Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Criminalizing Opposition in a Pseudo-Republic
Steyn Online ^ | 9 Aug 2022 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/13/2022 7:12:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan

or 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.

The FBI has been getting more brazen about its political thuggery this last year, increasingly relaxed about putting its thumb on the democratic scale. As my old pal from Hillsdale days, Joy Pullman, notes in a column written pre-Mar-a-Lago:

In Michigan, the FBI openly meddled in the upcoming election by affecting the selection of candidates, arresting and charging the formerly leading Republican candidate for governor for misdemeanors. The FBI raided Ryan Kelley's home while polls showed him leading the primaries. In the primary election last week, he came in fourth.

Mission accomplished - and all while too many stars of the rube right were still insisting that there are just a few bad apples at the top, I know the rank-and-file, they're salt of the earth, straight-shooting G-men, they gave me this cute lapel pin, etc, etc. There are no straight-shooting G-men: Who do you think are manning the raids, you chumps? Where are the whistle-blowers? Or even the guys who say, "No thanks, I didn't sign up for this"? It's a wholly corrupted institution and has been for the best part of a decade...

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; bidenvoters; creepstate; deepstate; doj; donutwatch; fbi; policestate; singlepartystate; stasiraid
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-51 next last

1 posted on 08/13/2022 7:12:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

This is like a Russian show trial.

Yeah, you let the charged have an attorney, perhaps even
a top notch one.

However, if that person actually helped your defense, they
would find their new assignment in Siberia to be par for
the course?


2 posted on 08/13/2022 7:15:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan
... 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.
3 posted on 08/13/2022 7:15:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

Chumps is right...


4 posted on 08/13/2022 7:16:51 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

.


5 posted on 08/13/2022 7:18:19 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

How was 20 boxes collected a narrowly focused search?


6 posted on 08/13/2022 7:20:32 PM PDT by dila813
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

It seems we’re not a republic anymore. Not even a democracy.


7 posted on 08/13/2022 7:22:57 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

I’m convinced:

next, the Marxists Communist Junta will track Trump down and just assassinate him, as the NKVD did to Stalin’s adversaries.


8 posted on 08/13/2022 7:23:34 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

Ping


9 posted on 08/13/2022 7:25:07 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

The Republic ended when the Constitution was abrogated by swearing in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.

The Constitution says natural born citizen.
Obama is not one.


10 posted on 08/13/2022 7:31:15 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

McCarthy and McConnell are not up for a fight. They need to go.


11 posted on 08/13/2022 7:32:34 PM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: 38special

“McCarthy and McConnell are not up for a fight.”

Sorry to tell you, but there will be no fight in Congress.
A few speeches, then they all go to Capital Tavern for drinks and back slapping over how they pulled the wool over the rubes heads.


12 posted on 08/13/2022 7:39:01 PM PDT by Tupelo (Don't under estimate the Republicans ability to f*** things up)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: 38special

We will not get new leadership until WE provide new membership in both houses.

As long as we keep re-electing Mitch’s bitches and the 145 in the House that voted for Liz Cheney in Feb 2021, we will never get new leadership.


13 posted on 08/13/2022 7:48:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: DoughtyOne
However, if that person actually helped your defense, they would find their new assignment in Siberia to be par for the course?

Or, at the bottom of the Black Sea.

14 posted on 08/13/2022 8:20:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

“stars of the rube right were still insisting that there are just a few bad apples at the top, I know the rank-and-file, they’re salt of the earth, straight-shooting G-men, they gave me this cute lapel pin”

Wonder who that could possibly be referring to? Lol 🧐


15 posted on 08/13/2022 8:20:48 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mark17

True


16 posted on 08/13/2022 8:41:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Tupelo

All governments eventually drift towards tyranny.

America proved it.


17 posted on 08/13/2022 8:43:25 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

Kind of hard to have a one-party state when the other party controls the Senate and the Supreme Court. There’s plenty of stuff to complain about under Brandon without making stuff up.


18 posted on 08/13/2022 8:49:02 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

Bookmark


19 posted on 08/13/2022 8:49:56 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lazamataz

Then, guess what, we shall have to be the unique and extraordinary culture that DOES NOT SUCCUMB TO TYRANNY.

We have set standards before and we have the power to set them again. Let’s see how this latest “crisis” shakes out.
We are certainly bigger and better than Rahm and Obummer and Biden.

This should be a piece of cake using constructive, responsible, acceptable ways to convince our American citizens that we are all Patriots. NO TRAITORS.


20 posted on 08/13/2022 8:52:14 PM PDT by Maris Crane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-51 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson