Mueller’s Danse Macabre At Arrest of Stone
Strong-arm Tactic Shocks American Decency
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | January 31, 2019
Last week’s arrest of Roger Stone at the behest of Special Counsel Robert Mueller incites me to recall Joseph Welch’s famous question of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no decency?â€
Sending 29 FBI agents in bullet-proof protective gear and brandishing submachine guns at 6 a.m. to the house where Mr. Stone — who is 66 and does not own a firearm — lives with his wife, two dogs, and three cats, to effect another shakedown arrest for alleged untruths uttered by Mr. Stone to a congressional committee since Mr. Mueller was installed in his totalitarian sinecure, was disgusting and un-American.
The charges could have been laid — and if there is the slightest truth to them, should have been laid — by contacting Mr. Stone’s lawyer during normal business hours and asking him to produce his client for charging and processing. So slight was the risk of flight (Mr. Stone claims his passport has expired), the judge set bail at an easily manageable (for him) $250,000, which was produced at once.
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