¶ The day Congress begins it’s new session in January, the special investigators will be appointed and the Congressional hearings will begin. The Nation will be plunged into months of nothing but partisan rantings, hearings and tirades, until finally, months or years later, Hillary is either impeached or acquitted and the furor finally dies down…you know, like it did with repealing Obamacare (read: it didn’t).
¶ But let’s just say she DOESN’T get impeached. Enough people are bribed or killed or however she manages to stay in office. OK…well, after that, at best, there would be 3+ years where NOTHING happens, because the GOP blocks EVERYTHING Hillary tries to do. The Grand Old Party (yes, that’s what GOP stands for) emboldened by the corruption charges to step up the gerrymandering and poll rigging, after the midterm elections will have a huge, Veto breaking Congressional majority, ensuring, at best that the next 2 years are more of the same.
¶ At worst, our nation goes thru a scandal that makes the Nixon resignation and Bill Clinton Impeachment Circus look like a sunny day in paradise. No second term for the Crooked Hillster, as her polling numbers dip lower than they are even now. 2021 rolls around, and we’re stuck with Ted Cruz as our President and the World effectively begins Final Approach to Armageddon.
¶ These are just some of the high points I’ve guessed at…I’m sure reality will be much worse, complete with new wars, greater corporate exploitation, and the “War on Terror” clinging desperately to illegal, McCarthyistic tactics to sustain itself.
¶ After all that, I’ll be able to say “I told you so” and, more importantly, “Don’t Fucking Blame Me” #JFS
¶ ps. I didn’t speculate here, but I’m certain the Trump outcome will be similar/worse. God Help The USA #TwoEvils #TooEvil #gomh
If these people are guilty, they deserve…nay, they are Constitutionally Guaranteed, a fair trial. Otherwise, release them and close the illegal prison. This is America, not Communist China or the USSR. And by the way…we are not in a state of war, so these are political prisoners, not prisoners of war; some of whom have been held, without trial (presumably because the Government doesn’t have enough evidence to actually convict them of anything), for 15 long years.
#CloseGitmo #Guantanamo #SixthAmendment #justice
Excerpt from a new study shines some extra light on exactly how fucked up things were, and are now almost 8 full years later:
“A study by Afghan-based research group came to troubling conclusions regarding the US government’s handling of Guantanamo Bay, finding it used bad intelligence and rigged its own legal system to justify detentions, thus prolonging the Afghan war.
The author of the study by the Afghan Analysts Network says systemic ignorance of reality by both intelligence and military, as well as attempts to justify the War on Terror by any means necessary, have created a mechanism that only prolonged the conflict – America’s longest in history – and strengthened the Taliban insurgency.
Author Kate Clark delves deep into the case of eight remaining Afghans at Guantanamo. Their varying stories are used as case studies for how badly things can go wrong if bad intelligence is being upheld by a rigged justice system.”
