Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

The events of this week reveal the new standard. Like sharks to a whale carcass, our elites routinely feast upon precarious situations in other nations: The Podesta Group, Hunter Biden, and others were content to make a buck off the tensions in Ukraine along with Paul Manafort, just as the Clintons and others were happy to take tens of millions of dollars from Russian oligarchs. We all know that Manafort would be sitting in a house in Malibu right now with the same immunity deal the likes of Podesta, Biden, and the Clintons apparently possess if only he had never decided to work for Donald Trump.

Recall that the supposed original sin of the entire Russian-collusion gambit was that when approached (apparently mostly by agents of the United States government working for President Obama and friends) then-candidate Trump or his team were interested in recovering the emails that Hilary Clinton unwisely and illegally sent and then deleted from her private server so that no one could read them. There would be plenty of reasons for Americans and the U.S. government itself to seek out these emails, of course, if only to determine to what extent they threatened national security—never mind the power and wealth of the foundation engaged in international money collection that her husband ran while she was Secretary of State.

But while the supposed reasons for it change every week, the Ukraine fiasco reveals the real underlying cause of the Left’s outrageously hypocritical march towards impeachment. The ruling class is now effectively saying to President Trump: “We know that domestically we have nothing to fear from the media and the law—so how dare you ask other countries about us! You must be impeached for this crime and this crime alone—asking other countries about our wrongdoing! Only an insane or evil person would do this!”

Let's play a game.

Trump's "Photograph" video is being struck on Twitter due to "Copyright" claims ignoring Fair Use.

Download the video from any tweet using this link and repost it: https://t.co/Cik1c0k1Gz pic.twitter.com/fd352HBCWB

— They call me Ralph (@NewRandomGeek) October 3, 2019

“This is war. And it’s going to get ugly” https://t.co/NVi1idzMY1

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 29, 2019

“Exposure to diversity is the catalyst that will ignite tolerance, acceptance and understanding.” — @HunterMcGrady https://t.co/3Zj0j2Xdld pic.twitter.com/bQCLi5lTCV

— Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) May 8, 2019

I said, I can’t possibly imagine—

I can’t believe the hijab burkini didn’t put them back into solvency. Go figure. pic.twitter.com/MkxyVrD11q

— Patriots SBLIV 🇺🇸 (@PatriotsSBLIII) October 3, 2019

Ahem! I said I can’t possibly imagine how Sports Illustrated might have alienated their core—

The real cause of these abuses is failure of university trustees to meet their fiduciary obligations, which in the case of public schools is to taxpayers. Weak boards allow university administrators to limit oversight of admissions. The administrators are allowed to see admissions criteria, but not the trustees who are supposed to be in charge. Board members who want admission favors for their own children or their friends go along, while others turn their heads to avoid the wrath of powerful alumni and politicians who benefit from the workarounds.

I witnessed this while serving as a member of the University of Texas System Board of Regents. My actions to expose the admissions scandal at UT-Austin, our flagship campus, resulted in impeachment hearings against me by the state legislature and even efforts to convince a grand jury to indict me. While neither worked, the university continues to hide all of the documents that would have exposed the scandal. Even the FBI knows only a fraction of the real corruption.

Details of the larger problem at the Austin campus were uncovered in a private investigation commissioned by our then-Chancellor and a minority of Board members. The problem is, our university president teamed up with a new Chancellor and the state’s most powerful elected officials to keep the findings sealed. The un-redacted report, which explains how hundreds of unqualified students manage to occupy spots in UT programs—including our law school—is locked in a courtroom after my lawsuit to make it public was challenged by the university. Every one of those students owes his or her presence on campus to a politician who controls state spending at the university, or to a well-connected donor or faculty member.

(Hat tip: Chuck DeVore.)