Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Nouno the Vigilante Episode 32 Circling Back to the Beginning


                Domingo Francisco Marcos is 16-years-old.  He fled his native Guatemala and entered the United States illegally but was unable to stay under the radar and was caught by the Department of Homeland Security.  Since Domingo was well trained in the loopholes in the United States immigration system, he cried out “Asylum” and the Arizona border patrol released him under his own reconnaissance to appear at a court date. 

                The asylum court date had arrived and the courtroom was filled with the Judge and officers working for the Department of Homeland security.  All that they needed now was the young Domingo to show up. 

                Soon after being released by the homeland security, Domingo knew he had to get out of Arizona.  He immediately headed east and didn’t even stop in Texas but by the time his court date arrived, he was hanging out as a free man living in the oppressively humid Mobile, Alabama.  He knew that the judge would issue a final deportation notice but what did he care? He was on the other side of the country.  Let them look for him in Arizona for he would not be going back to the state that caught him.  Unfortunately for Domingo, Arizona was soon to come to him.

                Sonya Jones is a 49-year-old black woman living in Mobile, Alabama.  She is a teacher at the Living Word Christian Center Kingdom Academy and mother of two children.  Her husband, Harold Jones, works hard to provide for their two kids and provide a stable loving home for them.  Sonya grew up with four sisters so having a son and a daughter brought joy to her parents for they got to experience raising a boy through their grandson.  Obviously, they loved their daughters but the new experience of having a little boy to raise kept them young.  This would not be the only new experience they would experience through Sonya.  The other one, however, is something that no parent ever wants to or should experience for there is nothing one can do to deserve the pain and anguish. 

                Sonya is driving eastbound on I-98 minding the speed limit and getting to her destination.  As luck would have it, a young boy named Domingo was heading westbound on the same road just like many others that day.  Almost every east bound car’s only notice of the westbound cars is a blur rushing past them in their peripheral vision as they continue on their journey.  For Sonya, however, Domingo’s westbound car was not going to be another blur past her. 

                Since Domingo was an illegal immigrant that was up for deportation, he didn’t have a driver’s license.  This didn’t stop him from driving, however, as he was from Guatemala where they had more important things to worry about then people driving without a licenses.  Besides, getting a license could be an entrepreneurial endeavor in Guatemala as license agents could easily be bribed to pass you regardless how you did on the test.  Since Domingo was already a US law breaker, the moment he arrived, breaking other laws he deemed inconsequential was exactly that to him.  He had a car, keys to operate it, what else does he need to drive?  As he drives down I-98, he may have become distracted or some other reason for what happens next.   Domingo drives over the central divider of the I-98 giving the oncoming traffic little time to react to something that nobody could reasonably expect.  Domingo flies straight into an oncoming car as their hoods smash against each other.  With both cars totaled, Domingo’s first impulse is to flee so as not to get caught driving without a license and potentially deported.  He gets out of the car and tried to run but his injuries are too severe that even the rejuvenating power of a 16-year-old body can’t aid him in running after a head on collision.  The pain becomes too much for his brain and it shuts down causing him to collapse. Since he had no inclination to check on the other person in the car, he has no idea he just made a widow of her husband Harold and her kids Amberly and Anthony will have to spend the rest of their lives without their mother. 

                Back in Arizona, Abby and her husband Nouno are in their home watching the NBA, which Nouno loves deeply.  Abby remarks, “They set a date for the IG report release.”

                The IG report is Inspector General’s Horowitz report about the origin of the Trump Russian collusion scandal.  He is trying to determine if the FBI had probable cause to open the investigation or if it indeed was a hoax.  Nouno smiles, “It’s about time.  I suppose now until then the Democrats are going to tell their little parrots, the mainstream media, how to frame their story to minimize the damage as much as possible.”

                “You don’t even know what they wrote or offered.”

                “I can predict it though.”

                “Fine, tell me what you think they’re going to say.”

                “They’re going to change the original premise to fit what we know now.  This is how Democrats and the media, but that’s redundant, operate to trick the people.  First, you have the Crisis.  In this case, Trump is a Russian agent and colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.  Then you have the solution, which is obviously to arrest Trump and everyone associated with him for the betterment of society so that we can have pure elections.  Really, it’s projection because Hillary and Obama’s DOJ colluded with Russia and Ukraine to take down Trump but failed so the solution is ridiculous.  Then, you have the results, which is that everything they told us from to dossier, to Mifsud being a Russian agent, to Trump asked the Ukrainians to attack Biden was all untrue and completely made up and a hoax.  Then you have the response, which is where we’re at now, where they tell the people that cite the results that they’re being narrow minded and too simplistic and missing all the nuances and complexities that go into it.  Just like with Mueller when they concluded that he couldn’t prove that Trump didn’t commit a crime but that’s not how the US justice system works.  You’re innocent until proven guilty here so there’s no such thing as proving that someone didn’t commit a crime.  The burden of proof is on the people making the allegation to prove that he did.  Democrats switch that and put the burden of proof on the critics.  It’s not enough that we definitively proved their allegations wrong; we now have to prove his innocence.  Usually they claim that if they didn’t do what they did, the results would have been much worse and since you can’t prove a counter-factual, there’s nothing we can say.  The other way they do this is to claim that it was inevitable so it doesn’t matter.  They then change the accusation to make it more palpable and fit the evidence slightly better and pretend that’s what they alleged all along.”

                “That was a very good general statement.  Here’s the facts. They admit that they made mistakes in handling the FISA process but it didn’t undermine the premise that Russia interfered in the election.”

                Nouno smiled widely and pumped his fists, “Damn I’m good, I called it!”

                “What the fuck are you talking about?”

                “They changed the original premise!” he exclaimed

                “How?” fired back Abby

                “The original premise is that Trump and his campaign was complicit and colluded with Russia to interfere in our elections not that Russia interfered in our elections.  Russia interferes in our elections all the time; that’s not the issue or newsworthy.  Everyone knows that.  The question was did Trump collude or help them to do it.”

                “Can we at least agree that the Russians are evil?”

                “Irrelevant.  I can’t say ‘yes’ to that because you’re going to claim that it’s okay that the Democrats used the media and law enforcement to spy on their political opponent to stop him from being president because Russia is bad.  With that logic, you can spy on anyone for whatever reason because bad people exist somewhere in the world. Start thinking generally; are you saying that since Russia is bad, we can spy on Americans?”

                “No, but the New York Times says they were going to interfere in our elections anyway so…..”

                “Like I said, they claim it was inevitable so doesn’t matter.”

                Abby eyes darted up and back and forth and her mouth kept opening to retort but nothing came out.  Finally she just shook her head, “I hate when you do this.  You overthink everything!”

                “Sounds like you’re seeing the logic.”

                “They did admit that an FBI lawyer altered and tampered with evidence since he changed an e-mail to incriminate Carter Page.”

                “If that’s true, then it’s a classic bait and switch.”

                “How so?”

                “Carter Page was cooperating with them.  They brought him with him thinking they needed his help and then they altered it and used it against him.  They did the same thing to Mike Flynn.  These people are sick.”

                “I still think the premise is still valid.”

                “What premise?”

                “Russia is bad?”

                “Great, now tell me why that’s a reason to spy on Americans.  Remember, that’s where you caught tongue tied last time.”

                “Whatever, I got a case.”

                “Where are we going?”

                “Mobile, Alabama.”

                “Alright! I love the southern accent and I reckon Mobile is as pure as the accent gets.” Nouno tried saying this with a southern accent but didn’t do a very good job.

                Abby took a mocking tone and didn’t even try to go southern, “I reckon that you should just stop trying to send like a southerner.  You can use words like ‘y’all’ and ‘reckon’ but you can’t sound awkward when you do.”

                “How would you know? You’ve only lived in Chicago and Cleveland”

                “You lived in New York and Cleveland!”

                “I was born in North Carolina”

                “You moved when you were three.”

                “Still lived there when I learned to speak.”

                “Oh spare me!”

                They both laughed.  Abby books their flight to Alabama and they head off.   On the plane, Abby states, “I’m beginning to forget about the Russia stuff.  I got distracted with all the Ukraine phone call.”

                “It was the same thing with the same players.”

                Not really but whatever, let’s talk about Carter Page because I haven’t heard much about him.”

                “That’s because despite being the most famous target of a FISA warrant, he was never charged with anything.”

                “Makes you think that the FBI doesn’t just make stuff up like they did with Flynn and Papadopoulos”

                “No, Page just fought and refused to plead guilty no matter what pressure they put on him.”

                “Times says there was no political bias in the investigation.”

                “Well that’s just asinine considering we have all the texts between FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe, Strzok and Lisa Page.”

                “Fine, I guess they were biased but did it affect their work?”

                “Yes, it was their motive to do what they did.”

                “Strzok claims he didn’t participate in the Carter Page surveillance.”

                “That’s a lie.  Again, we have texts.”

                “Show me the text that disproves that specific theory about Carter Page.”

                Nouno shows her a text from Strzok to Page on October 11, ‘I’m fighting Stu for the FISA.’ then he articulated, “’Stu’ is Stewart Evans who is a lawyer for the DOJ.”

                “Could have been another FISA”

                “Could have but unlikely”

                “Why do you say that?”

                “Well, Strzok said he was fighting with the DOJ.  That implies that there was a problem with the veracity of the FISA.  This may have hurt their chances for renewal.”

                “Obviously not since it was renewed three times.  They would have gotten the FISA even without the e-mail manipulation so it’s not a big deal.”

                “What information was verified?”

                “When you get a warrant, even if it has false information, as long as the warrant would be issued even with the omission of the false information, the warrant is still valid.”

                “That’s cute that you wanted to show off your legal knowledge but again, we take out the e-mail, what information is still there that would have led to the FISA warrant or is evidence of probable cause?”

                “I don’t know.”

                “Well, I didn’t know about the e-mail till recently so what did they originally say the FISA was based on?”

                “The Dossier”

                “Which has been exposed as salacious, unverified, and a complete hoax.  That was the real problem with the FISC.  To your earlier point, Andy McCabe is already on the record saying that there would be no probable cause without the dossier.  Even if you go to the most beneficial information to your case; half of their information was the dossier.  Now we know one part of the other 50%, the e-mail, but that was evidence tampering and fraud.  They fired the guy for it so that’s not the good information that stands on its own.  What is it?”

                “We don’t know yet.  We don’t have security clearance so I’m sure they know.”

                “Are you trying to say that there is verified true evidence out there but they refuse to tell us?  Of all the leaks we’ve already had, you’re trying to tell me that the press, Mueller, Senate Intelligence Committee, House intelligence committee, Eric Swalwell, Jerry Nadler, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, among others that have the opportunity to actually disprove what the conservatives have been accusing them of for three years but that isn’t leaking?!”

                “Maybe”

                “Unlikely.”

                “But possible.”

                “We don’t do ‘possible,’ we do facts.  Besides, even if I gave you this, it doesn’t change the fact that the premise that Russia meddling justifies any overzealousness in spying an investigations on any American is a big problem that directly violates the constitution.”

                They land in Mobile and check into their Air BNB, which is secluded from the rest of the city.  Abby hacks into Domingo’s social media account and sees his patterns.  Abby looks up and announces, “With how humid it is here, we may not even need a crematorium.  We can just leave him on the sidewalk and his body will burn that way.”

                Nouno chuckles, “What did this guy do?”

                “Kid, he’s 16.  He crossed a center turn lane and hit a woman head on.  He was supposed to be deported in Arizona but he fled the state when he was supposed to be in court.”

                “Where’s he from?”

                “Guatemala”

                “Oh good, I get to practice my Spanish.”

                Abby picks a point where they can nab Domingo and they head out.  Nouno sits in the shade of a tree as he knows Domingo is going to be walking by soon.  With him, Nouno has a six pack of beer with him.  As Domingo meanders by, Nouno calls out, “Quieres una Cerveza?” Do you want a beer?”

                Domingo turns around and sees a white guy holding out a can of beer.  He walks over and responds, “Si, Gracias.”

                Nouno throw the beer can purposely so it is not catchable and will fall and it does.  While Domingo is distracted by the tossed can, Nouno gets up apologizing and approaching Domingo.  When Domingo bent down to pick up the can verbalizing not to worry, Nouno drilled a sedative into his neck rending him unconscious.  He then retorts in Spanish, “I’m not worried but you should have been.”

                Domingo was not a large kid so Nouno had no problem hoisting him up deadweight and getting him into the car where Abby was waiting.  When Domingo woke up he was surrounded by pictures of Sonya and her family.  He struggled with his restraints and then saw the pictures and reasoned why he was there.  He cried out babbling in Spanish, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to kill her.  It was an accident.”

                Abby smacked him across the face and scolded him to stop whining.  Nouno translated and it seemed to have the effect as Domingo calmed down.  Nouno continued in Spanish, “It’s not really the accident why you’re here.  The problem is you should never have been in the country in the first place.  We’re getting sick of American being killed because illegal immigrants don’t want to come here and fit in.”

                “My home Guatemala is very dangerous.  I would have died if I stayed there”

                “So why not claim asylum in Mexico?”

                “I can do that.  I will if you let me go.”

                “Just how you went to your court date?”

                There was silence as Domingo didn’t know how to respond to this.  Finally he rejoined, “I do take an interest in America.”

                “Prove it.  Why are we speaking Spanish?  Say something in English.”

                Domingo kept with the Spanish, “I’m still learning.”

                “Funny, you know the word ‘asylum’ when you were about to get kicked out but you don’t speak English.  I’ve been to 40 countries.  Almost all of them the people spoke English and that was in their country.  You’re actually here.”

                “I know about the Russia and Trump problem”

                “How did it start?”

                “They spied on him.”

                “With a FISA, yes”

                “I’m very good at dates.  I know every date it was renewed”

                “When was it renewed the second time?”

                “April 7, 2017.”

                Nouno was curious so he looked it up.  He was surprised to find that Domingo was right.  While he was looking, however, there was a lot of media backing up the Times about the FBI lawyer that altered the e-mail.  He feels he needs to say something so he utters, “I’m impressed.  The weird thing is that at this time, the FBI knew that Trump didn’t do anything wrong.  They knew that all the bad stuff they heard was a lie.”

                “Yea, this happens in Guatemala too.  I was sad to see it happening here.”

                “In order to get a FISA renewed, you can’t use old information.  They needed something new.”

                “That’s a good point but I don’t know what the new thing was.”

                Nouno was talking more to himself than to Domingo.  Something was in the back of his mind that he couldn’t shake but knew it was going to click soon.  Finally, it dawned on him.  “Wait, Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer that changed the e-mail, sent the e-mail on April 6, 2017.  If even the New York Times admits that it was doctored and changed then I think we just figured out why.”

                “They knew they couldn’t get a 3rd FISA without something new, so he made sure something new came up.”

                “This angers me.  Carter Page was cooperating so he e-mails the FBI in order to give them information they asked for and Clinesmith doctors and alters it and hands it to the FISC to get the FISA renewed again.  This is crazy.”

                “If an e-mail cooperating with the police is altered to make it look like he’s a spy then there’s no denying that it’s bad.  There’s no good way to look at this.”

                “Yes”

                “So, you see, I’m interested in American things.  I want to be an American.  I just made a mistake and I feel really bad about it.”

                “I can make the pain go away.”

                “How are you going to do that?”

                “Like this” as he stabs him in the chest killing him instantly.  They wrap the body and pack it in the car and then head to the crematorium that they had already scoped out.  As they were driving, they go over a bridge and Nouno commands, “Stop the car”

                Abby does and Nouno gets out and looks over the bridge in the dark night water.  He takes out Domingo’s phone and turns the light on and tosses it over the bridge.  As the light drops, it reveals a bunch of alligators, which are nocturnal.  Abby puts the car in park and comes outside and walks next to him, “What are you doing?”

                “I noticed alligators in the water earlier.  They’re nocturnal.  Let’s just throw him in.”

                “Do we know if the alligators will eat him?”

                “We’ll drench him in fish blood.”

                “Then we’ll have to go to the store.  Why not just go to the crematorium?”

                “Because we have to break in and come back hours later and clean.  This is just quick and easy.”

                “And sloppy”

                “I say we try it.”

                “We can’t drive to the store with a dead body in the trunk.”

                “Let’s just throw him over.  Nobody is going to go into alligator infested water to get him.”

                “Alright, fuck it, let’s change it up.”

                They open the trunk and grab the body and toss him over.  Nouno’s plan was to find a fish to throw over if there was no action but it quickly became unnecessary as splashes and rustling could be heard and even though they couldn’t see it, they knew that Domingo’s body was being torn apart.  They got into their car and drove back.  They get back and turn on the TV and see Fusion GPS owners Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch on Chuck Todd’s show on CNN.  Abby turns to Nouno and smiles knowing he’s about to go off.  Fritsch starts accrediting Steele and talks about how he spent so much time going through the dossier and taking out the false information and keeping the true information.”

                Nouno called out, “Well, he did a shitty job since the dossier was filled with false information.  In fact, I don’t even know of anything in there that was true.”

                “So, he did a bad job” Abby explained

                Nouno tilted his head to the side and looked up pondering something.  He voiced, “Wait, he said that Steele went through the dossier removing false information and keeping valid ones.”

                “Yes”

                “Why would he have to do that if he wrote it?”

                Now it was Abby’s turn to take a pondering look, “That’s actually a good point.”

                “I mean, I always thought that it was Simpson that wrote the dossier and put Steele’s name on it so that the FBI wouldn’t bother verifying it but I think they just confirmed that.”

                As they keep listening, Simpson justifies meeting with Natalie Veselnitskaya, the Russian that met with Trump Jr. in Trump Tower, before and after the infamous Trump tower meeting.  He turns the conversation back to Steele as he justifies this and pronounces, “Steele is a Russian expert and he knew all about Russia.”

                Nouno blurted out, “How?  He hadn’t been there in 25 years.”

                Abby commented, “Why did you think Simpson wrote the dossier before today?”

                “On June 24, 2017, Mary Jacoby, his wife, claimed that Simpson was responsible for the lion’s share of Russia gate.  She exclaimed that Simpson exposed Putin’s control of Trump, Glenn conducted the investigation, Glenn hired Steele and Steele worked for Glenn.”

                “Damn, way to blow his spot.”

                “At the time, they thought they had succeeded in taking down Trump.  She took it down but, as you know, Facebook is forever.”

                “That’s why we milennials stopped using Facebook.”

                “Yea, I know, but for us old people, it’s good to connect with people we have lost contact with.  You are too young to lose contact with people yet.”

                “Hey Hey Hey, I’m 26, there’s people from high school I haven’t spoken to.”

                “Well, I’m 35; I have college friends I lost contact with.”

                “Fine, but maybe Jacoby is just supporting her man.”

                “Not really.  They met when they both worked for the Wall Street Journal in 2007.  They would co-write articles and one article reads just like the dossier except it has “Bob Dole’s” name instead of “Donald Trump’s” but Paul Manafort, and the Russian operatives were all the same.  The article was printed on April 19, 2007 and is titled something like ‘How Ex-Soviets use Lobbyists to Woo Washington.”

                “You’re starting to make sense but I still think it’s a conspiracy.”

                “Nothing will convince you otherwise.”

                Abby and Nouno go to bed and the next day they go to the airport and fly back to Arizona.  On the plane, Abby poses, “What’s the Democracy Integrity Project?”’             

                “It’s a non-profit organization led by Dan Jones, who used to work for Diane Feinstein.  It’s funded by Rob Reiner and George Soros but Soros funds like every liberal organization so it’s not surprising.”

                “According to Glenn Simpson, they are still investigating Russia.”

                “Wait what?” before Nouno was casually answering but now he was focused with his eyes wide, “TDIP is investigating Trump and Russia collusion?”

                “No, Simpson was very clear that it’s not Trump but Russia’s involvement in the western world.”

                “That means the hoax is still on.  Remember what the new Democrat talking point is; since Russia is bad, everything they did, no matter how wrong and unconstitutional, was justified.  This is part of the hoax.”

                “How can it be if they specifically say it’s not about Trump?”

                “Same way when this started Comey said that President Trump wasn’t under investigation when he was.  It’s so he keeps his guard down.”

                “No chance of that.  By now, he knows they’re really fishing for something. “

                “Don’t you find it odd that the New York Times and the Fusion GPS owner are saying the same thing that it’s not Trump but Russia?  They’re saying the same thing except the Times says it about the imminent IG report and Simpson admits it’s an investigation.”

                “Alright”

                “This is a Soros group.  The former Ukraine ambassador, Yovanovitch and the second in charge George Kent admitted during the hearings that they pressured the new prosecutor general not to prosecute Soros’ group AntAC.  Giuliani just went to Ukraine and said that Glenn Simpson was in Ukraine during the writing of the dossier.  This shit happened in Ukraine and you’re telling me another Soros group is looking into Russia.  It’s happening again.  They’re still on the dossier. People are still falling for it.  They’re going to do it again in 2020.”

                ‘You got it all figured out.” Abby opined sarcastically

                “The only thing I don’t know is how Prague comes into this.”

                “Right, we know Michael Coehn had never been to Prague.  Even Mueller didn’t claim that Cohen went to Prague.  That was one of the false things in the dossier.”

                “But Democrats never say anything by accident.  It’s usually to frame a narrative, an outright lie to distract you or, most commonly, projection.  Almost everything the Democrats accuse Republicans of is something they’re guilty of themselves. “

                “So, you’re saying that the Democrats did something in Prague.”

                “I am.  There’s more to this story and it’s in Prague.”

                “You have no evidence of that right?  Nothing you read?”

                “No, it’s just a presumption.”

                “Didn’t you yell at Sondland for that?”

                “I’m not claiming to be an expert and testifying as a star witness in a trial to prosecute a high level official.”

                “I’ll give you that.  You didn’t take your presumption to have repercussions like people go to jail or, you know, get impeached.”

                “Right, so you can’t compare the two.”

                “Alright, time will tell if you’re on to something.”

 

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