Let Me Spell It Out: Hillary Clinton Is a Felon.

oday I was speaking with a new friend after Mass: A good, conservative gentleman, a Grand Knight for a chapter of The Knights of Columbus. When the topic briefly turned to politics, however, I was rather shocked when I heard him say the following: “Well, she didn’t actually break the law.”

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I honestly wasn’t going to comment on this, but I am shocked anyone (let alone a fellow member of the political Right Wing) who dared to comment on the affair could hold such a view after what has now been made public knowledge, and I promised my friend I’d show him the law she broke. I keep my promises. So let me spell it out simply and concisely in a way that the mass media will not:

The Law She Broke

18 U.S. Code s. 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, Paragraph (f):

“Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.” (Bold font added for emphasis, not in original)

The Evidence She Broke It

From Mr. James Comey, the Director of the F.B.I., being interviewed by the House Oversight Committee on July 7, 2016:

Certainly [Clinton] should have known not to send classified information. As I said, that’s the definition of negligent. I think she was extremely careless. I think she was negligent. That I could establish. What we can’t establish is that she acted with the necessary criminal intent.

But the law, as I quoted to you good readers above, does not require any intent. It does not make any comment on intent. In fact, the definition of “negligence” of any kind implies a lack of intent. The law only declares the penalty for actions taken and having failed to be taken.

The Obvious Conclusion

A felony is by definition a crime that carries a prison sentence greater than a year. From the language of the law, combined with what the Director of the F.B.I. testified under oath, it ought to be obvious to anyone with an Eighth Grade education that, yes, Hillary Clinton, presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States of America, is guilty of committing a felony. She is a criminal. Without a shadow of a doubt. If justice still reigned on these benighted shores, she would be tried, convicted, and fined or imprisoned. But, alas, it does not.

James Comey, whatever his intent, is guilty of dereliction of duty, should resign in disgrace, and is unworthy of the public trust of being a garbage man. (I mean no offense to public waste disposal employees by this comment, only to imply that you hold an entrance position in the way of public offices and if you perform your duties responsibly, you are superior to the man I have the misfortune to describe in this paragraph.) Be under no illusions. This whole affair is a ridiculous travesty and a miscarriage of Justice, and James Comey, the perfidious snake, has severely and irreparably shattered the public trust. He is not a hero. He is a villain in some ways worse than Clinton herself. For while she attempted to veil with lies and secrecy her malfeasance, knowing full well the punishment that should rightly fall upon her if her misdeeds came to light, Comey lies directly to the national face, making false reference to requirements of law that do not exist. And the only veil he requires is sheer public ignorance and apathy against learning the truth of the matter.

Once people lose their Faith in God, be sure their Faith in any kind of Justice will be quick to die alongside it. That is my diagnosis for what we have seen this past week.

If you too hear such rubbish from a friend, be sure to send them to read this article. If they are voting for Mrs. Clinton, however, for Charity’s sake I probably wouldn’t bother:

Argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are some people whom one cannot instruct. -Aristotle, Rhetoric