In a democracy elected officials control the police.. In
a police state, the police can tell elected officials what to do.
In a democracy elected officials can fire police
leaders. In a police state police leaders cannot be
fired by the officials the people have elected to supposedly
run the government.
'In a police state Gestapo like police may terrorize political
figures by invading their homes in the middle of the night like
Robert Mueller did to .Paul J. Manafort. In a police
state KGB like police may plant spies in political organizations
like the
Department of Justice did to Donald Trump.
Those who talk about the rule of law sometimes forget the most
important of our laws are devoted to preventing misuse of the police
powers to harass and intimidate political figures. One
of the most important of these protections is the requirement that
those making accusations be identified so the accused can challenge
the charges. The accused may know that the accuser is
likely to lie. Basing an investigation of a political
candidate on an anonymous source violates the spirit if not the
letter of this constitutional protection.
The most important of our laws is the United States
Constitution. Article 2 of the United States Constitution
states: " The executive Power shall be vested in a President
of the United States of America."
The Constitution does not allow sharing of power with the Attorney
General, the FBI Director or any other law enforcement
official. Article 2 prohibits any law enforcement
official from interrogating a president or trying to indict
one. Such an action would be equivalent to an attempt to
overthrow the government. Allowing the sharing of power
would take away the people's power to control law enforcement,
Showing posts with label witch hunt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label witch hunt. Show all posts
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Friday, October 13, 2017
Edward R. Murrow Would Be Ashamed of the People at CBS.
Edward R.
Murrow used his position as a journalist to expose the
anti-communist witch
hunt in the 50's.
I remember seeing some of the television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings. I was too young to fully understand what was going on, but I recognized that Murrow thought something was wrong.
If he were alive today, I'm sure he would recognize that the current anti-Russian crusade makes less sense than Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade in the 50's.
There was a Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union in the 50's. There is no good reason for the United States and Russia to be enemies today.
The question Joe McCarthy asked in the 50's was: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?" The question today is: "have you ever talked to a Russian?"
Supporters of the Russian meddling witch hunt claim that Russian hackers were spying on the Democratic Party's emails. The fact is that the Russian government has arrested four of those hackers [ including the deputy head of the FSB security agency’s Centre for Information Security, Col. Sergei Mikhailov and his deputy Maj. Dmitry Dokuchayev]. and charged them with working for the CIA.
Thus any inquisition on this issue should begin with Obama administration officials and seek answers to the following questions: "What did President Obama know? When did he know it? and What did he do about it?"
The witch hunters also charge the Russians with "planting fake news". The traditional term is "propaganda" and governments have been doing it for generations. Great Britain started doing it to us during WWI. After the 9/11 attack the British convinced our government that Iraq's WMD program was more extensive than it was.
Prior to the 2004 election, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV] released a story that insured that Gov. Bob Kerrey would not run against Sen John Kerry [whom the DRV was supporting] for the Democratic presidential nomination. The DRV had previously provided "fake news" to try to influence voters in the 1968 and 1972 elections.
It's increasingly obvious that it's the British, rather than the Russians, who are meddling in American politics. The British are once again using "fake intelligence" to influence American politics.
After the 9/11 attack the British used fake intelligence about WMD in Iraq to get President George W. Bush to help them invade Iraq. The British treated rumors about WMD as if they were proven facts.
Now they are using fake intelligence to undermine President Donald Trump. Patrick Cockburn in the "London Independent" says the charges about Trump's alleged association with the Russians are based on information that is at least as unreliable as the claims about Iraq's WMD.
I remember seeing some of the television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings. I was too young to fully understand what was going on, but I recognized that Murrow thought something was wrong.
If he were alive today, I'm sure he would recognize that the current anti-Russian crusade makes less sense than Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade in the 50's.
There was a Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union in the 50's. There is no good reason for the United States and Russia to be enemies today.
The question Joe McCarthy asked in the 50's was: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?" The question today is: "have you ever talked to a Russian?"
Supporters of the Russian meddling witch hunt claim that Russian hackers were spying on the Democratic Party's emails. The fact is that the Russian government has arrested four of those hackers [ including the deputy head of the FSB security agency’s Centre for Information Security, Col. Sergei Mikhailov and his deputy Maj. Dmitry Dokuchayev]. and charged them with working for the CIA.
Thus any inquisition on this issue should begin with Obama administration officials and seek answers to the following questions: "What did President Obama know? When did he know it? and What did he do about it?"
The witch hunters also charge the Russians with "planting fake news". The traditional term is "propaganda" and governments have been doing it for generations. Great Britain started doing it to us during WWI. After the 9/11 attack the British convinced our government that Iraq's WMD program was more extensive than it was.
Prior to the 2004 election, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV] released a story that insured that Gov. Bob Kerrey would not run against Sen John Kerry [whom the DRV was supporting] for the Democratic presidential nomination. The DRV had previously provided "fake news" to try to influence voters in the 1968 and 1972 elections.
It's increasingly obvious that it's the British, rather than the Russians, who are meddling in American politics. The British are once again using "fake intelligence" to influence American politics.
After the 9/11 attack the British used fake intelligence about WMD in Iraq to get President George W. Bush to help them invade Iraq. The British treated rumors about WMD as if they were proven facts.
Now they are using fake intelligence to undermine President Donald Trump. Patrick Cockburn in the "London Independent" says the charges about Trump's alleged association with the Russians are based on information that is at least as unreliable as the claims about Iraq's WMD.
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