In another forum, a contributor made note of the coordinated collusion of the White House and other federal agencies - the Department of Justice, the FBI, the National Archives, the General Services Administration - in orchestrating the currently ongoing massive lawfare assault against Donald J. Trump and those close to him.
My thoughts in response:
I have throughout my life held naively to the conviction that truth and justice matter, that people ought to be treated fairly, that lies and deceit ought to be put down, that what is right and what is good ought to prevail.
Though I still believe that should be so, over the long years of my earthly sojourn, I have been gradually disabused of those expectations and have increasingly had to come to terms with the sad and distressing reality that a different order of things rules this world, that more often than not there is no justice, that corruption and raw power rule here below, that what is wrong and evil often prevails, that, in the eyes of the Godless powerful, human life means nothing -
- and I am likely to have to shuffle off this mortal coil and ascend to a higher plane to find a place where truth and justice rule the day - a shining eternal city on an everlasting hill. (The above image is one I call up often and never want to forget - the almost incomprehensible horror that unregenerate, unrestrained evil has repeatedly wrought upon humanity. If it happened once, it can happen again - even here - if we allow it.)
Here in the transient Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, in the sight and hearing of decent people, what is being done to Donald J. Trump is a transparent evil, an outrage, a gross corruption of the law, an injustice and assault on truth and fairness at the most basic level - all in the name of raw power.
Ultimately, blowing away all the smoke, mirrors, lies, slander, deceptions and machinations of the Trump-hating RINO/Democrat/Globalist Uniparty, it is going to come down to what the people will allow to be done to this man in their name - how grossly they will allow their government, laws, judicial institutions and practices to be distorted and corrupted to the end of destroying this man - a man who, notwithstanding his personal quirks and foibles, stood up for and did right by the American people in his first term as president, but, for that very reason, is seen as a deadly threat to the power and ambitions of an entrenched globalist elite - a vicious, power-hungry cabal who have made clear - clear to all but those on the take and the bovine - they do not have the interests of the American people at heart.
What is happening among us with regard to the corruption and weaponization of the law for political purposes is proof that even a near-perfectly designed system - indeed a divinely inspired system of government (D&C 101:80) - can be corrupted by lawless, Godless, evil men. Proof as well of the prophetic truth found in John Adams’ oft-quoted prescient observation:
“…We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge… would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The problem before us, then, is not one of failings in the legal system itself - or, more broadly, in our government at large - but the gross lack of moral virtue in the irreligious, atheistic, power-hungry subversives who have taken control of and weaponized government and its institutions broadly against the people and specifically against individuals, like Trump, who threaten their ambitions. In the hands of these traitorous demons, justice is no longer the objective of the “justice system”. The objective is raw, absolute power - their power - and the destruction of those who stand in the way of it.
Will we reclaim America’s judicial system from those who have weaponized it against their political enemies? Will we hold accountable before the law those who have deliberately corrupted and twisted the law to their own ends - in the process destroying the people’s confidence in the legal system?
There must be a day of reckoning for these lawless traitors. If they are allowed to get away with what they have done and are now doing to a former president and the leading presidential candidate for re-election - if they are not called to account before a just law - they certainly will continue to use these lawfare weapons against anybody who gets in their way - if they are not stopped.
Thus, the critical issue is not so much that a former president - in terms of what he did for the country one of the greatest in modern history - is being attacked, but that a dreadful, corrupt lawfare weapon, with the power to destroy the lives of its victims, has been created and can be used against anyone.
If corrupt, evil men are allowed to have this kind of power - the kind being used against Trump and his inner circle - no one is safe.
As Lavrentiy Beria - the USSR’s infamous chief of secret police who presided over Joseph Stalin’s murderous reign of terror - ominously observed:
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
If they want to get you, they’ll get you - if they have the power.
Today President Trump, tomorrow you or me.
All power resides in the people. When push comes to shove, that is still true in America. If there are enough decent people left among us who will stand up for simple fairness and justice - enough people who can still tell right from wrong, recognize and do the right thing - Donald Trump may have a chance. If not, he is doomed - and so are we.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - nothing new under the sun:
"For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people, and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted. Yea, and this was not all; they were a stiffnecked people, insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor justice, save it were to their destruction."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Helaman 5:2-3 (the Nephite nation, about 30 BC)
The Great American Mandala roles on...
It isn't just the fate of Donald Trump that is being determined in all this. The intellectual, moral and spiritual substance of this people is being weighed in the cosmic balance. Nothing remotely like this has happened among us since the Revolutionary War - a cataclysm that gave birth to the nation - one that separated patriots from traitors, true lovers of liberty from “summertime soldiers”.
The present upheaval erupting around us today will determine whether the nation survives as a free and prosperous people or descends into chaos and oblivion.
As Edmund Burke famously observed:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Conversely, all it takes for the triumph of good is for good men to stand up - and, lest we think we are hopelessly outnumbered, it doesn’t take a whole lot of them. Perhaps just a third of the American population at the time were active supporters of the Revolution that gave birth to the greatest, freest, most enlightened, powerful and prosperous nation the world has ever seen.
One in three…
Time to consider anew Abraham Lincoln’s challenge to the nation on the blood-soaked battlefield at Gettysburg -
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us… that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
- and the burden pronounced upon us by another great president, Ronald Reagan -
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
Again, as Reagan observed -
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Will ours be the generation the light of liberty dies in America? There are many subversives among us who are working assiduously to make it so…
Thus, the great burden of history falls upon those of us who will pass the test as true patriots. There is no one else. As astronomer Carl Sagan observed -
“In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.”
Will we do all that can be done in the great divine cause of human liberty? (Moses 4:1-4) - the great cause of defending our wonderful, free and prosperous country against saboteurs and traitors? Will we stand up? Will the nation we bequeath to our children be a land of liberty and prosperity or one of darkness, injustice, poverty and tyranny?
In any case, inexorably, as night follows day, we will enjoy or suffer as a people what the quality of our collective virtues and vices precipitates upon our heads.
We can't fool Mother Nature…
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, order vs. chaos, patriotism vs. treason, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless...
No more complicated than that.
Which side of that great cosmic line will you be on?
If you can be fooled, you will be...
These are the times that try men's souls...
Torquemada