Patriot,

With the midterm election less than two weeks away - and many
Americans having already voted - we're seeing the party in power
doing everything possible to influence the outcome.

Putting their thumb on the scale, so to speak.

One of the most dangerous ways they do so is by weaponizing the
justice system against their political opponents.

As I discuss in my newest column, reproduced below, this is a
true threat to liberty in our time.

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Ron Paul
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Campaign for Liberty


Political "Justice" in America

Josef Stalin's top henchman famously said, "show me the man and
I'll show you the crime." What it meant was that Soviet justice
was about politics, not the rule of law. First decide who, for
political reasons, is to be punished, and then the state will
provide the crimes for which he will be charged.

This dark era of politicized "justice" has returned with former
Trump campaign advisor Steve Bannon's recent sentence to four
months in jail for "contempt of Congress" over his refusal to
appear before the House January 6th Committee.

How is it politicized justice for Bannon to be punished for
ignoring a subpoena from the US Congress? Because many before him
have been charged with contempt of Congress - including
Democratic Party luminaries such as Eric Holder, Janet Reno, and
Lois Lerner - and were never sentenced to jail time.

Bannon's sentence is meant to convey a political message to
America: if you support Trump you are a criminal and you may find
yourself in a cell next to Steve Bannon.

And you do not have to support Trump to understand the danger in
this. Everyone should be afraid of political justice. It cuts
both ways and there is no guarantee that Republicans if they
capture Congress will not also follow this precedent.

Sending your political opponents to jail is what happens in a
banana republic. It is un-American. But here we are.

The goal of the January 6th Committee is not to seek justice for
the "crime" of trespassing and putting feet on Pelosi's sacred
desk, but to make sure that Donald Trump is never allowed to run
for President again. That is the reason hundreds have been
unjustly arrested and held in terrible conditions for non-crimes.
As they say, if you want to make an omelet you have to break some
eggs.

Speaking of contempt of Congress, the real contempt is the
existence of the January 6th Committee in the first place. It has
been a partisan show trial from the beginning, where the only two
"Republican" Members were not chosen by Republicans but by Nancy
Pelosi. The purpose of the Committee has been to prop up the
false narrative that somehow a few rowdy protesters who broke
into the Capitol Building were the equivalent of the storming of
the Bastille.

The US Administration is also involved in narrative control in
other areas. The media reported last week that Tesla and Space-X
chief Elon Musk has come under a "national security review" over,
it seems, his on-again-off-again purchase of Twitter and perhaps
even his proposing a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine that does
not include a nuclear strike on Moscow.

Musk has also come under fire from the "cancel culture" Left over
his repeated vows to return Twitter to a free speech platform
once he is in charge. As we have seen in so many cases, including
with former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson, Twitter has
been working closely with the Biden Administration to silence and
ban any users who dare challenge the "accepted wisdom" on Covid,
Ukraine, and a number of other things.

When justice becomes tangled in politics, freedom and liberty go
out the window. We are not so naïve to think this is something
that just arrived with the Biden Administration, but there seems
little doubt it is spreading like a cancer. We must reject
political justice if the Republic is to survive.

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