Swirling Down The Memory-Hole

Original Material | 8/26/2017 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

In late 2011, when the Fast and Furious Obama-gunrunning scandal broke the news media logjam, I noticed something very odd: Almost immediately thereafter, two other major scandals broke open almost simultaneously. Soylandra, a 'green energy' startup, was shown to have misused and diverted millions of dollars, and there was a heavy political involvement by the Obama administration. Secondly, it emerged that the IRS was bending rules for liberal political advocacy groups and slow-walking the approval of conservative ones.

It seemed to me, at the time, to be an Alinksy-style tactic: Overwhelming the system. By introducing and nearly-admitting several scandals at once, the public could not truly focus on any one of them, and soon the uproar diminished. It blew over. Certainly, one or another of the scandals was mentioned, from time to time, but no true prosecution or investigation that resulted in indictments followed.

I remember marveling at the sheer genius of it, and wondering if this was the machination and intellectual brain-child of Valerie Jarrett, the snakelike advisor to Barack Obama that seemed to compare more to Gregor Rasputin of Czarist Russia, than any other advisor in history.

The ploy seemed to have worked, and since then, many scandals and bad-faith operations have emerged. All manner of leftist organizations and government officials have acted illegally or unethically, yet they are never held to account.

Because these actions have fallen into some sort of 'Memory Hole', it is important that we revisit them: Collect them in one place, and ask why no consequences have been meted out to the actors.

1. Whatever happened to the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, in which the Obama administration allowed many thousands of American firearms to end up in the hands of Mexican drug lords?
2. Whatever happened to the CNN brazen blackmail and extortion of a private citizen who created a CNN-disparaging animated picture, including an outright threat to expose that citizen at any point in the future if he did not kowtow to CNN's wishes?
3. Whatever happened to the investigative charges as regards Hillary Clinton's brazen circumventing of long-standing Federal rules about preserving emails for FOIA requests, by establishing an illegal mail server in her home?
4. Whatever happened to the charges, eventually admitted to, of illegal unmasking of Trump and his associates by Susan Rice?
5. Whatever happened to the inexplicable 'robbery' in which Seth Rich was killed, when Julian Assange of WikiLeaks directly implies that he was the DNC email leaker? Who really killed Seth Rich, and why?
6. Whatever happened to the crimes committed by Debbie Wasserman Shultz, with her highly-paid Pakastani hackers who send just under a million to people in Pakistan? One of them, Imran Awan, was arrested at the airport carrying 10's of thousands of dollars. Whatever happened to him?
7. Whatever happened to the lying claim that the attack on the Benghazi compound was precipitated by a video critical of Islam? Why is that falsely-accused video-creator still stained by prosecution?
8. Whatever happened to the EPA, after they ruined a river -- perhaps forever -- with heavy-metal pollution?
9. Whatever happened to the investigation of 'pay to play' to get Hillary's attention, with money funneled through the Clinton Foundation?
10. Whatever happened to the 500 billion dollars, missing from HUD that Ben Carson discovered? Why are there no follow-up investigations?
11. Whatever happened to the 400 million dollars that was not-so-secretly sent to Iran... in cash? Where did it come from? Why was it permitted? What use is it being put to? Who allowed it?
12. Whatever happened to the revelation that the NSA illegally kept the communication data of every American? What is being done to stop them from continuing? Why are there no prosecutions for those who allowed it?
13. Whatever happened to the news that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower (and Donald Trump's associates), during an election, in a manner that reminds one of the old East German police state? Why have no heads rolled for this egregious behavior?
14. Whatever happened to the IRS illegally targeting Conservative political groups for special investigative treatment, and slow-walking the approval of those groups? Where is Lois Lerner, and why has she never faced consequences for her actions?

These are fourteen of the biggest scandals. There are hundreds more. Yet they have vanished from the public psyche, and the corrupt and complicit media has taken pains to ignore them. The scandal emerges, it gets a few days press treatment -- then it sunsets -- to be spoken of only occasionally, and in hushed tones.

Blame for this 'new normal' can be laid at two places: The purposed overwhelming of the nation by committing as many scandals as possible in as short a period as possible, and the corruption of a wholly partisan 'news media'. (I have often said that a Liberal can eat a live baby on the Capital steps, and the news media would tell us that the child had it coming and commend the Liberal's choice of barbeque sauce, whereas a Conservative could sit quietly in a church, and the news media would shriek for their impeachment for the crime of loitering.)

We cannot allow all these crimes and scandals to sunset. If we do, we risk America's entire rule-of-law.

[TigersEye]

I used the word ‘spades’ knowing full well how the counter-propaganda would go. I will not surrender the good and proper Anglo-Saxon English language to the hordes of barbarian politically correct monsters of communism.

:)

But thank you for watching my six!

[ebshumidors]

Good job, Laz. I think Trump knows how to play this game along with prodigious offerings of “Squirrel!”

[Lazamataz]

Please add me to your ping list. Thanks

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[TigersEye]

[wintertime]

Yep! Your homepage is amazing!

I too am a grandchild of a man who came to Massachusetts in 1630. We are likely cousins in some manner. One of my grandmothers was tried and convicted as a witch in Salem. She escaped.

[LS]

Start with BigLeaguePolitics

[Slings and Arrows]

I’ve already got two songs about pancreatic cancer. I’d hate to get typecast.

[Slings and Arrows]

I’m inclined to agree - my first thought at hearing about the Sheriff Joe pardon was “I wonder what Trump is trying to draw attention away from?”

[matthew fuller]

Thanks.

[Thumper1960]

The modern Liberal cockroach, when the light comes on, rears up on its back 4 legs and sends out a Morse code with its antennae says: “What of it?”

[martin_fierro]

“Swirling Down The Memory-Hole”

That sounds dirty.

[Lazamataz]

Ok, thanks.

[Lazamataz]

Appreciate the kudos!

[Lazamataz]

I have Fullers in my bloodline.

[Lazamataz]

I'm a-gonna write two more editorials today. If that's not a sign that I have critical pancreatic cancer, I don't know what is.

In the meantime, let us enjoy the gentle musical musings of the genius called "Hopalong Ginsberg".

[rodguy911]

Great stuff Laz,way to go.

[Lazamataz]

Thank you kind sir.

[rodguy911]

I've got a bad thinking problem. I need to go to a 12-step meeting.

Come to the Keys we do it all in four steps:

1. Tiki bar

2. Flip flops and tee shirts

3. Go fishing

4. Rinse and repeat.

[Lazamataz]

You live in the KEYS?

Got some couch space for a dear, dear friend?

:)

[poconopundit]

Laz, much appreciate your ability to popularize the scandals of the day. I think of myself as well-informed, but I was completely unaware of 2 of the 14 scandals you cited -- the HUD missing money, and the EPA polluting a Colorado River.

It goes to you how vital is that we have people like you, Liz, and HarleyLady27 (and many others) who research issues and do the background research and make it easy for Freedom Lovers to digest this information.

Actually, your nice summary was perfect for improving the meme I created a few weeks ago (below). Just click the links in the image and you're taken to the webpages you identified by your research.

	•  Fast-and-furious gun-running •  CNN blackmails Reddit user •  Hillary illegal email server •  Unmasking intel. by Susan Rice •  Seth Rich "robbery" murder •  Pakistani hackers & DNC •  Benghazi attack caused by video?	•  EPA pollutes Colorado river •  Hillary pay-for-play as SecState •  $500 billion missing from HUD •  $400 million secretly paid to Iran •  NSA illegal "spying" on Americans •  TrumpTower illegal wire-tapping •  IRS targeting Conservative groups