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Truth and Reconciliation: An Orwellian Strategy
When I first heard the proposal of a “truth and reconciliation” process in the United States, I felt my hair stand on end. Robert Reich, formerly of the Clinton Administration, proposed this kind of commission be established, and I knew that he was up to no good. I actually felt outraged when he used the term because I knew that these commissions were established internationally to deal with the outcomes of devastating upheavals in 40 countries. I am very familiar with events in Rwanda:
The Justice and Reconciliation Process in Rwanda— During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, up to one million people perished and as many as 250,000 women were raped, leaving the country’s population traumatized and its infrastructure decimated. Since then, Rwanda has embarked on an ambitious justice and reconciliation process with the ultimate aim of all Rwandans once again living side by side in peace.
Justice after the genocide—In the years following the genocide, more than 120,000 people were detained and accused of bearing criminal responsibility for their participation in the killings.
Following this kind of horror—one million people killed in one month—Rwanda knew that steps had to be taken in an effort to unify the country.
But Robert Reich’s proposal borders on evil:
‘When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,’ Reich tweeted. ‘It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.’
Seriously? Does Reich truly believe that a commission of this type will unify the country? Do we need to execute people’s reputations or even lock them up because people’s feelings have been hurt? Not alone in his ruthless commitment to take revenge, he followed Chris Hayes’ recommendation at MSNBC who proposed a similar commission for those who questioned COVID-19 protocols.
It’s clear that Reich and other Trump-haters are determined to punish Trump and anyone associated with Republicans. All the positive outcomes of the Trump administration are irrelevant: improved foreign policy, a thriving economy, reduced regulations, energy independence. None of those achievements matter. The only goal that matters is destroying the political Right and the Republican party.
The columnist at the Chicago Tribune, John Kass, has taken the punishment for his positions as well. Here’s what he said recently about Reich’s proposal:
Among Republicans, the outraged hot take on all of this is to bring up George Orwell’s ‘1984.’
‘It’s Orwellian,”’ they say.
But Orwell’s ‘1984’ was a soulless world ruled by dispassionate intellects. Their terror was numbing and methodical. These Reich/Hayes Truth Commissions are tinged instead with the angry passion of the zealot seeking revenge. It’s rather French. No, not the France of today, but of the French Revolution, of tribunals and trials and the Reign of Terror, the France of the Jacobins.
That prominent Democrats feel free to propose a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is unnerving, even frightening. We must assume that they are deadly serious.
Let’s hope more than ever that November 3 is a Trump victory.
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A vote for the democratic party (that would be Joe Biden, but he doesn’t know what he’s running for or where he is) is a vote for Antifa and BLM. The dems hate my religion, hate that I own guns and hate that I am free. The dems dislike (hate is probably a better word) America. Donald Trump loves America. I will vote for America.
This has been discussed in the PIT a couple times. The bottom line function of the police isn’t to protect citizens from the criminals. It’s to protect the criminals from the citizens.
99,999? You wouldn’t want to come up short. May God be with you!
Ok, ok, ok, 99,999 peaceful transitioners, although something seems off about that term.
Perhaps I need to change my branding.
And the Democrat Party increasingly allies itself with Jew-haters.
And they hate your dog too.
The difference is that Trump seems to give them aid and comfort by telling them to “stand back and stand by.” I do not recall Biden every saying such a thing.
That’s fine. While Dems went into resistance, only Antifa went into violence, and has been roundly denounced.
I think that this sums up my feelings.
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What sort of dog?
By whom? Denounced on the Right, but not by your candidate, nor her temporary appendage.
You have very selective eyesight.
The ones from Kansas.
Nancy Pelosi openly endorsed Antifa in 2018 when Antifa was relatively new on the scene. Joe Biden in the recent debate went out of his way to avoid denouncing the violence of Antifa. Kamala Harris has this summer supported those who committed violence. Maxine Waters has advocated violence against those who support the president. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have been evasive on the subject of violence against political opponents. Several Democrat mayors have this year supported those who commit violence against those who disagree.
Violence against political opponents is in the mainstream of the Democratic party. Hence a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” by Democrats is something to be feared by peace-loving Americans.
Oh? The very worst then.
Steve Scalise would like to have a word with you.
FYI:
EDIT: Reza Aslan tweeted on 9/18/20 that “if they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire [redacted] place down.”
ACB was just sworn in.
Not by your nominee. Quite visibly not by your nominee. Or his party (now your party).
The proclivity of Democrats for supporting Antifa has become notoriously obvious. Denials, excuses, justifications, and government protections.
They spied on the transition team
Almost like Republicans embracing Q-Anon…
How much violence can be attributed directly to Q-Anon, [redacted]?
There are Q-Anoners. Then there are the vast majority of the voting base.
The Democrats have the antifa-supporters. Then they have antifa.
I haven’t seen the Q-Anoners being shunned by Trump or the party. Instead they have been welcomed!
How many people has Q-anon killed and how many have antifa killed?
Show me one quote by a Democratic leader denouncing Antifa.
Just one.
The curiously welcoming attitude of Democrats to violent Marxists precedes Antifa, but this is to be expected since the sixties Left is now firmly entrenched in the Democrat Party. Note, as just one example, Democrats’ revealing admiration of unrepentant Stalinist terrorist Bill Ayers–and indifference to Obama’s connections to him.
And if we go back to the seventies there was the Democrats’ hostility to Vietnamese refugees from Communist terrorism and murder. Those who managed to get to America in spite of the Democrats remember this.
Even Joe Biden might have a word about this.
As it was becoming clear in March that Joe Biden would be the Democratic presidential nominee, Alexander Hillel Treisman started to map out his plot to assassinate the former vice president, federal authorities say.
“Should I kill Joe Biden?” Treisman wrote in a caption to a meme he posted in April…
The 19-year-old searched online for Biden’s home address and for night-vision goggles, and purchased an AR-15 in New Hampshire, according to federal court documents first reported Thursday by WBTV. At one point in May, Treisman ended up at a Wendy’s within four miles of Biden’s home in Delaware. And when he was arrested later that month in North Carolina, police searching his van found four rifles, a 9mm handgun, explosive materials, books on bomb making, and $509,000 in cash that’s believed to be his inheritance.
From the Washington Post. Guess what was buried in paragraph 15 of the story….
The 19-year-old’s focus on Biden started in the spring, according to the order… Days after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign, Treisman, who had suggested in a Reddit post that he had to “save bernie,” posted a meme with the caption questioning whether he should kill Biden.
The real violence that is happening now, all across America is almost exclusively on the Left, by the Democrat base.