In America, We can see that Trumps influence is once again circumventing the law as another one of his lackeys walks free from a possible prison sentence. A federal court has moved to dismiss charges against ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, a former three-star US general, was the highest ranking official snared by the special counsel inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election who was one of several Trump associates convicted of lying. Trumps administration may claim a victory, but the ruling came as a prosecutor told Congress he was pressured to go easy on long-time Trump aide Roger Stone. What is really shocking about this case is that Flynn actually pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to Washington. which makes this surprising 2-1 ruling by the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia really unbelievable following a highly criticised request from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to drop the case, an attempt by Flynn to change his guilty plea and If the case is not appealed, Flynn will be legally exonerated. And guess what or maybe it's no surprise that Trump cheered the "great" ruling in a tweet and called for fired FBI director James Comey to apologise to him.
How can the legal system be so flawed that one man can snap his fingers and have justice swayed in his favour, yet I suppose it can when you look back at how the rich get away with anything they want and the poor are pissed upon by district attorney's who use their position to prosecute cases they know they can win while highly paid defence lawyers get the rich off free. You have a president ( who wants to be the next king of America) preaching law and order, calling peaceful protesters terrorists, looters and anarchists while he backs white supremacists and gun toting morons as warriors, breaches all kinds of justice to get his lackeys released from prison or cases dropped by firing the attorney's that he is scared of and treats immigration as his own personal race relations checker ticking off those creeds and colours he deems as worthless, so you tell me how is this serving law and order other than protecting the white privileged rich that each and every day use the downtrodden to do their slave labour and if you are one of the those minorities that back this crazy, white (sorry orange) privileged racist, sexist, fascist psychopath that is so inept at his job over one hundred and twenty thousand people are dead from a disease he called a hoax, more fool you. That's all I have to say on America today.
So lets's take a look at the other inept head of government in dear old Blighty. So while the Jenkins cash for project approval debacle carried on with Labour claiming collusion and backhander payments to the Conservative party, Johnson faced more aggressive questioning from his counterpart in the opposition over the effectiveness of the NHS test and trace system in England, during Prime Minister's Questions. The Labour leader said it was a "big problem" that just over ten thousand people with coronavirus had been reached, despite estimates of thirty three thousand cases and all Johnson could do was criticise Starmer for not supporting government actions. instead of questioning the effectiveness of the app they should be questioning the privacy issues of the app which tracks peoples lives giving the secret squirrels another way to spy on the innocent with yet another big brother tool taking us one more step towards Orwell's fictional dystopian predictions. As a single bloke living alone with no family, lockdown has been easy, but for families with kids and relatives it must be hellish, so the easing of lockdown for them is good, but are we going too fast, too soon and is the government doing it correctly taking notice of the scientific advice or simply looking at the economic pluses, playing Russian roulette with the populations lives, I suppose we will just have to wait and see won't we.
Rant you tomorrow!
