We Americans are blessed. We live in
the most prosperous and most powerful country in the world. For our entire
short history people have wanted to come here to enjoy the limitless
opportunities offered by our liberty, our free-market capitalism, and our system
of government. Ours is the longest-surviving democracy in the history of the
world, a democracy based on a Constitution that has guaranteed freedoms enjoyed
nowhere else.
But our base is cracking because of
a loss of faith in our institutions. Our national defense is crumbling, our
no-growth economy is mired in debt, our cities are festering with drugs and
violence, while our law-enforcement community is disrespected my millionaire
football players and protests based on lies. Moreover, we have a political
system corrupted by venal politicians abetted by a biased media and led by candidates
with unheard-of negative ratings. Even the FBI, an institution deemed
incorruptible from the days of Elliot Ness, has fallen prey to political
ambition.
There was a time when the FBI could
not be bribed and could not be dictated to from above. It was truly
untouchable. Now that aura is gone. It was blown away by a scandalous dereliction
of duty in the Hillary Clinton investigation. We had been led to believe that
Director James Comey was a straight-up guy who would not be influenced by
politics, who would conduct a fair and impartial investigation into Hillary
Clinton’s emails. Now it appears that he intentionally let her off the hook.
Whether it was at the direction of President Obama who wanted to protect his
ideological successor or whether Comey wanted simply to advance his career, we
likely will never know. In the face of overwhelming evidence that Hillary
Clinton committed multiple felonies (destruction of evidence, obstruction of
justice, perjury), Comey caved. He recommended that no charges be brought, thereby
relieving compromised Attorney General Loretta Lynch from making that decision.
This wasn’t justice: it was pure politics.
Elliot Ness must be turning in his
grave.
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