Friday, June 7, 2019

In which I actually agree with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC says Paul Manafort ought to be released from solitary confinement. I think she's right (in fact, I don't think he should have been sent to Rikers at all); and if you smell Deep State involvement, you're correct.
What we are all looking at is how criminal Deep State is, demonstrating how it can use the levers of power to turn a first-world country into a banana republic. We aren't seeing normal things from these people - we are seeing some incredible abuses of power.

Manafort was convicted earlier and is doing time in Pennsylvania for white collar crimes around taxable income and foreign agent registration. These are crimes few are ever prosecuted for, but they were real enough. Now he's a wedge player in a new and very dirty deep-state political game. The Manhattan district attorney's office is throwing the elderly, now wheelchair-bound former campaign manager into Rikers Island prison, not because of any Rikers Island-worthy thuggery he could have done, but because they want to pressure him to cooperate with them to deliver Trump's head on a platter to them.
If we're not vigilant, we're all going to wake up someday and wonder just how the hell America turned into a gangster-socialist dystopia.

1 comment:

RebeccaH said...

Things are getting really scary in the People's Republic of Washington DC.