A Republic ... if You Can Keep It
By Michael The Libertarian
Something I've written about more than once is there appears to be a
(at least) two-tiered justice system in this country.
If you break laws, if you engage in R.I.C.O.-type activity, if you're
careless with classified material, if you destroy evidence that's
been subpoenaed by the United States Congress, if you over-bill hours
on a customer at your law firm, if you sexually assault, someone, you
go to jail … unless your last name is “Clinton”.
Seriously. It is coming to light that the basis for at least one FISA
warrant, obtain to spy on the Trump campaign was a discredited
dossier of lies, paid for, at some point, by the Hillary Clinton
Campaign.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Our government is not supposed to spy on American citizens except in
the most egregious of circumstances, but in this case, it appears all
that was necessary to put those wheels into motion was a tissue of
lies, masquerading as opposition research.
The potential for abuse has always been there. Ever since Eric
Snowden decided to show what a lies our intelligence community could
perpetrate on us (with impunity, it would seem), we have come to know
the potential is all too easily realized.
Imagine, in case you don't already believe, the Trump Campaign had
nothing to do with any “collusion” with Russia in regards to the
2016 elections. Now think about the magnitude of the affront to our
civil liberties that a (then) private citizen was spied on partially
(maybe entirely?) based upon a completely made-from-whole-cloth piece
if “opposition research” that was paid for by that private
citizens competitor.
Now, understand that “competitor” appears to enjoy trans-actional
immunity for any crimes, past, present or future.
Is this the America you want?
It's certainly not the America I want.
The sad fact is there's a reason for
this. It's one that gets continually poo-pooed, but the truth is the
people who tend to get away with these kind of things are people who
enjoy the protection not only of career political wonks, deeply
ensconced in the sewer that is Washington, D.C. but they also enjoy
the protection of the news media, Hollyweird, and most television
(comedy as well as dramatic) shows and, up until the late 80s, most
of talk radio.
So, as long as you hold the correct
political views, you have a get-out-of-jail-free card for all but the
most heinous or most public crimes. That explains a lot, really. Bill
Clinton's behavior with young ladies back in the 80s right up to
using one for a humidor in the oval office.
It also accounts for Roman Polanski
still winning awards and getting standing ovations from the
Hollyweird creeps. Weinstain, plying his trade for decades.
Obviously, it explains my pet
project Shrillary Rotten Clinton who not only holds the right
political stances but insinuated into the halls of power under her
husband's presidency and beyond.
How are normal, every day,
two-armed, two-legged, garden variety supposed to take the laws
seriously? Why should we obey laws, when those laws don't seem to be
applied, evenly. In what is supposed to be a democratic republic,
where all people are equal, if the laws are not applied evenly,
you're begging for
a constitutional crisis – at best – and a revolution, at worst.
- Michael
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