Guest Post by Ron Paul
The most shocking thing about the House impeachment hearings to this point is not a “smoking gun” witness providing irrefutable evidence of quid pro quo. It’s not that President Trump may or may not have asked the Ukrainians to look into business deals between then-Vice President Biden’s son and a Ukrainian oligarch.
The most shocking thing to come out of the hearings thus far is confirmation that no matter who is elected President of the United States, the permanent government will not allow a change in our aggressive interventionist foreign policy, particularly when it comes to Russia.
Even more shocking is that neither Republicans nor Democrats are bothered in the slightest!
Take Lt. Colonel Vindman, who earned high praise in the mainstream media. He did not come forth with first-hand evidence that President Trump had committed any “high crimes” or “misdemeanors.” He brought a complaint against the President because he was worried that Trump was shifting US policy away from providing offensive weapons to the Ukrainian government!
He didn’t think the US president had the right to suspend aid to Ukraine because he supported providing aid to Ukraine.
According to his testimony, Vindman’s was concerned over “influencers promoting a false narrative of Ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency.”
“Consensus views of the interagency” is another word for “deep state.”
Vindman continued, “While my interagency colleagues and I were becoming increasingly optimistic on Ukraine’s prospects, this alternative narrative undermined US government efforts to expand cooperation with Ukraine.”
Let that sink in for a moment: Vindman did not witness any crimes, he just didn’t think the elected President of the United States had any right to change US policy toward Ukraine or Russia!
Likewise, his boss on the National Security Council Staff, Fiona Hill, sounded more like she had just stepped out of the 1950s with her heated Cold War rhetoric. Citing the controversial 2017 “Intelligence Community Assessment” put together by then-CIA director John Brennan’s “hand-picked” analysts, she asserted that, “President Putin and the Russian security services aim to counter US foreign policy objectives in Europe, including in Ukraine.”
And who gets to decide US foreign policy objectives in Europe? Not the US President, according to government bureaucrat Fiona Hill. In fact, Hill told Congress that, “If the President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interests, that is more than worthy of your attention.”
Who was Fiona Hill’s boss? Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who no doubt agreed that the president has no right to change US foreign policy. Bolton’s the one who “explained” that when Trump said US troops would come home it actually meant troops would stay put.
One by one, the parade of “witnesses” before House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff sang from the same songbook. As US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland put it, “in July and August 2019, we learned that the White House had also suspended security aid to Ukraine. I was adamantly opposed to any suspension of aid, as the Ukrainians needed those funds to fight against Russian aggression.”
Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans in large majority voted to continue spying on the rest of us by extending the unpatriotic Patriot Act. Authoritarianism is the real bipartisan philosophy in Washington.
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Well said, how many more times will I be writing in for Ron Paul in presidential elections?
You are, all too obviously, on the Putin payroll.
God Bless America!
I’ve written him in for the last three elections. This year will be no different.
you traitorous sob,libertarians are anti murican & pro ruskie–
you should be voting 4 god fearing,upright citizens such as barack obama,or hillary,or john mccain–
might as well vote 4 stalin–
Clint Eastwood, a member of the Libertarian Party says you’re a pussy! /s
Isn’t interesting how many foreigners we have on the Security Council…..
Nothing like fun at the old ballpark. Was pretty easy to line up only never trumpers for testimony. Harder to believe we are paying for this charade and Mueller. Don’t we need to fix a bridge or something with this money?
wonder,
you just hit a home run if trump is smart enough to capitalize on it–
trump ought to find a dilapidated bridge in every congressional district that would cost roughly the amount to fix/replace that is what the dems have cost the govt w/all their various fake scandal investigations–
“see,what the dems have spent harassing me could have gone to replace your park st bridge.”
people would get that–
Why vote at all? I just don’t understand why anyone who’s wise to the fact that, like Tom Woods says, no matter who you vote for john mccain gets elected. A vote gives them your approval. THEY don’t give a shit who you vote for. THEY just want your participation.
Oh, I know: You be a ‘responsible citizen’ so they can be ‘public servants’. It’s fucking hilarious.
Don’t you want a higher social credit score?
Reminds me of Colonel Hockstedder during his inspections at Stalag 13? “You’re dossier is bulging.”
That’s General Hochstetter to you CC! (Just reminiscing LTC Vindman, who would be right at home in the 3rd Reich!).
If only America had an America-first president who hired America-first people.
Not one of the witnesses was a normal looking, healthy human being. Not one.
I am beginning to think that the over abundance of misshapen and maladjusted human specimens in government is not an accident.
Voting is just a covert IQ TEST.
But more meaningful.
anon.
Good point. Formal IQ tests don’t test for depth and duration of gullibility.
Ron Paul is really good at figuring out what is wrong. He is really bad at coming up with real world corrective actions.
Ron is a true patriot.