Go back to the July 30 posting on
this blog, the one describing how a Floriduh State Senate seat was stolen by
Republican thieves. It seems that the Orlando
Sentinel is investigating the possible connection between such political
skullduggery, Florida Power and Light and an Alabama consulting firm which
specializes in such dirty tricks. South
Florida SunSentinel Sunday columnist Fred Grimm takes a look at this from a
historical perspective. Check it out by Clicking Here or just copy and paste this on your browser line.
JL
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Sanity in Kansas
Yesterday, Kansans went to the polls in unprecedented numbers for a mid-term primary election because the ballot also contained a referendum supporting a change in their laws that would get rid of legal abortions in that State, something anti-abortion politicians thought they could slip through, avoiding having it on the ballot in November.
They were wrong. Kansans voted by a 60% to 40% margin not to support a change in their existing laws that permit abortion. This result confused Republican candidates nationwide, awed by the enormous voter turnout, who now fear losing votes if they support abortion restrictions or losing other votes if they fail to support them.
Shakespeare would have commented on this, as he did in Hamlet, reporting that they were 'hoist by their own petard.'
JL
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The Way to Prosecute the Defeated Former President
The other evening on his MSNBC program, the
Beat, Ari Melber pointed out that while it might be difficult to prosecute
and convict the defeated former president for committing one or two individual crimes,
it would be easier to put all of them together, and there were many, as one massive,
connected effort to carry out a coup which would leave him in office,
negating the election of Joe Biden. A conviction for that one big crime might
be easier.
His prompting a mob to try to stop the
Constitutionally-mandated transfer of the presidency to President-elect Joe Biden
on January 6, 2021 was the culmination of his many other failed efforts to
remain in office, including pressure on state legislatures to submit alternate electors,
searches for non-existent votes, specious challenges to vote counting
procedures, telling the Vice President to throw the election into the House
where an arcane Constitutional ‘one vote per state’ procedure might be
attempted and other questionable acts to further his aim.
Melber pointed out that all of these attempts
to remain in office in the event of his defeat were tactics planned even before
the election and constituted a single overall strategy upon which his attempted
coup would be was based, if he lost the election (which his campaign’s experts
told him was likely).
Melber also urged that it was essential to
prosecute the defeated former president or else the January 6 insurrection was
likely to be repeated in the future and was just a ‘training exercise.’
Interestingly
enough, three days earlier, I had posted the following on this very blog
that you now are reading. I won’t claim
that Ari got the idea for his beautifully documented program from me, or that
he even follows this blog. Let’s just
leave it at concluding that great minds think alike. Here is what I wrote on July 26:
‘The
prosecution must make the point that one or two such incidents might be
acceptable as just ‘planning’ on the part of the defendant. The enormous number
of them, however, all confirmed by reliable witnesses, should be taken together
by a jury as going beyond being mere ‘planning.’ Considering their great
number, they should be taken to amount to a planned 'grand strategy,' the
culmination of which on January 6, 2021, he cannot separate himself from, and
convict him.’
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Okay, Melber called it a ‘coup.’ I called it a ‘grand strategy.’ Both words describe the many seditious acts of the defeated former president all lumped together. He should seriously consider pleading guilty and cut a deal for twenty years of house arrest at Mar-a-Lago, with visitors limited only to family and friends, if he has any. That choice would be highly preferable to his serving hard time in a real penitentiary.
I had
earlier predicted that the Department of Justice would ultimately decide not to
proceed with charges against the defeated former president, primarily because
of the risk of losing in court and that the Attorney General, nevertheless, in
announcing that decision, would point out that they were only acting in that
manner to avoid the domestic violence that any verdict would precipitate.
But as the evidence mounts,
I have changed my mind. I now agree with Melber that it
is essential that he be prosecuted, not doing so amounting to a victory
for anti-democratic forces which would further encourage them.
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Consumer Warning
If you are in the market for a top loading
washing machine, stay away from Samsung products. In addition to a recall of some sold up until
2016 due to a dangerous manufacturing defect, there have been rust problems which they will do nothing about. Mine is in that category. All I
can say about the quality of their washing machines is that Samsung makes
excellent TV sets. We are fortunate that
they do not manufacture automobiles.
JL
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America Afloat
(always
worth repeating in blog postings)
Jack Lippman
The greatness of America
Is
that it does survive
Attacks
upon democracy
Whose
flame it keeps alive.
The laws that blossom from the words
The
Founding Fathers wrote
Still
serve us well today to keep
America afloat.
This
doesn’t happen by itself,
We
cannot wish it true,
The
bottom line, my friends, is that
It all depends on you.
JL
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