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Quote of the Day: When We Fail to Protest
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” — Elie Wiesel
As our Constitution and our rights are continually challenged, Elie Wiesel’s words ring truer than ever. Our protests against infringement on the First and Second Amendments are passionate and ongoing. We must speak out for our right to be heard, or we will be silenced by those who hate what we say and believe. We must fight for our right to bear arms, or those who resent us will remove our ability to defend ourselves. Every day the media broadcasts stories of people who want to rewrite the Constitution to push their own power and agenda and disempower the rest of us.
We also must protest when we see illegal, immoral and despicable actions that are so outrageous that we simply can’t believe them: the betrayal of the United States by the intelligence agencies. Although I’ve seen Republicans delving into these violations of our own government, we must protest and investigate more than ever before. Don’t think that the Democrats are just adamant about continuing their investigations to take down Donald Trump. They are also prepared to take down Conservatives, Republicans, and our entire country if need be. They are relentless, but we must be even more relentless.
I’m counting on Devin Nunes, Lindsay Graham, and the Republicans on their committees (even though Nunes is not in charge) to fight ceaselessly to get to the truth. I’m appealing to AG Bill Barr to see that the criminals are brought to justice. These blatant attacks on our rule of law cannot go unpunished.
We must never fail to protest the attacks on our Republic, from within or without.
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This has been a problem for a long time, WC, and it looks less appealing all the time. I can’t say I blame those conservatives who don’t want to get mucked up in the ugliness. If they go in, they will likely be alone in their endeavors and suffer greatly at the hands of the Left and Right.
Great Post Susan.
“We also must protest when we see illegal, immoral and despicable actions that are so outrageous that we simply can’t believe them: the betrayal of the United States by the intelligence agencies. Although I’ve seen Republicans delving into these violations of our own government, we must protest and investigate more than ever before.”
That is really the issue of the day. If we fail to investigate what appears to a massive illegal conspiracy to unseat or totally derail a Presidency, you can kiss our Republic good bye .
If we fail, such conspiracies will become commonplace and our world will descend into chaos.
From Rabbi Dov Fischer from “When Justice Is Corrupted at the Top, a Society Becomes Corrupted Downstream at the American Spectator:
“When a society’s justice system breaks down, the society collapses. When justice is corrupted, the society devolves into chaos. Justice is the foundation of the earth, and a nation’s population needs to know that, at some bottom-line fundamental level, the rules by which all are supposed to play are applied and enforced evenly, fairly. The image of the masked lady of justice holding the scales is evocative: justice must be blind. It may not favor the rich over the poor, the strong over the weak, the favored over the unfavored. When people truly believe that they cannot get justice within the law, chaos inevitably ensues as law-breaking becomes commonplace — because there is no justice.”
Clifford:
“DOJ must aggressively investigate and prosecute California election officials. Find a legal theory and start hammering away.”
For the life of me I cannot see how any respectable jurist of integrity cannot see the sense, the Constitutionality, the justice and the absolute necessity of such an effort. When you mess with voting as we have seen, chaos and widespread mayhem are just around the corner.
We will rue the day we let that go.
Are we nearing a time. @unsk, when we will throw up our hands and simply give up? Certainly some people already have. That’s one thing we’ve learned from the Left–we must protest in any way we can. Or there will be no justice. Thanks!
And isn’t it ironic that the demise of American justice began with “social justice,” the favored treatment of the weak, the poor, and minorities over the strong, the wealthy, and the majority? It’s the opposite of the wisdom of blind justice — unequal treatment before the law. Different rules depending on the favorability of your victim status.
The Left believes in its moral superiority so completely that people at the highest levels of government shamelessly admit they tried to overturn the will of the people. Comey and McCabe are on book tours!!
I took it as a particularly bad sign of this when the Democrats jammed down Obamacare despite all the polls showing its unpopularity. It was the most overt “we know what’s best for you” moment during the Obama administration, but there were many, many more.
This is how Hillary Clinton gets to walk away from treasonous mishandling of national secrets, how Bill Clinton walks away from Pedophile Island, how Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Rice, Rosenstein, McCabe, … walk away from an attempted coup. We are in a two-tiered society. One set of rules for powerful leftists/Democrats. Another for the rest of us.
Very well said, WC. I just listened to Steve Hayward’s podcast on Progressivism. Much was familiar, but he presented the ugliness of its origins and where we find ourselves now; I found it very helpful. He has another coming out soon to take the discussion further, I think. I highly recommend it.
I would add “if you have a real job.”
The left can afford to hire full time protesters, along with buses to take them from site to site. For them the only hard part is getting stiffed on pay now and then (happened in Ferguson).
For conservative activists, it is a very trying life. Besides working to pay the bills, we raise families, participate in various other activities, so there’s little opportunity to take off and travel to DC or some other location and man a picket line. And frankly, we find the thought of yelling and screaming outside a building somewhat disturbing. Look at how calm tea party rallies were, or the annual March for Life. We aren’t as “in your face” as the other side.
Until Trump. Sure, he’s not a rock-ribbed conservative, but he fights. Others are starting to “grow a pair”, like Lindsey Graham. And look at Candace Owens. AG Barr. Mnunchin. They’re poking back at the Dems, sometimes with humerous results.
This is a great exchange between two of my favorites here on Ricochet. It’s nuances of meaning like this that was one of many many things on my mind when I posted my QotD on the nature of quotes and their overall usefulness. The quote by itself was great but we can see it can touch different people differently. I really like good quotes as some are amazingly thought-provoking and profound but what I love about QotD is the extra commentary that comes along with the quote.
Thanks, @chrishutch13! Music to my ears! I do love when someone disagrees with me (or vice versa) and by continuing to talk, we discover something different. It’s one of my favorite parts of being on Ricochet!