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Destroying a Man’s Life
What is the value of a man’s soul? What is the worth of a man’s reputation? Most of us would say that both are priceless: the first is a gift from G-d, the second created by the toil and sweat of the person who lives a productive and honorable life.
But the Left believes the destruction of a reputation and soul is inconsequential if they determine the cause is just.
And thus they have decided to sacrifice Brett Kavanaugh.
Judge Kavanaugh was a man who had worked as a public servant most of his life, dedicating his efforts to being of service to others. His spotless character elicited sneers from the Left, which called him a choir boy. His years of coaching girls, nurturing not only male but female friendships, and hiring women to work for him were meaningless in the face of the Left’s desire to fatally malign him. This entire disgusting display by the Left shows how deeply the secular has poisoned our society.
Dennis Prager was quoted as saying the following about our good and bad deeds:
Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.
By all accounts — literally all — Brett Kavanaugh’s moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family and commitment to community few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.
And yet the Left says his reputation is worthless.
The Bible teaches that destroying a man’s reputation is as bad as killing or stealing or lying: we kill a man’s soul when we degrade him; we steal his credibility and honor when we promote unsubstantiated slurs; we create a living hell for him when he is forced to live in a culture that lies about him and his contributions to society.
Brett Kavanaugh is not the only one whose reputation is damaged. His wife, Ashley, his two daughters, Margaret and Liza, are wounded, perhaps irreparably; his parents are devastated by the vitriol and slurs against him; his colleagues, friends—in fact anyone whose life has touched his life have been dirtied and wounded. Every person in the media, every Senator who has not promised to support him against this travesty, every human being who not only condemned him before he originally testified to the committee, but in the face of the absence of facts are not persuaded that he has been unfairly judged on the sexual assault of Christine Ford, have committed not only a terrible injustice, but will carry the sin of their behavior for the rest of their lives. For any of them who may be religious, they have sinned against Kavanaugh and his family and against G-d Himself. And there is no making amends.
I found this story that I believe speaks volumes to where we find ourselves as a nation in how we have allowed the Left to destroy Brett Kavanaugh:
A Chassidic tale vividly illustrates the danger of improper speech: A man went about the community telling malicious lies about the rabbi. Later, he realized the wrong he had done, and began to feel remorse. He went to the rabbi and begged his forgiveness, saying he would do anything he could to make amends. The rabbi told the man, ‘Take a feather pillow, cut it open, and scatter the feathers to the winds.’ The man thought this was a strange request, but it was a simple enough task, and he did it gladly. When he returned to tell the rabbi that he had done it, the rabbi said, ‘Now, go and gather the feathers. Because you can no more make amends for the damage your words have done than you can recollect the feathers.’
Where will we find the Constitutional traditionalists who are willing to risk having their lives destroyed?
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If you are on twitter, seek enlightenment —-> @Shabbosgoy <—– I’m dead serious. Retired lawyer. 100% Jesuit educated back when that was a good thing.
When Trump came on the scene, I hated him for good reason. Developers are inflationists. “I’m a low interest rate man.” But the fact is, everyone is an inflationist. His ability to put up a building on budget and on time is nice but that really isn’t the type of productivity that spreads and disperses like what a factory does or what an inventor does. He’s in bed with the government because he has to be. His family got extremely loaded because they levered up at the exact right time in the birth rate cycle, and the monetary cycle. Trust me I know about this stuff. But this isn’t productivity, which is how most people survive as FICA slaves in a fair world, it would be the only thing that mattered. But that is not our system.
I hate that he lacks civic knowledge and civic experience. His lack of foreign-policy knowledge, is dangerous. But so far so good.
The other thing is cultural Marxism, critical theory, and the media. DO YOU HAVE A BETTER PLAN?
Trump is okay. That is the reality.
Listening to Joe Digenova and Victoria Toensing on Sean Hannity right now. They are pointing out that Kamila Harris who was the attorney general of California and a prosecutor absolutely knows she isn’t behaving well in the Kavanaugh hearings. Victor Davis Hanson said the other night that these hearings have always been informally operated under constitutional principles. Justice and due process. Now they aren’t. Why is that? It’s because
Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™
Being an upright citizen just means you’re just going to get run over.
P.S. Supposedly an integral part of Kamila Harris’s career was sleeping with Willie Brown.
My bet: a small Red wave in the Senate, with a Red Ripple (narrow hold) in the House. But for the Kavanaugh smear campaign, I’d have said Red Ripple in the Senate and unpredictable cross currents in the House. The Democrats tipped their hand and let their crazy show in the Senate, telegraphing what to expect in the House. They are comfortable with this, indeed, a writer for a major publication has just laid out a plan to stop Kavanaugh now, or delegitimize him on the Court, or delegitimize the Court and pack it with two more leftists, to permanently set the Court’s direction.
From your lips to the electorate’s ears, my friend.
(A GOP hold on the House would be earth-shakingly yuuuge.)
The day after it happens the press and Democrats would be explaining why it was inevitable, and that the Republicans really, really, underperformed expectations for the Republican Party, and that it is proof Trump is hurting the Republicans. Nothing to see. Move along.
Meanwhile, Mueller, Rotten Rod Rosenstein, and the crew will be in full Fawn Hill mode. It seems that we will either see the left triumph, sweeping aside all restraints, or we may just put a few just men and women into positions to impose accountability and decency (on pain of career or criminal penalties).
I very much hope the Republicans keep the House, not least because it will be such an ahistorical event as to poke an enormous finger into the collective eye of the left.
But if the Democrats reclaim the House, and assuming Kavanaugh is confirmed this week (and a failure to confirm Kavanaugh will actually strike me as a more painful loss than will a loss of the House), then here’s something to look forward to: the Democrats simultaneously moving to impeach President Trump and Justice Kavanaugh.
I think that would play very poorly with the American people, leading into 2020.
I may have to quote you on this. Out of context of course.
Not this one though.
Hey, don’t bogart my sobriquet!
I agree with all your points, Hank. Kavanaugh is key, the House would be great, though. I’m hoping that once again, the polls are way off and that we are all surprised by the good outcomes. Fingers crossed.
I respond between clients. I had an emergency divorce hearing this afternoon with very angry upset people. The lawyers had to pull their clients away from each other. They have 15 years of resentments, and lying to each other. Ugh.
I agree with you that it is reprehensible how nominations to the Supreme Court have been politicized. The press and Democrats have lost it over abortion. MSNBC other than Morning Joe has gone crazy. It is all about abortion.
Justice Kennedy voted to affirm Roe v. Wade in Casey v. Planned Parenthood. With Kavanaugh (or ACB) there will be 5 votes to overturn Roe. I previously thought that the best course of events would be to accept cert. on a state that had a 20 week abortion limit, and then to later accept cert. to overrule Roe entirely. No longer. I have had it with the Democrats and press and how they act in bad faith. This fight is going to keep going on as long as Roe is around. I now think that the best thing to do is for the Supreme Court to overrule Roe asap, and stop this hysteria. The northeastern and west coast states, as well as Illinois will make abortion available at any point, Colorado and a few other states will make abortion available up to 20-28 weeks, and the rest of the states will ban abortion all together. (Arizona might be a 20 week state.)
The Dems have pushed me into Trump’s arms which is not where I expected to be. Clifford, it is funny how we are now on the same page. At least for now.
Nah. They’d be yelling “Gerrymandering!” about 15 times a second and coming up with new Deibold conspiracy theories about how Trump and his evil henchmen someone fixed the votes in key races, while at the same time claiming the huge winning margins for their candidates in Deep Blue states or congressional districts showed where the sentiment of the American voters really is (a few might be thinking to themselves their Kavanaugh tactics managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, but they won’t say in publicly, because the demanded conventional wisdom would be the Democrats failed to pick up the House and Senate because they weren’t progressive and strident enough against conservatives, Kavanaugh and Trump).
ANALYSIS: True. The Democrats act in bad faith.
If the GOP drops all legal threats on abortion everywhere, the world instantly becomes a better place. Just make the moral case.
Planned Parenthood does 60% of the abortions and they literally have abortion quotas because the have so much overhead to cover. Gee, how did that happen?
Mises.org is right about everything.
You know, Gary, you and I have always been writing past each other, I always felt. We agreed, basically, on Trump, but I always thought you were too extreme in your rhetoric. Now, I think we’ve gone past each other again. Trump will never be in my arms. He is still the same person he’s been all his life. And I don’t like that kind of a person, especially in the Presidency.
But here’s where we agree: We must always set our sights on the prize of the moment. And the prize now is getting Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Court. And, at the same time, pay the Democrats back for their disgusting tactics to keep this man off the bench. I agree with Hugh Hewitt, who said we shouldn’t vote for any Democrat at any level (unfortunately, I had to in my home town, because the Republicans didn’t nominate anyone). So, until after Kavanaugh is confirmed, and until after midterms are over, I would advise any conservative who agrees with us on Presidential actions to table that for now, in favor making sure those blankety-blank Democrats deserve everything that’s coming to them for trying to destroy a good man.
By the way, I would add that what Brett said to the Democrats on the committee pales in comparison to the lack of respect they showed him. He should be given a medal for being so restrained.
Embrace the power of “And”.
George:
You challenged me on. the existence of a Ruling Class a while back. I just thought of this.
America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
Angelo Codivilla is awesome.
Up until the latest Fox polls came out (putting Blackburn ahead again in TN), the RealClearPolitics average had the Senate at 1 Democratic pickup.
The governor’s races are not looking as good for the GOP as the Senate. There’s room for a little change. Here’s what is interesting me: every poll I’m seeing reported says that support for Kavanaugh’s confirmation surges when people are told the allegations are unconfirmed.
In other words, that means that there’s a significant number of fair-minded people who don’t know what is going on. There’s a job to be done.
I would be really tempted to vote for Kevin de Leon if I lived in California right now. I don’t know if I’d do it. It’s not like he’s opposing what Feinstein did, he’s criticized her for being too soft. It wouldn’t give California a better senator; on some things he’d be worse, as I understand. But if, even in California, Republicans can punish you for doing such a thing, it would establish a deterrent of sorts.
I think it is funny that you believe this is about abortion. The Democrats can care less about abortion except it’s use as a wedge issue and the pipelines of money it provides. If the Right caved on abortion, It would just be a different issue that they would use the same tactics on.
I suspect that isn’t true. I think this is a unique issue for the left. I think gun rights is the closest parallel on the right, though still without the fanaticism associated with abortion.
That is fine but you are wrong. It is only valuable to carve womyn away from the GOP and a way to funnel government money into the party. Sure there are true believers but mostly it is about power, money, virtue signaling.
Well, you could be right, of course. Tell you what: if your equally emphatic assertion that Kavanaugh will not be confirmed proves to be correct, I’ll come back and reexamine this one as well. ;)
I don’t view my own change in thinking post-2016 election as being in Trump’s camp so much as Trump being in the camp of the America I want to live in. Dems have shown:
If Dems get levers of power we have Feinstein running Senate nomination confirmations, and in the House Nadler in charge of Oversight investigations (he vows to investigate Kavanaugh further if Dems in charge), and Maxine Waters chairing finance.
Actually, abortion and gun rights have this parallel: They both involves Governmental Action. Abortion to tell people that the government says that killing a baby is all right, and gun rights meaning that the government will tell you that you can’t allow guns. This is what the Left ultimately wants: To control our behavior from what Rush Limbaugh said once was the womb to the tomb.
I would hope that this knowledge would shut people like Tom Nichols up finally.
I do live in California, and I am on your wavelength.
@susanquinn The dates are 12/1 through 12/8. We’ll be in Fort Lauderdale the night before (11/30) . . .
I agree, but I believe it’s playing poorly with the American people now.
“The Left” is a broad group. Many on the left have acted as you’ve described — despicably. The same way many on the right worked to paint Obama as evil. I think there’s plenty room to believe that many on the left also believe Ford and haven’t participated in the Avenatti related shenanigans.