The George Floyd rioters
may identify with Floyd because they feel that
state or local
government is kneeling on
their necks.
The claim
that
Floyd
died of strangulation ignores
the fact he was
able
to say
"I can't breathe!" The fact Floyd
could
speak
means
he
could
exhale
air
through his throat. Thus
the
statement
"I
can't breathe!" probably
indicates he could
not
expand
his
lungs
so
he
could
draw
in
air.
He
would
have
had trouble
expanding
his
lungs
lying
face
down
with a
man on his
back.
If
the
men
involved in
Floyd's
death
are typical
of
those who
work for
the
Minneapolis
police
department I'm
glad
I
don't
have to
rely
on the
Minneapolis
police
department for
protection.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Russia Investigation Blatantly Unconstitutional
[Is the Bill of Rights a Bad Joke? pt. 2]
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Attorney General William Barr should send a letter to the Supreme Court stating that the 2016 election investigation violated the Constitution because it was based in part on an unverified dossier provided by a British MI6 agent who conceded that it might only be 70% to 90% accurate.
Most people don't understand that the Bill of Rights provisions regulating law enforcement weren't added to the Constitution to protect killers and thieves. The provisions were added to the Constitution to prevent corrupt law enforcement agencies from misusing the criminal justice system to harass political activists. One of the worst abuses in British legal history was the "Star Chamber" proceeding which allowed the use of secret unsubstantiated allegations against the accused, especially against political activists.
The involvement of British intelligence agent Christopher Steele in the investigation in effect makes it a form of Star Chamber proceeding. I know he says he's retired, but think about it. Obviously, if he's on a "secret mission" for the British government, he's not going to say "I'm on a secret mission to discredit Donald Trump." He's going to say "I'm retired." I have enough respect for Britain's MI6
to believe that it can arrange for agents on secret assignments to appear retired or to have "jobs" that have no connection to the British government.
Patrick Cockburn compared the Steele dossier to the British government's exaggerated claims about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
American courts need to know how information is obtained so defense attorneys can have an opportunity to discredit government allegations, Agents like Steele need to keep some information and sources of information secret. Courts need to know the truth. Agents must be able to lie convincingly such as when the British overstated the status of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Regardless of whether or not Steele prepared the Trump dossier on assignment for his government, the dossier appears to be the type of propaganda piece an agent might prepare for his government. It's not important whether Steele's document caused the Mueller investigation or merely encouraged it. What is important is that allowing a foreign agent to encourage a criminal investigation of an American politician allows other countries to meddle in our politics by providing evidence to destroy politicians they don't like.
Attorney General William Barr should send a letter to the Supreme Court stating that the 2016 election investigation violated the Constitution because it was based in part on an unverified dossier provided by a British MI6 agent who conceded that it might only be 70% to 90% accurate.
Most people don't understand that the Bill of Rights provisions regulating law enforcement weren't added to the Constitution to protect killers and thieves. The provisions were added to the Constitution to prevent corrupt law enforcement agencies from misusing the criminal justice system to harass political activists. One of the worst abuses in British legal history was the "Star Chamber" proceeding which allowed the use of secret unsubstantiated allegations against the accused, especially against political activists.
The involvement of British intelligence agent Christopher Steele in the investigation in effect makes it a form of Star Chamber proceeding. I know he says he's retired, but think about it. Obviously, if he's on a "secret mission" for the British government, he's not going to say "I'm on a secret mission to discredit Donald Trump." He's going to say "I'm retired." I have enough respect for Britain's MI6
to believe that it can arrange for agents on secret assignments to appear retired or to have "jobs" that have no connection to the British government.
Patrick Cockburn compared the Steele dossier to the British government's exaggerated claims about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
American courts need to know how information is obtained so defense attorneys can have an opportunity to discredit government allegations, Agents like Steele need to keep some information and sources of information secret. Courts need to know the truth. Agents must be able to lie convincingly such as when the British overstated the status of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Regardless of whether or not Steele prepared the Trump dossier on assignment for his government, the dossier appears to be the type of propaganda piece an agent might prepare for his government. It's not important whether Steele's document caused the Mueller investigation or merely encouraged it. What is important is that allowing a foreign agent to encourage a criminal investigation of an American politician allows other countries to meddle in our politics by providing evidence to destroy politicians they don't like.
Friday, May 22, 2020
Major Russian Espionage Involving Obama's DOJ
The following is a repost
of a discussion about
what the Russian hackers were really doing in 2016.
Robert Mueller and his staff may be covering up the biggest act of espionage in the United States since the acquisition of atomic secrets by the Russians at the start of the Cold War. Mueller is supposed to be investigating what the Russian hackers called "Fancy Bear" did during the 2016 election. However, he continues to ignore an Associated Press expose indicating Fancy Bear focused on non-partisan email users including defense industry employees and those in the intelligence community. According to the AP, Department of Justice employees were aware of what Fancy Bear was doing, but didn't warn those whose emails were being hacked. . Fancy Bear used access to the Democrats national committee emails as a cover story to hide what may have been the real reason for the operation from the meatheads at the Department of Justice (DOJ)..
The popular myth is that Fancy Bear was accessing the Democratic Party's emails to help Russia influence the 2016 presidential election. Russia couldn't have used the Democratic national committee emails to influence the presidential election because the candidates' organizations run the presidential campaigns -- not the national party organizations. It is unlikely Russia needed hackers to get the Democratic emails. Russia almost certainly had an agent planted in the Democratic national organization who would have used a zip drive to copy emails along with general information about party personnel and supporters. An agent in the organization can use conversations to obtain information that is never placed in the computer. China and Israel also probably had agents in the Democrats organization.
It may come as a surprise to some politicians and journalists, but Americans and Russians and their allies have been spying on each other and attempting to influence political opinions in each other's countries for 70 years.
It is time to recognize that Fancy Bear was conducting a major espionage operation rather than attempting to play politics. I don't know if the Justice Department's Fancy Bear collaborators were just stupid or the Russians paid them for their services. Nor, do I know if Mueller and his staff are taking money from the Russians or they're just trying to protect "dirty" DOJ employees and possibly former President Barack Obama. Obama's cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel has indicated Obama told DOJ employees not to stop the Russians.
It's time for President Donald Trump to replace Mueller and his band of incompetents with investigators who have never worked for the Department of Justice. Their mission should be to identify and prosecute those who collaborated with the Russian hackers and to determine if the Russians were able to use the knowledge they obtained to access classified information or infiltrate corporate or government computers.
Even if personal emails didn't contain classified information, they could have helped identify people who could be black mailed or be willing to accept bribes. Emails could have identified disgruntled employees who might welcome help to get even with an "unfair" employer. A covert agent could get acquainted with the employee and then tell the employee how he or someone he knew got even.
Robert Mueller and his staff may be covering up the biggest act of espionage in the United States since the acquisition of atomic secrets by the Russians at the start of the Cold War. Mueller is supposed to be investigating what the Russian hackers called "Fancy Bear" did during the 2016 election. However, he continues to ignore an Associated Press expose indicating Fancy Bear focused on non-partisan email users including defense industry employees and those in the intelligence community. According to the AP, Department of Justice employees were aware of what Fancy Bear was doing, but didn't warn those whose emails were being hacked. . Fancy Bear used access to the Democrats national committee emails as a cover story to hide what may have been the real reason for the operation from the meatheads at the Department of Justice (DOJ)..
The popular myth is that Fancy Bear was accessing the Democratic Party's emails to help Russia influence the 2016 presidential election. Russia couldn't have used the Democratic national committee emails to influence the presidential election because the candidates' organizations run the presidential campaigns -- not the national party organizations. It is unlikely Russia needed hackers to get the Democratic emails. Russia almost certainly had an agent planted in the Democratic national organization who would have used a zip drive to copy emails along with general information about party personnel and supporters. An agent in the organization can use conversations to obtain information that is never placed in the computer. China and Israel also probably had agents in the Democrats organization.
It may come as a surprise to some politicians and journalists, but Americans and Russians and their allies have been spying on each other and attempting to influence political opinions in each other's countries for 70 years.
It is time to recognize that Fancy Bear was conducting a major espionage operation rather than attempting to play politics. I don't know if the Justice Department's Fancy Bear collaborators were just stupid or the Russians paid them for their services. Nor, do I know if Mueller and his staff are taking money from the Russians or they're just trying to protect "dirty" DOJ employees and possibly former President Barack Obama. Obama's cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel has indicated Obama told DOJ employees not to stop the Russians.
It's time for President Donald Trump to replace Mueller and his band of incompetents with investigators who have never worked for the Department of Justice. Their mission should be to identify and prosecute those who collaborated with the Russian hackers and to determine if the Russians were able to use the knowledge they obtained to access classified information or infiltrate corporate or government computers.
Even if personal emails didn't contain classified information, they could have helped identify people who could be black mailed or be willing to accept bribes. Emails could have identified disgruntled employees who might welcome help to get even with an "unfair" employer. A covert agent could get acquainted with the employee and then tell the employee how he or someone he knew got even.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Is Lockdown Without Compensation Unconstitutional?
Lockdown without compensation violates the spirit if not the letter of the Fifth Amendment provision: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
The lockdown may not involve government permanently taking possession of property as is usually the case, but the action deprives the owner of the right to use the property to generate
income which in effect is the. same situation. States have been compensating owners of property commandeered for use to treat COVID-19 patients. States should be compensating owners of lockdown property.
Firefighters may construct a firebreak to stop a major wildfire. They will burn off a strip of vegetation ahead of the fire so the fire will stop when it reaches the break.
The states have been using closed businesses as "virus breaks" because the virus cannot move through empty spaces. By taking private property for public use as "virus breaks" states are obligated to compensate the property owners.
States probably won't compensate the property owners unless property owners can use class action lawsuits to get the courts to order compensation. Alternatively property owners might ask President Donald Trump to require states to first use any new virus assistance to compensate the property owners.
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