Since yesterday's reversal of Warren Jeffs' "rape as a fantasy-accomplice" conviction, the crackpots have been coming out of the woodpile. I just can't resist posting some of the absurd crap they have been spouting (their words are in italics).
FLORA JESSOP: "If Warren gets a new trial, I'm afraid that the FLDS are going to kill Elissa. They'll make it look like an accident, but they will kill her."
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JON KRAKAUER: “I, for one, do not doubt that there may have been a political basis for this decision, given the five members of the — the five justices on the Supreme Court’s close ties to the LDS church and the LDS Church’s own concerns with sexual abuse and what this says about, you know, how you can tie someone who compelled the abuse but didn’t actually commit the rape, how he can be held accountable. That’s — that’s a scary thing for some members high up in the LDS church.”
"The one — the one silver lining in this is if Texas — if Utah decides not to retry Warren, he will be more quickly extradited to Texas, where he faces very serious charges, much more serious, not as an accomplice to rape but an actual rapist.
And the evidence, in the raid of 2008, they uncovered a treasure trove of evidence, including a tape recording and a transcript of Warren raping a 12-year-old girl. Actually, she had been 11 until 24 days earlier.
She had been forced to marry Jeffs. She was raped in the temple on a special bed. Two of Jeffs’s older wives participated in the rape. It was tape recorded. Every grunt and perverted prayer and command to this girl."
"Things are getting — the people in Short Creek, the loyal followers of Warren, are getting all hinked up by this. They believe, you know, the propaganda about how this shows that Warren is innocent and the state is persecuting him and we should rise up."
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CAROLYN JESSOP: "As far as what information that we’re getting, that’s leaking out, apparently the reports are it’s still occurring. It’s a strong belief in the FLDS, that if the leadership authorizes an underage marriage that you are not to question this. It is a real tragedy." – ( . . and this after Fox 13's Ben Winslow reported yesterday that Mark Shurtleff has spies within the FLDS community who are reassuring him that new "underage marriages" have not been occurring any more [Renn]).
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JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: "This opinion, I find a disgrace. I had to read this opinion twice even to understand what they were saying was wrong with these jury instructions. It is the very definition of a technicality. It has nothing to do with his guilt or innocence."
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MARK SHURTLEFF told Rod Decker of channel 2 news that this was his worst loss before the Utah Supreme Court.
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So, my responses are:
TO FLORA:
Stop sniffing so much glue. You will become progressively dumber with each tube you sniff!
TO CRACKAUER:
Stop sniffing Flora's glue. The LDS Church hates the FLDS more than you do, so any connection between the Court and the Church would surely have impelled it to rule against Warren and not in his favor. You are another one of those liberal idiots who thinks the Constitution is like a father who won't give the keys of his Cadillac to his twelve-year-old son, so it should be abolished. Remember that the the vigilante justice you crave will eventually take your freedoms away, too.
Plus, you can yak all you want about a sex tape but, if it exists, it was illegally seized, and it will NEVER be allowed into evidence. What law-enforcement official leaked it to you, and how is it proof of a crime that cannot have occurred? All you are is a pathetic sensation-monger.
TO CAROLYN:
Get your facts straight. If you are so right about the ubiquitous rigidity of FLDS leadership, don't you think that no sane member would dare to contravene its rules and marry an underage girl anyway? Live by the sword - die by the sword (or the American legal system).
TO TOOBIN:
I had no idea that you were such an idiot, too. The jury instructions may have been what merited the reversal, but the charges themselves were just as unconstitutional. If the charges and the crime were truly valid all along, you will soon see Shurtleff agreeing to a swift retrial, and, if that happens, I'll give you one of my wives. If the Court could have found any grounds on which to uphold the conviction, its deep ties to the Utah establishment would have sealed the deal. Come and visit Utah, and you will learn that hatred of polygamists is hard-coded into the local DNA. Polygamists only win when all other avenues for bigotry and persecution have been exhausted.
TO SHURTLEFF:
Get a life! I don't believe that all the fuss you make about nailing Warren (and bungling his conviction) is sincere. I believe it is all politics and grandstanding. Elissa Wall has not been entirely truthful, and you know it. Go catch some real criminals.
I made a point of re-reading the Supreme Court's opinion and, in particular, its surprisingly cringing apology and disclaimer. You will notice that the Court makes reference to the "underlying crime". This is baffling because, if Warren Jeffs is now once again presumed to be innocent, and Allen Steed has not been convicted, what possible "CRIME" could they talking about? Amid the rest of their unanimous Constitutional brilliance, how could they have overlooked this major boo-boo?
"We regret the effect our opinion today may have on the victim of the underlying crime, to whom we do not wish to cause additional pain. However, we must ensure that the laws are applied evenly and appropriately, in this case as in every case, in order to protect the constitutional principles on which our legal system is based."
OOPS !!!!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Hand In Cookie Jar
I am adding a follow-up comment to the previous Jeffs conviction reversal blogpost.
A closer read of the Utah Supreme Court opinion reveals that the Court adamantly disagreed with the prosecution's theory arguing that Jeffs was guilty of being an accomplice to rape.
From the start of this case, it was evident that Shurtleff, DuPaix, Fischer, Hoole and company were NOT sincerely interested in nailing Allen Steed. They were so driven to target Warren Jeffs, that nothing else mattered. If anyone seriously believed that Allen Steed was a "rapist" for marrying his young cousin, then no one really followed through. To this day, nothing has happened in the Steed rape case (and it probably won't). This was all about twisting, bending, tweaking, torquing, contorting, plying, manipulating and contriving the accomplice liability standard, in order to ensnare Warren Jeffs.
Problem is - they messed up! The Court articulately reprimands the State for contriving a theory of guilt which misinterprets the Utah statute. The State complains that Jeffs held a position of "special" trust in Wall's life. True - no one disagrees. The problem with this reasoning is that, if Steed was the real rapist - the real "actor", then we must ask if Steed was the one who held a position of special trust (and he didn't). The other problem is that, in order for accomplice liability to be met, Jeffs would have had to satisfy ALL of the following three elements:
1. He would have had to have a (mens rea) desire that a "rape" occur.
2. He would have had to exercise that "desire" by acting, coaxing, fomenting, assisting the rape to occur.
3. The actual crime of rape has to have been shown to have been committed (which it wasn't).
The Court observed that the State failed to show that element #1, INTENT, truly occurred. The Court also points out that the State completely BUNGLED its identification of the DEFENDANT (Jeffs) and the [alleged] ACTOR (Steed). The State was so blinded by its thirst to target Jeffs, that it forgot to cleanly distinguish between the two parties - Actor and Defendant, oftentimes treating Jeffs as the Actor, when he plainly was not the Actor (rapist), thus conflating the two.
This is the simplest explanation I can give of some of the legal logic behind the reversal. What is also fascinating is that Shurtleff announced today that he likely will not seek a re-trial, partly because, if the previous contortion of the jury instructions was ineffective (unconstitutional!), then no amount of legal acrobatics will get those jury instructions to work at a new trial. Furthermore, if this witch hunt had not been disingenuous in the first place, wouldn't Shurtleff be racing to the U.S. Supreme Court to get it to overrule this Utah decision which so "disappointed" him?
What I find truly pathetic is Shurtleff's remark that he will perhaps go "back to the legislature" and try to get some legislation that will more successfully focus on this type of crime. Maybe he wants to get the Utah legislature to modify the Constitution so that it can better attack Warren Jeffs. Wasn't Shurtleff satisfied when he rammed through his pet (hugely unConstitutional and NEVER-USED) "Child Bigamy" statute? Wasn't he satisfied when he wooed Texas's legislature into adjusting its laws to directly attack the FLDS? The Court made it perfectly clear that you cannot be classed as an accomplice to crime merely because you did a certain thing - just as a homeowner cannot be charged as an accomplice to burglary simply for forgetting to lock his doors. DUUUUUUHHHHH !!!!!!
Plus, Texas is itching to get its hands on Jeffs. Utah has to hurry up and decide if it wants to waste years and $$$millions on a pointless re-trial, or let Jeffs go home a free man. If justice doesn't always work, karma and poetic irony sure do help out sometimes.
In a further irony, a Texas man was recently convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl whom he also impregnated (when she was 15). The man got a sentence of two years of probation! I have to ask myself if he should not have been subject to Hildy Harferbrain's (79-year) sentencing enhancement by virtue of the fact that the pair were "legally not able to marry".
Perhaps Texas will soon have the "Yellow Egg Of Texas" all over its face, just as Utah got its little red hands caught in the proverbial cookie jar.
Go Christine !!!!! Go Wally !!!!!
A closer read of the Utah Supreme Court opinion reveals that the Court adamantly disagreed with the prosecution's theory arguing that Jeffs was guilty of being an accomplice to rape.
From the start of this case, it was evident that Shurtleff, DuPaix, Fischer, Hoole and company were NOT sincerely interested in nailing Allen Steed. They were so driven to target Warren Jeffs, that nothing else mattered. If anyone seriously believed that Allen Steed was a "rapist" for marrying his young cousin, then no one really followed through. To this day, nothing has happened in the Steed rape case (and it probably won't). This was all about twisting, bending, tweaking, torquing, contorting, plying, manipulating and contriving the accomplice liability standard, in order to ensnare Warren Jeffs.
Problem is - they messed up! The Court articulately reprimands the State for contriving a theory of guilt which misinterprets the Utah statute. The State complains that Jeffs held a position of "special" trust in Wall's life. True - no one disagrees. The problem with this reasoning is that, if Steed was the real rapist - the real "actor", then we must ask if Steed was the one who held a position of special trust (and he didn't). The other problem is that, in order for accomplice liability to be met, Jeffs would have had to satisfy ALL of the following three elements:
1. He would have had to have a (mens rea) desire that a "rape" occur.
2. He would have had to exercise that "desire" by acting, coaxing, fomenting, assisting the rape to occur.
3. The actual crime of rape has to have been shown to have been committed (which it wasn't).
The Court observed that the State failed to show that element #1, INTENT, truly occurred. The Court also points out that the State completely BUNGLED its identification of the DEFENDANT (Jeffs) and the [alleged] ACTOR (Steed). The State was so blinded by its thirst to target Jeffs, that it forgot to cleanly distinguish between the two parties - Actor and Defendant, oftentimes treating Jeffs as the Actor, when he plainly was not the Actor (rapist), thus conflating the two.
This is the simplest explanation I can give of some of the legal logic behind the reversal. What is also fascinating is that Shurtleff announced today that he likely will not seek a re-trial, partly because, if the previous contortion of the jury instructions was ineffective (unconstitutional!), then no amount of legal acrobatics will get those jury instructions to work at a new trial. Furthermore, if this witch hunt had not been disingenuous in the first place, wouldn't Shurtleff be racing to the U.S. Supreme Court to get it to overrule this Utah decision which so "disappointed" him?
What I find truly pathetic is Shurtleff's remark that he will perhaps go "back to the legislature" and try to get some legislation that will more successfully focus on this type of crime. Maybe he wants to get the Utah legislature to modify the Constitution so that it can better attack Warren Jeffs. Wasn't Shurtleff satisfied when he rammed through his pet (hugely unConstitutional and NEVER-USED) "Child Bigamy" statute? Wasn't he satisfied when he wooed Texas's legislature into adjusting its laws to directly attack the FLDS? The Court made it perfectly clear that you cannot be classed as an accomplice to crime merely because you did a certain thing - just as a homeowner cannot be charged as an accomplice to burglary simply for forgetting to lock his doors. DUUUUUUHHHHH !!!!!!
Plus, Texas is itching to get its hands on Jeffs. Utah has to hurry up and decide if it wants to waste years and $$$millions on a pointless re-trial, or let Jeffs go home a free man. If justice doesn't always work, karma and poetic irony sure do help out sometimes.
In a further irony, a Texas man was recently convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl whom he also impregnated (when she was 15). The man got a sentence of two years of probation! I have to ask myself if he should not have been subject to Hildy Harferbrain's (79-year) sentencing enhancement by virtue of the fact that the pair were "legally not able to marry".
Perhaps Texas will soon have the "Yellow Egg Of Texas" all over its face, just as Utah got its little red hands caught in the proverbial cookie jar.
Go Christine !!!!! Go Wally !!!!!
VINDICATION !!!!
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH
CONCLUSION
"¶53 Because we hold that the trial court’s instructions to the jury regarding lack of consent were in error, we reverse Jeffs’ two convictions of rape as an accomplice and remand for a new trial."
Wow !!! Yours truly could not possibly be happier today. I always said that I wished that I could have been on the Warren Jeffs jury, because I would have hung that jury faster than you can say NOT GUILTY. Frankly, I cannot figure out why intelligent, upstanding American jurors like those in Warren's case did not also see the absurdity of the charges. Could it be that people can be swayed by religious prejudice and bigotry?
This morning, the Utah State Supreme Court ruled (unanimously) that Warren Jeffs' conviction as an "accomplice to rape" was BOGUS (in particular because of erroneous jury instructions).
If I am enjoying satisfaction over this, it is because I know that the people who pursued Warren Jeffs did not have clean hands. They had hatred and malice and hubris. They wanted his blood, and they would stop at nothing to inflict harm on him, even though they knew that they were guilty of lying and cheating and distorting. They stretched the statute of limitations; they fabricated evidence; they committed perjury on the witness stand.
I believe our Republic is dead. Just look at ObamaCare and Cap and Trade! Our government is entirely corrupt and headed for the dung-heap of history. However, those conspirators who lusted for Warren's blood will reap the sorrow and despondency that they sowed. Today, they will have some wind knocked out of them, because Utah's justices faced up to the fact that you can't charge someone as an accomplice to rape for performing a void ceremony where the intent to rape was absent.
I rejoice with those members of Warren's family who must now finally be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. I laugh loudly at the prospect of a re-trial, since JEFFS-TRIAL II would be a bigger circus than the first. Does Utah's Attorney General seriously want to risk his precious reputation by getting that pack of lying jackals back on the stand to perjure and fabricate, when everyone knows they are frauds? I think not.
I think back to August of 2006, when the hysteria was peaking. Warren was on America's Top Ten Most Wanted list with Charles Manson, Theodore Bundy, Saddam Hussein, Timothy McVeigh, Obama Bin Laden, Adolf Hitler and the Unabomber. All that fuss!!! Do you think polygamy had anything to do with it?
Warren's jailers have scorned him not a little for fasting and praying for justice and vindication. Arizona has dropped its charges. He is free of Utah's charges. Now, all that is left is for Texas to charge him with having sex with a girl with whom he could not possibly have had sex.
Maybe Texas, Utah and Arizona should arrest him again and charge him with felony unpopularity or something similarly creative and fantasmagorical. I can't count on a momentum shift, but I sure wouldn't mind if the Court were soon to stick it to Lintbag and Wisass, too.
CONCLUSION
"¶53 Because we hold that the trial court’s instructions to the jury regarding lack of consent were in error, we reverse Jeffs’ two convictions of rape as an accomplice and remand for a new trial."
Wow !!! Yours truly could not possibly be happier today. I always said that I wished that I could have been on the Warren Jeffs jury, because I would have hung that jury faster than you can say NOT GUILTY. Frankly, I cannot figure out why intelligent, upstanding American jurors like those in Warren's case did not also see the absurdity of the charges. Could it be that people can be swayed by religious prejudice and bigotry?
This morning, the Utah State Supreme Court ruled (unanimously) that Warren Jeffs' conviction as an "accomplice to rape" was BOGUS (in particular because of erroneous jury instructions).
If I am enjoying satisfaction over this, it is because I know that the people who pursued Warren Jeffs did not have clean hands. They had hatred and malice and hubris. They wanted his blood, and they would stop at nothing to inflict harm on him, even though they knew that they were guilty of lying and cheating and distorting. They stretched the statute of limitations; they fabricated evidence; they committed perjury on the witness stand.
I believe our Republic is dead. Just look at ObamaCare and Cap and Trade! Our government is entirely corrupt and headed for the dung-heap of history. However, those conspirators who lusted for Warren's blood will reap the sorrow and despondency that they sowed. Today, they will have some wind knocked out of them, because Utah's justices faced up to the fact that you can't charge someone as an accomplice to rape for performing a void ceremony where the intent to rape was absent.
I rejoice with those members of Warren's family who must now finally be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. I laugh loudly at the prospect of a re-trial, since JEFFS-TRIAL II would be a bigger circus than the first. Does Utah's Attorney General seriously want to risk his precious reputation by getting that pack of lying jackals back on the stand to perjure and fabricate, when everyone knows they are frauds? I think not.
I think back to August of 2006, when the hysteria was peaking. Warren was on America's Top Ten Most Wanted list with Charles Manson, Theodore Bundy, Saddam Hussein, Timothy McVeigh, Obama Bin Laden, Adolf Hitler and the Unabomber. All that fuss!!! Do you think polygamy had anything to do with it?
Warren's jailers have scorned him not a little for fasting and praying for justice and vindication. Arizona has dropped its charges. He is free of Utah's charges. Now, all that is left is for Texas to charge him with having sex with a girl with whom he could not possibly have had sex.
Maybe Texas, Utah and Arizona should arrest him again and charge him with felony unpopularity or something similarly creative and fantasmagorical. I can't count on a momentum shift, but I sure wouldn't mind if the Court were soon to stick it to Lintbag and Wisass, too.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Stupid White People
I bet you'll accuse me of being a "racist" because I write about stupid white people. After all, it's not difficult to get accused of being a racist nowadays. Pretty much, you are a racist if you:
Own a farm,
Own a company,
Are a Republican,
Are a Libertarian,
Are a conservative,
Believe in the Bible,
Don't live in an inner-city,
Believe in the Constitution,
Resent illegal immigration,
Dread Obama's redistribution agenda,
Talk about "White Power" or "White Pride",
or teach your children against miscegenation.
Truth is - there are evil (and good) people in all the races, and presumably all races want to preserve their heritage (cultural and racial). There is a project underway in Cornwall, England, where a few hundred remaining speakers of the Cornish language are diligently recording mp3 audio files of their fast-dying language. They are sad that the younger generation has not upheld Cornish language traditions, and they want history not to forget them.
If white people cared at all about their heritage and blood lineages and all that, they would do well to make similar attempts to preserve them, like, say, by REPRODUCING !!! (and putting down their guns).
The countries of western Europe (England, Germany, France, Italy, etc.) systematically pay their subjects/citizens to have children (for fear of extinction and other catastrophes). It is not working well. More the half of British households are a single person, and the most common newborn baby boy name in the UK is Mohammed.
I could be wrong, but a cursory glance at the last few centuries of world history would suggest that somebody wants the white race to shrink as a percentage of world population (and shrink it sure will). In ancient history, it was generally different races/nations who went to war against each other. More recent wars, commencing with the American Revolution and the Civil War, seem to have succeeded in pitting white folk against white folk - - the net result being - lots of dead white folk. We saw the same thing with the Great War (WW-I), resulting in the deaths of some 37 million (mostly white) folk.
In Tsarist Russia, there were once approximately 175 million white Christian Russ (the largest Christian population on the planet). Thanks to evil guys like Stalin and his buddies, that number has been cut in half.
Why, then, do I say "stupid white people"? Well, because it seems to me that white people: Shemitic, Hebraic, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, Reuben, Judah, Gad, Zebulun, Asher, Benjamin, Levi, Simeon, Issachar, Naphtali, Ephraim, Joseph and Manasseh, should figure out how to stop warring against each other, their own kinfolk. But no, they are stupid, or somebody tricks them into going to war against each other (see brothers Max and Paul Warburg who financed each side of World War One).
This takes me to the vicissitudes stirring in the twin towns of Hildale and Colorado City. Paternalistic interference in the community's local governance has caused more trouble than it initially proposed to prevent. A handful of stupid white people (names mentioned in earlier posts) have taken it upon themselves to stir up more trouble. Frivolous law-suits, trumped up allegations, conspiracies with lawyers, courts, law-enforcement and fiduciaries, have all combined to bring about the desired effect - to bring destruction upon an unpopular minority. And this is no ethnic conflict. The players are generally white folk, and some very stupid.
I call upon all stupid white folk to stop being stupid and remember the lessons of history.
Own a farm,
Own a company,
Are a Republican,
Are a Libertarian,
Are a conservative,
Believe in the Bible,
Don't live in an inner-city,
Believe in the Constitution,
Resent illegal immigration,
Dread Obama's redistribution agenda,
Talk about "White Power" or "White Pride",
or teach your children against miscegenation.
Truth is - there are evil (and good) people in all the races, and presumably all races want to preserve their heritage (cultural and racial). There is a project underway in Cornwall, England, where a few hundred remaining speakers of the Cornish language are diligently recording mp3 audio files of their fast-dying language. They are sad that the younger generation has not upheld Cornish language traditions, and they want history not to forget them.
If white people cared at all about their heritage and blood lineages and all that, they would do well to make similar attempts to preserve them, like, say, by REPRODUCING !!! (and putting down their guns).
The countries of western Europe (England, Germany, France, Italy, etc.) systematically pay their subjects/citizens to have children (for fear of extinction and other catastrophes). It is not working well. More the half of British households are a single person, and the most common newborn baby boy name in the UK is Mohammed.
I could be wrong, but a cursory glance at the last few centuries of world history would suggest that somebody wants the white race to shrink as a percentage of world population (and shrink it sure will). In ancient history, it was generally different races/nations who went to war against each other. More recent wars, commencing with the American Revolution and the Civil War, seem to have succeeded in pitting white folk against white folk - - the net result being - lots of dead white folk. We saw the same thing with the Great War (WW-I), resulting in the deaths of some 37 million (mostly white) folk.
In Tsarist Russia, there were once approximately 175 million white Christian Russ (the largest Christian population on the planet). Thanks to evil guys like Stalin and his buddies, that number has been cut in half.
Why, then, do I say "stupid white people"? Well, because it seems to me that white people: Shemitic, Hebraic, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/Israel, Reuben, Judah, Gad, Zebulun, Asher, Benjamin, Levi, Simeon, Issachar, Naphtali, Ephraim, Joseph and Manasseh, should figure out how to stop warring against each other, their own kinfolk. But no, they are stupid, or somebody tricks them into going to war against each other (see brothers Max and Paul Warburg who financed each side of World War One).
This takes me to the vicissitudes stirring in the twin towns of Hildale and Colorado City. Paternalistic interference in the community's local governance has caused more trouble than it initially proposed to prevent. A handful of stupid white people (names mentioned in earlier posts) have taken it upon themselves to stir up more trouble. Frivolous law-suits, trumped up allegations, conspiracies with lawyers, courts, law-enforcement and fiduciaries, have all combined to bring about the desired effect - to bring destruction upon an unpopular minority. And this is no ethnic conflict. The players are generally white folk, and some very stupid.
I call upon all stupid white folk to stop being stupid and remember the lessons of history.
Fox Guarding Hen House II
You know I like to point out ironies in the world around us. The irony I'll highlight in today's post has nothing to do with polygamy, and everything to do with Gadianton robbers (of at least Book of Mormon fame).
I watched the news this morning and learned that Senate Minority leader, John Boehner (R-Ohio), is asking for the new Financial Reform Bill (passed yesterday in the Senate) to be swiftly repealed (partly because it does nothing to address the huge abuses perpetrated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). Boehner's critics are accusing him of "siding with the banks". Ostensibly, the purpose of this (Obama's) bill is to shield the nation against another meltdown like that of 2008 and place many more checks on American financial institutions. That all sounds well and good. Who among us has read and understood this 2,300 page bill? Did you know that the bill already has so many problems and loopholes that Congress is frantically working to pass a second bill to fix the problems in the first one?
Okay - so what is the big IRONY, you ask? Well, the entity which has been tasked to oversee the regulation of our nation's private financial institutions is the Federal Reserve. That would be just fine if the Federal Reserve really were "federal". In truth, the "Federal Reserve Act" was passed in 1913 after efforts to pass it the year before had failed. It had first been called the "Aldrich Plan", and the People had rejected it, knowing it was meant to concentrate the power to issue money into the hands of a private, central bank. Slyly, the name was changed to "Federal Reserve" (eventually to be set up as 12 regional, member banks). This was sufficient to hoodwink the people, and the bill passed. Do not have any illusions that this private "system" of banks is in any way "FEDERAL"! For a simple explanation, see the following two links:
The Truth of the Federal Reserve System
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
So, now that the bill has passed, the (ever-private) Federal Reserve will perform all of the regulation of private financial institutions, deciding which ones will succeed and which will fail. The federal government has let the fox into the hen house. Methinks that the exquisite irony is that it is Obama, Pelosi and Reid who are "siding with the banks"!
Don't say I didn't warn you (and watch out for that Berwick creep whom Obama just [recess-]appointed to run ObamaCare [Medicare/Medicaid] and the end-of-life, care-rationing death-panel).
It's "sigh and cry" time.
I watched the news this morning and learned that Senate Minority leader, John Boehner (R-Ohio), is asking for the new Financial Reform Bill (passed yesterday in the Senate) to be swiftly repealed (partly because it does nothing to address the huge abuses perpetrated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). Boehner's critics are accusing him of "siding with the banks". Ostensibly, the purpose of this (Obama's) bill is to shield the nation against another meltdown like that of 2008 and place many more checks on American financial institutions. That all sounds well and good. Who among us has read and understood this 2,300 page bill? Did you know that the bill already has so many problems and loopholes that Congress is frantically working to pass a second bill to fix the problems in the first one?
Okay - so what is the big IRONY, you ask? Well, the entity which has been tasked to oversee the regulation of our nation's private financial institutions is the Federal Reserve. That would be just fine if the Federal Reserve really were "federal". In truth, the "Federal Reserve Act" was passed in 1913 after efforts to pass it the year before had failed. It had first been called the "Aldrich Plan", and the People had rejected it, knowing it was meant to concentrate the power to issue money into the hands of a private, central bank. Slyly, the name was changed to "Federal Reserve" (eventually to be set up as 12 regional, member banks). This was sufficient to hoodwink the people, and the bill passed. Do not have any illusions that this private "system" of banks is in any way "FEDERAL"! For a simple explanation, see the following two links:
The Truth of the Federal Reserve System
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
So, now that the bill has passed, the (ever-private) Federal Reserve will perform all of the regulation of private financial institutions, deciding which ones will succeed and which will fail. The federal government has let the fox into the hen house. Methinks that the exquisite irony is that it is Obama, Pelosi and Reid who are "siding with the banks"!
Don't say I didn't warn you (and watch out for that Berwick creep whom Obama just [recess-]appointed to run ObamaCare [Medicare/Medicaid] and the end-of-life, care-rationing death-panel).
It's "sigh and cry" time.
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