Too Bad Biden Can Not Trade Maria Butina for Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2022-07-29 at 00:27:16 )

Too Bad Biden Can Not Trade Maria Butina for Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger!

The mainstream media is reporting that President Biden is offering a trade deal to the Russians. If they will give him Brittney Griner, he will give them Viktor Bout.

Who is Viktor Bout???

He is an international Russian arms dealer who got caught in a sting operation orchestrated by the DEA (yes, the Drug Enforcement Administration) in Thailand, where he agreed to sell arms to what he believed was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC). Since United States officials have labeled FARC a terrorist organization, their sting operation, they claimed, established that Bout conspired to kill Americans. He is now serving a 25-year sentence in a federal penitentiary.

But there is another factor to consider in the DEAs decision to target Bout with a sting operation more than 8,000 miles away from American shores. Given that the United States government is the biggest arms dealer in the world (something that many in the U.S. gun-control crowd never object to), it is quite possible that they went after Bout because they did not like the competition.

Meanwhile, United States officials continue to claim that Ms Griner is a "political hostage," notwithstanding the fact that she pled guilty to a violation of Russias drug laws. At the same time, those same United States officials continue to brutally enforce their own vicious drug laws here in the United States, especially against blacks.

It seems to me that if we are going to talk about "political hostages," it is worth revisiting the case of Maria Butina, the Russian woman who United States officials targeted during the Donald Trump administration, when the extreme anti-Russia animus was getting into full swing, especially at the Pentagon, CIA, State Department, Congress, and the U.S. mainstream press.

What did Ms Butina do to earn the enmity of United States officials?? Did she spy on America? Did she violate the old World War I espionage law by releasing national-security state secrets through Julian Assanges Wikileaks??

Well, no, not exactly. What she did was "infiltrate" the National Rifle Association and other conservative groups.

Oh my gosh!!

What greater threat to "national security" than that??

Just imagine: infiltrating the NRA! What could be worse than that??

By the way, it is probably worth mentioning that when Ms Butina was in her early 20s in Russia, she founded a pro-gun rights organization called Right to Bear Arms. That sure sounds nefarious to me!

But that is not all.

According to the New York Times, she tried to establish a "back channel of communication" with American politicians at something called the "National Prayer Breakfast" in Washington. And she attended the breakfast not just once but twice!

Well that certainly sound ominous, does it not?

Imagine: A pro-gun rights young Russian woman infiltrating a prayer breakfast attended by American politicians. It does not get much more dangerous than that. After all, let us admit it: While she claimed that she was simply trying to get better relations between the United States and Russia, her real motive for attending that prayer breakfast could have been to persuade American Christians to embrace "godless communism"!

United States officials ultimately targeted Ms Butina with criminal prosecution for her nefarious actions. After all, let us not forget that the Russians are coming to get us again, just like they supposedly were doing throughout the Cold War. It was clear, at least to United States officials and Cold War deadeners, that Ms Butina had to be an advance agent for the coming Russian takeover of the United States.

The feds convicted Ms Butina for being an "unregistered agent" of the Reds, I mean, the Russians, and meted out an 18-month jail sentence to her. Never mind that she denied ever working for the Russian government, and never mind that the Russian government denied ever employing her.

Given the renewed extreme anti-Russia animus that characterized United States officials during their Cold War racket, it was clear to them that Ms Butinas attendance at NRA events and conservative prayer breakfasts was sufficient proof that she was serving as an advance troop for the upcoming Russian invasion, much as Martin Luther King, Jr. was deemed to be a front agent for the Russian commies during the Cold War.

After serving her jail sentence, Ms Butina was deported back to Russia. Too bad. If she were still in jail, United States officials could have offered to trade her for Ms Griner. My hunch is that the Russians would have instead insisted on Viktor Bout.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!