08-09-2017, 11:21 PM
(08-09-2017, 10:22 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Manafort was raided this morning by the FBI.
It's going to take months to sort this out. It will be worth it, unless the mess allows the third Emperor in all but name of the DPRK (and let me cite some snark on Archer in which Archer denounces North Korea as undemocratic, not representative the people, clearly not a republic, and not for the Korean People) to incinerate Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Honolulu, or Guam...
In view of the contempt that President Trump has shown for the decencies of republican government (notice the small "r") I can see this investigation leading to an exposure of the corruption of our political system. Maybe we will need the scarring effect of an economic purge that sears the selfish greed out of our economic elites if imposing mass hardship far worse than any people who have lived only in America (except if blacks in the pre-1965 South or First peoples on the poorest Reservations) can know.
At the least we have probable cause, and such is upheld because charges have yet to be dropped.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.