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		By: Ymar Sakar		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381500</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymar Sakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt; “If the Russians have blackmail material on Trump that could destroy him, they should probably let it out pretty soon before his sanctions turn on everybody in Putin’s orbit.” ”&lt;/b&gt;

The Deep State has blackmail on HRC, Leftists, Demoncrats, and Mueller.

I am not a specialist in Russian KGB tactics, i didn&#039;t defect from that country, so won&#039;t make speculations on that matter. If Russia wants a double agent, they can get one in the US. Ain&#039;t that hard given their track record with FDR.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b> “If the Russians have blackmail material on Trump that could destroy him, they should probably let it out pretty soon before his sanctions turn on everybody in Putin’s orbit.” ”</b></p>
<p>The Deep State has blackmail on HRC, Leftists, Demoncrats, and Mueller.</p>
<p>I am not a specialist in Russian KGB tactics, i didn&#8217;t defect from that country, so won&#8217;t make speculations on that matter. If Russia wants a double agent, they can get one in the US. Ain&#8217;t that hard given their track record with FDR.</p>
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		By: Ymar Sakar		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381395</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymar Sakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did Americans seriously think the republic wasn&#039;t dead?

Wake up and Look Around.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did Americans seriously think the republic wasn&#8217;t dead?</p>
<p>Wake up and Look Around.</p>
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		By: Snow on Pine		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381326</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snow on Pine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than anything else, Muller&#039;s ever-expanding &quot;probe&quot; --getting more akin to the famed alien &quot;anal probe&quot; each day, has exposed just how rigged our justice system is, and how predatory, shark-like lawyers ignore the law, and just go after whoever they want, in whatever way they want, because--shopping around--they can always find some theory of law, some &quot;supervisor,&quot; or judge who will justify and OK what they want to do.

It was common knowledge in the law school I attended--for one horrible year--that lawyers had a little mental list of judges, or &quot;expert witnesses,&quot; who could be counted on to rule in their favor, or to testify to the &quot;truth&quot; of whatever they might propose to be the &quot;truth&quot; of a matter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More than anything else, Muller&#8217;s ever-expanding &#8220;probe&#8221; &#8211;getting more akin to the famed alien &#8220;anal probe&#8221; each day, has exposed just how rigged our justice system is, and how predatory, shark-like lawyers ignore the law, and just go after whoever they want, in whatever way they want, because&#8211;shopping around&#8211;they can always find some theory of law, some &#8220;supervisor,&#8221; or judge who will justify and OK what they want to do.</p>
<p>It was common knowledge in the law school I attended&#8211;for one horrible year&#8211;that lawyers had a little mental list of judges, or &#8220;expert witnesses,&#8221; who could be counted on to rule in their favor, or to testify to the &#8220;truth&#8221; of whatever they might propose to be the &#8220;truth&#8221; of a matter.</p>
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		By: Ray		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381315</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Read the Harvey Silverglate book &quot;Three Felonies a Day&quot; 
https://fee.org/articles/three-felonies-a-day-how-the-feds-target-the-innocent/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Read the Harvey Silverglate book &#8220;Three Felonies a Day&#8221;<br />
<a href="https://fee.org/articles/three-felonies-a-day-how-the-feds-target-the-innocent/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://fee.org/articles/three-felonies-a-day-how-the-feds-target-the-innocent/</a></p>
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		By: Yankee		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381291</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yankee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is no point in debating legal points with thugs.  And that is exactly what Rosenstein and Mueller both are, thugs.  They are thugs in suits who cloak thuggish actions with high-minded rhetoric about the importance of the law and their dedication to justice.

Their actions have an underlying message, and it is crystal-clear: it is a big &quot;fuck you&quot; to President Trump,  and his associates, and his supporters.  Their actions show contempt and disapproval by an inside elite toward an outsider.

But why take such an extreme step? Why do this when the &quot;Russian interference&quot; and &quot;Russian collusion&quot; investigation is essentially over?  They chose to do this specific action when they were free to take a different approach.

There is something desperate about this when it was all so unnecessary.  Something may come out soon that will be very embarrassing, likely for the FBI, and for the Obama administration, and for the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Note also that Robert Mueller is 73, and this is all that he will be remembered for.  Rod Rosenstein is 53, just a few years older than Andrew McCabe.  Whatever happens next, this is the end for Rosenstein&#039;s political career.  Their actions indicate that they know something, but they are in denial about it, and so they are lashing out, hoping to provoke something.

And incidentally, both of those thugs are really kind of funny-looking.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is no point in debating legal points with thugs.  And that is exactly what Rosenstein and Mueller both are, thugs.  They are thugs in suits who cloak thuggish actions with high-minded rhetoric about the importance of the law and their dedication to justice.</p>
<p>Their actions have an underlying message, and it is crystal-clear: it is a big &#8220;fuck you&#8221; to President Trump,  and his associates, and his supporters.  Their actions show contempt and disapproval by an inside elite toward an outsider.</p>
<p>But why take such an extreme step? Why do this when the &#8220;Russian interference&#8221; and &#8220;Russian collusion&#8221; investigation is essentially over?  They chose to do this specific action when they were free to take a different approach.</p>
<p>There is something desperate about this when it was all so unnecessary.  Something may come out soon that will be very embarrassing, likely for the FBI, and for the Obama administration, and for the Hillary Clinton campaign.</p>
<p>Note also that Robert Mueller is 73, and this is all that he will be remembered for.  Rod Rosenstein is 53, just a few years older than Andrew McCabe.  Whatever happens next, this is the end for Rosenstein&#8217;s political career.  Their actions indicate that they know something, but they are in denial about it, and so they are lashing out, hoping to provoke something.</p>
<p>And incidentally, both of those thugs are really kind of funny-looking.</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381268</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AesopFan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back to the original topic, which is Trump and collusion:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-yes-its-time-to-give-trump-some-credit-on-russia?ref=home

&quot;First, although it’s impossible to know what might ultimately come out of the Mueller probe, Trump’s recent words and deeds could serve to quiet speculation about kompromat. As Commentary magazine’s John Podhoretz (no Trump booster) observed, &lt;b&gt;“If the Russians have blackmail material on Trump that could destroy him, they should probably let it out pretty soon before his sanctions turn on everybody in Putin’s orbit.”&lt;/b&gt; &quot;

And that&#039;s not counting him dissing Putin &#038; bombing Russians in Syria.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to the original topic, which is Trump and collusion:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-yes-its-time-to-give-trump-some-credit-on-russia?ref=home" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-yes-its-time-to-give-trump-some-credit-on-russia?ref=home</a></p>
<p>&#8220;First, although it’s impossible to know what might ultimately come out of the Mueller probe, Trump’s recent words and deeds could serve to quiet speculation about kompromat. As Commentary magazine’s John Podhoretz (no Trump booster) observed, <b>“If the Russians have blackmail material on Trump that could destroy him, they should probably let it out pretty soon before his sanctions turn on everybody in Putin’s orbit.”</b> &#8221;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s not counting him dissing Putin &amp; bombing Russians in Syria.</p>
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		By: Yancey Ward		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381246</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yancey Ward]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taint teams and Chinese Walls are basically a kind of fraud, and I think everyone with an IQ above body temperature knows this.  Incriminating or damaging material always finds its way to its most potent user.  In the case at hand, you can be 100% sure that the people reviewing Cohen&#039;s files are primarily looking for material they can send to Mueller for his case against Trump and/or leak to the NYTimes.  The only stuff in the files you won&#039;t get to read as part of a news story, a court proceeding, or an impeachment trial will be the material of Cohen&#039;s clients who have no significant public profile.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Taint teams and Chinese Walls are basically a kind of fraud, and I think everyone with an IQ above body temperature knows this.  Incriminating or damaging material always finds its way to its most potent user.  In the case at hand, you can be 100% sure that the people reviewing Cohen&#8217;s files are primarily looking for material they can send to Mueller for his case against Trump and/or leak to the NYTimes.  The only stuff in the files you won&#8217;t get to read as part of a news story, a court proceeding, or an impeachment trial will be the material of Cohen&#8217;s clients who have no significant public profile.</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381245</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AesopFan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Point made in the double-standards tournament:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-republicans-trump-firing-mueller-20180410-story.html

Some congressional Republicans forcefully defended the president. In doing so, one mentioned Trump&#039;s 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.

&quot;Think about the double standard,&quot; Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on Fox News Channel. &quot;Yesterday we had the FBI raid the president&#039;s private attorney&#039;s residence and business. That&#039;s privileged information. And yet when Hillary Clinton had some 60,000 emails, [her attorney] David Kendall had possession of those emails, they got to decide . . . which ones were personal.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Point made in the double-standards tournament:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-republicans-trump-firing-mueller-20180410-story.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-republicans-trump-firing-mueller-20180410-story.html</a></p>
<p>Some congressional Republicans forcefully defended the president. In doing so, one mentioned Trump&#8217;s 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>&#8220;Think about the double standard,&#8221; Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said on Fox News Channel. &#8220;Yesterday we had the FBI raid the president&#8217;s private attorney&#8217;s residence and business. That&#8217;s privileged information. And yet when Hillary Clinton had some 60,000 emails, [her attorney] David Kendall had possession of those emails, they got to decide . . . which ones were personal.&#8221;</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2018/04/10/more-on-the-michael-cohen-seizure/#comment-2381239</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AesopFan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s getting hard to decide where to post new comments on the Topic du jour, but I&#039;ll pick this one because it&#039;s more general than the others put up today, and this is a generalized commentary:

Q: How is Hungary like America?
A: Everyone on the left hates the results of their Presidential election.

Q: Why does that matter?
A: Because the tactics used by the left in one country are also being used in the other.


http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/10/hungary-orban-democracy/

&quot;It’s hard to say how an international body, led by unelected bureaucrats, punishing a member state for voting the wrong way will reinforce democratic principles. But the whole argument isn’t really about democracy – it’s about Hungary rejecting Eurocrat liberalism.

Many of the people presently criticizing Hungary want to spread democracy all over the globe, even if that requires western military action. &lt;b&gt;But their preferred form of democracy doesn’t mean accepting the will of the people. It’s a type of government where power is invested in left-leaning elites and that promotes progressive orthodoxy.&lt;/b&gt;

You can still be a “real democracy” if you jail people for wrongthink Facebook posts and silence prominent dissidents with “hate speech” charges. All of Western Europe stifles free speech, yet you don’t see calls in The Washington Post for those countries to be punished.

That’s because the enemies of the elites are the ones who are punished, not the elites themselves.&lt;b&gt; Orban is hated because he attacks the elites, which is why his victory must be delegitimized.&lt;/b&gt;

Advocates of the liberal consensus still have to maintain the illusion that their agenda is what the people really want – even when 70 percent of the people vote against it. Accusations of tainted elections, Russian meddling and voting irregularities always follow when an election doesn’t go their way.

...
Contrary to what Orban’s critics say, the real threat to democracy is left-wing elites. &lt;b&gt;Time and time again, they have shown themselves unwilling to accept the results of democracy and are open to undemocratic means to reverse those defeats.&lt;/b&gt; 
... 
&lt;em&gt;[the only democratic election not contested by the Left was the victory of Hamas in Gaza]&lt;/em&gt;

Punishing the people for having the wrong views does not make them conform to the dictates of the elite. It appears it only stiffens their resistance.

If progressives were smart, they would act on the issue that caused Brexit and Orban’s massive victory: immigration. Simply by controlling their borders and limiting the number of migrants, center-left liberals could undermine the appeal of populist-nationalists.

Instead, they insist open borders is a cardinal virtue of true liberal democracy and &lt;b&gt;want to imprison anyone who dares question it. Average Europeans hear that message loud and clear.&lt;/b&gt;

That’s why they vote for Orban.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s getting hard to decide where to post new comments on the Topic du jour, but I&#8217;ll pick this one because it&#8217;s more general than the others put up today, and this is a generalized commentary:</p>
<p>Q: How is Hungary like America?<br />
A: Everyone on the left hates the results of their Presidential election.</p>
<p>Q: Why does that matter?<br />
A: Because the tactics used by the left in one country are also being used in the other.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/10/hungary-orban-democracy/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/10/hungary-orban-democracy/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;It’s hard to say how an international body, led by unelected bureaucrats, punishing a member state for voting the wrong way will reinforce democratic principles. But the whole argument isn’t really about democracy – it’s about Hungary rejecting Eurocrat liberalism.</p>
<p>Many of the people presently criticizing Hungary want to spread democracy all over the globe, even if that requires western military action. <b>But their preferred form of democracy doesn’t mean accepting the will of the people. It’s a type of government where power is invested in left-leaning elites and that promotes progressive orthodoxy.</b></p>
<p>You can still be a “real democracy” if you jail people for wrongthink Facebook posts and silence prominent dissidents with “hate speech” charges. All of Western Europe stifles free speech, yet you don’t see calls in The Washington Post for those countries to be punished.</p>
<p>That’s because the enemies of the elites are the ones who are punished, not the elites themselves.<b> Orban is hated because he attacks the elites, which is why his victory must be delegitimized.</b></p>
<p>Advocates of the liberal consensus still have to maintain the illusion that their agenda is what the people really want – even when 70 percent of the people vote against it. Accusations of tainted elections, Russian meddling and voting irregularities always follow when an election doesn’t go their way.</p>
<p>&#8230;<br />
Contrary to what Orban’s critics say, the real threat to democracy is left-wing elites. <b>Time and time again, they have shown themselves unwilling to accept the results of democracy and are open to undemocratic means to reverse those defeats.</b><br />
&#8230;<br />
<em>[the only democratic election not contested by the Left was the victory of Hamas in Gaza]</em></p>
<p>Punishing the people for having the wrong views does not make them conform to the dictates of the elite. It appears it only stiffens their resistance.</p>
<p>If progressives were smart, they would act on the issue that caused Brexit and Orban’s massive victory: immigration. Simply by controlling their borders and limiting the number of migrants, center-left liberals could undermine the appeal of populist-nationalists.</p>
<p>Instead, they insist open borders is a cardinal virtue of true liberal democracy and <b>want to imprison anyone who dares question it. Average Europeans hear that message loud and clear.</b></p>
<p>That’s why they vote for Orban.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Geoffrey Britain		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Britain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 04:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Snow on Pine asks, &quot;will it, in the end, come to violence?&quot; 

Tragically and almost certainly, yes. 

When &quot;redress of grievance&quot; is eliminated, all that remains is enslavement or &quot;politics by &#039;other&#039; means&quot;... 

The prophetic words of Orwell resonate down the years; &quot;So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire, by people who don&#039;t even know that fire is hot.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Snow on Pine asks, &#8220;will it, in the end, come to violence?&#8221; </p>
<p>Tragically and almost certainly, yes. </p>
<p>When &#8220;redress of grievance&#8221; is eliminated, all that remains is enslavement or &#8220;politics by &#8216;other&#8217; means&#8221;&#8230; </p>
<p>The prophetic words of Orwell resonate down the years; &#8220;So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire, by people who don&#8217;t even know that fire is hot.&#8221;</p>
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