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Bush regime apparatchik Brett Kavanaugh, whom Bush planted on a
Federal Appeals Court as a judge, where he has tried his best to violate
the rights of workers and citizens generally and illegally tried to
block at least one woman from obtaining an abortion, perjured himself
during his Senate confirmation hearings for that lifetime judicial
appointment.
Last week, during his confirmation hearings for his appointment to the highest lifetime position in the U.S., Supreme Court Justice, he committed perjury again.
Come Monday, September 24, he's going to commit perjury for at least the third time and deny deny deny that he attempted to rape Christine Blasey Ford when she was only 15.
He's already told an unsworn naked lie, claiming he wasn't at "the party" where he and his accomplice, neofascist hack Mark Judge, got extremely drunk and assaulted Ford. Problem with that is, no one has said exactly what party it was, where it was, and exactly when.
Actually that's his second lie on the matter of his rape attempt. He's already vociferously denied he did it. Which just isn't plausible. And given his record as a Bush regime apparatchik involved in deception and trickery, and his previous perjury, isn't credible.
His victim, now a 51-year-old psychology professor, has released her therapist's notes from 2012 to the Washington Post which documents her discussions with the therapist about the event. She has also taken and passed a polygraph test, for what's that worth. [1]
Also she has proven to be very reluctant to come forward, which does not sound like someone who is setting out to sabotage Kavanaugh's nomination,.
Kavanaugh's accomplice in the assault, Judge, at first claimed to have no memory of the event. Given how drunk he apparently was, that could well be. He has since changed his story to denying the assault. His "memoir," more a roman a clef about his drunken, degenerate youth, quite obviously includes his friend and crony Brett Kavanaugh, who appears in the book as a character named "Bart O’Kavanaugh."
Gee, I wonder who that could be!
The Republican Senators are planning to resolve the matter NOT by hearing from additional witnesses, NOT by conducting an investigation, NOT by asking the FBI to investigate, but by having Kavanaugh and Ford testify to the Judiciary Committee and that's it. Then they can pretend to believe Kavanaugh, or throw up their hands and say there's no way to determine the truth- and proceed to have the whole Senate vote on Kavanaugh's nomination,
Kavanaugh's previous perjuries included lying about knowing obviously stolen documents he received- documents the sender made clear were stolen- were stolen; lying about his views on abortion; misrepresenting his judicial record; lying about his activities in the Bush White House, including his involvement in the conspiracy to commit torture and to create war hysteria against Iraq based on a mountain of lies; and denying that his superior on the Appeals Court, Alex Kosinski, shares salacious material with him. (He pulled the "not that I recall" trick for that one.)
Kavanaugh is an oppressive reactionary whose elevation to the top court, if it happens, will once again have been done with Democratic Party complicity, in this case by Senator Dianne Feinstein, as I explained in a previous essay on this matter. The Supreme Court has functioned as a primary instrument of repression and corporate hegemony over U.S. society that permits the rest of the establishment to shrug and feign helplessness. There is a shabby pretense of neutrality, "legality," impartiality about the political decisions handed down by the court. There is nothing inevitable about those decisions. Rather, the reactionary Justices concoct rationales and esoteric legalisms to justify these political decisions.
You would have thought that after five GOP apparatchiks on the high court blatantly stole the 2000 election for Bush the Younger, the court would be completely discredited. But both the putative "opposition" party, the Democrats, and the corporate propaganda system, aka "the" media, pretend it was a legitimate decision. It is political theater designed to dupe the populace into seeing the power structure as legitimate and fair, not corrupt, venal, and having no right to their misrule over us.
1] Polygraph's are claimed to detect lies, but they are still unproven after decades of use and considered so unreliable that U.S. courts mostly do not allow their introduction as evidence. And U.S. courts have really really low standards for what is acceptable "forensic science." For example, claims by pseudo-experts that they could match a bite wound on a person to another person's teeth have been allowed and used to convict people. Common sense along is enough to prove that is ridiculous.)
Last week, during his confirmation hearings for his appointment to the highest lifetime position in the U.S., Supreme Court Justice, he committed perjury again.
Come Monday, September 24, he's going to commit perjury for at least the third time and deny deny deny that he attempted to rape Christine Blasey Ford when she was only 15.
He's already told an unsworn naked lie, claiming he wasn't at "the party" where he and his accomplice, neofascist hack Mark Judge, got extremely drunk and assaulted Ford. Problem with that is, no one has said exactly what party it was, where it was, and exactly when.
Actually that's his second lie on the matter of his rape attempt. He's already vociferously denied he did it. Which just isn't plausible. And given his record as a Bush regime apparatchik involved in deception and trickery, and his previous perjury, isn't credible.
His victim, now a 51-year-old psychology professor, has released her therapist's notes from 2012 to the Washington Post which documents her discussions with the therapist about the event. She has also taken and passed a polygraph test, for what's that worth. [1]
Also she has proven to be very reluctant to come forward, which does not sound like someone who is setting out to sabotage Kavanaugh's nomination,.
Kavanaugh's accomplice in the assault, Judge, at first claimed to have no memory of the event. Given how drunk he apparently was, that could well be. He has since changed his story to denying the assault. His "memoir," more a roman a clef about his drunken, degenerate youth, quite obviously includes his friend and crony Brett Kavanaugh, who appears in the book as a character named "Bart O’Kavanaugh."
Gee, I wonder who that could be!
The Republican Senators are planning to resolve the matter NOT by hearing from additional witnesses, NOT by conducting an investigation, NOT by asking the FBI to investigate, but by having Kavanaugh and Ford testify to the Judiciary Committee and that's it. Then they can pretend to believe Kavanaugh, or throw up their hands and say there's no way to determine the truth- and proceed to have the whole Senate vote on Kavanaugh's nomination,
Kavanaugh's previous perjuries included lying about knowing obviously stolen documents he received- documents the sender made clear were stolen- were stolen; lying about his views on abortion; misrepresenting his judicial record; lying about his activities in the Bush White House, including his involvement in the conspiracy to commit torture and to create war hysteria against Iraq based on a mountain of lies; and denying that his superior on the Appeals Court, Alex Kosinski, shares salacious material with him. (He pulled the "not that I recall" trick for that one.)
Kavanaugh is an oppressive reactionary whose elevation to the top court, if it happens, will once again have been done with Democratic Party complicity, in this case by Senator Dianne Feinstein, as I explained in a previous essay on this matter. The Supreme Court has functioned as a primary instrument of repression and corporate hegemony over U.S. society that permits the rest of the establishment to shrug and feign helplessness. There is a shabby pretense of neutrality, "legality," impartiality about the political decisions handed down by the court. There is nothing inevitable about those decisions. Rather, the reactionary Justices concoct rationales and esoteric legalisms to justify these political decisions.
You would have thought that after five GOP apparatchiks on the high court blatantly stole the 2000 election for Bush the Younger, the court would be completely discredited. But both the putative "opposition" party, the Democrats, and the corporate propaganda system, aka "the" media, pretend it was a legitimate decision. It is political theater designed to dupe the populace into seeing the power structure as legitimate and fair, not corrupt, venal, and having no right to their misrule over us.
1] Polygraph's are claimed to detect lies, but they are still unproven after decades of use and considered so unreliable that U.S. courts mostly do not allow their introduction as evidence. And U.S. courts have really really low standards for what is acceptable "forensic science." For example, claims by pseudo-experts that they could match a bite wound on a person to another person's teeth have been allowed and used to convict people. Common sense along is enough to prove that is ridiculous.)
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