Report for May
The month of May ended in a tumultuous avalanche of opinions
on the secret meaning of the Mueller report, which was aggravated when Special Prosecutor
Mueller came out of his den for the first time in over two years to deliver his
own strange public statement on his report.
Yes, there really is a Mueller and we found him indeed alive
though a bit worn.
After his nearly ten-minute address in which he said
everything he wanted to say was in his original report already released by
Attorney General Barr, and everyone should read the 400 plus page document, we
were left with our heads spinning.
Seriously, read over 400 pages of legalese that draws no
conclusions, no further indictments, and yes, no Russia collusion. I do not think Americas are that hungry for
such an inconclusive document.
Nothing new, so why would we read it?
To those who ignore the report, here is a summary. There are four competing versions of the report
depending on your bias.
Mueller’s
version
He said he could not find the president innocent of conspiracy
to obstruct justice. Whoa! Here I thought our criminal justice system guaranteed
we were innocent until proven guilty. Of
course, he did not say the president was guilty either. Just what is he saying?
So, he then makes the statement that the criminal justice
system has no way to solve this conundrum, but there are constitutional means
to do this. This from a prosecutor in
the criminal justice system, who works for the criminal enforcement arm of the
government, the Justice Department, the heart of the Executive branch of
government?
The news media says that means he told the Congress to
investigate which is not what he said.
He referred to other Constitutional means. How in the world could a member of the
executive branch make referrals to another independent branch of government,
the legislative branch of congress?
It would seem that violates the very principle of the
separation and independence of the three branches of government. Nowhere does any law say the congress has the
right to determine guilt or innocence under criminal statutes. That would be an infringement of the congress,
legislative branch, on the executive branch powers.
Democrat version
The second version of the analysis came from the Democrats in
the House who are straining to keep from self-destructing. The leadership, including the six committee
chairmen whose committees are investigating the president, seem determined to
investigate every single thread mentioning Trump, his kids, his parents, and
everything that happened in his life that might reflect on what he is doing as
president.
This has the makings of the biggest fishing expedition in the
history of our country to find a legitimate cause for impeachment. Which clearly means after two and a half
years and tens of millions of dollars of investigations, they still cannot
figure out how to get rid of Trump.
Under the orchestration of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her pit bull
chairmen, their intent seems to use every trick in the book to paralyze the
president, cripple his presidency, and send him into oblivion in the next
election.
Thus, nothing has changed.
Republican
version
Not to be left out in the cold, the Republicans have their own
version of what the report means. Most
largely remain silent figuring enough politicians are making fools of
themselves, why risk a career just to jump on the credibility of the strange
report. That has not stopped President
Trump, target of all the investigations, from commenting.
He is a very mad person about what is taking place. Perhaps he should be since every member of
the Democratic leadership has ignored the innocent until proven guilty criminal
justice principle. Before any
investigative committee held their first hearings the Democrats already declared
him guilty of something and/or everything.
In the meantime…
The Democrats seem to be single-handedly continuing to undermine
our criminal justice system which began with the Clinton presidency and his Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, HR 3355.
The largest crime bill in the history of the United States was
originally written by one Senator Joe Biden, consisted of 356 pages, and provided
for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons and $6.1
billion in funding for prevention programs.
President Bill Clinton signed it into law.
The Center for American Progress says the following about the
Clinton/Biden law.
Many
consider the crime bill to be one of the cornerstone statutes that accelerated
mass incarceration of minorities. But the law’s negative effects did not end
there. States and localities were incentivized through a massive infusion of
federal funding to build more jails and prisons and to pass so-called
truth-in-sentencing laws and other punitive measures that simultaneously
increased the number and length of prison sentences while reducing the
possibility of early release for those incarcerated.
It has
been well-documented that these policies were failures. Their cost to
society came not only from the staggering amount of taxpayer dollars that were
invested in enforcement, but also from the disproportionate incarceration of a
generation of African American men in the name of public safety. Moreover,
tough-on-crime measures—specifically longer incarceration sentences—have had at
best a marginal effect on improving public safety.
If the presumption of innocence standard and the right to
defend oneself against criminal charges are ignore by the Democrats, thus
undermining our criminal justice system, we all should be concerned about the
future because no one will be safe anymore.
News
Media version
Last of the four versions of analysis is the News Media
version. Here the track record of
reckless reporting, fake news, intense Trump hatred, and total disregard for
professional journalistic principles and ethics were tossed out when Trump
first became a threat to the darling of the news media, Hillary Clinton, in the
2016 campaign.
When it comes to Trump, the media long ago tossed out protections
like presumption of innocence, right to fair defense, or anything that might
leave the impression he is good in any way.
The good news is the media bias is well known to most Americans who know
fair, balanced, honest, just or objective reporting is pretty much a thing of
the past.
Few people really care what the media says, reports or claims,
for their association with the swamp has long ago been established. As for Trump, Washington insiders, also known
as the Establishment, see him as the greatest threat to their power, ability to
influence people, and efforts to control people. When Trump says drain the swamp the media is
in his crosshairs.
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