Burn of 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.
In the space of about seven months when I was in my early 20s I was seriously considering: 1. going to grad school to study early church history, 2. Pursuing a job as a worship leader (back when I was still a protestant) 3. Working with non-profits overseas 4. Converting and becoming a monastic 5. Attending some vocational school/course for graphic design.
I’m kind of glad random people didn’t hold me to every career path I was contemplating.
I think people’s reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse is forever instructive.
When I was 19 I was going to become a General or a teacher of social studies. When I became an attorney at 25 I thought I would do it until something better would come along. Criticizing a young man for looking at various options in life, is akin to criticizing him for being young. The cardinal sin of Kyle Rittenhouse in the eyes of the Left is that he destroyed their riot narrative.
This is Filipkowski in his own words.
https://www.ronfilipkowski.com/about
I’m guessing the U.S. Attorney’s office fired him for cause.
“I think people’s reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse is forever instructive.”
The continual mantra of the Left that he crossed state lines always struck me as bizarre as it had no legal significance, Rittenhouse had lived in Kenosha for a time with his father and had substantial ties with the community. I assume it was an attempt to portray a scared 17 year old kid as some sort of assassin looking for trouble. The Left can never forgive him for destroying the myth of “mostly peaceful” 2020 riots, and helping to bring the riots to a screeching halt once rioters realized this was no longer a safe sport for them.
Among other things, we learned that standard-issue Democrats are of the view that (1) people should be imprisoned for self-defense or (2) people should be imprisoned for self-defense if they use a gun or (3) people should be imprisoned for self-defense if they have the wrong political views or (4) people should be imprisoned for self defense if they are deplorables. All of which tells you that (5) you don’t want to employ liberals as judges, prosecutors, or jurors. I’m sure there must have been a registered Democrat somewhere in the United States who takes the view that self-defense recorded on video from multiple angles actually meets the defense of justification spelled out in statutory law. I don’t recall seeing any commentary to this effect however, and I’m including the people who make political remarks on our Facebook wall.
Another thing we’ve learned is that it’s not hard to find office plankton who are embarrassed by people who put a certain amount of sweat equity and personal risk into defending their society and tend strike attitudes which mix condescension with a denial of causality and personal agency. Dan McLaughlin, I’m looking at you.
Oh my gosh if that’s all they have to say about the kid, then he’s fairing well. They clutch at straws when they have nothing.
Art,
Those people run 100% on feelings. Facts are completely unknown unless they stroke their myths and superstitions. Ergo, their rtantings are encyclopedic of all the logical fallacies known to man.
To wit, what do R’s teenaged ruminations about career choices have to do with anything that matters?
Because it wasn’t about the law, it was about the narrative. If you tell someone you had to drive across state lines for something, then people are going to default from a mental image of being in the middle of one state and driving to the middle of another state. Why? Because if you lived in a border town for which “driving across state lines” was a 2 min effort one wouldn’t bother bringing up that fact because it’s irrelevant. People assume if you mention something that must be because it’s important. So by constantly harping on “cross state lines” the media paints in the public’s head this image of Kyle making an exceptional and extra effort to go to this protest. It biases people to think of him as “looking for trouble.”
“But that’s not true” I hear you (well, the reader not necessarily Don) say. Yeah, that’s what we’re all on about the Media lying. Because as soon as you learn how to write and tell stories and certain common tricks and sleight of hand tells, you see it in everything the media does. It’s how they constantly deliver stories in a way that is “technically” the truth, but spun and delivered in such a way to get the audience to believe the exact opposite of what happened.
Don’t ever think the media cares about the law. The media are lawyers arguing in the court of public opinion. So imagine the most scummy, immoral, unscrupulous attorney you can, and place them in a courtroom with no formal rules or judge present to hold them account. That’s the media.
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