A
Lawless Government
By Paul
Craig Roberts
January
31, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
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I
remember when a suspect was regarded as innocent
until proven guilty in a fair trial. Today
prosecutors convict their victims in the media
in order to make an unbiased jury impossible and
thereby coerce a plea bargain that saves the
prosecutor from having to prove his case. In the
United States law is no longer a shield of the
people. Law is a weapon in the hands of
prosecutors. (See Roberts & Stratton, The
Tyranny of Good Intentions.)
Formerly, if a prosecutor staged an arrest for
publicity purposes, as Mueller did by placing a
CNN presstitute on the scene and sending a
couple of dozen heavily armed men in a pre-dawn
raid to arrest a well known political consultant
for allegedly “lying to Congress” when the
appropriate procedure is for Mueller to inform
Stone’s lawyer to present his client for
indictment, the judge would throw out the case
on the grounds that the prosecutor’s unethical
action had biased the juror pool and made a fair
trial impossible. The judge might also have
thrown out the case on the grounds of selective
prosecution. James Clapper while serving as
Director of National Intelligence lied to
Congress under oath and suffered no
consequences, and Hillary Clinton has clearly
broken the law and lied about it.
Today
judges permit unethical behavior by prosecutors
that deprives defendants of a fair trial,
because judges don’t want the bother of trials
any more than prosecutors do. Consequently,
according to official statistics 97% of federal
criminal cases are settled by a defendent
pleaing guilty to a charge negotiated by his
attorney and a prosecutor. As the charge is a
negotiated or made-up one, most people in prison
are there for confessing to crimes that never
occurred.
Prosecutors, now that they are no longer bound
by constraints of legal integrity, often
fabricate a case against a person in order to
force the person to give false testimony against
the prosecutor’s real target. This is what
Mueller’s cases against Cohen, Manafort, and
Roger Stone are. Trump is the target, not Cohen,
Manafort, and Stone. In addition, prosecutors
string out the investigation so long that they
force the target to use up his net worth
fighting off an indictment. Then when the
indictment arrives, there is no money left for
lawyers, which adds to the pressure to
“cooperate.” If Trump were a fighting man, he
would pardon Cohen, Manafort, and Stone,
reimburse them out of the Justice (sic)
Department’s budget for their legal expenses,
and have Mueller arrested for sedition and
plotting to overthrow the duly elected President
of the United States. This would be hypocritical
as Trump himself is plotting to overthrow the
duly elected president of Venezuela.
Mueller
is not an agent of law. He is the agent of the
military/security complex and the Democratic
Party who intend to do away with Trump, because
Trump positioned himself between them and their
agendas.
The
preposterous charge against Trump is that he, in
league with Russian President Vladimir Putin
somehow through computer hacking and backdoor
deals stole the presidential election from
Hillary Clinton. This is the fabrication known
as “Russiagate.” The creation of this
fabrication involves far more crimes than those
of which Trump, Cohen, Manafort, and Stone are
accused. “Russiagate” rests on a fake “dossier”
paid for by the Democrats and perhaps the FBI
that was used to mislead the FISA court in order
to obtain permission to spy on the Trump team.
This is a felony for which the officials
responsible are not being charged. The spying
failed to turn up any real evidence, and neither
has Muller’s “investigation.” The charges
against Cohen, Manafort, and Stone are unrelated
to the election and are likely false and used as
threats for the purpose of eliciting false
testimony against Trump in exchange for dropping
the charges.
Mueller’s tactics in his effort to frame the
President of the United States are more
despicable than the tactics to which the Gestapo
stooped. Even worse, they are the tactics
commonly in use today by US attorneys, and this
evil has spread into state and local
prosecutions. That prosecutors routinely behave
in a way that once would have caused them to be
dismissed from office shows the collapse of law
and prosecutorial integrity in the United
States.
The
American and British media are as accommodating
in the frameups as the German media was with the
Nazi government. The Guardian, once an honest
voice for the British working class, is now a
propaganda sheet for British intelligence just
as the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN,
MSNBC, and NPR are for the CIA and FBI. The US
media has never been very good, but until the
Clinton regime during which 90 percent of the
media was concentrated in six corporate hands,
there was more than one explanation.
Since
Donald Trump won the Republican presidential
nomination, the media has been allied with the
military/security complex and the Democratic
Party in an effort to deep-six Trump. As I
expected would be the case, Trump had no idea
how to staff a government that would have
supported him against the Establishment. He has
been blocked on every front from normalizing
relations with Russia to establishing control
over US borders to withdrawal from Syria. The
latest line from the military/security complex
and the presstitutes is that the US cannot
withdraw its troops illegally occupying a rump
section of Syria, because ISIS is resurgent in
Syria and Iraq and will renew the war if US
troops are withdrawn.
This is
nonsense. As General Flynn, the former director
of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said on
television, it was a willful decision of the
Obama regime to send ISIS to overthrow Assad
once Russia and the UK Parliament blocked a US
invasion. It is Russia and Syria who fought and
defeated Washington’s proxy army known as ISIS.
Washington is blocking Trump’s order to withdraw
US troops, because Israel wants the US to renew
the attack on Syria and to carry it into Iran.
Israel and its American vassals must think that
Russia is going to stand down and permit the
destabilization of the Islamic world to proceed
into the Russian Federation.
Once
upon a time the media and the foreign policy
community would have publicly examined these
issues. Now the media reads out the script
handed to them.
As for
Roger Stone, the media’s instructions are to
convict Stone in the public’s mind as a
facilitator of the Trump/Putin theft of the US
presidential election. The actual facts do not
matter, and the facts will never emerge from the
media or from Mueller’s “investigation.”
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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