Theatre Of The Absurd!

Roger Stone’s Bizarre Arrest Was Pure Political Theater

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“Staring down the barrel of two assault weapons, there were 29 FBI agents in SWAT gear who had completely surrounded my home. There were 17 vehicles with their lights going, including two armored vehicles in the front yard. They had blocked off the entire street. They had pulled two amphibious units with frogmen up to the gate, to the back of the house. The entire back of the house was surrounded by agents, all of them brandishing sidearms and assault weapons pointed at my home.”

One would expect this to be a movie scene of law enforcement taking down notorious kingpin El Chapo or Pablo Escobar. But in the upside-down world of the Robert Mueller “witch hunt,” this was the real-life account of a 66-year-old man who does not own a gun — Roger Stone.

The eccentric ally of President Donald Trump has been in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s crosshairs for more than a year. His alleged crimes have zero to do with so-called “Russian Collusion.” The quirky Republican political consultant and strategist has a long and storied history that trails back to the Nixon Administration, and he has called himself a “dirty trickster,” a reference to Dwight Chapin who was allegedly hired to conduct a nefarious campaign against Democrats during the Watergate era. Stone is also well-known for his penchant for digging up “opposition research” against political opponents.

“They want to intimidate me. And they want to poison the jury pool. They treated me like El Chapo,” Stone reportedly said. “They used fewer men to take down Pablo Escobar or bin Laden.”

Stone is actually correct. Fewer agents and hardware were used to arrest all three of those Most Wanted enemies of the American people. Interestingly, a CNN camera crew was reportedly parked outside Stone’s home — not to imply Mueller’s band of “angry Democrats” are engaged in strategic leaks to the media.

“It is frustrating,” Stone said. “It’s a raw abuse of power in the fact that a CNN reporter was allowed to film my arrest when the street was sealed off and the fact that the CNN producer in question is a former assistant to James Comey at the FBI and formally worked for the FBI. His claim that he just had a hunch is not credible.”

The enormous resources brought to bear against an unarmed senior citizen who answered the door still in his pajamas begs the question: What crime did this man commit? Treason? Genocide?

Although Mueller may want everyday people to think Stone has direct ties to the Kremlin and dines with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin himself, nothing could be further from the truth. The chatty senior is charged with things such as lying to Congress and witness tampering based on bizarre statements, not physical threats. Among the colorful statements, Special Counsel Mueller indicted Stone on humorous quotes from popular movies such as “The Godfather” and “The Princess Bride” among others. America, you just can’t make this stuff up.

Among the more laughable reasons for the indictments was a “The Godfather Part II” reference Stone told an unidentified colleague they “should do a ‘Frank Pentangeli’” at the House Intelligence Committee “in order to avoid contradicting Stone’s testimony.” In the critically acclaimed Godfather franchise Frank “Frankie Five Angels” Pentangeli recants his FBI statements and claims the Corleone family is innocent of wrongdoing. He later commits suicide after an implied deal his family will be well cared for in return. He effective upends the government’s case.

“If you testify, you’re a fool …” Stone stated. “I could never get away with a certain (sic) my Fifth Amendment rights, but you can. I guarantee you, you are the one who gets indicted for perjury if you’re stupid enough to testify.”

In another portion of the indictment against Stone, the Mueller team claims he threatened radio show host Randy Credico and his dog. Mueller claims that the show host and Stone had a connection to WikiLeaks, which published hacked emails from the DNC. Stone went off on Credico who said he should cooperate with the witch hunt against President Trump.

“You are a rat. A stoolie. You backstab your friends — run your mouth my lawyers are dying. Rip you to shreds,” Stone said. He went on to reference Credico’s 13-year-old pooch, saying he’d “take that dog away from you. I am so ready. Let’s get it on. Prepare to die…”

The “prepare to die” statement is from a Princess Bride character seeking revenge on a six-fingered man who killed his father:

“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!”

In the bizarre world of the Mueller witch hunt and Roger Stone, there is no truth, only fiction. At least Stone’s flare for movie quotes made us all laugh.

~ Conservative Zone