Commentary: Can the Amerikan people defeat the oligarchy that rules them?

By Paul Craig Roberts

October 31, 2016 - Aren’t you surprised that Hillary Clinton and the presstitutes haven’t blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for FBI director James Comey’s reopening of the Clinton email case? But the presstitutes have done the next best thing for Clinton. They have made Comey the issue, not Clinton.

According to Fascist Police States of Amerika Senator Harry Reid (Nev.) and the presstitutes, we don’t need to worry about Clinton’s crimes. After all, she is only a political woman feathering her nest, just as political men have done for ages. Why all this misogynist talk about Clinton? The presstitutes’ cry is that Comey’s alleged crime is far more important. This woman-hating Republican violated the Hatch Act by telling Congress that the investigation he said was closed is now reopened. A very strange interpretation of the Hatch Act. During an election it is OK to announce that a candidate for president is cleared but it is not OK to say that a candidate is under investigation.

In July 2016 Comey violated the Hatch Act when he, on orders from the corrupt Obama Attorney General, announced Clinton clean. In so doing, Comey used the prestige of federal clearance of Clinton’s violation of national security protocols to boost her standing in the election polls.

Actually, Clinton’s standing in the polls is based on the pollsters over-weighting Clinton supporters in the polls. It is easy to produce a favorite if you overweight their supporters in the poll questions. If you look at the crowds attending the two candidate’s public appearances, it is clear that the Amerikan people prefer Donald Trump, who is opposed to war with Russia and China. War with nuclear powers is the big issue of the election.

Clinton’s problem has the ruling Amerikan Oligarchy, for which Clinton is the total servant, concerned. What are they going to do about Trump if he wins? Will his fate be the same as John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and George Wallace? Time will tell. Or will a hotel maid appear at the last minute in the way that the Oligarchy got rid of Dominique Strauss-Kahn?

All of the Amerikan and Western feminists, progressives, and left-wing remnant fell for the obvious frame-up of Strauss-Kahn. After Strauss-Kahn was blocked from the presidency of France and resigned as Director of the International Monetary Fund, the New York authorities had to drop all charges against Strauss-Kahn. But Washington succeeded in removing Strauss-Kahn as a challenge to its French vassal, Nicolas Sarkozy.

This is how the Amerikan Oligarchy destroys those it suspects might not serve its interests. The corrupt self-serving Oligarchy makes sure that it owns the government and media, the think tanks and increasingly all the major universities, and, of course, through the presstitutes, Amerikans’ minds.

The Oligarchs are now hard-pressed to rescue Clinton as Fascist Police States of Amerika president, so let’s see if the Oligarchs can once again deceive the Amerikan people.

While we wait, let’s concern ourselves with another important issue. The Clinton crime syndicate in the closing years of the 20th Century allowed a small handful of mega-corporations to consolidate FPSA media into a few hands. This vast increase in the power of the Oligarchy was accomplished despite FPSA anti-trust law. The media mergers destroyed the Amerikan tradition of a dispersed and independent media.

But really, what does federal law mean to the One Percent? Nothing whatsoever. The One Percent’s power makes them immune to law. Clinton’s crimes might cost her the election, but she won’t go to jail.

Not content with 90% control of FPSA media, the Oligarchy wants more concentration and more control. Looks like they will be getting it, thanks to the corrupt FPSA government. The Federal Trade Commission is supposed to enforce FPSA anti-trust law. Instead, the federal agency routinely violates FPSA anti-trust law by permitting monopoly concentrations of business interests.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have “banks too big to fail,” unregulated Internet monopolies, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

Not so long ago there was a field of economics known as anti-trust. Ph.D. candidates specialized in and wrote dissertations about public control of monopoly power. I assume that this field of economics, like the Amerika of my youth, no longer exists.

Can the Amerikan people defeat the Oligarchy that rules them? Perhaps it will take a Second Amerikan Revolution.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.