Authored by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog,
In the December 4th statement that was made by Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan was this:
We have become the shining city on a hill. We have become the nation that leads the world in understanding what democracy is. One of the things we understand most profoundly is it’s not a real democracy, it’s not a mature democracy if the party in power uses the criminal process to go after its enemies. I think you heard testimony, the Intelligence Committee heard testimony about how it isn’t just our national interest in protecting our own elections. It’s not just our national interest in making sure that the Ukraine remains strong and on the front lines so they fight the Russians there and we don’t have to fight them here.
It’s also our national interest in promoting democracy worldwide, and if we look hypocritical about this, if we look like we’re asking other countries to interfere in our election, if we look like we’re asking other countries to engage in criminal investigations of our President’s political opponents, then we’re not doing our job of promoting our national interest in being that shining city on a hill.
She said: “We have become the shining city on a hill.”
Furthermore, the scientific studies of whether the U.S. Government is controlled by the public (a democracy) or is instead controlled only by its very wealthiest (an aristocracy) are clear: this country is an aristocracy, not a democracy at all, except, perhaps, in the purely formal senses of that term — our great Constitution. Far-right judges have recently been interpreting that Constitution in the most pro-aristocratic, anti-democratic, ways imaginable, and this might have something to do with why the scientific studies are finding that the U.S. is now a dictatorship. And this fact, of America’s now being a dictatorship, was blatantly clear in America’s last Presidential election, which was actually a s‘election’ by Americas’ billionaires — not by the American public.
How, then, can Professor Karlan be respected about anything, if she lives in a dictatorship (by its aristocracy) and is deluded to think that it’s still (which it never was completely) a democracy?
Furthermore: her statements about Ukraine are equally deluded. She is obviously unaware that the Obama Administration started planning its coup against Ukraine in 2011 and started implementing it in the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine on 1 March 2013, and started in June 2013 soliciting bids from U.S. companies to renovate at least one building in Crimea for use by the U.S. Navy to replace Russia’s main naval base — which Russian naval base was and is in Crimea — by a new U.S. naval base to be installed there.
The craziest thing of all about Karlan’s statement, however, is this part:
“It’s not just our national interest in making sure that the Ukraine remains strong and on the front lines so they fight the Russians there and we don’t have to fight them here.”
Imagine if someone said, “It’s not just our national interest in making sure that the Mexico remains strong and on the front lines so they fight the Americans there and we [Russians] don’t have to fight them here.”
If a Russian were to assert that, would the statement be any more justifiable than what Karlan said regarding Ukraine? Of course not! Even an idiot can recognize this fact. But Karlan can’t.
On December 5th, the anonymous “Moon of Alabama” blogger, whose opinions and predictions turn out to have been correct at perhaps the highest rate of anyone on the internet, headlined “The Delusions Of The Impeachment Witnesses Point To A Larger Problem” and he not only pointed out the “delusional” beliefs of Professor Karlan (“One must be seriously disturbed to believe such nonsense. How can it be that Karlan is teaching at an academic level when she has such delusions?”), but he noted that:
How is it in U.S. interest to give the Ukraine U.S. taxpayer money to buy U.S. weapons? The sole motive behind that idea was greed and corruption, not national interest:
[U.S. special envoy to Ukraine] Volker started his job at the State Department in 2017 in an unusual part-time arrangement that allowed him to continue consulting at BGR, a powerful lobbying firm that represents Ukraine and the U.S.-based defense firm Raytheon. During his tenure, Volker advocated for the United States to send Raytheon-manufactured antitank Javelin missiles to Ukraine — a decision that made Raytheon millions of dollars.
The missiles are useless in the conflict. They are kept near the western border of Ukraine under U.S. control. The U.S. fears that Russia would hit back elsewhere should the Javelin reach the frontline in the east and get used against the east-Ukrainians. That Trump shortly held back on some of the money that would have allowed the Ukrainians to buy more of those missiles thus surely made no difference.
To claim that it hurt U.S. national interests is nonsense.
It is really no wonder that U.S. foreign policy continuously produces chaos when its practitioners get taught by people like Karlan. …
The Democrats are doing themselves no favor by producing delusional and partisan witnesses who repeat Reaganesque claptrap. They only prove that the whole affair is just an unserious show trial.
In the meantime Trump is eliminating food stamps for some 700,000 recipients and the Democrats are doing nothing about it. Their majority in the House could have used the time it spent on the impeachment circus to prevent that and other obscenities.
Do the Democrats really believe that their voters will not notice this?
(Of course, they do, and they might be right. After all, polls show that Democrats still believe that Barack Obama was a terrific President, just as Republicans believe that George W. Bush was a terrific President. The fact that both — and Trump himself —were/are among the worst in American history eludes the voters in both Parties. But though I disagree with his opinion on that particular matter, he’s just asking a question there, and I hope that his more optimistic take than mine turns out to be right, and that the voters — in both Parties — are coming to recognize that American politics right now is almost 100% a con-game, in both Parties.)
Why do people pay subscription-fees, to Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post, and to the New York Times, and to other media that are controlled by America’s billionaires, when far higher-quality journalism, like that of “Moon of Alabama” (and like the site you’re reading here) is freely available on the internet? Who needs the mainstream ‘news’-media, when it’s filled with such unreliable claptrap, as respects (instead of exposes) what persons such as Karlan say? Jonathan Turley is to be taken seriously, and he is at the very opposite end from Karlan’s opinions in the impeachment hearings (and regarding much else). (And the hearings-transcript in which both law-professors testified is here.) But the exception is Turley, and Karlan is far more the norm in the U.S.-media mainstream. And virtually all Democratic-Party propaganda-organs (‘the liberal press’) are playing up the Karlan claptrap.
So: yes, I do think that “the Democrats [referring to the ones in the House of Representatives, of course] really believe that their voters will not notice this.” Most voters are just as “deluded” (misinformed by the ‘news’-media) as Professor Karlan is.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
via zerohedge
” I think you heard testimony, the Intelligence Committee heard testimony about how it isn’t just our national interest in protecting our own elections. It’s not just our national interest in making sure that the Ukraine remains strong and on the front lines so they fight the Russians there and we don’t have to fight them here.”
It’s not in a Former President leaving starting his on “dossier” to make sure his “key foreign policy” with Russia’s ally, Iran is kept in place. And the only one worried about Ukraine is President Trump, who made sure they had military aid. It was Obama who turned a “blind eye” so that his Friend Russia could invade Crimea and take it over, so that Obama’s Iran deal would be his legacy as President.
So We the People have had to endure a fight from a Former Administration and his treasonous ilk all because Obama wanted his “legacy” to continue.
BTW Ms. Karlan, your apology was fake just like this Impeachment scam, using Obama’s dossier to bring down a duly-elected President. I believe there is your “insurance policy” and there is the whistleblower that Schiff is protecting. Heck Brennen said if it wasn’t for Obama this mess wouldn’t have been revealed. Or should I say created.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/09/democrat-counsel-in-impeachment-hearing-begins-with-my-young-son-asked-me-story/
Impeachment soap opera, and bringing in 3 year olds to boot. lol
“Before I had the great honor of being a counsel for this committee, my young son asked me a question. He said, ‘Dad, does the president have to be a good person? Like many questions by young children, it had a certain clarity, but it was hard to answer,” he began
I said, ‘Son, it is not a requirement that the president be a good person, but that is the hope,’” he continued.
He then launched into a 30-minute diatribe against President Trump, accusing him of putting his personal political interest ahead of the country.”
Nah, look at what “hope and change” did to We the People. Putting our National Security at risk to benefit their Russian/Iran allies.
But that’s ok, because Obama is a Democrat. Democrats can do no wrong and if they do, they just blame it on Republicans. And son Daddy can lie too. It’s part of his Democratic policy that Pelosi made them all sign, lol. If not, you are just a Trump supporter. lol. So son, it’s ok to hate if you are on the Democratic side to hide what “hope and change” really did to We the People.
Please spare me this soap opera drama.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/09/nadler-failed-to-swear-in-witnesses-at-judiciary-impeachment-hearings/
“Nadler’s failure to swear in the witnesses was significant because it allowed the counsels to make claims without fear of perjuring themselves.
It was also significant for another reason: when Republicans raised a point of order, objecting to Berke impugning the president’s motives, which is forbidden under House rules, Nadler ruled that the point of order was invalid because Berke was not a witness.
Later, Nadler described Berke and Castor as witnesses, prompting Republican objections that he had contradicted himself.”
So we are changing the rules as we go along? Gee how does this work? Is this the new Constitution that the Dems so want? Guilty until proven innocent, but can’t prove innocent because rules keep changing.
Schiff protects the whistleblower. Now Nadler is protecting the lawyers who fabricate.
Wow.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
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This article could have been just as accurate and a LOT shorter.
“Professor” Karlan gave testimony at the impeachment hearings. It has been determined by those who accept reality that she was only lying when her lips were moving.
lol, yes a very nasty woman who thinks joking about a 13 year old is OK. But then again Dems don’t care who they drag in the mud. Innocence doesn’t matter as long as they get there way.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/09/chris-wray-calling-fbi-the-deep-state-is-an-insult-to-our-workforce/
Ok don’t like Deep State, how about traitors to OUR Country. How about liars, cheats and thieves. And you can thank Comey for that.
Corrective steps that will appease We the People are for you, Comey, McCabe, Page, Strozk to go to jail for what you did. Until that FBI MEANS NOTHING. And you again can thank Comey and the previous Obama administration. They led you down a wrong path and now you need to EARN our respect again. Spying on innocent people is WRONG. Trying to remove a duly elected president with false information, then “leaking” to the press is WRONG.
So come down from your pedestal and ask forgiveness for the REAL FBI men and women who are now tainted because of the disgrace brought on not only by Comey but Mueller as well.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/09/democrat-impeachment-counsels-barry-berke-daniel-goldman-donated-thousands-to-hillary-clinton-barack-obama/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/09/pollak-impeachment-counsel-barry-berke-the-democrats-new-mccarthy/
So Berke can be a witness and then can question other witnesses there? Gee how does that work?
“The issue came up during the hearing, when Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) objected to the fact that Berke, a witness, was allowed to question a fellow witness, Republican counsel Stephen Castor. Gohmert asked, sardonically, how much money one would have to donate to enjoy Berke’s privileges.”
I think Rep Gohmert has the idea. Plus this is Nadler’s impeachment scam so anything goes. Nadler threw out the Constitution so he’s making up the laws and rules as he goes along.
And regarding Sonderland and his donation to the inaugeration, he was a Dem witness that didn’t really do very well. Actually he failed because he didn’t follow Schiff’s transcript.
This is truly pathetic. Are we STILL in the USA or did we kind of warp into a China or Russian type court.
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Trump will NEVER rig the election 2020 ! Most of the ELECTION RIGGING is done by the Democrats !
Remember the last election of Pres.Obama ?In the city of Philadelphia with about 600,000 voters, Romney received “0” votes and all the Votes went to Obama !How did that happen ? Somebody tampered with the Voting machines ! Not any Republican I suppose ! Must be a Democrat ! In N.E. Ohio,the votes far exceeded the people on the voter rolls.All the Votes went to Obama ! The same thing happened in several Florida counties !All the irregular votes went to Mr.Obama. You can check out the Voting records. The Democrats specializing in Voting Irregularities !Remember the election in Cook County, when JFK was elected ! Hundreds of dead people voted for JFK and Nixon lost !Elsewhere in this article, Rep.Nadler asserts that ” if not impeached, Trump will rig the 2020 election ! How Foolish ! It is the DEMOCRATS that specialize in rigging the elections ! Not the Republicans !