Heroes and Villains: It’s a Rigged Game

Revisiting heroes and villains: Who am I to say what’s true or not true? Who therefore is guilty or innocent?

Take the case of Julian Assange:

The left loved him when he was leaking stuff that made Bush look bad, but when he leaked stuff making Hillary look compromised be became a tool of Putin and Trump. So when a whistleblower provided an audio tape to Project Veritas, warning the U.S. government of the damaging information a rogue former Wikileaks employee was about to release, well, who knows what to believe. It could all be completely true, completely fabricated  or something in between. We will never know.

Assange warns State Department upcoming leak of classified information

During the 75-minute conversation, Assange, who initiated the call, said to Johnson that WikiLeaks is very concerned that classified information from the State Department is about to be released—outside of its control by a rogue former employee, who stole the information in order to establish his own rival media outlet.

I’m not disinclined to think that the original Wikileaks story is something the Government-Media complex would edit and disassemble to suit their purposes. Which means I’m certainly not disinclined to believe this version of it either.

And what about Snowden? Not quite as cut and dried as we were led to believe either methinks.

Did we have a right to know that our government was, as we suspected, spying on us? Yes. Snowden’s unwise, naïve, illegal…and dangerous method of revealing this information has made him a goat and a fugitive. Even so, knowing what I know now about the corruption enmeshed at every level of government, would I forgive him? Yeah, I just might.

In fact I’m so tired of being lied to by any means necessary and by every means possible, so sick of weaponized prosecutorial malfeasance that I’m officially with Kurt Schlichter on this:  Pardon Everyone.

Is this yet another norm that mean old Trump is overturning? Hardly. Instead, it is a woke recognition of the new rules, new rules the Democrats imposed and which they should now experience, suppository-like, good and hard. How many innocent people went bankrupt after being caught up in the Russia hoax? Did they care? So why should we about depriving them of their jollies? There might have been a time when we were all playing by the rules that said that the feds would only investigate bad people and bring them to justice, where the innocent were not punished through process. Those were good times. But they are not these times.

…Pardon everyone, anyone who might conceivably be swept up in the unity Administrations Truth and Reconciliation Tribunals.

Any investigation of any ally must be presumed illegitimate, based on past performance, so uncap that pardonin’ pen and get signing.

Read the whole thing.

It may well be the Left’s game but for a while longer we still hold the Trump card.