{"id":29477,"date":"2016-10-21T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29477"},"modified":"2016-10-21T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:33:27","slug":"a-republic-or-a-banana-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29477","title":{"rendered":"A Republic Or A Banana Republic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Kelly Riddell<\/a> posted an article at The Washington Times<\/a> entitled, “The Obama-Clinton banana republic” with the subtitle, “The nation\u2019s core values would continue to suffer under a Clinton presidency<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

In the article, she describes some of the traits of a healthy republic:<\/p>\n

A fair, balanced, and independent Justice Department. Neutral diplomats, who serve the public over politics, at the State Department<\/a>. An unbiased, honest, mainstream media.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She then notes that these values have eroded during the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n

The article then cites examples of that erosion:<\/p>\n

Two days after The Associated Press broke the story that Mrs. Clinton<\/a> was using a private server in March 2015, John Podesta sent an email to her attorney Cheryl Mills<\/a>, asking if they should decline to turn over emails between Mrs. Clinton<\/a> and Mr. Obama<\/a> to Congress, invoking \u201cexecutive privilege.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The email clearly implies Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton<\/a> had been exchanging emails on her private server \u2014 a huge potential security threat, given everything the president sends or receives is highly classified.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…FBI<\/a> notes also signal Mr. Obama was indeed aware and had corresponded with Mrs. Clinton<\/a> on her private server long before the news broke.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an April 2015 interview with Huma Abedin<\/a>, a longtime Clinton<\/a> aide, the FBI alerted her of an exchange between Mr. Obama \u2014 using a pseudonym \u2014 and Mrs. Clinton<\/a> from 2012, where she exclaimed: \u201cHow is this not classified?\u201d the report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I noted in a previous post, Ms. Abedin also asked for a copy of the email–an insurance policy?<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s documents expose there was a \u201cshadow government\u201d at the State Department that tried to protect Mrs. Clinton<\/a> throughout the email probe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a powerful group of very high-ranking State officials that some referred to as \u2018The 7th Floor Group\u2019 or \u2018The Shadow Government.\u2019 This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything Clinton<\/a>-related to FOIA\/Congressional inquiries,\u201d the FBI\u2019s interview summary said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…The media has responded to these scandals by largely ignoring them \u2014 they\u2019re too concerned with Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s rhetoric than they are with anything that would impugn Mrs. Clinton<\/a>\u2019s or Mr. Obama\u2019s record.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, Yahoo\u2019s Katie Couric<\/a> was looking to do pieces that \u201cwould showcase her [Clinton<\/a>\u2018s] personality and has a lot of viral potential,\u201d according an email she sent to Mr. Podesta.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our Founding Fathers put in the U.S. Constitution the concept of equal justice under the law. Under the Obama Administration we have obviously lost that concept. Unfortunately under a Hillary Clinton Administration, it could be permanently lost.<\/p>\n

To anyone who is reading this who is voting for Hillary Clinton because you are an upstanding citizen, remember that when justice is unequally applied, even a small mistake can be used to make war against an ordinary citizen. I remind you that the only person who went to jail because of the Benghazi attack was the filmmaker, and he was innocent. The legal action that sent Dinesh d’Souza to jail was totally extreme in relation to the crime he committed–an illegal campaign donation.<\/p>\n

As America approaches banana republic status, any breach of any law, regardless of how minor, can be used to put any America who opposes the government agenda in jail. Are you ready for that?<\/p>\n

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