Unconscionable Impunity Conveniently Forgotten Dons High-handed Disingenuousness

Long-term, Indelibly Dire Consequences of handing Global Leadership to Weakness  

The Manipulatable and corruptible, unprincipled, unlearned, inept unfit for purpose.

The Obama administration's reign of global terror exceeded past administrations.

Specifically, against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, the rage of 44 set the pattern and permission for 45 and all succeeding United States Federal Washington administrations of mentally, morally and experientially weak men and women.

Barack Hussein Obama II is a Pacific Island-born son of East African (Somalia-bordering Kenya) and USA Midwestern (Kansas) parentage-turned Ivy Leaguer who never offered his service to the United States of America in volunteer or conscript civilian or military work. When seated as U.S. Head of State, he issued orders for the 

Devastating, Unprovoked Bombing of

Syrian Arabic Republic and 

Islamic countries: Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.

Over the period of occupancy in the presidential palace in Washington, D.C., the Obama Group ordered the unleashing on the world of an estimated “26,171 bombs.”

At least since 2014 a United States-led active military operation in Western Asia reportedly has involved (without specifying regular or mercenary) militaries of three of five permanent UN Security Council Members (USA, UK and France) plus non-UNSC-5: Jordan, Turkey, Canada, and Australia.

Of “30,743 bombs” (2016 U.S. report) dropped by a U.S.-led “coalition”— 79 percent (or 24,287 bombs) were dispatched by USA agents or entities.

By the end of an eight-year tenure, this president’s “U.S. ‘special operators’ (aggressors) could be found in 

138 countries—70 percent of the world’s nations.”

Viewed in comparative terms with the 193 Member States composing the United Nations, the percentage reaches 72 percent of the world’s sovereign nations.

A partial list of U.S. Targeted countries (all in proximity to major waterways) include 

• in East Africa Somalia (Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean); 
• in West Asia Syria, Iraq, and Yemen (Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Indian Ocean); 
• in South Asia Afghanistan and Pakistan (Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea).

High-handedness Meets Criminal Impunity

Why would anyone listen to those who order massacres of thousands of Muslims?

Former U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama II 
CNN interviewer Christiane Amanpour

Editorialized questions by AMANPOUR: “The prime minister of India, Modi, who is considered autocratic …, how should a (U.S.) president engage with those kinds of leaders…You want to name names?” [Emphasis added]

Disingenuous answers by OBAMA “… [I]f the President (of the United States) meets with Prime Minister Modi (of India) …, the protection of the Muslim minority in a majority Hindu India (would be) something worth mentioning…. 

“[I]f I had a conversation with Prime Minister Modi, who I know well, part of my argument would be…: if you do not protect the rights of ethnic minorities in India, there’s a strong possibility that India, at some point, (would) start pulling apart.

“We’ve seen what happens when you start getting those kinds of large internal conflicts. [Says the creator of global and regional conflicts, chaos, slaughter from Ukraine to Yemen!] …

“[T]hat would be contrary to the interests not just of Muslim India but also Hindu India.” Source CNN Rush Transcript of Video clip: Christiane Amanpour Interview with former U.S. President Barack Obama aired June 23, 2023 https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ampr/date/2023-06-23/segment/01

The Honorable Nirmala Sitharaman of India

“He [former U.S. President Obama] was commenting on Indian Muslims … (when his administration) bombed Muslim-majority countries from Syria to Yemen …

“Why would anyone listen to any allegations from such people?”

Nirmala Sitharaman is an economist, cabinet official, and lawmaker; educated at Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College (BA) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA, MPhil) with post graduate studies in Economics focusing on Indo-Europe trade; recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru University’s “Distinguished Alumni Award,” and Forbes Magazine’s 34th ranking among “100 most powerful women in the world.”

Government Service of Nirmala Sitharaman

• Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs May – November 2014
• Member of Rajya Sabha (Council of States: India’s Upper House of Parliament) 2016 – (Incumbent)
• Minister of State for Ministry of Commerce and Industry 2014 – 2017
• Minister of Defense 2017 – 2019
• Minister of Corporate Affairs 2019 – (Incumbent)
• Minister of Finance 2019 – (Incumbent)

Further Noted in Beyond the Beltway Press

 

Around the world on June 28, Muslims celebrate Eid Ul Adha, a festival of sacrifice highlighting “Shared values of compassion, sacrifice, service to others”

“A light guiding toward unity, empathy and understanding”

A powerful expression uniting people “across religious, cultural and ideological differences”

“A reminder of the world’s “common humanity”

Sources

 
Logically: a group self-described as a group having been established in 2017 to work “with governments and organizations around the globe to proactively limit the harms associated with mis- and disinformation.” The website lists “Research Partners” as HT Delhi, The University of Sheffield, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, University of Waterloo, and Council for Strategic and Defense Research; and locations: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Republic of India, United States of America (Washington, DC Metro: Northern Virginia)
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Encyclopedic Sources

News peg

Al Jazeera News June 26, 2023, “‘Bombed Muslim nations’: BJP ministers to Obama over Modi remark Former US President Barack Obama last week said Indian PM Narendra Modi’s government should do more to protect Muslims.”

“Prominent ministers from India’s ruling party have derided comments by former US President Barack Obama that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rights of minority Muslims, accusing him of being hypocritical.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/26/indian-minister-mocks-obama-comment-on-protecting-muslims

The Guardian (Reuters in Delhi), June 26, 2023 “Obama remarks on India’s treatment of Muslims ‘hypocritical’ – minister: Indian finance minister hits out after former US president said Modi government should protect rights of Muslims,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/26/obama-remarks-on-indias-treatment-of-muslims-hypocritical-minister

RT News (excerpt from headlines) June 27, 2023, “India’s finance minister calls out Barack Obama over his criticism of minority issues in India, reminding the former US president of the trail of destruction that he left in the Middle East during his term in office” https://www.rt.com/shows/news/578731-rtnews-june-27-20msk/

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The Relentless Razing of Nations: Creators of Crises Create Crises continually

Some Step down, Some Don’t

Confronted with their incompetence, their unfitness for purpose, injury to entities and institutions, some leaders have the courage—or sense of shame—to step aside. Other leaders selfishly and self-centeredly hunker down and hang on, continuing the carnage, the wrecking of the ship of state, and the drowning of people far and wide, at home and abroad.

The masses and their puppeteers may laud and applaud those who sense the writing on the wall and step aside. Puppets and puppeteers may celebrate (even confer “peace” and “perfection” prizes on) plutocrats and partisans (the cowardice class) whose minds are sealed against the times (the writing on the wall), and carry on with their devastation.

In the spring of 2022 the United Nations reported that conflict, violence, human rights violations, persecution and various disruptions in public order had forced the global displacement of more than100 million people, and the numbers continued to rise.

Global aggression continues to force migration across lands and seas with great loss of lives. Neighboring nations of displaced people are affected far more than US-led NATO nations who scream and holler and blame those whom they have turned into victims.

The self-centered, cowardice class without a conscience refuses to join concerted efforts to solve problems, cure disease and causation and mend preexisting contributive conditions.

Hitting headlines today across the Western world is “UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after failed budget and market turmoil” Associated Press October 20, 2022 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-resigns-after-failed-budget-and-market-turmoil.htm

History records 

21st Century Premiership Resignations in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

• 2010 James Gordon Brown resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 2016 David William Donald Cameron resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 2019 Theresa Mary Brasier May resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 2022 (July 7) Alexander Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 2022 (October 20) Mary Elizabeth Truss resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

But, as always, headline drafters and editors (together with social media posters in search of clicks and followers), and the intellectually lazy missed the important story, the really BIG story—a story not of markets and venture capital; but of unspeakable criminality and impunity, impaired character and relentless carnage (committed by predecessor and successor “leaders”, presidents, prime ministers, commanders in chief) against human beings, against nature, and against nations of the world. 

The Razing of Nations and Removal of Peoples continues. 

 

Unrelenting Carnage by four most recent United States Commanders in Chief  2001-2022

Some of the Key Figures

• GEORGE WALKER BUSH (VP Richard Cheney; State and Defense Departments: Victoria Nuland, Powell, Condoleezza Rice; Rumsfeld, Gates; Ambassadors United Nations: Negroponte, John Danforth, John Bolton, Zalmay Khalilzad) 2001-2009

• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II (VP Joseph Biden; State and Defense Departments Victoria Nuland, Kerry, Hillary Clinton; Gates, Panetta, Hagel, Ash Carter; Ambassadors to UN: Susan Rice, Samantha Power) 2009-2016

• DONALD JOHN TRUMP (VP Michael Pence; State and Defense Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo; Mattis, Shanahan (nom wd), Esper; Ambassadors to UN Haley, Nauert (nom wd), Craft) 2009-2016

• JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR (VP Kamala Harris; State and Defense Victoria Nuland, Blinken; Austin; Ambassador to UN Thomas-Greenfield) 2017-2022 (continuing)

Some of the Assassinations

• Bush 2003: President of Iraq Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti

• Obama 2011: President of Libya Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi

• Trump 2020: Honorable Iranian General Qasem Soleimani

Some of the
Continuing Carnage, Savagely Violent, unchecked Aggression
Breach of Sovereignty in Asia, Eastern Africa, Eastern Europe

• 2001–2021 (continuing) in Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

• 2002 – 2022 (continuing) in Republic of Yemen

• 2003-2011; 2014-2021 (continuing) in Republic of Iraq

• 2004-2018 (continuing) Islamic Republic of Pakistan

• 2007-2022 (continuing) Federal Republic of Somalia and Republic of Kenya (Horn of Africa)

• 2009–2016 Indian Ocean

• 2011 (failed state, slavery, continuing) State of Libya

• 2011–2017 Republic of Uganda

• 2011 – 2022 (continuing) Syrian Arab Republic

• 2014- 2022 (continuing) Ukraine

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After Slick Willie, Fitness for Office Discounted Entirely

“I was horrified that it didn’t matter”

Excerpts from thoughts of Mary L. Trump  

S

on falls close to Ancestral Tree

“[M]y grandfather [was] a sociopath….” And while, “I actually don’t diagnose Donald specifically…, he certainly exhibits sociopathic behaviors.”

 Congenital Crooked Character

 “In my family, being kind was considered being weak.

“Weakness” was “admitting your mistakes and apologizing for them.”

 Galloping Ethnocentrism, language of the household

 “[M]y family was quite anti-Semitic, along with other things.”

“I didn’t understand the animus, but it wasn’t shocking; it’s just the way it was. This is how adults in my orbit spoke and behaved.…” The language and attitude was “casual and accepted.”

“[I]t was just language that was used …, a given.”

 

S

ervice to Country Rejected

    “Donald Trump and Ivana threatened to disown Donald Trump Jr. if he joined the US military”

     Papa Donald “never valued” the US military “He could have served” his country but [this German descendant] “chose over and over again”— taking “five deferments”— “not to serve” the United States of America.

Predator Personified  

Niece age 29 at the beach

     “[I]t was just Donald, Marla (Donald Trump and second wife Marla Maples [m. 1993; div. 1999]) and me… having lunch on the patio outside …, way before Mar-a-Lago was a private club, … it was pretty casual, so I felt comfortable coming from the pool with shorts and a bathing suit on. Donald had his golf clothes on.

     “[A]s I approached the table where they were already sitting, he [Trump] looks up at me, and it was as if he’d never seen me before. … He said, ‘Holy [expletive], Mary! You’re stacked!’”

     “I was 29 years old and not easily embarrassed, but even that shocked. … I had known Donald my whole life [but] that shocked me. And it created a bit of awkwardness in the moment, so I quickly just wrapped my towel around myself and sat down and was mildly horrified.”

 

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s of October 2019, at least twenty-three women (including his former wife, Ivana) have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.

There were allegations of rape, violence, being kissed and groped without consent, looking under women’s skirts, and walking in on naked women.

In 2016, he denied all accusations, calling them ‘false smears’, and alleged there was a conspiracy against him.

“In October 2016, two days before the second presidential debate, a 2005 ‘hot mic’ recording surfaced in which Trump was heard bragging about kissing and groping women without their consent, saying ‘when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything … grab ‘em by the pussy.’”

Mary Trump on incident: “I wasn’t the slightest bit shocked that he said it or that he admitted to these things or that he’d actually done these things. I was horrified that it didn’t matter.” [Emphasis added]

Qualification for public office

“[W]hat has he ever accomplished?”

Aunt Maryanne replies: “Well, he has had five bankruptcies.”

“[T]hat was sort of our take on the whole thing.”

“I was horrified that it didn’t matter.”

 

A

s audience to the Clintonesque-Obamaesque plays

Distracted Desperate Deliberately Ignorant Pliable Americans Shrug and Embrace a Veneer

“A lot of people in this country are purposely left in the dark. They make bad decisions, self-defeating decisions because they are not given access to information that would help them make better choices.”

In 2016, “nothing [candidate Trump] did or said seemed to turn anybody off….”

Mary Trump

Daughter of flight attendant Linda Lee Clapp and commercial jet pilot Frederick “Fred” Trump Jr. (1938–1981), Mary Lea Trump, a niece of US president Donald John Trump, is a psychologist, businessperson, author, and academic, who has taught graduate courses in developmental psychology, trauma, and psychopathology [cursory search found no scholarship or academic research by ML Trump, author of popular 2020 book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man]. She is a graduate of Tufts University (BA), Columbia University (MA), and Adelphi University (PhD)

 

I

n the August 7, 2020 Democracy Now interview, Mary Trump said

“I wrote this book primarily to give people the kind of information [presumably US voters] did not have access to in 2016.”

In 2020, much more “is at stake than there ever has been.”

“… [T]his country is on the knife’s edge.

“I don’t want anybody casting their vote in November being able to claim they ‘just don’t know who they’re voting for.’”

 

Sources

Democracy Now! “‘The World’s Most Dangerous Man’: Mary Trump on Her Uncle, President Trump, & Why He Must Be Ousted” Amy Goodman interview with Mary Trump August 7, 2020 https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/7/mary_trump_how_dysfunctional_family_shaped

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_MacLeod_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Donald_Trump#Fred_Trump_Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry

Maryanne Trump Barry (born April 5, 1937), eldest sister of US President Donald Trump

Attorney, retired United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, appointed by President Bill Clinton

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_and_Never_Enough

IMDb a/k/a Internet Movie Database, an Amazon company

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11739534/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

 

Surveillance: a US Game and Embarrassing Shift of Blame

Crooks and Clowns revert to their “Yellow Peril”

US Officials’ Indiscriminate Transcontinental Data Vacuuming

N

eighbors Close or Far, “Friends” or “Foe”

Global surveillance

Operating out of “diplomatic missions” Five Eyes—Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, USA—conducts Stateroom, a “highly sensitive signals intelligence collection program involving interception of radio, telecommunications and internet traffic.”

At US diplomatic missions, the program is run jointly by US intelligence agencies NSA and CIA under the umbrella of “a joint venture group called ‘Special Collection Service’ (SCS). Its members, working undercover in shielded areas of US embassies and consulates, are officially credited as diplomats with special privileges of diplomats, and licensure to spy without hindrance. During the Obama administration the SCS “used the American Embassy near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to monitor communications in Germany’s government district with its parliament and the seat of the government.”

Over There Comes over Here

2011

In secret, the Obama Administration in 2011 “won permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases.

The searches take place under a surveillance program Congress authorized in 2008 under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Under that law, the target must be a foreigner ‘reasonably believed’ to be outside the United States, and the court must approve the targeting procedures in an order good for one year.

But a warrant for each target would thus no longer be required, which means “that communications with Americans could be picked up without a court first determining that there is probable cause that the people they were talking to were terrorists, spies or ‘foreign powers.’”

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court “extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted US communications from five years to six years with an extension possible for foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purposes—both measures were done without public debate or any specific authority from Congress.”

2013

Though a US district court judge for the District of Columbia, in 2013, declared that the National Security Agency’s “mass collection of metadata of Americans’ telephone records” was “probably” in violation of the Fourth Amendment prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures,” a  federal judge in New York City ruled that “the U.S. government’s global telephone data-gathering system is needed to thwart potential terrorist attacks, and that it can only work if everyone’s calls are swept in.”

2014

The US government-funded non-profit [contradiction in terms] non-governmental think tank Freedom House observed in 2014 that “[s]ome states are using the revelations of widespread surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) as an excuse to augment their own monitoring capabilities, frequently with little or no oversight, and often aimed at the political opposition and human rights activists.”

“H

igh” Grounded in Quicksand

Actions in various technological fields (in agriculture and other fields) taken by US officials against other countries, leaders and businesses, technological, weapons, cyber spying  companies are not actions on moral principle, or principles of fundamental law or human rights conventions and protections. 

These actions—in the service to and the embodiment of lawlessness and impunity, rabid plunder, and greed preserving and protecting narrowly drawn and inordinate power—stand in violent, criminal opposition to fair principles and fair play, and, indeed, democracy at every level, everywhere. 

What the American officials accuse others of doing and against whom they repeatedly impose sanctions (i.e., societal, trade, economic, earnings, cultural, livelihood, innovations warfare)—they are doing, have done; and once they have destroyed other innovators, free thinkers, and market competitors, they will sharpen the spear and drive to the hilt their “humanitarian” viciousness, virulence and violence against the world.

July 9, 2020

US Accuses Chinese firms

Trump administration has accused Chinese firms “of gathering data from global users for the benefit of the Chinese government.” In its latest move, Washington falls back on a Bush mantra: you’re with us or against us— do business with the US, or the China, if the latter suffer US punishment.

Companies that are selling surveillance equipment will be required “to certify that their offerings do not use components from Dahua or Hikvision, despite the fact that both are among the world’s largest manufacturers of surveillance cameras.”

Global publicly-traded company (2017 estimate Chinese Yuan 41.905 billion [$ 5.99133 billion], Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. a partially state-owned Chinese manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance equipment [CCTV and Network Surveillance Systems] for civilian and military purposes, headquarters Hangzhou, China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikvision

Global publicly- traded company with 35 subsidiaries covering Asia, the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, Africa, and others, its products and services used in 180-plus countries and regions (founded in 2001, headquarters Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2016 estimated revenue $2.1 billion), Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company whose products include security cameras, network cameras, HDCVI analog-to-hd solutions, NVR/DVR, PTZ cameras, Fisheye cameras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahua_Technology

The Trump government “is reportedly finalizing a rule that would prevent any firm using products from five Chinese tech companies—including telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE—from winning government contracts.”

Years ago, US public officials with the corporate for profit and not for profit paymasters off- shored (offloaded, gave away) US invention, innovation, workmanship and labor for cheap products cheaply labored. A few, including the Trump-Pelosi types, garnered big returns. Now the US en masse suffers the consequences of bad policy. But the horse has long left the barn.   

P

elosi and Co Perform at Munich

Highhandedly Nancy Pelosi proclaims “National security, economy and values all come together on the Huawei issue….”

The choice between adopting or not adopting Huawei solutions is a choice between “autocracy [and] democracy on the information highway,” says the [dis]honorable speaker.

Playing to audience ignorance or deliberate forgetfulness, Pelosi omits in her lecture, as the writer points out, that she “helped renew the NSA’s [US National Security Agency’s] spying powers” two years earlier; and that it was US (not Chinese) mass surveillance that was “famously exposed by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers.”

With contempt for the intelligence of her audience listeners (and the public more generally), Pelosi failed to explain “what makes America’s surveillance [or surveillance products] more democratic” [of course her policy project is patently anti-democratic] than China’s surveillance or surveillance products.

Tribal ‘R’ US

According to the Pentagon’s Esper and State’s Pompeo, Hauwei is China’s “‘… nefarious strategy” of undermining “Western infrastructure” with a China-made “‘Trojan horse’”

US officials have a habit of threatening other nations as it often does against the whole body of the United Nations. Pompeo threatens Europe over Chinese technological products—buy from us or else. When challenged, deny the threat.

The former CIA operative reportedly scolded “Europeans for not ditching China in favor of the US as a trading partner.” Pulling the “tribal” ([?]identity politics: race-creed-color-region) card, Trump’s smear man at State reportedly declares at a conference in Copenhagen that Europeans’ buying from Beijing is tantamount, echoing Pelosi, to

“…abandoning who we are,” and prizing “tyranny” over “freedom.” [Emphasis added]

Sounds like the desperate, dying cries of a dynasty. It’s embarrassing—as if the United States has nothing in its own right, on its own merit, that is strong enough, solid and sure enough to build on. I believe this is wrong. I believe America has its people; but a long line of officials, over at least forty years, have deserted the people of America.

Tyranny is homegrown—in the character and acts of opportunists, incompetents, and scoundrels such as Pompeo, Pelosi, Wray, Esper, Trump, and Co.

US

officials put themselves above the law but often entrap others in their nets

Case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou: Deputy chair of the board and chief financial officer (CFO) of telecom giant and China’s largest privately held company, Huawei, founded by her father Ren Zhengfei, Meng Wanzhou

• In December 2018, the business executive was detained at Vancouver International Airport by Canadian officials and questioned for three hours then formally arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police “on a provisional US extradition request, in regard to breaches of US sanctions against Iran

• In early 2019, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced financial fraud charges against Meng

• In early 2020, the first stage of the extradition hearing began and the DOJ indicted Meng “on charges of trade secrets theft.”

She remains under house arrest in Vancouver, Canada, an Authority to Proceed has been issued regarding the extradition request by the United States. If convicted of charges against her, Meng could face up to ten years in a US prison.

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owever, when other nations prefer charges against US allies, US officials feign outrage. Such is the case of the Chinese government’s espionage charges in June 2020 against two Canadians. 

US officials hopped on their high horse, and counter charged political motivation. Said the pompous Pompeo:

“These charges are politically motivated and completely groundless”

Tell me about it.

US officials’ actions are transparent, their responses embarrassingly duplicitous and disingenuous. China just won’t give us a break, they seem to say. The People’s Republic of China was recently castigated by one of Trump’s FBI men as

“…calculating …, persistent …, patient and …, not subject to the righteous constraints of an open, democratic society or the rule of law.”

Sound familiar? 

A finger of the accuser’s hand points back toward the accuser. These people wouldn’t know, or care, about the rule of law if it rose up and kissed them on the lips.

The US characteristically charges others with acts that US officials have virtually invented, patented, and carried out everywhere all the time with—bombs away—impunity.

G

od bless America with leaders who are not crooks and clowns.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House

RT “US will BAN government contractors from using Chinese tech, including Huawei – report” July 9, 2020 https://www.rt.com/usa/494283-huawei-government-equipment-ban/

RT “‘is the democratic system so fragile?’ Audience applauds as Pelosi’s Huawei scare session prompts rebuke from Chinese delegate” February 16, 2020 https://www.rt.com/news/480955-pelosi-huawei-rebuke-munich/

RT “Pompeo demands Europe ditch trade with China and choose FREEDOM over TYRANNY (in favor of US)” June 19, 2020 https://www.rt.com/news/492399-pompeo-china-europe-sovereignty-fail/

RT “Look who’s talking! Pompeo slams China’s ‘politically motivated’ charges against 2 Canadians nabbed after Huawei CFO Arrest” June 22, 2020 https://www.rt.com/news/492593-pompeo-political-prosecution-canadians-china/

RT “If China seeks world domination, should the US keep doing business with it? FBI chief Wray seems to want it both ways” Nebojsa Malic, July 7, 2020 https://www.rt.com/usa/494090-wray-fbi-china-threat/

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