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In reply to the discussion: Jack Smith Put 1 Egg In 2 Baskets [View all]moniss
(9,184 posts)and we were outraged we were told "You don't understand. This is needed to allow the country to heal." The media inundated the country with that message for months. Plain folks who never voiced that view of Nixon and his crimes before the pardon now suddenly started to repeat the "mantra".
We were outraged because we knew the crookedness and crimes of Nixon before even Watergate. We were outraged because we knew the crooked set-up that put in place the pieces to make the pardon happen. We knew Gerald Ford was chosen for a reason.
We knew when the pardon happened that letting a President off the hook legally for his many crimes would come back to hurt the country another day. The media kept telling us the country was "healing" and we should "move on". But we knew that the things done by Nixon from his first days in office were a cancer to our country. We knew that healing the surface doesn't mean the cancer has gone away and will not come back and spread.
So now here we are. Now we are hoping that a crooked Supreme Court will stop being crooked for just a little while and do something for the good of the country. 6 justices who got their seats by being pushed by crooked money so as to protect more crooked conduct. 6 justices who got their seats after having raised their hands and swearing to tell the truth and then proceeding to tell lie after lie.
So what will be the new pablum? The new mantra? Will it be "The enforcement people were doing all they could"? Will it be "You don't understand"?
Maybe our media and naysayers need to realize that we who are outraged about the handling of this "understand" very well how we got here and we see the clear lineage of Watergate through Iran-Contra and through 1/6 and we see what comes of allowing the head of the snake to slither away by delay, obfuscation and creation of excuses by crooked people in power.
Make no mistake about it. The country is hanging by a thread now because of what we didn't do then. The crooked 6 are getting ready to put in place the basis for a President to order out loyal troops to complete a coup the next time. All with no legal recourse. They are dangling the ability of a President to defy even the SC itself and leave the people with no legal recourse. They are poised to be removing legal remedies for a President who would suspend elections.
This has never been a thing to have "patience" with because that would imply that the ones being pursued will somehow be "chastened" in the end by the process and results and "sin no more". Glasses with that much rose coloring wouldn't even let in a speck of daylight. These people are never ending in their planning and the "patience" shown is exactly the path for the delay they seek in order to plan and execute their evasions for past acts and for planning more acts going forward.