Special Opinion to the Cape Charles Mirror by Paul Plante
Oh, my goodness, wasn’t it just incredible how they howled and moaned and screamed and hollered, and caterwauled, the Washington, D.C. crowd, that is, and you all know who they are; there is Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, of course, who can forget him; in the Washington Post story “‘A sad day for America’: Top Dems call Trump’s meeting with Putin ’embarrassing’” by John Wagner published July 16, 2018, Charley “Chuck” is heard to say as follows:
“A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House:
What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States?”
“Millions of Americans will continue to wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that President Putin holds damaging information over President Trump.”
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Now, talk about drama, people, there is what it looks like in real life.
Can you just imagine it – I mean seriously, we’re talking about not just a handful of people, but actual millions, and that is nothing to sneeze at, I’m saying.
And look at how many innuendos a top-notch political hack like Charley “Chuck” Schumer was able to cram into one small sentence he could then convert into a TWEET on TWITTER.
First, there is Trump’s “dangerous behavior,” which Democrat Charley “Chuck” Schumer says was “putting the interests of Russia over those of the United States.”
Oh, really, Charley “Chuck,” how so, dude?
And so we are all on the same page here, let’s carefully review the Marketwatch article “12 Russians indicted over hacking into Democrats’ computers” by Steve Goldstein published July 13, 2018, starting with the title itself – “indicted over hacking into Democrat’s computers.”
More specifically, we are talking about the computers of a private social club in America known as the Democratic National Committee, 430 South Capitol Street Southeast, Washington, DC 20003.
According to the website of this private social club, the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, was created during the Democratic National Convention of 1848 and for 167 years, it’s been responsible for governing the Democratic Party and is the oldest continuing party committee in the United States.
And that is a very important point to keep in mind here, people – the Democratic National Committee is responsible for governing the social club known as the Democratic Party, and that is all it is responsible for governing, keeping in mind that as of October 2017, Gallup polling found that only 31% of Americans identified as Democrat.
So let’s be incandescently clear here, people – the Democratic National Committee is not our government, although it certainly does meddle in its affairs, as well as feeding off it like a social parasite, which is exactly what it is, and it does not govern us, although it has pretensions to doing so.
Getting back to the official website of this private social club that was apparently hacked by some Russians, the Committee plans the Party’s presidential nominating convention and promotes the Democratic Platform, the statement of core principles at the heart of that Party, and the DNC also raises money, hires staff, and coordinates strategy to support candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national office, and additionally, the Committee works with various constituencies to respond to the needs and views of Democrats across the nation.
For those of us who are not Democrats, the DNC has absolutely nothing to offer us, because we are not Democrats., and as we saw in 2016, the Democrats do discriminate against those of us who are not Democrats, lumping us all into what they call a “basket of deplorables.”
Those are the people who the Russians allegedly hacked, and the Russians were able to do so, because those people at the DNC are incompetent and plain stupid.
Is that something millions of Americans should be suffering angst over?
I’m certainly not.
So, with that factual basis established, let’s get back to the Marketwatch article, where we find as follows:
The Mueller indictment states that officers of the GRU — Russian military intelligence — gained unauthorized access into the computers, stole documents, and tried to interfere with the U.S. presidential election.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, however, stated at a press conference that the indictment does not allege that the vote count was impacted by the actions.
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Now, people, key in on that second sentence, to wit: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein stated at a press conference that the vote count was not impacted by the actions.
In other words, despite all the hype, and my God, is there ever an abundance of it, as we shall continue to see, our elections were not meddled with by the Russians, nor were they interfered with, and that is a fact.
Getting back to the story of the indictments:
The indictment states that starting in March 2016, the conspirators started to hack the email accounts of Clinton campaign officials, including its chairman, John Podesta, whose emails were later released over Wikileaks.
The next month, they hacked into the networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee.
By June, they started releasing stolen emails and documents via “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0,” the indictment states.
Just hours after Trump said on July 27, 2016, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” the Russians attempted to spearfish “for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office.”
They used a network of computers across the world and paid for this infrastructure via cryptocurrency, mostly bitcoin.
The use of bitcoin allowed them to avoid direct relationships with traditional financial institutions, the indictment said.
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So that is what all the considerable HOOPLA is about, people – knowing how weak the Democrats really are on national security and incompetent, they did waltz in there and do all that stuff on Obama’s watch, afterall, the Russians exploited that weakness and incompetence and exposed it for all the world to see, and now, we are all supposed to be freaking out about it, but I’m not.
No way.
And then we have this:
During the press conference, Rosenstein was asked about the timing of the indictment and denied it was related to Trump’s meeting with Putin.
“It’s a function of the collection of facts, evidence of law and determination sufficient to present the indictment at this time,” he said.
“It’s important for the president to know what information we’ve uncovered because he needs to make important decisions for the country.”
“He needs to understand what evidence we have of foreign interference.”
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Except there was no “foreign interference!”
Hacking into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail because she is weak and incompetent, and hacking into the computers of the DNC does not constitute “foreign interference” in our elections.
As to the “indictments” themselves, in an article on the subject by Andrew D. Leipold. Edwin M. Adams Professor and Director, Program in Criminal Law & Procedure, University of Illinois College of Law entitled “Grand Jury Requirement” at The Heritage Guide To The Constitution website, we are informed as follows:
The jurors meet in a closed courtroom, with no judge, no accused, no press, and no lawyer but the prosecutor present.
The prosecution presents evidence that a particular suspect committed a crime; the prosecutor is then excused, and the jurors deliberate and vote on whether there is enough evidence to justify the filing of criminal charges against this suspect and sending the case forward to trial.
If a majority of jurors believe that there is sufficient evidence, the jurors return a “true bill,” which when signed by the prosecutor becomes the indictment: the formal criminal charge that the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.
The current state of the law restricts the ability of a grand jury to serve as a significant shield against prosecutorial overreach.
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Focus on that last sentence and the words “prosecutorial overreach.”
In an article entitled “US Supreme Court to Judges: STOP Prosecutorial Over-reach!” by Donald Scarinci, a managing partner at Lyndhurst, N.J. based law firm Scarinci Hollenbeck who is also the editor of the Constitutional Law Reporter and Government and Law blogs, we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
For the third time in three years, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected prosecutors expansive (and sometimes absurd) reading of the laws they use to prosecute people.
This time, the Court interpreted a federal anti-corruption law to prosecute former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
The McDonnell decision reflects the Supreme Court’s continuing disapproval of prosecutorial over-reach.
As regular readers of this column know, when it comes to elected officials, prosecutors investigate people, not crimes.
They creatively reinterpret laws in unexpected and unintended ways and highlight any salacious information they can use to get a headline and inflame judges and jurors.
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Is that the case here?
It certainly could be, as we see from the following concerning federal grand juries:
The proceedings are secret, and thus a suspect has no way of knowing if the evidence presented by the prosecution is complete or accurate.
Prosecutors are now highly professional and specialized, and federal criminal laws have become more complex.
One result of this change is that grand jurors lack the realistic ability to decide whether the prosecutor has presented “enough” evidence to justify an indictment.
The question that jurors are asked is ultimately a legal one concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, a question that is posed after the only lawyer in the room—the prosecutor—has recommended that the defendant be indicted.
Because the prosecutor has complete control over the evidence the grand jurors hear, and because the jurors have no benchmark against which to measure that evidence, it is rare for jurors to second-guess a prosecutor’s recommendation.
Consequently, grand jurors agree with the prosecutor’s recommendation and return a true bill in nearly every case where they are asked to do so.
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In other words, either Rosenstein or Mueller could have used the grand jury to indict a hot dog.
Who in their right mind on that grand jury was going to buck the system and go against Mueller or Rosenstein when they were told to do their duty and return indictments against those twelve Russians, who happen to be in Russia, not America?
And that takes us back to the Washington Post article above, because where there is Charley “Chuck” Schumer, or “Wall Street Cholly” as he is affectionately known in New York state, there is Nancy Pelosi, as well, and this is what she had to say to the millions of people not only all across America but throughout the candid world, as well, who are tuned into this made-for-American-TV drama, to wit:
“President Trump’s weakness in front of Putin was embarrassing, and proves that the Russians have something on the president, personally, financially or politically,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement.
“This is a sad day for America, and for all Western democracies that Putin continues to target.”
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Talk about being proven guilty on national TV without a trial or the presentation of any evidence, that takes the cake!
Arnold Schwarzenegger called Trump a “wet little noodle” in his adorable Austrian accent that the American people just love, because it sounds so, well, you know, foreign and exotic, like Arnold was a Habsburg prince or something, and based on that, Nancy Pelosi now wants us to believe that that proves the Russians have something on Trump personally, financially or politically:
“President Trump, I just saw your press conference with President Putin and it was embarrassing.”
“I mean, you stood there like a little wet noodle, like a little fanboy.”
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For those unfamiliar with the term “fanboy,” and I admit to being one of them, it is defined as “a boy or man who is an extremely or overly enthusiastic fan of someone or something.”
As to a real sad day for America, I personally think it can be found in a Tribune Washington Bureau article entitled “Embattled Pelosi’s big survival weapon: money” by Anshu Siripurapu on 22 June 2017, as follows:
Here’s a huge reason Nancy Pelosi maintains her iron grip on House Democrats, even after another bruising and in many party circles embarrassing election loss: her ability to raise lots and lots of money.
The House Democratic leader has few current peers when it comes to pumping money into colleagues’ campaigns.
No other potential up-and-coming Democratic challenger to her leadership comes close.
Since 1990, she’s raised more than $9.2 million for party candidates, including $739,000 in the 2016 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks contributions from candidate committees and affiliated PACs.
Pelosi’s office claims even loftier triumphs, saying she’s raised more than $500 million for Democrats since entering the party leadership in the early 2000s, including $141.5 million in the 2015-2016 cycle.
Big donors to the party’s congressional campaign committee were also available to Pelosi through her “Speaker’s Cabinet” program, which gave them special access to the Democratic leader.
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There is what a real sad day for America looks like to me – Democrat Nancy Pelosi selling access to our government to the highest bidders, and selling out the American people in the process.
But this story of America under attack doesn’t end there, so stay tuned, much more is yet to come!
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Yes, indeed, people, a very sad day for America, indeed, and here, I am talking about this excellent photo https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/6580190/Barack-Obama-criticised-for-treasonous-bow-to-Japanese-emperor.html of American Commander-In-Chief Barack Hussein Obama deeply bowing to the emperor of Japan as if he were a vassal showing homage to his superior in The Telegraph article “Barack Obama criticised for ‘treasonous’ bow to Japanese emperor” on 16 November 2009.
The Washington Times called the alleged bow a “shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate”, which ran contrary to American tradition of not deferring to royalty.
“By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the US president belittled the power and independence of the United States,” the paper said in an editorial.
“Such an act is a traditional obeisance befitting a king’s subjects, not his peer.”
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Where were our military folks, people?
The Commander-in-Chief was in the hands of our enemy!
Oh, sorry, wait a minute, wrong president – that was a TWEET on mindless TWITTER by Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen from Tennessee insinuating the US military should overthrow Trump in the Real Clear Politics article “Who Is Betraying America?” by Caroline Glick on July 20, 2018.
By calling on the US military to overthrow Trump, this Democrat Steve Cohen from Tennessee must think we are a third-world country like Egypt were military coups are still in fashion.
One must wonder if he would have been for “Little Mac” McLellan overthrowing President Lincoln back when.
Getting back to Obama’s WOW BOW before the diminutive Japanese emperor, that bow left this single, ominous question hanging over the White House: What could possibly have caused President Obama to put the interests of Japan over those of the United States?
Indeed, millions of Americans still wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that the emperor of Japan holds damaging information over President Obama.
President Obama’s weakness in front of the Japanese emperor was embarrassing, and proves that the Japanese have something on Obama, personally, financially or politically, does it not, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.?
Oh, but wait, I forgot, Obama was your president, so you and Charley “Chuck” Schumer had absolutely no problem whatsoever with the stringbean Obama looking like a fool bent over as he was, as if he had a fencepost jammed into his posterior, looking at the floor or the emperor’s shoes as he shook the emperor’s hand from that bent over position so Obama’s eyes would not make contact with the emperor’s eyes.
What absolute childish crap, this is, people, which takes us next to The Telegraph article “Vladimir Putin praises Barack Obama and pledges strong rouble – Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that he has received ‘positive signals’ from US president-elect Barack Obama that could open the door to positive developments in Moscow’s relations with Washington.” 4 December 2008, as follows:
“Usually… when there is a change of power in any country, and even more so in a superpower such as the United States, some changes occur,” said Mr Putin, who served as president of Russia from 1999-May 2008, when he was appointed as prime minister.
“We very much hope that these changes will be positive.”
“We are now seeing these positive signals,” he said during a televised question and answer session with the Russian public.
The Russian prime minister said two issues in particular – Nato enlargement and US missile defence plans – had dogged relations with the US under President George W. Bush’s administration.
On Nato enlargement, fiercely opposed by Russia, Mr Putin said: “Speaking to people who are very close to the newly elected president and his circle – his assistants – we are hearing that there is no reason to hurry….”
“There is no reason to damage relations with Russia.”
And referring to US missile defence plans pushed hard by the Bush administration, he added: “We are hearing there is a need to re-evaluate the appropriateness of deploying the missile-defence system in Poland and corresponding radars in the Czech Republic.”
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WTF, people?
Putin has said that he has received ‘positive signals’ from US president-elect Barack Obama that could open the door to positive developments in Moscow’s relations with Washington?
President-elect Obama?
But wait, that means Obama was not yet the president.
So how exactly were these “positive signals” being sent from Obama to Putin?
Isn’t that what Trump stands accused of today?
And that takes us to a Moscow Times article on September 27, 2012, as follows:
In 2008, then-President Dmitry Medvedev expressed a desire to work with a “modern” U.S. leader rather than one “whose eyes are turned back to the past.”
He was referring to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
During Putin’s interview with RT state television, he also called Obama an “honest man who really wants to change much for the better.”
This comment was widely viewed as Putin’s most direct endorsement of Obama in the presidential race.
Obama’s decision to improve relations with the country and establish strong ties with Medvedev despite Russia’s war with Georgia in August 2008 was essential.
Despite all the Kremlin’s frustrations, it remains hopeful that Obama will be re-elected and that he will help to move U.S.-Russian relations forward.
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HOLY ****, people!
Putin, the enemy of America and every single American in it, including all the Russians who are here buying up our real estate, wanted Obama to be re-elected!
And how much meddling and interfering in our election process did he do back then to ensure that would happen?
Think about it, people.
And meanwhile, don’t change that dial, because much more is yet to come in this made-for-American-TV soap opera live from the pestilential, inbred swamp of Washington, D.C.
Excellent! What a breath of fresh air in this fetid swamp that prevails in the so called “main stream” media. Thank you.
Thank you, Carla, and we both owe some thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror for having the courage to host these discussions.
And getting back to the decidedly fetid swamp that prevails in the so called “main stream” media, I would like to hold out as an example the Associated Press article “Top intel official says he meant no disrespect to Trump” by Zeke Miller on 22 July 2018, as follows:
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The top U.S. intelligence official said Saturday he meant no disrespect to President Donald Trump in a televised interview discussing the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Coats issued a rare statement rebutting the president’s Monday comments during a press conference with Putin doubting the findings of the intelligence community on Russian election interference.
Coats also revealed in the interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he was unaware of what transpired in the private meeting between Trump and Putin in Helsinki, and restated without equivocation his belief that Russia continues to pose a threat to the American electoral system.
“Basically, they are the ones that are trying to undermine our basic values and divide with our allies,” Coats said of Russia.
“They are the ones who are trying to wreak havoc over our election process.”
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I want to focus in on his statement that “Russia continues to pose a threat to the American electoral system,” which I personally think is a large load of pure hog ****, for this reason; Google “define American electoral system” and see what you get.
According to my search, this is what I get for the “American electoral system” from ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, to wit:
What is the meaning of electoral system?
In a more constrained definition, an electoral system can be seen as the regulation of the relation between voting and the elected officials.
Therefore, an electoral system is the way in which votes can be translated into elected representatives, and so their political content is rather clear.
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From USA.gov, this is what I get:
What is the American electoral system?
In the Electoral College system, each state gets a certain number of electors based on its total number of representatives in Congress.
Each elector casts one electoral vote following the general election; there are a total of 538 electoral votes.
The candidate that gets more than half (270) wins the election.
Posted Jan 2, 2018
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As to the question “Why the electoral system is important,” the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network provides as follows:
At the most basic level, electoral systems translate the votes cast in an election into results – the offices/seats – won by parties and candidates.
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And then, there is this question, to wit: How does the political party influence the election?
The answer provided by Lumen Learning is as follows:
Typically, a political party is a political organization seeking to influence government policy by nominating its own select candidates to hold seats in political office, via the process of electoral campaigning.
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So tell us, Dan Coats, exactly what is the threat to our electoral system that you see Russia continuing to pose?
We are not weaklings, Dan, and we certainly are not fools, so yes, we can handle the truth.
So, do you have any truth about your statements to tell us?
Or is it all just a bunch of political hooey?
You tell us “Basically, they (Russia) are the ones that are trying to undermine our basic values and divide with our allies,” to which I respond, “oh, really, Dan, do tell.”
What “basic values” do you see them trying to undermine?
Voting for Hillary Clinton?
We didn’t need the Russians for that, Dan.
Hillary sealed her own fate by running her mouth about those of us with real basic American values being a “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES.”
So what other “basic values,” then, do you see them trying to undermine?
So we can understand what you are on about, Dan, why don’t you articulate them for us, if you can, of course.
As for me, if the Russians want to come over here to try to undermine my basic values, tell them their army is not big enough, so don’t bother trying.
We outside the beltway, afterall, those of us who are real Americans are not afraid of the Russians.
Unlike those inside the beltway, we are not ignorant, and we are not cravens.
“The Russians better quit messing around in our elections!”
“They did it the last time.”
“They better not do it again.”
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That, people, is some very, very, very tough talk coming from out of the top Republican in the United States Senate, none other than Mitch McConnell himself, who, incidentally has been consistently judged by admiring Americans to have the prettiest mouth in all of Washington, in the Reuters story “Top Senate Republican warns Russia on election interference” on 24 July, where Mitch, bellowing as he can like a bull, said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not welcome at the U.S. Capitol, and he warned Moscow against interfering in future American elections.
WHEW!
I got to believe that that has Putin shaking right in his boots, in fear.
But, wait, people – Russia did not “mess around” in our elections.
There is absolutely no proof on the one hand that our elections were ever “messed with,” and on the other, all the proof is that the vote counts were secure.
So, Mitch, what up, dude?
What’s with all the tough talk?
Who are you trying to impress?
My advice would be to get some new lines, because those “John Wayne” lines have you sounding like a fool.
And what about this:
“We don’t trust Russia.”
“We don’t trust Putin.”
“We never will.”
“They’re never going to be our friend.”
“That’s just a fact.”
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That chest-thumping screeching, people, is emanating from out of the running mouth of Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, as told to Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, that from the article in The Hill entitled, not surprisingly, “Haley: Russia ‘never will be’ friend of US” by Brett Samuels on 24 July 2018.
And doesn’t she sound stupid there, given that Russia is not our enemy, not are we at war with Russia, and given that we deal with the Russians all the time on a number of issues?
The way her emotions get the better of her makes one wonder why it is we have her representing our interests in the United States.
Why don’t we have somebody in there with more emotional maturity?
In point of fact, during WWII, Russia, under the butcher Joe Stalin, who makes Putin look like a nice guy, was both our friend and our ally.
I wonder if Nikki is aware of any of that.
But probably not.
It happened further ago than yesterday, afterall.
To close, am I the only one who finds all this crap coming from out of Washington, D.C. concerning the Russians to be embarrassing, as if we were a nation ruled by morons, idiots, and just plain fools?
Oh, but wait, we are.
Silly me for thinking it was otherwise.
And while we are on the subject of all the “bull bellowing” and chest-thumping coming at us from the well-fed denizens of Washington, D.C., which definitely include Mike Pompeo, let us go to this item from news radio WMAL entitled “Pompeo: I Warned Russia About Election Meddling” posted on July 25, 2018, to wit:
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he has personally told top Russian officials that there will be “severe consequence” for any interference in U.S. elections or the American democratic process.
Pompeo told skeptical members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that he had made the warning clear to Russia in multiple meetings and conversations.
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Interference in the “American democratic process?”
Is the dude kidding us?
What American “democratic process?”
The one in which the Democrat National Committee interfered by steering the process away from Bernie Sanders and over to Hillary Clinton?
So what is the “American democratic process” that this Mike Pompeo says he has personally told top Russian officials that there would be “severe consequence” for any interference in the American democratic process?
According to the Texas Gateway site on the subject, this is one answer:
The United States is a democratic society.
This means that American citizens have a government of elected representatives.
The democratic process means that citizens actively participate in the decision-making of the government.
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That works for me.
So, Mike, dude, tell us, since you think you know, exactly how is it that these Russians you just put the fear of God into can keep us from actively participating in the decision-making of our government?
Yes, indeed, people, a sad day for America, and I am not now referring to Nancy Pelosi selling access to the office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives when she was speaker, or Barack Hussein Obama bowing to the emperor of Japan as if Obama was one of his vassals.
I am referring to the ignorance of our American system of government and our history being put on display by Haddam, Connecticut Board of Selectmen member Melissa Schlag in the Washington Post story “‘Do that on your own time‘: Official‘s decision to kneel during pledge divides her small town” by Kristine Phillips on 3 August 2018, as follows:
The crowd stood up, but Melissa Schlag didn’t.
Scattered boos drowned out the Pledge of Allegiance, and as they reached the last phrase of the oath, “with liberty and justice for all,” they raised their voices, nearly screaming the words as they looked down at the silent protester kneeling in front of them.
Schlag has been both vilified and admired in the small Connecticut town of Haddam since she began kneeling during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance last month.
The Democratic town official said she’s kneeling to protest President Trump, and for as long as he is in office, she will keep kneeling.
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A picture of her kneeling can be seen in the link that follows:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/%e2%80%98do-that-on-your-own-time%e2%80%98-official%e2%80%98s-decision-to-kneel-during-pledge-divides-her-small-town/ar-BBLqcId?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPDHP17
According to the article, in Haddam, Connecticut, 51 percent voted for Trump and 43 percent voted for Hillary Clinton, and as is clear from the story, Democrat Melissa Schlag was one of the losers to the “basket of deplorables” in that town who voted for Trump, which animus came across and stirred more controversy after a video taken during the town meeting captured Schlag saying, “This town is fascist and racist,” which is a standard line these days for the Democrats to use in reference to the American citizens they don’t like.
So, to cut to the chase, why is she kneeling there like that in the picture?
In a lengthy letter posted on Facebook last month, this is what she .
“I knelt out of extreme sorrow for our country, that the leader of our great nation, rejected the advice and findings of all American intelligence agencies and would rather support the lies of a murderous dictator.”
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Not to sound like a Putin defender, because I’m not, but Putin is not a dictator.
According to his bio, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who has an 83 percent approval rating in Russia, notwithstanding what Democrat Melissa Schlag of Haddam, Connecticut thinks of him, has been serving as President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008.
He was Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 until the beginning of his first presidency in 2000, and again between presidencies from 2008 until 2012.
During his first term as Prime Minister, he served as Acting President of Russia due to the resignation of President Boris Yeltsin.
And despite what Democrat Melissa Schlag of Haddam, Connecticut thinks, Russia is a constitutional republic, not a dictatorship, and the President is elected in a two-round system every six years, with a two consecutive term limitation.
You would think a Democrat politician holding office in Haddam, Connecticut would know these things, because this is all basic civics knowledge any schoolchild in America should know. but in the case of Democrat Melissa Schlag of Haddam, Connecticut, whose emotions seem to be overrunning her intelligence, presuming she has any, that obviously is not so.
She must have been absent that day.
But this is not about Putin, it is about her statement about “the leader of our great nation” rejecting “the advice and findings of all American intelligence agencies.”
First off, Melissa, your ignorance is showing here when you call Trump, or any president for that matter, the “leader of our great nation,” because that is precisely what they are not.
Trump is not the “leader” of America; he is the president.
This is not South America or some other third-world ****hole or banana republic where the people have caudillos as their “leaders.”
We are a free people, and for four years, assuming he doesn’t get impeached, Trump is merely the chief executive officer of OUR national government, with his duties defined by OUR United States Constitution.
And what about all these “intelligence agencies?”
Where, Democrat Melissa Schlag of Haddam, Connecticut, does one find mention of any of them in our Constitution, and why should the president of the United States of America, a constitutional officer of our national government, be taking his orders from them, especially with their miserable record of getting it wrong so often, and lying and misleading us since at least the end of WWII?
They did get it right, or some of them did, anyway, when they said that Chaing Kai Shek was going to lose China to the Communists in 1949, but those voices got suppressed, and those who held those convictions had their careers destroyed by “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy in the 1950s during the McCarthyism “witch hunts” and our so-called “intelligence” has been highly political ever since then.
We had the major intelligence failures during the Korean War.
We had the Bay of Pigs fiasco thanks to the CIA.
We had the lies about the “Tonkin Gulf Incident” that led us further into the quagmire of VEET NAM.
We had the lies about Saddam’s “weppins of mass destruction.”
And that list goes on and on, so Melissa, why should Trump believe a word they say about Russia “meddling” in our election, when there is absolutely no evidence to support a rational conclusion that our election was ever tampered with?