Corruption Is Catching Up to the Clintons and Their Associates
Well, it seems that the dirty laundry no one wants to address may be bubbling to the top. Maybe there is some limits to looting..maybe..
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The question might be, "Will the Trump admin prosecute her". I suspect no, unless she really irritates Trump in the election. Otherwise, I suspect he'll treat another of the elite, like the elite, so his elite union card doesn't get dirty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article...
a president may not pardon themselves
a president may not be pardoned for an impeachable offense
look for those two.
Not a president until sworn in.
If elected but not sworn in is that any sort of protection from subsequent arrest?
you could not be more right.
if she were to be prosecuted it would nothing less than a modern day miracle.
.....and, that's a shame.
I hope the dirt comes out anyway and we all get to see it. Trump is right to call her "crooked Hillary".
Even if he never mentioned the FBI investigation, Sanders certainly has an obligation to build a case for her historical poor judgment. Her dismal failure with the health care plan, shutting out the medical establishment from planning. Her support of the second Gulf war against Iraq. Her incitement of American, British, and French interference in the Libyan civil war, with the horrible aftermath of Benghazi and societal chaos (he could do that even without questioning her bungling of the Benghazi incident). The botched "reset" of U.S.-Russia relations. There are many others, but that's a rich field he's left unplowed, maybe simply out of avoiding total alienation her followers who feel the only important thing about Hillary is that she has a vagina.
Donald Trump has been left to use all of this ammunition, and he's begun to fire the first shots. If Bernie thinks he's been noble and above the fray by avoiding any question of Hillary's credibility as a rightful occupant of the White House, he's shirked his duty to the American people he claims to support. A real Independent (and maybe he should think about running as one to establish credibility for a third party in future contests) would be free to fire away at Hillary to protect the America he says he loves.
Then again, that makes the Court all-powerful, so we need a way to remove Justices, too. Perhaps a recall by the voting public.
Watch the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQKAa...
(2) This reasoning also shows the invalidity of the Government’s other arguments. It reasons that corporate political speech can be banned to prevent corruption or its appearance. The Buckley Court found this rationale “sufficiently important” to allow contribution limits but refused to extend that reasoning to expenditure limits, 424 U.S., at 25, and the Court does not do so here. While a single Bellotti footnote purported to leave the question open, 435 U. S., at 788, n. 26, this Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy. Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. , 556 U. S. ___, distinguished. Pp. 40–45.
The Supreme Court found that:
(c) For these same reasons, this Court affirms the application of the §§201 and 311 disclaimer and disclosure requirements to Hillary . Pp. 55–56.
They took a basic case of a Non Profit, wanting to ensure that it's protection under the First Amendment, gave it a secure tright to call Hiillary what she is. The Court then decided to throw in a bunch of other interpretations as well, and the one killer was when they said that there is no limit on corporations or groups spending money on ads, as long as they disclose who paid for it (which is what they did to CU). This basically took the teeth out of the BCRA, which was the "fix" for all the money being thrown around then, and opened it up so any one, or corporation, can throw as much as they want into a front organization, and then produce ads etc and it becomes "Concerned Citizens against Sea Turtles" or whatever. That meets their crazy requirements, and they addressed the fact that "contributors may be rightly concerned over their privacy and harassment". This opened the door to all the crap we see now, where it is free season for all the money in the world to be laundered through front groups. So the Lobbyists do buy politicians, they just do it behind a veil of secrecy.
The case screwed everybody, but serves both parties equally. They could just as easily struck down a load of decisions where political money has been found legal in many different scenarios, and just told Congress to get their act together and come up with a single law that describes all the political races rules, so it is an even playing ground and money is taken out.
Take a look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm...
Lobbying, even though maybe having been going on for thousands of years, is still fundamentally corrupt, at least when any gratuity, money, trips, jobs, houses, etc, is exchanged for either votes or offices. IMHO, of course...
Now, finally, the Clinton arrogance has become so bad that even their supporters in the media are having difficulties standing up for them. Note, I keep using the plural, because if you think Bill isn't involved up to and over his naughty bits, you'd have to be delusional.
This time, Sanders came CLOSE to knocking her off the pedestal for being crooked, and now Trump is starting in on her crooked behavior. Trump and Sanders should debate, and go after Hillary big time.
Hillary will never do anything for Sanders if she gets nominated, and of course she will do nothing for Trump (or us for that matter) if she wins the election.
I will donate to help make up the $10m Trump wants to go to charity.
I do think that Trump will continue to tell us the emperor has no clothes (as would Sanders for that matter). Sanders is a real wacko when it comes to the socialism stuff, however, and I think pretty easy to defeat on that basis. His popularity is really anti-Hillary popularity. Trump and Sanders should "debate" and both can be anti-establishment "friends" of sorts. The differences between them are really pretty much obvious- and they are essentially who is going to pay for the freebies Sanders would be in favor of. Who wouldn't want the freebies if there was a money tree out there that didn't have to be watered. But of course, there is no free lunch today as there wasn't in the 20th century motor factory in AS.
of looters -- bar none! -- j
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but enough time to fire up GOP convention proceedings. Popular vote as a preference statement is over with now it's convention delegate votes that count but first the rules committee. Then the electoral college. Long long way until the votes that count are taken.
Democrats could use a four year distance after the shame of Obeyme. Sanders gets rid of Wasserman and disappears. Hillary gets her day in court and disappears. Kerry comes out looking like a hero wannabe.
All they need is the GOP side of the left wing house to keep following the script. How long has it been since the Demos didn't benefit from a GOP President?
Reagan? 28 years ago? four years from now is 32 and enough of Kerry's baggage might have made it to Laurelwood Final Estates.
Think they aren't Machiavellian enough? What do you think the last year has been all about?
"That Smell" is about some guy's drug use, but the all the piled up plain as freakin' day corrupt excesses of Teflon Billary has come to stink worse than a heavily used 1890s outhouse beside an Alabama public park on a humid sweltering Fourth of July.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJQk...
"Good morning, Ma'am," Allen said as he suppressed an involuntary grimace. "My name's Wade. The Director sent me to speak with you." He held out the credentials of an ATF agent he had killed two days before. The woman peered at them momentarily through her thick glasses. Then she opened the aluminum screen door and ushered Allen Kane into the drab surroundings.
"What is it now? More hearings again?" she asked as she turned to close the door. Allen glanced around, confirming that no one else was nearby.
"Nothing that complicated," he said as he withdrew Wilson Blair's Beretta 92 from the zippered folio he carried, jammed it in the woman's mouth, and pulled the trigger. The steel-cored 9mm 'Cyclone' bullet went through her soft palate and blasted a hole out the back of her skull. Brain tissue and cerebro-spinal fluid sprayed onto the wall as the slug chopped though several layers of drywall and came to rest in a 2x4 at the far corner of the structure. As the slide cycled, the front sight chipped one of the corpse's front teeth.
The shapeless body collapsed in a heap on the floor. Allen Kane wiped off the gun with his handkerchief.
He wrapped the cloth around the pistol's slide and haphazardly pressed the grip against the dead woman's right hand. Then he tossed the weapon four feet away onto the cheap carpeting. He took an envelope from the pocket of his suit coat and tore the end off it. He shook it, and out fell a folded note which landed on the floor next to the corpse.
I TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY read the words which had been printed in felt-tip
ink with the aid of a ruler.
(above Excerpt from Unintended Consequences by John Ross)
http://www.amazon.com/Unintended-Cons...