Roger Stone recently awoke in the early morning to FBI agents pounding on his door with guns loaded.  He was arrested and taken in and then released later that day.  He is facing charges of lying to Congress and witness tampering, which originated from the investigation of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia.

The whole Russia-gate investigation is a hoax.  I’m sorry, but anyone who believes these charges is either evil or extremely naïve on the subject.  Mueller and the investigators are the criminals.

The whole story about Russia interfering with the presidential election is a hoax. It is highly hypocritical, considering the fact that it is the U.S. government constantly interfering with elections in foreign countries (see Venezuela, Ukraine, and Iran as just three examples), not to mention all of the other coups.

The Russia investigation is an attempt to kill at least three birds with one stone.  It is used as an attack against Donald Trump. It is used to cover up the crimes of Hillary Clinton and provide an excuse on why she lost the 2016 election. It is also a way to keep from having peaceful relations with Russia and to keep up the funding of the military-industrial complex.

The whole investigation started on the basis of some dossier that was provided by someone who was funded by the Clinton campaign.  And all of the so-called investigators (criminals) are anti Trump.

This is why they have arrested so many of Trump’s associates or people associated with the campaign. Most of the charges have been immaterial to the actual investigation of Russia collusion.  But they help to set a narrative that the Trump campaign was corrupt.  (I’m not saying that there was no corruption with the Trump campaign, but it certainly isn’t from the charges stemming from the Mueller investigation.)

Roger Stone is just the latest FBI takedown.  It is a setup.  These charges are bogus.  They are used for intimidation.  The victims are threatened with long jail sentences if they don’t enter into some kind of guilty plea bargain.  Then they are used to make false charges against Trump or whomever they are trying to get.  This is the way that federal “justice” works.  It is the reason that most people prosecuted for federal crimes end up pleading guilty for a reduced sentence.  They are afraid to take their chances, even if they are innocent.

The supposed crime of lying to Congress is especially a joke.  James Clapper lied to Congress about spying on the American people.  It was proven a lie by Edward Snowden.  Yet he was not sent to jail.

The people in Congress lie all the time.  This is what they do for a living.  They are mostly demagogues.  Why don’t they go to jail?  The answer is because the American people put up with the lying as long as they keep getting their government “benefits”.

Also, you can lie about chemical weapons in Syria or weapons of mass destruction in Iraq without any legal consequences.  You can lie us into war and cause hundreds of thousands of people to die, yet there is no trial or jail time.  Meanwhile, Roger Stone forgets about a text message that is immaterial to the actual case, and he faces decades (the rest of his life) in prison.  It’s a total joke.

When Roger Stone Ran for Governor

In 2013, Roger Stone briefly ran for governor of Florida on the Libertarian Party ticket (for the 2014 election), or at least he was considering a run.  I couldn’t remember exactly when this happened, so I looked it up.  He was making the rounds in Florida, and I saw him at a local Libertarian Party meeting.  He spoke to our group and took questions.

At the time, I was somewhat active in the local Libertarian Party.  I already had my extensive disagreements with the national party, but I still had several friends locally, and we generally agreed on the local issues of less spending and lower taxes.

When Stone started taking questions, he was thrown some soft balls.  Then it was my turn.  I can’t remember exactly how I phrased it, but I asked him a big picture question about liberty and government spending.  If I am going to support a Libertarian (or anyone else) for any political office, I want there to be the chance for significant change.  I want a major difference from the conventional candidates.  I don’t want to hear about school vouchers and a 1% reduction for one particular tax.  I want something more radical that will get people excited.

Stone admitted to me that he believes in a good infrastructure provided by government. He said he supported the idea of a bullet train between major cities in Florida.  One of my good friends there, who is also a radical libertarian, piled on.  He went after the fact that if a bullet train is a smart idea, then the marketplace would provide it, and we shouldn’t need the government for it.  I believe we also gave him a hard time on education and the role of government.

I tried not to be impolite, but I also didn’t want to go easy on the guy.  I already knew he had a political history, although I obviously didn’t know he would be in the national spotlight in 2019.  At the end of the meeting, even though it didn’t go all that well for him, he made a donation to the local party.  He had a young assistant with him who took video of the event.

It was shortly after this that Stone dropped out as a Libertarian candidate.  I suspect he probably had a few other similar run-ins with other local chapters.  All it takes is one or two people asking some hard questions to make him realize that he doesn’t fit in all that well with the party.  Of course, that was before the days of Bill Weld as a Libertarian.  I would take Roger Stone over Bill Weld.

The Roger Stone Personality

It is hard to believe, but it seems that Roger Stone is almost thriving with the latest FBI arrest.  He likes the limelight.  I don’t know how nervous he is that he will go to prison for a long time.  The guy is 66 years old, so it could be the rest of his life. He says he is going to fight the charges, but we don’t really know.  I hope he does fight them, and I hope he wins.

Stone was a Nixon guy back in the day.  He comes across as somebody who would have associated with Nixon.  He was in person just as he is on television. He comes across as slick, and maybe a shyster.  But then there is also an element of honesty to him.  You could even say he has some personality characteristics similar to Trump.  In many ways, he is full of himself, but then there is something real about him too.

Stone is like a character in a movie who you think is one of the bad guys at first.  Then his character grows on you, and you end up rooting for him.  Not everything in life is good or evil.  There are shades of gray.  But when Stone is going up against the evil Mueller and his henchmen at the FBI, Stone is definitely more on the good side.

I’m not saying Roger Stone is going to turn out to be Han Solo, who didn’t necessarily show the best intentions at the beginning of Star Wars.  I don’t expect anyone to like him that much.  Then again, if he can help expose the crimes of Mueller and his phony investigation, maybe Stone will turn out to be something of a hero.  Sometimes heroes turn out to be people that don’t necessarily look the part at first.

Stay tuned.  I hope Roger Stone puts on quite a show and stands his ground.  I still have hope that some justice will prevail.