COMMENT WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
"Special
prosecutor Robert Mueller 'will take Donald Trump from frying pan to fire' over
Russia investigation"
Then there'll be a mighty thin meal because there is no meat
here. Not a scrap. None.
Fire, hot pans, shouting, cooks sweating in a hot kitchen
and absolutely nothing to prepare. That is the ridiculous spectacle we see right
now in Washington.
Not everyone understands that impeachment is, in fact, a
trial - a long, complicated trial involving some of the nation's finest legal
minds at work.
I know the United States does many questionable and even
brutally- stupid things, but I do think bringing someone important to a trial,
a guaranteed international spectacle, with absolutely no evidence of any kind,
just a lot of shouting and accusations, is not one of them. It is a guaranteed
formula for failure. Does any thinking person, not a rabid partisan, believe
the United States or the world deserve that?
It cannot happen because even the guys doing all the shouting
know that they have nothing in the prosecutor's brief. However, the efforts and
noise and groundless accusations can paralyze the government, blunt its efforts
at any reasonable policy (such as, establishing a peaceful relationship with
Russia). Of course, there are many other important matters, like the health of
the entire Western economy, that the effort can also damage. An executive
branch paralyzed by continuous and complete nonsense is dangerous for us all.
The politicians know they only have the accusations of angry
partisans like Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi plus the
questionable assertions of Mr. Comey, an old Democratic Hillary partisan and a
man who proved himself inept while in office if we are to believe that very same
group of accusers - Hillary, Schumer, Pelosi, etc - by their own words of just
months ago, all easily still found on the Internet.
Of course, the real danger here is the massive effort to
undo a properly-conducted election. A great deal of that effort is coming from
the security services, especially the CIA, including some former members of
that dark organization.
They don’t like Trump because he, early on, disparaged their
importance (as many of us feel is more than fitting) and they have willing
helpers in the arrogant walking wounded of the Democratic Party who just cannot
believe both that they lost the election and that they had an insider (almost
certainly the late Seth Rich) leak the official secrets of their corrupt
internal workings. Better to blame the Russians on all counts, and blaming the
Russians does also help feed the new Cold War fires now raging in Washington,
fires set alight by that smiling psychopath, Obama, with his destructive drives
and policies in Europe.
After all, isn’t that the kind of thing the CIA does abroad,
often work to unseat legitimate governments? It did so in Ukraine. It did so in
Libya. It did so in Egypt. It is working at doing so in Syria. And it did so in
many other places. Well, now, the ugly activity has come home to roost, the
ultimate form of what security agencies call “blowback.”
America is in the process of tearing apart what very little
legitimacy it has left as a democratic state, and millions stand around and
cheer because they have been hyped day-and-night by our pathetic corporate
media who never work to explain what really is happening anywhere, only passing
on the re-written press releases of officialdom.
If you want an accurate perspective on the matter, we have
Stephen F. Cohen, distinguished Princeton professor and a genuine expert on
Russian affairs, someone who many times in past years was consulted by the American
government itself, saying this:
