On Making Stuff Up

You really can’t make this stuff up.

Hillary Clinton in the presidential debates for the 2016 election, when candidate Trump failed to guarantee “that he wouldn’t uncritically accept the outcome or give up his right to challenge the results”:

“‘It was horrifying,’ Clinton thundered, ‘what he said on the debate stage tonight. Our country has been around for 240 years, and . . . one of our hallmarks has always been we accept the outcome of our elections.’ This civic piety was immediately followed after the election by Clinton, the Democrats, the FBI, the DOJ, and most of the left-wing media refusing to accept the outcome of the election, and ginning up preposterous conspiracy theories about Russian ‘collusion.’”

The quotes are from ‘The Fallout From The Mueller Report: The dire urgency for an investigation into the investigation’ by Bruce Thornton - March 26 - at David Horowitz’s FrontPage Mag, a product of Horowitz’s Freedom Center.  Thornton goes on, insightfully:

“The Democrats’ behavior eerily evokes comments made by two Soviet secret police thugs. Stalin’s chief of the secret police, Lavrentiy Beria, famously said, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” From the moment in 2015 Donald Trump rode down the golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy, he has been the “man” whom the progressives have  pursued and for whom they have created the “crime.” Earlier in 1918, Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka, the first of the Soviet era’s secret police agencies, set out the communists’ modus operandi: “We are not waging war against individual persons. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class.” Substitute “conservatives” for “bourgeoisie” and you can see the intent of the progressives. It’s not just about Trump, though their class prejudices and bitter resentment feed their hatred. It’s really about those who uphold the political philosophy, enshrined in the Constitution, that for a century has resisted the progressives’ aggrandizement of power and control in order to fulfill their vision of ‘social justice.’

“Going forward, we will see the Democrat-controlled House, egged on by the media, abuse its investigative powers to continue their desperate search for something, anything upon which to build yet another false narrative of Trump’s and the Republicans’ evil. Indeed, we’ve already had a foretaste of things to come in the extremist antics of the new generation of Democrats like socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and in the rush of old-school Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden to prostitute themselves to these Jacobins.

“This brings us to perhaps the most important consequence of the sorry spectacle of the Mueller investigation. The leftist “mantra” of “any means necessary” embraced by Democrats now includes the corruption of agencies armed with enormous power to surveil, investigate, subpoena, and arrest with lethal force American citizens, in gross violation of their Constitutional rights.

“Strong evidence suggest that this abuse of federal police and investigative powers started with Obama, the same Obama who in 2004 said of the Patriot Act, “The act goes too far in violating our fundamental notions of privacy, thus seriously eroding the very ideals at the heart of our country’s greatness.” This is the same Obama who before he left office multiplied the number of deep-state functionaries allowed access to surveillance intelligence, which led to illegal leaks. And this is the same Obama who did nothing about the clear evidence of Russian interference in our election until he could weaponize it to harm Donald Trump.

“With the example of their boss, is it any wonder that numerous FBI and DOJ functionaries violated their oath of office and turned their investigative and interrogation powers against U.S. citizens, powers that they wielded without oversight and, it seems so far, without accountability? And while NeverTrump hysteric Bret Stephens demands an apology from Mueller’s critics, what about demanding an apology from Mueller for the thuggish tactics he used in his investigation, like laying specious perjury traps, threatening Michael Flynn’s son, and going after the sexagenarian Roger Stone in a predawn raid by a 29-member heavily armed SWAT team? How about the millions of dollars that those caught up in Mueller’s inquisition had to spend to defend themselves and their reputations? All these tactics, more suitable for an investigation of violent gangsters, were aimed at bullying witnesses into rolling over on Donald Trump, probably because Mueller already knew he had nothing substantial on the president.

“And this is the most important takeaway from the investigation and its report: the unaccountable power that unscrupulous, unethical, and rabidly ambitious or egomaniacal prosecutors drunk on their own power can bring to bear against their fellow citizens. This problem, of course, predates the Mueller investigation. Remember Patrick Fitzgerald’s despicable hounding of Scooter Libby even as the prosecutor knew who had leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name? And unless checked, this abuse of power will continue, and the present abuse be left as unpunished as Libby’s persecution has been.

“That’s why the Mueller report is not the end, but should be the beginning. We should hold those accountable who, entrusted with such power, abused it and the Constitution by meddling with a legitimate presidential election the results of which didn’t suit their ideological prejudices or careerist ambitions. As the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel, who has been stellar in analyzing these abuses, writes,

“Americans now deserve a full accounting of the missteps of former FBI Director James Comey and his team—in part so that this never happens again. That includes the following: What “evidence” did the FBI have in totality? What efforts did the bureau take to verify it? Did it corroborate anything before launching its probe? What role did political players play? How aware was the FBI that it was being gulled into a dirty-trick operation, and if so, how did it justify proceeding? How intrusive were the FBI methods? And who was harmed?

“As Strassel suggests, step number one will be full disclosure of all FBI and DOJ documents related to the initial investigation that metastasized into the Russian collusion canard, so we can identify, investigate and prosecute the guilty men and women complicit in the soft, slow-motion coup d’état.

“Finally, we should remember that “democratic norms” and other obsessions over Trump’s personal style are not central to our Republic’s foundational principles that protect our political freedom. Two of the most important are the equality of all citizens before the law, and the accountability of government agency officials to the citizens whom they are supposed to serve. The compromising of both those principles is a necessary step for those who, like the current crop of Democrat presidential candidates, seek to dismantle that order and replace it with a regime that will move us even farther down the road to tyranny.”

And similar, telling-it-like-it-is coverage of what has been going on regarding the Trump presidency is contained in the current, March 18 issue of The New American magazine.*  A publication of The John Birch Society. 

Yes, I am a conservative.  On many issues.  Not all.  (As there is a Synthesis going on; not a zero-sum 'game'.)  I am against Big Ag and Big Pharma (actually the whole medical-pharmaceutical-government complex), and other arrogant corporate players in the American scene.  Who have been emulating the classic definition of fascism, i.e, a corporate-government complex.  I am thus as opposed to the far Right as I am the far Left.  Totalitarians, all.

Freedom.  Essential liberty.

May it ring out in this land.  And drown out those who are attempting to censor speech into oblivion, from their totalitarian perspectives.  

Disgusting stuff, that has been going on in this country, and especially in that censorship regard.

As I say:

For long enough.

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* And pointing out in its cover story how the MSM basically ignored the conclusive findings of both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee in their investigations into the (MSM’s) much ballyhooed claims of Trump-Russia Collusion, that there was none.  Period.

   ‘But wait!  We’ve still got the Mueller investigation going for us!  Bury that other stuff - Mueller is Our Man!  He’ll come through, and do the job, and get rid of Trump!’    

   Scurrilous stuff.  Dishonest as hell.

   The hell that we have been in, with these totalitarians in charge of our mainstream media, and social media, and education systems, and entertainment sector, for long enough.