Are We Being Framed? | JSTOR Daily
Read this article earlier and it got me thinking about the ways we use language to alter our reality and that of others. Never let the media/gov't tell you how to think, or for whom to think.
Interesting article. As one who spent his career in working with the law, as well as having a fairly extensive education in the law, there are some things I need to point out regarding the Mueller report.
It exists in two realities, the legal reality, and the political one. These two realities rarely overlap.
The legal reality, unless perverted, is to find the truth, and act accordingly. Evaluating the truth has well defined rules, the Constitution, laws, and legal codes. These are the measuring stick to determine if the law was broken, it either was, or it was´t, period.
The political reality is an unseemly world of lies, spin, backstabbing and stupidity. Wrongdoing is attributed without fact, or is defended without fact, for political advantage and confusing the people.
The current circus in the House of Representatives is a case in point.
It has been fueled by Mueller himself, who refused to make a legal determination on certain issues, preferring to pass the buck to his superior, Barr. This, in my view was a cowardly act, and Mueller knew he was taking his 2 years of investigation out of the orderly world of the law, where language is precise, and thrusting it into the corrupt world of politics, where language is usually a nuanced lie.
Barr was required by law to give congress a summary of the summary of the report, he did so. Was his summary correct, yes. It was correct because as the Attorney General, his decision and evaluation of the report is the legal one, period. Mueller thrust him into this position by making no legal recommendations one way or another, Like it or not, he did.
At the time of his summary, Barr knew that the full report with required redactions would be released, a step not legally required and rarely if ever taken. Barr saw this as being extremely co operative. Usually, when an investigation concludes no charges will be brought, the investigation documentation is never released.
So, the report is made public, and Nadler knows there is no legal criminal exposure for the President. His hands are tied, Congress cannot initiate criminal charges. He also knows that Barr is investigating why the Mueller investigation began, what was the probable cause for initiation, something Nadler doesn´t want to occur.
So, Nadler begins his assault on Barr, with one purpose, to discredit him so much, that further investigations from his Dept will be hopelessly tainted with alleged bias.
We have now reached the point where the Attorney General was found in contempt of congress because he refused to break the law. It is completely illegal to release grand jury testimony to those not intimately involved in an investigation. That is, investigators from the DOJ.
Nadler subpoenaed material he had no legal right to have, and he knew this, to have an excuse to excoriate Barr.
Yes, we are being set up daily by loose, innacurate information, designed to make his mindless automatons to particular political philosophies. We don´t need to let it happen.
Read this article earlier and it got me thinking about the ways we use language to alter our reality and that of others. Never let the media/gov't tell you how to think, or for whom to think.[/QUOTE]
