Once upon a time political establishments would focus on defeating their opponent/challenger in elections. Now they imprison them or stop them from running, as the Democrats tried to do to trump with four criminal indictments. In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro faces alleged coup charges. In Romania, a host country for a US missile base on Russia’s border, Calin Georgecu has been falsely charged with “incitement to actions against the institutional order,” which in translation means running for president against Washington’s puppet government, which he is now barred from doing. In France Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to two years in a jail cell and a five year ban on running for president of France.
Le Pen’s party holds the largest number of seats in the French legislature or National Assembly. Recent polls show her with a 10 point lead over the establishment candidate, so the establishment protected itself by putting her in prison. Understand what this means, the French people are being denied by the French government the political representation that they want.
In Ukraine the “democracy” the West is so concerned to protect has been ruled for some time by a dictator whose term of office has expired. I am beginning to have some concern that Trump himself could become part of the dissolution of Western democracy. Why has Trump jumped all over Russian President Putin, who has kept Trump’s agreement, while protecting Zelensky, who has not kept the agreement, from Putin’s criticism? Is it because Trump is studying Zelensky’s ability to rule beyond his term in office? Other developments indicate weakening American democracy. Trump’s kowtowing to Israel has destroyed the First Amendment, which is the foundation of American democracy, and Democrat judges are destroying confidence in judicial rulings by their interference with President Trump’s powers. These are not healthy developments. A judiciary that has discredited itself cannot rein in an ambitious leader.
I have written a lot about the collapse of the belief system in the West, such as yesterday’s article. This is an immensely serious problem, and I have been unable to get any attention given to it.
Throughout the Western World the main focus of the educational system is to undermine the belief system that maintains accountable government, which means a government accountable to the people and not to an establishment of vested interests. The erosion of the belief system is far advanced. President Trump is certainly not helping when he sacrifices the Constitution of the United States to protecting Israel from criticism.
Ideas have consequences, and the consequence of the destruction of our ideas that uphold liberty is tyranny, which has raised its ugly head in France, Romania, and Brazil, and perhaps in America.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
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