Disclaimer: I am NOT a Rick Perry fan. I think he’s shallow, an opportunist, and incredibly dumb. Got it?
Here are the quick facts;
—1) Travis County Texas District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg was arrested last year for DWI.
—2) She was pulled over with an open bottle of vodka in her car and her blood alcohol level was almost 3 times the legal limit.
—3) She made quite a scene after she was arrested and had to be restrained. You gotta see it to believe it.
—4) She spent 45 days in jail and then refused to resign from her position.
—5) Governor Rick Perry tried to force her removed from office by vetoing funding for her office.
—6) Executives use veto threats all the time to get what they want. The indictment is the FIRST of its kind since 1917.
Here’s the bottom line: In retaliation the corrupt officials in Travis County had Perry indicted. Martin Armstrong explains it pretty well.
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PERRY GUILTY OR INNOCENT? DOES IT MATTER?
The point is not whether Perry is guilty or innocent. The point is it really does not matter because the system is so corrupt you can never really be sure and there are corrupt motives involved that are political to begin with even indicting him. This is the pot calling the kettle black. Even if Perry is guilty, this is the abuse of Prosecutorial discretion which is the very same abuse but no prosecutor can be so charged because the Supreme Court gave them ABSOLUTE immunity to do as they like. The people in Ferguson can protest and demand criminal charges be brought against the policeman, but politicians are powerless – that is solely the discretion of a prosecutor who works hand-in-hand with the police. That is the entire problem.
Shakespeare’s famous quote about the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers is not actually about lawyers. You have to understand the context. Private individuals were not allowed to have lawyers in those days – only the king. It was not until the American Revolution that the Constitution gave you a right to counsel, which the Supreme Court has effectively taken away giving you court appointed counsel working for the court who have achieved a near perfect conviction rate 99%. Court appointed lawyers are a joke to put it mildly. They are paid $90 and hour generally compared to $600-$1,000 for private lawyers.
DICK: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
Cade: Nay, that I mean to do.
Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
Therefore, Shakespeare’s phase had nothing to do with killing general lawyers, it was the king’s PROSECUTORS who were corrupt. Jake Cade led the second Tax Revolt in England after the Black Death and the king’s “lawyers” (prosecutors) were the ones aggressively seizing homes and prosecuting people wrongly at that time. Hence, history repeats and all the Constitutional precautions have been eliminated by the Supreme Court..
The purpose of the Grand Jury was to eliminate corruption where by ONLY the people could indict not the government in the spirit of a real democratic movement. That too, like your right to vote on specific issues, has been eliminated. But then the Supreme Court held a prosecutor has NO DUTY to present the very evidence that demonstrates he is wrong or corrupt and that the person he is indicting is not to cover up for someone else – a friend i.e. bankers.
This destroyed the very purpose of a Grand Jury and has reverted everything back to a dictatorship. The Supreme Court reasoning was explained that it was still fair because you have the court jury (petit jury) where you get to put on your defense. Yet the role of the judge is to decide even there what evidence can even be shown to the jury. However, if prosecutors can freeze all your assets on false statements they even know are wrong and deny you a right to counsel, that is returning the entire system right back to the very corruption against which we had a revolution.
History repeats because the passions of mankind never change. Those in power always want more. They will always act to relieve themselves of any duty to the people and it is always about furthering only their own self-interest. Converting civil police into military combat units is quartering troops among us. Mock trials have returned and there is absolutely no possible way to obtain a fair trial in the United States any more. Their own conviction rate was about 72% during the 1970s. It is now nearly 99%. Government is incapable to managing anything with such perfection. The abuse of the judicial system undermines the rule of law and when that vanishes, so does investment for you can no longer trust the courts to vindicate property ownership.
It is a vicious cycle that repeats time and time again with the rise and fall of Empires, Nations, and City States. We are just not capable of advancing out of this political maze of the centuries.
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SOURCE: http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/08/16/perry-guilty-or-innocent/
Perry is a fucktard. That said, this indictment is bullshit…
Perry is an idiot, but this indictment is complete and utter political bullshit.
I no longer pay attention to any of the inside Washington crap spewed by the media.
” ….. this is the abuse of Prosecutorial discretion which is the very same abuse but no prosecutor can be so charged because the Supreme Court gave them ABSOLUTE immunity to do as they like.” ——– Armstrong
I want you all to understand one aspect of this. The Supreme Cunts have ruled that a Prosecutor may indict you, me, anyone ….. EVEN IF THEY KNOW THAT THE PERSON IS INNOCENT.
Now I finally understand why they hate us for our freedoms.
As others have said.
It’s high time to realize that there is no more USA, no more America, no more Freedom… we are in a fascist dictatorship pretending to be those things.
At 10:23 AM, Stucky writes:
Only now? Jeezly gah-dayum, son, but I caught onto that back during the Eisenhower Administration.
These prosecutors can and often do bring financial ruin to a politician . That’s the real goal . If you can destroy him financially it destroys him politically.
I agree with Admin Gov. Perry is innocent, innocent I tell you. He’s as clean and pure as fresh Aspen snow in December. Send money to help him fight this assault on freedom and liberty.
Now thats one crazy ugly mean bitch right there, was probably a good prosecutor for those exact same reasons.
Watched a few other videos including the dashcam footage, typical “public servant”, thinks the laws they enforce and prosecute dont apply to them.
Well… HP has an article up that says he offered the DA a new job if she would step down. That would let Perry appoint the person that would be investigating the scandal concerning the Cancer fund and the passing of money to political cronies. That sounds like straight up bribery.
“The PIU had been investigating the Cancer Research and Prevention Institute (CPRIT), a $3 billion dollar taxpayer funded project that awarded research and investment grants to startups targeting cancer cures. The entire scientific review team, including Nobel Laureate scientists, resigned because they said millions were handed out through political favoritism. Investigations by Texas newspapers indicated much of the money was ending up in projects proposed by campaign donors and supporters of Governor Perry. In fact, one of the executives of CPRIT was indicted in the PIU investigation for awarding an $11 million dollar grant to a company without the proposal undergoing any type of review.
Perry might have been the next target. ”
There is no doubt that Rick Perry is guilty of coercion. The question is whether it rises to such a level that the statue holds up or is the statue overridden by the Texas or US Constitution. But did he violate the Texas statue. No doubt.
BTW – if the author of this post is a Democrat, I am JC himself. Those are not “the facts” at all. The DA isn’t prosecuting, there is an independent prosecutor. The DA has nothing to do with it. The judge is a Rick Perry appointee and independent prosecutor was recommend by Kay Baily Hutchinson and John Cornyn to President Obama for the job as US Attorney, Texas Western District.
On a related note, last time I checked former AL governor Don Siegelman is still in prison. Just wanted to maintain a little balance here in the chatroom since Perry’s a GOP and Siegelman’s a Dem.
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/11/former_alabama_gov_don_siegelman_speaks
For the record, Perry makes “W” look like a genius.
At 1:52 PM, William Dawson observes:
Well, yeah. This is government we’re talking about. Y’know: cork-screwing, back-stabbing, and dirty dealing, right out of the operating manual of Dr. Mordecai C. Jones, only wholesale and institutionalized rather than retail and al fresco. Quoting from HuffPo:
To which the only possible response is to repeat the admonition that this is a government activity, funded by way of extortion, with the cash being allocated according to political priorities which have only remotely (if at all) any goddam thing whatsoever to do with clinical or scientific validity.
Corruption in a government pork-pushing program? Ooh, gasp! Ooh, how scandalous! Ooh, what next? Word from the Salvation Army that all those guys in the Santa Claus suits are merely pretending to be Jolly Old St. Nicholas?
Perry being what he is (the monkey perched at the apex of the tallest, greasiest pole in the Lone Star State), how in hell could he possibly comport himself as anything but three times more crooked than a dog’s hind leg?
Shucks, were he a member of the National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP) instead of a Red Faction partisan, the Communist abscess making up Travis County would be calling for him to be elevated on angel’s wings, a la their sainted Lyndon Baines “Envelopes Full of Cash” Johnson.
He’s a turd, but he’s right on this one.
If I get stopped for drunk driving, my career and life are over. Why should she be any different?
Seems to me, the slightest infraction should destroy a govt worker, since they are an example for the rest of us, ostinsibly “serve” us, and can be replaced quite easily from millions of unemployed bozos seeking to grab the brass ring.
Political anarchy abounds. The streets are breaking down to anarchy now. Interest rate increase will finish us off. Say to 5 percent.
So… @Gilbert. Why is it that two Republican judges reviewed the case and one appointed a Republican special prosecutor who himself is at odds with the Travis County DA and that prosecutor after hearing testimony from 40 people decided to indict the Republican Governor. All these Republican officials involved in the indictment and no one from the Travis County DA’s office involved.. Why is that?
And @Gilbert… Why is it that other Republican DA’s convicted of Drunk Driving in Texas didn’t get the same scrutiny from the Governor. Two Republican DA’s convicted of DUI and Perry didn’t say squat. How do you figure that?
Eventually, 5% interest rate (about “normal” for short-term – not as currently practiced) will be cheap. short-term rates may run as high as 20-25% before the whole economy belches the last puff of smoke and croaks. It only took Paul Volker (bless his little black heart!) to force it to 14.1% to effect a crunch that solved our problems of those far away 1980 days.
Likely to take more blood in the streets this time.
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The real story is called “See The Knee”, right there in 2008. The problem had been building for a long time (60’s + 1971) before this but the ‘mini-crunch’ in 2008 proclaimed to the entire world that the good ol’ USA was busted (along with anyone else who held dollars). Please remember that in today’s bizarre economics, debt is the same as money and debt never needs to be repaid and the money is 100% counterfeit funny paper whether printed, digitized, bit’d, or how ever else you want to describe it.
From 2008 it is now all downhill for the USA and the dollar in its’ current form as either debt or toilet paper (toilet digits?) and the buck is now thrashing around and will become extinct or greatly modified in format real soon now.
Also, since debt=money (as long as anyone accepts money, of course), the total of both is about $260 trillion and if you toss in unfunded liabilities and derivatives of all kinds, then we kick it up to $650 trillion or more (and no one can provide a closer guess). Not only that, no one can get a grip on that much debt/money. If I wrote them all out with zeros, everyone would go to sleep before the last “zero” was even noticed. The “National Debt” is not even a pimple on Ms. Yellen’s wrinkled old butt when the current monetary fantasy expires and it won’t be with a whimper either.
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MA
A DWI is egregious irresponsibility for any adult, particularly a public official–and an ADA at that.
That is not the sort of person anybody should want in a position of authority for the spending of millions of tax dollars.
Doesn’t matter about one’s view of Gov. Blowdry. This was an effort to protect the public’s money from an irresponsible official.
On a personal basis, I’ve no reason to dislike him. He’s supported a pro-business atmosphere that has created over a million jobs, these last five years. He’s pro-gun. He led the charge for the eminent domain protection, post-Kelo.
Gotta love the wisdom of MA and thanks.
None of this matters at all. America is unwinding and there is nothing anyone can do about it. SHTF is coming. Lean back and enjoy the show make a list of sons of bitches and take advantage of chaos when it develops.
Be ready. Be armed.
If the USA was Rome the date would be about 450AD.
@ William Dawson
You blather on about shit like, “Oh, look, some Republicans are involved in this indictment.”
Or, “Look, this Republican got away with a DUI and Perry didn’t say squat.”
Typical juvenile logic. “Look over here at this irrelevant crap, folks. Doesn’t have a damn thing to do with the legal issues at hand, but I love to distract the easily distracted.” What a fucking retard.
This is all Harper Valley PTA bullshit. It will be like Perry vs Clinton. Or maybe Perry vs Biden.
She reminds me of Phylis Diller.
SSS… you calling names now are you. Juvenile? How old are you, about 12? Yep. There are Republicans involved. As a matter of fact, if indicting Gov Perry is a equivalent to a crime then what we have here is Republican on Republican crime. There are no Democratic finger prints here.
“SSS … How old are you, about 12? ……. what we have here is Republican on Republican crime. There are no Democratic finger prints here.”
—-William Dawson
Fuck you, dickweed. You’re about to find out how old I am. You’re a pompous, obfuscating, lying asshole.
Let’s start with the Special Prosecutor who put together the case against Perry and presented it to the Grand Jury, which handed down the indictment. He’s a district attorney in heavily Democrat San Antonio and his name is Michael McCrum. He’s a fucking Democrat.
President Obama nominated him as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, which includes the Democrat strongholds of Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso. That nomination was backed by the entire Texas Democrat congressional delegation. McCrum withdrew his name from consideration because “it was going nowhere.” Going nowhere in a Democrat Senate? How does that work, shit-for-brains?
McCrum, and you, say he interviewed “40 people” in putting the case together. Jesus Christ, so what? Who are these people? Friends and family of the drunk District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg? We have no fucking idea? Who was on the Grand Jury? How were the jurors selected? Who selected them? We have no fucking idea.
If you think you can waltz on to this site and pitch your partisan, unsubstantiated bullshit about “Republican-on-Republican crime” storyline, think again. Take your fucked up fairy tales back to Moveon.org where it belongs. We deal with facts and truth here.
The reason for the indictment is that a few years ago 2 republican state representatives in Texas were guilty of drunk driving, and Perry did not give any comments and pretty much just ignored it. Now when
the opposition party member was guilty of the same activity, he asks her to resign. The inconsistency of this treatment is what he has to overcome when his trial comes up.
@ walt rosen, who said, “The inconsistency ….. is what he (Perry) has to overcome when his trial comes up.”
#1 ….. Inconsistency is not a crime.
#2 ….. Perry has ZERO control over the activities of elected state representatives who get drunk. Only their voters do.
#3 ….. Perry DOES have legal budgetary control (line item veto) over elected members of the Texas government who serve in the executive branch. His so-called crime was .. he used it.
You and William Dawson need to pack it in. This is a pure, partisan political hit job without any legal merit. End of story.
I agree with SSS,
Perry is pretty good on economics but he is horrible on civil liberties and foreign policy, having said that this is nothing but politics. I am glad that he has to show up at the county jail, get his mugshot taken and be fingerprinted, it is good for his soul. I hope the copfuks dont treat him different from any other.
Z – “I agree with SSS”
That should pretty much make everybody’s day. WGAF, or what you think of Texas pols?
You’re a transplanted WA suburbanite of median intelligence, and that’s all you’ll ever be, or worse, as long as you persist in your belief of persian deities.
Dawson-I don’t like Perry, but I can support when he gets it right. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Perry may be a turd, but he’s right to try and boot out a criminal DA. If there are others, boot them, too. Politicians and bureaucrats should be held to a higher standard and be subject to immediate recall or removal for criminal behavior, especially if we are to persist in this myth of govt work as “public service.”
rick perry is an idiot….i could give a damn about the indictment…if you are a good prosecutor then you can indict a ham sandwich…..but the crime here is the doling out of monies and political favors….no big secret here in texas and btw….the ruination of this country would be a Perry Presidency…as others have said, he make “W” look like a brilliant man
At 5:40 AM, Lyle had written:
A prosecutor needn’t be “good” in order to turn a grand jury to serve any purpose he chooses, up to and including cannibalism, child prostitution, and coprophilia.
Not uncommonly all at the same time.
So it’s not much of a surprise to learn that National Socialist politicians should use a grand jury (particularly in a progtard jurisdiction like Travis County) to conduct lawfare against a sitting Republican governor.
That aside, the arguable corruption practiced in the administration of Texas’ taxpayer-funded Cancer Research and Prevention Institute (CPRIT) was guaranteed by the structure of the program itself, which rested the “drop dead” decision-making power in the hands of politicians supposedly “advised” by ostensibly reputable clinicians and scientists, carefully evading recognition of the plain and simple facts upon which a whole body of economic theory (“public choice”) has developed to consider the rent-seeking behavior of campaign contributors who suck up to government goons for “access” and influence.
As things stand, it would seem impossible for Perry to suppress something akin to an “Inspector General” investigation of CPRIT allocations and other operations, so it’s difficult to believe that Governor GoodHair (even as stupid as he is) really thought that he could work a cover-up by prying Lehmberg – one particular “Liberal” fascist among thousands sucking unto posts of power in Lone Star state government – out of her control of the Public Integrity Unit (PIU).
Don’t you think it’s worth mentioning that Perry stole $11 million from his landmark project, the Cancer Prevention and Research Center, and gave it to his supporters?
That is why he was being investigated by Lehmberg when he tried to bribe her to resign.
At 6:37 PM, Jerk Simpson writes:
Well, who the heck else was he gonna push the pork to?
Look, the reality of government-run “science” – whether it’s allegedly aimed at objectives in clinical medicine or the frabjous friggin’ fraud of “man-made global climate change” – is to fulfill POLITICAL priorities, one of which is making sure that the politicians running such boondoggles get re-elected and/or elected to higher offices than the ones they presently occupy.
That’s true whether the thugs in charge put an “(R)” after their names or if they’re members of the National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP).
This means “legal graft,” not uncommonly so nakedly, flagrantly predatory as to make every goddam bit of a program like CPRIT disappear completely without producing anything more than some left-over stationery, a whole bunch of unfunded pension and perquisites obligations, and yet more lingering stench in the air around the statehouse.
Ever heard of a guy named Peter Schweizer? In 2011 he published a book titled Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison, based on years of research which he’s continued as president of the Government Accountability Institute. More recently (2013) he published Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Own Pockets.
You’ve got to try for a better understanding of the nature of government.
If you’re not a libertarian now, by the time you attain that understanding, you sure as hell will be.
@Walt, your example was of two representatives, NOT district attorneys.
State reps do NOT prosecute people for crimes.
District attorneys DO.
Committing the crime and expecting special treatment – and ALL accounts show she did that – all the while prosecuting any one else that does the same thing is what is abhorrent. At least to me.
Cops, DAs and judges are “tasked” with punishing us for breaking their precious laws. They SHOULD be held to a higher standard.
And, yes, Rick Perry is a corrupted tool. But this is nothing but grandstanding, misuse of public funds, and attempted diversion.
So, business as usual in the USSA.