by Robert M. Traxler

Mark Levin said Thursday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had awakened the “sleeping giant” of the American people by leading impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

In an interview on “Hannity,” a nightly news comment program on FOX News, the “Life, Liberty & Levin” host compared Schiff’s actions to a famous quote from Japanese Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto. It was after he discovered Japan had bombed the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,  1941, before the declaration of war had been delivered to the American government.

“After we attacked at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said, ‘I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve’,” Levin said. The impeachment of President Clinton was a problem for Republicans in the election after President Clinton’s 1998, impeachment, and the Democrats will suffer the same fate in the 2020 elections, time will tell.

The holy grail of the liberal media is that the impeachment is not a legal proceeding, so the President does not get the protections the Constitution provides every other American. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. The impeachment has witnesses, who are sworn in and under oath. The majority and minority have attorneys, and even if this is only an investigative procedure, the accused has rights. As President Clinton’s supporters stated ad nauseum, “the President is not above the law but he is not below it either.” President Clinton had rights guaranteed by our Constitution but President Trump apparently doesn’t? Really?

Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) is quoted as saying, “I think the American public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay because the courts have routinely allowed and created needed exceptions to hearsay.”

Quigley said this to close his questioning of Kent and Taylor. “Hearsay can be much better evidence than direct, as we have learned in painful instances and it’s certainly valid in this instance.” In what court? not in an American or British Commonwealth court, perhaps in a few third world nations.

In what court would folks who testified that they assumed that a person meant something when they got it second hand? In what court would a double “hearsay” be admissible? Do Americans have no Constitutional rights when testifying before Congress? Apparently, we do not, and the media agrees.

We must ask where the media is, the watchdogs of the government, the protectors of Americans’ rights? Apparently the media only protects the rights of folks they approve of. Folks, if this does not scare you it should. Freedom of speech has evolved on the left to be freedom from speech, politically incorrect speak is not allowed.