“Torture is any act by which severe pain, suffering ...whether physical or mental is intentionally inflicted on a person for the purpose of obtaining ...information..or a confession.....”.UN Convention Against Torture, December 1984
The Christian Church eventually outlawed torture used during the Inquisition when it eventually became clear to Church leaders that the practice—was inhumane—and also failed to reveal or punish the guilty. Many innocent men and women were tied to the stake and put to the torch in those days. In England—at least up until 1640....a man (or woman) placed on the rack in Elizabethan times was likely to “confess” to every crime his/her interlocutors charged him( her) with. For an eager prosecutors torture worked like a charm—they always got their man!. But even in Merry Old England it soon became obvious that torture failed because it did not advance its stated purposes —-the pursuit of the guilty and the truth. It was obvious that the victims of torture could only focus on the excruciating pain they were experiencing. And to end the agony they would agree to anything...admitting guilt of the most bizarre alleged crimes against them—even if it meant long prison sentences or beheading. Physical torture was finally banned world-wide in 1948 with the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (signed by the USA) and most modern western nations. The convention was amended in 1984 to include physical and mental torture to obtain information or a confession (as noted above). Is not this just what Mr. Mueller is doing?
Sadly we are seeing a revision of those evil practices in modern day Washington, DC with the madness of the “Russian craze”, the Mueller investigations and the Cohen and Manafort trials and their results. Special Prosecutor Mueller does not employ electric shock or waterboarding to loosen the tongues of his victims. His methods are more subtle perhaps, but just as painful. Mueller uses threats of long prison terms, yard-long lists of charges and indictments, pre-trial arrest with no bail, intrusive and violent night raids to family homes, charging spouses and family members with exaggerated crimes, and of course, the pain of economic the massive costs and impact resulting from exorbitant legal defense fees.
Mueller has been superficially successful—he has a few notches on his metal studded belt—General Flynn, Papandopoulous, and now Cohen and Manafort. These men were victims of Mueller’s torture and —unable to stand the pain or the financial burden —they were forced to give to the prosecutor what he wanted. The goal: statements (true or false) which may be used as ammunition to to take down a duly elected President. But what Mueller statements given under duress are not necessarily the truth. Let’s be clear—these are admissions and statements given under great pressure.
They will not stand up to public scrutiny as true. They are the fruit of the forbidden tree—forever doubted as factual.
There are 63 million people who voted for Trump because he was not part of the elite, corrupt Washington DC establishment. His style and weaknesses were well assessed before the election. These vast numbers of voters, spread far and wide across the heartland of our nation, voted against: interminable costly wars, loss of their well-paying jobs to overseas competitors, unfair trade practices, bloated budgets, huge recurrent deficits, vast bureaucracy, incompetence, do nothing Democrats and Republicans, and the purposeful abandonment of the people of the heartland to poverty and dying communities.
These voters will not sit idly by if the “Resisters”, the establishment, the Deep State and the Media try to undo a legitmate election and unseat their President. And this all based on phony trumped up charges, derived from legal practices that unbiased observers may call “torture”.
It will not be pretty. It will tear the nation apart. Mueller wise up. End up this waste of time and money. Be a true patriot.
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