THE STINK OF DESPERATION

     Oh yeah! Uh huh! One can smell that stink of desperation, of deep fear, right through the invisible waves of the Internet, through the print of the media. It appears to be that the investigation has drawn to a focus on Individual -1, a name for guess who? Just as the President's office can be a source of inspiration and progress, it also can be a source of rot, a rottenness that does not drip, but floods downwards and corrupts all in its path.
     When that rot, that nastiness, that illegality, that contempt for the laws, rules and regulations, the very traditions and underpinnings of society, is exposed, when the corruption that has been eating away at us since 2016 is opened to the glare of the light, then someone's fear glands begin to work overtime. 
     The lies, the constant lies, are exposed as such in a way that cannot be denied. The lies are denied via other lies, everyone else becomes a liar in this drama, and all the while the central character, the one who has driven all this, instigated it with his open corruption, begins to truly sweat, to shake and shiver in his boots. He takes desperate steps, mouths off with inane and almost insane comments, obsesses into the night and early in the morning, sends out insulting and demeaning tweets re his opponents, and yet the massive avalanche of the power of the law, of the consequences of his actions are rolling downhill, catching up to him, too late for him to stop it.
     Cohen is a liar. Manafort is a liar. Stone is a liar. Sessions is a liar - and a wimp. And the list can go on for almost 200 indictments. I can just see the man cowering under his covers as he realizes the danger that is coming his way. Right now he is truly beginning to realize the political and yes, thank the Lord, legal, trouble that he is in, right up to his orange hair, and perhaps Melania is signaling that she understands this, with trees the color of blood overwhelming the WH!
     The Republicans, or rather the Trump Party, is desperate as well and they continue their desperate attempts to create more trouble, get more incompetents into our justice system. Thank G-d Scott finally had the moral backbone and the mindset to indicate he would not support Farr, the bigot, but what and who else is coming down the track? Another problematic suggestion for Attorney General. Another pathway to leak corrosive and out of context statements as they pursue a last minute demand for Comey to testify behind closed doors. 
     And so dangerous to us all, to the very breath of life for our democracy is the condoned violation of voting rights. Now in North Carolina there is a race that cannot be called, that will need a major investigation, due to the rampant and open violations, the destruction of absentee ballots and the solicitation of others. This is only different in methodology from the other cases of denial of voter rights in other states and the shadows of the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws, overwhelm, and darken our country. Are we truly going to go so backwards in time? Are we truly going to allow this and again, I say, I remind, I shout from the hilltops - there is no end to this behavior.
     As proof of this, just look at the rule just told to Federal employees....  "bars federal employees from taking part in partisan political campaigns at work or in an official capacity, warned that making or displaying statements at work about impeaching or resisting Mr. Trump is likely to amount to illegal political activity."
     This is pertaining to simple round the water cooler conversation, not open organization or 'resistance'. I wonder if one is allowed to praise the man and not be considered illegal!? This is tampering with free speech, with the suppression of freedom of speech. This is dangerous, so very dangerous. And this will only grow and more and more will be suppressed, and more and more groups will be oppressed.
     The smell of fear is here. It is rank, reeks of the devil. But we must make sure that the use of fear does not intimidate us, those who are truth seekers, who wish to restore our country to its proper pathways. To live the words of the Pledge - "with liberty and justice for all".