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‘They Won’t Get Away With This!’

Rodin
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The Citizen Free Press headline screams "Alina Habba [Trump's Attorney]— They won’t get away with this." The link is to an appearance by Habba on the Fox News Hannity show. I didn't bother to watch, I assume it is "blah blah blah appeal blah blah blah constitutional rights blah blah blah this will not stand..." Don't get me wrong, I am very much against what lawfare is doing to President Trump and our citizens generally. It's just the question growing in my mind about whether or not "they" will, in actuality, get away with it.

When I was a teenager there was this kid who went around bullying younger kids at our smallish church school. When I saw him doing so in front of me I told him to stop. He then shoved the kid one more time for good measure and turned to me saying, "What are you going to do about it?" I punched him in the face.

I don't know whether the bully was more hurt or surprised. I think I have actually only punched someone twice in my lifetime. (The other was my brother when we were kids, and it doesn't really count. If you knew the injuries my brother inflicted on me, e.g., concussion, pitchfork in the hand, you wouldn't begrudge me the one punch.)

The punch was certainly a humiliation for the bully and he stopped (at least in my presence). But I wonder, when is America going to deliver the "punch" that stops the outrage against our civil liberties? Do we even have the freedom to move our arm and fist in a manner that can deliver that punch, or have we already become bound and limited?

An element of Christian faith is that while one is expected to do justice, one is not assured justice in one's lifetime. I, for one, do not want this generation of Americans to have justice deferred or denied.

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  • Barfly@Barfly

    We've played by the system's rules for too long, long after the system was corrupted by the left. The "principles" argument, advanced by the NRO and David French branches of the soft left and squishy middle, ignores the simple fact that our lives are finite. Every little capitulation to the ugly left diminishes us, and we will never get that time back.

  • Susan Quinn@SusanQuinn

    Well said! This question has come up a lot for me lately: do we (conservatives, Republicans) even have what it takes to fight back and make it felt? Or have we given in to the other side because we don't have the strength, resources or (pardon me) cajones to act? I know I'm tired of watching the caving in and whining. It's time!

  • Rodin@Rodin
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    Barfly (View Comment):

    We’ve played by the system’s rules for too long, long after the system was corrupted by the left. The “principles” argument, advanced by the NRO and David French branches of the soft left and squishy middle, ignores the simple fact that our lives are finite. Every little capitulation to the ugly left diminishes us, and we will never get that time back.

    I am particularly disappointed in the NR. I haven't read them in a long time. It seems like they are standing at home plate yelling at the umpire after the stands have emptied and the lights to the stadium have been turned off.

  • Tex929rr@Tex929rr

    Good question. We boomers were sold out by our generation of politicians a long time ago, yet we kept re-electing them. So I don’t see how we can do it. Maybe the next generation (teens) will do it; I’ve read that teen boys are becoming more conservative (even as girls go the other way).

  • Banned Member@DrewInWisconsin
    Rodin (View Post):
    It’s just the question growing in my mind about whether or not “they” will, in actuality, get away with it.

    I'm trying to think of a time they didn't get away with it. Of a time when they actually faced consequences for their actions.

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