“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford
May 5, 2021, And Every Wednesday
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, had his New York City apartment invaded by armed FBI agents last week. At 6 a.m.
Come on, man! Who didn’t see that coming?
But busting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Admittedly it was always kind of dodgey, Snow living with those guys. But when the movie was “Woke-Culture-Cancelled,” it wasn’t for the whole “living with seven little men” thing.
It was for Prince Charming kissing her while she was asleep. Without her saying it was okay.
Of course, if the prince had been played by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, then it would have been okay.
But tomato, tomatah. It’s the way we’ve been forced to roll these days.
In the good old days, fairy tales were fairy tales, the law was the law, and, despite difficulties in the years around the Great Depression and World War II, Americans kept right on truckin’.
Two 24-year-olds, Joseph Shuster and Jerry Siegel, created Superman, and in 1938 saw their creation published in Action Comics.
Both guys were born to Jewish immigrants and became friends and collaborators in high school in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1931, after years of trying, a 31-year-old Chester Gould’s comic strip, Dick Tracy, appeared in the Chicago Mirror.
Gould’s character came out of a deep respect for the police.
He kept informed of police methods, took forensics and investigative procedure courses, and introduced, through the comic strip, the two-way wrist radio in 1946, and closed-circuit television in 1947.
That was a few years before Al Gore invented the internet.
Dick Tracy and Superman are still around today, while Hollywood, which cannot create anything new, depends on the intellectual property of Siegel, Shuster and Gould and others like them to make their movies.
In the good old U.S. of A., people were plucky. And there was a Fourth Amendment.
That’s the one that protects the rights of citizens “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
It’s the one the FBI used when it didn’t seize property from Tony Podesta’s home when he committed the same crime of which Rudy is accused.
Podesta didn’t register as a lobbyist for Ukraine, under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, but it’s hard to figure out why they didn’t raid Tony’s place.
It can’t be because he’s the brother of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.
And it definitely had nothing to do with Tony representing the Russian-owned company Uranium One.
That’s the company which ultimately led to Russia being permitted to acquire twenty percent of America’s uranium reserves, upon approval by a federal committee which included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Ironically the FBI didn’t investigate Rudy until he became President Trump’s attorney during the Second Impeachment.
They invaded material on Rudy’s cloud and confiscated his electronics at that time. Except for the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Rudy offered it to them. But the FBI wasn’t interested.
We used to have a Fourth Amendment, and Americans used to be a plucky bunch. But that was then and this is now.
Today woke people love to be misunderstood. In fact, you can join the Central Intelligence Agency today and air your inadequacies as strengths.
A recent CIA Recruitment video featured an agent who says she suffered from “imposter syndrome,” but refuses to “internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.”
Huh?
She argued she isn’t “checking boxes,” then proceeded to check ‘em.
“I am a cisgender millennial who’s been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder,” she said.
And the CIA hired her anyway.
Former CIA operatives Amaryllis Fox and Lindsay Moran both described how it used to be at the CIA in their books, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, and Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy, respectively.
They were, for better or worse, trained like Bond – James Bond: How to flip or crash a car; how to use a Glock; how to parachute; how to use a speedboat; how to withstand torture; how to use a grocery bag and duct tape to bandage a punctured chest.
And how to commit suicide.
But that was then, and unfortunately, this is now.
I think I liked it better when spies acted like spies.
And when the Intelligence Community didn’t spy on their own citizens. But that's just me.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots.
*Gangsta’s Paradise, Coolio