There is a pattern here. When my great-grandfather was in politics, he crossed the powers-that-be and he was indicted for trumped up charges while he was out of the country in Germany with my great-grandmother for tax evasion. When he came back, he was arrested and thrown in prison. I’m fully aware of what these forces can do to an honest conservative man; I know that after he served some time in prison, he was physically ill and broken, and although he received a presidential pardon and was able to live out the rest of his life at home…his life was never, ever the same.

Before all of that happened, they missed killing him in our family home. They took note of his schedule, his comings and goings, and discovered that in the evening, he liked to read by the front window in the area by the front door we used to call “the front bay”. They set off a bomb to kill him, which took off the front of the house. It was a stroke of luck–or what I like to think was–divine intervention–that that particular evening, he decided to retire early because he wasn’t feeling well. But they caught up with him later, just the same. Ahh, Illinois politics have always been corrupt.

I’m seeing a replay of that scene from the ’20’s today, only the picture is much bigger, and the players more dark and sinister.

Not only have I taken note of the incidents that have been illustrated clearly in this article, but I’ve also taken note of this and this, and the lawsuit against the Club for Growth, filed by, of all organizations, the FEC. George Soros is behind that suit, too; George Soros wants to get rid of any organization that funds conservatives, and is throwing millions of his dollars into leftist organizations, causes, and think tanks. This reminds me of artificial insemination–and what will result is the birth of a monster that we won’t be able to put to sleep.

If you round all these things up together, there seems to be a huge campaign out there which is stalking conservatives, and I’m terribly afraid for the future of this country when conservatives have to worry about looking over their shoulder for government goons, FBI agents and the CIA wiretapping, etc..

There is something extremely reminiscent of the old Soviet style of working people over that I’m seeing with the Clintonista tactics, the people who harrass with the threat of lawsuit, or even just the implied threat. This is total leftist authoritarianism; and it can only be serving one purpose.

Criminalizing Conservatives
Fall of 2005 will be remembered as a time when it became clear that a strategy of criminalization had been implemented to inflict defeat on conservatives.
by William Kristol
10/24/2005, Volume 011, Issue 06

I’ll cite a few examples from the piece referenced above and move to a few others.

THE MOST EFFECTIVE CONSERVATIVE LEGISLATOR of–oh–the last century or so, Congressman Tom DeLay, was indicted last month for allegedly violating Texas campaign finance laws, and has vacated his position as House majority leader. The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, is under investigation by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission for his sale of stock in the medical company his family started.

White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and vice presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby have been under investigation by a special federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, for more than two years. When appointed in 2003 by the Bush Justice Department, Fitzgerald’s mandate was to find out if the leaking to reporters of the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was a violation of a 1982 statute known as the Philip Agee law, and if so, who violated it. It now seems clear that Rove and Libby are the main targets of the prosecutor, and that both are in imminent danger of indictment.

What do these four men have in common, other than their status as prosecutorial targets? Since 2001, they have been among the most prominent promoters of the conservative agenda of the Bush administration. For over four years, they have helped two strong conservatives, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, successfully advance an agenda for change in America. To the extent these four are sidelined, there is a real chance that the Bush-Cheney administration will become less successful.

I would say that is precisely the goal….and “less successful” is to put it mildly. It would seem that the goal is more far reaching than “less successful”.

Bill Frist suddenly and unexpectedly became Senate Majority Leader in December 2002. In the 2004 campaign, Frist broke Senate precedent and visited the state of his Democratic counterpart, Minority Leader Tom Daschle, to campaign for Daschle’s Republican opponent.

Then, in 2005, Frist launched a campaign against Democratic judicial filibusters. Though he did not succeed in his goal of a Senate rules change, his efforts are widely believed to have greatly reduced the possibility that Democrats could successfully filibuster a Bush Supreme Court nominee. Having emerged in the last year as a conservative leader, Frist now finds himself under investigation. Just another coincidence?

I think not. Now let’s take a look at Richard Poe’s piece up at Frontpage Magazine.

DeLay had given voice to tens of millions of ordinary, hard-working Americans whose opinions seldom reach mass media organizations nor the elite pollsters they employ. He spoke for an anguished but silent majority which recoiled in horror from Terri Schiavo’s killing, and from the runaway judicial system which had ordered it.

DeLay had given middle Americans more than just a voice. He had given them hope. From the Democrat point of view, that made DeLay a very dangerous man.

(Emphasis mine.)

“Tom DeLay: He’d like to wash his hands of corruption. …,” a voice intones, while a man wearing cuff links and a Rolex watch scrubs his hands. “He can’t wash his hands of corruption. But Congress can certainly wash its hands of Tom DeLay.”

This 30-second television ad began running in selected Congressional districts on Thursday, March 31 — only the latest in a long series of media smears targeting DeLay.

“Over a five-day span, ending last Thursday, TV and radio stations and print publications from around the country featured at least 290 stories” discussing ethics allegations against DeLay, reports Alexander Bolton in the March 23 edition of The Hill.

The allegations mostly involve aggressive fundraising tactics of the sort the Clintons honed to a science. To what extent DeLay may be guilty of such missteps remains unclear. Crystal clear is the double standard being applied to his case.

A small but dedicated core of self-appointed ethics “watchdog” groups have labored to keep the charges against DeLay brightly aflame – among them, the Center for Public Integrity; Common Cause; Democracy 21; Public Campaign and Public Citizen.

The press often talks about these groups as “non partisan”. What a bunch of hooey! These groups have a long history of coordination with George Soros. They are beholden to him personally, and also for his financial support. His influence can be felt in their choice of targets.

You have three forces who are going after Tom DeLay right now, and all three have connections to the convicted inside trader, George Soros.

Tom DeLay’s most dangerous and persistent foe is the network of “public interest” non-profit groups and corrupt media hacks which together constitute the Soros Noise Machine. Ronnie Earle and John McCain may or may not succeed in making their charges against DeLay stick. But, as long as Soros and his donor network keep pouring money into the Soros Noise Machine, it will continue pounding DeLay, year after year, with a ceaseless drumbeat of accusations, in the form of books, films, press releases, push polls and TV ad campaigns.

This is plain old-fashioned Stalinist type of propaganda smears–the same type of smears that put Christians in gulags and concentration camps…and had them executed on their doorsteps…before the government took their property and possessions away from them.

NOTES

1. Marc Morano, “Soros Conviction for Insider Trading Upheld in French Court,” Cybercast News Service (CNSnews.com), March 24, 2005

2. Lou Dubose, “Senatorial Courtesy: Will John McCain Let Republican Perps Walk?”, The Texas Observer, August 26, 2005

3. Sharon Kehnemul Liss, “DeLay Blasts `Leftwing Syndicate‘”, FoxNews.com, April 20, 2005; Richard Poe, “The Soros Noise Machine,” MoonbatCentral.com, March 20, 2005

4. Andrew C. McCarthy, “Ronnie Earle Should Not be a Prosecutor“, National Review Online, October 6, 2005; Byron York, “Dollars for Dismissals,” National Review Online, June 20, 2005; Peter Flaherty, “Texas Smear Machine Targets DeLay“, Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com), September 23, 2004

5. “Hammer Time: Ronnie Earle Finally Gets His Man,” The Wall Street Journal Online (OpinionJournal.com), September 29, 2005

6. S.C. Gwynne,”The Daughter Also Rises“,Texas Monthly, August 2004, p 112; David Horowitz and Richard Poe, “The Shadow Party” (Parts I-III), FrontPageMagazine.com, October 6, 7, 11, 2004

7. Cliff Kincaid, “George Soros and the Press“, Accuracy in Media (AIM.org), April 13, 2005; Ed Morrisey, “Inside McCain’s Reform Institute“, Captain’s Quarters, March 9, 2005; Richard Poe, “John McCain Gets Soros Cash,” MoonbatCentral.com, March 10, 2005

8. Richard Poe, “Pewgate: Battle of the Blogosphere,” FrontPageMagazine.com, March 25, 2005

9. Alexander Bolton, “Watchdogs in Soros’s Pocket: GOP,” The Hill (CNSnews.com), March 23, 2005; Michelle Malkin, “Wobbly Watchdogs,” michellemalkin.com, June 22, 2004

10. “The Soros Agenda: Free Speech for Billionaires Only,” The Wall Street Journal Online (OpinionJournal.com), January 3, 2004

11. Anne E. Kornblut, “DeLay’s Critics are Numerous, So He Sees a Conspiracy,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2005

12. Byron York, “Coming Soon, the Ronnie Earle Movie,” National Review Online, September 29, 2005; Byron York, “The Movie: Ronnie Earle on a Mission from God,” National Review Online, September 30, 2005