Steve Bannon – Lee Duigon

Photograph showing a Gestapo raid on the Warsaw Ghetto. The Gestapo agents of the Secret State Police search the inhabitants. Dated 1941 Stock Photo - Alamy

Bad old days… coming back?

Late yesterday afternoon a story broke: the FBI supposedly, on Thursday, Sept. 8, raided the homes of 35 “Trump allies.”

Today there still seems to be only one source for this story–Steve Bannon. As I try to confirm or refute the story, all roads lead back to Bannon.

Personally, I can’t believe he would ever cook up such a thing. If it were fiction, it’d be bound to blow up in his face, wouldn’t it? And yet America’s… “journalists”… seem like they’re asleep at the switch for this one.

Where are the denials that this happened? Where are the government sock puppets and their mealy-mouthed excuses? “Well, yeah, of course we sent personnel to all those houses, but it was absolutely necessary because__________.” Fill in the blank and win a tin foil hat. Where’s SloJo squinting at the camera and saying nobody told him about this caper?

Did they really do it? Did they really check in to Club Gestapo? Have we really gone so far as to make political opposition a crime? Is the FBI that far gone–way past recovery or reform or repair?

I’m trying to find out.

Meanwhile, stay tuned here for Byron’s TV listings, a bit of really inside politics from South Carolina, and a rather strange story from Nigeria.

UPDATE: Here’s some confirmation of this story, https://theparadise.ng/the-fbis-plans-to-raid-trump-supporters-is-even-worse-than-we-thought/

Otherwise, what we have here is a near-total nooze media blackout.

And sources are saying it was closer to 50 Trump supporters raided, not 35.

“This is all about intimidation,” Bannon says. Ya think?

Nothing like this has ever happened in America before, although it’s pretty standard fare in Third World hell-holes.

No one will be safe here until the Democratic Party is put out of business forever.

I heard about this on the radio this morning, on Mark Simone’s show on WOR–our free and independent press, 60 Minutes in this example, tampered with the video to make Steve Bannon, then an adviser to President Donald Trump, look bad.

In the words of whistleblower Peter Duke, “By subtly tweaking the color of the video, they made him look like a bleary-eyed drunk.” And here’s the whole thing:

By way of demonstration, Duke does the same thing to a video of Charlie Rose–and gets the same result.

Can we believe anything we see or hear from the nooze media anymore? Do they never not cheat?

And this was 60 Minutes, supposedly the gold standard of TV investigative journalism. Just imagine what CNN and MSNBC get up to.

On the same show, Bill O’Reilly said the nooze business–newspapers, magazines, and cable TV nooze shows–is imploding economically and looking down the barrel of extinction: they’re being put out of business by the Internet and social media. Not that the social media have displayed any great regard for truth and fair dealing. O’Reilly says the noozies have decided that, with their livelihoods endangered by the imminent collapse of their business, the only way they can keep working is to take sides in the political wars. Out the window goes anything that would traditionally be recognized as journalism, to be replaced by unrestrained partisanship. And cheating. And lies.

A free and believable press is indispensable to America as a free republic. How are citizens supposed to make informed and rational choices if they have no reliable source of information on public affairs?

Someone really has to see to this.