Comments | Eastern NC Now

Our politically corrupt FBI and DOJ use a political filter to determine what is and is not a crime, much like Stalin's KGB chief who told him "show me the man and I will find you the crime."

When Hillary Clinton mishandled documents she had no right to possess outside of her office, and even destroyed subpoenaed documents, the politically bent FBI and DOJ decided it was not a crime, but when President Trump, like a number of other former presidents had a dispute with the National Archives, led by a Democrat hack, over what he was entitled to retain under the Presidential Records Act, that suddenly became a crime.

The list could go on. There is a huge partisan political double standard being imposed by politcally motivated players at the FBI, DOJ, and elsewhere on what is a "crime". Unless this corrupt situtation is squelched, our demoracy is done. Stick a fork in it.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 8:06 pm By: Rino Hunter

Well, what else is new? Bigot Bob is stuck on stupid. Maybe his idiot far left narrative, that he so often confuses with "fact", which it is not, claims all blacks in the south were slaves in 1861 but they were NOT. There were also free blacks in the South. Maybe Bobbie should look up the term "manumission" which was the process of slave owners giving their slaves freedom. It happened all the time, sometimes for a small number of particularly appreciated slaves and sometime for all slaves of a slaveowner. For example, George Washington, in his will, immediately freed one of his slaves at his death, and set all the rest of them, over a hundred in total, free at the death of his wife Martha. Robert E. Lee freed the hundreds of slaves he inherited from his father-in-law as soon as he cleared the debts of the estate so he could legally do so. Robert E. Lee had written in 1859, two years before secession, that "slavery is an institution of moral and political evil."

Learn your history, Bigot Bob. The far left narrative is a distortion of history.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 7:36 pm By: John Steed

if they committed actual crimes, they would be.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 6:37 pm By: Big Bob

One of my Confederate ancestors had a close relationship with a black Confederate comrade in arms. My great grandfather enlisted in 1861 and mustered out after Lee's surrender at Appamatox. My grandfather never talked to him much about the war, but my great uncle Rob, who was named for General Lee, usually took part when a group of Catawba County Confederate veterans got together during the holidays each year, and his memory of the war experiences of those veterans as they talked about them was intriguing.

One Sunday when we were visiting, Uncle Rob got to telling about my great grandfather's POW experience. His company was placed in a poor position in a minor battle in Virginia, was overrun, and most were taken prisoner. When they arrived at the Union POW camp, it was a black Confederate private from Georgia who took the Catawba County boys under his wing to give them guidance on how to survive the brutal conditions in the yankee POW camp. Some months later the Catawba County soldiers and the black soldier from Georgia were all exchanged in the same group and went back to serving in the Army of Northern Virginia under General Lee.

That black private from Georgia was one of three comrades-in-arms from outside Catawba County who my great grandfather corresponded with for decades after the war. The Georgian had been a furniture maker with his own shop before the war, and when he got home after the war, he found Sherman had burned him out on his march to the sea, his home and shop both gone, and his family nowhere to be found. It took him months to finally locate his family, and several years to financially get back on his feet.

One interesting aspect of the POW camp experience is that the yankees offered white Confederate soldiers release if they would sign an oath of allegiance to the Union and enlist in military units stationed in the west to keep the peace with the Indians. Very few of them did so. With black Confederate soliders, whom the yankees called "contrabands", all they had to do was sign an oath of allegiance and they were released. None of the black Confederate soldiers in that POW camp did so. They prefered to stay, even under brutal conditions, with their comrades-in-arms.

The experiences repeated by Uncle Rob were intriguing, and the one I most remember was the account of Pickett's charge from an ancestor who participated in it and his comrades.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 6:55 pm By: Steven P. Rader

If what Mr. Trump appears a bit harsh in summation of the former Democratic Socialist speaker, I personally prefer to remember Speaker Non Patriot Pelosi as simply bonecrushingly stupid.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By: Stan Deatherage

To newly, almost all old men are wise. Something you youngsters tend not to consider. The Bible teaches to honor your elders. There is a good reason for that. You will know the reasons as your time grows.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 11:56 am By: Hood Richardson

I agree with Melanie Pflastere’s comment

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 1:57 pm By: Patricia Williams

Big Bob: Do you spend all of your time trolling to project what is inaccurate?

'Trump was corruptly busted' because he is the Republican frontrunner for president, simply that. It was Evil Hillary that was investigated and moderately admonished for selling out America, while obstructing justice on multiple counts /mishandling classified documents as secretary of state and later when getting beat by Donald Trump in her bid for president.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 11:01 am By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, thats pretty much what trump got busted for.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:36 am By: Big Bob

OBAMA'S CLINTON'S BIDEN'S PELOSI'S SCHIFF SCHUMER MAXINE ALL NEED ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED FOR TREASONOUS ACTIONS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES CITIZENS!! TREASON REQUIRES A HANGING NOW!!

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:37 am By: Melanie Pflasterer

What a pathetic far left defense of Soros. Soros has been an atheist for a long time, not a member of the Jewish faith. Soros and his son recently donated the maximum amount allowed by law to the most rabid anti-Israel membe of Congress. The Foreign Minister of Israel called Soros "a threat to democracy". Even as a youth during World War II in his native Hungary, Soros was a Nazi collaborator, helping send Jews off to the camps. Soros is an extreme left globalist totalitarian, and the Foreign Mininster of Israel is right that he is a threat to democracy.

Commented: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 8:49 am By: Rino Hunter