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What Are You Going To Do About It? by Robert Gore at STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years ago to Government
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Justice and equality are inseparable. Equality here does not mean the fatuous and impossible equality of outcomes that animates collectivists, but equality before the law. Equality of outcomes in all its collectivist guises obliterates equality before the law, the foundation of which is the concept of individual rights. For that concept to have any meaning, each individual must have the same rights, which receive the same protection from the government. Individual, equal rights must be the basis of the law, and when they are not, no justice is possible.

Law instead becomes a tool wielded by those who control the government against everyone else. Yesterday’s announcement by FBI Director James Comey that the FBI would recommend against charging Hillary Clinton in the email matter is the government wielding the law to protect its own. The fix has been in since at least 1913, when it gave itself permission to steal its constituents’ money (the income tax) and to begin the process of profitably substituting its scrip for gold (the Federal Reserve Act). The Clinton fix is business as usual. The exempt-from-the-law class expect outrage and contemptuously ignore it. Indeed, disclosure of the Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton meeting may have been designed to rub the noses of the not-exempt in it. Yes, it looks terrible, but we run things, you don’t. You don’t like it? Tough shit, what are you going to do about it?

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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Sound bites are king now. Attention spans are so short that if its isnt a very few words long, people turn off.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Well said Dino. I'm going to vote for the "bad hair,"too. You call yourself an Independent, which is fine. I call myself a Conservative without a home.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    That's a good point. For someone who literally does not know the word, it teases them to be interested in it, more so than if he went into detail.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    the other comment about most people are libertarian but they dont know it yet- actually makes one think "what is libertarianism anyway- maybe I AM a libertarian"
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yet those weird creepzoids are out there all starry-eyed and happy as hopeless heck, and there may be more of them than us.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    "Johnson will develop into a bit more than a "revenge of the nerds" spokesman"
    That's funny. It reminds me of an engineering conference I went to in Vegas earlier this year that really felt like the Nerds in Paradise movie. We nerds now have a candidate. :)

    "Gave Johnson every opportunity to get the message out, but except for a couple of statements"
    I wonder if that's intentional. I wonder if his audience is not people who really think about gov't and policy but rather people who watch it casually who might remember two catchphrases if he repeats them enough.

    "Fiscally conservative, socially liberal" is a cliche. 30 Rock made fun of it subtly by having the protagonist give a glib "socially conservative, fiscally liberal," answer to her opinion on politics. She delivered it an wonderfully perfunctory tone that suggests it was said with such little thought she didn't even notice she had the cliche backwards.

    If I'm right that this is a bromide people tell themselves, maybe it's smart for Johnson to repeat it too. Someone checking on their kid while reviewing their to-do list for tomorrow on Asana or Wrike might hear it from the TV in the other room and realize Johnson's the person they want to vote for.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    maybe Johnson will develop into a bit more than a "revenge of the nerds" spokesman. Bill Maher had him on his show and interviewed him for a few minutes. Gave Johnson every opportunity to get the message out, but except for a couple of statements like "most people are libertarian but they dont know it yet", and "fiscally conservative but socially liberal", I dont remember anything he said.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe she will some day should we stop the Progressive elites from totally taking over as a dictatorial ruling class.
    Wrote it in the Gulch before that Constitution Cruz looked a little too much like a relative of the Addams Family to win, but I voted for him anyway. .
    Agree with you about Johnson. Once upon a time, I called myself a Republican and then a Libertarian.
    Now I'm just a freaking independent old-fashioned American dinosaur who does not think the Constitution of our Founding Fathers is extinct.
    Way I see it, voting for bad hair day is an attempt to protect the Constitution.
    The above statement is subject to change depending on what may or may not happen next between now and November.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    WE are all entitled to our judgments and feelings. In the end it will depend on the job he does if elected compared with the job the Hildebeast would do.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't care what you say about Trump.
    I'm still gonna vote for that bad hair day cock-a-doodle-do.
    Excuse me while I go pull out something stuck in my cheek.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    It's so Orwellian. The new Book could be 1984 Redux A Tail of Two Pigs.

    None of the Above and Consent Withdrawn are looking like mighty good choices.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Trump hijacked the GOP. It had gotten VERY establishment and was about to nominate Job Bush (not ANOTHER Bush, please). Political correctness had taken hold of our minds and allowed the leftists to gain a lot of control. Trump cracked that egg and its great. If he does ONLY that as president, I will have thought 4 years of him was worth it. I dont expect him to reinstate our constitutional rights- but I do think he will tell us when the emperor has no clothes (which is NOW actually)
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I thought Cruz was a bit better about constitutionality, but I just didnt think he had the charisma to get congress to follow him, if in fact he was able to beat give-away Hillary.

    I have been registered as a libertarian for a long time now, but I have to say I thought Johnson was a bit too bubbly, non charismatic, and philosophically challenged to actually have any chance of being elected. His stand on anti-drug laws was lame and disintegrated by one woman voter in the CNN town hall he did. Hillary would make mincemeat of him.

    That leaves Trump. He says what a LOT of us are thinking but are afraid to say out loud. His presentation is a bit out there, but our election process is really stupid and one needs to either spend huge amounts of money, or get free media attention by being outlandish.

    If you watch the CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper (its on youtube), we see another side of Trump through the eyes of his children. It was quite impressive actually, and after watching that I was a lot more comfortable with him. The apples dont fall far from the tree. Ivanka Trump was very impressive. I wish SHE were running !!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't hate Trump. In some ways I like him--like for upsetting the GOP establishment's apple cart.
    I just feel a bit resentfully stuck with Trump, who is not the conservative I would really prefer.
    I loathe Shillary and all she stands for.
    She is far worse than Tricky Dicky too.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, I'm just gonna have to vote for that bad hair day, too.
    Voted for Cruz in the primary before he turned me off by talking about "sacrifice" donations and how trouble Soros and MoveOn paid for being all Trump's fault.
    Should Johnson rise high in the polls I may think otherwise. But I don't like him either.
    Me dino don't like anyone.
    Me feel like the Jurassic Period Allosaurus big time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8l-e...
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I dont have the hatred for Trump that you seem to possess, but I am voting for him because he will stand up and tell us like it is for a change, and is NOT a member of the crony political establishment. Hildebeast IS the crooked establishment who seems to be a modern day reincarnation of Nixon (do what you want and hide it from everyone).
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 9 years ago
    What am I going to do about it?

    Real simple, I will vote for Trump. Do I completely agree with his positions? No! Do I even like him? Not really. Do I think he is THE ONLY CANDIDATE WHO MIGHT BEAT HER! Yup and that's why he gets my vote.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    The Clintons are crooks. They are the modern equivalent of Nixon, who just protected HIMSELF at the expense of the rest of us. Its obvious that Bill Clinton wanted to hide the whole womanizing thing, and Hillary learned to hide her work from scrutiny by using her own email server. This is pure Nixon philosophy in action. The idea that anyone would actually vote FOR Hillary boggles my mind. Maybe she buys off the powers that be, but no way should she be president of the USA.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Intent is irrelevant to the offense. It is a red herring with no basis in the statute. Using it to avoid prosecuting the case is a transparent fig leaf.

    Negligence in custodial duties for classified information can and should be prosecuted. Just as other negligent actions can be.

    Charges should be filed, actually replace should with must.

    Other people have been prosecuted for similar actions, not prosecuting her is a shot in the head to the rule of law.

    How do you prove intent??? That is a mental state. Until someone perfects telepathy intent cannot be proven beyond a doubt.

    My moral outrage over this is the double standard being applied.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    "Ignorance of the law is no excuse," a traffic cop told 16-year-old dino when he handed me my first ticket.
    It was for slowing not stopping for a stop sign with no other visible traffic around. I still sere other people do that--even cops!
    Back then I was but a babe in the woods.
    Shillary is a career criminal Clintonista pampered because she is among the top Progressive more than equal elites with too many world wide donating cronie$ to fail. .
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago
    I am going to vote for Trump. At least he talks about this cronyism. Not sure if he CAN fix it, but at least he (and Sanders actually) shows us what is really happening. Hillary IS crooked and she has powerful friends she buys off with the promise of government favors. She NEEDS to be defeated any way it can happen- and not NEXT election, but this one.
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