At the daily press briefing, Sarah
Huckaby Sanders responded to a reporter’s assertion President Trump’s decision
to end DACA was “cold hearted”. Ms. Sanders responded, “It’s not cold hearted
for the president to uphold the law. We’re a nation of law and order. And the
day that we start to ignore the fact that we are that, then we throw away
everything that gives these people a reason to come to our country….”
With
respect to Ms. Sanders, that car has left the showroom. America has long ceased
to be a “nation of law and order”, morphing into a nation of selectively
applied laws with enforcement depending on class, income, race, sexual
orientation, political agenda or special interest group.One look at
Clinton, Clapper, Comey, Koskinen, Lerner, Lynch, Holder, Abedin, Brazille,
Podesta, Rice, Waters, Sharpton, the Clinton Foundation – all roaming the
country freely, some getting new, high-paying jobs and the
continued adoration of the MSM. A “nation of law and order” or a nation of Special
Rules for Special People? That’s a tough one.
With the Constitution, a judiciary and countless laws still in
tact, how could this be? How do otherwise sentient beings with a knowledge of
the law, some having taken an oath to uphold and defend it, publicly exhibit
on-the-job apathy, ignorance, and dereliction of duty every day? MSM anchors
and pundits, newspaper columnists and Editorial writers squander countless
broadcast hours and ink parsing, dissecting, musing, trying to read the tea
leaves.
Meanwhile, the answer has been hiding in plain sight.
Even poor
students of International Strategy and other insanities of the 20th century
will fondly remember the quasi-brilliant “Mutually Assured Destruction” that
conveniently came with the perfect acronym: MAD. How comforting it was back
then, knowing one false move by some sociopathic President, Premier or Tyrant
with a Funny Hat could turn us all into crispy critters. Conversely, it was
mildly reassuring to know even crackpot dictators preferred Life over the
alternative.
What if the same MAD principle in practice now explains the
confounding insanity that has consumed every action emanating from the Great
Dismal Swamp for decades?
Thanks to
the heavy lifting of some in various parts of the established, alternative and
social media, it is an irrefutable fact NSA has every phone call, email, post
and Tweet made by every American. From a recent LRC piece, friend and colleague,
FOX News Senior Judicial analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano:
“So beginning in 2005, then-President George W. Bush permitted
the NSA to interpret President Ronald Reagan’s executive order 12333 so as to
allow all spying on everyone in the U.S., all the time. …Where does all
this leave us? It leaves us with a public recognition that we are the most
spied-upon people in world history and that the president himself has been a
victim.”
I suggest
it leaves us in a worse spot. 20th century
MAD has been replaced with 21st Century
MAB – Mutually Assured Blackmail. As Judge Napolitano noted: “… we are
the most spied-upon people in world history and that the president himself has
been a victim.” Considering the players and the stakes, is it not logical to
conclude the Vice President, Attorney General, Cabinet, SCOTUS and the
entire Congressional contingent have all been similarly surveilled by the
so-called Intelligence Community to control with blackmail and extortion
all aspects of what was formerly known as Constitutionally limited
representative governance? How better to manipulate the Deep State’s policies
and programs that advance their vision and purpose for America?
Doesn’t MAB quite simply explain the lack of prosecution of the
Protected Class of Government “Celebrities”? Wouldn’t MAB point to the
remarkable failure of Congress to repeal Obamacare? Stall tax reform? Or the
monumentally stupid “agreement” to continue sacrificing American blood and
treasure in a sandbox that doesn’t threaten National Security? How easy would
it be to finesse at least a stalemate between both Parties? Different
Departments? Warring Agencies? Personality Wars?
Yet many continue to channel their inner Alexander the Great
confronting the Gordian knot trying to find the loophole that explains the
absence of reason, the application of the Rule of Law, or even basic Common
Sense inside the Logic Free Zone.
Consider:
Chief
Justice John Roberts’ tortured Obamacare Supreme Court ruling: “…he invented
out of whole cloth a new definition of taxation that contravenes long-standing
precedent… Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court’s
four conservative justices… but later changed his position
and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according
to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations.” (Emphasis added) (Forbes Magazine)
But why the change? The Forbes piece throws a lot of theories
against the wall, but it takes serious naiveté to make any stick. Rumors of
“irregularities” in the adoption of Roberts’ two children requiring their
return were promptly poo-pooed by the MSM. What a surprise.
At the time (2014/2015) few seriously considered it even a
possibility. Like 9/11, cognitive dissonance among the Slightly Informed and
Barely Educated has been the Deep State’s BFF. But today, after months of
blazing headlines, frothing network anchors reveling over White House “wire
taps”, trying desperately to make a Trump-Russia Love Connection or pounce on
anyone considered a threat to the Regime, is it still so hard to believe?
Remember Bill Binny, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and a crowd of
other whistleblowers? Have you read how the Senate Intelligence [sick] Committee wants
to treat Julian Assange’s Wikileaks?
From John Rappaport’s Blog:
“The present war in Washington isn’t for the faint of heart, or
the nice people who want everybody to get along, or the suburbanites who want
all participants to be awarded trophies. Washington is Crime Central and the
knives are out in full view. It’s a fashion parade in the devil’s cave. To
paraphrase Harry Truman, both the CIA and NSA have been spying on
officials in Washington and other prominent Americans for a long time. These
agencies hold secrets as well. If you can’t stand the overflowing toilets, get
out of the bathroom…
Blackmail, extortion. It’s not the only game in town, but it’s
the big one. It lurks around every corner, it sits in every conference room, it
weaves its way through legislation, policy, and judicial decision.
MAB – Mutually Assured Blackmail – makes everything crystal
clear. And quite ugly.
Brian Wilson
[send him mail],
nationally ignored talk show host and occasional LRC un-indicted
co-contributor, is currently taking a break from his daily annoyance of
miniscule audiences and concentrating his efforts on the Libertas
Media Project, a multi-media Internet news distribution and
discussion center from his technically challenged studios on the shores of
Smith Mountan Lake, Virginia.
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