The Stone Commute Highlighted Democrats' Hypocrisy––But Now They're Waking Up
By Joan Swirsky
CanadaFreePress.com
Roger Stone celebrates
his commutation outside his home in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., July 10, 2020. (Joe
Skipper/Reuters)
“Trump Spares Stone from Imprisonment, Sparking
Howls of Amnesiac Democrats” was the colorful
headline of a recent Wall
St. Journal piece by journalist, author and former
Asst. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY,
Andrew C. McCarthy.
The “Stone” in the headline referred to Roger Stone,
a longtime associate of President Trump who was
sentenced to 40 months in prison two years ago for
lying to Congress, among other counts, during the
failed fiasco of the Mueller investigation into the
non-existent collusion of then-candidate Trump with
Russian operatives to rig the 2016 election in his
favor.
GLARING HYPOCRISY
Stone, now 67, was arrested in a predawn raid on his
home by a heavily armed SWAT team, a saga that was
“coincidentally” caught by a CNN camera crew who
just happened to be parked outside his home at 4
a.m. Imagine that.
According to Jan Wolfe from Reuters,
Stone had connections to the WikiLeaks website,
which released damaging emails about Trump’s
election rival Hillary Clinton. Uh oh…can’t have
those damning e-mails released. Hence the
sadistically harsh sentence––the original
recommendation was seven-to-nine years––and the
brouhaha about Stone’s commutation.
Of course, the leftwing media were “outraged,”
“shocked,” “appalled” at President Trump’s
miscarriage of justice, although interestingly the
president didn’t issue a full pardon, so the felony
conviction of Mr. Stone still stands, as does his
appeal.
But you would think, as reported by
investigative journalist Mark Hyman, that he had
just pardoned two-dozen
FALN Puerto-Rican terrorists who murdered at least
24 people.
Or commuted the 58-year sentence of far-left
terrorist Susan Rosenberg after only 16 years. It is
so consistent with her hate-America mindset that
today, Rosenberg is a member of the board of
directors for the left-wing group that handles
the donations made to the
Marxist-front organization, Black Lives
Matter (BLM).
Or pardoned Marc Rich, who renounced his U.S.
citizenship, traded illegally with Cuba, did
business with Iran while it held 52 U.S. hostages,
and with Libya which was responsible for the Pan Am
103 bombing that killed 189 Americans.
A FATAL ATTRACTION TO MISCREANTS
Oops, that was President Bill Clinton. Just
before good ole boy Bill issued the pardons, Rich
gave $450,000 to the Clinton Library and his wife
Denise donated over a million dollars to the
Democrat Party and the Clinton Foundation. Imagine
that.
But there is more. According to Spectator journalist
Hyman, “the 56 clemency petitions Clinton approved
during his first term were the fewest of any
president since Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third
commander-in-chief, who issued a mere 45 clemencies.
Consider Jefferson’s clemencies were given when the
U.S. had a population of only 5 million compared to
the 285 million during Clinton’s first term.”
But everything changed when Hillary decided to run
for U.S. Senator from New York. After her decision,
Hyman says, “Bill doled out 380 pardons and
commutations. Clemency was dished-out in return for
money, gifts, and influence…Hillary stockpiled
financial and political IOUs and cashed-in when she
ran for political office, including the presidency.”
Imagine that.
Again, not one word of outrage from the craven
media.
Many of Barack Obama’s pardons and commutations were
for drug dealers and violent offenders. He pardoned
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, the traitor who
leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents
to WikiLeaks and was convicted and sentenced to 35
years in prison. He pardoned the convicted terrorist
Oscar Lopez Rivera, the leader of the FALN,
responsible for 130 attacks in the U.S., who was
serving a 70-year sentence when Obama set him free,
the list is long. That is the very very short list.
Remember the media’s indignation? Me neither.
MEDIA MALFEASANCE
But Stone’s mortal sin was that he lied to––guess
who?––the proven pathological liars in the Obama
regime’s FBI, CIA, DOJ, et al, who were trying to
frame candidate and then President Trump. Nothing
less than the guillotine for him!
Well, whaddaya know? The entire uproar is already
off the radar as the corrupt media are now back to:
-
Covering for the escalating
violent crimes of the anarchic groups
BLM and Antifa;
-
Pretending that the Centers for Disease Control are
not dispensing erroneous information
about Covid-19,
-
Failing to report on the jaw-dropping
incompetence of the Democrat mayors in our
country’s biggest cities–– Bill
DiBlasio in NY, Eric
Garcetti in L.A., Lori
Lightfoot in Chicago, Bernard
“Jack” Young in Baltimore, Ted
Wheeler in Portland, OR, on and on
and on––who are clearly incapable of stemming
the catastrophic upsurge in crime, including
murder,
-
Trying to ignore recent resignee from the NY
Times, liberal Bari Weiss, who has outed the
newspaper as the racist, sexist, anti-Semitic rag it
has been since its inception, on and on.
ARE THE TABLES TURNING?
The vast American public out there already knows of
the Democrats’ double standards.
They see the breakdown of law and order in
Democrat-run cities and its encroachment into the
suburbs and don’t want any of that wanton violence
in their state, city, or the block they live on.
Even Regressives are horrified by the No-Bail laws
enacted by Democrat legislators when they see that
the psychopathic criminals who are setting cars on
fire and committing violent assaults walk free, as
did the thugs who attacked
and smashed the faces of high-ranking
police officials in NY City the other day.
And they are watching Joe Biden’s rapid and pitiful
devolution.
On the positive side, President Trump is opening up
America and, happily, the Democrats themselves are
now waking up! According to an article in
The New York Times, “Two-thirds of battleground
state voters who chose Trump in 2016 but selected
Democrats in the midterms say they will return to
the president” [in 2020].
Joan Swirsky is an award winning author and
journalist. Her work can be found at joanswirsky.com