Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
I remember when a suspect was regarded as innocent until proven guilty in a fair trial. Today prosecutors convict their victims in the media in order to make an unbiased jury impossible and thereby coerce a plea bargain that saves the prosecutor from having to prove his case. In the United States law is no longer a shield of the people. Law is a weapon in the hands of prosecutors. (See Roberts & Stratton, The Tyranny of Good Intentions.)
Formerly, if a prosecutor staged an arrest for publicity purposes, as Mueller did by placing a CNN presstitute on the scene and sending a couple of dozen heavily armed men in a pre-dawn raid to arrest a well known political consultant for allegedly “lying to Congress” when the appropriate procedure is for Mueller to inform Stone’s lawyer to present his client for indictment, the judge would throw out the case on the grounds that the prosecutor’s unethical action had biased the juror pool and made a fair trial impossible. The judge might also have thrown out the case on the grounds of selective prosecution. James Clapper while serving as Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress under oath and suffered no consequences, and Hillary Clinton has clearly broken the law and lied about it.
Today judges permit unethical behavior by prosecutors that deprives defendants of a fair trial, because judges don’t want the bother of trials any more than prosecutors do. Consequently, according to official statistics 97% of federal criminal cases are settled by a defendent pleaing guilty to a charge negotiated by his attorney and a prosecutor. As the charge is a negotiated or made-up one, most people in prison are there for confessing to crimes that never occurred.
Prosecutors, now that they are no longer bound by constraints of legal integrity, often fabricate a case against a person in order to force the person to give false testimony against the prosecutor’s real target. This is what Mueller’s cases against Cohen, Manafort, and Roger Stone are. Trump is the target, not Cohen, Manafort, and Stone. In addition, prosecutors string out the investigation so long that they force the target to use up his net worth fighting off an indictment. Then when the indictment arrives, there is no money left for lawyers, which adds to the pressure to “cooperate.” If Trump were a fighting man, he would pardon Cohen, Manafort, and Stone, reimburse them out of the Justice (sic) Department’s budget for their legal expenses, and have Mueller arrested for sedition and plotting to overthrow the duly elected President of the United States. This would be hypocritical as Trump himself is plotting to overthrow the duly elected president of Venezuela.
Mueller is not an agent of law. He is the agent of the military/security complex and the Democratic Party who intend to do away with Trump, because Trump positioned himself between them and their agendas.
The preposterous charge against Trump is that he, in league with Russian President Vladimir Putin somehow through computer hacking and backdoor deals stole the presidential election from Hillary Clinton. This is the fabrication known as “Russiagate.” The creation of this fabrication involves far more crimes than those of which Trump, Cohen, Manafort, and Stone are accused. “Russiagate” rests on a fake “dossier” paid for by the Democrats and perhaps the FBI that was used to mislead the FISA court in order to obtain permission to spy on the Trump team. This is a felony for which the officials responsible are not being charged. The spying failed to turn up any real evidence, and neither has Muller’s “investigation.” The charges against Cohen, Manafort, and Stone are unrelated to the election and are likely false and used as threats for the purpose of eliciting false testimony against Trump in exchange for dropping the charges.
Mueller’s tactics in his effort to frame the President of the United States are more despicable than the tactics to which the Gestapo stooped. Even worse, they are the tactics commonly in use today by US attorneys, and this evil has spread into state and local prosecutions. That prosecutors routinely behave in a way that once would have caused them to be dismissed from office shows the collapse of law and prosecutorial integrity in the United States.
The American and British media are as accommodating in the frameups as the German media was with the Nazi government. The Guardian, once an honest voice for the British working class, is now a propaganda sheet for British intelligence just as the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR are for the CIA and FBI. The US media has never been very good, but until the Clinton regime during which 90 percent of the media was concentrated in six corporate hands, there was more than one explanation.
Since Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, the media has been allied with the military/security complex and the Democratic Party in an effort to deep-six Trump. As I expected would be the case, Trump had no idea how to staff a government that would have supported him against the Establishment. He has been blocked on every front from normalizing relations with Russia to establishing control over US borders to withdrawal from Syria. The latest line from the military/security complex and the presstitutes is that the US cannot withdraw its troops illegally occupying a rump section of Syria, because ISIS is resurgent in Syria and Iraq and will renew the war if US troops are withdrawn.
This is nonsense. As General Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said on television, it was a willful decision of the Obama regime to send ISIS to overthrow Assad once Russia and the UK Parliament blocked a US invasion. It is Russia and Syria who fought and defeated Washington’s proxy army known as ISIS. Washington is blocking Trump’s order to withdraw US troops, because Israel wants the US to renew the attack on Syria and to carry it into Iran. Israel and its American vassals must think that Russia is going to stand down and permit the destabilization of the Islamic world to proceed into the Russian Federation.
Once upon a time the media and the foreign policy community would have publicly examined these issues. Now the media reads out the script handed to them.
As for Roger Stone, the media’s instructions are to convict Stone in the public’s mind as a facilitator of the Trump/Putin theft of the US presidential election. The actual facts do not matter, and the facts will never emerge from the media or from Mueller’s “investigation.”
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“and neither has Muller’s investigation.”
Have you spoke to Bob Mueller?
Mueller has unlimited authority, an inexhaustible budget, the combined effort and databases of the entire intelligence community, and more than two years to investigate an alleged crime that was only a couple of months old. He has had the monolithic support of the opposition party who paid for the original allegations as a part of their campaign, the entire media apparatus to promote a narrative of presumed guilt rather than innocence, and it has yielded precisely zero evidence of a connection between the target, Trump, and the alleged crime.
This tells us one of two things-
If they are correct, if it did occur and they still haven’t nailed down enough evidence for an indictment or whatever they are after, then they are the most incompetent, poorly led, and useless body of investigators ever assembled. The NSA, Carnivore, not to mention all the opposition research and intelligence agencies combined have nothing? My understanding is that they record every form of communication known to mankind in real time. Does that sound plausible to anyone with even a hint of intelligence if the allegations were factual? If it is true and Mueller is still at this point, if he were truly an honorable man and loyal to his country he would be able to see how over -matched and incompetent to the task he is and step down. Yet there he remains. I give this scenario a 80% chance of being correct.
The only option left is that Trump, a man who never held a public office in his life, is not only more clever, more competent, more capable than the entire US Intelligence Community and the forces of the whole of the alleged investigative reporting arm of the MSM. And if that is true then who better to hold the office of the President than the man who is able to outsmart the smartest men in the country? I give that about a 5% chance of being possible.
To be fair there exists one other possibility and that is that it is all theater, that everyone, the media, the left and the right politically, both parties, the Trump administration, every member of his family and all of his associates, the Russian government, and in fact the entire US government is in complete and total collusion with one another to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. And to what end? If he’s part of their team, what possible purpose would it serve to undermine their own complete and unchallenged grip on power? Why not just collude on doing whatever they want to get done? Of course if this were true it would completely negate their founding principle that no conspiracy of that size could possibly be kept a secret. I give that maybe a 1% chance of being true because I know they aren’t that smart.
We still have a couple of percentage point I left hanging so if anyone knows of another scenario, I’m all ears.
Mic drop.
I’ll take door #3 Monty.
No wait, there is another option. It is kinda like your last option but it has a much higher probability of being true. It is that they are not smart, just soulless and trump is not smart, just soulless. As Doug has so eloquently pointed out, it is all a christmas pantomime for the children. And you are the children.
The following might be plausible if Trump was real:
Maybe it’s two fold: Muleface and Ratenstein indicting all of Trump’s men while covering up the crimes of the smartest men in the country?
Also – given all of Trump’s circle who have been taken down (the latest being Roger Stone), who on earth will want to be on his 2020 re-election team? That would also explain motive and opportunity?
Next – Stone won’t shut up and now he’s about to have his 1st amendment rights negated by a judge – which lends credibility to PCR’s last paragraph (and your first one) above.
Is it even remotely possible it’s theater? Because if it’s not theater, then it’s real.
The following may be applicable if Trump was NOT real:
Unless they NEED (or REQUIRE) the narrative for some reason? Say…. for purposes of securing the consent of the public or something like that?
I don’t think everyone would need to be in complete and total collusion. Applied pressure here or there on select levers could be adequate. After all, everyone wants something while, at the same time, fearing something else?
Honestly, I read your comment above several times and feel I only have a partial grasp on what you’re saying – which is definitely not the norm.
So this comment was just a rambling attempt to address what I wasn’t sure you were getting at? (insert winking emoji here)
One thing to remember about the State. It’s represented by the District Attorney. And this individual is like a football coach. He wants a perfect record. Doesn’t matter to him if you’re guilty. Doesn’t matter to him if you’re innocent. It’s all about the won/lost column. Because it’s a stepping stone for future political aspirations. Sad that.
Yep they have no interest in justice, only the winning matters. They despise all law that gives their opponent a chance of free survival.
Greetings from Minnesota. -1 Feels warm, after -27 on Thursday.
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Welcome to the AmeriKan gulag. Only 5% world population and 25% of the worlds prison population. Spies on EVERY citizen for everything. Guilty until proven innocent. The U.S. is a 3,794,101 square mile penal colony and concentration camp.
Indeed.
This is one of PCR’s better posts I have read in awhile. He is dead-on.
I wish the feds settled everything without a trial. I’ve been called for federal Jury duty and really don’t want to waste my time.
Go. Exercise nullification if warranted.
The mere whisper of nullification in the Federal Courts and many state courts will get you held in contempt, charged with jury tampering, or WORSE.
You are advising the man to risk his life for an uncertain underlying reason!
NH is the only political subdivision of the United States with a codified and absolute right to jury nullification in criminal and civil trials.
The top five reasons that must laws are fake.
1) The 3 reading rule is not followed.
2) The single subject rule is not followed.
3) There is no title.
4) There is no enacting clause.
5) The law was written by someone other than an elected legislator.
If a law is fake, there is no subject matter jurisdiction.
This is how you are loosing your rights.
1) The government creates a fake law (like demanding permission).
2) You are sued for violating the fake law.
3) A judge, who has immunity to error, runs your life with arbitrary orders, created on the spot. You get jailed for not following these dictates from the judge. The law is in his mouth.
Yes, but is it this position:
Or this one: