Monday, September 28, 2020

September, 2020, Part 11, Political Class Insanity: Minneapolis Goes Lawless, The State Department Ignores thew Fourth Amendment and The Clinton Email Scandal Continues

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

1) We have not talked about Hillary Clinton for a while, probably because she brings no value to the table when it comes resolving the nation’s issues. And the reality is that if she was not Hillary Clinton she would probably be in jail for the criminal transgressions she and her foundation have incurred over the years and the laws she broke while Secretary of State.

But recent news reports show that her transgressions may have been worse than even we imagined along with the FBI coverup to keep her out of jail:
  • Recall that a few years ago it was discovered that hundreds of thousands of secret Hillary’s State Department emails were found on the unsecured computer of Anthony Weiner, the husband of Clinton’s chief of staff.
  • Former FBI agent, John Robertson, was busy back then investigating crimes against children.
  • That is when he came across Anthony Weiner’s computer regarding Weiner’s trolling for underaged girls on the Internet.
  • Like a good FBI agent, he reported these State Department unsecured emails to his superiors, FBI superiors who just happened to be the same FBI people who went headhunting and conspiring to remove Trump from office.
  • Robertson was worried that no one above him in rank was moving on this bombshell information, secret State Department emails on an unsecured computer: “The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come down. Why isn’t anybody here? Like if I’m the supervisor of any [counterintelligence] squad … and I hear about this, I’m getting on with headquarters and saying, ‘Hey, some agent working child porn here may have [Hillary Clinton] emails. Get your ass on the phone, call [the case agent], and get a copy of that drive,’ because that’s how it should be. And that nobody reached out to me within, like, that night, I still to this day don’t understand what the hell went wrong. I have very deep misgivings about the institutional response of the FBI to the congressional investigation into the Hillary Clinton email matter … Put simply: I don’t believe the handling of the material I have by the FBI is ethically or morally right. But my lawyer’s advice — that I simply put my SSA on notice should cover me — is that I have completed CYA [Cover Your Ass], and I have done so,” Robertson wrote in a letter back in 2016. “Further, I was told by [Kramer] that should I ‘whistleblow,’ I will be prosecuted.”
  • Further: “I possess — the FBI possesses — 20 times more emails than Comey testified to. … While Comey did not know at the time about what I have, people in the FBI do now, and as far as I know, we are being silent. … If I say or do nothing more, I am falling short ethically and morally. And later, I may be accused of being a Hillary Clinton hack because of the timing of all this. … But if I say something (i.e., whistleblow), I will lose my reputation, my career, and risk prosecution. I will also be accused of being a Donald Trump hack.”
  • Robertson went on to testify to Congress that he was told to erase everything he had found and be quiet about the whole experience.
So Hillary allowed secret documents to end up on the unsecured computer of a child predator. An FBI agent investigating the predator finds these hundreds of thousands of emails and tells his FBI superiors about this massive security breach. His superiors go before Congress and lie about the volume of material that was found unsecured on Weiner’s laptop. They then tell a hard working FBI agent to make the whole criminal incident go away or his career would be in trouble.

And Obama supporters claim there were no scandals during his administration, a stance that has been destroyed many times. But here we see the top law enforcement officers in the Federal government suppressing law breaking and criminal activity for the sake of politics. Disgusting.

2) Shady doings at the State Department are not restricted to the Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama era, some illegal stuff was going on in 2019 during the Trump administration:
  • Freedom Of Information Act requests by Judicial Watch have shown that the State Department in 2019 illegally spied on conservative Americans.
  • Turns out the State Department illegally tracked the social media accounts of at least 13 Americans including Donald Trump, Jr., Fox News star Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, and others.
  • The illegal surveillance operation was conducted out of the U.S. embassy in Kiev when it was being run by Trump hater, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
What the reason or purpose of the monitoring in a remote embassy was being used for or what triggered it is unknown. But all of those monitored would be considered conservatives/Republicans and even included Judicial Watch president, Tom Fitton. Another case of innocent Americans being illegally targeted and tracked without proper judicial oversight, a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.

Looks like it is a Federal entity out of control, between lax monitoring of its documents' circulation to the illegal spying on Americans, do any of these people know anything about law and order and the Constitution?

3) Minneapolis was the center of the riots and anarchy that ensured after the police murder of George Floyd. Rioters and anarchists burned down parts of the city, destroying the homes and businesses of so many city residents.

As a result of this police murder, the local politicians on the town council hastily decided that they needed to “defund the police” and go about community safety a whole new way. The problem is they still do not know what that whole new way is.

However, that did not stop them from reducing the police budget and bad mouthing every city police officer because of the horrid behavior of a few bad cops. As we have discussed before, this budget cutting and undermining the integrity and effectiveness of the city police force has resulted in an explosion of violence, murders and crime in the city. So much so that:
  • City residents have started to compare their neighborhoods and downtown areas to a “war zone.”
  • The center of the George Floyd riots was in the police department’s 3rd precinct.
  • The building in that precinct was burned down during the riots and thus there is no longer a physical police presence in the neighborhood which has resulted in increased assaults and robberies.
  • Local business, Pedego Electric Bikes, got so frustrated that the owner formally communicated his concerns for his business and the safety of his employees, who were afraid of being robbed or attacked, to the city Police Chief.
  • The bike shop owner, Craig Paulson got the following response from the police chief: “As far as a long-term plan I don’t have one. I have lost 30% of my street officers since the end of May. Budget cuts from COVID-19 and an additional 1.5 million from the council in August we have let go of 17 CSO’s and canceled a recruiting class of 29. A potential Cadet class slated for January of 2021 was also eliminated. It takes about a year to get a police Officer onto the streets with hiring, backgrounds, and field training so reinforcements aren’t coming anytime soon. We are doing everything we can with what we have. I hate to see great businesses like yours and the rest of your corridor being victimized and feeling unsafe. Please let me know if you have any more questions.” 
  • Wow, in other words Mr. Paulson, you and the rest of the businesses and residents of the city are on your own since 1) my budget has been cut, 2) my current police force staffing has been slashed, and 3) there are no police reinforcements on the way any time soon.
A very, very basic function of government at any level is to protect the lives and property of the citizens that the government and the politicians operating that government represent. In Minneapolis, a hasty and stupid rush to judgement when it comes to police operations has endangered the lives and property of every city in Minneapolis. It was a stupid concept to defund the police department and even more stupid concept to do it without having a comprehensive and effective replacement plan.

As a result, the local political class in Minneapolis has violated a very basic tenet and responsibility of government, protecting lives and property. Given this failure, it is a pretty easy prediction that residents and businesses will be moving out of the city in ever increasing numbers for places that actually protect their lives and property.

So, a massive government failure in Minneapolis, a government violation of the Fourth Amendment out of a U.S. embassy far, far away, and the Hillary Clinton law breaking, and the high ranking government/FBI officials that protected her, continues to this day.

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