No one should be surprised that Mitt Romney called Tulsi Gabbard treasonous for pointing out the truth about U.S. funded biolabs.
Under our constitution, the crime of treason is defined in Article III, Section 3 thus:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Romney was, of course, not the only one to call out the lady from Hawaii. The chorus to paint anyone who disagrees with the accepted narrative in the media as diabolical is at tsunami level.
As Romney, however, used the word, treasonous, he should be able to provide the Attorney General with evidence. Hard to do now that Victoria Nuland let the cat out of the bag under oath. There is also the small quibble that we have not declared war on anyone.
Romney is a war monger and chicken hawk who avoided service in Vietnam by getting a deferment as a Mormon Missionary. His sons did not serve in the wars dad supported because,
“When asked at that time why his five sons had also never served in the military, Romney said they were serving their country by helping him get elected. “One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I’d be a great president,” he said.
The apple don’t fall…
But Mitt was my governor and we have a history. Below is my column from the February, 2012 Sturbridge Times Magazine.
MITT ROMNEY’S PROFILE IN COURAGE
After my column of Lèse-majesté against Elizabeth Warren I promised to lay into a Republican. Here it is.
The silly season is upon us and will last several months. It will be a period wherein a number of men and a woman or two will say anything as they seek the highest office in the land. Yes, another presidential primary campaign has started.
Massachusetts has a favorite son in the fight. He was not a native, but spent his professional life in the Commonwealth. Our former governor, Mitt Romney, worked hard and smart and attained great wealth due to his competent management of Bain Capital, a private equity firm. He has a grasp of finance you and I can only envy. In my view, Romney is probably the most able-minded person among the current contestants.
To make the point I hope to make in this essay, I ask you to travel back with me to the 1980s, when accusations of bizarre satanic happenings were made against the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, MA, located north of Boston.
Testimony was extracted from children at the point of therapy. A mother, her son and daughter were shipped to prison. I remember the hysteria. I remember one of my family relating the story with the words, “Do you know what they did?” then relating the allegations. I asked what the evidence was and the reply was, “Don't you understand what they did?” It was like Nigel in Spinal Tap repeating, “This one goes to eleven.”
Now, this should have given us pause. After all, we have a record in this state. We did not just have a metaphorical witch-hunt. We caught Harry and Hermione and burned them in the seventeenth century. Of course, Cotton Mather had the Bible. Our brand of inquisitors has the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).
We no longer burn witches at the stake, but we do sometimes sentence those charged with ritual abuse to state prison. Gerald “Tooky” Amirault, the son of the Fells Acres Day Care’s owner, spent 18 years there.
For the prosecution team, it was all good career-wise. L. Scott Harshbarger, the D.A., became attorney general and Susan Kelley, the chief inquisitor, stepped in to lead up Boston College’s school of nursing, where she may very well have continued to promote the existence of ritual abuse.
Plus ça, well you know.
Eventually, the turn-around started on the Amirault case. People took another look and asked why the “secret room” where horrible things took place was never found. It was not like the Fells Acre house was the Labyrinth. The prosecutors never really answered any questions. They just kept repeating that the Amiraults were guilty.
In time, many people recognized that the case was born of hysteria and was, thus, without merit, so a campaign began to parole the Amiraults. Unfortunately, lumpen Massachusetts never caught up. There were reasons for this.
First, there was the trial and verdict. But if one considers the entire sweep of this sad story, one cannot ignore the conditions that fed the gestalt around the situation. To begin with, children are left off by their parents early in the morning until some point in the late afternoon or early evening five or more days a week. This weighs heavily on parental minds, so the hint of untoward happenings at a daycare scares them. When something scares mommy and daddy, it terrifies certain kinds of politicians.
Mitt Romney’s gubernatorial predecessor, the unfortunate Jane Swift, went against the recommendation of the board of pardons and refused to let the Amiraults go. This backfired, for even though the average citizen does not want any alleged molesters released, those who had heretofore supported the not overly popular Jane, abandoned her for her abandonment of principles.
By the time Mitt’s turn came up at the plate on this, the mother and sister, objects of pity, had been released. Tooky continued his sentence, never admitting to his alleged crimes when doing so would have been to his advantage. Like his mother and sister, Mr. Amirault refused to attend sex offender classes rather than implying an admission of guilt. That cost him too. He stood the test and, if you came to view this fiasco as nothing more than a witch hunt, he kept his honor. Did Romney?
I have always disliked people who say things like “The question is the answer,” but in this case, yeah it is. Any idea that Mr. Clean would take an interest in the case was, as The Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz put it “A wholly unfounded hope as it turned out: Gov. Romney’s office proved more studiously indifferent to all queries related to the case than any previous governor.”
It was surprising in that some of the people who solicited Him to run did so because of disgust with Swift’s actions in the case. This is not to say Romney has no sense of justice. He deftly kicked around Billy Bulger, former senate president and brother of America’s most notorious Irish Mafioso, for improprieties. Rightly so, but of course, everyone important had abandoned the once powerful Bulger at that point so there was little cost and some applause.
No, if you’re a little guy and your case cries out to heaven for relief, you will be waiting forever for succor, if there is a possible downside. Romney had all the evidence but refused to acknowledge it. He just sat on his hands until the parole board finally gave it up and let Tooky out. He let an innocent man rot in jail another year and four months from the beginning of his term.
On the day the parole board finally announced the long overdue grant Romney said, “The parole board is independent. I am not going to second-guess their decision.” Then he added almost compulsively, “There is no crime more disgusting or revolting than a crime against a child.” This prompted Chip Ford, one of Romney’s early supporters to say, “I wonder if he unequivocally supports motherhood, the flag and apple pie too — if he’d dare take a stand one way or the other without fear of offending ... someone?”
Mitt is not the worst of the lot. He is, as noted, a competent manager Who might run the country’s government ably, and I doubt there would be horrible scandal during a Romney administration. As to there being any true decency to the man, I assert advisedly, “Past is prologue.”