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High Ties and Misdemeanors

Monday, 25 February 2019, 0:00 MJA Uncategorized 15

American Thinker: Nothing offends people more than unequal justice — disparate treatment of protected persons and classes. This week, the FBI and Department of Justice’s hash of equal justice became even clearer and the media’s fat thumb on the scales as well.

If you read nothing else this week, read this essay by Lord Conrad Black in the New York Sun, who links the Special Counsel fiasco and the Jussie Smollett hoax and concludes that we just avoided the “biggest constitutional crisis since the Civil War”:

The authors, accomplices, and dupes of this attempted overthrow of constitutional government are now well along in reciting their misconduct without embarrassment or remorse because — in fired FBI Director James Comey’s formulation — a “higher duty” than the oath they swore to uphold the Constitution compelled them. Or — in fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s words — “the threat” was too great. Never mind that the nature of “the threat” was that the people might elect someone he and Mr. Comey disapproved of as president, and that that person might actually serve his term, as elected.

The extent of the criminal misconduct of the former law enforcement and intelligence chiefs is now notorious, but to make the right point here, it has to be summarized. The fact that the officially preferred candidate lied to federal officials about her emails and acted in outright contempt of Congress and the legal process in the destruction of evidence, was simply ignored by the FBI director, who announced that she would not be prosecuted, though he had no authority to make that determination.

The dossier of salacious gossip and defamatory falsehoods amassed by a retired British spy from the lowest grade of intelligence sources in Russia, commissioned and paid for by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, was circulated to the media by high public officials and cited in illegal and dishonest applications to authorize surveillance of the campaign of the other presidential candidate. A special counsel was empowered on the false pretext of the necessity to get to the bottom of Trump-Russian collusion in the election…

The special counsel then packed his staff with militant Clinton partisans, and acted very late and only when his hand was forced by the press to remove two officials who referred in texts to each other to the Bureau’s ability to smear and provoke the impeachment of the winning candidate as “an insurance policy” against his filling the office to which he was elected.

He asserts, and I agree, that the defamation campaign against the president continues with the now-debunked tale of racism by the Covington students and the thoroughly debunked tale of assault on Jussie Smollett.

I believe the concept of “hate crimes” is an oxymoron. If you assault or murder someone it’s fair to assume it was out of improper animus. Adding a kicker for “hate” in which attacks on certain classes of people result in enhanced sentences strikes me as an improper “thought crime” punishment, inconsistent with constitutional law.  MORE

 

h/t Forcibly Deranged.

15 Comments on High Ties and Misdemeanors

  3. I read this piece this morning. It’s written by Clarice Feldman (not a transgender “he,” MJA).

    I’ve read her for a bit now, but this was a stunning piece and I looked for a bio on her, but it’s sketchy: she’s old; she’s a lawyer; married Mr. Feldman in 1965….

    She has a damn good mind. …..Lady in Red

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  5. great essay
    By designating groups that can be victims of ‘hate crimes’ they are necessarily showing hatred for the groups that are excluded from that protection. And that discrimination is unconstitutional and criminal.

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  8. But we’re still going to have The Party tell us The Party’s now good. Again. Right?

    Good as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Nothing to see here. Move along.

    The Constitution is dead, long live The Constitution!

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  10. “And that discrimination is unconstitutional and criminal.”

    Not if the state declines to prosecute, which is the whole point.

    Orwell’s Party systematically changed the language in order to control all thought. Real world Leftists tried that with PC but it’s failing them. Too many people have caught on to the scam, or are just sick and tired of being told what they can and can’t laugh at.

    Now the Left does what they would have inevitability done anyway: brazenly apply justice unequally, which is not justice but tyranny, and dare you to complain. That’s how moron girl can say with all seriousness that she’s now your boss.

    That’s why none of this is really about Trump and never was. It’s about who he represents…us. They told us it was Hillary’s turn and expected us to comply. We didn’t. So if they can neutralize or destroy Trump, they believe they can control us, too.

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  11. Which also means they’re probably going to bet the house on Bernie. He’s their most likely counter to Trump.

    Which means they’ll go balls out to gin up the fractured base, in order to manufacture the perception of massive support for him. Democrats will get in line one way or another.

    You know what that means. Since Sanders’ communism is still a very hard sell, they’ll have to crank up the noise and the violence against all opposition.

    Here’s hoping that I am wrong, but I doubt it.

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  12. Wow, talk about a government bureau that is wildly misnamed-Justice Department! We need a contest to rename the department! Winner gets one get out of jail free card!

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  14. @Aaron Burr:

    All these articles are too long and wordy.
    ‘SMASH THE STATE!!!’ is easy to remember and it fits on a protest sign……that can be used to smash the state.

    You may not like this because, although not wordier, it is a bit longer:

    SMASH THE STATISTS!!!

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