by PAUL COLLITS – FOR progressive wet dreamers, getting Donald Trump is up there with getting George Pell. Or, now, getting Mark Latham.
Everyone who reads the papers will have learned the name Alvin Bragg. In a nutshell, “Soros-funded Trump-indicting” will do as a starting descriptor.
- American politics and American society are hopelessly corrupt, and have been for quite a while.
- This may yet end up in a hot, civil war.
- The Left’s long march through the institutions has had its advantages for the Clintons.
On these occasions, one gets to see behind the curtain and to learn just what people like George Soros get for their money.
UK broadcaster Mark Steyn calls the American “justice” system a swamp and a cesspit, and he isn’t wrong. One might also ask Mark’s old mate, Conrad Black, what he thinks of that system.
MISERABLE
For the Left, they just wanted this so very much. It makes their clearly miserable lives worth living.
Making your political enemies criminals is now simply par for the course. If only American politicians and their hangers-on put as much energy into governing wisely as they do into getting their opponents.
As David Daintree has said, in a recent email to members of the Christopher Dawson Society: “Currently that amorphous group commonly known as the Left holds most of the power in politics and public opinion, and radical reform of society focusing on such areas as race, gender, identity, religion and climate is dear to their hearts.
“Naturally opponents of their plans are viewed with mistrust; their opinions are often labelled misinformation, and they may risk being silenced.”
Being silenced looks a little tame when compared to being indicted. As the late George Pell might have attested. Or Conrad Black. It is one thing to be silenced for just being who you are. It is entirely another to be thrown in prison for the same offence.
Many are already calling out the weaponising of American law enforcement, and its rampant politicisation. This is not remotely new.
American politics and American society are hopelessly corrupt, and have been for quite a while. American exceptionalism now has a new meaning.
The United States are exceptionally rotten. The nineteenth century hopes of Alexis de Tocqueville have turned to nightmares in the twenty-first. This may yet end up in a hot, civil war. Well, an uncivil war.
When the justice system goes to custard, some in society might well feel that all bets are off. That the governed no longer give their consent. That the social contract upon which Lockean American government is based is not worth the paper on which it isn’t written.
“If this can happen to him, it can happen to all of us,” says Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation.
Not quite. Not to all of us. William Jefferson Clinton, who may have paid a little more attention to old lovers and other enemies than simply paying them hush money, still roams free, unindicted. As does his allegedly criminal wife.
RAPE
The Left’s long march through the institutions has had its advantages.
James Allan, who notes that Clinton’s hush money was over actual rape allegations, saw this week’s news coming, as did many others.
On Bragg, he notes, writing at The Spectator Australia: “The district attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, received over $1m in campaign donations from George Soros to help him massively outspend his opponents and win his election to the post.
“Bragg has proceeded to adopt the core tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement and treat violent crimes as social justice issues. In 2022 Bragg reduced just over half of all felony charges to misdemeanour ones. The violent crime and murder rates in New York City have gone up precipitously.”
On this new indictment, Allan states: “But by all accounts Mr Bragg has seen the light and has decided, at last, to come down hard on crime. In what may be a first for this DA, Bragg looks likely to elevate a five-year-old misdemeanour charge (never in fact charged) to a felony charge.
“And this is in a case where the Department of Justice and the Feds generally (back in 2018) looked at the facts and refused to prosecute at all.
“So who could this villain be, we all wonder, to provoke this Damascene conversion in Herr Bragg? Well, if you guessed former president Donald Trump you win.”
My own gripe is that they are indicting Trump, a potentially outstanding president who did many good things and a few great things, but who ultimately blew the big one (COVID), for the wrong crime.
Like his fellow liberty-lover on the other side of the Pond, Boris Johnson, he flicked the switch from herd immunity to “flatten the curve” in an instant.
Whatever the reason for Trump’s capitulation, is indicting the forty-fifth President for COVID crimes too harsh? Not if you believe in the old American adage, “the buck stops here” (in the Oval Office).
President Truman had a no-nonsense approach to decision making. The sign, “The Buck Stops Here” on his desk reflected his belief that he was ultimately responsible for the actions of his administration.
LIED
If you accept this, Trump has real charges to face. Yes, he was lied to. By Fauci. And by Pence and Kushner. But others saw at the time that it was all rubbish. World Health Organisation propaganda.
Propaganda that overturned on a whim half a century of settled virology and epidemiology. Just as Boris was lied to, by Neil Ferguson. Boris Johnson should be in jail too. They should have known, if they didn’t.
Trump’s big crimes, not merely political misdemeanours, were:
- His change of mind and the pursuit of lockdowns;
- His naïve failure to see that those driving the COVID scare, from the Chinese Communist Party to the domestic enemies he acquired on an industrial scale, were out to get him, and so walking him into a giant trap that someone with the political smarts would have seen a mile off;
- He seemed not have any idea of the costs of what he had bought;
- Buying the vaccine false binary from the Gates class, that vaccines would be the silver bullet and the only way out;
- Putting the deep state in charge of the vaccine production and rollout process, in cahoots with the spivs and crooks of the vaccine industry;
- Not only did Trump fall for the vaccine bulldust, but he set out to make his version of it world’s best practice, hence Operation Warp Speed and his bragging rights associated with the biggest and most deadly medical scam in history;
- His lack of remorse for the above; and
- The worst thing of all – that he still tries to justify his COVID actions. Knowing what we now all know.
If Trump is not indicted for COVID crimes, at least he should be kept right away from any future tilt at public office.
Especially when he refuses to apologise for his pandemic policy, and when he excoriates those who, like the great Ron DeSantis, saw the light in good time and changed course massively, to great effect.
So, as far as I am concerned, they can have their trumped-charges (pun intended) about Stormy’s happy ending (to borrow from James Allan). Whatever.
Meantime, we all await justice at a far higher level, and appropriate punishments for real crimes. Crimes against humanity. Punishments from which The Donald is, alas, not excluded.PC
This could also be written to describe Australia;
“The Left’s long march through the institutions has had its advantages.”
* And the political manipulation of immigration, the Hawke-Keating Labor governments 1983-1996 “ethnic branch stacking” recruitment” as the media referred to the recruitment of community leaders and their ethnic groups for ALP membership.
* The Asia scare campaign against PM Howard in the Bennelong Electorate.
* Illegal immigrant people smuggler clients permitted to enter Australia until the Howard Government introduced Pacific Solution and deterrents including offshore processing of asylum claims to deny access to legal aid and the court system when asylum appeal failed.
* Education system corrupted to produce declining standard of eduction of children and older students.
More.
And a complacent Liberal Party of Australia.