Having been around to remember the assassination of John Kennedy and his brother Bobby, Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Evers and Malcolm X, and now, Charlie Kirk along with multiple attempts on President Trump's life as well as attacks on innocent school children, it appears that things that just don't happen in this country really do happen in our country. Despite the tales we are told about the disaffected loners on some of the other killings, this lone shooter seems to be true on the last few, but is it?
On top of this, we are seeing legal action taken against political opponents in order to smear them publicly or, with success, remove them from the political game. We saw the Russian interference hoax attempt to damage Donald Trump. Despite the fact that it was proven to have no relationship to reality, it was endorsed by many people in positions of governmental authority and used as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on American citizens.
The January 6 investigators produced all sorts of specious “evidence” that there was an uprising in Washington. Somehow all this “evidence” disappeared when the new administration took office. Now we are learning that the FBI had more than 200 plain clothes agents / provocateurs, embedded in the crowd.
Many of these things were actionable crimes and as I write this James Comey has just been indicted on two counts... with more indictments to follow we are told. We will face a chorus of political revenge complaints form the left, but what else can we do when there have been attempts to subvert our political system and laws broken? Often times such shenanigans have been overlooked to keep from rocking the boat and many times the guilty parties have been charged with oversight of the criminal actions. We really cannot allow this to continue and it appears that the current administration is working in this direction.
The danger we are facing is that the party that created lawfare – the practice of using courts and contrived evidence to damage or eliminate political opponents – will use this prosecution of criminal activity as an excuse to justify more of the unproven and unprovable charges should the return to power.
Given the willingness of a segment of our population to swallow anything they want to be true as gospel, this puts more of the unbalanced and unthinking into acting as lone gunmen to take out those opposed to their agenda. While some of the earlier killings appear to be organized and promoted by those who are charged with preventing such things we have to keep in mind the CIA MK-ULTRA program that had, among other goals, the development of mind control techniques that would turn innocent subjects into assassins without their knowledge or memory.
We are told that the project was abandoned – but then we are told many things. Sirhan Sirhan claims to have no memory of his attempt to kill Robert Kennedy. After eliminating Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby acted like he didn't know why the police jumped on him and wrestled him to the ground.
I have no evidence that the deep state performed such actions with the present day shooters, but even without that, the steady barrage of negative misinformation from party leaders and the compliant press could easily enough led unstable people to act out their violent fantasies. In the days of MK-ULTRA the handler had to be in contact with the victim, today they can sit in their air conditioned offices or by their pool and scan the internet to find people primed for violence and provide the encouragement to take action. MK-ULTRA 2.0 is not outside the realm of possibility.
So the current administration is faced with the dilemma of prosecution of crimes that cannot be ignored and opening up the opposition to claims of political revenge and motivating them expand their lawfare activities – or – letting the misdeeds be swept under the rug of public opinion, thus letting them know they are not held accountable for their crimes and encouraging them to continue.
It would take the wisdom of Solomon to figure this out. I would come down on the side of doing the right thing with strength and courage rather than running off in fear. Often doing the right thing is not easy, but understanding it is simple.