POLITICAL PRIVILEGE

Hillary Clinton has been hiding in plain sight as a corrupt law breaking politician that has confounded the public's sense of legal fairness for years. Cynicism over the myth that " no one is above the law" begins with the utterance of the name Hillary Clinton. 


The public is rightfully appalled at her many illegal dealings that never end in justice being served, but rather justice has been averted, skirted and flaunted.  

The perception of Washington's political class along with its minions of bureaucrats, is not a healthy and respectful view of government, in fact trust in government is at an all time low.

The average American feels that our government officials operate more as an organized criminal cabal undermining our nation's foundation and the rule of law, that appears only to be aimed at the average citizen. Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of evidence that a such double standard exists, and it infuriates Americans to watch our nation's identity mocked by selfish politicos.

Thousands of morally honest Americans have been snared in the government regulatory nets and charged with violations, causing them to lose their life savings in fines and penalties while politicians engaged in the same activities, skate free. The late Leona Helmsley once suggested "only the little people pay taxes" and we could add, or get fined for not following regulations, and sadly it seems she was correct.

Thousands of Americans, perhaps less ethical, have been caught by our government ranging from evading taxes to insider trading end up serving jail time, while insiders like the Clinton's are allowed to use a charity foundation to pocket millions and pay for their jet setting. Where is the IRS audit of the Clinton Foundation? Where is the criminal probe? Where is Lady Justice's blindfold?

How does a Secretary of State utilize a private server without anyone in governments knowledge? How is it possible that no one realized that Hillary's e-mails were without an official government address? How is it legal for a government official to solicit donations of money from foreign companies and officials for a so-called charity (Clinton Foundation) while conducting the country's high level foreign policy? Why at the moment of discovery of this illegal and dangerous personal withholding of public records, if one assumes no one knew prior, didn't government officials swoop in and subpoena Hillary and her server? 

The truth appears to the American people to be that our government officials allowed Hillary to have a private server. The Obama administration allowed Clinton to use an unsecured private e-mail account for official business as Secretary of State. 

The Obama administration seemed to be unconcerned that one morally unscrupulous woman was allowed to compromise the nation's security by using an unsecured e-mail account where classified information was handled with criminal disregard for the safety and security of our country.

The Obama administration allowed Clinton after she left office, (now aware of her illegal control of public records) to have 20 months of unfettered access to this unsecured sever. The Obama administration had no reaction when she and her lawyers waded through the thousands of e-mails and made the ghastly arrogant statement that she turned over all the public material, that she and she alone deemed to belong to the public.

The Obama administration did not blink when thousands of e-mails were deleted under the Clinton claim that those unrevealed e-mails were private correspondence between her daughter Chelsea about her wedding or yoga appointments. 

Meanwhile the State Department had dragged its feet, ignoring Freedom of Information requests by multiple parities during Clinton's reign as Secretary of State, and not one government official raised a flag of protest or inquiry to protect the American public's property. 

Hillary yes is the sinister player but considering all the duplicity that had to accompany this theft and deception that was done brazenly in front of many bureaucrats, leads most Americans to conclude that our government is no longer operated by honorable unpartisan officials sworn to our Constitution.   

The Obama administration allowed Hillary and her lawyers to destroy, tamper, delete, delay, stall and design an alibi to avoid accountability. Does this sound like swift justice? Does this sound like something a prosecutor would allow any other citizen to get away with doing? Does this sound like equal justice under the law or special exemption?

Why did the House committee on Benghazi allow her to avoid the penalty of perjury? Why wasn't she made to swear under oath, as all others were required? To quote Hillary's testimony "What difference does it make?" the answer is always in the legal details and technicalities.
Her testimony before the committee was chock full of lies and half truths, such as her denial of any knowledge of our government arming Syrian fighters with the help of Turkey, but she was not put under oath, and so perjury cannot be claimed, and so once again Hillary Clinton lives above the law. 

Americans are angry, disgusted and deeply distrustful at what appears to be our Justice Department's prosecutorial "distinction" rather than discretion, in which only the average Jane and Joe American is nailed to the wall, while the powerful hold a lifetime privilege pass. 

President Obama claims to have no knowledge of Hillary's e-mail scandal as he has claimed ignorance of the multiple scandals in his administration (IRS, Benghazi, Rosengate, Fast and Furious) and he has used the Justice Department as though it was his private Stasi force, to go after political opponents only. 

Instead of the Democrats and Republicans standing up for our Constitution they cynically have use the scandals for political election talking points while Americans watch with anguished revulsion at the degrading leprosy of political cronyism destroying our American Republic.

Equally some Americans are wondering aloud, whether China, Russia and or a host of other bad actor hackers have our State Department e-mails and classified documents captured via Hillary's criminally negligent and treasonous actions with public records. 

If she were president, our nation would be run and controlled by foreign interests via blackmail to an empty soul, wearing a pantsuit while occupying the oval office. Still wondering why Trump gains in the polls?

If Hillary Clinton is allowed to both avoid prosecution and continue to run for President of the United States of America, then no prosecutor anywhere in America can utter the words "no one is above the law" and be believed by any righteous citizen. Too many of us currently believe that the "law is only applied to the little people" and this perception is growing while trust in government is declining.  

Elite privilege should not exist in America under any name, regardless of wealth, power or connection to power, for basic human equity under the law is our firewall against tryanny.

DEBATING THE DEBATE

Americans were once naive about media and assumed it was a medium that tried to be as neutral and objective as possible when both reporting news, staging political roundtable discussions and or airing debates, but that innocence is long over.

The first question asked by Bret Baier was right out of the Carl Rove playbook of political hoaxing when he asked who would raise their hand if they would not pledge to run as independent, if they lost the primary. The audience was not fooled and conservatives throughout the country knew it was a trap question directed at Trump, designed to both shame him, if he raised his hand and tie his hands in the future, if he did not. 

It was so obvious a contrived question for Trump and Trump alone that the conservative onlookers readied for the wrestling match event "Dump Trump" rather than an issue orientated fair debate. They were not wrong, everything cried out the wrestling metaphor of a  body being muscled to the mat, except it was the referees (Kelly, Baier and Wallace) doing the pinning.  

 There was nothing subtle about that opening punch to the frontrunner and it raised the ire and suspicions of conservatives soured and tired of being hustled by Washington's political power brokers.   

Last night's 2016 primary debate was tainted with staging manipulation even before it started when Fox news announced months earlier that it would not include all the candidates in one forum. It claimed that with so many GOP candidates in the race, a single inclusive forum was undoable. However, Fox failed the fairness factor in the main debate when they promised equal time to candidates but instead distributed the minutes in favor of Trump and Bush.

The debates were directed more like a reality show than a forum to showcase the views and opinions of candidates vying for the highest office in the land. In fact there were three areas in which the engineering of the debates seemed to reveal a collusion of undue GOP establishment influence and Fox News lust for ratings, the time allotted candidates, the bash first, then ask questions and the post debate commentary.

As already alluded to, Trump and Bush received the most talking time but not because they sucked the oxygen from the stage and bullied for it, but rather because they were asked more questions by the panel. Why? Well simply the GOP wants to embarrass Trump and his supporters and of course promote their guy (puppet) Jeb Bush. Yes, it is just that simple. 

As for the nature of the questions, Trump was attacked in almost every question posed to him. Attacked by Megan Kelly's (are you still a misogynist) question that listed choice words Trump used when angered by female critics, and Chris Wallace's question about Trump's bankruptcies. I guess the audience was suppose to believe that Trump is a 10 billion dollar failure that is disrespectful of women. 

Sorry GOP, and sorry Fox News it may have given Hillary Clinton fodder against Trump but just as the candidates onstage have found out on many occasions, that when they bash Trump, the effect is that their polling slips down not up. Americans are tired of being steered and roped by media.

Even beyond the Trump bashing and the Bush softball questioning that made the audience wish Bret, Megan and Chris would just be honest by holding up poster placards with the face of Carl Rove in front of their faces, the questions were, in a word, lame.

The country faces multiple serious issues such as the debt crises but instead of asking a straight forward question (such as what specific plan do you have to reduce the deficit and pay down the debt?) we heard a litany of snipe hunting prior to an inquiry. The records of the Governors running for president were all slammed in one way or another, Walker, Christie, Kasich and even Huckabee's Arkansas past before they were asked about the debt.

I would say all the governors on stage were criticized but that would include Jeb Bush of Florida, but no, Jeb was spared the stabs and jabs before the question. Why? Again because he is the establishment GOP candidate or their next in line, puppet for D.C. politics as usual.

After the debates the moderators slap themselves on the back, bashed Trump a bit more by suggesting that Megan Kelly was attacked by Trump (hardly think saying he might not be nice, is an attack) and then insulted conservatives by inviting Debbie Wasserman Schultz to comment on the (cough) rampant misogyny among the candidates.

Moreover. their use of a Frank Luntz focus group, that nobody believed was not coached, regardless of protestations to the contrary, that also ended up being, (what do you know) anti-Trump.

Lastly. their unscrupulous opinions intended to sway voters as to who were the winners and losers, with of course the theme remaining constant, that all agreed, (like a chorus) that Trump lost.

Like Trump or not, even detractors would agree it was a GOP, and Fox News political gang tackle of the Donald last night, and we are still waiting to see who will be holding the ice to their face in the days ahead. What is clear to Americans however, is that the media and Washington politicians are as cozy under the sheets of mutual pleasure hugging and kissing their mistress lover, corporate money and sponsorship, as unblushingly sycophantic as ever.  

So to sum up the grade for the hosts (Fox) of the first debate, I will give it the following:

A= for its effort to diminish Trump's popularity and trying to raise Jeb's curb appeal.

F= for completing the task.

F= for disguising the deceitful task.

F= for being "Fair and Balanced".