Posted on 01/13/2018 9:11:41 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Shortly after winning the election, President Trump told the New York Times that he probably would not make good on his promise to pursue a new criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s many shady deals, from her email server to her campaign apparatus to her and Bill’s massive and well-connected foundation. Trump declared that further investigation would be “very, very divisive for the country.”
Unfortunately for Hillary – and possibly for Bill as well – some things are beyond the control of even the most powerful man in the world. Some conservative members of Congress may force the Justice Department to take action against Hillary et al, whether Trump likes it or not.
The response from the Leftists to the new allegations against Hillary Clinton and her campaign has been utterly predictable.“She did nothing wrong,” they proclaim, and to investigate her now reeks of banana republic-style abuse of the justice system. But these Clinton defenders are mistaken on both counts. Hillary Clinton did much wrong, and to investigate those wrongdoings is not necessarily political payback. The questions raised by the ongoing various scandals are manifold, but perhaps the least asked and the rarely answered is the following: would such an investigation be good or bad for the country?
President Trump, for his part, has already said that such an investigation would be divisive, and thus bad for the country, particularly at this moment of extraordinary tension. One of Shakespeare’s most prominent and appealing heroines echoes Trump’s sentiments and argues them well. In The Merchant of Venice, Portia makes perhaps the most famous appeal to mercy in all of Western Civilization, pleading to Shylock about the nobility of said virtue, particularly when practiced by the mightiest among us.
To wit:
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
At the same time, however, no less than one of history’s greatest champions of justice and truth has argued that corruption itself is destructive and must be resisted.When the branches of a government are thought by the people to be deeply corrupt, the leaders of said government would be wise to take any opportunity to prove otherwise. In 70 B.C., the Roman Republic was deeply corrupt, as many believe the United States is today. Marcus Tullius Cicero was then the prosecutor in a trial before the Senate, in which the Gaius Verres, the governor of Sicily, was charged with wholesale corruption.Like the Clintons today, Verres was rich and powerful.
Cicero took the floor to proclaim:
At this grave crisis in the history of our country, you have been offered a peculiarly desirable gift, a gift almost too opportune to be of human origin: it almost seems heaven-sent. For you have been given a unique chance to make your Senatorial Order less unpopular, and to set right the damaged reputation of these courts. A belief has taken root which is having a fatal effect on our nation – and which to us who are Senators, in particular, threatens grave peril. This belief is on everyone’s tongue, at Rome and even in foreign countries. It is this: that in these courts with their present membership, even the worst criminal will never be convicted provided that he has money.”
"That, then, is the dangerous crisis with which your Order and your courts are faced. Speeches have been prepared, laws drafted, with the purpose of inflaming still further this hatred that already rages against the Senate. And at this very juncture Gaius Verres has been brought to trial. Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned – yet whose enormous fortune, according to his own loudly expressed hopes, has already brought him acquittal! I, gentlemen, am his prosecutor, and the people of Rome are strongly and confidently on my side. To increase the unpopularity of your Order is very far from my intention. On the contrary, I am eager to remove your bad reputation – which is as much mine as yours. And the defendant whom I am prosecuting, being the man he is, provides you with your opportunity to recover the lost prestige of these courts and to regain the favour of Romans and the outside world alike.
Verres has sacked the Treasury. He has devastated Asia and Pamphylia. His tenure of the city-praetorship was a record of robberies; and the province of Sicily found him an annihilating pestilence.Pronounce a just and scrupulous verdict against Verres, and you will keep the good name which ought always to be yours. Let us imagine, on the other hand, that his great wealth succeeds in undermining the conscience and honesty of the judges. Well, even then I shall accomplish one thing. For the general conclusion will not be that the judges failed to find a guilty defendant – or that the defendant lacked a competent prosecutor. On the contrary: the deduction will be that there are no good judges in the land."
Cicero was right, of course, as even Verres conceded, leaving the country voluntarily. Magnanimity and mercy are useful and important virtues.But in this case, the very reputation of our republic, that which Abraham Lincoln called the last, best hope of man, may well be at stake. We love Portia, but the Clintons’ wrongdoing must be pursued. And if it’s proved as well, they must be punished. All the mercy in the world cannot buy back the loss of honor, integrity, and equality before the law.
lol
Might be a little harsh with the heroin thing, but I’m open to trying.
Are you trolling or just misinformed? Read up on President Trump’s executive order of Dec. 21, 2017.
And the RODHAM BROTHERS are CRIMINAlS ALSO!
Didn't the Rodham Brothers do a Dirty deal with Russia for some kind of NUTS...Almonds or Hazelnuts??
And didn't a Rodham have something to do with the Clintons taking over Haiti's GOLD MINES??
I think the Clintons STILL have TOP SECRET CLEARANCE....Huma and others also!!
“They cannot make that case as long as she she has access to all of the foundation millions for “expenses”.2”
That was the reason for the Human Trafficking and corruption executive order. The money gets frozen and goes bye-bye.
The worst thing you can do to Hillary is to render her penniless and in debt. Next is prison for the rest of her life. Next is to be burned at the stake.
I vote for all three.
She, as with Bill, should already be in an orange jumpsuit in prison. The real unspoken issue is that no one wants to be the one to have sent the first ex-President and ex-First Lady in U.S. history to prison......
Great post. Many thanks!
ping to MNDude
...on a hunting reserve.
My preference is that she die expeditiously of some unspeakable disease that leaves her debilitated and in excruciating pain.
But, in the absence of that, SuperMax prison will do. And every red cent of her wealth and that of Chelsea and Bill be confiscated and returned to the public treasury.
Should Hillary Go Free?
Sure. She’s worn a bra for so very many years, set ‘em free!
The whole clintoon family should be in prison for their many (and continuing) crimes. They should only be released after the coroner signs the papers.
The SOCIETAL REASON people like her, and especially her enablers, need to be locked up is so that the NEXT ROUND of Democrats who are tempted to do this garbage realize that they will face consequences. And this relates to how we got here, as Bush’s ‘new tone’ allowed all the corruption during the 8 years of Clinton to not have consequences...so they doubled-down under Obama, possibly to the point of killing Seth Rich, which puts us where we are today.
The PERSONAL REASONS for not locking her up (age, sickness, deodorizing costs, unfair to jail guards, etc.), don’t matter in cases like this - as the Societal Reasons are much, much, more important.
They exploited the sacrosanct US presidency. And Hillary’s State Dept.
They sold US strategic assets related to our safety and security to get-rich-quick.
(HAT TIP GOPJ) Many of the countries that ‘hosted’ Bill Clinton, that gave him millions for ‘speeches’ were 3rd world hellholes looking for ‘kickbacks’ in the form of US govt favors Hillary's State Dept could handout.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were looting the hellholes of the world AND looting the American people at the same time.
I thought the fire was suspicious. The pedogate/trafficking angle is a whole other area with the Clintons.
Can't the FBI get those 'destroyed' hard drives and computers and try and get the data from them? Reasonable suspicion and all?
From Cornell Law: 18 U.S. Code § 1961 - Racketeering Definitions Goes into great detail about the "racketeering activity" issues. Looks like the Clintons are embroiled in a number of things listed.
The Clintons have broken so many laws, at least pick one, charge, try and convict on one and work on the rest after they're behind bars.
"1581–1592 (relating to peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons).," . .
“4. Dump her stripped naked in a dumpster in some seedy back alley in Mogadishu.”
Nay, nay, too harsh by far!! Think what might happen to some poor soul who may chance to look in that dumpster seeking a scrap of food, the sight would kill the strongest man on Earth. Would you have that on your conscience? Have you no decency?
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