Michigan's Resident Rocker Calls Out The Corporate Media...................

Is it at all Humanly Possible that Michigan's Resident Rocker has Returned to the Cockpit under the beautiful Flag of God's Country which as all of yous KNOW is Canada? Well; as yous can see there is a Great Deal on My Twisted, Tormented Mind; so Let's Not waste any time by engaging in Meaningless Bullshit! In other Words; Let's get down to Brass Tax. Now I have been asked what could be Possibly flowing through My Twisted, Tormented Mind? To answer that vexing Question I say; well, I shall tell yous.. And may I forewarn yous who get easily Offended by me Placing an occasional "F-Bomb;" in My Manifestos; do yourselves a Favour and Stop Reading this Manifesto right at this very fucking Point! It Pisses me off when those of yous who get easily Offended get your fucking hackles up because I use forms of the word "fuck," Like I Really give a fuck! Let me ask yous something; why do yous get sand in your fucking pussies over the fact that I write out My Manifestos the very way I talk? Now don't be a bunch of Hypocrites; because I dare say Most all of yous have said this very fucking Word that "Offends" a select few of yous! Sure, I have been told that it ain't very Polite to use such Colourful Language; but since when has anybody accused me of being a "Nice Guy?" Just ask My beautiful fiance, Jennifer; she will tell yous that My Gutter Mouth  Compliments my foul Mind! And believe me; this in essence is who I am; Take it or Leave it! Ain't not a damn soul gonna change me Like I'm a shitty fucking Diaper! In fact why not Post something on a Positive Note before I get to the Very Topic of what this Manifesto is all about. So, My friends as yous all Know I Live in Michigan; Now that's a fucking No Brainer; since I was BORN in the Great Mitten. Now during this Time of the Year I Normally Look forward to the Enf of the NFL Season; because Michigan's Professional Football Team the, Detroit Lions; usually are slogging their way through a Typical Season of 10 or More Losses; but this Season has been Completely Different and as a Lifelong Fan of the Detroit Lions I have to say I fucking Love it! Almost as Much as I Love My fiance! Now for those of yous who are Not aware; I Played football; from 1984 to 1987; I Played at Port Huron Northern High School in Port Huron, Michigan. In Fact; the Very Graduating Class I was a Member of (Class of 1988) we Posted a 33-5 Record during My 4 Years as a Member of the Port Huron Northern Football Program; among those accolades we can boast about; we Never Lost a Game at the Dog Pound (Memorial Stadium in Port Huron). We Never Lost to Our Cross-Town Rivals The Big Reds of Port Huron High (Their Nickname is Now the Red Hawks). A 3-1 Record  against the Vikings of Marysville High School, Including Inflicting 2 Losses on Legendary Marysville Coach, the Late Walt Braun, 1 of only I believe, 2 High School Head Football Coaches here in the State of Michigan to Win 300 or More Career Games. Now back to the Lions; the Lions hold a 7-2 Record This Season and are in 1st Place in the NFC North. Now if the Lions are able to Win the NFC North; it will be the first time they have done so; under the NFL's Current Divisional Format; and they will Host a Playoff Game for the 1st time since 1993 (Back then the Lions Won the Old NFC Central Division) . Now I don't think yous need me to tell yous about the Success, or Lack thereof, that the Lions have been Plagued by. But I have to tell yous though this Regime of Head Coach, Dan Campbell (A Former Lions Tight End) and General Manager, Brad Holmes have Made the Lions something that the entire State of Michigan can be Proud of. Can the Lions Win a Playoff Game for Only the 2nd Time since 1957? Well, Let's see how the Rest of the Season Plays out. But I am clearly Riding High on the Lions' Bandwagon. Alright, Moving Right Along; have yous ever fucking Noticed How the fucking Corporate Media seems to Glorify Criminals and Ignore the Plight of "We, The People?"  Now exactly what am I talking about?  I will get to that. Now I Know people have approached me and say "What do you have to be so angry about?"  and before some of you fucking Halfwits who support the fucking Modern Day version of Adolf Hitler; that would be Donald Trump, tell me "Go back to Canada!" Do I need to fucking Remind yous that I WAS FUCKING BORN HERE! That's Right;  I entered this fucking World extending the Stone Cold Salute to it On 30 November, 1969 @ 3:31 AM.  In Port Huron, Michigan; which Last Time I checked, Michigan is a State in this very fucking CESSPOOL of a Country! Of course, I ain't gonna Lie to yous; I Honestly DO Wish Michigan was a Province in Canada; but Michigan is My HOME and  I ain't the Least fucking bit ashamed of it! Now that we have Cleared that shit up; Since I am Pissed Off (and I was BORN Pissed Off!) Do yous want to know what Really Pisses Me Off? Well too fucking bad, because I am going to tell yous anyway!  It's the fucking Corporate Media! That's Right! I said the fucking Corporate Media; because there ain't NOTHING fucking "Main Stream" about the fucking Media; I mean Let's examine this fucking War in the fucking Gaza Strip, along with the fucking Civil War in Russia! Now check this fucking shit out! Have yous seemed to Noticed how the fucking Corporate Media Decries Russia over how they have Prosecuted the Civil War In Russia; I'm talking about Bombing Hospitals; Attacking Civilian Infrastructure; Murdering Innocent Civilians. Yet they heap Praise on Israel, a Nation of (GASP!) TERRORISTS!  Am I fucking Missing something?  The Corporate Media Labels Russian President, Vladimir Putin as a "War Criminal," which I dare say he is; yet they fucking Plant their fucking Lips on the Olive Skinned ass of Benjamin Netenyahu, the fucking AUTHORITARIAN DICTATOR of Israel! Exactly how is Netenyahu NOT a fucking War Criminal? I mean Israel is Blockading the fucking Gaza Strip so that food and water can't get into this very territory; that they're ILLEGALLY OCCUPYING! Are yous meaning to tell me that these ARE NOT Acts of fucking TERRORISM? Now is this Israel the same Pariah Nation in the Bible in where every Country wanted to Kick their ass? I wonder why? Why the fuck is this Country allying themselves with a Nation of fucking TERRORISTS?  But what Really Pisses Me off is how the fucking  Corporate Media Kisses the ass of A LYING, RACIST, XENOPHOBIC, NARCISSISTIC CON MAN Like Donald Trump! Yes, the very same Donald Trump; that My Now former Sister-In-Law, Kelly, vowed to fly down to Mar A Lago to suck Donald Trump's dick!  Maybe she can ask Melania Trump to Join in for a threesome! Gak! Anyway; I shall share an article from Salon.com; which calls for Donald Trump to  be sent to Prison for the Rest of his Miserable existence; yous also can access this article by going to www.salon.com. Here it is: Donald Trump's CRIMINAL Regime turned the United States Government, and in some sense the entire country, into a crime scene. Given that, why isn't Trump in jail? Why are the collaborators and co-conspirators in his multitude of apparent crimes not in jail with him? These are Questions I have asked myself many times during the Age of Trump and these months after his coup attempt and the Capitol attack, especially as more "revelations" have emerged about the vast scale of Trump's crimes against democracy, the rule of law and the American people. Many other Americans have the same Questions about justice and consequences for Donald Trump and members of his Regime, which at this point includes nearly the entire Republican Party. There are various plausible answers to these questions. Of course there are actions that may be immoral, wrong or evil but not technically illegal. Perfidy, lies, cruelty and bigotry are in most cases not offenses that can successfully be prosecuted in court. Joe Biden's administration and the senior leadership of the Democratic Party appear to feel that a proper investigation into the Trump regime, for example through convening a truth commission or some similar independent body, would be a "distraction" from their policy agenda. Perhaps Biden and other Democratic leaders feel that the scale of the Trump regime's obvious criminality is so great that to reveal the truth in full would cause an even greater crisis of legitimacy in the country's governing institutions. In essence, the Democrats may be trying to "protect" the American people from the truth. There is also the raw and ugly fact that rich white men in America are rarely held accountable for their actions, and that goes double for Republicans and conservatives. If Trump were black or brown or a Democrat, he and his cabal would in all likelihood have been convicted and sent to prison months or years ago. In an effort to understand why Trump and his Regime are not being prosecuted for their many apparent crimes — and may never be — I recently spoke with Richard Painter. He was White House chief ethics counsel under President George W. Bush and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN and other news networks. His most recent book, co-authored with Peter Golenbock, is "American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump is the Worst Offender." In this conversation, Painter explains why there appears to be little if any interest from the Department of Justice in prosecuting Donald Trump. This is partly because its leadership under Attorney General Merrick Garland is afraid of setting such a precedent, but more importantly, the DOJ is now institutionally committed to the idea that there are few limits on presidential power. Painter also discusses the absurdity of the Department of Justice under Biden choosing to defend Donald Trump in court against the many lawsuits that are being brought against him, including those concerning his role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and larger coup attempt.  Painter also warns that this refusal to investigate and prosecute the Trump regime, which will only empower future presidents to commit crimes without consequence, could lead to the collapse of American democracy and its descent into authoritarian rule — not altogether different from the fate of Ancient Rome. This conversation has been edited, as usual, for clarity and length. Given all their public crimes and other misdeeds, more of which are emerging every day, why are Donald Trump and his inner circle not in jail? I am not sure that prosecutors want to go after Donald Trump and his cohorts. We will have to see what happens in New York. But at this point in time, it has been pretty obvious that the U.S. Department of Justice, if anything, is going to be defending Trump in a number of civil lawsuits. These include the Lafayette Park case, and the Freedom of Information Act requests from CREW [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] over the DOJ memo about whether they could indict Donald Trump back in 2019 [at the time of the Mueller report]. The DOJ will not disclose that memo. CREW has sued, and guess what? The Biden Department of Justice is defending the executive privilege of the Trump administration with respect to that memo. They do not want to release it. Biden's Department of Justice also restrained former White House counsel Don McGahn about what he could say when testifying before Congress, even though he had been subpoenaed by the House of Representatives. The Department of Justice once again is asserting attorney-client privilege and executive privilege over some of the communications between Trump and McGahn. There is now a rumor that the Department of Justice might actually defend Donald Trump with respect to his conduct on Jan. 6 and during the insurrection, in the private litigation against him. I believe that the Department of Justice should indict former DICTATOR Trump for obstruction of justice, as laid out in the second part of the Mueller report. He should also perhaps be indicted for inciting the insurrection and riot on Jan. 6, among other criminal offenses. But the Department of Justice is going in the opposite direction. Biden's DOJ wants to defend Donald Trump and the idea of presidential power and presidential prerogatives. I think that's most unfortunate. There is a great deal of timidity and apprehension about going after a former president. How do DOJ lawyers and other legal professionals and scholars reconcile protecting Donald Trump when he was and is a dire threat to the country's democratic institutions? There is this obsession with "institutions," but those institutions will be further imperiled if Trump and members of his cabal are not held responsible for their obvious crimes. In essence, not to punish them is to encourage another coup. That is the danger. I believe that the lawyers and legal scholars can be separated into two distinct groups. There are those who are worried about too much presidential power. I am among that group. I believe that a sitting president should be indicted for any crimes he commits in office. A former president should certainly be indicted if he committed crimes while in office. The notion of executive privilege — keeping communications confidential from Congress and from prosecutors — is way overblown. And the idea that the president could somehow fire the FBI director, or threaten to fire Bob Mueller, is clearly obstruction of justice. The president of the United States is not above the law. There is another view of these questions. Sometimes the phrase "unitary executive theory" has been used to describe this belief in heightened presidential power. There are both liberals and conservatives in that camp. There are people who believe, as [former] Attorney General Barr does, that a president can fire anybody at will, because he is in charge of the executive branch. For example, the president can just fire the FBI director in the middle of an investigation if he wants to — that's what Barr has said. There are supposed liberals who believe pretty much the same thing. Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School is among that group. He has also said that you cannot indict a sitting president for a criminal offense he commits while in office. Sunstein is working for Joe Biden right now. Many people in the Justice Department — and who filter in and out of the Justice Department in different administrations — are committed to this latter view of presidential power. As such, the unitary executive theory tends to be the predominant view in the Department of Justice. I think it's wrongheaded. It's not consistent with the United States Constitution to have that much power and privilege, in essence legal immunity, in the hands of the president. How would they respond to the basic observation that the president of the United States is not a king or an emperor? Their commitment to the unitary executive theory basically means, in practice, that a president, especially a Republican president, can overthrow the government if they do not like the result of an election.That is where we could end up as a country, where the president can do anything he wants while in office. If the president cannot be indicted and has broad power to hire and fire anybody he wants without criminal accountability, and he can use the military for whatever he wants, then he will commit crimes and use his official powers to stay in office. That is a pattern in countries that become dictatorships. It happened with the Roman Empire almost exactly that same way, with power being concentrated in the hands of a single individual. What if Biden had exercised bold leadership by immediately signaling to the Department of Justice that they should aggressively pursue Donald Trump, his inner circle and others who have committed crimes? If I were Joe Biden, I would not have done that. Instead, I would have said, "We're going to bring in an independent counsel who will make this decision. It's not a political decision." If Donald Trump committed crimes, he should be prosecuted. That should not be a political decision. I do not believe that Joe Biden or any appointee of Joe Biden should be making that decision. Again, if someone commits a crime they should be prosecuted. They should go to jail if they committed a felony. The second part of the Mueller report shows that there was obstruction of justice by Trump and his inner circle. Part two of the Mueller report is an outline of an indictment. But the Department of Justice does not want to do it. If Donald Trump committed crimes, he should be indicted. It is pretty clear to me that is in fact the case. What are these "institutionalists" afraid of when it comes to prosecuting Trump, his coup plotters and other members of his regime? Part of it is that the DOJ's lawyers have been defending presidential prerogative, presidential privilege, and the like across many administrations. They have been doing this in both Democratic and Republican administrations. These people are political appointees of the president, which explains the ideology at work. These political appointees may have different views on political issues and different political affiliations. But many people in the DOJ have a view that they are there to protect presidential privilege and power and immunity. It is very bad for our democracy. We are not getting the pushback from Congress that we need right now. It is a very frustrating situation. Why didn't more people in the federal government who were a witness to these crimes, and Trump's assaults on democracy more generally, stand up and speak out? We needed many more whistleblowers and other patriots. The real problem is the people in Congress who supported Donald Trump and the extremists and the conspiracy theorists. It is very hard to root out the people who are from congressional districts that are extremely conservative and consistently vote Republican. I hope the Republican Party will clean out the worst people, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others who spread conspiracy theories. I do not know if it's going to happen, but we need to hold the Republican Party accountable. I was a Republican for 30 years. They still have some good people. But it's very, very hard now, because Republicans either endorse Trumpism or they are scared and therefore won't speak up against it. We need some courage in this country, and we are not getting it right now.What were your thoughts as you watched those events on Jan. 6? How do you assess the investigation so far? A bunch of Trump followers invaded the Capitol. Those people were being held to account, such as the Proud Boys. But at this point, the only people being indicted are the people who were actually there. I have not seen a lot of activity going to the next level and finding out who the political operatives were, whether from the Trump campaign or other people behind the scenes, who were orchestrating the events of Jan. 6.This was a conspiracy. It's pretty obvious that people were planning some of this in advance. Donald Trump inspired them to go down there to the Capitol and do what they did. Trump did not say, "Go kill a police officer," but it was pretty clear he was instigating a riot, an insurrection, with the false rumors about election fraud and the rest of it. I want to see investigation from the DOJ go to the next step. But thus far, we are not seeing that.Do you think a signal was sent by the Biden administration to not prosecute the ringleaders for reasons of "stability" and protecting the "institutions"?There are a number of signals at play here. Primarily that "we're going to look forward." The Obama-Biden team sent that message with respect to the torture lawyers in the Department of Justice.And guess what? They just came back in the Trump years, pushing for more executive power. This is not a good situation. We need to have a clear message that people who violate the law, when they hold positions of public trust, are going to be prosecuted and the lawyers involved will be disbarred.What happens next if such presidential power is not curtailed?If the Democrats want to put a stop to it, they need to rein in executive power and make it clear that even with a Democrat in the White House, we're not going to put up with it. We're not going to defend presidential privilege and confidential communications of criminal conduct. We're not going to do that. We do not need to have an all-powerful president to live in a democracy. Congress passes the laws, the president signs the laws. But we don't need to have a president who can do anything he wants, whether he's a Democrat or a Republican. That needs to be the overriding principle here.If the Department of Justice actually ends up defending Trump against civil and other charges for his role in the coup and the Capitol attack, what does that do to the DOJ's credibility? What message does it send to the public about the presidency?It creates the impression that presidents are just interested in power. And that means that the concept of presidential power and presidential prerogative and privilege is what really matters to the Department of Justice. By implication, it means that is what's important to Joe Biden. That he's willing to defend everything Donald Trump did so that he in turn can do what he wants. That's the impression it's going to give. Now, I do not see Joe Biden abusing his power. But there is no reason for the DOJ to defend Donald Trump.What advice would you give Joe Biden about Trump's crimes and this torrent of new information about his extreme wrongdoing while in office? I'd say, Mr. President, you need to have the attorney general appoint an independent prosecutor. Or maybe it's going to take two or three independent prosecutors because of the amount of criminality here. Have those independent prosecutors make the decision about whether Donald Trump ought to be indicted or not. I'd say, second, the Justice Department should stop defending Donald Trump in any and all civil litigation, or defending his presidential privilege. His communications with his White House counsel should be revealed to the United States Congress. CREW should get a copy of that memo the DOJ wrote in 2019 about whether Donald Trump could be indicted. There needs to be complete transparency, no more secrets. That's the bottom line. How much More needs to be said? Yet the fucking Corporate Media INSISTS  on saying that Donald Trump is Legitimately "President." WHY? Are yous that fucking afraid of this DICTATOR; that yous won't  Demand that JUSTICE be done and send this Pile of shit to Prison where he fucking BELONGS! Just when I thought that Trump stands for EVERYTHING that is WRONG with "America;" the Corporate Media fucking keeps Planting their fucking Collective Lips on Trump's Orange ass! During My Freshman Year in Civics Class, I Learned that here in the United States , NOBODY is Above the Law! Well the Corporate Media needs to get back to the fucking Principles of Journalism; and Call for Donald Trump and his Crime Family to be sent to Prison for the Rest of time. I mean fuck! Why should an Organized Crime Syndicate be allowed to go FREE after ALL of the fucking Crimes that have been Committed? Now what's all the More Unsettling; is if Trump gets back ILLEGALLY into the fucking White House; Trump vows to Prosecute EVERY ONE of his Enemies, Real and or Perceived; I mean who the fuck does this shit? Fucking AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORS; such as Vladimir Putin of Russia or Kim Jon Un of North Korea. Yet in those Countries a Number of those who have dared to stand up to those Tyrants wind up either Behind Bars or 6' in the fucking Ground! Could the same Hold true here in what's supposed to be the "Land of the Free?" God Help us all if that does Occur! It would be just Like if say Al Capone or John Gotti Ran this Country rather than the Underworld of Chicago and New York, Respectively. It's time for the Corporate Media to STOP Parroting Trump's LIES; and Report the News the way it actually Happens! The Destruction of an Independent Media is in essence the Beginning of the End of over 200 Years of "Democracy," here in the US of A! It's time for the Corporate Media to Grow a fucking SPINE and Call for the Trump Crime Family to be sent to Prison where they cannot Hurt another damn soul! Until Next Time, this is Michigan's Resident Rocker saying it's time for the Media to take back its balls and Practice Actual Independent Journalism!