All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
Carl Jung
You know there’s nothing more comforting for someone who’s been burned before than the cynical pose. You can sit back and make fun of all the suckers and mugs who really believe that the game isn’t fixed. Well, as I declared just a week ago or so I don’t think Bill Barr intends to prosecute any of the Deep State Cabalists that attacked the Trump presidency, not even the low-level losers like Strzok and Page. So much time has gone by that I concluded he was just marking time and running out the clock in order to appear to be investigating the offense but really just protecting the status quo.
But it’s a funny thing. The small progress that has resulted in the charges against General Flynn being tossed out of court has stirred up a hornet’s nest of outrage from all corner of the Swamp. Even the capo di tutti capi of the Swamp, Barry Obama resurfaced to complain that freeing an innocent man was an unheard-of innovation that never could have happened in his day. And his minions rallied more than 2,000 of the swamp creatures to sign off on a letter condemning Barr for daring to recognize an illegal FBI prosecution of Flynn and urging the judge to refuse to dismiss the case. And the media has been flooded with articles about the flurry of activity by the Justice Department:
Could I be wrong about Barr? Is there still hope he’ll get something done? I’ll have to admit that the prospect of seeing the Cabal languishing in some super-max prison is so exciting that it almost makes me faint but I fear disappointment so much that I would do anything rather than go off that cliff again. Let’s look over the prospects. It’s possible that Barr will allow for the investigation to free the wrongly accused and even expose the Obama minions who persecuted them to censure in a report that details the false prosecutions. He could do that without actually indicting a single soul. This would be a kind of “trial in the papers” exercise. And if done during the election cycle it could have a good effect on President Trump’s numbers. That’s sort of what I was saying last week. This is the weakest of the positive outcomes Barr could be working toward.
The next higher outcome is the scapegoat. That is where DOJ latches onto a stooge like Strzok and blames the whole mess on him. He’s painted as a rogue agent who exceeded his authority and in an excess of zeal committed crimes that no one else recognized. And Strzok will be allowed to cop a plea where he’ll get a slap on the wrist and the whole thing will be buried in some bureaucratic teachable moment exercise. This is also a not unlikely outcome. Strzok probably won’t even lose his pension and he can write a book about what a hero he was for zealously guarding the country against Russians.
Beyond this are the really unlikely outcomes. Even the lesser cases involve the indictment of characters like McCabe, Comey, Clapper and Brennan. These men all lied under oath. There are documents attesting to their complicity in illegal activities. Dragging all of this out in public would reveal to the public a partisan and disloyal intelligence community working against a duly elected President of the United States and routinely using tactics that would seem more at home in the soviet KGB. This exercise would have the maximum effect on the public and would reinforce the opinion that the Democrats, the Deep State and the Media conspired to lie to the American public about the whole Russia-gate scam. Potentially such an investigation and the indictments could go up as high as Obama. There is no limit to just how much dirt could be unearthed if rats like Comey think they might be going to prison and needed to turn state’s evidence.
And this latter outcome is the one I find so unlikely at this point. The damage to the FBI and the CIA would be massive. After they see how corrupt these agencies are the public may be willing to see them weakened or even eliminated. But somebody like Barr is almost a father figure to the Department of Justice. Helping to chloroform the FBI might seem like murdering his own kids. And for that reason, I don’t think he’ll ever unleash a full investigation that puts the blame where it really belongs, at the top. At best he’ll target Strzok or possibly McCabe. But no higher.
Let’s assume I’m right. But if Barr really does decide to expose the crooked prosecution of President Trump’s men it will still be enough justification for a far-reaching purge of the Justice Department and the other intelligence agencies and that will be a very useful change for the next four years.
So where does this leave me? Well, really back where we started from. I still don’t know that Barr is going to do much of anything. Could all the noise we’re hearing just be a bunch of nothing? Yes. For all I know this is just the smokescreen that is supposed to convince us that something will happen. I still think that’s the likeliest outcome.
But I do have to admit that Barr’s lieutenants have unearthed a lot of evidence to show that all of the usual suspects did an awful lot of lying around the time of the incoming administration. That alone is a valuable result. It shows that the Russia-gate scam was just that and the Cabal knew it all along. Surely that makes Barr a little more useful than I gave him credit for last week. Bill Barr, I guess I underestimated you at least a little bit. We’ll soon see just how much.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
Today was a sort of macabre milestone. For the first time in weeks New York did not have one of the highest totals in COVID-19 deaths in the country.
Rather than high hundreds or even more than a thousand deaths only 41 New Yorkers perished from the COVID-19 virus.
And this had a profound effect on the total deaths for the country.
The 750 nationwide deaths was the least since March 29th. And just like that we can see that New York was sort of the COVID-19 epidemic all by itself. And if you realize that the numbers for New Jersey and Connecticut are essentially just the suburbs for New York City it becomes even more apparent that the rest of the country just isn’t in the same category of emergency as New York City is.
So what has happened to slow the onslaught of the disease? Well, apparently New York has finally killed off all their vulnerable elderly. And the horrible part about that is the fact that it was mandated by the state. As spelled out on the attached document whenever a nursing home patient was sent to a hospital with COVID-19 disease the nursing home was required to re-admit that patient as soon as the hospital had stabilized the patient. Which of course means that nursing homes would have to accept infected patients back into their population along with their uninfected patients. Knowing that patients over eighty are the most vulnerable to this disease the state basically played Russian roulette with all the nursing home patients. And over time an enormous number of them died because of it.
When this fact was brought to the attention of Governor Cuomo he was unaware of it but his Health Commissioner confirmed it to him at a news conference. Too bad he didn’t pay more attention to his actual epidemic strategy and less time worrying about his brother Fredo play acting victim on a part time basis in his basement. If instead of locking down the working age population and destroying the economy he had quarantined the healthy nursing home patients and treated the sick ones in hospitals he might have spared tens of thousands of lives and still had an economy to work with. Mario Cuomo didn’t seem to hit the IQ lottery with his two boys.
The information that has been released from the FBI files on the Flynn case and the House Investigation of the Russia probe is surprisingly clear. When subjected to the light of day there is no way to disguise the fact that federal law enforcement personnel at the highest levels deliberately conspired to railroad President Trump’s National Security Advisor out of office and into a criminal conviction.
There was no legal justification for this but they figured out a way to blackmail Flynn into it. And they did it because they figured once they had stripped Flynn away from the new President, they could use the Russia hoax to get a special prosecutor appointed and use that office to attack the new administration in concert with the press and the deep state. If that isn’t treason, I don’t know what is.
Contemplating that the Justice Department of the United States felt no hesitation to commit these acts during the commencement of a new Presidential Administration surely should give any American pause when considering whether his own constitutional rights are secure in the United States. Other than unimportance what makes me think that the FBI would hesitate for a millisecond before dragging me down to one of their interrogation rooms and providing me with an even less favorable choice than the one they gave General Flynn. Imagine that an unaccountable government goon tells you that either you will plead guilty to a crime you didn’t commit, that could earn you ten years in prison or your son will be prosecuted and imprisoned for an even longer period.
In the last twenty years we have grown accustomed to the diminution of our freedoms in the name of greater security. In an alleged effort to keep Islamic terrorists from blowing up our planes every old grandmother in a wheelchair is subjected to indignities and all of us have to submit to complete surveillance of our every financial transaction and personal communication of all kinds. Of course, that hasn’t stopped obvious foreign terrorists from striking at every level of American life. And when it happens, we have to listen to harangues explaining how it’s our bigotry that inspired the violence. But we acceded to the indignities and accepted the surveillance.
But now we find that the security apparatus is our new master. All pretense that we are free men has been ended. The FBI has the means to incriminate us using these new extra-constitutional powers. And worse, they have the will to do it too. Well, I’m sorry. I no longer care whether the FBI is protecting me from Islamic terrorists or roving bands of cannibals. I want them gone. I want the President’s highest priority to be firing every last idiot with the letters FBI emblazoned across his stupid windbreaker. I don’t even care if the Russians, the Chinese and the North Koreans steal the gasoline out of my gas tank and the chimney off my house. At least they won’t be able to haul me off to the gulag for failing to genuflect to Comrade Obama and his dictatorial thugs.
The FBI from its beginnings has spied on the American people. It has spied on our leaders and it has used this spying to blackmail and coerce the government into doing its bidding. That is too dangerous a tool for our country to possess. It seems to me that the Justice Department already has plenty of employees. It needs to be dismantled. It needs its fangs pulled.
That is a tall order. It’s doubly so because the Attorney General, Bill Barr wouldn’t dream of extracting the jewel in the crown of his department. I’m not even sure he’ll clean out the viper’s nest that is responsible for the outrage they perpetrated against this country. If Barr and Durham had any sense of proportion, they would know that their precious FBI is a worse curse than the COVID-19 epidemic or the September 11th Attack. What he should do is have a press conference where he apologizes to the American people for the organized crime cartel that he’s perpetrating on the rest of us. He should fire everyone in the bureau from the top down until he finds someone who’s willing to expose the plot that we’ve lived through for the last four years. That’s what he should do. And then the President should demand Congress draft legislation to revoke the Patriot Act. And if they won’t he should have his Solicitor General petition the Supreme Court to find it unconstitutional. If the Congress squawks about that tell them to work on a constitutional amendment. That should keep them busy for about twenty years.
Anyway, this rant is to say that it’s clear we now live in a police state. It’s run by the FBI with additional surveillance provided by the tech companies. In 1984 Orwell named the security agency in his dystopia “The Ministry of Love.” If we know what’s good for us, we’ll make eliminating the Ministry of Love our highest priority. At the very least, prosecuting all the Obama apparatchiks should be a survival reflex for the Trump Administration. These people are hell bent on destroying a free society. With them having a strangle hold on our government this truly is an Orwellian nightmare. I think I’d prefer to live under a simple dictatorship. At least it would be easier to figure out the rules.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung
Greetings everybody out there. Hope all the moms out are somewhat enjoying Mother’s Day. Although the whole cowering-in-place has rendered Camera Girl’s Mother’s Day sort of an academic exercise. None of her kids can come to see her. In recognition of this injustice I have spent the weekend as her company. Unfortunately I’m a poor stand in for her children. But I did what I could. She is a Scrabble fanatic so I volunteered to play several games of this bizarre pastime. It confirmed my belief that she has somewhat unorthodox ideas about what constitutes as legitimate English word. She used “droid” without any embarrassment. In addition we watched some movies together. Interestingly we watched the movies I wanted to see but I attribute that to coincidence. But I have been incredibly attentive. I have been talking about all kinds of stuff and asking her all kinds of questions and talking about all the good things we can do together alone. I’ll have to say, in my opinion, her enthusiasm was somewhat lacking. Several times she seemed to wander away in the middle of one of these displays of attentiveness. Apparently laundry and floor sweeping are time critical in her mind. I’ve always thought men are much more sociable creatures. Not to mention our pleasant and even-tempered personalities. Well what can you do?
So anyway, I’ve been unavailable for output on OCF this weekend but that interregnum is now over. I’ve got a post cued up for tonight on the Flynn fiasco. I think that should be a major point of discussion for folks on our side of the aisle. The fact that the information has been transmitted to the public is in itself encouraging. More to follow.
We had a little more snow here yesterday but it wasn’t much to talk about. But it really makes you wonder how much later into the year it would have to snow before we could question the reality of global warming. Would a foot of snow at the Fourth of July qualify? I’ll have to ask one of my Green friends (if I had any).
So enjoy the holiday to the extent that circumstances will allow but I’m back on the job and content will follow.
