The Corruption of Democrat Party Socialism Raises Its Ugly Head in the Chicago Smollett Case

NONSENSE VERSE CAN TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE SMOLLETT FIASCO. "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a narrative nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll for his book Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1871. The poem is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. Walking upon a beach one night when both sun and moon are visible, the Walrus and Carpenter come upon an offshore bed of oysters. Groups of four are called up -- all are young oysters because the old, wise oysters were too smart to fall for the Walrus's fake charm. But, the young oysters left their home underwater and came ashore, following the Walrus. "The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so, And then they rested on a rock Conveniently low : And all the little Oysters stood And waited in a row. 'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things : Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax -- Of cabbages -- and kings -- And why the sea is boiling hot -- And whether pigs have wings.' ” Once the fat little oysters settled down on shore to listen to the Walrus, the Walrus and the Carpenter ate them. • The Chicago Democrat machine has been luring little Chicagoans to their lair for a century. Jussie Smollett is just the latest. But, he got the grandiose idea that he could independently help the machine that produced him by creating his own story to lure young Chicagoans. However, he got it all wrong, so the machine ate him -- or ate his story. That has been happening for a century, too. But, this time, America may be poised to punish both Jussie Smollett and the Chicago Democrat machine that ate his story. • • • SOMEBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO ON JANUARY 29. American Thinker's great Patricia McCarthy wrote on Friday : "Jussie Smollett : Who will have the courage to step up and tell the truth?" Patricia McCarthy gives us hte facts in an orderly and breif manner : "Jussie Smollett faked a racist, homophobic attack upon his person on January 29, 2019 that was obviously false from the outset. It did not take the beleaguered Chicago police long to get to the truth thanks to the sheer stupidity of Smollett and his two accomplices. The three men could be seen on surveillance video numerous times as they went about their plan. His two pals quickly gave up their side of the story; Smollett had hired them to fake a lynching (they are on video buying the rope), instructed them to pour bleach on him and to sort of punch him in the face. He sustained very little discernible physical damage." • A simple enough story of a fake crime. As McCarhty says : "Hardly anyone believed his story, but, predictably, the usual suspects in Congress and among the leftist public jumped on board to decry our racist, homophobic nation. Smollett sweetened the social justice pot by claiming that his attackers were white, wearing MAGA hats at 2:00 A.M. in below-20-degree weather in a very nice neighborhood. In particular, there were Cory Booker and Kamala Harris; the two of them were sponsoring an anti-lynching bill, even though lynching has effectively been illegal in America for at least a hundred years. Harris's bill got a vote on February 14 and passed. Hmmm." • Smollett is, states McCarthy : "an actor, black and gay, and was then appearing on the television show Empire. He comes from a radical activist family so is of course friends with the Obamas and their crowd. Michelle's former chief of staff, Tina Tchen, contacted Chicago AG Kim Foxx to intervene on Smollett's behalf. (Foxx claims that Kamala Harris is her mentor.) Foxx apparently tried to get the local FBI to take over the case; this was Tchen's suggestion. Clearly, they both thought the local FBI would do Smollett's bidding." BUT, says McCarthy : "...the evidence was overwhelming. Smollett was provably as guilty as guilty can be....Smollett was charged with sixteen felony counts and released for the ten thousand dollars cash of the hundred-thousand-dollar bail. Getting to that point had taken hundreds of man-hours from the Chicago police. Then, miracle of miracles, Smollett was suddenly cleared of the crimes, his record both sealed and expunged. Foxx, who had recused herself, in fact had not done so officially. That he was cleared has rocked Chicago, long considered the most corrupt city in America. This is such a breach of the law that no one but a few of Smollett's actor and writer friends supports this turn of events. He will not be returning to his acting job on Empire -- so say his producers (maybe). And the man is so arrogant that he is demanding apologies from the police and the mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who is hardly an example of truth, honor, and the American way. The mayor is sending Smollett a bill for $130K, a fraction of the cost to the city of the hoax." • • • WHY WOULD ANYONE PERPETRATE SUCH A HOAX ? It was stupid as an idea. It was stupidly carried out with a $3000 check as payment and under the eye of multiple surveillance cameras. Patricia McCarthy says : "At first, the rumor was that he wanted to raise his profile in order to get more money from the Empire producers. Not smart -- raise your profile by pretending to be a victim. But then victimhood is the favored status of leftists; it is practically a college course on any given campus in the country. Victimology 101: How to exploit your minority status!" • The more interesting question is this -- Jussie Smollett's execution of the hoax was so clumsy and stupid that one has to wonder if somebody else was involved. McCarthy suggests : "Did Smollett think of this hustle on his own, or was he put up to it? He does not impress as particularly intelligent, so it is not much of a leap to wonder. Did whoever conceived of this dumb plot also get him out of the serious legal jeopardy in which he then found himself? What if Kamala Harris, pal of Kim Foxx and Smollett, invented the plan to boost support for her anti-lynching bill? Smollett delights in the scam and incriminates the two pals he paid to participate. They perform the show like three ten-years-olds but get caught because the plan was so poorly executed. Are there emails, texts? Bet there are. Perhaps someone is so scared that he called in the big guns : the Obamas. Or perhaps Smollett thinks he has leverage over one or more of the principals involved in the plot. Did he threaten someone with revealing what he knows?....As Roger Simon wrote, Smollett will forever have a cloud over his head as the symbol of unequal justice. The rich do enjoy the privilege their wealth and fame yield, as the college admissions scam has proven. Someone who knows the whole truth of this despicable crime will come forward. Someone will leak the truth of it all. The question is, how long will it take, and who will it be?" • • • THE LEGAL TRAVESTY PLAYED OUT IN CHICAGO. Fox News reported last Tuesday that Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of disorderly conduct "stemming from the alleged hate crime hoax" BUT the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office "will not be prosecuting Jussie Smollett....The judge granted a nolle pros, which essentially means that the case has been dropped and that he will no longer be prosecuted for the alleged crime. It’s unclear at this time why the court decided not to proceed with prosecution....The next court date was scheduled for April 17. However, Smollett was brought in for an emergency court session in which the judge ruled the case against him would be dropped. Doubt was cast on the open and shut nature of the case when Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham wrote the Justice Department following reports that Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx asked Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to let the FBI investigate Smollett's allegations that he was attacked by two masked men after the former chief of staff to former first lady Michelle Obama informed Foxx that Smollett's family had concerns about the probe. Smollett attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said in a statement that Smollett's record 'has been wiped clean.' " • The Daily Caller also published a report last Tuesday that stated : "The state’s attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday it dropped the charges '[a]fter reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including Mr. Smollett’s volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his bond to the City of Chicago.' The office added in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation that Smollett’s charges 'would not have been dropped' had he not forfeited his $10,000 bond and agreed to do community service. 'There is no deal. The state dismissed the charges,' one of his attorneys, Patricia Brown Holmes, said. 'We are very anxious for Jussie to get on with his career and his life, and to move forward.' Judge Steven Watkins ordered Smollett’s court file to be sealed immediately after the charges were dropped, according to the Chicago Tribune." • In its Tuesday report, the Daily Caller wrote : "First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats, the prosecutor who reportedly made the final decision to drop Smollett’s charges, said he stood behind the Chicago Police Department’s investigation. 'We stand behind the CPD investigation done in this case, we stand behind the approval of charges in this case,' Magats told the Sun-Times. 'They did a fantastic job. The fact there was an alternative disposition in this case is not and should not be viewed as some kind of admission there was something wrong with the case, or something wrong with the investigation that the Chicago Police did.' Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who said the case against Smollett was 'rock solid,' was reportedly 'furious' after learning of the decision to drop the actor’s charges during a police academy graduation ceremony. The abrupt decision to drop all charges against Smollett was 'a kick in the gut,' said Ed Wodnicki, the police commander who oversaw the investigation into the actor. 'We wasted time and effort on a reported serious, serious crime, to get to the point that it’s a lie? I want reimbursement. I’m a citizen in the city of Chicago. I want my money back,' Wodnicki said, noting that the $10,000 bond that Smollett forfeited 'doesn’t come close' to the cost incurred to investigate the case." • • • EVEN CHICAGO COULDN'T STOMACH IT. Fox News reported separately on Tuesday that : "Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his city's police force Tuesday afternoon, denouncing prosecutors for dropping charges against Empire star Jussie Smollett and slamming the episode as a 'whitewash of justice.' " • On Thursday, the Smollett case took another twist when the City of Chicago sent a letter to Smollett demanding $130K in reimbursement for police overtime : "Please submit a money order or certified cashier's check payable to 'City of Chicago'...within seven days of the date of this letter.' pic.twitter.com/qQd1Iz0hJw— Andrea Berry (@andreacberry) March 28, 2019." • Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and Emanuel said, as quoted by Fox News, that they were "not only furious with the outcome of Tuesday's surprise hearing but also blindsided by the decision itself, with the officials only learning Smollett wouldn't face charges for allegedly faking a hate crime at the same time the public found out. 'Where is the accountability in the system? You cannot have -- because of a person's position -- one set of rules applies to them and another set of rules apply to everyone else,' Emanuel said. 'Our officers did hard work day in and day out, countless hours working to unwind what actually happened that night. The city saw its reputation dragged through the mud...It's not just the officers' work, but the work of the grand jury that made a decision based on only a sliver of the evidence [presented]. Because of the judge's decision, none of that evidence will ever be made public....[This case] sends a clear message that if you're in a position of influence and power you'll be treated one way and if you're not you'll be treated another way.' " • • • ILLINOIS PROSECUTORS BAR ASSOCIATION HITS FOXX. Townhall reported on Friday that : "Yesterday witnessed the publication of an extraordinary rebuke of Chicago State's Attorney Kim Foxx by the national association representing district attorneys, in which her conduct in the Smollett case was was picked apart piece by piece. That scathing statement certainly constitutes an embarrassment and a professional black eye for Ms. Foxx, but it doesn't necessary present a legal problem for her. A separate memo from the Illinois Bar Association of Prosecutors (IPBA) could be a different story. One damning assertion after another : "The Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association serves as the voice for nearly 1,000 front line prosecutors across the State who work tirelessly towards the pursuit of justice. The events of the past few days regarding the Cook County State’s Attorney’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case is not condoned by the IPBA, nor is it representative of the honest ethical work prosecutors provide to the citizens of the State of Illinois on a daily basis. The manner in which this case was dismissed was abnormal and unfamiliar to those who practice law in criminal courthouses across the State. Prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges alike do not recognize the arrangement Mr. Smollett received. Even more problematic, the State’s Attorney and her representatives have fundamentally misled the public on the law and circumstances surrounding the dismissal." • The IPBA, says Townhall, "goes out of its way not to condone Foxx's work, calling it inconsistent with 'honest, ethical work.' Then comes their summary of how Foxx 'fundamentally misled' the public : 'When an elected State’s Attorney recuses herself from a prosecution, Illinois law provides that the court shall appoint a special prosecutor. See 55 ILCS 5/3-9008(a-15). Typically, the special prosecutor is a neighboring State’s Attorney, the Attorney General, or the State Appellate Prosecutor. Here, the State’s Attorney kept the case within her office and thus never actually recused herself as a matter of law. Additionally, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office falsely informed the public that the uncontested sealing of the criminal court case was 'mandatory' under Illinois law. This statement is not accurate...The appearance of impropriety here is compounded by the fact that this case was not on the regularly scheduled court call, the public had no reasonable notice or opportunity to view these proceedings, and the dismissal was done abruptly at what has been called an 'emergency' hearing. To date, the nature of the purported emergency has not been publicly disclosed. The sealing of a court case immediately following a hearing where there was no reasonable notice or opportunity for the public to attend is a matter of grave public concern and undermines the very foundation of our public court system.' " • Townhall states : "This was clearly written before it was revealed that Foxx lied about her recusal, too. Finally, putting an even finer point on Foxx's claim about how the disposition of this case was nothing out of the ordinary (remember, her office sent around an email begging for examples to help buttress this dubious notion), the IPBA rips that talking point apart : 'The State’s Attorney has claimed this arrangement is 'available to all defendants' and 'not a new or unusual practice.' There has even been an implication it was done in accordance with a statutory diversion program. These statements are plainly misleading and inaccurate. This action was highly unusual, not a statutory diversion program, and not in accordance with well accepted practices of State’s Attorney initiated diversionary programs. The IPBA supports diversion programs, and recognizes the many benefits they provide to the community, the defendant and to the prosecuting agency. Central to any diversion program, however, is that the defendant must accept responsibility. To be clear here, this simply was not a deferred prosecution. Prosecutors must be held to the highest standard of legal ethics in the pursuit of justice. The actions of the Cook County State’s Attorney have fallen woefully short of this expectation. Through the repeated misleading and deceptive statements to the public on Illinois law and circumstances surrounding the Smollett dismissal, the State’s Attorney has failed in her most fundamental ethical obligations to the public. The IPBA condemns these actions.' " • Townhall caooed the IPBA condemnation "Devastating. Could sanctions be on the way? Were laws broken in pursuit of this disgraceful resolution? An independent investigation is needed. Meanwhile, where does Foxx go from here, having been publicly upbraided by both the state and national associations of her peers?" • As for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who tried to paint himself patriotic and justice-loving, it is important to remember that he blames Donald Trump's 'toxic environment' for Jussie Smollett. Of course, this is almost as stupid as Smollett's act itself. Townhall put it in the right frame : "...if this is the game Emanuel wants to play, there's a decent case to be made that anti-Trump hysterics are more responsible for this 'environment' than anyone else. Smollett was pandering to that group, and their credulous brethren in the national press, with his false, self-serving accusations, smearing Trump supporters in the process. Blaming any of that on Trump is a partisan non-sequitur." • • • WAS MICHELLE INVOLVED?? Last Tuesday, BlabberBuzz's Andy Grimm wrote : "Just days after Jussie Smollett told Chicago police he had fought off a pair of attackers who targeted him in an apparent hate crime, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx tried to convince Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to turn the investigation over to the FBI. Foxx’s call to Johnson came after an influential supporter of the Empire actor reached out to Foxx personally : Tina Tchen, a Chicago attorney and former chief of staff for former First Lady Michelle Obama, according to emails and text messages provided by Foxx to the Chicago Sun-Times in response to a public records request. Tchen passed Foxx’s number to a relative of the actor, and the ensuing conversations with the family member was cited by Foxx last month as the reason she recused herself from Smollett’s prosecution as the actor faces disorderly conduct charges for allegedly making a false police report. Text messages show Tchen contacted Foxx on February 1, three days after Smollett said he was jumped by two men as he walked home from a sandwich shop near his Streeterville home. Tchen texted Foxx to set up an early morning phone call. 'I wanted to give you a call on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know. They have concerns about the investigation,' Tchen wrote in a text sent before 5 a.m., seeking to set up a call with Foxx before Tchen left on an 8 a.m. flight to New York. 'They have concerns about the investigation.' A few hours later, Foxx received a text from a relative of Smollett, who said she’d received the number from Tchen. In an interview with the Sun-Times this week, Foxx said that the family member expressed concerns about leaked information about the investigation -- information that media outlets attributed to 'police sources.' 'They had no doubt about the quality of the investigation, but believed that the FBI would have a tighter lid on the information,' said Foxx, adding that Johnson initially seemed receptive to the idea of turning the case over the FBI. Foxx said she has made similar calls to the chief in cases involving lower-profile victims....The conversations with Smollett’s relative took place during the period of the investigation when Smollett was considered the victim of a hate crime, not a suspect in a hoax, Foxx said. Her decision to recuse herself was based on the conversations with the family member, which included information about Smollett. An email included with the records requested by the Sun-Times shows Foxx’s chief ethics officer sent a message to top staff announcing Foxx had recused herself from the case on February 13 -- about a week before Smollett was charged, and the same date as her last text message and calls with Smollett’s relative. Foxx spokesman Robert Foley announced that the top prosecutor had recused herself and turned the case over to her top deputy, Joseph Magats, on February 19, without explaining the reason why. The next day, Foley elaborated in a statement to reporters that Foxx 'had conversations with a family member of Jussie Smollett about the incident and their concerns, and facilitated a connection to the Chicago Police Department who were investigating the incident.' " • Townhall reported that: "Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the FBI was involved from the start of the investigation, as is the case in most possible hate crime investigations, but there was never a discussion of the CPD giving up the case to federal investigators. The department confirmed last week that there is an ongoing internal investigation of the unnamed sources who gave the press information.' " • The text messages, according to Townhall, show that "Foxx told both Tchen and Smollett’s relative that Foxx had reached out to Johnson personally about handing the investigation off to the FBI. 'Spoke to the superintendent earlier. He is going to make the ask. Trying to figure out logistics. I’ll keep you posted,' Foxx wrote the relative that evening. 'OMG this would be a huge victory,' the relative texted in reply. In an email message to Tchen sent the same day, Foxx wrote : 'Spoke to the Superintendent Johnson. I convinced him to reach out to FBI to ask that they take over the investigation. He is reaching out now and will get to me shortly.' ” • Tina Tchen, a Chicago attorney and former chief of staff for former First Lady Michelle Obama, according to emails and text messages provided by Foxx to the Sun-Times in response to a public records request. • American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson asked on Wednesday : "Jussie Smollett walks. Cui bono? — who benefits? : "What could possibly explain this stunning cave-in? My colleague Monica Showalter is undoubtedly correct in writing that this is how the elites, the ruling class, protect their own. In this case, it's the socialist class that rules Chicago and much of blue-state America. And M. Catharine Evans is correct that this sort of contempt for the truth is straight out of Marxist dogma, which Jussie imbibed along with milk from his mother. But that still leaves the question of why now. To my eyes, the most obvious immediate effect was to drive from the headlines the Mueller Report's exoneration of President Trump from any charge of collusion, and therefore the Democrats' and media's complicity in perpetrating a catastrophically damaging hoax. The involvement of Tina Tchen, formerly Michelle Obama's top aide and currently helping the scandal-ridden Southern Poverty Law Center find some means of salvaging its survival in the wake of scandals proving its utter moral bankruptcy, makes me think perhaps the fine hand of the Obamas is involved." • "Cui bono?" Lifson's answer is this : "The person with the most to lose from sustained attention to the Russia hoax is the 44th president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama. It is virtually inconceivable to me that Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and James Comey acted without guidance from the POTUS in launching their "counter-intelligence" spying on the Trump campaign. Don't forget : "On September 2, 2016 -- just weeks away from election day -- Ms. Page texted Mr. Strzok, her lover, about preparing a report for then-FBI Director James B. Comey because 'potus wants to know everything we're doing.' Despite spending millions of dollars on buying a mansion in Washington, DC, with Valerie Jarrett in residence with him and Michelle, Barack Obama has been notably and uncharacteristically silent. I suspect he is worried about his role in launching the greatest political scandal in American history more than anything else. He hasn't even posted his brackets for the NCAA basketball tournament." • Thomas Lifson dug into Chicago politics : "Perhaps this apparent civil war among Chicago Democrats will yield some light on what's really going on beneath the surface. CBS Chicago reports : 'CBS News has learned that lawyers with the Chicago police department are trying to determine if they can legally release evidence in the investigation of Jussie Smollett despite a judge sealing the case. State prosecutors cleared the Empire actor of all 16 felony counts filed against him just over two weeks ago for allegedly lying to police about being the target of a hate crime attack. And, if Kass is correct in predicting a lawsuit by Jussie against the police, those records may have be to be unsealed in order for the CPD to defend itself. All eyes now turn to the US attorney's office in Chicago, where mail fraud and terroristic threat charges may still be leveled against Smollett. The postal inspectors -- Don't laugh! They are a highly respected, dedicated police agency that takes its mandate very seriously. -- have a mission-critical stake in making sure that highly publicized offenses like this don't go unpunished. Bad as the federal bureaucracies may be, they don't approach the levels of corruption in Cook County and Chicago." • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP SPOKE OUT FOR AMERICA. Fox News reported that President Trump announced Thursday that the FBI and Justice Department will review the “outrageous” decision to drop charges in the Jussie Smollett case. The President, stated Fox News, "weighed in as controversy mounted in Chicago and across the country over the abrupt dismissal of the charges that the Empire actor faked a hate crime, amid widespread speculation over what happened behind the scenes that led to the deal with Cook County prosecutors." The President tweeted : "FBI & DOJ to review the outrageous Jussie Smollett case in Chicago. It is an embarrassment to our Nation!" • Thomas Lifson, in another Americxan Thinker article on Friday, quoted Heather Mac Donald, a well-known American political commentator, essayist, attorney and journalist, who explains the ideological predispositions that led Foxx to take this course of action : "Foxx is a leading figure in the recent national wave of progressive local prosecutors who came to power by playing race politics. She campaigned on the Critical Race Theory credo that the criminal-justice system is endemically biased. She inveighed against the so-called school-to-prison pipeline and promised to reduce racial disparities in prosecutions. Last month, she dismissed aggravated battery charges against a 16-year-old student who had attacked two Chicago police officers; the Chicago police union argued that her dismissal of the charges fit a pattern of favoring offenders over police officers. Foxx operates in a cultural milieu that holds that the fact that a hate crime is a hoax is less important than the fact that it could have been true. Prosecuting Smollett could have sent another black man to prison. Is there a race-based system of justice here?" • Lifson goes on to suggest : "I suspect that Foxx was talked into believing that with the presumed support of the Obamas -- whose former close associate Tina Tchen first intervened with Foxx to save Jussie's bacon -- the narrative could be sold, and questions could be avoided with the usual techniques of citing her own authority, secret technicalities, sealed records, sympathy for the victim Jussie, and ultimately crying racism. Foxx was so stupid (and perhaps a little star-struck) that she did not predict the vehement opposition of Rahm Emanuel and police superintendent Eddie Johnson. I wonder if any mention was made to her of the award from the NAACP that Jussie was scheduled to receive -- if only he were free to travel to California. It is all going to fall apart. The FBI and DoJ are investigating, and Rahm Emanuel has demanded that Jussie pay the costs of investigating his false claim." • • • DEAR READERS, it is rare that the prosecutorial handling of a case is so blatantly wrong. Lloyd Marcus wrote in American Thinker on Saturday : "Smollett paid the two guys he hired to stage his bogus attack with a $3000 check. Closed circuit TV caught Smollett's hired attackers buying the MAGA caps and other materials needed to stage the fake hate crime. Smollett intended for his fake attack to be videoed on cc TV. Thank God the camera in the area Smollett selected malfunctioned. Had Smollett been successful, fake news media would have gleefully aired the video 24/7, probably igniting massive race riots and violence on Trump supporters. After Kim Foxx dropped all charges, Smollett addressed the media, outrageously lying and presenting himself as a victim of police corruption. Smollett said, 'I have been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of one drop of what I've been accused of.' " • As is so often the case when the issue involves race in America, Marcus forthrightly wrote : "Does this guy think we are idiots? Dude, you lied about being attacked. Idiotically, you paid your fake attackers with a check. There is video of them buying the props. And yet, Smollett has the audacity to sell the lie that he is yet another innocent black man abused by racist police. Sadly, I suspect most of fake news media will help to sell Smollett's lie, which sets up our brave men and women in blue for more assassinations by Black Lives Matter disciples. Many have forgotten the ambush of uniformed Texas Deputy Darren Goforth who was shot multiple times in the back while pumping gas. Deputy Goforth's black assassin was inspired by Black Lives Matter. Forty-seven-year old Deputy Goforth left behind his wife Kathleen, his 12-year-old daughter Ava and his 5-year-old son Ryan. Do you remember NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu who were ambushed and killed while eating lunch in their police car? The enraged black shooter said his motivation was revenge for cops supposedly murdering blacks. Officer Ramos' 13-year-old son Jaden posted the following on Facebook. 'Today I had to say bye to my father. He was their for me everyday of my life, he was the best father I could ask for. It's horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer. Everyone says they hate cops but they are the people that they call for help. I will always love you and I will never forget you. RIP Dad.' I could go on and on with examples of police ambushed and assassinated because of the evil politically motivated lie that cops routinely abuse and murder blacks. Democrats nurture this heinous lie because it keeps blacks voting for Democrats to protect them from nonexistent massive police and white American racism. So here is race-baiter Jussie Smollett all over national media, disgustingly claiming he is a hero for civil rights. Please excuse me while I barf. This evil man sought to generate more hate and violence on Trump voters who courageously wear MAGA caps." • We agree with Lloyd Marcus when he says : "All charges were dropped against Smollett because his insidious hoax furthers the leftist agenda to demonize police, President Trump, and Trump voters. From Hillary Clinton's serial lawbreaking to Obama, the FBI, the DoJ and others silent coup against an elected President, the Deep State feels free to break laws to remove Trump from office. Allowing Deep State operatives to feel emboldened to freely break laws to get rid of Trump is extremely dangerous as we move toward the 2020 presidential election. We must not allow Deep State operatives to be above the law." • Lloyd Marcus ends by saying "I pray that Senator Lindsey Graham will follow through with his promise to investigate all the arrogant corrupt players in the Deep State's 679-day bogus Trump-colluded-with-Russia investigation." • America has the finest judicial system in the world. We must not let a mob of radical marxist socialists who have hijacked the Democrat Party and destroyed it also destroy America's judicial system by applying socialist-marxist elitism to it -- you know what I refer to : police who seek not equality before the law but protection for their political bosses; courts that do political leaders' bidding; judges appointed to defend not a Constitution but one political regime's agenda. It leads inevitably to security police who round up political opponents for show trials and courts that sentence the opponents to death or detention in a gulag. These Anti-Americans, as we labeled them in Saturday's blog, have no place in our Republic's political life, and certainly not in our legal system. • "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things : Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax -- Of cabbages -- and kings." And of Democrats who are destroying America through corruption and socialist elitism.