One local Facebook contributor I follow is Michael Han, a practicing lawyer. He discusses random events and topics, sharing his thoughts, often with originality, and almost always imparting moral, ethical and righteous motivational vibes. I don't necessarily agree with everything he says but I can wager it all comes from a good heart. Michael is the kind of Singaporean that I have always clamoured for. The brilliant, wiser, privileged Singaporeans with whatever expertise, should come to the digital Grecian Agora of social media to share their views and help generate healthy meaningful discussions on issues of interest. The Agora was the space for free speech that underlined Greek democracy from which rich knowledge and wisdom spreaded.
Recently Michael wrote a bit on US presidential pardon and Trump. Unfortunately I disagree with much of his views. What stupifies me to no end is the vast number of very educated folks who are sticky to mainstream media biased narratives particularly on some controversial headings such as Trump, election fraud, Ukraine, Israel, pandemic, etc. This is not a hit piece on Michael, but in the spirit of the Agora, I like to share what I know. To be clear, I have no problems with a writer's opinions which are well-argued, which Michael often does. My focus is on the facts upon which the opinions were drawn from.
Michael:
"You know in the Bible, there is what is unpardonable sin. Christians will know what it is.
However, in America, with MAGA fever raging on like wild fire, nothing is unpardonable. And this is unprecedented.
Trump, the President-elect, vows to pardon Jan 6 (“J6”) defendants on his inauguration. “I’m going to be acting very quickly, first day,” Trump said at an interview with NBC news.
He said there would be “some exceptions” to the rule, whom he described as “radical” or “crazy” during the Capitol attack, but the rest of them will be released from punishment."
Michael negatively associates MAGA with "fever", "raging", "wild fire" and "unprecedented". But really, if you had observed Trump's rallies, real political analysts will say it's the enthusiasm and energy of Trump's base. There has been no single incident of MAGA violence. The Democrat-allied partisan DOJ, FBI and media had prepped the public for years to expect outbreak of violence, mass shootings from white MAGA. This mind conditioning had been at a level that caused mass psychosis on the Left. In reality, violence, and threats have been from the Left, Black Lives Matter and Antifa. The Biden regime has done nothing with criminality of these groups. With each mass shooting incident, the Liberals had hoped to see a MAGA shooter. But it has turned out to be transgenders who had their minds messed up by psychotic drugs.If you want to know who are less radical and/or crazy, there are at least 1,572 defendants charged over the J6 assault on the Capitol, which has led to more than 140 police officers injured and several deaths.
Michael is being partisan by failing to mention malice on the part of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As Speaker, Pelosi is in charge of the affairs of Washington DC. She intentionally rejected Trump's offer of 10,000 National Guards to beef up security. When it was known 1 million MAGA will attend the protest rally, Pelosi by design, threw the small Capitol force to the crowd. The Dems want the optics of a wild crowd destroying everything in its path, including police officers, so Pelosi et al can have their insurrection. Pelosi had scan concern for the safety of police officers.
Five police officers died. One on J6 others subsequently by suicide, whether directly from the mental trauma of the event is a matter of opinion.
No MAGA assaulted police officers directly. In the mad jostling and pushing escalated by police use of tear gas, concussion grenades and rubber bullets fired into a peaceful crowd, people get hurt, including police officers. On the other hand, there is video evidence of police brutality.
Liz Cheney panel called up 4 officers in the hearing who cried giving evidence and became media stars and J6 heroes. These were Sgt Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn, and Daniel Hodges. The Commission had 14,000 hours of video but released only selective snippets. Eventually after Congress chair Mike Johnson released the full videos, which understandably freaked out the Commission members, the public saw untold tales. There was demand for a new inquiry and the four J6 heroes be grilled because their false testimonies destroyed lives and sent MAGA to 20 years jail.
There were five deaths that day, one police officer and four MAGA. The truth of the circumstances were never told. The details change minds on who were the good guys and who were the bad.
Officer Brian Sicknick - Media spun the story the way the government wanted it out. It was first reported Sicknick was bludgeoned on the head by MAGA with a fire extinguisher. His head was smashed. They wanted the ugliest killing to hang on Trump and the news flashed for 24 hours. Then he died of heart attack. Later was sprayed with a chemical which caused a heart attacked and he died 7 hrs 40 minutes later. That last bit was released by Chief of DC Medical Examiner Roger Mitchell. According to media, Sicknick died before his actual death at 10 pm on Jan 7.
Evidence shows a different story. At about 3pm MAGA Rod Taylor noticed Sicknick looked like having a stroke and helped him to a police area asking them to help him. At 7.30 pm MAGA Chris Alberts, a trained medic worker, realised Sicknick's dire conditions and begged police to get help. Police refused to let Alberts to attend to Sicknick. They basically told Alberts to mind his own business. Sicknick collapsed at about 10 pm and died 24 hours later. Dr Les Schwamm, a stroke expert at Harvard, said a chemical spray could not have caused a stroke. A private investigation showed Mitchell's work as ME has some concerns. Mitchell is the ME who examined the body of George Floyd and determined death was due to the chokehold by Officer Chauvin who is now serving long jail term for second degree murder. Latest autopsy report says Floyd died due fentanyl overdose.
What this means? It's just an opinion here. They had to attribute to chemical spray as cause of death to pin Sicknick's death on MAGA.
Ashli Babbitt - MAGA Taylor Hansen videoed everything. He was with Babbitt when they moved to the Speaker's door. Everything was peaceful. You could hear their casual conversation with a Capitol security employee and Hansen offering Officer Yetter water. There were 3 cops stationed outside the door. One MAGA Zachary Alam was trying to break a side window to the door. Babbitt sounded impatient at police for not restraining Alam. She said to officer Yetter protesters have a right to be there, better go get more cops. Yetter moved out of Alam's way and the MAGA smashed the window. That gave an opening for Lieutenant Michael Byrd to shoot from the inside. Yetter must have seen Byrd raise his gun. He ducked and at the same time pushed his colleagues back as they were in the line of fire. Babbitt grabbed Alam's backpack to restrain him. That's when Bird fired.
The video shows what transpired - Babbitt was trying to de-escalate the situation, Byrd fired like a clumsy sloppy cop straight into a group of people which included colleagues. Standing behind the secure door, Byrd was not in any imminent danger personally to justify use of firearms. Byrd's sloppiness is well known in the story of how he once left his service handgun in a public toilet. Babbitt was not an insurrectionist but a peaceful protester killed by a trigger-happy cop. In our local NS parlance, Byrd was gabra (prone to irrational panic-stricken reactions).
Rosanne Boyland - she was down on the ground due to the gas. Phillip Andelson got to her to try to help but was himself tramppled almost to death and fortunately was dragged to safety by others. Police refused to assist. Washing DC Chief Examiner Dr Francisco Diaz said death was due to acute amphetamine intoxication. Yes, she was under Aderall medication so traces of drug may be in her body which the ME could see. Actual cause of death? Video shows Officer Lila Morris repeatedly hitting her savagely with something like a walking stick while Boyland was lying unconscious on the ground. It's strange Dr Diaz can see traces of drugs but not the contusions from the blows by Officer Morris.
Benjamin Phillips - The protest had been peaceful. Protestors were telling police not to shoot them and chanting "USA, USA". Then suddenly a concussion grenade (flashbang) was thrown into the crowd. Another 3 then followed straight into the middle of the crowd. The first hit Phillips and he was burnt. He died that day. Police then charged into the crowd to push them back.
Curiously, all five were cremated.
Demonstration was basically peaceful up to that point. Inspector General Michael A. Bolton said the Civil Disturbance Unit were told concussion grenades were not to be used that day. Even if they were to be used, standard safety procedures were not followed.
There must be a warning announcement that basically say OK it is no longer a protest, it is now a riot. The crowd then must be asked to disperse peacefully. None of this happened. Concussion grenades, Tear Gas and rubber bullets are only used in situations when crowd is out of control. When used, it has to be done in certain ways, not indiscriminately lobbing into the middle of the crowd. All normal safety protocols were not followed. Instead of correctly using it to disperse crowds, police escalated a peaceful protest into a riot as protestors fight to get out of the way.
(In my national service I trained in the SPF Riot Squad once. In SAF we had riot control drills. I know the basics in crowd control and safety procedures).
Kevin Gleeson - He died under more or less same circumstances as Phillips - hit by a concussion grenade.
Concussion grenades produce an instant bright flash and a deafening sound. They are meant to shock and momentarily stun. However, it can be fatal for a person placed near to where a concussion grenade explodes.
One of Liz Cheyney's 4 hero cops of the day Sgt Aquilino Gonell gave evidence in the trial of J6er Kyle Fitzsimons. Unlike the House Commission where witnesses were given softball questions, in the courtroom the defence counsel showed no mercy. Gonell was shown to have committed perjury in the Commission. Amongst his various actions, his claim of concern for demonstrators by baton hitting them only on the limbs was a lie. Fritzsimons suffered a broken skull.
Were provocateurs amongst the crowd? Throughout the event, video shows suspicious characters egging the crowd to violence and MAGA shouting "Fed, Fed" when they spotted a provocateur, warning others not to enter the Capitol. Inspector General Horrowitz has recently released his J6 report. He disclosed 26 FBI agents were in the crowd. This has placed several FBI executives on the chopping board for lying under oath in various congressional enquiries when they denied they had agents working in the crowd.
FBI agents hatched, funded, and led the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (so they can have their white supremacist terrorists narrative). Hmmm wonder what they were doing amongst the MAGA crowd.
Two prominent provocateurs are persons of great interest for the umbrella provided to them by FBI..
John Sullivan - He claimed to be press taking documentaries. He was seen actively instigating the crowd forward. He was inside the Capitol. CNN paid him for US$90,000 for his film. J6ers identified were immediately arrested and thrown into the gulag for years without trial. Unlike J6ers who kept low profile to avoid arrest, Sullivan went the media interview rounds getting paid and his 6 minutes of fame. FBI resisted arrest of Sullivan for years. Despite Sullivan had on a MAGA cap, FBI didn't think he was MAGA, and left him alone. The evidence is impossible to deny and FBI had no choice but to charge him eventually. Unlike MAGA who rotted in jail pending trial, Sullivan remained free until his April 2024 hearing when he was sentenced to 6 years jail, compared to MAGA that received 20+ years for far lesser roles.
The court described Sullivan as a "chaos agent", not insurrectionist like MAGA. There is no mention Sullivan is a Black Lives Matter leader of the Utah BLM chapter and that he trains others how to organise violent protests. He has participated in BLM and Antifa riots. The fact is, under the dual judicial system of Biden regime, BLM and Antifa gets the soft touch, MAGA gets the whole book thrown at them and more.
Ray Ebbs - If anyone were to make a movie of the J6, Ebbs would be the central character. He was in fact on the grounds on J5 instigating people to enter the Capitol. On J6 itself, Ebbs popped up everywhere in countless videos, playing an active roll instigating the crowd to move forward, take down barriers. He was in fact a director and a cheorographer at the scene.
Just like Sullivan, FBI did not see Ebbs as MAGA despite him with the hat on in every second of videos available. Just like Sullivan, the evidence against Ebbs is impossible to deny and finally FBI had no choice but to charge him. Again, just like Sullivan, Ebbs served no time in jail pending his trial. Every MAGA except Ebbs that touched the banner that was hurled at police are rotting in jail. In Jan 2024 Ebbs was given 1 year probation which re-ignited the conspiracy theory he is an FBI agent.
The bomber - Finally, another mystery one needs to look at before coming to a good cop/bad cop decision. A mysterious character placed 2 bombs, one each near Republican and Democrat convention office. There are many questions FBI needs to come clean -- who was the man who alighted from a police car carrying a bag and headed towards the area near DNC office where the bomb was found 12 minutes later; why after the bomb was discovered VP Harris was allowed entry to the DNC barely 10 yards away; why after the bomb was discovered at DNC the place was not cordoned off - some police officers were chatting idly at their car parked there and kids were walking the street; why did the Secret Service wipe out all mobile data on J6 (systems update claimed, same reason given in the Trump assassination attempt at Butler); why is it impossible to ID the man in hood carrying a bag caught on camera in the bomb vicinity; why geoposition technology is able to track grandmas who entered the Capitol but cannot pick out the bomber; why did FBI Washington DC Field Office director Steve D'Antuoro tell House Judicial Committee the bombs were inoperable when FBI lab report said they were in fact operable; why did D'Artuoro also said some of the cellular data they received were corrupted so FBI could not track everyone, but Cellular Carriers said all data they provided were not corrupted.
Nothing is black and white. It is hoped incoming FBI director Kash Patel will preside over a more thorough, unbiased and transparent investigation.
Michael:
Of that total (1,572), more than 1,251 have been convicted or pleaded guilty. 645 have been sentenced to prison, “with punishment ranging from a few days to 22 years.” And Trump has vowed on his first day to pardon most of them, that is, those charged, had pleaded guilty and/or is now serving time. Whether he will carry them out is another thing altogether.
Majority of those who entered the Capitol were waved in by security. A couple of windows were broken. None of the special tampered glass doors were broken. They were auto-locked and controlled from inside. So who ordered the doors be opened?
Those who committed no other crimes inside the Capitol were guilty of trespass, a misdemeanor but ended up with the serious charge of insurrection.
Many ended up with the serious 18 USC2383 Rebellion and Resurrection, it is a curious case of participation in such an enterprise without organization, arms or even a pitchfork. Others like Proud Boys faced 18 USC 2384 Seditious Conspiracy. Proud Boys were actually there to provide security. It was a good thing they decided not to carry arms that day. These 2 serious charges are about acts to overthrow the government. When you look at 80 year old grandmas and grandpas and the Qanon Shaman wandering in the building, and everyone taking selfies with Capitol cops, it was more a tourist scene than an insurrection.
The heavy jail terms belie the atrocities of the criminal acts. One would think they must have been extremely violent (Michael says "radical") to receive those harsh sentences. Many received in excess of 10 years simply by strolling inside the Capitol. The fact is DOJ used the most serious charge they can find to inflict the most painful consequences on MAGA. That is 18 USC1512(c)(2) Obstruction of an official proceeding. That proceeding of course was the certification of the 2020 election. The spectacle of mass incarceration with heavy jail time is Stalinsque and meant for only one purpose - to break the back of the MAGA movement.
In June 2024 SCOTUS ruled in the case of J6er Joseph Fischer v United States. The Supreme Court basically narrowed the interpretation of this section of the Sarbans Oxley Act. The ruling is 1512(c)(2) prohibits only acts that impair the integrity or availability of evidence in an official congressional proceeding. This means that many J6ers rotting in jail have been wrongfully convicted under this charge which carries a hefty jail penalty.
What's more important is SCOTUS ruling is terrible bad news for Liz Cheney and the J6 Congressional Committee which I explain later. The court rules :
* This law cannot be used for prosecuting obstructive conduct unrelated to destroying evidence intended in an official inquiry.
* It is still possible to violate 1512(c)(2) by creating false evidence, impairing witness testimony, or tampering with intangible information.
Michael:
Tbh, looking at the globe today, a world heading towards some existential climate judgment, I can’t tell who are radical and/or crazy and who are not anymore.
It's very easy Michael. Every demonstration which have been violent have been on the Left. There were no MAGA in the George Floyd riots, no MAGA in the anti-semite rallies, no MAGA in "from the River to the Sea" demonstrations, no MAGA in various riots of BLM and Antifa, such as in Portland, or Kenosha, or Trump's inauguration 2017.
Michael:
The most powerful nation whose founding fathers had created a supposedly resilient constitution that is founded on life, liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness is now struggling to balance all that with the pursuit of power, self-preservation and the protection of the ultra-rich. And it seems like the balance is skewed towards the latter with ominous developments unfolding.
An observation that is true in most countries, including Singapore. I am not sure if the "ominous developments unfolding" is an opinion on the general or specific to the ascend of Trump. If for the latter, I am bewildered. How is it not possible to see the GOP is now the party of the People. Major part of the old neocon warmonger party dynasties have been forced out by Trump - the Bush, McCain, Cheneys, Romney. There are still some neocons lurking, like Lindsey Graham. The GOP promises the freedom, safety and economic wellbeing of US citizens first. It seeks world peace. It promises accountability and justice. How can these things to look forward to be ominous?
Michael:
With the offer for presidential pardons being tossed around like free petals, starting with Biden pardoning his son, which he had vowed not to do, it’s free for all for the excitable Trump to do as thou pleases. Alas, a popular President cannot help but be a diehard populist.
Why do Trump-haters believe in lies about the man and prejudges on every assumption. Trump has said J6ers who broke laws will have to bear the consequences. But those with minor offences will be pardoned. Taking into consideration SCOTUS' decision on non-applicability of 18 USC1512(c)(2), J6ers should have at least 10 years knocked off their sentence.
Michael implies Trump will free everyone. Pardons apply only to Federal Offences. The Constitution provides the president with powers to pardon for specific reasons - to balance the authority of the Judiciary, promote national unity, correct judicial errors, mercy and compassion
In his first term Trump pardoned 143. Obama over 2 terms pardoned 212 and commuted 1,700 sentences. With J6ers, Trump second term pardons are likely to be between 500-1,000. Compare to Roosevelt -3,689; Wilson - 3,480; Coolidge - 1,545; Truman - 1,914; Eisenhower -1,110. Trump won't be so excitable after all.
The term populist is bandied as some vile disease. Trump is a president of the people. What is wrong with that. Does Republican Abraham Lincoln's ".. government of the people, by the people and for the people.." make him a populist? Republican Ronald Reagan was a populist, but he made American great again after the disastrous Democrat Jimmy Carter. The issue is not being a populist, it is does a populist renege on his promises to the people. Will Republican Trump make America great again after the disastrous 4 years of Democrat Biden?
Years of globalist elitist overlord has brought Western countries cultural chaos and economic disarray and tempting a nuclear world war. Populist leaders are clawing back. Marine Le Pen, Victor Orban , Georgia Meloni, Geart Wilders, Jarislaw Kaczynski, Matteo Salvini, Robert Fico, now Ttump, and soon Brexit King Nigel Farage, will lead the world back to sanity. All these are populist leaders.
Michael:
And it doesn’t stop there. Trump also threatened to imprison the former Republican Liz Cheney and other members of the congressional committee who have been investigating the J6 Capitol attack.
Trump promises accountability - prosecution, not persecution. In his first term, Trump neither persecuted nor prosecuted Hillary Clinton for election interference with the "Russian" hoax. He said it does not look good for a president to prosecute a political opponent. On the other hand, Trump faced insurmountable persecution under the Biden regime.
In Trump term 2, expect a different president. All politicians and the Swamp creatures who broke laws will have the new DOJ and FBI coming after them. It is not retribution or revenge, but for far too long, Democrats have gotten away breaking laws. It's about to change.
Liz Cheney and J6 Commission panel have much to fear. SCOTUS clearly set out in June 2024 in the Joseph Fisher v United States ruling that creating false evidence, impairing witness testimony, or tampering with intangible information is violation of 18 USC 1512(c)(2), a very serious felony. Panel members went extensively into editing textual and video evidences, presenting only one-sided views, denying witnesses who can offer different accounts to be called, and coaching witnesses. And the most unforgivable - all transcripts and evidence gathered have been destroyed. If they are so sure they have done a great job and revealed the truth of J6, why are these not archived the way it is supposed to be legally, so that it may aid follow-up prosecution? Only evil needs to hide. Truth lives in bright sunshine.
To list other criminal acts apart from destroying all evidence gathered would require several pages. For illustration I will just mention the one nail into Liz Cheney' coffin.
This relates to their so-called star witness, White House employee Cassidy Hutchinson. She was represented by attorney Stefan Passantino at the time when Liz Cheney communicated with her both directly and through Hutchinson's friend Alyssa Griffin. This was unethical and a complaint has been lodged against Cheney with the Bar Council in October.
Hutchinson's evidence included 9 lies under oath. I will just mention the sensational lie. She said Trump was in "the Beast" (presidential limousine) when he insisted on going back to Capitol Hill after hearing there was violence. The Secret Service refused. He was angry and shouted "I'm the f..king President!" and tried to grab the steering wheel. When restrained he, grabbed the neck of Agent Bobby Engel. This was a lie because Trump was not in the Beast on J6 and Agent Engel wanted to testify against the lie but the Commission did not call him. Don't need a law degree to think the first person Liz Cheney would call to verify would be the driver Hill Billy Hecker. Hill's attorney Julie Kelly said Cheney never called.
Cheney coached Hutchinson what to say, thus committed suborned perjury.
Justice, not retribution, is coming for hundreds of Liberals in the Swamp. Some of the crimes committed have been very serious. Chair of Joint Chief of Staff Gen Mark Milley committed treason when he told the CCP he will inform the Chinese of any pre-emptive US strikes. He also blocked Trump's orders for use of National Guards for J6. The 51 ex- and sitting heads of various intelligence agencies interfered with the 2020 election by signing off the advertorial that Hunter's laptop story is a Russian propaganda. AG Bill Barr said he had investigated complaints of 2020 vote fraud and found no evidence to substantiate it when in fact he did nothing. On the other hand, DOJ official Jeff Clark disclosed in a Congressional hearing Barr shut down 3 invrstigations when he was presented evidence. Who in FBI authorised the Whitmer kidnap plot? These are just tip of the iceberg.
Liz Cheney and the J6 Commission panel's inquiry was not searching for truth, but simply to damage Trump politically and find a way to bar him from public office forever.
Michael:
This is not surprising because Trump is the main suspect as their so-called ring leader and is facing multiple charges. If not for his electoral victory, he would have been tried for instigating the J6 attack. You can say that he had dodged more than one bullet, or in this case, a cannon ball?
Absolutely not. There was no evidence to tie Trump or anyone to any organized uprising. There was a rally, Trump and many others were speakers. After the speeches, some of the crowd moved to the nearby Capitol to protest the electoral vote certification. This is stone cold fact.
The Congressional Committee's investigation is for the purpose of assisting in legislation. It is not a prosecutorial investigation. It may refer to the DOJ for possible action and the AG may or may not act on it.
If the AG is as sure as Michael that Trump instigated a what, riot or insurrection?, trigger-happy AG Garland would have jumped on it ahead of the Commission to bask in the Liberal glory. The fact is, and which Liz Cheney and the Commission refused to show the public, evidence points to Trump (1) advising MAGA who wanted to protest at the Capitol after the rally to go do so peacefully, (2) when violence broke out Trump called on to supporters over Twitter to stand down and go home peacefully.
There is also the claims and counter claims the Commission was constituted illegally. If so, it follows the findings will have no bearings on any follow through legal proceedings. This fight of illegal constitution will have to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
The Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight investigating into the J6 Committee's investigation has just released its interim report. And it does not look good for Liz Cheney et al. It contains serious condemnations on the process and criminal behaviour. The panel members all need to lawyer up because the incoming no-nonsense AG Pam Bondi is nothing like the slippery lawless AG Garland..
Michael:
It is therefore human nature of self-preservation to go for the jugular on the first day, or the many days after his crowning. I suspect that that would be of the foremost priority in his term of office - to be declared innocent by fiat even before the ink on the jury’s verdict slip dries.
Nice rhetoric. Trump has lot's of priorities to save a drowning country. Personally, I think his top of the top item is deportation of illegal immigrants.
Michael:
All said, Trump is the luckiest man alive at 79 when he ascends to the power seat of mercy tossing and loyalty rewarding.
He is the luckiest man alive not because of the power to toss mercy and loyalty, but because he survived two assassination attempts. He humbly acknowledged his survival by the providence of God. There must be something very powerful to drive a very successful billionaire, advanced in age, to want to volunteer for public service where his life is under such constant threats no other US president before him, nay all other world leaders, ever faced, instead of enjoying his final years. Michael thinks it is for the prize of the seat of mercy tossing and loyalty rewarding. I think it is something that goes back some 40 years ago where he told Oprah Winfrey he had no interest in politics but may consider a presidential run when he feels the country is going off the rails. The way I see it, the US had gone off the rails under Obama, almost hitting the apex of insanity under Biden.
Michael:
Trump is therefore turning the tide on his prosecutors by first announcing his broad-brush pardon for the foot soldiers, that is, the less crazy ones of course.
That is the first step, to discredit and crush the investigation committee by labelling them as corrupt. This will naturally create a tsunamis of populist support, dividing the nation further, before they start to clamour for the perceived innocence of their presidential messiah.
When that day comes, and it will, Trump will be elevated even more, as the Great America become his very own judge, jury and executioner.
Great rhetoric again. But silent on the fact the Subcommittee interim report on the J6 Committee Investigation under current Biden regime is already out. And it's damning on Liz Cheney et al.
Michael:
Plato has warned us about this aeons ago, but we are just too caught up with the tyranny of the now to bother to look out for the warning signs. If we had been the frog in the pot, its boiling time.
Michael refers to the "tyranny of now"? Last time I checked "now" is still the Biden admin. If not for Elon Musk taking over Twitter, Americans by now would have lost their cherished freedom of expression. Americans would not have seen how government intel agencies tightened the noose for information by coercing Big Media to shut down contrarian conservative views. Americans by now have seen how FBI and DOJ have been weaponised against conservatives, especially MAGA and Christians. We see Christians praying in front of Planned Motherhood clinics get thrown into jail; how Churches were put under surveillance; how mothers who stood up at school board meetings to criticise the sex-obsessed curriculum faced legal suits; we see how prosecutorial teams made unprecedented visits to the White House for corroboration, consultation and possibly for instructions, in those Trump cases; we see how J6er grandmas and grandpas were arrested by full-blown turnout of SWAT teams, assault weapons drawn, all for full optic effect and obliging some leftist media reporter who somehow always got the scoop to turn up for such occasions, when all that prosecutors needed to do was despatch a summon to report to a police station; small business operators get arrested for fighting off thieves, etc. On the other hand we see murderers set free for being on the correct ideological side; race-hate activist Jussie Smollett got-off jail for his fake hate crime lynching stunt; aliens who rape and murder get released back into sanctuary cities, etc.
American liberals are still the frogs in the pot. MAGA has gotten off the pot long ago and frustrated a communist takeover of the country.
Michael:
Maybe it is more complicated, because any human system is bound to be exploited, and soon as the cracks open up, voters’ trust is lost, and mutinies are bound to rise up. It’s the ad nausam recycling of history. His or her story repeated with no end.
Couldn't agree more. The pendulum swings Left for liberals' march to Communism, it swings Right to conservatism for families, personal responsibilities, the right to free speech, association and religion. The sun shines brighter on the Right.
Michael:
Desperation empowers desperation, and sanity, balance and the rule of law are sacrificed at the altar of the lust for power, greed and self-exaltation. This drama has been played out in Athenian democracy, and dramatised in movies, as a celebration of human creativity and ingenuity.
But we never learnt; that should be the main theme of our story. And that is also what makes us the unenviable humankind, that is, the kind that screws herself up on the never-arriving destination towards perfection.
Great closing rhetoric. But I think it's missing the big picture.
Michael's article centres on the presidential pardons issue that he broadens to dig into the ethics and morals on a man he clearly finds detestable. What I have done to counter Michael's views is presenting a lot of facts which are mostly unknown to people who do not have skin in the game and whose views are coloured by mainstream media biased narratives.
I think everyone sees the cultural and political chaos in the Western countries and don't understand why. The great White race seems to be committing suicide. It is not a natural evolution of human interactions, but by ideological design.
I explained in an older blog "Trump Stopped The Elites March To The End of History" that tectonic shifts in the social / political world in modern history always has causation in some ideological developments. The big picture in our lifetime is the alignment of neoliberalism and globalist elitism to whom the "End of History" is the Global Reset. Cutting out all the WEF summits, papers, and mumbo jumbos, the Great Reset in the most basic way that I can put it, is a new borderless world where everyone has basic needs cared for but at the sacrifice of substantial personal rights, freedom and individualism, where everything about the individual is in some digital database so not towing the line will never be an option. The world will be better managed by AI-enabled technological elites who control the Earth's resources and ....you.
To redesign a new society, one must first destroy the old. Just like Communism went on its destructive path. How can one make sense of the atrocities Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot took in the path to destroy hundreds of millions of lives?
It fascinates me why the very intelligent class in Western countries, and Singapore, cannot comprehend this ideological shift is the only sensible explanation for the insanity going on. But of course they do ... they only happen to think they belong to the ruling class for whom the Great Reset is Michael's destination of "perfection" or Freidrich Hegel and Francis Fukuyama's "end of history".
Addendum:
In scrutinising Trump on the pardons, Michael kept his eyes away from Biden. The news is now out Biden has pardoned 37 out of 40 prisoners in the Federal Death row. These are people who have committed the worst dastardly of crimes. Biden is not crazy. He is burning the Democrat house down for their betrayal in the coup to replace him with Kamala Harris. This act would have made many Liberal frogs now realise the water is boiling.
Some mercy tossing, that.
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