Donald Trump's race for the White House: A conspiracy?

There are more than a few Republicans who believe his campaign is geared at simply clearing a path for Hillary Clinton.

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The rise of Trump has been unusual and unexpected, with many conspiracies arising as people try to make sense of it [Reuters]

By

Alan Fisher

http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2016/08/donald-trump-conspiracy-160804193712791.html

As David Moyes’ troubled time at Manchester United was coming to an end, a banner appeared at Anfield, home of arch rivals, Liverpool. It read "Agent Moyes: Mission Accomplished".
The idea was that the only way to destroy the dynasty built by Alex Ferguson, United’s legendary manager, was to do it from the inside.
I was reminded of the banner thinking about Donald Trump.
There are more than a few Republicans who believe his entire campaign is not geared at winning the White House but simply clearing a path for Hillary Clinton. A so-called "false flag" operation.
Remember, the Democratic nominee for president would be the least trusted candidate to run for the presidency if she wasn't topped by one other candidate. And that would be Donald Trump.
It’s just one of the incredible conspiracies that have circled around the businessman’s campaign.
It’s no surprise. Conspiracy theories tend to arise as people try to make sense of unusual events. In fact in the book American Conspiracy Theories two respected academics found that "inducing anxiety of loss of control triggers respondents to seen nonexistent patterns and evoke conspiratorial explanations". And the rise of Trump has been unusual and unexpected.
The suggestion that Trump is somehow a Democrat insider was given real credence in a tweet last December by none other than Jeb Bush. He wrote “Maybe Donald negotiated a deal with his buddy @HillaryClinton. Continuing this path will put her in the White House”

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So how could that possibly be true? Well first of all, Trump used to be a Democrat. He held and - in some cases - still holds views which are closer to Democratic orthodoxy than that of his own party. He was a friend of the Clintons. They attended his wedding in 2005. And he praised both Clintons, but especially Hillary, calling her “a terrific woman”.
In the view of the man who first floated the idea, the self-described "conservative-Paleo-libertarian" Justin Raimondo, Trump’s pronouncements, "the open racism, the demagogic appeals….sound like something out of a democratic political consultant’s imagination, a caricature of conservatism as performed by a master actor".
Sceptics also point to the fact that any other political outsider would have been ignored by the media. Instead when Trump spoke it was covered wall to wall by the cable news networks and given extensive coverage in newspapers. Conservative talk radio lapped it up and promoted it.

What does the world really think about a President Donald Trump?

And that in part is why Trump is where he is at. No other candidate could compete with his free media. He blew them off the air, and he blew them off message. People like Jeb Bush weren’t able to push their own points or put forward their own policies because they were too busy responding to the latest Trump outburst.

He had toyed with a presidential run before and enjoyed the media and attention that came with it - this was the time he had to get in the race or be forever branded a political tease.
Donald Trump won the nomination because unlike any other Republican politician he tapped into the fear and anxiety of America’s working classes and gave it a voice. He understood what they worried about most; a lack of economic advancement; the fear of immigration and a concern that their world was changing too fast and they couldn’t pump the brakes.
Yet his most recent pronouncements - repeatedly calling Hillary Clinton “crooked”, claiming the election will be rigged and stolen from the Republicans, are not the words of someone who wants a smooth transition of power or someone who wants his former buddy sitting behind the Resolute desk in the White House.
Trump is doing what he’s doing because he wants to win the White House. Not for anyone else. For himself.

Source: Al Jazeera

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A Conspiracy So Vast

By Andrew P. Napolitano

December 12, 2013

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/andrew-p-napolitano/a-conspiracy-so-vast%E2%80%A8/

Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to privacy, a right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.
The conspiracy he revealed is vast. It involves former President George W. Bush, President Obama and their aides, a dozen or so members of Congress, federal judges, executives and technicians at American computer ISPs and telecoms, and the thousands of NSA employees and vendors who have manipulated their fellow conspirators. The conspirators all agreed that it would be a crime for any of them to reveal the conspiracy. Snowden violated that agreement in order to uphold his higher oath to defend the Constitution.
The object of the conspiracy is to emasculate all Americans and many foreigners of their right to privacy in order to predict our behavior and make it easier to find among us those who are planning harm.
A conspiracy is an agreement among two or more persons to commit a crime. The crimes consist of capturing the emails, texts and phone calls of every American, tracing the movements of millions of Americans and foreigners via the GPS system in their cellphones, and seizing the bank records and utility bills of most Americans in direct contravention of the Constitution, and pretending to do so lawfully. The pretense is that somehow Congress lessened the standard for spying that is set forth in the Constitution. It is, of course, inconceivable that Congress can change the Constitution (only the states can), but the conspirators would have us believe that it has done so.
The Constitution, which was written in the aftermath of the unhappy colonial experience with British soldiers who executed general warrants upon the colonists, forbids that practice today. That practice consists of judges authorizing government agents to search for whatever they want, wherever they wish to look. By requiring a warrant from a judge based on probable cause of criminal behavior on the part of the very person the government is investigating, however, and by requiring judges to describe particularly in the warrants they issue the places to be searched or the persons or things to be seized, the Constitution specifically outlaws general warrants.
This is more than just a constitutional violation; it is a violation of the natural right to be left alone. When that right is violated, when all of our private movements are monitored by the government, the menu of our free choices is reduced, as we surely alter our private behavior to compensate for being watched. And just as surely, the government expands its surveillance, knowing that it is not being watched.
As a result of these revelations, no one has been fired, except Snowden, and the conspiracy has grown. Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now spying on us. It seems that the FBI, no doubt jealous of the unpunished lawlessness of the NSA, has acquired software that permits it to utilize the tiny cameras in many home computers to observe whoever or whatever may be in front of the computer screen. The FBI doesn’t only look at whoever is using the computer screen; it also captures the words and images on the screen. It seems to have an affinity for monitoring online gaming, even the lawful variety.
In 1949, when George Orwell predicted in his terrifying novel “1984” the future use of television sets to watch us in our homes, many thought he was a delusional paranoid. It turns out that he was just off by a generation. His predictions have come to pass.
Like many growing conspiracies, this one has spawned others. The Washington Post also reported this week that local cops, too, are jealous of the NSA and its ability to break the law with impunity. In an effort to catch bad guys, local police in half a dozen American cities have begun to ask local telecom providers for a “tower dump.” A tower dump consists of digital recordings of all cellphone usage from a given cell tower.
When some telecoms balked at these requests, the cops went to judges, some of whom unlawfully authorized these dumps and some of whom declined. Frustrated that the NSA seems to get whatever it wants, some local police have used their own technology to spy. They’ve purchased a $400,000 device that mimics cellphone towers, drawing cellphone signals to it and enabling the cops to capture telephone calls without the cooperation of telecoms or permission from federal judges. That’s called hacking; it is a federal crime and in most areas a state crime, as well.
The assaults on personal freedom never seem to end. The very concept of violating the rights of many in order to catch a few — a practice perfected by tyrannical regimes — has been prohibited for 222 years by the same Constitution that the perpetrators of these practices and the conspirators in these schemes have sworn to uphold.
Sometimes, dissents in Supreme Court decisions articulate American values better than majority opinions do. Here is one from Justice Louis Brandeis that did: “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man’s spiritual nature, of his feelings, and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.”
If we permit the government to destroy that right, we will live under tyrannies similar to the ones we thought we defeated.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.

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