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Fox News Documentary Puts Brutality of the Militarized Central State on Full Display
K. Lloyd Billingsley has a review of a new Fox News documentary about George Bush Sr.’s Ruby Ridge slaughter over at the Independent Institute .
“[T]he issue was not the left versus right but the militarized central state versus individual life and liberty.”
Read the full article from the Independent Institute here.
Cops Love Murdering Dogs
But why? I thought everyone liked dogs.
Not cops. They hate them and love to murder them for fun.
(Some of them also are child rapists.)
Ron and Dan: Rich Liberals Protected By Guns…Why Not The Rest Of Us?
Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams: “Yesterday’s Virginia pro-Second Amendment rally shocked the elites to their core. Propagandized by the mainstream media, they expected out-of-control white supremacists but found a peaceful group of all races and orientations. More importantly, the local government nullification movement is growing like wildfire, with local authorities openly vowing they would not enforce gun laws passed in Richmond that they consider unconstitutional.”
‘Whistleblower’ Was Overheard in ’17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump
I don’t doubt it. I’d be surprised if it stopped there. Eric Ciaramella was a Brennan guy. So the worst must be presumed, that he was sent there to find anything possible that could be used to launch an impeachment.
You know, after their “Trump is guilty of the highest treason with the Kremlin” hoax finally finished falling flat after almost 3 years.
Paul Sperry at RealClearInvestigations.
*I’ve been saying all along Trump should be removed from office and prosecuted for war crimes in Yemen and I still do. He, Obama and Brennan ought to all have to share a Supermax cell for the rest of their lives.
Classic Ron Paul: The Real Reason Clinton Should Have Been Impeached
With the Senate impeachment trial dominating headlines this week, it seems appropriate to look back on what Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul said about the 1998 impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton.
At a press conference the week of the impeachment vote, Dr. Paul explained that his vote to impeach Clinton was because of Clinton waging military actions in the Mid-East. Through 1998, Clinton launched a series of attacks in the Mid-East that (coincidentally I am sure) just happened to coincide with major developments in the impeachment saga. Yet most Republicans refused to speak out against this abuse of presidential power.
You can see Dr. Paul’s remarks here. Note that Dr. Paul warned that Clinton’s unconstitutional war-making could lead to terrorist attacks against the United States, so he was talking about blowback years before 9-11.
Greenwald Interviewed on His Charges
The case against you relies in part on the claim that you helped in “facilitating the commission of a crime.” Did you do anything to encourage the hacking of cell phones or other devices?
No. In fact, when the source first talked to me, he had already obtained all the material that he ended up providing us, making it logically impossible for me to have in any way participated in that act. And the federal police, just a few months ago, concluded that not only was there no evidence that I committed any crimes but much to the contrary, I conducted myself, in their words, with “extreme levels of professionalism and caution,” to make sure that I didn’t get ensnared in any criminal activity.
If that’s the case, how do you understand what has happened in the last couple of months, from the federal police determining that to the charges today?
I think that what a lot of people are not fully understanding about Brazil is that there are a lot of people in the government, beginning with the President himself, who explicitly want a resurrection of the military dictatorship that ruled the country until 1985. They are not joking about it. They are genuine authoritarians who don’t believe in democracy, don’t believe in basic freedoms, and don’t believe in a free press. And all they know is brute force. They want a return to that military regime. The fact that the federal police said there was no evidence I committed a crime, and the fact that the Supreme Court barred them from investigating me, because the Court said it was an infringement on a free press for them to do so, doesn’t matter to them. They just concocted a theory to try and use brute force to criminalize what I was doing, probably to intimidate other journalists as much as to attack me and punish me for the reporting.
The good news is he says their DoJ can only accuse him, a judge has to approve the charges. And it sounds like the judiciary has been going to bat for him lately.
Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
Breaking in the New York Times.
Note that this is the same as Trump’s case against Julian Assange: The recipient and publisher of a leak is a co-conspirator with whoever did the leaking.
It’s a war against honesty in language first and foremost, and it’s a threat to the future of journalism here just as it is in Brazil.
Regarding the criminal charges brought by the Bolsonaro government: it’s a grave and obvious attack on a free press, brought by a far-right judge.
We’re going to defend a free press, not be intimidated by authorities abusing their power. The reporting will continue. pic.twitter.com/kd9b8Kggx3
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 21, 2020
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