Trump's Retribution Against Democrats' Political Prosecutions Is Self Defense

"When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe."
Ralph McGill, referencing Shakespeare   

Commentary

Update: "James Comey Was Sure He Was Above The Law. Supporters Hope He's Right"

As James Comey is arraigned, new documents show the FBI under his watch criminally investigated first, and looked for reasons later. Democrats have rediscovered why political prosecutions are the enemy of Americans in the wake of the federal indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, (U.S. DoJ)," reports Matt Taibbi in Racket News.
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Liberals, in response, are telling us why this Comey political indictment is a betrayal.

They are not wrong, but libs are leaving out a lot.

Honestly, did folks really think Democrats and the liberal establishment regard voters as competent to make the correct decision in the 2024 elections and reelect Joe Biden?

Afterall, democracy was at stake last year, and the hated Trump needed to be indicted by Democrats, lest that pesky American electorate elects Donald Trump again in November, after clear instruction not to vote the wrong way.

It was clear that Democrats in New York, D.C. and Fulton County, [what the hell is wrong with those people?], conducted partisan witch hunts to 'get Trump,' and make him a defendant in four criminal proceedings to preclude the possibility of voting for Trump.

How many times did Democrats exclaim, 'Trump is a convicted felon' during the subsequent 2024 general elections campaign? 

Everything went like clockwork for the liberal establishment right up to Election Day, so liberals believed.

Then, the American people disregarded liberal instruction and voted Trump in again as president. 

Trump has likely ended for a generation tit-for-tat prosecutions of major presidential candidates and party figures.

With out-of-control Democrats, who have even less understanding of classical liberal democracy than Trump, we can be reasonably sure Democrats are not so stupid as to launch a new round of political prosecutions, if they win 2028.

I don't believe Trump is thinking peace and civil liberties today, or even mutual assured destruction, but I guess this is what passes for victory when the major political parties are so steeped in hate and corruption. 

Wisconsin, Race and Election Time

Sauk County Wisconsin is pictured above. I love Sauk County,
and it's only real sin is not voting for neo-lib, corporatist
Democrats enough to assuage corporate media.

Madison, Wisconsin — Reporting from Baraboo, (Sauk County), Dionne Searcey has a fine piece on racism, rural Wisconsin and the 2024 elections in the New York Times this morning.

"No Politics and No Religion," read prominent notes in the Square Tavern in Baraboo (Facebook), reports Searcey.

Topics leave too many bad feelings; like hitting on a man's girlfriend, or drinking someone's beer.

The problem with Ms. Searcey's reporting, like every corporate-liberal politicos', is a fundamentalist embrace of identity politics and the Standard Social Scientific Model of human nature that is almost Skinnerean-Behaviorist in its hidebound smugness.

Identity politics are what the progressive heretic, Matt Taibbi, derides as dogma that human beings are the walking "embodiment" of every contrived aspect of their identity, as imposed by the liberal priests of academia, corporate media and the Democratic Party.

You think you know who you are, readers? No. You are what the liberal elites say you are. Forget your character, it's your skin color.

Identity politics, as nonsensical as it is, serves a purpose. It's a cover for the Democratic Party's embrace of war (and Genocide), and long-term abandonment of the working class. And this does cause resentment.

Searcey touches on this:

Jerry Helmer, the Sauk County Republican Party chairman, said what voters in Sauk County are worried about is the economy, and they think Democratic elites such as Ms. Harris do not care about the middle class. 'I hear more and more that nobody knows what her policies are,' said Mr. Helmer, who lives outside Baraboo in Prairie du Sac and is a candidate for the state legislature. 'She comes off like a ditz.'

Mr. Helmer is right on all counts. But his brand of heresy is heard as imprecation by today's Democratic Party elites.

And when Helmer and Wisconsin, deliver Wisconsin to Donald Trump, identity politics will be a big factor; along with that whole Genocide thing that elected Democrats pretend is not happening.

Kamala Harris Needs Unscripted Town Halls — No Preapproved Questions, No Preselected Audience

Remarks by President Biden in Press
Conference, July 11, 2024

Update: Make that Kamala Harris.
Madison, Wisconsin — President Joe Biden's reelection campaign can win confidence from the electorate by appearing in a series of unscripted, unvetted, town hall-type, question-and-answer events in swing states.

No preselected questioner pools, no campaign-approved questions. Scripted press conferences won't do the job.

In town hall-type, question-and-answer events, campaigns honor people asking questions, by not engineering questions, vetted by the campaigns.

Readers attending speakers in rooms 2650, 3650 of the Humanities building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus know, for example, what unscripted questions-and-answer sessions are.

Questioners should ask, probe, and challenge political candidates who should be seeking mandates.

Political campaigns now-a-days treat unscripted people-centered events as unnecessary risks, akin to trial attorneys asking questions of witnesses, without knowing testimony.

Campaigns looking to win a mandate from the people for whom we have a country should avoid fake campaigns, such as what we see almost daily, like the plague.

Covid 19 — 2024 Campaign Looms amid Calls to Shut Down Risky Gain of Function Research That Caused Pandemic

A leading non-profit working for safety in high-risk research
on dangerous pathogens, BioSafety Now, in image above, offers
products it calls The Inconsistent with Evolution collection.
The items mock a comment by Kristian Andersen, professor of
Immunology, who in a leaked communication with Anthony Fauci
stated SARS-CoV-2 genome is "inconsistent with expectations from
evolutionary theory," suggesting a bio-engineered cause of the
Covid 19 Pandemic, the opposite of what Fauci and Andersen said in
public. After the leak, corporate media leaped to Andersen and Fauci's
defense.
In the above image, "a graphic compar(es) the amino acid sequences
of spike proteins from viruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
The graphic highlights the unique presence of the furin cleavage
site (FCS) in SARS-CoV-2," (BioSafety Now). The furin
cleavage site (FCS) was not found in Sars-like viruses
before the Pandemic, and has been concluded by independent
scientists to point to human bio-engineering.

Lab Leak Blundering; Covid 19 Coverup; Americans Reject Biden Covid Lies

Biden Cannot Afford to Come Clean

Commentary

Madison, Wisconsin — If you believe 20 million dead; untold health devastation; and $Trillions in economic costs will make Joe Biden reverse course and acknowledge a U.S.-supported Chinese Wuhan lab caused the Pandemic, you likely have not spent much time analyzing American politics, now dominated by corporatist Democrats busily attempting to imprison their leading political opponent.

Even as facts leaked this year show the FBI and U.S. Dept. of Energy confirm a lab leak of a bio-engineered Sars-like Coronavirus [designed to be more transmissible and virulent (destructive) to human beings] caused the Pandemic, these facts are marginalized, mostly hidden by corporate network news and major newspapers that function as state-media propaganda organs to a degree today that may surprise even Noam Chomsky.

Can anyone imagine Joe Biden addressing our country in prime time, admitting he has blocked a 911-style investigation of Covid 19 origins; perpetrated deliberate and massive government lies, all because Biden made the decision that gaslighting-level deception of Americans is in the interests of national security? 'Sure I lied, but it's for your own good?' Won't happen.

Instead, to this day, the Biden administration keeps repeating its colossal Covid 19 origins lie; classifying intelligence demonstrating a lab leak; and mounting against hope the Biden clandestine State effort to control social media through censorship, banning and extortion, now being adjudicated in federal court; likely leading to a spectacular legal defeat next year as the 2024 campaign heats up.

Joe Biden has become the Baghdad Bob of Covid 19 origins; and there is very little our ailing president can do about it at this point, as some two-thirds of American believe a lab leak — a victory, and demonstration of the capacity of most people to see through governments' smokescreens.

Only Biden and elected Democrats, aided by media stooges, maintain against reason their colossal Covid lie, with unanimous Congressional Democrat collusion. Not the squad, Bernie Sanders, any Democrat dares issue even a press release recognizing the Emperor has no clothes.

Meanwhile, a Genetics professor at Rutgers University, Bryce Nickels, has called for the controversial non-profit EcoHealth Alliance to be shut down by federal authorities.

EcoHealth Alliance was implicated by a report (DRASTIC) in 2021 after a report chronicled how EcoHealth sought a $14 Million grant in 2018 from the United States Dept of Defense to bio-engineer SARS-like viruses to make a Coronavirus more transmissible and virulent (harmful), (DRASTIC report), in a manner that nearly replicates the capability and idiosyncratic structure, (a novel cleavage site proposed by scientists, and then discovered some two years later in the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019)).

I urge Dr. Daszak to shut down EcoHealth Alliance - it’s involved in generating a long line of lab made viruses, one of which may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic, & that’s just not healthy. I’m sure that’s not what he intended.

I urge Dr. Daszak to shut down EcoHealth Alliance - it’s involved in generating a long line of lab made viruses, one of which may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic, & that’s just not healthy. I’m sure that’s not what he intended. pic.twitter.com/lZJSkl8YZQ

— Bryce Nickels (@Bryce_Nickels) August 14, 2023

Wisconsin move to ban gain of function research

The ultimate campaign swing state, Wisconsin, was visited by the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in mid-August, 2023, as Dr. Mandy Cohen made Madison her first stop on a multi-state trip to urge and discuss vaccinations (Wahlberg, Wisconsin State Journal).

 

No public reporting on whether Dr. Cohen touched on COVID-19 and the "existential threat of scientific hubris" that has wrought destruction and tragedy (Butler, Lambrinidou, BioSafety Now).

Fortunately, Wisconsin Republicans, with no public Democratic Party support, plan to introduce state legislation that would ban gain of function research.

Gain of function is a high-risk research program on dangerous pathogens — such as Sars-like viruses, Avian influenza virus and Ebola virus — that is conducted, as BioSafety Now notes, "with the expressed purpose of making these viruses more transmissible between humans and thus more likely to cause devastating disease outbreaks," (Bryce E. Nickels, Justin B. Kinney, Richard H. Ebright; BioSafety Now).

Comments on the proposed state legislation, now in the Memo phase gathering sponsors, are reproduced below from an article at BioSafety Now, a non-profit with the mission to "draw attention to the constant threat of research-generated pandemics, through education as well as local, state, national, and international advocacy in partnership with communities who have mobilized or want to mobilize to protect themselves and the future of humanity."

Mark my words, deceit from government is not popular with the Americans people, perhaps even less so in Wisconsin. A presidential candidate vowing to tell Americans the truth has broad appeal in this age of unreason that some call the era of post-truth.

Comments on the proposed legislation that would prohibit institutions of higher education from conducting gain of function experimentation in Wisconsin (LRB-2947)

by Bryce E. Nickels, Justin B. Kinney, Richard H. Ebright

 

AUGUST 16, 2023

The core mission of Biosafety Now is to help protect the public from the dangers posed by high-risk research on dangerous pathogens. Biosafety Now believes that the public is a crucial stakeholder in high-risk research, and therefore must have a seat at the table in assessing whether the benefits of research projects outweigh risks. If passed, the bill LRB-2947 would establish a role for the public in regulating risky research, would provide critical protections for the citizens of Wisconsin, and would advance environmental justice both in the state of Wisconsin and world-wide.

What would the bill do?

The bill prohibits “gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens” in the state of Wisconsin. Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens is scientific research that makes pathogens (such as viruses) more likely to cause devastating global pandemics.

Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens is a very small part (less than 0.01%) of biomedical research.

Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens is exceedingly risky: one lab accident by a single researcher has the potential to cause a catastrophic epidemic within the local community, which in turn has the potential to seed a devastating world-wide pandemic.

The bill also includes key transparency provisions that require researchers (1) to disclose the location, scope, purpose, and funding source for research on potentially pandemic pathogens, (2) to describe the impact the pathogen will have on the public if there is an accidental or deliberate release, and (3) to describe the measures the lab will take to ensure the pathogen is not released. In addition, currently, most state and local governments have no information on the pathogens research in their jurisdictions, and thus are unable to prepare, equip, and train first responders to deal with laboratory accidents involving pathogens in their jurisdictions.

Taken together, the provisions of this bill safeguard the citizens of Wisconsin (as well as members of the global community) against an existential threat to their safety and provide members of the public with information about what research is being performed in their communities.

What would the bill NOT do?

The bill would NOT impede the development of vaccines or disease treatments. Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens plays no role and makes no contribution to the development of vaccines or other disease treatments.

The bill would NOT harm the biotechnology sector, either in Wisconsin or elsewhere in the US. Indeed, there are no civilian companies in the biotechnology sector that are pursuing this type of research, or that build on the results of this type of research.

The bill would NOT have a substantial negative impact on the University of Wisconsin. The bill would primarily affect the research of only a single virology laboratory run by a single faculty member.

Why Wisconsin?

The University of Wisconsin has a specific virology laboratory engaged in gain of function research on potential pandemic pathogens. This laboratory, run by Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, is well-known in the research community to be conducting some of the highest-risk gain-of-function research in the entire world.

As part of its research activities, the Kawaoka Laboratory genetically engineers avian influenza virus and Ebola virus (both of which have a fatality rate of 60-70%) with the expressed purpose of making these viruses more transmissible between humans and thus more likely to cause devastating disease outbreaks.

The Kawaoka Laboratory has a track record of repeated violations of biosafety standards, repeated biosafety accidents, and repeated failures to inform local, state and federal authorities in a timely fashion.
 
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Trump Indictment Serves Dual Purpose for Democrats

United States v. Trump is part of Democrat scheme to establish
and enforce authoritative State voice on public affairs; and
criminalize wrongthink, thought deemed incorrect.

In modern American history no political Party has targeted free speech as systemically as Joe Biden and the Democrats.

Richard Nixon; 1960s Milwaukee police attempted banning wrong kind of newspaper; 1960s-70s wannabe state totalitarians are trivial next to today's Democrats' intricate censorship-industrial complex.

It is through this lens of audacious thought-control that we should consider the indictment, United States v.Donald J. Trump, (August 1, 2023).

The politcal compound of thought-control and political hatred is explosive in a democracy, with shattered civil liberties as primary objective, not remnant waste.

Anticipating the Aug. 1 indictment, American civil libertarians mused that powerful First Amendment free speech protections from the 1960-70s would likely doom Justice Dept attempts to join Trump's Jan 6 speech and the Capitol violence.
 
Noted Glenn Greenwald:

Any prosecution of Trump on the ground his Jan 6 speech "inspired" violence at the Capitol - even though he told them to act "peacefully" - would be a grave assault on seminal 1st Am protections of Brandenburg and Claiborne.

But, to them, anything is justified to stop Trump.

See also, The Insidious and Unreported Legal Assault on Landmark Free Speech Rulings, From BLM Leaders to Donald Trump; Greenwald.

Greenwald was right. The DoJ backed down, and instead contrived a bizarre indictment where speech and politcal activity are recognize in one paragraph and criminalized in the next.

The indictment accuses Donald Trump of falsity in his expressed beliefs and statements made prior to Jan. 6, 2021; but backed down from criminalizing Trump's rally and address on the Ellipses on Jan 6, 2021.

Writes Jonathan Turley:

[Special Counsel Jack] Smith and his team have made history in the worst way by attempting to fully criminalize disinformation by seeking the incarceration for a politician on false claims made during and after an election.

The hatred for Trump is so all-encompassing that legal experts on the political left have ignored the chilling implications of this indictment. This complaint is based largely on statements that are protected under the First Amendment. It would eviscerate free speech and could allow the government to arrest those who are accused of spreading disinformation in elections.

Whatever Democrats may believe, the indictment critically relies on criminalizing protected speech, and the U.S. government's determination that speech is "false" or true, to chronicle Trump's alleged criminal scheme.

If a guilty verdict is reached at trial, no way U.S. Supreme Court lets this indictment prevail against Trump and American citizens who are the beneficiaries, call them Americans, of value we place on political speech.

The ACLU refused a comment on the merits of the indictment. ACLU is a shell of its former self.

But free speech, one can predict, lives on.

As Justice William Brennan writes in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964):

The First Amendment, said Judge Learned Hand,

presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many, this is, and always will be, folly, but we have staked upon it our all. United States v. Associated Press, 52 F.Supp. 362, 372 (D.C.S.D.N.Y. 1943).

Mr. Justice Brandeis, in his concurring opinion in Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 375-376, gave the principle its classic formulation:

Those who won our independence believed . . . that public discussion is a political duty, and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. ... Believing in the power of reason as applied through public discussion, they eschewed silence coerced by law -- the argument of force in its worst form. Recognizing the occasional tyrannies of governing majorities, they amended the Constitution so that free speech and assembly should be guaranteed.

Thus, we consider this case [New York Times v. Sullivan] against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. (New York Times v. Sullivan).

Trump is wrong-headed in most of his statements he made after the 2020 Nov presidential elections.

Speech and analyses are called for, not a criminal indictment.

Biden Adminstration Denies RFK, Jr Secret Service Protection; Says "Not Warranted"

Supporters of the son of Bobby Kennedy are worried
about the safety of RFK, Jr. Today, the Biden administration
denied Secret Service protection of the presidential
candidate, saying protection is "not warranted."

Update: Democrats caught with their pants down, attempting to blow smoke. DHS

Sec. Mayorkas and POTUS have sole authority to provide Secret Service protection for any reason before120-day mark; as was done for Obama (07), Trump (2016) Biden (2020) and Bernie (16, 20). Only president to play politics with protection, ever, is Joe Biden.

The son of Robert Frances Kennedy has requested Secret Service protection, but the Biden administration denied the request today, saying protection is "not warranted at this time."

Robert Frances Kennedy, Jr. is a candidate for the Democratic Party nominee for the presidency of the United States.

Kennedy broke the news this morning: Writes Kennedy:

Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me. Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days.  After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request. Secretary Mayorkas: "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time."  Our campaign's request included a 67-page report from the world's leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.

Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.

Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 28, 2023

Admirers and campaign supporters have long expressed private concern that the son of Bobby Kennedy faces unique and grave threats, earning the enmity of much of corporate America, the military-industrial-intel complex and Democrat Party officialdom which has politicized virtually every arm of federal government..

Biden, who faces lingering questions over his cognitive ability, has offered no comment on this development.

RFK Hits Biden in Response to Reelection Video; Cites Profound, Fundamental Differences

Born to a political family, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the nephew of
America’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy, and the son of his Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy is now a candidate for the
presidency, and is seeking the nomination of the Democratic party.

An ailing Joe Biden announced his reelection bid amid polls showing just 43 percent of Democrats favoring the 80-year-old campaigning for the presidency.

The corporate media is attempting to blackout Biden's announced Democratic Primary opponents, Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, with Biden going to far as to use dirty tricks to block Williamson on social media.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hit back almost immediately after Biden's reelection video, a medium used because of apparent health problems of the current president.

Writes Kennedy:

I have known and liked Joe Biden for many years, but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as corporate influence in government, censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others. I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall meetings, in a primary election that is honest, civil, and transparent. I invite him into a new era of respectful dialog in these times of division.

I am a multi-generational Democrat, but I think our party has gone off track. Remember when we upheld the interests of the poor and middle class against big corporations and Wall Street? Remember when we were the party of peace, civil liberties, and people power? I aim to reclaim my party and its traditional values.

The Biden administration is riddled with Neocons, war hawks, Wall Street people, and former corporate lobbyists. That's what the party elite has become. But I know the rank-and-file — and the American people as a whole — don't share their priorities. It's time to return our party and our nation to the people.

I have known and liked Joe Biden for many years, but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as corporate influence in government, censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others. I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall meetings, in a primary election that is honest, civil, and transparent. I invite him into a new era of respectful dialog in these times of division.

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 25, 2023

I am a multi-generational Democrat, but I think our party has gone off track. Remember when we upheld the interests of the poor and middle class against big corporations and Wall Street? Remember when we were the party of peace, civil liberties, and people power? I aim to reclaim my party and its traditional values.

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 25, 2023