FBI Raids Home of Trump’s First Term National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton was not detained, but is expected to be charged
Generally speaking, democracies die from corruption. The United States is no exception. America has always suffered from corrupt government at every level. Liberals who put unwarranted trust in government, especially at the federal level, have long been in denial about this fact. Liberals tend to see corruption in state and local governments, especially Southern ones. They see federal government intervention as the correction.
Liberals know, or once did, of the corruption of President Grant’s government. They know of President Lincoln’s disregard of the US constitution. But liberals still see the federal government as a corrective force.
The federal government is no more safe from being hijacked by interest groups than state and local governments. Essentially, governments are agencies that influential private interests use to feather their own nest at the expense of others. The reason is that the President, and the members of the House and Senate obtain office courtesy of those private interests that provide their campaign funds. Therefore, it is the monied interests that government serves.
Somehow the notion of a “public interest” has survived the many decades of contrary evidence.
Over the course of my life I have noticed a quantitative/qualitative change in the power of private interests. Formerly they used the law to get what they want. Today they weaponize law in order to remove those in their way.
The use of law as a weapon to control policy perhaps dates from the Nixon era. President Nixon was making arms control agreements with the Soviets and opened to China. The military/security interests did not want to lose the communist enemy that enhanced their profits, and they went to work on Nixon. Growing suspicions about the assassination of President Kennedy foreclosed the physical assassination of Nixon, so they assassinated him politically with the Watergate orchestration. The bullet that hit President Reagan did not kill him, and the official narrative was accepted. Nevertheless, the CIA was opposed to Reagan’s idea of negotiating the end of the Cold War with the Kremlin. I know, because I was on a secret presidential committee to investigate the validity of the CIA’s opposition.
Whenever its origin, weaponized law in the US has been manifested in the 21st century. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the neoconservatives gave us 9/11 and a quarter century of war in the Middle East resulting in the destruction of 6 countries and millions of displaced persons who fled to the West and destabilized European countries and the UK.
To facilitate the profits, budgets, and influence of the military/security complex, American civil liberties protected by the Constitution were erased by laws deemed necessary in order to protect us from an alleged “terrorism,” which was itself an orchestration.
But all of this was foreplay. Democrat opposition to Trump’s election in 2016, and Trump’s intention to “normalize relations with Russia,” weaponized not only the Democrats and whore media against him, but also the CIA, Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the FBI. US intelligence agencies falsified documents, lied to the FISA court and to Congress, and loaded the presstitutes with anti-Trump propaganda in order to hamstring, if not remove, a president deemed dangerous to the enormous profits that flowed from America having the Russian enemy.
The “Russian Enemy” is very important to many pocketbooks. Trump is trying, or so it seems, to get rid of the Russian enemy for us, by passing the task of the Ukrainian conflict on to Europe which will purchase US weapons to continue the conflict. This way we are free of the conflict, but the profit interests of the military-security complex are not threatened,
Now for John Bolton. Bolton is a neoconservative. Perhaps he just wants, as do other Americans, for the US to be the unquestioned power in the world. Perhaps he thinks that we are really threatened by the enemies we chose to make. Perhaps he takes bribes in behalf of Greater Israel and/or the military/security complex . I don’t know.
What I do know is that when a former National Security Adviser’s home and office are raided by the FBI who carry off his files, whether or not the raids are justified, the image of the United States suffers, just as eight years of false charges against Trump and the FBI raid on Trump’s home damaged the image of the United States. Once law is weaponized, the prospect is created of weaponized law becoming institutionalized. Additionally, the authority of high government positions is undermined by the positions being tainted with impropriety. If the CIA director dispenses with presidents and the FBI chief lies to Congress, trust in the agencies disappears.
The Biden regime persecuted not only Trump but also his attorneys, appointees, and those who presented evidence of election theft. Trump, a former president, faced four criminal indictments in weaponized courts with weaponized charges presented by weaponized attorney generals, one of whom, a George Soros protege, currently faces indictment on the same charge she framed Trump with.
Once law is weaponized, it is a life and death matter who controls the government. A government in such turmoil can never serve the public’s interest.
What goes around comes around. John Bolton brought it on himself. Bolton, Brennan, Comey, Clapper, and Merrick Garland are likely guilty of crimes, whereas Trump, his attorneys and supporters are likely not guilty. But whatever Bolton and the others suffer, so does the image of the United States. The use of high office for personal agendas separates the interests of government from the interest of the people and kills democracy. The image portrayed is one of a government serving foreign, material, and ideological interests, not the interests of the voters who elected the government.
Everywhere in the Western World democracy is in crisis and collapse. Democracy has become so dysfunctional that executive authority is superseding it.
When democracy fails, the choice becomes revolution or a Caesar.
