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DEAR EDITOR:

The time period “banana republic” is usually used to explain nations in Central America as not simply politically and economically “unstable,” however typically unstable.

This is characterised by a politics of lawless revenge, the place new governments coming in would arrest these from the earlier governments for simply doing their jobs and even go after the press. The time period is usually utilized by Americans to explain our Central American neighbors to the South (Guatemala, Honduras, Panama to call a few). With latest occasions, it seems the United States is beginning to drift from being a constitutional republic to a banana republic.

The present political local weather could be very poisonous. Whatever political affiliation you’ve got or don’t, the latest raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property ought to alarm all Americans that present / former administrations and deep state actors are beginning to use the FBI and DOJ to go after their political opponents or Americans who don’t agree with their agenda. This will not be solely improper, but when not stopped, may destroy our constitutional republic. The FBI and DOJ shouldn’t be used to focus on particular people, whether or not they agree or disagree with the insurance policies which can be put in place. Whether you want or hate former President Trump, that is a wake-up name for America. This reeks of desperation from each main political events and the deep state.

We have to step again and see how really corrupt and weaponized the FBI and DOJ have grow to be. You can not make particular examples of people who you don’t agree with and use “child gloves” on those you need to shield (Hillary Clinton non-public e-mail server; Hunter Biden’s laptop computer; political elites masks mandate violations, and so on.), whereas labeling guardian protesters as home terrorists.

In 2002, former President Bill Clinton designated Berger as his consultant to evaluation categorised paperwork. During his visits to the National Archives, he eliminated categorised materials. Found responsible, he was fined $50,000, two years’ probation and 100 hours of neighborhood service. A majority of Americans should not given any such lenient therapy; they’re normally prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation.

To see the FBI and DOJ used as a political weapon is treading on harmful floor and transferring the United States nearer to a banana republic. Lavrentiy Beria, police commander of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), as soon as boasted, “Show me the person, and I’ll present you the crime.” More merely, “Guilty till confirmed harmless.” It seems we’re edging towards that philosophy. As a Navy veteran, together with previous and current veterans who’ve fought, spilled blood and given lives to protect and shield our constitutional republic, this could concern each American.

LARRY YORK

Warren

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