The deliberations of the
Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently,
anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended
in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was
provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin,
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no
hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep
it."
This exchange was recorded by Constitution
signer James McHenry in a diary entry that was later reproduced in the 1906 American
Historical Review. Yet in more recent years, Franklin has occasionally [sic]
been misquoted as having said, "A democracy, if you can keep it." --
A Republic, if You Can Keep It; By John F. McManus; TheNewAmerican.com; 11/6/2000
I’ve heard Pelosi quote Franklin on preserving our Republic by impeaching President Trump. The gall coming from a leader from what is now one of the most corrupt Political Parties in American history whose leadership has spent decades diluting, arbitrarily rewriting through unelected Courts and in many cases just criminally ignore the United States Constitution.
There are rumors that IG Michael Horowitz’s report on “DOJ and FBI’s conduct during the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process as it relates to the 2016 presidential
election” is going to scapegoat the unimportant and
ignore the big fish Dem criminals – AS USUAL. If that is so, America has lost
her Republic to the tyranny of the Deep State unelected bureaucracy. Justin
Smith takes a look at the rumors!
JRH 11/27/19
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Our Republic Is In Crisis
America's Traitors Must Not Go Unpunished
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 11/25/2019 9:29 PM
The United States Republic has been under a sustained
assault since 2016, by a Democratic Party, that has used every mechanism and
maneuver possible to undermine President Trump's Administration; and it now
self-describes itself as "the Resistance", an incendiary title most
usually ascribed to insurgents fighting an occupying military power and not a
"Loyal Opposition". Their worldview is so far removed from America's
Founding, so antithetical, that they now stand as the Enemy from Within, as they
engage in a war to cripple a duly elected government by any means necessary,
and this cannot be allowed, if this nation is to continue as a true
Republic.
Time and time again, the Democratic Party has exhibited it
is willing to use any means necessary to gain a momentary advantage to achieve
their agenda and goals, no matter the systemic implications and the unintended
or intended collateral consequences. They do not care if their actions can be
justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all of America,
since they believe they are the most brilliant animals in the room and seek to
impose their will, despite any protestations.
Our governing system is in crisis, and our Republic is
indeed in crisis. Both are in crisis due to the Democratic Party's belief that
their actions to ignore, subvert and replace norms, institutions and laws are
somehow authorized simply by their will, edict and proclamation, and their
follower's acceptance of this abrogation of the Constitution compounds and
exacerbates the situation, creating dangerous times for all America.
Immediately upon Trump's election, Rosa Brooks, Defense
Department official under Obama, outlined ways to remove Trump from office,
before the 2020 elections, in an article for Foreign Policy. In seditious and treasonous style, she
brazenly advocated for a military coup.
In recently discovered tweets, Mark Zaid, attorney for the
traitorous Ukraine Gossip Leaker, boasts of the coup in January 2017,
typing the words: "#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion.
#impeachment will follow. ... As one falls, two more will take their
place."
And, in a recent New York Times op-ed, retired Admiral
William McRaven essentially called for President Trump's ouster,
as he suggested "the sooner, the better."
Traitors within the Obama administration's CIA, FBI, DOJ and
State Department, along with federal bureaucratic holdovers, had to be acting at the direction of Obama himself,
when all is said and done, in this coup to overthrow President Trump, and the mainstream
media was culpable all along the way, doubling, tripling and quadrupling down
on the dishonest narrative. They are all now desperate to evade their
responsibility for this, as they still advance the false premise that Russia
hacked the 2016 election to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. And as
all the traitors are being exposed, one by one, they are willing to bring down
the country rather than face the consequences of their sedition and treason.
[Blog Editor: A minuscule list of articles pointing to Obama
Administration traitors you WILL NOT see from the MSM:
Ø How The Obama Administration Set In Motion Democrats’ Coup
Against Trump; By Lee Smith; The
Federalist; 10/28/19
Ø Impeachment is Built on a Trap That Obama Created for Romney;
By Daniel Greenfield; FrontPageMag.com; 10/7/19
Ø Indictments are Coming for Obama officials who executed the
‘Coup’ Against Trump; By Col Jim Waurishuk, USAF (Ret.); America Out Loud; 6/3/19
Ø Obama Officials Openly Committing Treason And President Trump
Should Have Them All Locked Up; By Dean James; Right Wing Tribune; 6/1/19
Reported by Fox News, John McLaughlin, former acting CIA
Director, recently publicly exclaimed, "Thank God for the
Deep State." He was soon joined by John Brennan,
former CIA Director, who added his agreement in praise for the "Deep State
people" and their opposition to President Trump.
How are the American people supposed to maintain this
nation, when nearly half of them support the anti-American, anti-Constitution
and rule of law actions and policies of the Democratic Party? How does this not
end badly for America?
The Democratic Party communists are hellbent on impeachment
and the absence of wrongdoing and any real case doesn't enter their illogical
thought process. They do not care that they are further seeding the destruction
of America and will reap the whirlwind to follow.
After President Obama's hot
microphone moment with Russian President Medvedev was
excused and the media was essentially silent on it, the Democrats really are
throwing bricks in a glass house, especially in light of former Vice-President
Biden's actual quid pro quo, regarding withholding aid to Ukraine until an
honest Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden was fired. Can anyone
really honestly state that President Trump has committed one single misdemeanor
or high crime, in this entire miserable mess?
And now all America is being forced to endure the nauseating
spectacle of the bug-eyed mentally ill Representative Adam Schiff chairing the
"impeachment inquiry", and acting bizarrely and near deranged, in the
House Intelligence Committee, where Schiff has regularly abused his power and
shredded the constitutional norms. Schiff has continuously, consistently and
maliciously blocked every attempted defense of the nakedly absurd charges
against President Trump, through chicane and deceitful means that are void of
any concept of due process, concocted by Schiff and his communist lawfare
confidence men and grifters -- no right to argue against those set of Stalinist
rules and this ensuing "show trial", no right to call witnesses and
no right to cross-examine "witnesses", those purveyors of
hearsay.
[Blog Editor: Examples of Shifty Schiff chicanery:
Ø House Republicans Say They’re Being Blocked From Impeachment
Inquiry; By Zachary Stieber; The Epoch Times; 10/16/19
Ø Adam Schiff Makes Up New Rules for Impeachment Inquiry;
Restricts Republican Witness Questions; By Joel B. Pollak;
Breitbart; 11/7/19
Ø House Republicans Deliver List of Eight Witnesses Requested
for Impeachment Inquiry….; By sundance; The
Last Refuge – TheConservativeTreeHouse.com; 11/9/19
Speaker Pelosi has refused to initiate a formal impeachment
trial, since that would trigger a legal process that would remove the
Democrat's current tyrannical hold over the process. Instead, she has opted to
acquiesce to the current melodramatic fishing expedition, one more quixotic
chapter in the ignominious crusade to reverse the 2016 election.
In the meantime, the gas-lighting of America by the media
also continues, in stories like the November NYT's 'Russia Inquiry Review Is Said to Criticize
F.B.I. but Rebuff Claims of Biased Acts'. This is
simply an attempt to convince America that
the entire FBI abuse of the FISA warrant process and multiple lies presented to
the FISA Court all rests on the shoulders of one lone, lowly miserable chump of
a lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, who manipulated and doctored one email, and its
truthless assertions are meant to exonerate both the CIA and the FBI for
opening the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation on false evidence
they furnished to the FISA judges.
[Blog Editor: Indeed there is the appearance Clinesmith may
be the scapegoat offering instead of including Dem-supporting criminals in the
FBI and CIA:
Ø The Washington Post Helps Identify FBI Lawyer Who Altered
FISA Docs…; by sundance; The
Last Refuge – TheConservativeTreeHouse.com; 11/22/19
Ø The Horowitz FISA Investigation May Have Found its Scapegoat;
By David Blackmon; DB
Daily Update; 11/22/19
More eerie blue gas-light dances throughout CBS and its 60
Minutes reality optional story on the supposed Russian hacking of our election,
in a blatant attempt to deflect from the fact that Crowdstrike, owned by Ukrainian oligarch
Dmitri Alperovitch, [Blog Editor:
Actually Alperovitch was born in Russia BUT he is heavily connected to Ukrainian
oligarch/billionaire Victor Pinchuk who funds the Atlantic Council of which Alperovitch and
infamous Chalupa sisters (Alexandra
& Andrea) connected to Steele Dossier conspiracy are also
members – TALK ABOUT SOLICITING FOREIGN MEDDLING IN A U.S. ELECTION!]
created the story initially, and Crowdstrike had been hired by the Democratic
National Committee and Hillary Clinton to interfere in the 2016 election. After
the fact, Crowdstrike also became the sole entity allowed to perform a forensic
examination on the DNC's servers, while persuading the FBI to turn a blind-eye;
in other words, the DNC's contractor investigated its own criminal behavior.
Doesn't any patriotic American want that investigated?
[Blog Editor: The Mueller Report (or whoever the true
author is?) claims the Russians hacked DNC servers solely based on
Crowdstrike assertions rather than FBI/CIA forensic examinations:
FBI never examined hacked DNC servers itself: report;
By Katie Bo Williams; The Hill;
1/4/17 7:29 PM EST
The FBI never examined the
Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computer servers during its investigation
into Russian attempts to interfere in the presidential election, BuzzFeed reports.
“The DNC had several meetings
with representatives of the FBI’s Cyber Division and its Washington (D.C.)
Field Office, the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and U.S.
Attorney’s Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation,
but the FBI never requested access to the DNC’s computer servers,” DNC deputy
communications director Eric Walker told BuzzFeed in an email.
According to one intelligence
official who spoke to the publication, no U.S. intelligence agency has
performed its own forensics analysis on the hacked servers.
Instead, the official said,
the bureau and other agencies have relied on analysis done by the third-party
security firm CrowdStrike, which investigated the breach for the DNC. … MORE TO READ
CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller’s Own Report Undercuts Its Core
Russia-Meddling Claims; By Aaron Maté; Real Clear Investigations; 7/5/19
At a May press conference
capping his tenure as special counsel, Robert Mueller emphasized what he called
"the central allegation" of the two-year Russia probe. The Russian
government, Mueller sternly declared, engaged in "multiple, systematic
efforts to interfere in our election, and that allegation deserves the
attention of every American." Mueller's comments echoed a January 2017
Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) asserting with "high
confidence" that Russia conducted a sweeping 2016 election influence
campaign. …
… The report claims that the
interference operation occurred "principally" on two fronts: Russian
military intelligence officers hacked and leaked embarrassing Democratic Party
documents, and a government-linked troll farm orchestrated a sophisticated and
far-reaching social media campaign that denigrated Hillary Clinton and promoted
Trump.
But a close examination of
the report shows that none of those headline assertions are supported by the
report’s evidence or other publicly available sources. They are further
undercut by investigative shortcomings and the conflicts of interest of key
players involved:
§ The
report uses qualified and vague language to describe key events, indicating
that Mueller and his investigators do not actually know for certain whether
Russian intelligence officers stole Democratic Party emails, or how those
emails were transferred to WikiLeaks.
§ The
report's timeline of events appears to defy logic. According to its narrative,
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the publication of Democratic Party
emails not only before he received the documents but before he even
communicated with the source that provided them.
§ There
is strong reason to doubt Mueller’s suggestion that an alleged Russian cutout
called Guccifer 2.0 supplied the stolen emails to Assange.
§ Mueller’s
decision not to interview Assange – a central figure who claims Russia was not
behind the hack – suggests an unwillingness to explore avenues of evidence on
fundamental questions.
§ U.S.
intelligence officials cannot make definitive conclusions about the hacking of
the Democratic National Committee computer servers because they did not analyze
those servers themselves. Instead, they relied on the forensics of CrowdStrike,
a private contractor for the DNC that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian
dossier” compiler Christopher Steele, also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral
party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying
allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignores.
§ Further,
the government allowed CrowdStrike and the Democratic Party's legal counsel to
submit redacted records, meaning CrowdStrike and not the government decided
what could be revealed or not regarding evidence of hacking.
§ Mueller’s
report conspicuously does not allege that the Russian government carried out
the social media campaign. Instead it blames, as Mueller said in his closing
remarks, "a private Russian entity" known as the Internet Research
Agency (IRA).
§ Mueller
also falls far short of proving that the Russian social campaign was
sophisticated, or even more than minimally related to the 2016 election. As
with the collusion and Russian hacking allegations, Democratic officials had a
central and overlooked hand in generating the alarm about Russian social media
activity.
The Democrats are waging a heated attack ahead of the
post-Thanksgiving deluge of bad news they anticipate to be forthcoming in
Horowitz's report. Many criminal cronies whose turpitude and crimes have been
richly and publicly fully documented for many months may soon be called to an
accounting on detailed charges, and at the very least, those facing criminal
indictments should and must eventually include the following, if any true
justice still exists in America; charge, arrest, prosecute and imprison:
Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Rosenstein. And if real justice
is to be had, any sweep must capture Bill Priestap, Sally Yates, Loretta Lynch,
Susan Rice, Samantha Power, John Carlin, Michael Gaeta, and most certainly
even Barack Obama, the Democratic Party Prince of Darkness, just in time
for Christmas, too. And a bit of added reward would see Robert Mueller and
Andrew Weissmann included for their mendacious, malicious prosecution, when
they knew for two full years they had no case. [Bold text Blog Editor’s]
Dem Party Prince of
Darkness (acquired without permission from Bosch Fawstin)
Let all freedom loving patriotic Americans pray and work to
ensure that any action countering this coup finally includes a nationwide
drag-net that sweeps up all involved in the latest UkraineGate subterfuge, such as the faux
"whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella, those
complicit agents from Rep. Adam Schiff's office, and accomplice Michael
Atkinson -- the current Intelligence Community Inspector General who has a
major conflict of interest as the former legal counsel to Assistant Attorney
John Carlin, who headed the National Security Division of the Justice
Department at the start of the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" stratagem;
of equal note, Atkinson was also previously Robert Mueller's chief of staff at
the FBI. And let's not forget that Ciaramella was a CIA spy serving in the
White House, who then promptly engaged in the height of sedition and
lawlessness by actually spying on the President of the United States and his
staff.
[Blog Editor: Noteworthy info on Deep State IG Michael Atkinson:
IG Actively Aid the “Whistleblower” in His Impeachment Quest;
By streiff; RedState.com;
9/28/19 1:00 pm
…
But if a shocking story
reported by Sean Davis yesterday is true, then not only were we wrong but the
implications are that the Intelligence Community, itself, and in particular the
Intelligence Community IG decided to assist in the effort create a narrative
that would justify the impeachment of a lawfully elected president who was acting
lawfully.
… the IC changed the rules
for classifying disgruntled personnel as whistleblowers in a very significant
way:
The brand new version of the
whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the
transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr
Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates
the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower
complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and
only “heard about [wrongdoing] from others.”
…
…
To review the bidding.
Someone in the Intelligence Committee leadership changed the definition of
whistleblower so this whistleblower was elevated from a rumor monger to a
protected individual. They did this about the same time as the complaint was
filed. Because the IC IG is intimately involved in the whistleblower
regulations (I’d be willing to guess that office is the proponent of the
regulation but I don’t know that for a fact) Atkinson knew about the change. … READ ENTIRTY
Activity and Background of Sketchy IC IG Michael Atkinson Now
Under Investigative Spotlight…; By sundance;
The Last Refuge – TheConservativeTreeHouse.com;
10/7/19
Last week the Intelligence
Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson, testified behind closed doors to
congress. Atkinson testified about his role in bringing the ‘whistle-blower’
complaint forward. The details of that testimony are now starting to
surface and thankfully congress is taking a closer look at the sketchy
background of Michael Atkinson.
…
On Sunday, October 6th, Ranking
Member Devin Nunes also discussed his concerns with the testimony of Michael
Atkinson. Nunes noted the testimony “was a joke”.
…
“So he’s either incompetent
or in on it, and he’s going to have more to answer for, I can promise you,
because we are not going to let him go; he is going to tell the truth about
what happened,” Nunes added. (read more)
…
Given the nature of Atkinson’s
background, it appears his prior work in 2016, during his tenure as the lead
legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, likely played a role in his decision.
Here’s Nunes Sunday Interview
(audio):
…
The center of the 2016 Lawfare
Alliance election influence was/is the Department of Justice National Security
Division, DOJ-NSD. It was the DOJ-NSD running the Main Justice side of the 2016
operations to support Operation Crossfire Hurricane and FBI agent Peter Strzok.
It was also the DOJ-NSD where the sketchy legal theories around FARA violations
(Sec. 901) originated.
Michael
K Atkinson was previously
the Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security
Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ-NSD) in 2016. That makes Atkinson
senior legal counsel to John Carlin and Mary McCord who were the former heads
of the DOJ-NSD in 2016 when the stop Trump operation was underway.
Michael Atkinson was the lawyer for the same DOJ-NSD players who:
(1) lied to the FISA court (Judge Rosemary Collyer) about the 80%
non compliant NSA database abuse using FBI contractors; (2) filed the FISA
application against Carter Page; and (3) used FARA violations as tools for
political surveillance and political targeting.
Yes, that means Michael Atkinson
was Senior Counsel for the DOJ-NSD, at the very epicenter of the political
weaponization and FISA abuse.
If the DOJ-NSD exploitation of
the NSA database, and/or DOJ-NSD FISA abuse, and/or DOJ-NSD FARA corruption
were ever to reach sunlight, current ICIG Atkinson -as the lawyer for the
process- would be under a lot of scrutiny for his involvement.
Yes, that gives current ICIG
Michael Atkinson a strong and corrupt
motive to participate with the Pelosi-Schiff/Lawfare impeachment
objective. Sketchy!
These traitors must not go unpunished, and if there is any
truth to the report that Inspector General Horowitz has essentially given cover
to several of the coup plotters, including James Comey, this portends of more
dark days ahead and more evil machinations yet to come.
Over half of America has been awaiting the moment
authorities, acting in accordance with the actual rule of law, put an end to
this convoluted, terrible campaign of seditious fog that is driving our country
close to the brink of a second civil war. The half of our countrymen who have
digested and analyzed the evidence of this treason and sedition, underwritten by
Hillary Clinton and her allies, on the back-channels of the information highway
understand that millions of other credulous Americans who accepted the CIA
narrative are in for a massive surprise once they discover how deeply all
America has been betrayed.
I know without any doubt that much of the Republic's future
rests on the final determination of the Inspector General's Report and any
successful action towards rounding up and prosecuting all the anti-American
TRAITORS involved in this entire sorry mess. When and if America witnesses this
egregious part of Her history made right by the prosecution and imprisonment of
these traitors, only then will myself and millions of other fine Americans look
more hopefully on what the future may hold for America. If these traitors
escape true justice, whether one wishes to acknowledge the fact, the republic
is essentially done and over, and anything goes moving forward, since that
will, in fact, be the attitude taken from any such point on by both parties.
In an age of traitors justifying their sedition and treason
as a normal path of resistance to a President, whose only crime is being hated
by the communist Democrats, it is not any exaggeration to state that many of
those involved in this ongoing assault against the President and the Republic
should have to answer charges up to and including treason. Attorney General
William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham must find the strength to force the
ignoble cast of characters to feast at the table of the consequences of their
own actions, and other loyal Americans in pertinent departments must anticipate
and stand ready to preempt any attempt by these desperate traitors and their
respective agencies to enlist the military brass in an outright overthrow of
the executive, since intimations of this are already circulating. In these
upside-down times, when the misguided, the ignorant and the Evil redefine
patriotism as removing the President before a constitutionally mandated
election, any such move will result in civil violence unseen since the
mid-Nineteenth century: The Deep State and the Democratic party have worn out
their welcome and their legitimacy.
By Justin O. Smith
++++++++++++++++++
Sources I considered using but did not but YOU might find
useful (unless you are a Dem Traitor to the Founders’ U.S. Republic):
Politicians and their Families are Playing in the Corrupt
Ukrainian Sandbox; By Kelleigh Nelson; DrRichSwier.com;
10/12/19
What Is CrowdStrike? Firm Hired By DNC Has Ties To Hillary
Clinton, A Ukrainian Billionaire, And Google; By Tyler Durden; ZeroHedge;
3/24/2017 - 19:00
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Edited by John R. Houk
Text enclosed by brackets and
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© Justin O. Smith
In relation to Justin's post, this Gateway Pundit post is a must read: "WOW! #FakeNews NY Times Openly Lies and Buries IG Report’s Revelation of Obama FBI Spy TARGETING and MEETING WITH Trump Campaign Official" - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/wow-fakenews-ny-times-openly-lies-and-buries-ig-reports-revelation-of-obama-fbi-spy-targeting-and-meeting-with-trump-campaign-official/
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