Unmentioned however in the film is Cohn's connection with the very way our country (and the world) is run. It's largely a blackmail game connected not merely with money and power, but with sex, pedophilia, blackmail and complete disregard for truth or moral principle. In fact, Whitney Webb's four-part study of pedophile-racketeer, Jeffrey Epstein is called just that: "Government by Blackmail."
And right at its heart, we find Trump mentor, Roy Cohn, listed prominently among figures like the Mafia kingpin Myer Lansky, and Lew Rosenstiel (of Schenley distilleries). For decades following World War II, they were real powers behind mayors, governors, congressmen, senators, presidents, and (yes) behind the world's remaining kings and potentates, along with assorted church officials.
In fact, according to Webb, all during the '70s and '80s, Rosenstiel, Lansky's close friend, regularly threw what his fourth wife (of five) called "blackmail parties." The photos and recordings gathered there long kept Lansky out of trouble from the federal government. They also delivered entire cities to Mafia control in the post WWII era. In the end, Lansky blackmailed numerous top politicians, army officers, diplomats and police officials. He had photos of FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover in drag and performing homosexual acts.
Again, according to Webb's research, Rosenstiel's protegee and successor as blackmailer-in-chief was Roy Cohn himself who was closely associated with the Mafia bosses referenced prominently in "Where's My Roy Cohn," as well as with J. Edgar Hoover and the Reagan White House. (Nancy Reagan even phoned Cohn to thank him for enabling the election of her husband.)
Simultaneously, Cohn took on the central role in the blackmail pedophile hustle Lansky and Rosenstiel had started. As usual, its main targets were politicians often interacting with child "prostitutes."
That was the real source of Cohn's power. So were his dear friends in high places including (besides Clinton, the Reagans and Trump) Barbara Walters, Rupert Murdoch, Alan Dershowitz, Andy Warhol, Calvin Klein, Chuck Schumer, William Safire, William Buckley, William Casey, and top figures in the Catholic Church.
It's those latter figures that connect Cohn's pedophile ring as inherited by Jeffery Epstein even with the Church's child abuse scandal. It directly involved the aforementioned "American pope," Francis Cardinal "Mary" Spellman of New York, and Cardinal Theodore "Uncle Teddy" McCarrick of Washington D.C. Father Bruce Ritter's Covenant House (a multi-million-dollar charity for homeless and run-away boys and girls) was also deeply implicated. In fact, when Ritter's involvement in sex acts with his underage wards came to light, it was secular powers more than ecclesiastical forces that rallied to his defense.
Right-Wing Coup and Presidential Impeachment
All of that leads me back to where I started to the right-wing coup d'e'tat whose final straw debunked any pretense of democracy that may have been persuasive to some before impeachment proceedings put them completely to rest. "Where's My Roy Cohn" showed the profound extent of the take-over in question never far distanced from predominantly male sexual perversion.
Yes, we all know about such depravity within the Catholic Church all the way up the chain of command. But the Cohn film along with the ancillary Epstein revelations it ignores reveal the centrality of that debauchery to standard operating procedure among government officials in the United States and across the world. It's evidently what they do.
Am I exaggerating? Go back to the above list of Cohn's and Epstein's "friends." See for yourself: they include presidents, princes, prelates, professors, pundits, pushers, and publishers. All of them have always had a lot to fear from the tapes and videos made by Cohn. But the same holds true for the ones confiscated from Epstein's special safe, and from the still unpublished manifestoes of passengers on Epstein's "Lolita Express" to the man's "Orgy Island." Additionally, there's remains a lot to learn from the testimony of Epstein's procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell. Inexplicably the latter remains at large and allegedly un-locatable by international agencies possessing the world's most sophisticated technology.
In other words, what we know about connections between Cohn, Epstein, the Mafia, CIA, DOJ, White House, and church officials represent the mere tip of an iceberg whose continued submersion seems assiduously assured by the agencies involved, by Britain's royals, and other powerful entities -- all aided and abetted by an entirely cooperative MSM.
[And no: it's not baseless "conspiracy reasoning" to implicate the deep state officials just mentioned not in the face of Jeffrey Epstein's mysterious "suicide" whose suspicious circumstances (within a specifically federal prison) include transgression of standard protocols for prisoners on suicide watch, missing surveillance tapes, sleeping guards, unexplained screams reported by fellow inmates as coming from Epstein's cell, and lack of follow-up by the MSM.]
In other words, it's not just that our country has been taken over by right-wing mobsters. No, it's much more than that: our very world is run by gangsters, pedophiles, blackmailers, and their enablers with Donald Trump its most recent and blatant evidentiary manifestation of anti-democratic policies.
Ignoring the rest of the world for a moment, consider what we've learned from the impeachment process about the extent of America's de facto coup under Donald Trump whose criminal actions have gutted the Constitution of the United States at its core. Thus:
- There no longer remains a separation of powers.
- An indicted executive can control his own trial.
- Subpoenas mean nothing to the reigning executive. By his decree alone, he can override summonses, forbidding those receiving them from appearing in court.
- Impeachment "jurors" can embrace unmitigated bias with impunity announcing their judgment well before the trial's commencement.
- The presiding judge even as he acknowledges the appearance of his court's politicization can with straight face permit a "trial" without evidence or witnesses.
- Thus, prosecutors (i.e. the very House of Representatives) are left entirely impotent.
The hell of it is that these are all merely the latest developments in a criminal, unconstitutional, and anti-democratic process that has been in motion for nearly half a century. It has attacked the very pillars of democracy including the Supreme Court, public education, the mainstream media (MSM), and the Catholic Church not to mention the Christian fundamentalists who constitute the heart of the Republican Party. It's no wonder that Noam Chomsky has identified the latter as the most dangerous organization in the history of the world.
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