THE INSANE CIRCUS NOW GOING ON IN WASHINGTON – A SAD PARODY
OF JOSEPH MCCARTHY WAVING FISTFULS OF BLANK PAPER IN THE EARLY 1950s, INSISTING
THEY WERE LISTS OF RUSSIAN SPIES
John Chuckman
The single most important point to keep in mind about the
“Russians did it” three-ring circus underway in Washington - after the
essential fact that still no proof has been provided to support accusations
coming from the highest level - is that there is no issue around the contrived
notion of interfering in an American election or endangering American security.
None.
What essentially happened in this leak of private
information – yes, I think it was leak, not a case of hacking – was that
personal conversations of a highly embarrassing nature were released to the
public.
That is not a crime against the state. That is not a matter
of national security. And that is not interference in a country’s election.
Those are all stupidly false issues even to raise here.
This is the sort of information that gossip columnists or
investigative reporters or authors of tell-all books have always been ready to
provide the public.
No such reporter or writer is regarded as a spy. None of
them is viewed as an agent of a foreign power. But, of course, they are very
much resented by the people hurt or embarrassed by the information they
provide.
So, we have a double fraud here being perpetrated, right
before our eyes, at the highest level in America.
The first fraud is the deliberately dishonest notion that
the release of private gossip in any way represented interference in an
election.
The second fraud is the unproven assertion that Russia was
somehow responsible for obtaining the information.
My mind is not closed to any possible truth here, I do not
pre-judge and assert that we are being showered with falsehoods by Obama and
his servants, although I do believe that is what is close to certain.
And I believe that it is close to certain because my
instincts tell me strongly that when someone makes strong accusations and
provides no believable proof, the accusations are almost certainly false, and,
as a matter of principle, they should be regarded as false.
This goes double when the accusations are dressed up in
strikingly dishonest language - the kind of language beloved by a lowlife
politician like John McCain or a demonstrated reckless-tongued and prejudiced
anti-Russian bureaucrat such as James Clapper – language, delivered with
theatrically somber tones and faces, about interfering in America’s democracy.
Incidentally, intelligence staff’s disgraceful characterization of Assange as a
pedophile exactly mimics the empty accusations of sexual perversion old Joseph
McCarthy used to level at some of his targets.
Gossip is not interfering in democracy. It is just
information people may weigh when they vote, just as valid or not as any other
information available. Indeed, its information value to each voter is privately
weighed against empty campaign slogans and an avalanche of truly false news
provided by an utterly-biased corporate press in the last election. Voters were
arguably better informed than in a long time.
What a tiresome circus Washington has become with this
matter. All these well-paid officials asserting this or that, carrying on with
speeches and committees, and concocting completely unconvincing proof.
Meanwhile the nation is absolutely jammed with serious problems receiving no
attention. That fact alone tells you more than you may want to know about America’s
political establishment.
And all of the circus is because the insanely ambitious
Hillary Clinton cannot accept that she is not widely liked and was defeated for
that simple reason.
And all because the Democratic Party, married tightly and
corruptly to the Clintons as its biggest source of money for years, cannot
accept that it ran the wrong candidate.
And all because the Chairman of Hillary’s disastrous
campaign, John Podesta, cannot face the embarrassingly stupid fact of his own
utter carelessness, his computer password having been “password.”
As Julian Assange has said, a 14-year old could have hacked
Podesta’s computer easily. And may we not ask, if what the password guarded was
indeed so precious, why wouldn’t this man be considered the chief guilty party
for his negligence?
And also, finally, because one of the most disappointing
presidents in American history, a man who has failed at most of what he has
attempted except at mass killing and displaying extreme arrogance, Obama,
viscerally dislikes Vladimir Putin for besting him in Ukraine and in Syria.
He is also miffed and embarrassed that his ridiculous
crisscrossing of the country in Air Force One, at public expense for a private
purpose, failed to elect Hillary.
He is even further resentful at the lost prospect of being
appointed to the Supreme Court by Hillary, something there is every reason to
believe she promised him.
As for pretentious appointed hacks like James Clapper, well,
the entire history of what I like to call Big Intelligence is littered with
their fraudulent claims and failed projects.
There hasn’t been a significant American war in which Big
Intelligence didn’t play a role of first concocting “evidence,” the kind of
stuff that would be thrown out of any court of law but which serves just fine
to assist politicians in temporarily bamboozling the public.
Readers may be interested in the fact of Obama’s unusually
cozy relationship with the Pentagon - yes, the Obama of the Peace Prize and
people’s 2008 hopes and the big smile and the baritone voice, but also the
Obama of all the killing and arrogance and abject failure:
He is their man.
