*Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 makes it a crime to: 1) knowingly and willfully; 2) make any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation; 3) in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the United States. Your lie does not even have to be made directly to an employee of the national government as long as it is “within the jurisdiction” of the ever expanding federal bureaucracy. Though the falsehood must be “material” this requirement is met if the statement has the “natural tendency to influence or [is] capable of influencing, the decision of the decision-making body to which it is addressed.”
Maybe “The Neighbor” Isn’t Entirely Fiction
A few days ago, we posted a little parody based on “The Neighbor”. While it was intentional satire, more importantly, we believe it is based on chilling reality.
The paragraph above to what is apparently now being cited as the authority under which any American can be subject to serious penalties, including incarceration, for “lying to an FBI agent”. Even when you perceive the whole intercourse as unofficial, not sworn, even friendly.
Our parody was intended to illustrate, as a bit of exaggeration, the kind of stuff the Eric Holderr/ Loretta Lynch DOJ, the James Comey FBI, and the Robert Mueller “investigation” have used and are using to force Americans to tell them what they want to hear in order to successfully press their case for attacking and overturning the results of legitimate elections…or any other devious purpose.
Last week we learned how this disgraceful technique was used to extract from former Trump appointed NSC head Michael Flynn a “guilty” plea for “lying to an FBI agent” under the statute cited above.
Earlier we learned of equally unsavory tactics like this to similarly ensnare another target of the Mueller Special Counsel, George Papadopolous.
And last week we saw former FBI Director, James Comey brag on television (to applause) how he used lies and these and other tactics to ‘get away’ with entrapping Flynn.
In our opinion, this is police state stuff. Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Judge Napolitano, and former New York Times reporter Judith Miller all said on FOX last week that despite the misrepresentations, lies, and other low tactics used by the FBI, Michael Flynn should blame himself for the trouble he’s in. (Napolitano, we understand, even claimed that despite evidence of entrapment, if Flynn were to withdraw his ‘guilty’ plea, he’d be guilty of “perjury”…really, Judge?!)
In other words, Cavuto, Napolitano, and Miller suggested that Flynn was naive or maybe just stupid, to trust the FBI or any government agency.
In a rather unseemly way, each of these three said that Flynn, as a 30 year plus high ranking military officer and the newly appointed head of the National Security Council, he was incredibly unwitting to think that the FBI would not use every underhanded tactic it could to get him to say or fail to say something that would, in turn, allow them to charge him with some illegal act so that he could be forced to “go (Michael) Cohenesque” and betray his office, his colleagues, or whomever else they were targeting to save himself!
BESIDES THE NEED FOR CORRECTIVES, BINDING LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL 1ST AND 4TH AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS INCLUDING PUNISHMENT OF “OFFICIAL” WRONGDOING, THE BIGGEST LESSON TO TAKE FROM ALL THIS, IS THAT HENCEFORTH, EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE VERY GUARDED IN WHAT THEY SAY TO ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL AND ANY PUBLIC STATEMENT (TWITTER – FACEBOOK COME TO MIND).
AS WITHIN ANY TYRANNICAL REGIME ONE IS QUITE LIKELY AT SOME TIME, TO FIND ONESELF IN THE COMPANY OF PEOPLE WILLING TO MAKE NOTE OF STATEMENTS THAT MIGHT BE CRITICAL OF CERTAIN AGENCIES OF THEIR GOVERNMENT. PERHAPS NOT TO BE USED NOW, BUT PERHAPS LATER AND, LIKE IN EVERY OTHER TYRANNICAL SOCIETY, ONE CAN BE ‘REPORTED’ AND SOON FIND THEMSELVES BEFORE AN AGENT OF GOVERNMENT SEEKING EITHER THEIR IMPRISONMENT THEIR CAPITULATION TO BETRAY A ‘BIGGER’ TARGET THEIR GENERAL SUBMISSION.
OUR ADVICE FROM THE FLYNN EXAMPLE: IN ANY SETTING, BE VERY CAREFUL IN TALKING TO OTHERS, WHETHER YOU KNOW THEM OR NOT, ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE ANY OFFICIAL CAPACITY. NEVER SUBMIT TO AN INTERVIEW WITHOUT YOUR LAWYER PRESENT (NOT NAMED COHEN)
IN THE ERA OF THE DEEP STATE AND THE SWAMP, THE COMEY’S AND THEIR ILK, EACH OF US NOW MUST RECOGNIZE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE GUILTY OF ANYTHING, TO BE CHARGED WITH “VIOLATION OF TITLE 18 US CODE, SECTION 1001”! (It may be even likely one could ‘beat such a rap, but one would probably go broke or nuts doing it.)
Related reading Comey: The FBI’s Garbage Reputation Is Everybody’s Fault But Mine
