Item One: The US Senate is tangled up in the matter of renewing (or not renewing) Section 2015 of the USA PATRIOT Act, relating to the NSA's unconstitutional collection of phone data.
Item Two: Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, was indicted last week on charges of withdrawing money from his bank accounts in such a way as to not trigger bank reporting requirements, and lying to federal agents about why he did so.
Are the two items related?
To wit, was the indictment thrown out there at the time it was for the specific purpose of threatening US Senators who might be considering voting against the renewal?
"Nice political career / post-political prospects ya got there ... be a shame if anything happened to them ... xoxo, your friends in the national security establishment."
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
The KN@PP Stir Podcast, 05/30/15
This week's episode is brought to you by Darryl W Perry:
In this episode:
In this episode:
- Thanks For Asking! (Rand Paul and the USA PATRIOT Act re-authorization fight);
- brief Garrison Center update;
- periodic appeal for support, with family medical situation sprinkles.
Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
Wired reports. In her lecture to the latest high-profile American political prisoner, Judge Katherine Forrest said "Silk Road's birth and presence asserted that its ... creator was better than the laws of this country." Well, yes, he and it were and are better than The Preet Bharara crime family, its rules, and her theatrics, if those three things are what she means by "this country."
A relevant voice from the grave:
That, with its atttendant pyramids of skulls, is what Bharara, Forrest and their co-conspirators are willing to risk in their bid to keep their authoritarian rackets going at the expense of every honest human being.
Yes, sooner or later they're going to lose. But it won't be pretty.
A relevant voice from the grave:
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.
That, with its atttendant pyramids of skulls, is what Bharara, Forrest and their co-conspirators are willing to risk in their bid to keep their authoritarian rackets going at the expense of every honest human being.
Yes, sooner or later they're going to lose. But it won't be pretty.
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