{"id":79508,"date":"2021-09-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79508"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:23:26","slug":"under-the-tabls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79508","title":{"rendered":"Under The Table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thesis:  If people can&#8217;t trust the institutions they have relied on to enforce the laws and administer the justice system fairly, impartially, honestly and diligently, they will start their own institutions to do it for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corolary:  This is usually an extraordinarily ugly thing.  <em>See also<\/em>:  The Mafia, the Provos, the various Lebanese militias, Salvadoran and Argentinean and other nations&#8217; &#8220;death squads&#8221; of the left and right.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Observation:  we are having trouble trusting our institutions to administer justice fairly, impartially, honestly and diligently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit 1:   young woman notes the FBI slow-rolled the investigation of famous man who abused her horribly at age 15 &#8211; and then allegedly lied about her statements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The FBI is corrupt and rotten to the core<br><br>McKayla Maroney exposes how the FBI criminally covered up for Larry Nassar, allowed him to keep molesting young girls, and lied about her allegations<br><br>&quot;I am tired of waiting for people to do the right thing.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PLjEU6dwPx\">pic.twitter.com\/PLjEU6dwPx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1438157586914811905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear in mind, Ms. Maroney is at least a C-list celebrity &#8211; the crowd who can usually count on some name recognition to deter the worst abuses.  If FBI handles the case of someone with name recognition, a public profile and a photo with Barack Obama on her resume, what can the average schnook expect? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit 2: 49 people may have died because the FBI didn&#8217;t want to lose an informant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Pulse Nightclub shooter&#39;s father was an FBI informant for nearly a decade. His son proceeded to kill 49 people.<br><br>The FBI truly exists to protect and serve.<\/p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1438191138087788550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit 3:  As noted in the Tweet above, the FBI was alleged to have shaken and baked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79023\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"79023\">&#8220;plot&#8221; to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer<\/a> to fluff up their &#8220;oncoming wave of white nationalist terror&#8221; meme.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2021\/09\/11\/fbi-fires-whitmer-kidnap-case-agent-amid-wife-beating-allegations\/8295557002\/\">there are some limits even the FBI won&#8217;t transgress<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;that we know of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the people can&#8217;t trust their institutions to administer the justice system fairly, impartially, honestly and diligently&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;what, then? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to keep seeing the same hands.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis: If people can&#8217;t trust the institutions they have relied on to enforce the laws and administer the justice system fairly, impartially, honestly and diligently, they will start their own institutions to do it for themselves. Corolary: This is usually an extraordinarily ugly thing. See also: The Mafia, the Provos, the various Lebanese militias, Salvadoran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79510,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79508\/revisions\/79510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}