately, longtime Clinton protégé Cody Shearer went to the
State Department to get the story out,
increasing pressure on the FBI.
In short, the
Clinton machine flooded the FBI with pressure — and bad intel — until an
investigation of Trump was started. The bureau and its hapless sheriff at the
time, James Comey, eventually acquiesced with the help of such Clinton fans as
then-FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
To finish the
mission, Simpson and Steele leaked the existence of the FBI investigation to
the news media to ensure it would hurt Trump politically. Simpson even called the leaks a “hail Mary” that failed.
Trump won,
however. And now, thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller, we know the
Russia-collusion allegations relentlessly peddled by Team Clinton were bogus.
But not before the FBI used the Clinton-funded, foreign-created research to get
a total of four warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency from October 2016 through the
following autumn.
The Clinton
team’s dirty trick was as diabolical as it was brilliant. It literally used
house money and a large part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to carry out its
political hit job on Trump.
After two years
of American discomfort, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, it’s
time for the house to call in its IOU.
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers — lots of them. So far, she has ducked them, even while doing many
high-profile media interviews.
I’m not the
only one who thinks this way. Longtime Clinton adviser Douglas Schoen said
Friday night on Fox News that it’s time for Clinton to answer what she knew and
when she knew it.
Here are 10
essential questions:
1.
In January 2018, the Senate
Judiciary Committee sent a formal investigative request for documents and
written answers from your campaign. Do you plan to comply?
2.
Please identify each person in
your campaign who was involved with, or aware of, hiring Fusion GPS, Glenn
Simpson and Christopher Steele.
3.
Please identify each person in
your campaign, including Perkins Coie lawyers, who were aware that Steele
provided information to the FBI or State Department, and when they learned it.
4.
Describe any information you and
your campaign staff received, or were briefed on, before Election Day that was
derived from the work of Simpson, Steele, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr or Perkins
Coie and that tried to connect Trump, his campaign or his business empire with
Russia.
5.
Please describe all contacts
your campaign had before Election Day with or about the following individuals:
Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, former foreign policy scholar Stefan Halper and Maltese academic Joseph
Mifsud.
6.
Did you or any senior members of
your campaign, including lawyers such as Michael Sussmann, have any contact
with the CIA, its former Director John Brennan, current Director Gina Haspel,
James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page or former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe?
7.
Describe all contacts your campaign had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal concerning Trump,
Russia and Ukraine.
8.
Describe all contacts you and
your campaign had with DNC contractorAlexandra
Chalupa, the Ukraine government, the Ukraine Embassy in the United States or
the U.S. Embassy in Kiev concerning Trump, Russia or former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort.
9.
Why did your campaign and the
Democratic Party make a concerted effort to portray Trump as a Russian asset?
10.
Given that investigations by a
House committee, a Senate committee and a special prosecutor all have concluded
there isn’t evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, do you regret the actions by
your campaign and by Steele, Simpson and Sussmann to inject these unfounded
allegations into the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community and the news media?
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers to each of these questions. She should skip the lawyer-speak
and answer them with the candor worthy of an elder American stateswoman.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose
work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the
Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in
drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an
investigative columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill.
Follow him on Twitter @jsolomonReports.
ALL
REVOLUTIONS START OUT MESSY AND UNFOCUSED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
The
Party of Antifa Fascists?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
Who are
the “Antifa” mobs? What are they doing to our country? How long will we
tolerate them?
The Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were their latest excuse for tantrums and intolerance.
Dismissing fairness, propriety and due process, they screamed that mere
allegations of misconduct were enough to bar him from the Supreme Court,
despite no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
Vicious
harassment of senators and White House officials in restaurants, streets,
grocery stores, and Senate offices and elevators was matched by ambush tactics
and despicable behavior by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. If Justice
Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings were “an electronic lynching,” those hearings were an electronic
assault on a respected jurist, his wife and young daughters.
When
Kavanaugh fought back, the same Senators and their media friends said he
“lacked the proper temperament” to be on the Court. (Apparently, he should have
just tried to enjoy the experience.)
The fact
is, Democrats and their allies had said in lockstep and from the outset that
they intended to keep any Trump nominee off our highest
court. The Women’s March mistakenly released a statement saying it opposed the
“nomination of XX” to the Court. (They forgot to fill
in the blank.) They view the Court as their supreme state and national
legislature: it’s far easier to get 5 votes than 5 million or 50 million.
In
reality, this ongoing attempted rule by mob (with Portland, Oregon a prime example) goes back to
the 2016 elections that put Donald Trump in the White House. The mobs weren’t
just disappointed that Hillary Clinton had not won. They were enraged. And they’ve remained so ever
since.
In fact,
their furor goes back even further – to mounds of excrement they left behind in
North Dakota, for instance, where they tried to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, by burning and bombing bridges,
threatening local residents and killing cattle. One “peaceful protester” tried
to shoot a deputy sheriff.
In
another example, they enlisted state attorneys general, universities, wealthy
leftwing foundations and private law firms (on a contingency fee basis) to
bring RICO and other actions against scientists and think
tanks that voice skepticism about “cataclysmic manmade climate change.” On
college campuses they have banned, disinvited, mobbed, harassed or just plain
screamed over 300 conservative
speakers into
silence. Being a Republican or wearing a Trump MAGA hat can get you beaten, or
worse.
They
forget President Obama’s dictum: “Elections have consequences.” One is the
President’s right to nominate Federal judges. But from their perspective,
“consequences” must never apply when they lose – and the Electoral College must be abolished when it works
as our Founding Fathers intended: to keep populous urban areas from dominating
presidential elections and imposing a tyranny of the majority. (The fact that
85% of all US counties voted for Donald Trump illustrates this principle in
action.)
In most
of these cases, “they” are the Antifa mobs. Antifa being short for
“anti-fascist.” Don’t be conned.
The
Antifa mobs are fascists! And they have become the
ski-masked thug wing of the Democratic Party.
They (and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kyrsten Sinema, Andrew Gillum, Bernie Sanders and
other favored candidates) certainly espouse socialism as
their vehicle for wealth redistribution. However, in almost every other
respect, their philosophies and actions reflect fascism, which
is generally defined as:
A
political system in which an authoritarian government does not own businesses
and industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and
rights – while forcibly controlling and suppressing citizens and their thought
and speech via stringent laws, intimidation and even violence.
Sadly,
the Democratic Party is slipping further into these tendencies, becoming ever
more closely aligned with these radicals. It relies on Antifa thugs to “rally
the base,” intimidate and abuse Republican voters and
candidates, and get Democrat (and “undocumented”) voters to the polls. Like too
many in the “mainstream” news media, Democrats refuse to condemn the mob
behavior – and say it’s wrong to even call them
mobs. They’re just
concerned citizens, peaceably assembling and seeking redress of their
grievances. Right. (Hint: You don’t like being called fascist mobs? Stop
behaving like fascist mobs.)
“You
cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand
for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton said recently. So instead of civil
debates we’re to have civil war over whose vision and agenda will rule? Is
there something wrong, antiquated or “threatening” about debating issues?
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder said, when Republicans “go low” with their
rhetoric, “we kick them.” Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) incites
Antifa mobs by ranting, “If you see anybody from the Trump Administration in a
restaurant, in a department store, tell them they’re not welcome anymore,
anywhere.”
Now on
top of the speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, censorship, groupthink and
identity politics, Google, Facebook and Twitter control and restrict access to
conservative views; crowd funding sites prevent conservative groups from
raising money; and the Obama IRS prevented Tea Party groups from getting the
tax status needed to operate. When all that fails, we’re supposed to tolerate
mobs and riots.
On
campuses, LGBTQ diversity is virtuous. Diversity of viewpoints or political
affiliation is intolerable. Some say Republicans want to control what you do in
your bedroom. But Democrats want to control everything you do anywhere outside
your bedroom. And Antifa mobs will keep you quiet and in line.
Antifa
thugs fire-bombed a North Carolina Republican office and trashed another one in
New York City, where they left a note that said, “This is just the beginning.”Others knocked a 71-year-old female
congressional staffer unconscious! It even reached the point where a rabid
Bernie Sanders supporter tried to gun down Republican
legislatorsand
staffers who were practicing for a charity baseball event.
Indeed,
death on a large scale, to serve state or other “higher interests,” is another
aspect of fascism. We see that with millions of people dying every year in
Africa and Asia, because pressure groups deny them access to energy, insect control, water
purification, agricultural and other modern technologies,
in the name of protecting the environment from dangerous climate change,
chemicals and biotechnology.
There are
crazy ironies, too. Google helps the
Chinese Communist
Government prevent its citizens from accessing “forbidden” knowledge and ideas
– but then claims helping the US Defense Department with Cloud computing or
artificial intelligence surveillance would “violate its principles.”
Around
many neighborhoods, signs proclaim “Hate has no home here,” in multiple
languages, with an American flag heart logo reminiscent of the Obama campaign
logo – in liberals’ yards. The signs are part of a project that “promotes just
and inclusive communities.” Trump supporters need not apply.
Democrats
appear to be depending on all of this to counter a possible “red wave” – and
regain control of the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. If
they succeed even with just the House, Democrat congressional committees will
investigate, interrogate and try to impeach Trump, Kavanaugh and other
officials. They will impede and obstruct everything the Trump Administration
tries to do.
They’ll
also try to abolish ICE, block the Wall, pack the Supreme Court, take our guns,
bash Israel – and replace the fossil fuels that provide 80% of our energy with
“100% renewable energy” that is so expensive and unreliable
it will bring our industries, economy and nation to its knees, while blanketing
rural and habitat land, damaging
people’s health and property rights, and butchering birds and bats by the
millions.
Our
rebounding energy, employment, economy, markets and living standards would get
rolled back.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further.
Some say
the Antifa-Schumer-Pelosi-Clinton-Holder-Waters strategy will backfire. I hope
that happens, because it would be disastrous if these people run Congress,
America and our lives. But I won’t bank on it.
If you’re
worried too (and you should be), get inspired and involved. Above all, VOTE!
Vote to preserve our democratic Republic, our freedoms, our booming economy, reliable and affordable energy for all Americans – and
equal justice for all, based on the presumption of innocence until proven
guilty.
Paul
Driessen writes books and articles on energy, environmental, human rights and
political issues.
Our Russia Collusion
Nightmare: All Hillary's Fault?
The biggest political scandal in the history of the United
States. Three years of constant lies told by government agents,
political operatives, and deceitful news personalities. Thousands of
hours of criminal investigative interviews; thousands of written stories and
television segments; thousands of leaks and insinuations and threats. All
to take down the legitimately elected American president, Donald J. Trump.
Now that some light is finally revealing just how rotten this
whole nonsense has been from the very beginning, the most maddening aspect of
all is the one thing not said nearly enough: every bit of this frame-up job to
hang the American president for being a Russian agent and traitor to his nation
began as a way to inoculate Hillary Clinton from her largest political
vulnerabilities going into the 2016 campaign.
Aside from her questionable health and a lifetime of scandal,
Hillary had two sizable liabilities (of her own creation) that threatened her
ability to win the general election: (1) her use of the Clinton Foundation as a
vehicle for laundering bribes from foreign governments and moneyed interests
and (2) her decision to conduct the business of the State Department (as well
as to discuss our nation's most guarded secrets) on an unsecured private email
server that had been hacked by known and unknown foreign governments and
adverse entities. Peter Schweizer's Clinton Cash did a remarkable job
exposing the Clinton Foundation as a spectacular pay-to-play operation that had
allowed Hillary to trade the powers of her office for personal aggrandizement
(including the sale of 20% of America's uranium to Russia for, among other
things, $145 million transferred to her foundation). And even though
the Obama Justice Department was doing its best to minimize the revelation of
Hillary's gross breach of national security and slow-walk any repercussions,
the American people were discovering that life-and-death secrets had been
entrusted to a person with such disregard for our well-being that she stored
them on a personal server in a downstairs bathroom.
For a normal person with a modicum of ethical concern, sense of
shame, or patriotic duty, these crimes would have been more than sufficient to
prompt withdrawal from an election for the country's highest
office. This type of honest self-reflection and private admission of
guilt is alien to the Clintons, though, so what would have represented
immovable obstacles to anyone else became just another set of political
variables that had to be neutralized in her favor.
I can just imagine the conversation Hillary had with her most
trusted advisers — not the ones with the official titles like Robby Mook and
Brian Fallon, whose chief value lay in their expendable nature and the ease
with which Hillary could roll them up into any unexpected scandal to be
disposed with the trash at a future time of her convenience. I mean
the real group of confidants, the ones who have "the ends justify the
means" tattooed on their souls and have gotten away with more crimes than
we'll ever know. If you're Sid Blumenthal or John Podesta or Cheryl
Mills or Marc Elias or Lanny Davis and you know where some of the bodies are
buried along the spectacular trail of Clinton corruption through the years,
then the prospect of a massive pay-to-play scandal or criminal indictment for
mishandling top-secret intelligence or engaging wittingly or unwittingly in
espionage is just another bump on the long road of progressive relativism and
Clinton nihilism. If Clinton
Cash and FBI investigators come knocking, you simply accuse
all your political opponents of being the real grifters and foreign agents.
That's exactly what Team Hillary did. They leveled
allegations of criminal bribery at Jeb Bush; they questioned Marco Rubio's
loyalty to the United States; but Donald Trump was the prize. A man
who had spent a lifetime in the exotic world of luxury real estate around the
globe while mixing it up with all kinds of powerful figures in that often shady
world was the ideal mark, and he also happened to be a political novice who the
Democrats universally believed would lose in a landslide of historical dimensions
for political lore long to come. When Paul Manafort joined his team
just before the kickoff to the general election and brought with him a lifetime
of political baggage that included skullduggery around Russia's zone of
interest, it must have seemed as if Christmas had come early for the Clinton
team. (Kind of makes you wonder how coincidental this unforced error
really was.)
And so, after a lifetime in the public eye, starring in a popular
television show, and rubbing elbows with celebrities and politicians of all
stripes, Donald Trump woke up one day to find himself being generally slandered
(and libeled) as a Russian spy by the information merchants who control
America's airwaves and print media. That had to have made him laugh,
considering that the press had spent most of his foray into politics demeaning
him as a greedy capitalist playboy nationalist who selfishly placed America's
interests before those of our common world.
Yes, before John Brennan devised a global espionage ring to frame
President Trump as a national security risk and enable the FBI to open up
counterintelligence investigations into his political associates; before Jim
Comey and Andrew McCabe attested to false information with the FISA Court;
before Robert Mueller put the screws to General Flynn in order to sink a
lifetime defender of America for political purposes; before President Obama
initiated changes to security classification that opened up scurrilous
investigative records on President-Elect Trump to an exponentially greater
number of bureaucrats with partisan motivations; before Susan Rice left an
electronic CYA memorandum at 12:15 P.M. on Inauguration Day of 2017 noting that
Sally Yates and James Clapper and John Brennan and Joe Biden and Jim Comey had
all agreed in the Oval Office with President Obama to continue any
investigations "by the book"; before Samantha Power unmasked hundreds
of names picked up during the course of electronic surveillance that were
deemed to somehow implicate the new president in wrongdoing; even before the
Clinton operatives and Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele first started
composing the fan fiction now known as "the Dossier" — before all of
this and everything else we have been forced to endure for three long years,
there was Hillary Clinton, doing what she and her people know best: accusing
her political opponent of the very crimes she had committed
herself.
As awful as this orchestrated campaign against President Trump has
been, it is absolutely maddening to realize that none of it would have happened
had Hillary Clinton not engaged in one of the greatest pay-for-play operations
in American history while placing our most guarded secrets (as well as the very
lives of our soldiers and civilians) on a silver platter for those governments
and adversaries who wish us the most harm in this world. Three years
of Russian hysteria happened only because of the deep corruption of Hillary
Clinton.
This scheme of political projection and wicked treachery should go
down as a final reminder that America survives today only because President
Trump managed to prevail against the nearly insurmountable wave of our
government's intelligence agencies, the justice system, media propagandists,
and the combined wills of the Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans intending to
swamp him.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further. Paul Driessen
Hillary Clinton's Russia collusion IOU: The answers she owes
America
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446736-hillary-clintons-russia-collusion-iou-the-answers-she-owes-america
BY
JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION
During the
combined two decades she served as a U.S. senator and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s patrons regularly donated to her family charity when they had
official business pending before America’s most powerful political woman.
The pattern of
political IOUs paid to the Clinton Foundation was so pernicious that the State
Department even tried to execute a special agreement with the charity to avoid the overt appearance of “pay-to-play” policy.
Still, the
money continued to flow by the millions of dollars, from foreigners and
Americans alike who were perceived to be indebted to the Clinton machine or in
need of its help.
It’s time for
the American public to call in their own IOU on political transparency.
The reason?
Never before — until 2016 — had the apparatus of a U.S. presidential candidate
managed to sic the weight of the FBI and U.S. intelligence community on a rival
nominee during an election, and by using a foreign-fed, uncorroborated
political opposition research document.
But Clinton’s
campaign, in concert with the Democratic Party and through their shared law
firm, funded Christopher Steele’s unverified dossierwhich, it turns out, falsely portrayed Republican Donald Trump as a treasonous asset colluding with Russian President
Vladimir Putin to hijack the U.S. election.
Steele went to
the FBI to get an investigation started and then leaked the existence of the
investigation, with the hope of sinking Trump’s presidential aspirations.
On its face, it
is arguably the most devious political dirty trick in American history and one
of the most overt intrusions of a foreigner into a U.S. election.
It appears the
Clinton machine knew that what it was doing was controversial. That’s why it
did backflips to disguise the operation from Congress and the public, and in
its Federal Election Commission (FEC) spending reports.
Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) used the law firm of Perkins Coie to hire Glenn Simpson’s research firm, Fusion GPS, which
then hired Steele — several layers that obfuscated transparency, kept the
operation off the campaign’s public FEC reports and gave the Clintons plausible
deniability.
But Steele’s
first overture on July 5, 2016, failed to capture the FBI’s imagination. So the
Clinton machine escalated. Steele, a British national, went to senior
Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr — whose wife, Nellie, also worked for
Fusion — to push his Trump dirt to the top of the FBI.
Nellie Ohr
likewise sent some of her own anti-Trump research augmenting Steele’s dossier
to the FBI through her husband. Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann used his connection to former FBI general counsel James Baker to dump Trump
dirt at the FBI, too.
Then Steele
and, separately, longtime Clinton protégé Cody Shearer went to the
State Department to get the story out,
increasing pressure on the FBI.
In short, the
Clinton machine flooded the FBI with pressure — and bad intel — until an
investigation of Trump was started. The bureau and its hapless sheriff at the
time, James Comey, eventually acquiesced with the help of such Clinton fans as
then-FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
To finish the
mission, Simpson and Steele leaked the existence of the FBI investigation to
the news media to ensure it would hurt Trump politically. Simpson even called the leaks a “hail Mary” that failed.
Trump won,
however. And now, thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller, we know the
Russia-collusion allegations relentlessly peddled by Team Clinton were bogus.
But not before the FBI used the Clinton-funded, foreign-created research to get
a total of four warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency from October 2016 through the
following autumn.
The Clinton
team’s dirty trick was as diabolical as it was brilliant. It literally used
house money and a large part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to carry out
its political hit job on Trump.
After two years
of American discomfort, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, it’s
time for the house to call in its IOU.
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers — lots of them. So far, she has ducked them, even while doing
many high-profile media interviews.
I’m not the
only one who thinks this way. Longtime Clinton adviser Douglas Schoen said
Friday night on Fox News that it’s time for Clinton to answer what she knew and
when she knew it.
Here are 10
essential questions:
1.
In January 2018, the Senate
Judiciary Committee sent a formal investigative request for documents and
written answers from your campaign. Do you plan to comply?
2.
Please identify each person in
your campaign who was involved with, or aware of, hiring Fusion GPS, Glenn
Simpson and Christopher Steele.
3.
Please identify each person in
your campaign, including Perkins Coie lawyers, who were aware that Steele
provided information to the FBI or State Department, and when they learned it.
4.
Describe any information you and
your campaign staff received, or were briefed on, before Election Day that was
derived from the work of Simpson, Steele, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr or Perkins
Coie and that tried to connect Trump, his campaign or his business empire with
Russia.
5.
Please describe all contacts
your campaign had before Election Day with or about the following individuals:
Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, former foreign policy scholar Stefan Halper and Maltese academic Joseph
Mifsud.
6.
Did you or any senior members of
your campaign, including lawyers such as Michael Sussmann, have any contact
with the CIA, its former Director John Brennan, current Director Gina Haspel,
James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page or former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe?
7.
Describe all contacts your campaign had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal concerning Trump,
Russia and Ukraine.
8.
Describe all contacts you and
your campaign had with DNC contractorAlexandra
Chalupa, the Ukraine government, the Ukraine Embassy in the United States or
the U.S. Embassy in Kiev concerning Trump, Russia or former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort.
9.
Why did your campaign and the
Democratic Party make a concerted effort to portray Trump as a Russian asset?
10.
Given that investigations by a
House committee, a Senate committee and a special prosecutor all have concluded
there isn’t evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, do you regret the actions by
your campaign and by Steele, Simpson and Sussmann to inject these unfounded
allegations into the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community and the news media?
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers to each of these questions. She should skip the lawyer-speak
and answer them with the candor worthy of an elder American stateswoman.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose
work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the
Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in
drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an
investigative columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill.
Follow him on Twitter @jsolomonReports.
ALL
REVOLUTIONS START OUT MESSY AND UNFOCUSED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
The
Party of Antifa Fascists?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
Who are
the “Antifa” mobs? What are they doing to our country? How long will we
tolerate them?
The Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were their latest excuse for tantrums and intolerance.
Dismissing fairness, propriety and due process, they screamed that mere
allegations of misconduct were enough to bar him from the Supreme Court,
despite no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
Vicious
harassment of senators and White House officials in restaurants, streets,
grocery stores, and Senate offices and elevators was matched by ambush tactics
and despicable behavior by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. If Justice
Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings were “an electronic lynching,” those hearings were an electronic
assault on a respected jurist, his wife and young daughters.
When
Kavanaugh fought back, the same Senators and their media friends said he
“lacked the proper temperament” to be on the Court. (Apparently, he should have
just tried to enjoy the experience.)
The fact
is, Democrats and their allies had said in lockstep and from the outset that
they intended to keep any Trump nominee off our highest
court. The Women’s March mistakenly released a statement saying it opposed the
“nomination of XX” to the Court. (They forgot to fill
in the blank.) They view the Court as their supreme state and national
legislature: it’s far easier to get 5 votes than 5 million or 50 million.
In
reality, this ongoing attempted rule by mob (with Portland, Oregon a prime example) goes back to
the 2016 elections that put Donald Trump in the White House. The mobs weren’t
just disappointed that Hillary Clinton had not won. They were enraged. And they’ve remained so ever
since.
In fact,
their furor goes back even further – to mounds of excrement they left behind in
North Dakota, for instance, where they tried to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, by burning and bombing bridges,
threatening local residents and killing cattle. One “peaceful protester” tried
to shoot a deputy sheriff.
In
another example, they enlisted state attorneys general, universities, wealthy
leftwing foundations and private law firms (on a contingency fee basis) to
bring RICO and other actions against scientists and think
tanks that voice skepticism about “cataclysmic manmade climate change.” On
college campuses they have banned, disinvited, mobbed, harassed or just plain
screamed over 300 conservative
speakers into
silence. Being a Republican or wearing a Trump MAGA hat can get you beaten, or
worse.
They
forget President Obama’s dictum: “Elections have consequences.” One is the
President’s right to nominate Federal judges. But from their perspective,
“consequences” must never apply when they lose – and the Electoral College must be abolished when it works
as our Founding Fathers intended: to keep populous urban areas from dominating
presidential elections and imposing a tyranny of the majority. (The fact that
85% of all US counties voted for Donald Trump illustrates this principle in
action.)
In most
of these cases, “they” are the Antifa mobs. Antifa being short for
“anti-fascist.” Don’t be conned.
The
Antifa mobs are fascists! And they have become the
ski-masked thug wing of the Democratic Party.
They (and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kyrsten Sinema, Andrew Gillum, Bernie Sanders and
other favored candidates) certainly espouse socialism as
their vehicle for wealth redistribution. However, in almost every other
respect, their philosophies and actions reflect fascism, which
is generally defined as:
A
political system in which an authoritarian government does not own businesses
and industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and
rights – while forcibly controlling and suppressing citizens and their thought
and speech via stringent laws, intimidation and even violence.
Sadly,
the Democratic Party is slipping further into these tendencies, becoming ever
more closely aligned with these radicals. It relies on Antifa thugs to “rally
the base,” intimidate and abuse Republican voters and
candidates, and get Democrat (and “undocumented”) voters to the polls. Like too
many in the “mainstream” news media, Democrats refuse to condemn the mob
behavior – and say it’s wrong to even call them
mobs. They’re just
concerned citizens, peaceably assembling and seeking redress of their
grievances. Right. (Hint: You don’t like being called fascist mobs? Stop
behaving like fascist mobs.)
“You
cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand
for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton said recently. So instead of civil
debates we’re to have civil war over whose vision and agenda will rule? Is
there something wrong, antiquated or “threatening” about debating issues?
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder said, when Republicans “go low” with their
rhetoric, “we kick them.” Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) incites
Antifa mobs by ranting, “If you see anybody from the Trump Administration in a
restaurant, in a department store, tell them they’re not welcome anymore,
anywhere.”
Now on
top of the speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, censorship, groupthink and
identity politics, Google, Facebook and Twitter control and restrict access to
conservative views; crowd funding sites prevent conservative groups from
raising money; and the Obama IRS prevented Tea Party groups from getting the
tax status needed to operate. When all that fails, we’re supposed to tolerate
mobs and riots.
On
campuses, LGBTQ diversity is virtuous. Diversity of viewpoints or political
affiliation is intolerable. Some say Republicans want to control what you do in
your bedroom. But Democrats want to control everything you do anywhere outside
your bedroom. And Antifa mobs will keep you quiet and in line.
Antifa
thugs fire-bombed a North Carolina Republican office and trashed another one in
New York City, where they left a note that said, “This is just the beginning.”Others knocked a 71-year-old female
congressional staffer unconscious! It even reached the point where a rabid
Bernie Sanders supporter tried to gun down Republican
legislatorsand
staffers who were practicing for a charity baseball event.
Indeed,
death on a large scale, to serve state or other “higher interests,” is another
aspect of fascism. We see that with millions of people dying every year in
Africa and Asia, because pressure groups deny them access to energy, insect control, water
purification, agricultural and other modern technologies,
in the name of protecting the environment from dangerous climate change, chemicals
and biotechnology.
There are
crazy ironies, too. Google helps the
Chinese Communist
Government prevent its citizens from accessing “forbidden” knowledge and ideas
– but then claims helping the US Defense Department with Cloud computing or
artificial intelligence surveillance would “violate its principles.”
Around
many neighborhoods, signs proclaim “Hate has no home here,” in multiple
languages, with an American flag heart logo reminiscent of the Obama campaign
logo – in liberals’ yards. The signs are part of a project that “promotes just
and inclusive communities.” Trump supporters need not apply.
Democrats
appear to be depending on all of this to counter a possible “red wave” – and
regain control of the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. If
they succeed even with just the House, Democrat congressional committees will
investigate, interrogate and try to impeach Trump, Kavanaugh and other
officials. They will impede and obstruct everything the Trump Administration
tries to do.
They’ll
also try to abolish ICE, block the Wall, pack the Supreme Court, take our guns,
bash Israel – and replace the fossil fuels that provide 80% of our energy with
“100% renewable energy” that is so expensive and unreliable
it will bring our industries, economy and nation to its knees, while blanketing
rural and habitat land, damaging
people’s health and property rights, and butchering birds and bats by the
millions.
Our
rebounding energy, employment, economy, markets and living standards would get
rolled back.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further.
Some say
the Antifa-Schumer-Pelosi-Clinton-Holder-Waters strategy will backfire. I hope
that happens, because it would be disastrous if these people run Congress,
America and our lives. But I won’t bank on it.
If you’re
worried too (and you should be), get inspired and involved. Above all, VOTE!
Vote to preserve our democratic Republic, our freedoms, our booming economy, reliable and affordable energy for all Americans – and
equal justice for all, based on the presumption of innocence until proven
guilty.
Paul
Driessen writes books and articles on energy, environmental, human rights and
political issues.
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