by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
2022 planted the seeds for tyranny and death. My analysis today will focus on only four of the many terrible events of 2022.
One is the FBI raid on President Trump’s home.
One is the second stolen national election.
One is the war against Russia that is leading to Armageddon.
One is the deception about the effectiveness and safety of the Covid mRNA “vaccine.”
The unprecedented raid on President Trump’s home revealed the Gestapo State that has replaced American Democracy. Few comprehend the threat that the raid reveals. First there is the disrespect shown a recent President of the United States who clearly has far more public support than any president since Ronald Reagan. If a President of the United States can be treated in such a high-handed way, what prospect do the rest of us have?
The raid was not only beyond the pale, it was gratuitous in its justification. The FBI had access to the documents and had gone through them previously. The documents were not being withheld from inspection. The story planted in the presstitute media that Trump left the documents lying around in Mar-a-Largo for Russian spies on his staff to photo is absurd. Trump has Secret Service protection, and the agents would certainly notice any top secret documents lying around on the furniture. If Russian agents had penetrated Trump’s household staff, the CIA would have warned him. That media actually discussed this fabrication as if it were real reveals the incompetence and dishonesty of the media.
Normally, presidents and high government officials do not concern themselves with documents unless they are writing memoirs. They don’t have time for documents. Most of what is signed off on is from advice not from reading. Presidential appointees and I assume presidents are entitled to copies of all documents that moved through their offices. I would have needed a moving and storage service to deal with documents to which I was entitled during my time at the Treasury. I very much doubt Trump knows what documents are in the boxes. I would have advised him not to take documents packed by others as anything could be planted on him. All documents should have gone to a presidential library, which once set up was probably where the documents were headed.
The “raid” by a FBI SWAT team was an orchestrated political event. In a political system where there is accountable government, the FBI director and the attorney general would have been fired for political use of a police agency. The fact that they got away with it shows that the days of accountable government in the United States are past.
The purpose of the raid was to create the image of Trump in the public mind as a criminal, so that the pubic already saw him that way and it would be old hat when the criminal referral from the Democrats in the House and subsequent Department of Justice indictment materialized. Any jurors involved would be accustomed to Trump as criminal and have the same view as the prosecutor. This is what happened to Derick Chauvin.
Not many understood what was happening in front of their eyes. Democrats and Trump haters were simply thrilled that the orange man was being had. Trump supporters simply saw biased Democrats and biased media. This was the way the public saw the transformation of a federal police force subject to the rule of law into an unaccountable Gestapo political operation dedicated to the Democrats’ seizure of power by eliminating the opponent. This is how the police were transformed in the Third Reich.
A question before us is whether the audacious raid on an American president’s home could have happened if the Deep State had been held accountable in the past for its crimes. But having got away with so much despite overwhelming evidence of Deep State guilt–for example, the murders of President Kennedy, Senator Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Bay of Tonkin, 9/11, Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, and two stolen national elections–to set up a president for indictment on false charges is not a big step.
Trump’s reelection was stolen after four years of vilification of President Trump while in office accused as a Russian agent elected by the Kremlin’s interference in the election, a charge exploited by the presstitutes and Democrats for years during the Russiagate investigation. Russiagate was followed by two attempted impeachments, and by an orchestrated “Jan. 6 insurrection,” a fabrication still ongoing with the House’s criminal referral of Trump to the Department of Justice (sic).
Trump’s reelection meant 4 more years of the same, and people were tired of it. Therefore, despite overwhelming evidence that the Democrats stole the election, the public acquiesced in the theft.
The 2022 national election did not involve the president, so the public was less moved by its theft. Moreover, the Republicans, despite the theft, recaptured the House. But the inattention to the theft paves the road for more thefts.
The theft of the Arizona governorship from Kari Lake is completely obvious. In Maricopa County, Arizona’s most populous, voting machines failed to function in the precincts known to be Republican. Voting lines were hours long. The Republicans who suffered them were given paper ballots dropped into a box that the Democrat election officials said would be counted later. When later arrived, it turned out that the uncounted ballots were “accidentally” mixed in with the counted ballots and could not be separated.
Even this was not enough to elect Kari Lake’s opponent, who was serving as Election Commissioner and controlling every step of the voting and counting. So for three days running the vote count stopped for 19 hours, 15 hours, 17 hours while Democrats forged Democrat votes.
When presented with the evidence, the Republican judge said that whereas all these failures occurred, there was no proof that they were intentional.
To be clear, a Republican judge ruled that as long as Democrats steal elections accidentally, it is OK.
So expect more accidentally stolen elections.
