In its reports the Trump campaign should list the BLM movement for an in kind donation worth at least half a billion.
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Donald R. McClarey
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The police should go on a sit down strike until they received permission to handle riots the way they should be handled, using deadly force if necessary.
BLM is an evil racist organization that doesn’t actually care a whit about black lives.
Not sure if it was in my college history class back in the late 80’s, or if it was Abba Eban’s History of the Jews, but I heard once that the Eye-for-an-Eye concept was a revolutionary concept in law/justice/policing paradigm.
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I’m beginning to think that it may in fact be the only concept that actually works.
Yep, an eye for an eye was a limitation on vengeance. The song of Lamech in Genesis shows us what existed before an eye for an eye:
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Christ in His call to forgive seventy times seven is the anti-Lamech.
It was revolutionary because it is restraint— previously, it was “you maimed my brother, I kill your whole family.”
Brings things back in line with justice, rather than retribution.
The problem is that these folks have fake, cheap mercy– which is just as unjust as escalating to violence for a slight.
BLM is a return to the pre-eye-for-an-eye form, but they are protected by being able to count on not being held accountable for their actions.
Heck, has any of these riots not been from a criminal having a workplace incident?
Really their “mercy” is not much different from the basic state of affairs. In a feud a family might “forgive” a relative for robbery or whatever else started the feud, but really it was not that they were forgiving him but rather that they didn’t care since he didn’t act against the family. Same thing with moderns: they’ll talk a big game about forgiveness, but the stuff they “forgive” never bothered them in the first place and they’ll never dream of forgiving people they actually feel wronged by.
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As Sheen pointed out– people are “tolerating” things they don’t object to, which isn’t tolerance.
Foxfier: Chesterton made the same point earlier in his father Brown short story
The Mysterious Mourner of Marne.