summer patriot, winter soldier

on the interrogation of gina hapsel .....

if i had her in my clutches, and she was giving up things, i'd be patient, for a while.

but, given what is at stake, the very existence of the underpinnings of our society, i would not be patience with her if she has clammed up.

first, i would use the old classic crude approach.  i would have a doctor present, and a smallish person as the beater, and i would have her beaten senseless.  broken nose, a couple broken fingers, slats to the soles of her feet so that she had to crawl because she couldn't walk, and the good old standby, punches to the gut  ...  so that they didn't rupture anything, or split a liver, but damned unpleasant so as to promote vomiting.

if that didn't work, (and she has a background in torture, so knows what to expect), i would waterboard her, and kill her three or four times in a row by drowning ....   resuscitate her as required, and let her watch footage of herself dying by drowning, and prove it by having a "flat line" machine present.

and then, i'd get me one of those scalpel and forceps guys.  and, lay it to her.  she'd either talk, or die.  no in between, no counseling, no priests. 

it's that important.  no, donald john trump is not that important, no person is.  but the democracy is.  and, sometimes hard things, brutal things, have to be done to preserve it.  bombing dresdan was a hard, viscous thing, and dropping the a-bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki were hard and brutal, but, if those things had not been done, the u.s., britain and australia/new zealand would have had to invade japan by infantry, at the cost of 3 to 5 million american casualties, and untold loss of life for the japanese.  they would have defended the emperor and their homeland, no matter the cost ...  i've seen film of citizens training with pitchforks and staves.

at the time the bombs were dropped on japan she still had 5 or 6 million troops throughout asia and the pacific, and bringing them home on boats would have been a feast for allied submarines, as japan at that point had no naval or air capacity to protect them.  but, those that survived the trip home would have fought to the death defending the home island.

this, my friends, is of similar importance.  if gina hapsel is held somewhere, the information as to how the "steal" went down has to be gotten from her, no matter how brutal and sadistic the method.  paintings and drawings of the tortures of the inquisition would serve useful models.  the preservation of her dignity and life is not worth the cost of our democracy, no matter the pious (and impious, in my estimation) bleating of those who hold to higher standards of behavior than i.

the woman has to be made to talk, "to sing like a canary," by any means necessary.

sometimes it is a hard and brutal world, and this is one of those times, and gina hapsel is square in the cross hairs of history.

what did she expect when she set this all in motion?  beer and skittles?   chips, and relaxing weekend watching college football?  no, any semblance of a normal life, and life expectancy, went out the window when she signed on for this one.

john jay

p.s.  somebody gave the directive to have c.i.a. armed operatives sent to frankfurt to protect the station, didn't they, and such person or persons who did so, did so at the risk of gunfire and fighting, perhaps hand to hand.  and, most likely, it was gina hapsel.   you don't play with lives, and then asked to be dismissed from the game, when the attention is turned on your poor old pitiful self.  that is not hoyle.  not cricket.  you get, what you deserve.   it is a hard judgment, but one that has to be made.

let us now speak of a great president .... donald trump ....

when donald john trump took office, he took office as an untested politician and office holder.

and, when he took office, he faced an unprecedented coup d'etat sponsored by the obama "deep state," championed by the heads of u.s. intelligence and others, and run day by day by hillary clinton, the prime exponent of the "steele dossier."   he was thwarted and frustrated by a recalcitrant federal bureaucracy, and plastered at every turn by specious law suits filed by the various attorneys general of democratic state governments.

an experienced politician might have withered under the combined onslaught of treacherous government agents, disgruntled looser politicians and a viscous media.   donald trump did not.   he fought, and persevered, and he has triumphed.

in less than 4 years he has:

1.)  renegotiated trade agreements with canada and mexico, known as the nafta treaties, to wrest more favorable trade relations.   this is not of minor importance, it has been a major component in the revitalization of industry in the "rust belt," and the restoration of thousands of jobs and good incomes throughout the midwest and the great lakes regions.

thousands owe their income and jobs to donald trump's administration in these matters.

2.)  he has restored waning vigor to the n.a.t.o. treaty partners, and reaffirmed nato's commitment to those eastern european members who were once under the communist russian sphere of influence, and whose faith in nato to step in and defend them against communist aggression was flagging.   you ask a pole, or a czeck, and see what he thinks of trump in all of this.

3.)  he went after the germans and the french to get off their lazy asses and pay their share of nato's operating expenses, no and they have begrudgingly complied, though not to the extent trump wanted, to be sure.   but, a start is a start.

4.)  through his own main efforts, his administration has waged a "war of peace" in the middle east, and trump has negotiated treaty after treaty with formerly hostile arab states (who had refused to recognize israel as a legitimate state), and gone so much farther toward normalizing relations in the middle east than any u.s. president in history.

5.)  he has very quietly reduced troop deployment throughout the middle east, especially in regions that have been plagued by civil and hostile conflict for generations, reducing u.s. troop deployment in that region.

for reasons stemming directly from items 4 & 5 above, he has been nominated in the norwegian parliament for 3 separate nobel peace prizes, something which i think is rather unprecedented in u.s. history.   trump is conservative, the norwegian parliament is not, particularly, yet here it stands, nominated for 3 nobel prizes.   we'll see how that turns out.

and, 6.)  finally, donald john trump revitalized the u.s. economy, which was roaring along until covid-19 struck our shores, and until the democratic governors of the various states tried to use it to destabilize trump's administration.  i believe, if re-elected, he will jump start the economy again  ....  he knows how to do it.   and, that is, get the hell out of the way and let americans go back to work again.

without government interference.

i think it no exaggeration to note the obstacles donald trump faced when he took office, which he triumphed over, and the resurgence of our economy and our national joie de vivre.

i expect nothing less of him when he is re-elected.

john jay @ 10.22.2020

p.s.  and, 7.)  did i mention that donald j. trump has appointed 3 of the most talented & able jurists in history to the united states supreme court.  did i mention that?  yes, indeed.

where's waldo? ..... where's obama? ..... where's nancy? ..... where's kamala harriss? .....

these people are supposed to be in there pitching for joe biden? 

where are they?

jojoja @ 10202020  (or, john joseph jay @ 10.21.2020)

 

p.s.  joe biden has answered the accusations/pretty much established fact leveled against the "biden family crime cartel" with the devastating rebuttal, "it's garbage."   well, so there donald trump.   if this is as good as it gets out of the biden camp, he is in for a long siege.

and, it is the latter.  he has already admitted meeting w/ the ukrainians on an "informal basis" while vice president, w/ a "business partner" of hunter biden.   has anyone in the media reminded joe "hiden" biden that there is no such thing as an informal basis while vice president  ....  it is one of those jobs where you are on the clock 24/7, especially in your office.   and, if outside his office, it is even worse for joe.

as noted here before, joe biden got his defense all backwards.  you do not admit, and then deny.   it is not the proper order of things, not a good procedure to advance a "defense."   he has bungled it, and there is no retrieving the bungle.   no mulligans in real life.