George Parry is a former "federal Organized Crime Strike Force lawyer, a unit chief in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, and a special organized crime prosecutor in central Pennsylvania during the 1970s and 1980s." His blog "An Elegy for the FBI" at Knowledge is Good was cross-posted at the American Spectator. Here's some of it:
. . . It’s quite remarkable to watch a
once revered and legendary organization metaphorically slit its own throat in
public. But that’s exactly what happened when the FBI raided President Donald
Trump’s Florida home purportedly to retrieve official Trump administration
documents.
The Wall Street Journal reports that
the search warrant cited the Presidential Records Act and possible illegal
handling of classified information and that the raid came two
months after Justice Department lawyers visited Mar-a-Lago “seeking
more information about potentially sensitive material that had been taken there
from the White House.”
But if document retrieval was truly
the goal, why didn’t the FBI obtain and serve a subpoena duces tecum instead of resorting to
a gangbusters-style ransacking of Trump’s home? After months of discussions
with the president’s lawyers, during which they voluntarily handed over 15
boxes of presidential documents to the National Archives, was there some reason
to believe that a raid was necessary to prevent the destruction of what
remained at Mar-a-Lago?
. . .
There are many more such examples
that amply demonstrate that the FBI has been reduced to being the armed muscle
and praetorian guard of the Democrat Party. But, while all of that is bad
enough, the FBI’s ill-conceived raid on the home of a former president who also
happens to be the leading political opponent of the bureau’s masters in the
Biden regime, is a historic, hideous, and radical abuse of its law enforcement
authority that has obliterated the bureau’s relationship with a vast swath of the
American public. To those citizens, the bureau’s agents are no longer regarded
as the respected and stalwart G-Men of legend. They are now widely and
justifiably mocked and dismissed as the Stasi, Gestapo, KGB, secret
police, and banana republic thugs for hire.
Thanks to the raid of Trump’s home,
the FBI is not only faced with having lost the confidence and cooperation of
almost half of America. It has also transformed itself into a despised moral
leper colony — a painted, hagged out, repellent, and whorish mockery of
what it used to be. . . .
Much more at the link here.
Irreversible damage.
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Ben Garrison cartoons at News Ammo
It’s almost tongue-in-cheek, but unfortunately, after the
Mar-a-Lago raid and the raid on Mark Houck and his family, it’s not. Pete McArdle posted “How to Prepare for a Pre-Dawn Visit From the FBI” at American
Thinker, and here’s part of it:
It’s clear the FBI has no interest
in students threatening to shoot up schools (Nikolas Cruz), team doctors who
assault underage gymnasts (Larry Nassar), or crackheads illegally possessing
guns (Hunter Biden).
No, if you’re a criminal, a
pervert, or a Democrat -- or some combination of the three -- the Feebs won’t
be busting your door down at three in the morning and dragging you out into the
street in your tighty whities.
The folks the Bureau’s been busting
lately with great fanfare, and occasionally a CNN news crew in tow, are a
different sort altogether: folks who vote Republican; Trump supporters; parents
concerned about the crap taught in public schools; and Catholic abortion
activists.
That’s who the rogue FBI wants to
embarrass, take down, and ruin. So I’ve compiled a list of things you can do to
limit the damage when the FBI eventually comes for you.
. . .
Door Signs
There’s two ways you can go with
door signs. If you’re resigned to getting busted, put up a sign saying: The
door’s open, please don’t bust it down! Perhaps you’ll be lucky and
the lead Feeb will simply use the doorknob.
Obfuscation is another way to go.
You could try: We love Joe Biden, he’s NOT a useless vegetable!
The Feebs, at least the ones
running the show, take their marching orders from ol’ Crusty Joe, and perhaps
they’ll forgo having you kneel down on your front lawn while they cuff you.
. . .
Vote this November
Despite all the preparations I’ve
suggested, when the rogue FBI comes a knocking at your door, you’re screwed.
With the help of Deep State judges and the fake-news media, the FBI will
happily ruin you, your family, your finances, and your reputation (see Flynn,
General Michael).
And all for having the wrong
political views.
The only truly effective way to
avoid getting an FBI jackboot placed firmly upon your neck is to vote every
Deep State Democrat and RINO out of office this November. That’s the start of
reining in the now thoroughly disgraced agency.
And the end of the FBI, as it
currently exists, will come when you vote Donald Trump into office in November,
2024. The Donald is famous for settling scores, and I for one can’t wait to see
this one settled.
I’d love to write more on this
topic but there’s suddenly a lot of flashing lights and loud sirens out
front...
The full column is here.
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The Babylon Bee has obtained a partially unredacted page of the FBI’s affidavit justifying the raid on Mar-a-Lago:
Frank Miele at RealClearPolitics takes another look at the FBI:
Nothing symbolizes the decline of
the American republic better than the weaponization of justice that we saw last
week when the FBI raided the home of former President Trump.
. . .
Don’t believe a word from either
the Washington Post or the FBI. Trump
had been cooperating with the National Archive and had already turned over 15
boxes of documents, all of which he could have made a claim to legally possess.
If they wanted papers turned over, they could have gone through Trump’s
lawyers. No, they wanted the spectacle. They wanted the sizzle. They wanted the
headlines.
This wasn’t about the rule of law;
it was about the rule of the schoolyard. Bullies get what they want through
force and intimidation, and there is no reason for any of us to believe that
the raid had any purpose other than to intimidate Donald Trump into backing
down from his plans to run for president in 2024.
Essentially what the FBI was saying
is “We know where you live, and we aren’t afraid to come for you.” They even
rifled through Melania Trump’s closet, as if she might have been hiding
top-secret documents in her hat box. When do we find out they also spent an
hour sorting through her lingerie?
This is sickening, no matter how
much MSNBC and the Washington Post
want you to think you can still trust the FBI. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool
me twice, shame on me. Fool me over and over and over again, and I must be a
Democrat.
Read the full column here.
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The interview took place on August 9, but I only just now
came across it. Michael W. Chapman at CNS News reports on Victor Davis Hanson take on the Mar-a-Lago raid:
When asked about the FBI raid on
former President Donald Trump's home in Palm Beach, Fla., professor, author,
and political commentator Victor David Hanson said, "right now, we don't
have the rule of law in Washington," and added that, "The FBI is
beyond redemption."
Hanson, who was awarded the
National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush, made his remarks on the
Aug. 9 edition of FNC's Tucker Carlson
Tonight, guest-hosted by Will Cain.
Cain asked Hanson why the FBI
raided Mar-a-Lago and why were they targeting Trump.
"Well, they're afraid in the
short term," he said, in reference to the Democrats and the left,
"but in the long term they believe they're morally superior to America,
and therefore any means necessary or justifiable for their morally superior
ends."
"And right now, we don't have
the rule of law in Washington," said Hanson. "Whether you're targeted
or exempt depends on your ideology."
. . .
As for the FBI, Hanson remarked,
"I never thought I would say this: The FBI is beyond redemption.
It is -- all of its bureaus and its institutions that have to be farmed out and
broken up. If you have a warrant, an FBI warrant, there is no
guarantee that that has not been altered. If you subpoena and you
want FBI records on phones ... they will be wiped clean."
"We just saw [FBI Director]
Christopher Wray and he just stonewalled every question and then he flew on
an FBI plane, our plane, a luxury jet because he had to go to his own
vacation spot. He took over, remember, from Andrew McCabe -- what did he do? He
lied four times to federal investigators, and his wife was running for an
office with Clinton-related PAC money while he was investigating Hillary
Clinton's e-mail scandal."
. . .
Read the rest here.
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At American Greatness, Christopher Flannery references
John Eastman’s role as an attorney advising President Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. John is a senior fellow and founder and director of Claremont’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. He became famous for challenging the constitutionality of the 2020 election.
Below, however, is information from Mr. Flannery’s article
about the police state we now live in; the raid on Mar-a-Lago is merely more evidence of corruption at the FBI
and DOJ:
It was because he thought the
unconstitutional violations of election law in several swing states could
indeed have affected the outcome of the election, that John [Eastman] put his
life on the line to try to stop what he had good reason to believe was an
unconstitutional election.
I do not say lightly, “put his life
on the line.” We have all seen over the past several years, how the
increasingly Stalinist Democratic (bipartisan) machine comes to destroy anyone
who dares to challenge or disagree with it. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
is just one vivid recent example among many: first the machine sinks to the
depths of evil to assassinate his character, then a literal assassin shows up
at his door.
In John’s case, the Stalinist
machine has not only imposed on him hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal
fees, and sicced armed FBI agents on him in his neighborhood, it is trying to
make it impossible for
him to earn a living, and it is threatening to give him the un-American and
tyrannical treatment meted out to the January 6 political prisoners (read
everything Julie
Kelly writes on this).
In the meantime, the local papers,
part of the machine, publish the vicinity of his home and inform their readers
how to obtain his address. Machine street thugs follow up, spray-painting his
address on the street and on the bridge leading to his home, with “Eastman
Traitor,” and even with an arrow pointing toward his house.
He finds long spikes buried in the
end of his dirt driveway, which have damaged tires on family cars and cars of
visitors. Demonstrators gather daily, becoming more and more aggressive. A
constant stream of hate email and voice messages, some of them criminal, makes
it impossible to answer either his landline or cell without going first to
voicemail.
That is the way the Stalinist
Democratic (and now, bipartisan) machine operates, and it has become
increasingly violent, even frenzied, in the past five years.
John Eastman is standing up to the
tyrannical violence of this machine, because he thinks the Stalinist
(bipartisan) Democrats are not just tyrants but usurpers. I agree with him and
so think he is an American hero. . . .
Read the full article here.
RELATED: Click here for Michelle Malkin's column posted yesterday on yet more corrupt FBI activities.
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Ben Garrison cartoon
via NewsAmmo
The inimitable Mark Steyn published his “Criminalizing Opposition in a Pseudo-Republic” column yesterday about the FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago. And as always, Mark has some historical
perspective on this latest action by a corrupt DOJ & FBI:
For almost a decade and a half now,
the American "republic" has been decaying to the defining condition
of a one-party state - that is, the total merger of the ruling party and the
state. Last night, the dirty stinking rotten corrupt US Department of Justice
signed off on a raid on Mar-a-Lago, so we've now moved into hardcore
banana-republic territory: the regime's cops are busting into the home of the
opposition leader. We're told this is because Trump took some
"classified" documents with him when he left Washington. Yeah, that's
always a pretext for an armed raid: You could ask Hillary Clinton or Sandy
Berger.
. . .
I see Kevin McCarthy is now
threatening Merrick Garland with an "investigation" and ordering him
to preserve all documents. Ooooooh! Maybe, after the
coming Republican landslide, they can appoint an independent counsel; maybe
John Durham or Robert Mueller is available. Why would anyone take McCarthy's
threat seriously? If you don't grasp that in today's America there is no
equality before the law, there is no point even discussing public affairs.
. . ..
If that's the best McCarthy can do,
it's hopelessly insufficient to the moment: There ought to be total
non-cooperation with the regime by the GOP with the intent of bringing it to a
standstill - because this "administration has gone way beyond politics and
is corrupting institutions to a degree that will make violence inevitable.
Oh, but don't worry, says McCarthy,
there's that Big Red Wave coming in November.
Yeah, right. A throwaway line
from The Mark Steyn Show of December
15th 2020:
By the way, when they mention Covid and 2022, that's code for: 'Yeah
the US midterms are gonna get stolen too.'
Read Mark’s full column here. Recommended.
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The blogosphere is full of reports and commentary on the FBI’s
raid on President Trump’s residence Mar-A-Lago, but Robert Spencer’s column atFrontPageMag is the one I am linking to today.
Mr. Spencer begins:
When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s
home on Monday, a key aspect of what made the United States of America great
and free has been lost, and likely cannot be recovered. John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson detested one another for years before their eventual reconciliation,
but neither one used the agencies of the U.S. government to hound, persecute or
discredit the other. Other bitter political opponents throughout the history of
the republic have never before used the government’s own mechanisms of justice
to do injustice to their foes. Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and their henchmen
have brought America to a new phase of its history, and it is not likely to be
one that is marked by respect for the rule of law or defense of the rights of
individual citizens. Instead, we are entering an ugly age of authoritarianism,
in which the brute force of the state is used to bend the people to the will of
the tyrant.
Trump announced on
Monday, “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago
in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a
large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President
of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant
Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or
appropriate.”
The 45th president is not
given to understatement, but the FBI raid on his home is much more than just
unnecessary and inappropriate. It is criminal.
. . .
This is no longer a republic,
except of the banana variety. It may be a republic again someday, but for now,
the great American experiment is over. Born July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia, died
August 8, 2022, in Mar-A-Lago, at the hands of Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and
Christopher Wray.
Read the rest here. President Trump’s announcement is on most websites, including here.
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One of the fun stories I read about Trump during the 2016 election cycle was about his run-in with the city fathers in Palm Beach over his flagpole at Mar-A-Lago. I don’t remember the exact details, but there was a zoning ordinance restricting flagpole heights to, say, 30 feet. Trump’s flagpole flying the American flag was maybe 20 feet over the zoning maximum. City council kept levying fines for the violation, he kept flying the flag, and eventually, he proposed that he pay the accumulated fines, but only if the city council contributed the money to a veteran’s organization. They agreed, he paid the fine, and the money went to his designated organizational recipient. Then he had his staff bring in 20 feet high worth of dirt, shoved the dirt under the flagpole, remounted the same flagpole, so it was still 50 feet high. There was nothing the city council could do, since the height of the flagpole met their regulations, and he merely out-foxed them with the 20-foot high pitcher’s mound. My recollection of the details may be a bit off, but the gist of the story is correct. He got his high-flying American flag while outwitting the Palm Beach Council.
And in the spirit of that story, here’s a photo from social
media showing a Trump fan tearing a page from the same playbook:
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