How much longer is this going to be tolerated by the U.S. government? Colorado state legislators and the governor have prohibited police from handing over these criminals to ICE in defiance of Federal law. These criminals, many with long rap sheets, are allowed to walk the streets, free to commit more serious crimes. In order to harvest votes, authorities are putting the public at serious risk. They should be charged with dereliction of their duty to serve and protect law-abiding citizens, complicity in the crimes committed by the illegals they set free, and violation of U.S immigration law.
The official police policy on "cooperating" with ICE: "We do not do any secure handoff and do not participate in the transfer unless an incident would occur that would threaten the safety of the community.” The gall of pretending to be worried about public safety!
How much longer is this going to be allowed to happen before the National Guard is sent in? This is a national emergency and an ongoing crime against humanity.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/27/denver-ice-arrest-hit-run-deport/
"Barr also shredded former FBI Director James Comey: “One of the things that I object to is the tact being taken by Comey, which is to suggest that people who are criticizing or trying to get to the bottom of the misconduct are somehow attacking the FBI. I think that’s nonsense. We’re criticizing and concerned about misconduct by a few actors at the top of the FBI and they should be criticized if they engaged in serious misconduct. That doesn’t mean we are criticizing the FBI and I think the tact of trying to wrap yourself in the institution and say gee, people who are criticizing the decisions I made are attacking the institution. I notice people don’t do that as far as I’m concerned. People feel free to criticize me and I don’t say gee you’re attacking the honest men and women of the Department of Justice. I think leaders have to own their decisions and are fair game if they make bad decisions.”
I hope and trust that Barr means something more serious than "bad" decisions. How about CRIMINAL decisions with prison-time consequences? And treasonous Brennan, who's become a Twitter patriot now that he fears the Law might be closing in?
Biden Falsely Claims Middle Class Is Not Growing Under Trump
Buttigieg Says U.S. Economy ‘Not Working for Most’ Americans
Klobuchar Vows to Appoint Judges like RBG
Klobuchar on Impeachmemt: ‘This Is a Global Watergate’
Styer Vows to ‘Declare State of Emergency’ on Climate Crisis
These are headlines in the Breitbart ‘On Our Radar’ Section https://www.breitbart.com/
Just a summary of the many striking parallels between Andrew Johnson’s impeachment and Trump’s.
The 1868 Johnson impeachment was a kind of trap triggered when he exercised his Constitutional prerogative by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Stanton--does this sound familiar?--was a kind of "sleeper," a holdover (in this case from the Lincoln administration) working with the Radical (!) Republicans to "resist" Johnson’s Southern-friendly policies. (Stanton refused to go quietly; he even barricaded himself in his office at one point!)
Anticipating the firing, Congress had passed the unconstitutional Tenure in Office Act, specifically designed to protect Stanton and make his firing an impeachable offense. The Senate was inventing a reason to go after the President for acting without Congressional “advice and consent.” Violation of the Act became the primary Article against him. Other Articles included “the attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach, the Congress of the United States."
The Articles were very similar to the ones about to be voted on: In effect, abuse of Executive power, and something not unlike “obstruction of Congress”: The outspoken Johnson was supposedly trying to discredit the Legislature by bringing it into "ridicule." Of course this was itself a ridiculous charge that amounted to nothing but vengeful butthurt. (“Trump—I mean Johnson—is making fun of us. Reeeeeeeee!”)
The impeachment and trial (with no representatives of the South allowed to participate) was a purely partisan exercise in politicizing--CRIMINALIZING---policy differences, motivated by anger at having a President that Congress didn’t like. Dèja-vu!
I'm not defending Johnson’s policies, or condemning the Republicans'--and certainly not Reconstruction. I'm just pointing out the parallels: Then as now Congress was violating the letter and spirit of the Constitution by abusing its own power, undermining the system of checks and balances, and obstructing the Chief Executive in the exercise of his prerogatives--in other words, by doing exactly what they were accusing the President of doing. They were trying to make a partisan “soft coup” out of what was intended to be an impartial process based on genuinely impeachable offenses. Reconstruction was the proper policy and Johnson was an obstructionist. The Republicans, unlike Schiff and his fellow Democrats, were not covering up financial corruption. But they were corrupting the rule of law and the Constitution. When the Constitution's integrity is at stake, the ends do not justify the means, ever.
The current coup against Trump will of course also fail, but the parallels end there. In the same year Johnson was acquitted, Congress went on to get the 14th Amendment ratified, and a pro-Reconstruction Republican (Grant) was elected President. The Democrats' coup, on the other hand, is already a failure with the American people, and things will only get worse:Trump will win reelection big-time, and Republicans may very well take back the House. The conspirators behind the coup may even face prosecution (one can only hope).
Talk about butthurt! That's what happens when you kick your own ass, Swamp Rats!
