BOVARD: Ford’s expansive use of the pardon helped pave the way for George H.W. Bush’s Iran-Contra pardons which largely demolished the investigation of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. On Christmas Eve 1992, Bush pardoned six Reagan administration officials for their roles in Iran-Contra,

Nixon resigned because he knew that he would be demolished in a Senate trial. But President Gerald Ford compounded the damage from Nixon’s presidency when he issued a sweeping pardon of his predecessor that practically condemned future generations of Americans to being governed by lawless presidents.  --Jim Bovard

Nixon’s Resignation and America’s Impunity Democracy https://t.co/gSyjpO0W3B via @libertarianinst

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) August 13, 2024

August 8 was the fiftieth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Unfortunately, that anniversary spurred little reflections or lamentations on how lawless the federal government has become in the subsequent half-century.

Aside from his Watergate abuses, Nixon was guilty of illegally invading a foreign country (Cambodia), perpetuating the war in Vietnam for political purposes and his 1972 reelection campaign, violating the rights of tens of thousands of Americans with the illegal FBI COINTELPRO program, sanctioning CIA violence and subversion around the globe, and many other offenses. Nixon also created Amtrak. 

Nixon resigned because he knew that he would be demolished in a Senate trial. But President Gerald Ford compounded the damage from Nixon’s presidency when he issued a sweeping pardon of his predecessor that practically condemned future generations of Americans to being governed by lawless presidents.

Ford’s rationale for the pardon deserves a place in the pantheon of American political bullshit. In his televised announcement of the pardon, Ford declared that, if Nixon were put on trial, “the credibility of our free institutions of government would again be challenged at home and abroad.” Ford also claimed that prosecuting Nixon would banish “the tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks” after Nixon resigned. But Ford’s action made it easier for subsequent presidents to disturb “tranquility” and practically everything else.

Many people assume that President Ford pardoned Nixon only for Watergate. In reality, Ford’s pardon was so sweeping—forgiving Nixon for any and every possible crime he may have committed—that it would have exempted Nixon even from charges of genocide, 

“Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969, through August 9, 1974.”

Continue reading this excellent piece by James Bovard.

Find more by Bovard on Nixon here.

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty https://t.co/yBWhGdSQQH via @amazon

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) August 13, 2024

It's not a spiral of violence, Frau Von Der Leyen. Its genocide, openly declared and carried out by the apartheid state of Israel

“It’s not just Israel’s genocide; it’s yours, and The Hague isn’t good enough for you” -- Irish MEP @ClareDalyMEP has some choice words for Ursula von der Leyen. pic.twitter.com/g9bcWmlp5F

— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) November 10, 2023

Watch this absolutely insane footage of Israel wiping out the Khalid bin al-Walid Mosque in Gaza yesterday. pic.twitter.com/1bFRfjhehZ

— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) November 9, 2023

Multi Decade Infertility Program Worldwide

Multi Decade Infertility Program Worldwide, Great Culling & the 7 Dwarfs w/ Dr. Rima Laibow (1of2) https://t.co/oaMGp9apSz

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) May 5, 2023

Terrific interview by Sarah Westall of Rima Laibow.  Find Part 1 of 2 of the interview podcast here [https://bit.ly/42lcTIM]  and Part 2 of 2 here.

In 1974 the World Holocaust Organization created a commission to develop a vaccine to eliminate fertility in human beings.  Now they had divided it into two committees, a committee for the creation of a vaccine that would induce male sterility and a committee for the creation of a vaccine that would induce female infertility.  So they worked on that and they got real good at that and indeed the WHO was found guilty of genocide in the Philippines by the high court for the involuntary sterilization of an unknown millions of Filipinas.  

Dr. Rima Laibow.  Back in the 90s, she warned about Covid vaccines.  Her husband was a high-level general in the military, Major Albert Stubblebine.

Informed him of what was going on and then Bates on his background, he started realizing oh my gosh so talk about that a little bit the husband Major General Alberta and stuff will find the third US Army was a West Point graduate kid he was an Army grad and he followed in his Father's Footsteps and became West Point grad, class of '29, and he followed in his father's footsteps and became a West Point grad in 1952 and then he became a very important pooh-bah in military intelligence and when he was on active duty created remote viewing because he figured out that the Russians were doing that and we were in a race of many many dimensions with the Russians, the Cold War, and he said, well, we better do the same thing.  2009 movie starring George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats, based on the 2004 non-fiction of the same title.  That was a movie to make him ludicrous.  It was a joke based on his work that was serious. Well, it wasn't a joke, it was a political ax job but it was based on his work, yes. He was a true visionary.  He retired in 1984, and over the year and a half before I met him in 1991, a number of people said to me that you have to meet Stubblebine and you have to work with him because the two of you have similar visions, and I said, "I want nothing to do with him."  First, he's a career military officer . . . ah, ah, ah ah.  Second, I was an anti-war activist forever.  Further, he's good at it.  They made him a general.  And we all know that generals are callous monsters who have no commitment to humanity . . . and I was quite sure that I was correct.