Eric Zuesse – How the US Regime Carries Out Its Oppression + US Heading to Become A Totalitarian Dictatorship

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How the US Regime Carries Out Its Oppression

The US regime carries out its oppression by coercion, and by delay and outright suppression of news reporting about the key facts of the case. It does this both in domestic matters and in international ones, as will here be exemplified first by the example of an innocent man who was framed by the US regime and given a life sentence in a murder case, and then by the example of the deeply corrupted Ukrainian nation which was grabbed by the US regime in a February 2014 US coup that the US regime hid behind popular 2013 – 2014 anti corruption demonstrations on the Maidan square in Kiev and so turned that nation into a battering ram against the US regime’s top target for conquest, which is Russia right next door to Ukraine.

In both examples, both domestic and foreign, the US regime’s motivation was to increase and to intensify the power of its owners, whom it serves and who are never satisfied with the immense power that they already have but always crave to acquire yet more.

***HOW* IT DOES *DOMESTIC OPPRESSION***

On 4 May 2020, Jordan Smith headlined “MISSOURI’S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO KEEP AN INNOCENT MAN IN PRISON: Despite Ample Evidence that Lamar Johnson was Wrongfully Convicted, Eric Schmitt is Sparing No Effort to Keep him Locked Up as the Corona Virus Spreads”, and reported that:

The police had nothing concrete to go on. But by the time they finally interviewed Elking, they had already latched onto a suspect, 20 year old Lamar Johnson.

Johnson would soon be arrested and tried for the October 1994 murder on thin and troubling evidence. (…)

In 1995, Johnson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Still, he has long maintained his innocence, and now has a powerful ally in his corner, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, chief prosecutor for the city of St Louis.

Gardner ran on a reform agenda and in 2016 became the first black elected prosecutor in the city’s history. She won federal funding to start a conviction integrity unit and in 2018, at the behest of the Midwest Innocence Project, began investigating Johnson’s case. A year later, she concluded that he was innocent.

In July 2019, Gardner filed a motion with Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Hogan conceding that Johnson was wrongfully convicted. She asked the judge to grant a hearing on the matter and, ultimately, a new trial for Johnson. “When A Prosecutor Becomes Aware of Clear and Convincing Evidence Establishing that A Defendant in the Prosecutor’s Jurisdiction was Convicted of A Crime that the Defendant did Not Commit, the Position in which the Circuit Attorney Now finds Herself, the Prosecutor is Obligated to Seek to Remedy the Conviction,” Gardner wrote in the court filing.

But [Judge] Hogan balked, questioning whether Gardner had the power to challenge the conviction. She called in Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt to see what he had to say about it. Schmitt argued that not only did Gardner lack that authority, but the court couldn’t even entertain the matter. Hogan aligned herself with Schmitt and dismissed the case without considering the evidence Gardner had uncovered.

Hogan’s decision sparked a unique legal battle that, on April 14, culminated in a video conference hearing before the Missouri Supreme Court. The question before the judges, who are working remotely amid the Corona Virus crisis, is whether a prosecutor has any power to right a wrongful conviction. (…)

Gardner’s year long inquiry revealed that Johnson’s conviction had been marred by extensive police and prosecutorial misconduct. She found that police had fabricated witness statements in an effort to frame Johnson, the witnesses said they’d never told police the things that had been attributed to them, and had pressured Elking into making an identification after he’d repeatedly told them he did not know who had attacked Boyd that night. Elking said that a detective told him who to pick out of the line up.

Elking said that a detective told him who to pick out of the line up.

Gardner learned that Elking had been paid more than $ 4.000 in exchange for his testimony and that prosecutors had also fixed a string of traffic tickets for him. None of this information was turned over to Johnson’s defense. (…) The state also failed to tell the defense that the jailhouse informant, Mock, had an epic criminal history, some 200 pages long, and a history of testifying for the state. (…) There was also the fact that Johnson had an alibi. He was with his girl friend, child, and two friends several miles away at the time of the shooting. (…) On top of it all, Gardner learned that not long after Johnson was convicted, two men, Phillip Campbell and James Howard, had each separately confessed to killing [Markus] Boyd. Both insisted that Johnson had nothing to do with it. (…) Given the breadth of the misconduct, Gardner felt she had to find a way to make things right, after all, it was her office that was responsible for Johnson’s conviction. (…)

Not everyone agrees with that position. Schmitt’s office has since doubled down in opposition to Gardner with a mind numbing array of arguments. (…)

No prosecutor in the state of Missouri has the power to undo a wrongful conviction, sys the attorney general. (…) Schmitt says that Johnson can vindicate his rights by following regular post conviction procedure, File a challenge based on the evidence Gardner has supplied and let the legal system work its ordinary, slogging magic. (…)

Even if Johnson’s appeal were to survive a procedural challenge, the process would only draw out his already wrongful incarceration. (…)

Unless the Missouri Supreme Court steps in, prosecutors in the state may remain hobbled, which is essentially what Schmitt is advocating, Keep the power to vet these claims in his hands and dismiss from the process elected prosecutors like Gardner, who vowed on the campaign trail to work toward a more equitable criminal justice system. (…)

Reform prosecutors across the country have faced varying degrees of backlash from the entrenched power structures they’ve challenged, and they’ve repeatedly had their discretion questioned as they’ve sought changes that upset the old guard. (…)

On 15 February 2023, the St Louis Post Dispatch bannered “Judge frees Lamar Johnson after 28 Years in Prison: Original Murder Case was ‘Suspect at Best’”, and reported

Lamar Johnson walked out of the downtown courthouse Tuesday afternoon, a free man for the first time in decades.

Just hours earlier, a St Louis Circuit judge vacated Johnson’s murder conviction, ruling he was wrongly imprisoned nearly 30 years ago and that there is clear and convincing evidence of his innocence.

The ruling by 22nd Circuit Court Judge David Mason comes roughly two months after a weeklong hearing in December during which another man confessed to the 1994 killing of Marcus Boyd, the crime that sent Johnson to prison with a life sentence.

Cheers erupted in the courtroom as Mason read his decision. (…)

The ruling ends Johnson’s decades long fight to prove his innocence. After years of being turned down on appeals and habeas corpus petitions, Johnson’s case attracted national attention in 2019 when Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s Conviction Integrity Unit reported misconduct by the investigation’s lead detective and other constitutional errors in the 1995 trial. …

Much of Mason’s decision centered on the main witness in Johnson’s 1995 trial, Greg Elking, who said at the December hearing that police coerced his original identification of Johnson as the man who wore a ski mask and shot Boyd. Mason described that identification as “Suspect at Best.”

”All Elking witnessed was the assailant’s eye, giving a new meaning to the phrase ‘Eye Witness,’” Mason said, describing it as “Yet Another Serious Weakness in the Case against Johnson.”

Without Elking’s identification, there was no case. (…)

Photos Wrongfully convicted inmate Lamar Johnson set free after serving 28 years for murder he did not commit. (…)

Once Lamar Johnson was freed, the national press reported the case, as being an example showing that though ‘Mistakes’ can happen in American ‘Justice’, they can be rectified, in this ‘Democracy’, such mistakes can be rectified, the Government isn’t Set Up So As to Produce these ‘Mistakes’, it’s not set up that way so as to produce the world’s highest percentage of its population, almost all of which are poor people, being in prisons. It’s only mistakes. So, the public don’t know that it’s NOT mistakes, that it’s the way ‘Our’ Government functions.

On 8 November 2022, Eric Schmitt won Missouri’s election to the US Senate, and became appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he joins the other key Senators that represent the interests of US armaments contractors, America’s most profitable industry, such as Boeing Corporation, which is the largest manufacturer in the state and is seeking tax breaks from people such as Schmitt.

***HOW* IT DOES *FOREIGN OPPRESSION***

Ukraine was neutral between Russia and America until Obama’s brilliantly executed Ukrainian coup, which his Administration started planning by no later than June 2011, culminated successfully in February 2014 and promptly appointed a rabid anti Russian to impose in regions that rejected the new anti Russian US controlled government an “Anti Terrorist Operation” to kill protesters, and, ultimately, to terrorize the residents in those regions in order to kill as many of them as possible and to force the others to flee into Russia so that when elections would be held, pro Russian voters would no longer be in the electorate.

The war in Ukraine started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said, but Russia responded militarily on 24 February 2022 in order to prevent Ukraine from allowing the US to place a missile there a mere 317 miles or five minutes of missile flying time away from The Kremlin and thus too brief for Russia to respond before its central command would already become beheaded by America’s nuclear strike.

However, even after at least $ 360 Billion in support to Ukraine’s War against Russia after Russia’s invasion, from the US and its colonies and their IMF, Ukraine’s prospects of winning against Russia have been declining not increasing throughout the course of the War and are now close to nil.

So: how did the US regime carry out this oppression of the Ukrainian people? It was done by the same means as it had been done in the Lamar Johnson case, coercion, including coercion against the mind, which is deceit, and including coercion against public officials who might otherwise try to do the right thing in order to serve the public instead of to serve their masters who have been funding their political careers.

On 17 June 2015, I headlined “THE WHO’S WHO AT THE TOP OF THE COUP” in Ukraine, and focused upon Dmitriy Yarosh, whom Obama’s Victoria Nuland chose to run the Maidan demonstration in Kiev that provided cover for the Obama Nuland organized February 2014 coup in Ukraine, and, on 1 February 2015, I headlined “The Ideology of the New Ukraine”, and focused upon Andrei Biletsky,or Beletsky, who organized and ran the openly nazi Ukrainiani Azov Battalion and, unlike Yarosh, Biletsky didn’t equivocate about his being a Ukrainian Social Nationalist or, National Socialist, in the Hitler vein, but he aimed “To Create A Third Empire [a Ukrainian Third Reich],” instead of Hitler’s German “Third Reich.” Then, on 20 March 2022, I headlined “How The Western Press Handles The Ukrainian Government’s Nazism” and presented a universally hidden in The West photo of Biletsky leading his men in salute to what had been Nazi Germany’s Wolfsangel insignia.

On 27 May 2019, the OBOZREVATEL online Ukrainian news site headlined, as translated into English “Yarosh ‘If Zelensky betrays Ukraine, he will Lose Not his Position, but his Life’” , the transcript of their interview with Yarosh, right after Zelensky had won the Presidential election against Poroshenko, and, in that interview, Yarosh made unambiguously clear that if as President, Zelensky were to negotiate seriously with Russia,”He will Lose Not his Position, but his Life.” Yarosh, the agent of the regime in Washington DC, was sending the new Ukrainian President the very clear message, that even if the US wouldn’t get rid of such a Ukrainian President, Ukraine’s nazis would. So, Zelensky,like Poroshenko before him, was being controlled not only from above, the empire’s imperial regime in Washington, but also from below, the US empowered nazis whom the US regime had used in order to take over Ukraine during February 2014.

CONCLUSION

The US Establishment, called “Neo Cons” in foreign policy, and “Neo Liberals” or “Libertarians” in domestic policy, but, in any case, America’s under 1.000 billionaires and their numerous employees and other agents, work via threats, not only against heads of state abroad such as Zelensky, but ALSO against domestic public officials such as the Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, to turn the screws upon those down below, such as in plea bargains to lie in court cases, in order to keep those billionaires on top, and everyone else down below, and this is the empire’s social and political and even international, “Rules Based Order.” Whereas Lamar Johnson, as an extremely lucky exception to the rule, or “Rules Based Order”, managed finally to get free in 2023 after entering prison in 1995 for a frame up against him by the regime that he and other Americans are forced to fund with their taxes, few others are and will be so lucky, but America’s ‘News’ media won’t and don’t report this fact. For example, there is nothing to indicate that Lamar Johnson sees what happened to him as being a frame up by the regime instead of just a bunch of tragic mistakes that the US Government had made. Even the victims usually remain ignorant of the reality, the ‘News’ media cover it up. But the whole operation, like that of any other empire, is based ultimately upon requiring the public officials to impose by raw coercion if necessary, their masters’ rule, in this “Rules Based Order.” It’s the way that any empire functions. And, in the world of today, the only empire that remains is the US and its colonies, ‘Allies’.

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US Heading to Become A Totalitarian Dictatorship

The US is becoming increasingly totalitarian, which means that it is becoming increasingly in violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. “Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof, or Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press, or the Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble, and To Petition the Government for A Redress of Grievances.”

The key clause there is the one barring censorship, “Congress shall Make No Law (…) Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press,” since that clause enables “The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble, and to Petition the Government for A Redress of Grievances,” even grievances “Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof,” so that its bar against censorship is its core, from which the remainder follows logically.

Today, I communicated to a prominent First Amendment lawyer, the following.

Would this be the most impactful First Amendment case?:

As you know, Section 230, surviving from the illegal 1996 CDA, frees on line publishers from being sued as off line publishers can be sued, for publishing information, especially political information, that is “Objectionable” to an undefined someone, and for removing or refusing to publish information that the publisher “In Good Faith” considers to be “Objectionable”, regardless of why. Unlike for off line publishers, all of the liability for on line publishers is only upon the entity that had submitted such information, id est, upon the author or author’s agent, not upon the publisher. Furthermore, Section 230 extends to on line publishers the same right to censor whatever it wants to censor. The First Amendment has been, and is, interpreted as barring only censorship that is being done by the Government.

However, there now is an ever spreading net of censorship, such as here and here, which some people fear is accelerating during the Presidential campaign season, and, overtly it is being done only by non Governmental entities, but there is extensive evidence that it is being encouraged by, coordinated with, and even being carrot and stick imposed by, the US Federal Government.

If we continue along this path, how can the outcome not inevitably be a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States?

Anyone who reads here who endorses this effort is hereby requested to post below a reader comment writing the following. “I Endorse this Effort to Rectify US Constitutional Law in this Crucial Respect.” That endorsement will remain on file here, and such individuals will be contacted via email in the event that a petition would be drawn up.

https://theduran.com/u-s-heading-to-become-a-totalitarian-dictatorship/

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to US and allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘News’ media but the social ‘Sciences’, duping the public.
Eric Zuesse blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse.

How the US Regime Carries Out Its Oppression

HOW IT DOES DOMESTIC OPPRESSION

HOW IT DOES FOREIGN OPPRESSION

CONCLUSION

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US Heading to Become A Totalitarian Dictatorship

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