Postmodern Law and American Political Persecution

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Published: 01 June 2024

Postmodern Law and American Political Persecution

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Lavrentiy Beria, the longest-serving head of Joseph Stalin’s secret police, is infamously credited with noting that he could prove criminal mischief even among the most innocent of men. The paramount overseer of the Soviet Union’s Gulag prison system and key architect of the political repression between 1938 and 1953 once bragged, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, who was elected in 2021 to his current position on the campaign pledge to go after Donald Trump, claimed mission accomplished with the guilty verdict on all 34-state felony counts his office received on Thursday May 30. The George Soros-funded DA had structural assistance in this dastardly legal scheme from the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ), the judge overseeing the trial, and a targeted geographically tiered judicial pool that is ideologically entrenched. Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln would have all been found “guilty” under a similar authoritarian, kangaroo court setting.

Of the four legal trials against the Republican Party frontrunner since his candidacy was tacitly evident, this is the most barefaced. The meddling from the political pulpit in the 2024 presidential election to attempt to assure a Democratic Party victory is being done out in the open. The courts are one of the Trojan horses used to mask their illegitimacy. The utilization of the justice system to silence opposition and influence election results is nothing new. Non-democratic regimes have always done it this way. Every single person sent to Russia’s, China’s, or Cuba’s gulags was done so under the auspices of the “law.” Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia eliminate opposition leaders by levying criminal accusations.

The Biden-Obama regime is knowingly following the scripts established and practiced by experienced dictatorships, adapted to the American model. The U.S. path to non-democratic rule is rougher and requires special considerations, given the intricacies of its federal system of government. This is why socialist-hospitable enclaves like New York City and Washington, D.C. (among others) are the preferred legal venues to fabricate crimes to achieve the ends they seek. When there exists a two-tiered legal system that is politically and ideologically predetermined, then the rule of law becomes a capricious element of structure based on where you live or if you fall within the federal grasp of Biden’s DOJ.  

 

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This is how the Left pulled off this Berian-like conviction in New York’s “hush money trial.” The whole court proceeding lacked elemental due process and followed a pattern of stretching the law and establishing precedents beyond the scope of accepted norms. Truly, this is the Marxist dream of postmodern law. The thirty-four counts all relate to one single occurrence: a bookkeeping infraction, at best, concerning a $130,000 payment under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) (perfectly legal) paid to a porn movie actress for sexual services (Stormy Daniels) in an alleged one-night stand that supposedly occurred in 2006. The prosecution’s key witness was a convicted perjurer (Michael Cohen) who, additionally, admitted to having stolen $60,000 from the Trump real estate conglomerate.

The judge umpiring the case, Juan Merchan, was the prosecution’s enabler. Medullary a Democrat, Merchan has donated to the Democratic Party and anti-Trump causes. Additionally, the judge’s daughter is a wholly committed employee of the Democratic establishment, making a living fundraising for Democratic political candidates. The trial that her father presides over has generated enormous sums of money, which she has benefited from financially. By working as an executive director at a top-notch Democratic firm that is connected directly with is Adam Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, Democratic Senate Majority PAC, and even Biden, Merchan’s daughter’s employment is grounds enough for him to have recused himself on conflict-of-interest grounds.

Perhaps the most influential entity on the prosecuting team was Matthew Colangelo, the number-three official at Biden’s DOJ, before transitioning to Manhattan’s DA office. Acting as the lead prosecutor, Colangelo laid the groundwork for the concocted legal theories that were explored to criminalize Trump’s legal actions. He served as the natural bridge between New York and the White House, in other words, between the Manhattan DA and the DOJ. Additionally, he has served as a paid political consultant to the Democratic National Committee. Fundamental to the prosecution’s strategy was to make the charges against Trump a felony since bookkeeping issues are a misdemeanor.

Colangelo and Bragg introduced novice, unchartered legal theories by arguing that New York voters had been “defrauded” in the 2016 election by Trump’s actions. Logically, this would place the jurisdiction in federal terrain, since the allegation involved supposed campaign finance violations. To neutralize the burdensome task of overriding logistical challenges that this judicial hypothesis would present, the cooperation of the presiding judge would be a prerequisite.  

To ensure that the outcome would, ultimately, be what it was, Judge Merchan effectively prevented key witnesses for Trump’s legal team from testifying by micromanaging what the defense could ask and what the witness could answer. One such example was election law expert Brad Smith, a former member of the Federal Election Commission. This witness was most important for the former president’s case. However, Merchan’s draconian limitations would render his testimony mute. The judge demanded to previously see in writing what the likely testimony would be.

The final and fatal blow to due process and Trump’s chance of a fair hearing was the unprecedented jury instructions given by Merchan to the 12 jurors. One of the hallmarks of American jurisprudence in criminal cases is the prosecutor’s burden of having to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In other words, to render a guilty verdict, the jury must be virtually certain of the defendant's guilt. Here, the judge would leave nothing to chance. A guilty verdict required that the jurors determine, by unanimity, that Trump falsified business records with “intent” to defraud. Furthermore, the payment made to buy silence for the alleged sexual favors was part of a “conspiracy” by “unlawful means” to elect Trump in 2016.   

Merchan broke with judicial protocol and tradition and established special rules for the jury to deliberate on. The left-wing judge allowed the jury to freely decide for themselves, according to their own personal standards, what those “unlawful means” were. In other words, they were free to imagine any path possible to arrive at the “unlawful” characterization. Clearly, this judicial curse epitomizes injustice and is a mockery of the rule of law. Considering the ample manipulation of the trial in the prosecutor's favor and the fact that the jury body consisted of one of the most hard-core Democratic Party populaces in the U.S., there was no way a different outcome could have been expected.

The utilization of the American court system to persecute, silence, and keep a candidate from competing in an election is an act of despotism. The radical Left will use all its resources to stop Trump from winning the 2024 election. It should be noted, however, that if the Republican candidate were any other non-globalist, conservative, anticommunist person, they too would face similar illiberal, antisystem wrath. Republicans, Independents, and centrist Democrats must realize that the American Republic undergoing an existential threat. God willing, Trump should win in November. It will take a brave course of restorative justice to return normalcy to the U.S. Those responsible for this authoritarian power grab must be held accountable. We all know who the suspects are. No one is above the law.

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Published: 08 May 2024

Marxism More Than Antisemitism Is Responsible for University Riots

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For the politically illiterate, the Palestinian cause is an easy sell. Concepts like “genocide,” “occupation,” “ethnic cleansing,” “liberation,” and “free Palestine” have been used to undermine and proselytize students into the political cult that is Marxism. A 3,000-year-old history set against a decades-long ideological campaign would seem overwhelmingly easy enough to paint a clear picture of knowledge. The fact that a Palestinian identity is a synthetic invention and has no basis for legitimate claims goes unnoticed. The radical Left’s dialectical maneuver for political power has exploited Islamism’s October 7 attack on Israel beyond the imagination of many. We are witnessing a low-level, quasi-insurrection at high-profile American university campuses where the existing order is being challenged.

Allan Bloom's classic, The Closing of the American Mind (1987), warned about dangers of curriculum changes, which began in the 1960s and gained a foothold by the 1970s, in the U.S. higher educational system. The Jewish American philosopher argued that this posed a threat to democracy and freedom of thought and expression. The “changes” Bloom noted, all stemmed from intellectual inroads that drew their fire from Marxist Critical Theory. The extension of a series of grievance studies programs with inherent postmodern appendages has succeeded in virtually monopolizing U.S. university courses. There is an ignoramus student body that has been indoctrinated as planned. 

It is disappointing and dangerous to see the bulk of the American political class and media commentators dwelling on the symptoms rather than the cause. The recent passage of the “Antisemitism Awareness Act” in the House of Representatives (still pending Senate approval) is an example of this erroneous perception. This “hate speech” legislation is horrific, as far as a free society is concerned. It curtails freedom of expression, is counterproductive to Israeli interests, and excuses the unwillingness of public officials to enforce existing civil rights laws.

The virulent attacks on Jews and the State of Israel in university campuses are clear, as is the unlawful takeover of public spaces and common university premises. However, the opinion that the protests and attacks on Jewry and the Jewish state are primarily grounded in antisemitism is simplistic and flawed. It overlooks an overarching underlying element that is present and substantiates this action. The context of the Palestinian “liberation” cause is at the heart of what drives the young university Jacobins to fanatism.

Herbert Marcuse, Franz Fanon, Edward Said, and Jean Paul Sartre are more responsible for these subversive actions that are being displayed, than hatred of the Torah, the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), the Talmud, or Zionism. Critical Post-Colonial Theory, a variant of the Frankfurt School’s concocted Critical Theory series of revolutionary calls to war premised on selected oppressor/oppressed dichotomies, underpins these acts. The British and French Mandates lawfully carved out West Asia and the Middle East from the partition of the Ottoman Empire. The State of Israel came to be, as did the modern-day states of Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt. Palestinian Arabs, it should be noted, were also given territory and the opportunity to form a state, but they rejected the offer. The former Soviet Union and the international communist community capitalized on this and immediately partnered with Arab nationalists linked to the geographical zone of Palestine. Thus began the Marxist wars to “free” Palestine and the invention of the labeled Palestinian identity. 

The rogue acts of subversion happening on U.S. campuses are well funded and organized. The money that underwrites many of the groups that are logistically coordinating the vandalism, protests, and public space occupations and destruction is a major donor to far-left groups, causes, and Democratic Party politicians. This includes benefactors of President Joe Biden. Mega tax-exempt structures such as the Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Libra Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have, at different intervals, flowed generous amounts of money to the most aggressive ultra-left movements spearheading the pro-Hamas protests. 

Groups like the Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, Palestine Legal, Solidaire Action, Climate Justice Alliance, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, and Immigrant Defense Project are some of the field militias that have spearheaded the despicable acts. All have received funding from one or more of the tax-protected donor conglomerates mentioned previously. Who heads these donor organizations? George Soros, Nicholas and Susan Pritzker (heirs of the Hyatt Hotel empire), Bill and Melinda Gates, and David Rockefeller Jr. It is well to note that Soros and the Pritzker’s are Jewish. This should emphasize the point that antisemitism is not the principle instigating factor.

The common denominator of this multidenominational force seeking to disrupt civility and challenge the American democratic order is Marxism, epistemologically, particularly Critical Theory, and globalist socialism, methodologically. In other words, Marxist doctrines are the most suitable intellectual frameworks, considering their emotional appeal. The practical finale is a Fabian socialist-like centralized globalized order. The State of Israel is, for them, part of Western civilization. Israel and non-Marxist Jews embody, according to this Marxist-Islamic alliance, white supremacist, colonialist, and patriarchal structures of power. The domestic problem of terrorist apologia and activism in American universities and cities is Marxism.

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Published: 17 April 2024

Can a New Minister Turn Around Cuba’s Battered Economy?

Answer Julio M. Shiling, director of Patria de Martí and the CubanAmerican Voice:

“Cuba has a chronic systemic problem. In the economic sense, this is what János Kornai described in his 1980 monograph, ‘Economics of Shortage.’ Cuban communism has maintained its economy in a socialist enclave, despite its market ventures using state-owned enterprises and concessionary capitalist tools. This has helped the Cuban regime to survive. The Cuban people, pragmatism. The Cuban regime’s economic ministerial replacement is of little relevance. Cuba is still a totalitarian state. Seminal decisions regarding policies, particularly ones that could be consequential, are decided beforehand by the top echelon of power. By the time it reaches the desk of Joaquín Alonso, as was the case with Alejandro Gil, they are simply orders to implement. Not even the Chinese or Vietnamese variants of market socialism appear workable in the Cuban context. This is clearly out of fear of losing power. Corruption is another mainstay in Cuba. It has molded into its essence. At the top levels of government, the pillaging of state assets, as well as the exploitation egregious. Scapegoating is another systemic characteristic. Gil is serving that role now. Cuba is transitioning to a socialist kleptocracy, a Putinism with Cuban characteristics. The people are aware of this scheme, which makes obvious the haves and the have-nots. The protests are a sign of popular discontent beyond recognition. It is a change of system, not a change of economic minister, that is desperately needed.”

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Published: 14 April 2024

Biden’s Costly Betrayal

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Appeasing evil has been proven to be historically costly. The Biden presidency, or better expressed, the Biden-Obama regime, has outdone any previous U.S. administration in advancing radical ideologies and their movements and making the world a more dangerous and less free place. Enamored by Shia Islamism and far-left proposals, first Barack Obama and then his proxy Joe Biden have managed to destroy equilibrium and, subsequently, the political ecosystem of the Middle East.

Claiming to have responded to an Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, a massive air attack was launched by the Islamic Shia dictatorship on Saturday, April 13. Iran launched 320 air assault weaponary consisting of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones. These are serious weapons of war. Had Israel not possessed its emblematic, state-of-the-art missile defense system, the country would have been devastated. The decision by Islamic despotism to take this brazen action marks a pivotal defeat for the West and proof that the U.S. under the current leadership has lost its path.

American foreign policy failures often have catastrophic and long-standing consequences. The Iranian tragedy began when Jimmy Carter betrayed the staunch pro-Western Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, thus enabling the radical Islamist Ruhollah Khomeini to seize power. The U.S. has not learned the lesson that often the medicine is worse than the disease. Dwight Eisenhower made the same mistake with Batista in Cuba and Carter, again, in Nicaragua with Somoza. What followed was much more tyrannical, impoverishing, and costly to democratic order. If you are going to strategize for the tumbling of an authoritarian regime, make sure its replacement will not be a totalitarian one.

 

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From the onset in 1979, the Iranian Shiite dictatorship declared a jihad on the U.S., Israel, and Western civilization. This war has never let up. The Islamic Republic of Iran facilitated its territory and state networks to partner with extremist Sunni movements and far-left regimes to make the world deadlier for democracy. Fortunately, the West was able to count on Israel and moderate Muslim Sunni countries to counterbalance the revolutionary ambitions of radical Islam. Obama sabotaged the delicate Middle East balance by favoring Khomeinist Iran and Islamic terror groups such as Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hezbollah. The use of Iranian land, money, logistics, and state power to further international jihad, a fused toxic blend of Islamism and Socialism, has had an enormous extraterritorial reach.

When Obama shepherded an infamous deal in 2015 that granted Iran access to an estimated $150 billion, which was made available in 2016, the needed funds for the jihad against the West were found. Money, commodities, and non-liquid financial assets are all fungible. It does not take much brilliance to conclude the enormous value of this transfer of wealth. The fact that the money “belonged” to Iran is irrelevant. It was kept from the coffers of the terrorist Islamic regime by the same rationale that assets are separated from organized crime units and drug cartel warlords. These lawless groups kill people and do terrible things. The U.S. Defense Department had conclusive evidence, as early as July 2015, that Iran was directly responsible for the deaths of over 500 U.S. soldiers by IED artifacts. The testimony of General Joseph S. Dunford, Jr., before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmed this fact. However, this disturbing information did nothing to dissuade Obama from pursuing this fatal giveaway to Iran.    

Biden, serving as Obama’s surrogate, deconstructed the sanctions that Donald Trump had placed on the Iranian dictatorship. Business was not only returned to usual; it was amplified. Authoritarian but pro-Western states such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates, among others, were pivoted again to the disadvantaged regional position of the Obama days. Iranian radicalism returned to being a pampered and protected American entity in Middle Eastern politics. Not even the audacious October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and the horrific slaughter and enslavement of Israeli citizens produced a divorce between Biden’s America and Khomeinist Iran.

Hamas has a symbiotic relationship with the Ayatollah regime. Without Iran, it would not have been possible to attack Israel. Despite this known and undisputable fact, Biden granted the Iranian regime a waiver on March 13, 2024, which gave Tehran access to $10 billion. This occurred a full five months after the Hamas invasion and in the middle of Israel’s exercise of its sovereign defense and hostage rescue attempts. Biden’s betrayal does not stop there. It goes on to arrogantly rewrite the rules of engagement in war, configured to benefit the Islamic aggressors.

Barak Ravid of Walla, an Israeli news website, reported and updated on Sunday, April 14, that Biden had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a telephone call, that the U.S. would not support Israel in a counterattack on Iran. Furthermore, a week earlier, Biden blatantly warned Israel that the U.S. would terminate support if an “immediate ceasefire” was not established, and the Israeli Defense Force withdraw from southern Gaza. Just as Israel is concluding it’s just war against Islamic jihadism, the current American president appears to want to avoid the collapse of Hamas.

During this time of darkness in American political leadership, which is owned by Islamism and the ultra-left, Israel must pursue total victory in Gaza, and it must strike back against the Islamic Republic of Iran. To not follow through with either of the objectives mentioned will only produce deadlier actions from the Islamic aggressors and their Marxist allies. The state of Israel, the lives of Jews and Christians, and the survival of the West are at stake. In the end, American society will not abandon Israel, even if Biden and the Left have already done so.

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