It just hit me how ironic it is that I am using the example of the Soviets to exonerate the Russians and condemn the Americans.
With the passage of time, everything becomes everything else. We have been on our way to a fascist autocracy for some time. Who knows: perhaps the Russians are on their way to a new Enlightenment.
Much of this requires much more knowledge than I have or am equipped to acquire for some time.
But always remember all the players, particularly when one of them is not playing any VISIBLE role.
The Saudis, of course, are another player. They donated some $200 million to Hillary’s campaign, or so I read. That is a lot of money. And that is the VISIBLE money.
This money paid off, obviously, although not in time to prevent the fall of the terror state which sponsored it. Human stupidity, as Einstein quipped, is in addition to the universe the only thing which is infinite. People pay to listen to Michael Moore. Howard Zinn’s book still has legs. I still see the name of Noam Chomsky to this very day, when he should be hiding in shame at the atrocities he has supported. What else does one need to know?
Be that as it may, we exist in an era where the very “disinformatsiya” methods which the Soviets perfected are being used by OUR OWN intelligence agencies–which were in large measure founded to COMBAT Communism–AGAINST US.
Consider the Russian sanctions. What did the Russians do? Nothing, as far as I can tell. They were the targets of a very conscious disinformation campaign launched by our intelligence agencies. What was the actual reason people believe the Russians interfered in our election (more than, say, the DHS, which reportedly tried to hack the actual voting machines in Georgia)? BECAUSE OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES TELL US SO.
And so they plant this rumor, then get policy enacted–sanctions–based upon it. This, in turn, damages our relations with Russia, TO NO BENEFIT FOR THE UNITED STATES.
As I keep saying, somebody in the Deep State–many of whose members, obviously, are not in the government at all, but are rather utterly evil, utterly morally bankrupt individuals who seek the consolidation of their quiet and invisible power–wants Russia to be disenfranchised. I see claims that Putin alone among world powers keeps resisting the Globalists. This is as good an explanation as any. The Chinese certainly seem to be cooperating, and perhaps quietly funding and supporting in many ways much of this activity. That, actually, would be another good explanation.
Be all that as it may, we have got to get people who are not interested in the well being and prosperity of America first and foremost out of their jobs, out of the private sector, and retired to places where we can keep an eye on them. Jail would be a great first choice, but forced de facto house arrest would be fine too.
Here, Seymour Hersh asserts that the FBI has known for over a year that Seth Rich was who leaked John Podesta’s emails. They apparently found correspondence between him and Julian Assange. He apparently initially asked for money, which he did not get, seemingly.
In spite of this knowledge, Mueller’s pal James Comey still pursued a criminal investigation of Trump–but not of Hillary, not when they followed no standard procedures, and offered no charges even for crimes they found evidence she clearly committed–based on nonexistent evidence. It was this investigation, itself, which should never have been started, which enabled Mueller to get appointed when Comey got shit canned, as he richly deserved.
Hersh also states what should be obvious by now: our intelligence agencies consciously and with anti-democratic intent engaged in a systematic disinformation campaign, along Soviet lines, intended initially to damage Trump, and then to create the opening for Mueller to step in and further in their absence the planned coup against Trump. They are literally using tools developed to destabilize foreign regimes in our own country. They were eavesdropping on Trump the candidate, Trump the President-elect, and for all we know Trump the President, and using that information to destabilize him, to create propaganda against him, and are now fishing for something, anything, with which they could bring about criminal charges.
This is not the action of an agency which honestly represents the people. They are not seeking truth or justice, and are certainly not giving a shit about the law. All of this is in support of a partisan agenda which has as its aim the increase in their own power and wealth, and the corresponding decrease in freedom and well being for the rest of us.
Self evidently, there are LAWS against our intelligence agencies operating domestically, and certainly laws against our internal police having political ambitions, and playing a direct role in our political process. If one studies, say, Roman history, when the Pretorian Guard gets too much power, even the pretense of democracy is over. They become king-makers, and no would be king dare defy them. That the king makers would hide in the shadows, but wield vast power covertly, is really something close to the substance of history, but it could and has been made much worse by the power of technology.
It is in my view literally the case that hundreds of people SHOULD go to jail, even though it will be a snowy day in July in Arizona before that happens.
But who knows? Trump has balls. We will find out eventually how big.