EP43: The Establishment Strikes Back, The Steve Stockman Story - Gracearchy with Jim Babka

When Voting Changes Things, They Make It Illegal Campaign finance laws are passed by incumbents. Obvious, right? But why? Claim One: Campaign finance laws are primarily designed to protect incumbents from challengers. But very few people understand that... Claim Two: Campaign finance laws also exist to destroy any troublemakers who manage to get elected - to make them a byword or notorious example of what happens to those who refuse to get "in line" with the establishment. Meet former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, from Texas -- he joins us on this episode of Gracearchy with Jim Babka. Rep. Stockman was a self-admitted troublemaker for the establishment. Steve alleges that campaign finance laws were used to send him to prison for the rest of his life, plus place him and his wife in permanent financial debt. In the previous episode, we explained how and why it was impossible to use federal campaign law to turn the 34 charges against Donald Trump into a single felony. I don't care what you think of Trump, but... Don't overlook the fact that they're using anti-constitutional, pro-establishment campaign finance laws to go after him! There are dramatic overlaps between Stockman's story and what Trump is going through right now. You can tune in and judge for yourself: Is Stockman's story significant evidence for my second claim that the establishment uses campaign finance laws to make examples out of, even destroy non-collaborators? And if either one of my two claims is true, what are the implications for this scheme they call "democracy?" Every episode is also on these podcasting five platforms: Pandora * Stitcher * iHeart * Google Podcasts * Spotify SHOW NOTES: The Raymond Hulser information that Mr. Stockman referenced might be this: https://www.judicialwatch.org/democratic-senator-sought-justice-department-irs-criminal-prosecutions-conservatives-2013/ Bill Protzmann is your moderator. ZeroAggressionProject.org is the sponsor. Be grace-full to each other. We are grateful to Sergio at https://www.youtube.com/@KeysofMoonMusic for our intro theme. ► https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10500501 or you can purchase his music on BandCamp: ► https://keysofmoon.bandcamp.com/ ► If you have any questions please feel free to write to Sergio at: serjo.de.lua.music@gmail.com