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Dems 100-year ‘Espionage Act’ Silencer! God’s applecart is not for upsetting…

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ~ Ecclesiastes 12:13

Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag: When former President Trump was indicted under the Espionage Act, he was being targeted by a law that from its very inception had been created to suppress the political opposition. While elements of the Espionage Act were watered down over the years and only media hacks still quote “shouting fire in a crowded theater” as if it were standing law, that hasn’t really changed. Widely loathed by liberals and leftists, who were justly often the targets of it, the Espionage Act was mostly used against actual spies during the Cold War. That changed dramatically under Obama who dusted it off and used it to go after reporters and whistleblowers. A decade ago, the Obama administration used the Espionage Act to target FOX News reporter James Rosen. The Espionage Act allowed Obama to use warrantless wiretapping to bust leakers who were in many cases acting as whistleblowers and trying to expose his administration’s misconduct.

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DGH: It cannot be understated that Hussein OBO#44 was a devotee & acolyte of Saul Alinsky in the top 5 of the America-hating hall of fame, the observation of which is more than plausible since he released 5 high-level Al Qaeda for 1 despotic army deserter, aka Bo Bergdahl. (Those 5 released are up & running in Afghanistan) while not forgetting his rules of engagement got several of Seal Team Six killed.

Dem’s 100-year ‘Espionage Act’ Silencer. God’s applecart is not for upsetting…

Daniel Greenfield: The abuse of the Espionage Act against reporters foreshadowed Russiagate. Having realized how useful the package of national security tools could be against political opponents in the press, the Obama administration decided to go ahead and use them against Trump. When Obama and Clinton associates in the Justice Department targeted Gen. Flynn for conducting preemptive diplomacy for the incoming Trump administration, they explored using the Espionage Act and the Logan Act. The current charges against Trump are not an unexpected development, they’re what Russiagate was always about. Power corrupts. And once the Obama administration realized that it could use the Espionage Act to kill unfavorable stories in the media, it was obvious that its members would not stop until they had escalated to using it directly against political opponents from Gen. Flynn to Trump.

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DGH: The FBI was warned TWICE about the Tsarnaev brothers, and dropped it. They had been ubiquitous on social media with a foreign terrorist. The San Bernadino jihadists had posted their intentions loudly on social media. (Jug-eared Barry quipped about respecting the privacy of such posters; apparently unable to comprehend that social postings are public domain.) Dems 100-year ‘Espionage Act’ Silencer!

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Daniel Greenfield: Leftists used to hate the Espionage Act, like all forms of government power, until they were able to take control of it. And then, instead of being targeted by it, they wielded it and, with the inevitably corrupt predictability of human nature, used it to settle political disputes. There are any number of parallels between Woodrow Wilson and Joe Biden. Both men were parochial narcissistic racists who ran as moderates only to rule as radicals. And their public profiles seemed so absurd that their opponents had a bad habit of underestimating them. In a foreshadowing of what could happen to Biden, Wilson became non-functional in office and the country was temporarily run by his wife, yet he went on dreaming of a third term in office. Wilson, like Biden, might have also been thinking of using the Espionage Act to cover up his own corruption. For nearly a decade, Wilson had been conducting a secret affair with another woman.

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DGH: Plain fact is that Trump’s political opposition can’t win on a level playing field., they can’t win unless they cheat. They use every deceptive, evil, propaganda, liberal deep state devices to play dirty and change laws. It’s obvious to all Americans too. Notice, the left are the ones who use the anarchist groups to create violence and demonization, and most of the woke media.

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Daniel Greenfield: Fearful of discovery, he sent her thousands of dollars, a fortune by today’s standards, and drafted a partial admission of guilt. Wilson had called for the Espionage Act earlier that year which would give his administration the authority to censor the mail. It would have been a convenient means of suppressing revelations about his affair that might have damaged his reelection campaign. Fortunately for Wilson, former President Theodore Roosevelt, his 1914 election opponent, had dismissed the idea of exposing the affair. “No evidence could ever make the American people believe that a man like Woodrow Wilson, cast so perfectly as the apothecary’s clerk, could ever play Romeo,” Roosevelt, a barrel-chested man of action, had sneered. By 1916, Republicans, stuck with the uninspiring candidacy of Charles Evans Hughes, appeared ready to take off the gloves and were trying to aggressively get hold of Wilson’s letters.

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DGH:  The blackmail of Woody Wilson was done by the lawyer Samuel Untermeyer with an amount of $40,000; easily 20 times more today. He had letters from Wilsons’ lady love in Princeton and was employed by the usual bankers in NY, who were forever getting a bit antsy about the repayment of war loans by Britain. One quote from Wilson upon hearing from his secretary that Untermeyer was outside was “I wonder what he wants this time)?” Dems 100-year ‘Espionage-act’ Silencer!

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Daniel Greenfield: The version of the Espionage Act that allowed Wilson to censor the mails, but not the press, may have been a compromise to protect the use of the ‘nuclear option’ of the affair. Biden, likely unknowingly, followed in Wilson’s footsteps by deploying claims of foreign election interference to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story during the election. The abuse of national security by Democrats to go after the political opposition is not a new phenomenon. It’s been underway for over a century with the Espionage Act. Charging Trump under the Espionage Act is no accident: it’s a proud tradition. It’s also a deeply corrupt and illegal attack on the Constitution. But that’s the function that the Espionage Act has served for over a century under Democrats. Corrupt megalomaniacal Democrats like Wilson, Obama and Biden use claims of national security to illegally investigate their opponents.

Dems 100-year ‘Espionage Act’ Silencer! God and prayer are very important to Trump Administration…

DGH: Consider every policy and agenda of the Biden administration. Obviously it’s destruction by design and NOT coming from Joe. Although he’s that evil, he’s not that sly. This is definitely the work of “O”. We have an alter ego presidency, since it’s everything “O” desired to do but couldn’t get away with when he was president without destroying his fake persona. Now he hides behind a mindless old man. But we all know who it is. Him.

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Daniel Greenfield: And whether it’s Wilson’s affair with a married woman, Hunter Biden’s harem of Uber prostitutes, or Joe Biden’s money from China, the Espionage Act is a red flag for presidential corruption. National security is legitimate when it protects Americans from foreign enemies, not when it’s used, as Wilson and Biden have, to target Americans under the facade of national security. [end]

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. ~  Ecclesiastes 12:14

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• Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag: Trump is Charged Under a Law Meant to Suppress Political Opposition

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Soli Deo Gloria!

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