Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Peter Navarro, 73 years old, was Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Policy during the Trump administration. I do not know him.
Last February the Democrats subpoenaed him to appear before the Democrats’ “Select Committee on the January 6 Attack,” a show trial operation trying to invent an “insurrection” by people who took selfies sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair.
As Trump had declared executive privilege, Navarro simply observed the president’s right and refused to appear.
There is nothing unusual about this. It has been happening forever. Personally I do not know if executive privilege is a good idea, but it is a fact.
It is what happened to Navarro that is unprecedented. In early June five armed FBI agents grabbed him as he was boarding a flight to Tennessee, handcuffed him, put him in leg irons and placed him in solitary confinement.
This is not normal procedure on the part of the FBI. This is pure Gestapo procedure. It reminds me of the early years of Nazi Germany. Courts would dismiss false charges against political opponents, but as the vindicated person walked out of the courthouse he was seized by the Gestapo and imprisoned regardless.
The normal procedure is to resolve the issue with a request for a waiver of executive privilege or to put the matter in the hands of the courts. But instead of normal, legal procedure, a former Assistant to the President of the United States received Gestapo treatment.
Every American should be shocked at this, but they are not. Democrats think it is wonderful that an evil, racist Trump administration member got his deserving comeuppance. The presstitutes see nothing amiss. Apparently, the ACLU is too busy creating transgender rights to worry about the Constitution. Republicans, including Trump, have treated Julian Assange worse than the Democrats have treated Navarro.
In other words, everything is so politicized that there is no room for the Constitution.
In many countries being in politics is a ticket to jail. The arrest of former presidents by their political opponents is a South American tradition. It is a tradition that Democrats and the FBI have brought to America.
The Democrats have built divisiveness into America with their identity politics, critical race theory, and open borders policy, and they have corrupted the Department of Justice and turned in into a political weapon. The Democrats have rung the death knell for the “land of the free.”
July 4th flag waving cannot restore our liberty. Americans, of course, will stick their heads in the sand and go into denial, as they always do when faced with uncomfortable facts about their country. Consequently, nothing will be done to stop the Nazification of America.
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Thanks be to the brave old Mexican immigrant, General Jorge Washintin for liberating us from the evil Hilter back in 1865, otherwise we’d all be speaking Nazi and ruled by a tyrannical government bent on destroying us and the party till we die principles this great proposition nation was built on. Happy Pass the Potato Salad Day.
There are limits.
Not to the outrageous behavior, that will continue and escalate.
Like the USSR, the USSA will collapse. Some predict a civil war greater than the first one.
https://paulfahrenheidt.substack.com/p/the-second-american-civil-war?r=b8rav&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
Sooner or later a guy or a group will get the jump on a swatem team and the media will not cover it, but it will happen, word will get out. It will spread.
God Bless America.
Nazified America?? We should be so fortunate.
PCR has always been a Company man and will always be a company man. Putting out tripe generated and approved by our owners. How this can pass as alt-media or alt-right is a sad testimony to how severely cucked what passes for conservatives are.
Don’t gulag me , bruh!
I agree on this one, but I don’t know he deserves the blanket statements.
Ken. The “Company” provides the opposition and don’t you dare go off the reservation to find some that aren’t trained and paid for by them.
Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and author. He formerly held a sub-cabinet office in the United States federal government as well as teaching positions at several U.S. universities. He is a promoter of supply-side economics and an opponent of recent U.S. foreign policy.
Roberts received a doctorate from the University of Virginia where he studied under G. Warren Nutter. He worked as an analyst and adviser at the United States Congress where he was credited as the primary author of the original draft of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan and – after leaving government – held the William E. Simon chair in economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies for ten years and served on several corporate boards. A former associate editor at The Wall Street Journal, his articles have also appeared in The New York Times and Harper’s, and he is the author of more than a dozen books and a number of peer-reviewed papers.
Since retiring, he has been accused of antisemitism and conspiracy theorizing by the Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Law Center and others.
Let me translate that last line. “Since retiring, he has been made to look like a man who jumped the shark by pretending to become a conspiracy theorizer.”
I know all of that. I don’t trust him, but I listen to him unless he is writing nonsense about Russia.
Something to Think About on the Fourth of July: Don’t let PCR ruin my day … so, don’t read his bullshit.
Mission Accomplished.
Good review of the corrupt FBI who either knows about or instigates every major crime.
The FBI cannot solve a crime they didn’t commit.
FBI has never been an overall effective law enforcement body. During the Hoover time, they were hands off the Mob, due to the dirt the Mafia had on Hoover (interesting that now, the woke bunch would applaud Hoover’s perversions.) FBI had more than ample warning of 9/11 and did what the FBI does: put reports into manila folders and filed them away.
Earlier, after the FBI kept losing shootouts due to their adherence to the .38 6-round revolver while the bad guys all had 9mm semi autos with 17 rounds, they went to the 10mm, a really powerful cartridge–that a lot of the limp wristed agents couldn’t handle. So they moved down a bit to the .40 s&w. Now I guess even that is too much, so they’ve gone back to the 9mm (because of improvements and advancements in the 9mm cartridge.) What’s next, .32 on the way down to .25 then .22?
Meanwhile the FBI seems more lawless than law enforcement with their “undercover” agents on Jan 6 being more instigators than infiltrators. We could save a lot of money in the federal budget if we just shut down the FBI. Otherwise, crime rates would be essentially unaffected. State and local could do a better job anyway.
It has always been about thug enforcers for the so-called “elite”. That is how it began and it can’t be different.
Jackbooted thugs in a suit.
How is it these stories always include some throwaway line like the “ACLU”having something to do with anyfuckingthing?????
A leftist propaganda institute!!
C’mon man get a grip!!
The greatest greatest generation, often referred to as the founders (with followers implied, left dangling like the participle-participants all cannon fodder always are…”a modifier that doesn’t seem to modify anything”) didn’t want to get rid of George because he was bad. They wanted to supplant George because “it’s good to be king.”
Or Fuhrer.
Or whatever synonym for the buck/s stop here, in my pockets & vaults.
Power doesn’t corrupt. The already corrupt are born with Icarus wings & they fly straight at it. With their participles born into & packed into coach & caboose & kite tails.
Countries? Those are the suns. Constitutions & all the rest of the blatherplate are contrivances designed to get congenital corrupts as close to constellation inferno-furnaces as possible. Buddhist monks have immolated themselves in protest while country mountebanks continuously immolate themselves in contest.
Defective, incompetent species.
But “waste of life” has been on my mind. And I realized that’s what life is, what it does. Lives waste other lives in compulsive effort to preserve, or maintain, or enhance lives. It is a vicious circle (even if Temple Grandin et als set the circle to a more soothing spiral…just like all those pretty spiraling galaxies of constellations up there).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-W7E6_q4c
No, they have communized America. Funny people can’t tell the difference.
If America had been Nazized we’d at least be a white nation without a joo controlled government and open border.
The country has been going down the road to self-destruction for a long time. It has always been corrupt but now it is so corrupt the common folks can’t pretend it isn’t, so they ignore the obvious right in front of their faces. The overlords played their hand when they killed JKF in broad daylight in front of the nation. Then they went on a rampage of violence at home and abroad. The FBI was politicized then but PCR like most Americans couldn’t see it because the FBI was only going after the political enemies of people like Richard Nixon and “radicals”. Roberts wasn’t concerned about that back then. But now as Malcolm X said “the chickens have come home to roost” Roberts is concerned. Like most he is a couple of decades too late.
Nazified.
Sure.