Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n
In the United States the criminal justice (sic) system is itself not subject to law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We see immunity to law continually as police commit felonies against citizens and even murder children and walk away free.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We see it all the time when prosecutors conduct political prosecutions and when they prosecute the innocent in order to build their conviction record.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We see it when judges fail to prevent prosecutors from withholding exculpatory evidence and bribing witnesses and when judges accept coerced plea deals that deprive the defendant of a jury trial.<\/p>\n We just saw it again when federal prosecutors recommended a six month prison sentence for Lt. Gen. Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency accused of lying to the FBI about nothing of any importance, for being uncooperative in the Justice (sic) Department\u2019s effort to frame President Trump with false \u201cRussiagate\u201d charges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Justice (sic) Department prosecutor said: \u201cThe sentence should adequately deter the defendant from violating the law, and to promote respect for the law. It is clear that the defendant has not learned his lesson. He has behaved as though the law does not apply to him, and as if there are no consequences for his actions.\u201d<\/p>\n That is precisely what the Justice (sic) Department itself did for years in their orchestration of the fake Russiagate charges against Trump.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The prosecutor\u2019s hypocrisy is overwhelming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Justice (sic) Department is a criminal organization.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It has no sense of justice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Convicting the innocent builds the conviction rate of the prosecutor as effectively as convicting the guilty. The Horowitz report of the Justice (sic) Department\u2019s lies to the FISA court did not recommend a six-month prision sentence for those Justice (sic) Deplartment officials who lied to the government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Horowitz covered up the crimes by converting them into \u201cmistakes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Yes, they are embarrassing \u201cmistakes,\u201d but mistakes don\u2019t bring prison sentences.<\/p>\n Gen. Flynn, who was President Trump\u2019s National Security Advisor for a couple of weeks before Mueller and Flynn\u2019s attorneys manuevered him into a plea bargain, allegedly lied to the FBI about whether he met with a Russian.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flynn and his attorneys should never have accepted the proposition that a National Security Advisor shouldn\u2019t meet with Russians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski met with Russians all the the time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It was part of their job.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Trump originally intended to normalize the strained relations with Russia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flynn should have been meeting with Russians. It was his job.<\/p>\n Ninety-seven percent of felony cases are resolved with plea bargains.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In other words, there is no trial.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The defendant admits to guilt for a lighter sentence, and if he throws in \u201ccooperation,\u201d which generally means giving false evidence against someone else in the prosecutor\u2019s net, no sentence at all.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flynn was expected to help frame Trump and Flynn\u2019s former business partner, Bijan Rafiekian, on an unrelated matter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He didn\u2019t, which means he is \u201cuncooperative\u201d and deserving of a prison sentence.<\/p>\n Plea bargains have replaced trials for three main reasons.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>One is that the defense attorney doesn\u2019t want the hard work of defending his client.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>One is that the majority of defendants cannot afford to pay the cost of defense.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>One is that refusing to plea guilty and demanding a trial angers both the prosecutor and judge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Trials take time and provide a test of often unreliable police and prosecutorial evidence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They mean work for the prosecutor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Even if he secures a conviction, during the same time he could have obtained many more plea bargain convictions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>For the judge, trials back up his case docket.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Consequently, a trial means for the defendant very high risks of a much longer and more severe sentence than he would get in exchange for saving prosecutor and judge time and energy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>All of this is explained to the defendant by his attorney.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was explained to Gen. Flynn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He agreed to a plea, most likely advised that his \u201coffense\u201d was so minor, no sentence would be forthcoming.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Flynn later tried to revoke his plea, saying it was coerced, but the Clinton-appointed \u00a0judge refused to let him out of the trap.<\/p>\n Now that we know the only Russiagate scandal was its orchestration by the CIA, Justice (sic) Department, and Democrats, failing to cooperate with the special counsel investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election is nonsensical as we \u00a0know for a definite fact that there was no such interference.<\/p>\n This is how corrupt American law has become.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A man is being put in prison for 6 months for not cooperating with an investigation of an event that did not happen!<\/p>\n If Trump doesn\u2019t pardon Flynn (and Manafort and Stone), and fire the corrupt prosecutors who falsely prosecuted Flynn, Trump deserves no one\u2019s support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A president who will not defend his own people from unwarranted prosecution is not worthy of support.<\/p>\n In Flynn\u2019s case, we cannot dismiss the suspicion that revenge against Flynn was the driving factor. Gen. Flynn is the official who revealed on television that Obama made the willful decision to send ISIS or whatever we want to call them into Syria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Of course, the Obama regime pretended that the jihadists were moderates seeking to overthrow the alleged dictator Assad and bring democracy to Syria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Washington then pretended that it was fighting the mercenaries it had sent into Syria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Even though the presstitutes did their best to ignore Flynn\u2019s information, Flynn gave extreme offense by letting this information out. That bit of truth-telling was Flynn\u2019s real offense.<\/p>\n