Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Have to agree with that quick summary. It’s exactly what has happened. And now we are told to “unify”, which really means “shut up and submit.”
“Put not your trust in princes” sure has taken on new meaning for me lately.
“In less than 12 months they closed our businesses, forced us to wear muzzles, kept us from our families, killed off our sports, burned down our cities, forcibly seized power, and shut down our speech.”
Let’s look at that list. The first four items raise the question, who are “they”? Mostly governors, some Republicans and some Democrats. We can argue whether the rules they established were (a) legal, and (b) appropriate. Some weren’t. But government has historically had the function of imposing emergency restrictions. Anyway, if this is supposed to be a list of serious offenses, we have to drop the sports one, and there were very few situations in which we were forced to wear masks or kept from families.
Left-wingers burned our cities. Unquestionably true. More than that, by cordoning off sections of their cities and declaring independence, they staged insurrections before any right-wing faction did.
The Democrats didn’t forcibly seize power. This past election was a lot sloppier than usual, and it may have been more corrupt, but the Trump campaign consistently failed to make the case that the election was stolen, across dozens of jurisdictions.
Did they shut down our speech? Somewhat, but this is a comment on an article about a retweet, so not much.
Was there a coup attempt? I think technically it was an insurrection attempt, but it did happen, and it was led by a right-wing faction. I don’t care who tries to blame me for that; I’ve been a conservative Republican activist and voter longer than probably anyone who was at the Capitol that day, and I didn’t do it. But it happened. Republicans are still, in general and in policy prescriptions, the superior party. But we have to admit our crazier factions no longer have higher moral ground than the Democrats’.
But government has historically had the function of imposing emergency restrictions.
What has transpired would have seemed draconian in the civil war.
This past election was a lot sloppier than usual, and it may have been more corrupt,
Stolen is the word Pinky. Fraud on this scale in a Presidential election is unprecedented.
Was there a coup attempt? I think technically it was an insurrection attempt, but it did happen,
The word you are searching for is a “mostly peaceful protest” or a minor riot. This was neither a coup attempt nor an insurrection, and these are merely propaganda terms by the Left to justify depriving fellow Americans of civil liberties.
How many jurisdictions can you name? So far as I can tell, every instance the case has been dismissed without being heard by latches, standing or some other doctrine.
I guess technically he has “consistently failed to make the case” when he was never never allowed to make the case in the first place.
Mostly governors, some Republicans and some Democrats.
“Some” Republicans.
“Some.”
Almost as fair as describing a huge protest where, counter to expectations from the past year, and in spite of organizers of those violent protests being there, they didn’t burn anything down.
Guess they should’ve set the building on fire so that they can qualify as “mostly peaceful.”
Sullivan is known for taking part in protests and riots connected with the Black Lives Matter movement, which was founded by Marxist organizers.
In July, he was arrested in Utah for alleged rioting, making a threat of violence, and criminal mischief due to his part in a protest that resulted in the shooting of a motorist.
“As a protest organizer, John Sullivan is heard talking about seeing the shooting, looking at the gun, and seeing smoke coming from it. John did not condemn the attempted murder nor attempt to stop it nor aide in its investigation by police,” the police affidavit said, Desert News reported.
“An armed revolution is the only way to bring about change effectively,” he said in a Dec. 28 tweet.
On Jan. 2, Sullivan wrote in a tweet: “[Expletive] The System – Time To Burn It All Down. #blm #antifa #burn #[expletive]thesystem #abolishcapitalism #abolishthepolice #acab #[expletive]trump.”
Sullivan also uses the moniker “Jayden X” online and is the founder of “Insurgence USA,” which describes itself as started “in 2020 in response to the Gorge Floyd tragedy,” referring to the Minnesota man who died after ingesting a potentially lethal amount of Fentanyl and was then pinned down during an arrest with a police officer kneeling on his neck.
The aim of Insurgence USA is “to empower and uplift black and indigenous voices” and “build local powers to enable the community to intervene in violence enacted by the state and government vigilantes,” the description of its YouTube channel says.
In his graphic video from the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, Sullivan can be heard saying “let’s burn this [expletive] down,” before entering the building.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/self-proclaimed-revolutionary-eggs-on-capitol-intruders-as-he-records-them-publishes-video_3649617.html
Nate, actually, that’s what I was thinking of. The campaign made mostly procedural arguments, which got shot down on timing. As far as I recall, they never presented a case that an election should be overturned on the basis of documented fraud.
Foxfier – I didn’t say that they tried to burn down the Capitol, or that the BLM rioters were mostly peaceful. I don’t care if some left-wing activist was onhand egging on the Capitol rioters. You seem to have your arguments lined up to respond to a lefty, but I’m a right-winger who’s disgusted at the violence of the left and, a few days now, the right.
There’s a saying that goes back to the French Revolution, “there are no enemies on the left”. That kind of thinking is why the left always gets worse. The right has to recognize that people who storm the Capitol are enemies.
Did they shut down our speech? Somewhat, but this is a comment on an article about a retweet, so not much.
Saying this at a time when literally thousands of people have been purged from social media, including the president of the United States, is beyond disingenuous.
They haven’t completely removed every single dissenting voice from the face of the planet, so they can’t be completely against free speech. Is that really the take you want to make?
When you are inevitably torn apart by the left, since they will do that to everyone who isn’t hyper woke, I won’t shed a tear.
Rudolph – I’m not being disingenuous. I think the control of social media is a serious thing. Not only do the big companies follow the left, they regularly get called before Congress and lectured for not being activist enough. It’s a bad problem. It doesn’t qualify as shutting down our speech, and it doesn’t balance out an attack on the Capitol, but it’s serious. I could name a dozen other serious things that ae happening now, and I’m sure the new administration will bring more. But if I then say “and they say we shouldn’t attack the Capitol”, that’s disingenuous.
No, Pinky, I look at the claims you put forward, recognize that one side is held to perfection while the other need only say pretty words a third of the time, and reject them.
I also notice you didn’t actually hit on any of the objections or issues pointed out with your uneven comparison.
Pinky,
You’re the type of person who would respond to a mandate that conservatives no longer be allowed into grocery stores with a complaint that saying that this “starves people” is untrue because they can still pay their neighbors for some of their groceries. I don’t know if you really are that dense or if you are just in full concern troll mode. But either way, as I said before, I won’t shed a tear when you inevitably anger someone on the left and all of your water carrying doesn’t do a thing for you.