The Impeachment Show

So, tomorrow the Impeachment Show begins – live TV entertainment.  You may watch if you like that sort of thing – a crusade based on hatred of an individual, not unlike the bullying by the “in-crowd” against a successful outsider. This is a not so good sequel to the Russian Collusion show.  If you don’t realize that this is all just part of the ongoing coup/now revolution jihad then you have not been paying attention.

Yes, it is really that ridiculous, and if it weren’t so frightening for the survival of America and all for which it stands, then it would simply be a rather poor comedy.   But it is not.  Last month I wrote about how we were no longer in a coup, but now a revolution (LINK).  My final words (before quoting “Revolution) in that post were

America is under attack.  What was an angry outburst against election results has moved from a childish outburst to a coup and now a revolution - a full out challenge to the established political order, government, culture, and their related associations and structures.   This matters.  This is a challenge to every American.  And every American who is involved in this revolution needs to be very clear on what they are doing while those of us not involved need to do everything we can to educate those warriors and defend our country from their attack.

The revolution is going full force ahead.  The frightening results that we face as both individuals and as a nation are made woefully clear in an excellent piece by historian and scholar Victor David Hanson; LINK  .  His final lines in this essay read, “One side will say, “”Just give us more power and we will create heaven on earth.”” The other says ““Why would anyone wish to take their road to an Orwellian nightmare?”” The 2020 election is that simple.”

Why, you may ask, am I quoting something about the 2020 election when this post’s title and beginning are focused on impeachment?  The answer is very simple:  the Impeachment Show is nothing more than a Democrat campaign strategy to keep Donald Trump from being re-elected.  Anyone who examines the alleged evidence realizes there is just nothing there – nothing other than innuendo and gossip and perhaps some actual disagreement about policy.  But nothing impeachable.  Let me repeat that: NOTHING.  Just as there was nothing there in the Russian collusion show; nothing there in the Kavanaugh #metoo show, nothing there is the daily diatribes against the President.  NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING.

The Impeachment Show is a campaign strategy and part of the overarching campaign to remove the president from office (the original coup attempt) and now the broader campaign to completely remake this country (the ongoing revolution).  As a campaign strategy it allows the Democrats to justify not doing what the people sent them to Washington to do (things like pass laws that benefit the people and the country, debate important issues, etc.).  They are too busy with impeachment to do anything else, and so they justify a failure to serve the people who elected them.  And, by their doing nothing, the President’s agenda becomes stalled, so they can argue that he did not accomplish what he should.  Further, it allows Democrats to throw all sorts of dirt at the President and the Republican party – the sort that you see and usually object to in the ugliest campaign ads – claiming that they must release this hearsay and innuendo as part of an open impeachment.

Of course, you must realize that this is anything but an open and fair process.  The key witnesses are avowed anti-Trumpers who consult with Democrats before coming forward.  Adam Schiff (who salivates every time he even thinks about removing Trump from office) has been running and continues to run a Star Chamber sort of process.

For those not familiar with Star Chamber, it was a court process that existed in England from the 15^th to mid-17^th centuries.  While it was originally created to fairly enforce laws against socially and politically prominent and powerful people whom ordinary courts were reluctant to convict, it became synonymous with social and political oppression through the abuse of the power it wielded.  Its proceedings were secretive and its judgments arbitrary.  It became an instrument of oppression rather than justice.

One can see why Schiff’s impeachment show is often linked to Star Chamber.  He is using what in the past has been generally a fair process and corrupting it to his purposes of removing the President from office, or failing that objective, of destroying his chances for re-election.  This is in effect both social and political oppression as it attempts to remove a duly seated president and overturn the will of the people with absolutely no valid legal basis for doing so. 

Until tomorrow the hearing has been in secret with even Republicans (and through them the people they represent) denied access.  Questions by Republicans have been disallowed.  Schiff met with the “whistleblower” before he became a whistleblower, and both are avid anti-Trumpers.  Schiff determines what witnesses can be called and which can be cross-examined.  He suggests written questions to the whistleblower instead of live testimony.  Yet it is a basic principle of American justice that one is allowed to face his accuser.  No one knows what went on in Schiff’s secret hearings – what Schiff may have said or how he may have coached witnesses.  His selectively leaked information must be viewed as tainting any future testimony and his ability to selectively allow or prevent witnesses and testimony makes the who process more of a show trial than an actual quest for justice.

The list goes on; you need only consult the daily outpouring of information.  The problem is, however, that the mainstream media fails to report much of what is happening if it even sounds, let alone is, averse to the Democrats’ position.  This is not surprising since they also fail to report the many positive accomplishments of the President for our country, or, when they do, they couch them within something portrayed as negative.

Those who hate the President will simply accept without question the narrative of the Democrats.  Yet, anyone who gives it the slightest thought will see how weak and contrived this impeachment claim is.  First, we don’t just give away taxpayer money to other countries without expecting something in return.  Any taxpayer who thinks we do should be screaming in objection. There is always some sort of exchange (“quid pro quo”) and hence that alone is certainly not an impeachable offense.

Second, the country has a valid interest in learning about foreign interference in our elections, and the President’s request that Ukraine investigate that was valid.  Similarly, if a sitting Vice President used his influence to benefit himself or a family member financially or to demand the firing of someone within a foreign country who was investigating his son, the country has a right to know about that and the President was within his right and it was his duty to ask the Ukraine to investigate. 

Third, if a sitting Vice President might now become a candidate for President, that does not negate the justification of investigating questionable acts made during his Vice-presidency. 

Fourth, there is absolutely no evidence of direct request for “quid-pro-quo” of aid for investigation, and certainly not simply for political reasons.  Indeed, not only the transcript reveals no quid pro quo, but also some very credible witnesses have clearly asserted there was no quid pro quo.

The bottom line is clear.  There is absolutely no evidence (unless you consider someone’s addition of their own narrative to actual concrete fact to be “evidence”) that the President asked for an investigation of his possible opponent in return for our foreign aid.   It just didn’t happen. 

What is happening is a group of people, led by Schiff, want to unseat a sitting president that they think the people should not have elected.  This has been their goal since 2016.  And the Impeachment Show is just their latest episode in their on-going drama.  Watch it for entertainment if you wish; but, understand that the underlying concept is based on hatred and malice the intent of which is to overthrow that which we know as America.  The Impeachment Show may look like a comedy, but if it is allowed to reach its sought-after conclusion, we will see that it was really both a horror show and a tragedy.

The Drum Beat of a Manufactured Crisis

Today’s news reports many screaming about the crisis of Trump and of our government and of our country.   Actually, this screaming, this drum beat, has been going on since 2016 when Mr. Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election.  It has simply now reached a fever pitch.

But, let’s consider what exactly that crisis is and why.  We are really, perhaps, reaching the culmination of the non-bloody coup that began when Mr. Trump became President Trump.    While we now know that at least in part that coup was well orchestrated by some – most notably a variety of FBI officials – I think that others just got carried along by the rhetoric that, combined with their disappointment in their candidate’s loss, took up the banner that proclaimed anything and everything associated with President Trump is a crisis for our country.    

As the drum beat increases it begins to sound like a real crisis.  But, is it?  Or are those disgruntled Trump-haters simply finding crisis everywhere they look, even when similar events in any other context would be overlooked if not accepted.  (See the treatment of Hillary’s campaign violations vs. Trump’s alleged violations; see Obama’s separation of immigrant families and deportation of illegals vs. the same actions by Trump; see Obama’s scrubbing of security clearances vs. the same actions by Trump; see Obama’s meetings with Russia and promises of “more flexibility” if reelected vs. the “horror” of Trump meeting with Putin;  see the overlooking or minor penalties for past tax evasions vs. the treatment of Paul Manafort for similar evasions long before he was associated with Trump;  see the overlooking of gaffes by Obama (there are 57 states, 10,000 died in Kansas tornado when actually only 12 died, proclaiming he was in St. Louis when actually in Kansas, referring to WW2 Nazi concentration camps as Polish, just to name a few) while pointing out every similar gaffe or typo of Donald Trump and treating it as proof of his incapacity;  see the tolerance if not encouragement of violent words and sometimes actions against Trump and his supporters while abhorring even the slightest negative appellation against anyone not affiliated with Trump.)

Of course, a big part of this manufactured crisis is the “investigation” into Russian collusion.  At the behest of those who were still reeling and recovering from the fact that their candidate lost, in May of 2017 Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate.  That’s the same Mueller who it has since been revealed had ties to the very same FBI agents whom have been shown to have biases against and perhaps have been actively working to remove President Trump. 

Mueller appointed a team made up almost entirely of individuals opposed to Donald Trump.  That is not surprising considering Mueller’s role.  He is an attorney – in this case acting as a prosecutor.  One must understand that attorneys are, in the end, simply hired guns.  That is, they represent a client regarding a particular case and their purpose is to end that case positively for their client.  Now, of course, attorneys can have good and noble aspirations.  They may believe in the cause.   They do a lot of good in the world.  But in the end, they are working for a client with the purpose of winning that client’s case.  And so, as a good attorney, Mr. Mueller will want to prove collusion or at least that Trump is somehow in the wrong – that is the case he is being paid to handle.  And, there is past, reported history of his behavior in other cases indicating that he will do almost anything – certainly push the ethical envelope – in order to win. 

So, we have an investigation that has cost us, the taxpayers, millions of dollars, but which has found no evidence of collusion.  But, in its underlying real interest of delegitimizing President Trump and removing him from office by any means necessary, the investigation goes on.  It uses gestapo techniques to harass people in any way associated with Trump, find some sort of possible crime committed long before Trump was even a candidate and in most instances unrelated to Trump, and then use that as threatening leverage to get the target to plead to a crime and then let the media run with how this somehow implicates Trump and is another reason to impeach him.  The drum beat gets louder and louder as the team tries to get more and more people to turn or appear to turn on Trump.

People may wonder why Mueller ignores some possible crimes that his investigation reveals while only going after anything that might result in delegitimizing President Trump.  The answer is:  that is his job.  And sadly, it results in unequal justice (see for example, Kimberly Strassel, When Justice is Partial, https://outline.com/cSBkN8).  Mr. Mueller is a cog, albeit an important one, in the attempted coup that has been taking place against President Trump since his inauguration.  He is important because, like any prosecutor, he can not only “turn” witnesses, but he can get them to “compose” – that is, when a witness is threatened and “squeezed” he may reveal factual information that may help the prosecution, but he may also create or “compose” information that will both help the prosecutor and help the witness to avoid threatened punishment.

Let’s face it. The worst that Mueller has yet come up with is that Trump may have been involved in a payment to a stripper that he allegedly had an affair with long before he was ever a candidate.  There was an agreement that in exchange for money the stripper would not go to the press with her story.  She breached that legal contract.  And, apparently such “hush money” payments are quite common (and not illegal) among the rich and famous as well as in the world of tabloid news.  Certainly, this is not pretty, but it is not Russian collusion, it is not evidence of a “crisis” of government.  If true, it is evidence that Mr. Trump has some possibly disgusting incidents in his past.  But, then, don’t we all?  And, if the payment were even in part made to not hurt Trump’s chances in the election, it is doubtful if it was a campaign finance violation and certainly does not rise to the level of the payments by the Hillary campaign to Fusion GPS to directly affect the election with unproven allegations against Trump (You will recall that is the same Fusion GPS whose dossier was used by the anti-Trump actors within the FBI to get FISA warrents that allowed them to surveil Trump and his campaign officials.)

Yet, the drum beat just gets louder and louder.  It silences any objective and thoughtful questioning.  Crisis, what crisis?  Oh, if they keep screaming it so loudly it simply must be true.  The sky is falling, the sky is falling.  The crisis is here, the crisis is here. 

No, the crisis is not here.  Or if it is, it is that there is a silent coup going on right before our eyes.  And its method is to use any and everything to make us believe that we are in a crisis that will only be remedied by the removal of President Trump.  And yet, if we let that coup succeed, then consider what sort of precedent that sets.  Whenever enough people do not like a president they can simply manufacture a crisis to remove him. 

Our democratic form of government is by election, not coup, and not by the constant drum beat of manufactured crisis.  Don’t be caught up in the drug of the drum; instead, see the crisis for what it is – a scream of pain from those who have lost their power and influence in a legitimate and democratic election.   Close your ears to the drum and listen instead to the objective reason of your mind.