That’s basically where we are now as we become a banana republic. One law for the Ruling Class another for everybody else.
Make no mistake: if you or I did what Hillary Clinton was –credibly–accused of doing by FBI Director James Comey, we’d never see daylight again. But because Mdme Clinton is part of a global elite, she can’t be touched. Not merely because of who she is but because if the straight-arrows go after her, then they have to go after others as well.
In other words, the whole rotten edifice would come crumbling down.
So why did Comey take a dive? Because he had to. When Bill Clinton had his egregious “private” meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch last Thursday, it was clear that the fix was in. Furthermore, this thing had to die because Obama himself was complicit in Hillary’s e-mail chain. In other words, if Hillary went down then so would the President.
That’s raising the scandal to a whole other level of magnitude. So Comey decided to get the facts out in as damning and as public a way as possible in order to get Hillary indicted in the court of public opinion. It’s possible that this court will be the one that counts.
We’ll see. So far Comey’s “exoneration” of Hillary is not working in the Democrat’s favor. Trump for instance, jumped on it with both feet and told everyone who would listen that the “system is rigged.” Even if you don’t like Trump the facts speak for themselves: the system is rigged in favor of the Ruling Class.
Nor can you say that Trump is “irresponsible” when Hillary’s e-mails are now in the possession of “hostile actors.” Because of her negligence Hillary would be the first President who could not be trusted with national secrets (or the nuclear codes for that matter). She’s instant blackmail bait.
This thing won’t be going away anytime soon. In fact, the e-mail scandal is blowing up big-time in Hillary’s face. If this was Comey’s intent, then it seems to be working.
I think you may be right. If Comey was told by Lynch that DOJ would not follow up, no matter what Comey recommended, then Comey did the only thing that he could do to lay the facts on the table. The facts clearly show that Clinton broke the law regarding gross negligence in handling classified documents. However, Comey claimed that he could not find “intent” on her part and therefore recommended non-prosecution. The problem here is that the law that Clinton broke does not require the presence of intent, just gross negligence. Looks like Comey punted and the ball is now with the electorate.
Here is an excellent legal analysis by Andrew McCarthy: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook
National Review’s David French concluded: “But rules and standards are for the little people. The FBI demolished every Clinton excuse and blew apart every Clinton lie, but soon she might well walk into rooms serenaded to the sweet sounds of “Hail to the Chief.” To paraphrase the words of Benjamin Franklin, we’ve got a banana republic, if Hillary can keep it.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437485/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-james-comey-turn-america-banana-republic
This sentence sums it all up:
“To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.”
Let that sink in.
Any other person who did this, would face sanctions. But not Hillary Clinton.
Bush Jr, Tenet, Cheney, Powell all lied as a premise to war in Iraq.
No investigation by Obama, no indictment, no nothing of any of it.
Now that is leverage my friend. Political will only gets you so far; then shit gets real. That is, the political will wasn’t there to indict any of them. But go after Hillary for something like emails and old slick Willy sent out a few reminders. And they lied to her as a seated Senator friends. So they committed a crime against her and all of us. A far more serious crime than emails on a private server.
And you thought emails was gonna stop her when Bush n co could lie to the Congress and the UN.
Pffff.
Get ready for Madam President. Thank Bush Jr.
Actually what the Clinton’s have done is much worse. Slick Willy passed secrets on to China for campaign contibutions. They are corrupt beyond belief, but they smile well.
You are right in a sense that the Republicans are partly responsible starting with “me too” Bob Dole whose platform seemed to be “I have been in politics all my life it would be really great to be President and go out on top, but Clinton’s right about almost everything. ”
A disgusting bunch of idiots wanting to be President over the last 24 years– would do better with a lottery.
I vote “none of the above!”
Boy, this is a reach
Clerical error vs treason?
Tell me which is worse.
Clinton’s was a gross clerical error. The other is treason. Tenet deserved a firing squad, but noone says it because Saddam was so hated and war so loved by so many.
Why do you think Comey focused so much on history in the hearing?
We haven’t prosecuted others for similar or worse.
So, one monkey in the hearing suggested first impression and Comey nearly choked. Said no.
The perjury referral is not going to even get a response. It will sit on a desk and die. The director will say it would be wrong to review it during a campaign cycle.
Chaffetz was incredulous that Hillary’s lawyers did the email review. Comey was stonefaced. He knew Chaffetz was right, but also understands this issue is dead in the water.
Treason is strictly defined in the Constitution as: the violent overthrow of the US government or aid and comfort to the enemy. That’s it.
No matter how egregious the actions of the Bush administration they do not meet that definition. Slick Willy’s sale of secrets doesn’t quite although it could be considered as espionage and Hillary was complicit I suspect.
It is obvious that the office of President has become just a means for carrying out the holder’s personal agenda. Clinton, Bush, Obama have clearly shown that. Clinton/Trump will continue that.
That is one reason why our government is no longer a legitimate government under our Constitution or under the principals enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. If we are prepared to accept the consequences we are no longer bound to obey the laws. Neither as individuals nor as states.
More and more people are realizing that.
It will not be pretty.
I know treason was incorrect and when I said it, but lying as a premise to war and the deaths of 4000 servicemen coupled with a trillion in unfunded expense should bother conservatives more than liberals.
Michael Baumann! “Treason is strictly defined in the Constitution as: the violent overthrow of the US government or aid and comfort to the enemy. That’s it.”
Senator Tom Cotton constantly and forcefully chaacterizes the Islamic Republic of Iran as our enemy. He engineered e letter from the Republican U.S.SENATE to THAT ENEMY, advising that enemy to oppose the President!
Are not, therefore, Senator Cotton and his cohort of Senators guilty of treason as you and the laws define it?
If anyone imagines Ayatollah Khamenei and his companion “theocrats” did not find aid and comfort in that imbecilic letter, let us know why!
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.”
Article III, ss 3, US Constitution
And it needs two eyewitnesses to be treason. Nonetheless, the President is not the United States, just the chief executive. Only kings enjoy sovereign immunity after all. The United States has it, Obama does not. He could be impeached and it would not be treason.
Back to the drawing board, Vladyka.
PS: Notice also that the United States are referred to as “them”. Hmmmm . . . do we live under our original government anymore or has there been an intervening revolution that some have missed?
Misha, you are incorrect when you attempt to define treason as being convicted of treason. You, like Senator Cotton, may be a traitor WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE TRIED FOR OR CONVICTED OFTREASON. Lots of traitors are never tried although their acts are most definitely treason! You’re the one who needs a drawing board.
As for that cutesy PS—–Repeat the pledge of allegiance and pay attention to the “IT” (not the “those”) for which the flag stands. No revolution, just good old English syntax. The United States of America is one free country, one nation “under God,” no?
Treason in the United States is, and only is, what the United States Constitution says it is.
All electoral politics are a reach. They no longer have any legitimacy.
Here here. Al Gore must agree.
Kennedy was elected because the Daily machine in Chicago voted enough dead people for Kennedy to carry Illinois. Nixon knew it. Although he chose not to contest it, he remained bitter which led to his enemies list and Watergate.
Other elections that had more than a bit of fraud about them: Jackson-Adams; Hays-Tilden. Those are the ones we know about.
However the fraudulent process has become the norm on both sides.
Gore-Bush was fraught with difficulties on both sides if you remember. My bias at the time was such that I saw it more readily from the Democrats.
Now with computer voting machines the victor can be pre-programed so we need not worry about hanging chads or busing in illegal or felons or voting the dead. The whole system has become a joke. That is why I won’t participate any more. I haven’t even gotten to the gerrymandering that goes on to either block minority candidates or get them elected.
The fix is in we just have to wait for the computers to declare which side was fixed this time. The oligarchy has already decided. The current circus is just an illusion to keep the masses entertained and/or otherwise stirred up.
Michael says:
I take great exception to this because those dead people were registered voters! Come on Michael!
Peter
Risen from the dead to elect the right man no doubt. Wow I have never thought of Chicago as such a holy place before.
I have thought if it more as described in The Resistable Rise of Artuo Ui. Which given our current political state is looking prophetic.
Is this “Daily” machine better or worse than a Weekly machine?
The problem of cell phones my dear bishop and a less than attentive old mind. As you well know.
George,
I believe you are being too kind in calling our country a banana republic. We are way beyond that at this point.
I will be greatly suprised if we stay united as a nation. The Texit may be more real than we want to believe along with many other divisions that are ready, willing and able tear our country apart.
The Civil War will look like a school yard fight compared to what I believe will come upon this Nation. I hope to God I am wrong, but too much has happened now and we are quickly approaching critical mass.
May God have mercy on our Nation, but I do not know if it deserves it at this point. Let us see what happens.
Peter
Yeah, the lefties with guns will really be brutal.
What happened in Dallas will happen elsewhere IMO and worsen. It is directly connected to the selective enforcement if the laws. Look at Baton Rouge and Minneapolis.
Charles Manson may have been right about a race war, just a bit premature and evil in his methods.
Orthodoxy and Charles Manson? Oh my God!
Neither Manson nor my comment have anything to do with Orthodoxy. Why do you make that connection.
Sometimes evil people have knowledge of evil more righteous people do not. Even if that is not the case Manson predicted a race war. If things do not change, that race war is a possibility. That is the connection. Maybe he was right.
IMO any of the candidates running for President make it more likely such a war will occur. That is yet another reason I vote “none of the above”. Given that is not an option, may I write in your name?
I agree with you in part Michael. Police-make no mistake and god bless em-have too many choices when it comes to applying force. Graham v Connor made it explicit that each event is different and gave police a sort of carte blanche. The Sterling video is good proof. Why not mace the guy if he won’t hands on head?
Anonymous:
You are RIGHT! Hillary used the same server that Bill (an ex-Pres) used and protected by the Secret Service. Some of the emails sent to her weren’t classified until AFTER the fact. Just Repub attack skata. Let’s see Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, etc. emails and their servers!
Excuse me but you are wrong. FBI director Comey was very explicit that the email contained classified information from the Beginning. Further, FBI director Comey was also very explicit that Hillary Clinton’s conduct was “extremely careless.” Therefore, your facts are wrong and you should go back and listen to what Clinton said and how each point she made was refuted by the FBI as being false and untrue.
FBI director Comey testified to Congress that Clinton’s statements were untrue. So basically he called Clinton a liar without calling her a liar. Just that her statements were untrue.
As to Bush and Co., I and many others on the conservative political spectrum have stated that what Bush and Co., did was criminal and should have been prosecuted fully under the law. The Chilcot report in Great Britain, aside from former PM Blair”s protestations notwithstanding, found that Blair and Bush took our nations to war based on a lie. Although the Chilcot report stayed clear of any criminal recommendations, the clear implication of the report is that both former President Bush and former PM Tony Blair were implicated in a clear web of lies that devastated Iraq for no good reason and cost thousand of death from the coalition forces to the Iraqis themselves. So yes, Bush & Co., were criminals and should have been tried as war criminals.
Then we go to hypocrit in chief President Obama who not only continued the Bush policies of surveillance, but expanded his war powers to illegal drone strikes on American and British citizens who were also terrorists. I understand the law was in this instance changed or reinterpreted , and that most people do not care about the due process right of American Islamic terrorists, but if we claim to be a nation of laws then we absolutely must care. Again criminal activity on the part of Obama & Co.
Finally your type of “SKATE PATIMENA” logic and moral excusing by saying “Well Bush did it, bla, bla, bla…” is not only childish and naive, but dangerous as it leads to relativistic morality, and finally to no morality whatsoever.
So please do us a favor and take you “Skata” and go play somewhere else.
Peter
Peter:
What Comey said was that out of ALL Hillary’s emails, there were (3) with classified info in them. AND, these emails “sent to her” were not labeled as “CLASSIFIED.” Within the emails themselves, there existed SOME classified sentences. So, if the Republican Congress is going to continue this “witch hunt,” let’s examine all the emails & servers of the previous admin. Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, CHENEY, etc. and while at it, ALL the emails of ALL Congress men & women within the last 20 years!
OK Phil R. UP I am about to fill you up with truth get ready. You may not be able to handle it. From a recent NPR interview conducted by Host David Greene to Maria Liasson:
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DAVID GREENE, HOST:
The director of the FBI has announced this morning that the agency is wrapping up its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state. And they are not recommending that charges be brought against her.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
JAMES COMEY: In looking back at our investigations into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.
GREENE: That is FBI Director James Comey making the announcement a short while ago. NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson is in the studio with me. Hey, Mara.
MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: Hi, David.
GREENE: OK. So Hillary Clinton interviewed over the weekend by the FBI, I mean, focusing, we presume, on this question of whether or not she knowingly mishandled classified information. She has always said that she did not – a whole lot of expectation as to where this would go. And so what have we learned this morning?
LIASSON: What we learned is she’s not going to be indicted. FBI Director Comey said he’s making a recommendation that she not be indicted. He said although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. He went out of his way to be transparent about it. He said this is very unusual for an FBI director to stand up and explain exactly what they did. He talked about it at length. He said we – this investigation was done honestly, competently and independently. No outside influence was brought to bear. He said he knows there’s a lot of politics swirling around this, but that he did this by the book.
GREENE: OK. Let’s look at this from two different angles. No indictment – probably good news for Hillary Clinton. I mean, this whole investigation has been lingering for a while. And it’s been a problem for her.
LIASSON: It’s been a huge problem for her. And it has underscored and created a lot of her basic problem with voters, which is that majorities of voters say that she’s not honest or trustworthy. And this email controversy – it seemed like she had something to hide. She didn’t play by the rules. She didn’t seem to be explaining it fully. Even what Comey said today contradicts a lot of the things that she said. She says that there was nothing classified at the time in her email exchanges. And he said no, actually, there were things that were classified at the time, over 100 emails. But still, they didn’t meet the standard for prosecution.
GREENE: OK. Not meeting the standard prosecution, but the FBI director saying there were actually classified emails – I mean, that…
LIASSON: Yes, classified emails at the time, not retroactively classified.
GREENE: Which is the distinction she has always made, saying she didn’t pass on…
LIASSON: Yes. She was always saying that they were up-classified, in other words, they were classified later.
GREENE: Later on.
LIASSON: But he said no, they were eight top secret, 36 secret and eight what’s called confidential, which is the lowest level.
GREENE: Which – and that leaves the big question. I mean, even though no indictment, does the other stuff that Comey said leave her vulnerable to Republican criticism and leave her vulnerable to Donald Trump?
LIASSON: Absolutely. Donald Trump has been saying the system is rigged, that the Obama administration would never indict Hillary because she works for him. And Obama wants to get her elected.
And he’s going to say there is corruption. He’s going to point to the fact that she was – that Comey said she was extremely careless, that even though there was no evidence of hacking by hostile actors, there could have been. He said we wouldn’t have seen this because these hostile actors, I guess, are pretty good at covering their footprints. He’s going to point to the tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch…
GREENE: Attorney general, yeah.
LIASSON: …The the attorney general. He – there is a lot of evidence that her opponents, namely Donald Trump, can point to to say this is a very, very, very damning report.
GREENE: OK. We’ve been talking to NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Mara, thanks a lot.
LIASSON: Thank you.
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There you go PHILL R. UP NPR that great bastion of conservatism is spelling out for you. So again please take your SKATA PATIMENA and play some where else.
Btw don’t you have a divine liturgy you are doing tomorrow somewhere my good bis..er..phil?
Peter
Peter:
Get it right. 1st off, Hillary’s server was Bill’s server protected by the Secret Service and their IT people. 2nd, if someone, out of thousands of emails, (3), were sent to here NOT LABELED “CLASSIFIED” with several sentences of classified material, was NOT her action. THIS IS A REPUB WITCH HUNT! Again, if the Repubs in Congress want a “witch hunt,” let’s have one. Let’s examine Cheney’s emails, Tenet’s, Rumsfeld’s, Rice’s, Powell’s, Bush’s and all of Congress’ emails. Targeting one person for political assassination is just more of the “Dirty Nixon Politics” the Repubs are known for!
Troll away Phil, troll away.
Peter-the director said noone has ever been prosecuted for what Hillary has done. The relativism is recent and real and important. If we jailed Hillary and skated Tenet; the imbalance would be unmanageable.
Justice is always real and skating Bush or not does not take away from the force of doing justice against Hillary. Never fall into the trap. As for no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against her that is 100% BS. Don’t buy it.
Peter
A prosecutor won’t bring charges because the case is chock full of landmines. Let’s face reality here. You wanted the easy way out, just send her to jail. That way the horrible candidate the right brings forward will have a shot.
The right had honorable, decent men that ran for President. They ate them.
I’very been practicing law for 19 years and know how to read both State and Federal statutes and case law. How long have you practiced law? I also practice in the Northern District of Illinois, eastern division and have also discussed this case with 2 federal prosecutors that would have no problem bring charges against Hillary Clinton under the espionage act.
So NOTHING in my 19 years of practice has been easy, and nothing will be. She broke the law and should have been indicated, but politics got in the way. Here in Chicago we know how the game is played and how much we hate it. Read local columnist John Kass to figure it out.
Finally put your name on your post or I would talk to you ever, and your words will be meaningless as they will be the words of a coward and fraud.
Peter
“First, let’s kill all the lawyers!” – Shakespeare
Actually when Shakespeare uttered those words he meant that for tyranny to florist all the lawyers who defended the law had to be killed.
You should actually read Shakespeare if you are going to quote him.
Peter
“… for tyranny to florist … ”
Would those be the florists who won’t assist at same-sex weddings?
Ha! Sure why not.
heh heh! SNORT, CHUCKLE, Norman. Thanks!
Didn’t you also enjoy “lawyers that defend the law?”
On one narrow point, I don’t believe that due process rights are applicable to Americans on foreign soil who are engaged in acts of war against the United States, which many terrorist acts are.
No different that if they were combatants in the Wehrmacht, of which there were several examples in WWII.
Tim they are because a Star Chamber does not get to decide they are an enemy combatant. A jury or Judge gets to decide that after they are captured and found guilty under the law. A star chamber does not get to decide that and send a hell fire missile into a building to blow them up.
If what you are saying is true don’t go overseas and engage in any activity that officials in a star chamber determine are the acts of an enemy combatant or you might go “Kabluey” while sipping your coffee or wine.
Peter
This is the classic argument given when your side of the bell spectrum ain’t in charge. But we all know the US military does what it deems needed, whether its coffee or wine.
Coward said what?
Today we learned that Hillary Clinton, the smartest and strongest womyn on earth, the former Secretary of State, was “not sophisticated enough” to know that (C) in an email means “Classified”.
How can she hold the office of President if she can’t be trusted with a security clearance?
Sadly, I honestly think that we are at that point in history where a critical mass of people needed to “do the right thing” simply doesn’t exist anymore. There are not enough people who care about Hillary’s lies, security breaches, and corruption to outweigh those who do not care or who are willing to overlook these issues.
I have read too many opposing viewpoints where people think that Trump would be overwhelmingly awful, thus they encourage the reader (if Hillary does indeed bother that reader) to hold their nose and vote for Hillary, because “she is all that stands between us and a Trump presidency.”
This is lunacy — encourage others to elect a criminal and an incompetent because you are worried about the alternative. But most Americans don’t care much beyond their own 5-mile radius, so if the country turns more to **** during Hillary’s presidency, oh well, that’s the way it is.
I view the lack of effective dissent to Hillary the same way I view those willing to defend religious liberty in America — we have lost the critical mass. Well less than half of Americans care anything about religious liberty, so as the courts and the lawmakers continue to erode our religious freedoms, there aren’t enough people who care to do anything about it.
Same with Hillary. Everyone knows she’s a crook, incompetent, and from what I read a vindictive, narcissistic mess (and we’ve known this for decades). Even her colleagues and confidantes know this about her. But she represents a meal ticket to so many that the masses just want to ride her coattails as she rises higher and higher.
There are not enough people who care to stop Hillary (or with the cajones to do anything about it) to outweigh those who want to ride her political “successes” with her. We’ve long passed that critical mass, in my opinion.
A significant issue remaining is Hillary’s health. She is not in good health from what I read, and is quite likely an alcoholic. I wonder what would happen if she were to have a stroke or something in August or September. Would they just say she is “unavailable” yet continue to campaign for her? The press would certainly cover for her. Anything to get power and to keep it.
I think our Republic is corrupt beyond repair with not enough who care able to fix it. How much longer will it last?
Because, unfortunately, the GOP will very soon nominate Donald Dumpster. Maybe a presidential system of government was a Founder’s mistake – those guys really wanted an actual king.
Mistakes happen. I’ve certainly made a few, but it bothers me when I do. It SHOULD bother me. If I did what she did, I would be apologizing all over the place. She’s not. That speaks volumes.
She did; you chose to not listen.
She did just like the vast majority of criminals do right AFTER they are caught.
Really?
Yes Really Hillary does not apologize. She says “what are you, the American People, do about it?” Answer: Nothing and the corruption of Clinton & Co., continues unabashed. The corruption of Bush & Co., continues unabashed. America has truly become a Banana republic.
Hitlery Clinton is a spiritual holocaust foaming at the mouth… If the country sows what she has in mind as president with what little is still not demon bound, we will reap a whirlwind of hellishness even exceeding what now passes as civilized. Her solution to health care costs is most certainly institutional, safe and legal euthanasia. The doctors will be able to give death sentences to their patients. Obama health care on steriods. Just the poor will be sacrificed for the economic good o of the country.
Trump is a pure wild card who offer no examples of what he actually would do. He just promises the moon. He is tied at the hip to powerful Zionists by marriage. Elites only give a damn about their own families. Glory be to God for all things. Divine Justice Rules and it will allow the wicked to come to their fullness. Their power is the power which the Christ will use to destroy death by death. It is a feast set before him.
HIM
I know how harsh what I have written is. It is needful to remind the authentic Christian of what St. Paul mentioned to us concerning our human sufferings. They are not to be compared to the Glory and Heavenly Reward that awaits us in the Eternal Heavenly City. God, the Only Holy One is Good, and my heart always soars like an eagle, when I mediate on my absolute Faith in Perfect Divine Justice. Perfect Justice. remember this when you view the harm others have done to you. St Steven got it right. May you receive the Grace to do as St. Steven. He asked the Lord to not count their sin AGAINST HIM against them. He loved mankind.
Even beyond her crooked slimy ways with her email, this is the woman who pushed her husband to bomb Orthodox Serbia in order to give Kosovo, the cradle of Serbian Orthodoxy, to a bunch of extremist ethnic Albanian Muslims who had spent decades trying to wiping out evidence of the Serbian presence in Kosovo including the destruction of dozens of ancient Serbian Orthodox churches and cemeteries. I personally do not see how anyone who is an Orthodox Christian could vote to put this evil pair back in the White House. Donald Trump may not be perfect but he will be an infinitely better President than Crooked Hillary.
You are on the wrong side of the classical historical view.
Most American Orthodox are ashamed of what happened at the hands of the Orthodox leaders over there.
Don’t presume to speak for most American Orthodox. The only disgust most American Orthodox feel are at Bill and Hillary Clinton who turned ancient Orthodox cathedrals and monasteries over to Muslim extremists who used the coffins of saints to urinate in. Muslims went from a minority in Kosovo at the end of World War I to a large majority through the methods they are using in Europe today, illegal immigration and high birth rates. Once they became a majority they agitated to make Kosovo a separate Muslim nation that is now the drug running organized crime capital of Central Europe. This is the legacy of Bill and Hillary Clinton, may they rot in hell and never see the inside of the White House again. Shame on any Orthodox Christian who votes to put these crooks back in power.
Thank you for setting the record straight regarding Ahab and Jezebel.
Hi George,
It still bothers me that we Orthodox pray for the US armed forces and that God will give us victory over our enemies. The neocon troglodytes have decided that Russia is our enemy. The Russian Orthodox Church is praying that God will give the Russian armed forces victory over their enemies(us), and the Orthodox Churches in America are praying for victory over our enemies(Russia). Doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
But the sad thing is Russia doesn’t have to be our enemy, does it?
Russia has chosen to be the enemy of the U.S. and the West. The animosity was not the West’s idea. Russia is delusional along with its leader, Putin.
The Atheist West made Holy Mother Russia it’s enemy. Putin is no saint, but he is the only thing standing in the breach between the Globalist Agenda and the rest of the normal world. Your delusional if you think otherwise.
Even the West knows that’s not true:
http://warontherocks.com/2016/07/promises-made-promises-broken-what-yeltsin-was-told-about-nato-in-1993-and-why-it-matters/
That is why we are not supposed to fight other Orthodox Peter. But the broader picture for many soldiers the enemy involves their own passions and the horror that they are in no way prepared to face.
There is a shorter version of the petition that just prays for our armed forces not specifically for victory.
Personally, the biggest victory they could have is not to have to fire their weapons at all and everyone come back whole. That is what I pray for.
Peter Millman, that is what Moslems love: another example is when, in WWI, the Germans charged the Russians shouting “Gott mit uns!” The Russians charged the Germans shouting “S nami Bog!” Devout Christians bayonetting each other for God and country….
Here we have some patriotic “Take Back America” types who DROOL at the thought of Putin leading the Russians against “The West”, crying “S nami Bog!”
Michael:
That’s just BULL KAKA! The Serbs were committing mass murders of the Muslims and this had to be stopped. The Dayton Accords did this. I guess you would rather have the mass murdering of Muslims continue. Bill’s legacy regarding the Serbs was to stop the mass murders equal to the Nazi atrocities. Crooks? More bull kaka. If anyone who is a crook and screwed the common worker time and again it is Trump via his planned bankruptcies.
Phil, that’s not necessarily true. The supposed mass murders of innocent, unarmed Bosniaks by the Serbs has been quietly laid to rest.
Go here, George: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Kosovo_War
The Serbs were well-known for ethnic cleansing murdering men, women & children. You can’t hide the mass graves!
Wow, it’s in Wikipedia. I wonder, were the Serbs provoked or did they just decide to cross the railroad tracks and shoot up the Moslems just for the heck of it?
That’s the mainstream narrative, and you bet Wikipedia is in on it. Who is behind Wikipedia?
I’ll bite, Gene! Who IS “behind” Wikipedia? And how did you find it out?
For any given heated subject, ever notice how close Wikipedia always follows the mainstream narrative? Nothing rarely goes counter to what you find in the NYT. Now look closer, look to the discussion pages, you’ll see dissenters are drowned out by others and long histories of discussion are deleted, so that only the mainstream narrative remains. I have followed a number of subjects and have seen this pattern.
One thing to consider is that our intelligence agencies spend billions on social media to shape public opinion, with bots shilling for whatever the agenda is. From 2007:
http://www.wired.com/2007/08/wiki-tracker/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-08-16/program-shows-cia-behind-wikipedia-entries/642224
Also, note how many MSM news/websites shut down commentary when it doesn’t fit the narrative.
On another note, all of social media is dominated by Trump and his supporters, usually by 10:1. Trump may lose but all the energy and enthusiasm in the blogosphere is on his side.
George,
Yes. Any NYT article covering the election doesn’t publish opposing views unless they are easy to take apart. I have tried on many occasions to put seriously considered, carefully written posts with a Christian / Orthodox view and these ARE NEVER published. I have done this as a test many times.
If you are a NYT reader you live in a bubble, because no other voices are allowed in. It’s like it was in Soviet times when Pravda controlled the narrative. IT IS NO DIFFERENT NOW IN THE MSM. And for Bishop Tikhon: It is no different for Wikipedia.
Ahhhhhhh! The Serbs were PROVOKED! You can’t let them Bosnian Moslems get away with provoking good Christians!
[I wonder, were the Serbs provoked or did they just decide to cross the railroad tracks and shoot up the Moslems just for the heck of it?]
http://serbianna.com/analysis/archives/592
It’s not so much that you can’t hide mass graves. All sides committed atrocities during the conflict there. What is the case is that based on the number of dead found, you can’t make the case that the Serbs were outstanding offenders. Srebrenica, for example, was a case where “genocide” was alleged on the basis of fictitious numbers unrelated to the number of dead found. It was also the tripwire for Western intervention. It was all a lie.
His mind’s made up, George. Don’t confuse him with facts!
I remember when I was at Seminary during this war, a lot of Serbs were coming to the Seminary. Often I remember them screaming at our news papers that would report stories and show pictures of how the horrible Serb were slaughtering the Moslems, only the pictures were showing the Orthodox who had been slaughtered. The reporters didn’t know the difference . . . . so I tend not to trust what we claimed . . .
Colette,
It was all rubbish. I was more intimately involved with that conflict than I can talk about but suffice it to say that we were simply on the wrong side. It wasn’t complicated and still isn’t over there. Three basic sides: Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim. Serbs are an Eastern culture, Croats favor the West, Bosniaks are mostly Muslim and, having benefited from western intervention, proceeded to set up a terrorist state in the heart of Europe, further persecuting all non-Muslims, most notably the Orthodox.
This is not to say that most people over there were particularly devout. The joke was that the Bosniaks are the ones who don’t go to the mosque; the Croats are the ones who don’t go to mass, and the Serbs are the ones who don’t go to liturgy.
Western Europe was afraid the whole thing would grow legs and spill out into the rest of Europe. Turned out it didn’t really make any difference anyway as the papers in Europe testify now almost daily. But the decision was made that something had to be done. The West naturally sided with the Catholic Croats and did not want to further antagonize Muslims in Europe during the earlier phases of our not so cold war with Islam. In the early 1990’s, the Soviet Union had just fallen and no one knew what to expect from Russia. There was already containment in place against the Orthodox world because of its former communist system. By the mid-1990’s that policy was made official by the Clinton Administration, containment of the Russian Federation was the working policy.
Thus the Serbs were chosen to be the bad guys. Makes perfect sense geopolitically. It’s just that the whole conflict was much like other conflicts throughout history: Ethnically related people, divided by religion/culture, fighting each other by any means necessary to hold onto their identities. Serbo-Croatian is one language, really.
The tragic precedent of Kosovo provided other nations with all the justification they need to redraw borders that have not been in place long.
Perhaps the most tragic part was that early on the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats were allied against the Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims). But later the West persuaded the Croats to switch sides. Most of the numbers you see in the West regarding casualties and death are garbage. And you had the perverse situation of Christian Slavic Americans in the military and other departments/agencies of the government fighting their own people in favor of Muslims.
Cluster shuck.
All because the United States government and the governments of Europe are not willing to admit that World War III has been and will be between the West and Islam and that religion and culture are dominant forces in politics rather than just economics as the outdated political philosophy of the West dictates.
A Neocon Democrat if ever there was one.
The President is not given a security clearance. He or she has the authority to GRANT security clearances and access thereto.
I think you are making that up as you go along my good bishop.
No, Peter Papoutsis. I served on the Air Staff at HQS USAF in the Pentagon from 1967-71 as Deputy Chief, Personnel Security Group. I signed the Security Clearances of ALL USAF military and civilian personnel at HQS USAF, including everyone in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (OSAF). I KNOW about Defense security clearances and access. I received the Air Force Commendation Medal for my service there, I also reviewed and approved the assignments of all Air Force personnel working at the White House and engaged in Presidential Support Activities, such as Social Aides, etc., like the Staff Sergeant who served as one of Pat Nixon’s stenographers. Do you have any idea how many Background Investigations and FBI Full Field Investigations I reviewed and retained in our walk-in vault?
i also reviewed and maintained the Background Investigations of all Air Force general officers, and candidates for promotion to general officer, world-wide
I repeat: NO ONE GIVES THE PRESIDENT A SECURITY CLEARANCE. PERIOD Perhaps you know only what entertainment media imagine? I don’t have to make anything up, Peter. I’m an expert. Sorry.
Hey if you trust the commander in chief to keep classified information on a private unsecured server that your basic hacker can access and get into then by all means support the criminal candidate. I mean you are the expert we citizens don’t know nothing. I greatly apologize my good bishop.
Peter
Reality – how refreshing! thank you, your Grace!
Refreshing? Wow you are truly parched if that was refreshing.
Hillary Clinton goes into a Burger King and says, “give me three Whoppers.” The clerk responds, “uh, okay, You look great in knit pant suits. People think you are honest. And you don’t owe Goldman Sachs any favors.”
Might I suggest you review the credentials of the last x Treasury Secretaries?
May I suggest you give your name. I do not like talking with cowards.
Peter
My Endorsement for President of the United States of America
“A woman is a temple, built over a sewer.” – Tertullian
I have not commented on politics for the most part, as many of you know, since I am a monarchist and could not realy give a rat’s tail who wins the American election in novembr. However, I have been wrong about something and I want to clear it up today. Most of the time, my instincts are good, not infallible of course, but pretty darn good. It takes a big man to admit when he has been wrong.
Without further ado, and though I never thought my little monarchic, Russian Orthodox heart would ever write this. I am endorsing Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America.
You read that right. Hell just froze over.
The rest of this is an explanation of my reasoning, and I assure you, it is the most reasonable thing to do, IMHO.
As we all know, there are two candidates for president of the United States – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I like Donald Trump. Probably, I would enjoy meeting him more than meeting Hillary Clinton. Hard to say. The one I’d love to sit down and have a beer with, though, is Bill. I miss Bill.
But that’s not the reason I’m writing this.
You know my views on eschatology. I know that we are in the End Times. It’s a fact. I do not know how long we have but I have my suspicions and have shared them in the past.
In brief, we can have a hard landing here in America and abroad, including Russia, or we can have a hard landing. We’d all like to walk away from this landing and I want as many to be able to walk away from it as possible. That’s really why I’m writing this.
I’m going to put this in all caps because it deserves it. I almost never write in all caps so you know it is significant.
THE GREATEST DANGER THE WORLD FACES TODAY IS THAT THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA WILL GO TO WAR BEFORE THE UNITED STATES AND ISIS GO TO WAR.
I was wrong about that. I thought that Islam might be a better ally against Progressive Liberalism than the other way around. Again, I was wrong about that. I apologize to you all. Please forgive me.
There are two types of Islam, Sunni and Shiite. Shiite Islam is reconcilable and compatible with Orthodox Christianity. Sunni Islam, fundamentally, is not. It has to do with their respective eschatologies. I venture to say that none of you know this, but at one time, I was a practicing Muslim. I converted, briefly, in the early 1990’s, realized how racist they really were (against whites), and left. I had a vision of Christ where He came to me and said, “You’ve tried everything else, try Me.” I wavered, but in the end, I choose Christ. Today I am an Orthodox Christian, not Russian Orthodox or Greek Orthodox or Serbian Orthodox.
Just Orthodox.
Now, Sunni Muslim eschatology is fundamentally at odds with Christianity. A demon inspired Muhammad to make their al-Masih ad-Dajjal someone near and dear to all our hearts – Our Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Their eschatology of the End Times is a reverse mirror image of ours. Research it. It’s true. They have the Final Act all screwed up. That is how we Christians can know who is meant to fight the Final Battle – Armaggedon.
I don’t want to scare anyone any more than I have in the past. But we are all Christians and we know what is written in Scripture and, I am sorry to tell you, that which is written in the Apocalypse of St. John, every word of it. It is True. It will happen. Before our eyes. And there is no way any of us can avoid it.
I’m very sorry. But I’m telling you the Truth. May God have mercy on us all.
Now, on to cases. I’m sure President Vladimir Vladimirich Putin of the Russian Federation would rather Donald Trump be president. At least so far. But I think God would prefer Hillary. Because He is merciful.
You see, the problem is Arrogance. Pride cometh before a Fall. Though I might like him better personally, Donald Trump is simply too arrogant. He might get elected, but the problem is the one I mentioned above – If there is a war between America and Russia before the war between America and Isis, it will be a greater disaster. Though it may seem that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would be able to get along, the fact is, it would turn into a pissing contest and probably all blow up too soon. I’m sure of that.
Hillary has the one quality that Trump lacks that is indispensable in a leader – humility. You may recall that Russia had a female tsar – Catherine the Great. Now, it is true that the first order of business the Russians took up after her demise was to make sure that Russia never had another female tsar. And that was wise, IMHO. But this is a unique situation. If I thought Vladimir Putin could win the Unites States election, I would write in his name. But that can’t happen. So we play the cards we’re dealt.
First of all, Hillary has the best politician that ever, ever drew breath as her closest adviser – her husband. She will listen to him. Once, she called him a “Stupid m*th*rf*ck*r in front of God and everybody outside the White House, at least that’s what I read.
She’s mellowed a bit since then. You can believe it. She would never have gotten this far without him. Believe it.
Secondly, I will offer my own services to her as a spiritual adviser and as much of my assets will be used to support her as is prudent and legal under American law. She made at least one major mistake that I know of and I can help her correct it. I could not help Donald Trump correct anything. I tried to contact him earlier this year. I could not even get through to him on his own website. It’s just impossible. I had a premonition about who the vice president should be and wanted him to know it when I still thought he might be the best person to lead. It was impossible, I know, I even tried.
She will listen.
Third, the illegal immigration situation in America and the Muslim immigration situation in Europe are fundamentally different phenomenon. Sunni Islam is fundamentally at odds with Christianity. They are absolutely irreconcilable and destined to fight it out. It will happen. There can be only one.
Our Latin brothers and sisters are Christians, for the most part. They speak a different language, it is true. But they have saved America from disaster already once. We have a demographic problem here in America. Our rate of reproduction is too low. Abortion is evil and contraception is inadvisable, but perhaps tolerable, for family planning under limited circumstances. When Social Security was set up, there were about 13-17 people (depending on the numbers you use) paying in for every one getting paid out. Even Roosevelt thought that it would eventually have to be privatized. Now it is only about 3-4 people paying in for every dependent. It’s an insolvent ponzy scheme at best now, as are many other of our liabilities. Basically the country is bankrupt and we don’t need another president who will bankrupt it further. Trump has a track record on this matter. Look it up.
The problem is war, not public assistance. War is really good for nothing, just as the song says.
Know, I know what you are thinking: War brought us out of World War II. That’s true. But what really brought us out of World War II was the unity of a National Project that seemed Imminent. America largely escaped the devastation that World War II caused. Remember that. We’ll get back to it.
In all of America’s wars, we have lost just over one million men. Do the math. That is a small percentage compared to some other countries during World War II. It is the reason that most Europeans, including Russians, want to be involved in World War III. Alas, for America and Western Europe, the die is cast. It is too late. But Russia has already suffered enough. I strongly encourage, as I always have, I strongly encourage Russia to stay out of World War III as long as is practicable for them to do so. They largely won World War II on their own, with our material support. That’s enough. They’ve paid their dues.
America, unfortunately, hasn’t.
Partisanship is the problem. For one brief shining moment, we had a chance. It was back in the early sixties. John F. Kennedy. Anointed by God to be president of the United States of America.
And somebody blew his head off.
Think about it. The Peace Corps was founded under him. Under him, we had a sense of national purpose. It all went downhill from there. Worst mistake America ever made. I think I know who had him killed, in truth. I’m going to sit on the information. It is my little feline nose that smells these things out. It is nearly infallible. But I think talking about it would throw fuel on the fire and so I will refrain at this time. But I’m sure I know. To me, it is utterly obvious.
Anyway, in closing I will just say this. Lincoln is not my favorite president, by far. Sometimes he was a fool, sometimes wise. Just like the rest of us. His actions led to the worst war the United States ever experienced, brother against brother.
600,000 dead.
In World War II, Germany and Russia each lost over 20 million. Twenty million. Think about that for a moment. Americans have no remote conception of that kind of loss. We have no reference point to deal with it or process it.
Lincoln said that he defeated his enemies by making them his friends. That’s the better way. It is not always possible. Some foes are incorrigible and will fight to the last man. That’s just the way some people are.
I do not believe America should have any regrets whatsoever about dropping those nuclear weapons on Japan. I am not a pacifist. I could be wrong about that too, I am not infallible.
I believe that America must use every effort available to defeat ISIS. You all know how Old Testament I am. I believe that we have, as Christians, available to us the full range of engagement options approved by God Almighty in the Old Testament. Yahweh, God of the Armies, approved a form of war to be used in extreme circumstances. It is called “herem”. Look it up. It makes jihad look like a boy scout jamboree.
Steven Segal had one of the best macho lines I have heard in any movie ever. A female character in one of his movies confronted him at a pivotal point and said that he was just as bad as his enemies.
He replied, “Oh no, no, dear. I’m much worse.”
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the baddest m*thrf*ck*r in the valley. For Thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, Thy Holy Correction, they comfort me.
There is only one candidate in the American presidential race who will accept His Correction, His Advice.
And that is Hillary Clinton.
Thus endeth the lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk
Verbose and tedious.
Brief and irrelevant, but after all, it was only satire. However, much or all of the factual material included is true; i.e., all the stuff about national purpose and Kennedy, etc. Also the stuff about Islam.
My point was that cool heads are necessary to prevail in the scenario in which humanity finds itself. Neither candidate has a particularly cool head. However, I’m less concerned with Trump than I am with Hillary for the simple reason that he is a rational bully who has a pronounced survival instinct which should curb his temper when dealing with others. He doesn’t really have tantrums, he just makes lots of snide remarks.
She, on the other hand, has always been a loose canon. God only knows what either of them would do in crisis situations but she did not handle Benghazi well at all. What I think she would do is act from fear or anger rather than calculation.
George,
I typed the above in the sunlight at a bus stop this morning. It looks sloppy because I couldn’t see clearly what I was typing for part of the time I was drafting it. I just typed without looking. So here is the corrected version of it if you want to post it instead:
Hillary Clinton for President:
My Endorsement for President of the United States of America
“A woman is a temple, built over a sewer.” – Tertullian
I have not commented on politics for the most part, as many of you know, since I am a monarchist and could not really give a rat’s tail who wins the American election in November. However, I have been wrong about something and I want to clear it up today. Most of the time, my instincts are good, not infallible of course, but pretty darn good. It takes a big man to admit when he has been wrong.
Without further ado, and though I never thought my little monarchic, Russian Orthodox heart would ever write this. I am endorsing Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America.
You read that right. Hell just froze over.
The rest of this is an explanation of my reasoning, and I assure you, it is the most reasonable thing to do, IMHO.
As we all know, there are two candidates for president of the United States – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I like Donald Trump. Probably, I would enjoy meeting him more than meeting Hillary Clinton. Hard to say. The one I’d love to sit down and have a beer with, though, is Bill. I miss Bill.
But that’s not the reason I’m writing this.
You know my views on eschatology. I know that we are in the End Times. It’s a fact. I do not know how long we have but I have my suspicions and have shared them in the past.
In brief, we can have a soft landing here in America and abroad, including Russia, or we can have a hard landing. We’d all like to walk away from this landing and I want as many to be able to walk away from it as possible. That’s really why I’m writing this.
I’m going to put this in all caps because it deserves it. I almost never write in all caps so you know it is significant.
THE GREATEST DANGER THE WORLD FACES TODAY IS THAT THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA WILL GO TO WAR BEFORE THE UNITED STATES AND ISIS GO TO WAR.
I was wrong about that. I thought that Islam might be a better ally against Progressive Liberalism than the other way around. Again, I was wrong about that. I apologize to you all. Please forgive me.
There are two types of Islam, Sunni and Shiite. Shiite Islam is reconcilable and compatible with Orthodox Christianity. Sunni Islam, fundamentally, is not. It has to do with their respective eschatologies. I venture to say that none of you know this, but at one time, I was a practicing Muslim. I converted, briefly, in the early 1990’s, realized how racist they really were (against whites), and left. I had a vision of Christ where He came to me and said, “You’ve tried everything else, try Me.” I wavered, but in the end, I choose Christ. Today I am an Orthodox Christian, not Russian Orthodox or Greek Orthodox or Serbian Orthodox.
Just Orthodox.
Now, Sunni Muslim eschatology is fundamentally at odds with Christianity. A demon inspired Muhammad to make their al-Masih ad-Dajjal someone near and dear to all our hearts – Our Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Their eschatology of the End Times is a reverse mirror image of ours. Research it. It’s true. They have the Final Act all screwed up. That is how we Christians can know who is meant to fight the Final Battle – Armaggedon.
I don’t want to scare anyone any more than I have in the past. But we are all Christians and we know what is written in Scripture and, I am sorry to tell you, that which is written in the Apocalypse of St. John, every word of it. It is True. It will happen. Before our eyes. And there is no way any of us can avoid it.
I’m very sorry. But I’m telling you the Truth. May God have mercy on us all.
Now, on to cases. I’m sure President Vladimir Vladimirich Putin of the Russian Federation would rather Donald Trump be president. At least so far. But I think God would prefer Hillary. Because He is merciful.
You see, the problem is Arrogance. Pride cometh before a Fall. Though I might like him better personally, Donald Trump is simply too arrogant. He might get elected, but the problem is the one I mentioned above – If there is a war between America and Russia before the war between America and Isis, it will be a greater disaster. Though it may seem that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would be able to get along, the fact is, it would turn into a pissing contest and probably all blow up too soon. I’m sure of that.
Hillary has the one quality that Trump lacks that is indispensable in a leader – humility. You may recall that Russia had a female tsar – Catherine the Great. Now, it is true that the first order of business the Russians took up after her demise was to make sure that Russia never had another female tsar. And that was wise, IMHO. But this is a unique situation. If I thought Vladimir Putin could win the Unites States election, I would write in his name. But that can’t happen. So we play the cards we’re dealt.
First of all, Hillary has the best politician that ever, ever drew breath as her closest adviser – her husband. She will listen to him. Once, she called him a “Stupid m*th*rf*ck*r” in front of God and everybody outside the White House, at least that’s what I read.
She’s mellowed a bit since then. You can believe it. She would never have gotten this far without him. Believe it.
Secondly, I will offer my own services to her as a spiritual adviser and as much of my assets will be used to support her as is prudent and legal under American law. She made at least one major mistake that I know of and I can help her correct it. I could not help Donald Trump correct anything. I tried to contact him earlier this year. I could not even get through to him on his own website. It’s just impossible. I had a premonition about who the vice president should be and wanted him to know it when I still thought he might be the best person to lead. It was impossible, I know, I even tried.
She will listen.
Third, the illegal immigration situation in America and the Muslim immigration situation in Europe are different phenomena. Sunni Islam is fundamentally at odds with Christianity. They are absolutely irreconcilable and destined to fight it out. It will happen. There can be only one.
Our Latin brothers and sisters are Christians for the most part. They speak a different language, it is true. But they have saved America from disaster already once. We have a demographic problem here in America. Our rate of reproduction is too low. Abortion is evil and contraception is inadvisable, but perhaps tolerable, for family planning under limited circumstances. When Social Security was set up, there were about 13-17 people (depending on the numbers you use) paying in for every one getting paid out. Even Roosevelt thought that it would eventually have to be privatized. Now it is only about 3-4 people paying in for every dependent. It’s an insolvent ponzie scheme at best now, as are many other of our liabilities. Basically the country is bankrupt and we don’t need another president who will bankrupt it further. Trump has a track record on this matter. Look it up.
The problem is war, not public assistance. War is really good for nothing, just as the song says.
Know, I know what you are thinking: War brought us out of World War II. That’s true. But what really brought us out of World War II was the unity of a National Project that seemed Imminent. America largely escaped the devastation that World War II caused. Remember that. We’ll get back to it.
In all of America’s wars, we have lost just over one million men. Do the math. That is a small percentage compared to some other countries during World War II. It is the reason that most Europeans, including Russians, do not want to be involved in World War III. Alas, for America and Western Europe, the die is cast. It is too late. But Russia has already suffered enough. I strongly encourage, as I always have, I strongly encourage Russia to stay out of World War III as long as is practicable for them to do so. They largely won World War II on their own, with our material support. That’s enough. They’ve paid their dues.
America, unfortunately, hasn’t.
Partisanship is the problem. For one brief shining moment, we had a chance. It was back in the early sixties. John F. Kennedy. Anointed by God to be president of the United States of America.
And somebody blew his head off.
Think about it. The Peace Corps was founded under him. Under him, we had a sense of national purpose. It all went downhill from there. Worst mistake America ever made. I think I know who had him killed, in truth. I’m going to sit on the information. It is my little feline nose that smells these things out. It is nearly infallible. But I think talking about it would throw fuel on the fire and so I will refrain at this time. But I’m sure I know. To me, it is utterly obvious.
Anyway, in closing I will just say this. Lincoln is not my favorite president, by far. Sometimes he was a fool, sometimes wise. Just like the rest of us. His actions led to the worst war the United States ever experienced, brother against brother.
600,000 dead.
In World War II, Germany and Russia each lost over 20 million. Twenty million. Think about that for a moment. Americans have no remote conception of that kind of loss. We have no reference point to deal with it or process it.
Lincoln said that he defeated his enemies by making them his friends. That’s the better way. It is not always possible. Some foes are incorrigible and will fight to the last man. That’s just the way some people are.
I do not believe America should have any regrets whatsoever about dropping those nuclear weapons on Japan. I am not a pacifist. I could be wrong about that too, I am not infallible.
I believe that America must use every effort available to defeat ISIS. You all know how Old Testament I am. I believe that we have, as Christians, available to us the full range of engagement options approved by God Almighty in the Old Testament. Yahweh, God of the Armies, approved a form of war to be used in extreme circumstances. It is called “herem”. Look it up. It makes jihad look like a boy scout jamboree.
Steven Segal had one of the best macho lines I have heard in any movie ever. A female character in one of his movies confronted him at a pivotal point and said that he was just as bad as his enemies.
He replied, “Oh no, no, dear. I’m much worse.”
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the baddest m*thrf*ck*r in the valley. For Thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, Thy Holy Correction, they comfort me.
There is only one candidate in the American presidential race who will accept His Correction, His Advice.
And that is Hillary Clinton.
Thus endeth the lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk
George, please delete all of the above. Someone has been tampering with my faculties. Dispassion is not taking sides. Lapse in judgment. Let God sort it out.
Misha, wow. Really? Saw an old routine of George Carlin’s the other night. He said it perfectly: those that vote cause the problem. The only one’s who can really say anything are those who don’t vote.
My choice: NONE OF THE ABOVE. I am thinking seriously about writing that in in every race.
We have gotten to the point where any “leaders” we elect will take us down the rabbit hole in every which way they can.
Some intentionally like Hillary and her cohorts; some simply out of ignorance, arrogance and narrcissism.
Which is better: amoral, Godless idealog or a foolish, self-agrandizing, amoral pragmatist.
NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!!
Michael,
Stand down, buddy. That was my point. They are both bat poop crazy. As I said, I have no dog in this presidential fight. I will say that if Trump wins, we will probably get along better with Russia. I actually don’t believe that there will be a pissing contest. Trump can read an outline of US forces. He won’t be jealous of Putin. Putin knows he is trying to rebuild Mother Russia. They likely would get along. But I’m not going to endorse anyone. I sincerely do not believe in democracy as a decent form of government and simply will not dirty my hands with it. Let God have His way.
Thy will be done, Lord.
Misha,
I think your deep rooted psychosis is showing. Go to bed.
It’s true that there’s a fine line between brilliance and madness. Misha, Stankovich and a few others evince this principle handsomely, and energize my reading monomania for Monomakhos.
It was satire, guys. I sent a message to George to that effect but I guess he didn’t get it. No worries. All is well here.
Sorry Misha, I didn’t get it. Still, I hope you don’t mind that I used your satire as a starting off point. It made me think deeply about HRC’s qualifications.
No problem, George. It’s fine. There is much, much truth in it if any wish to comment. I just thought it may be above too many people’s heads and so I had second thoughts about whether to let fly with it. I, of course, can explain the whole thing but I would love to hear others’ comments if they have any. Or not, no need to play along if not interested.
Relieved to hear about you personally, Misha…That said, I have read and heard same from Orthodox who meant every word.
Dear Misha,
I know you asked that your missive be deleted but it is emblematic of many other postings I have seen from Orthodox people who care deeply about the faith. What saddens me most of all in such messages is ignoring the 1 million babies a year murdered in the US when Hillary is a “cheerleader” of all abortion including partial birth abortion, hostile to and eager to destroy all we value as persons made in the image of God. As Rod Dreher mentioned on his blog, that is obscene, beyond barbarism, truly of a terrorist-like quality. When Orthodox Christians leave that out of a discussion, I shudder. It is like debating points about Hitler without mentioning the Jews and Catholics murdered systematically and with a sense of justice. What else defines evil? I hope to find the quote by St. John Chrysostom but basically he says when there are two choices which are evil, choose the lesser. (And please let us be clear about the relative degree of evil of each when speaking.). Roman Catholic election guidelines say that very thing. First start with what is clearly “against the Faith”. If there is a clear difference there, voila. I will truly be discouraged beyond belief if any Orthodox Christian who defends the faith avidly then promotes/votes for Hillary. Go third party if you must or stay home if you must (although that is an opt-out for her). But to vote for someone with blood on her hands who lies and manipulates brazenly and has been part of degrading women, marriage, religion as well as murdering innocents with glee? Unfathomable. May God have mercy on me for all my sins. I pray for her somehow to see the light. Amenable to direction from another human being at this juncture when there is no evidence, barring the gift of clairvoyance a la an Orthodox Saint? One can pray, but to believe in this with one’s vote or even verbal approval? Ah, Lord have mercy.
Nicole,
I assure you it was satire. I does have some truth to it but I share your love for the unborn. However, you should bear in mind that Trump has no record on abortion and those who have voted on the basis in presidential elections in the past have been deeply disappointed. I have no intention of voting, in reality. I believe it just encourages them. That is the paradox of my satire that should have tipped people off. People don’t usually give endorsements when they couldn’t care less. Believe me, I could care less who wins in November. God will handle it all as He wills.
Nicole, now that we know for a fact that Hillary’s criminal carelessness led to the execution of an Iranian scientist, we can safely say that in addition to Benghazi, she really does have blood on her hands. Trump may be a crude vulgarian but he’s not a callous barbarian.
Honestly, how she sleeps at night is beyond me.
“. . . we know for a fact that Hillary’s criminal carelessness led to the execution of an Iranian scientist . . .”
“. . . U.S. officials at the time told me [Josh Rogin] and many other journalists that Amiri had defected to the United States of his own free will and had helped the U.S. for many years while he was in Iran by providing essential intelligence information about Iran’s nuclear program. The Washington Post reported at the time the U.S. government had paid Amiri $5 million.
Clinton talked publicly about the case at the time. “He’s free to go. He was free to come. These decisions are his alone to make,” she said on July 13, 2010.
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But there’s no reasonable connection between the discussion of Amiri’s case on email by Clinton’s staff to Amiri’s eventual execution. There’s no evidence her server was hacked. The Iranians knew all about Amiri well before the emails were released publicly. His kidnapping story never held water and his fate was sealed long before his sentence was carried out.” — Washington Post, August 8, 2016
United States Code § 4101
Careful, George. You’ve gotten away so far with declining even to begin to tackle the now imposing mountain of crow, hubris and worse that’s piling up so very, very high. But you probably shouldn’t presume your grace period will endure much longer. I get that humility’s not your forte, but honestly …
Bon appétit
Are you serious? The scientist wouldn’t have gone back to Iran, much less stayed there, unless he thought he was in the clear. It’s possible that he was forgotten by the authorities. The fact that he was mentioned in the hacked emails alerted the mullahs.
And then let’s go to Benghazi. How much American blood there? To say nothing about Ghaddafi, who was playing nice and kept the hordes in Africa. And from there Europe, where the rapine and slaughter is approaching Hunnic proportions.
I’ve said it before I’ll scream it from the rooftops: the Hildebeast and the global elites she’s a frontwoman for have no soul.
Bowls of wrath will be heaped on our heads because of them, bowls of wrath…
“… It’s possible that he was forgotten by the authorities. The fact that he was mentioned in the hacked emails alerted the mullahs.”
Are you serious?
George, you’re only revealing your gross ignorance as to the facts of this case. Your “sources” are Breitbart, Limbaugh or Faux, huh? It’s embarrassing. Stop digging.
And learn the difference between solid, rational, evidence-based criticisms and mad-dog libels. Rabid hysteria is most unbecoming.
True oh so true.
Wow, Trump is the best major party nominee for many decades (on his political positions and overall symbolism, perhaps not on his style) and certainly the most paleoconservative-friendly. And, yet, so many people who should be his biggest fans act like he is some icky prole they could never be loosely associated with.
Shame.
Wow is right. If Thomas Sm should care to elaborate a bit on why he feels this way about Mr. Donald Johann Drumpf, I’d be willing to bet that many readers of his account would find it riveting.
Among others here, Misters Michalopulos, Papoutsis and even a few priests (!!!) have weighed in with rather zealous endorsements of this gravely unqualified grifter, this sociopathic conman and transparent fraud — for President of the United States of America! Regardless of how one might feel about Mrs. Clinton (and rational people populate quite a broad spectrum of opinion on this candidate), as we learn more about the ignorant, grossly deceitful and malignant narcissist nominated in Cleveland, endorsements proferred with such unseemly fervor begin to reek of the treasonous. Arguably. I’d say such sentiments when expressed on an ostensibly Christian blog cry out to the heavens for rational explanation. Particularly when they are found in priests.
(For those of you with a fondness for that class of paranoid, ultra-exotic inanities and insanities that includes numerology, CTs and various other weirdities, all of which seem so de rigueur in many of the at best not-quite-all-there minions of the Rethuglican party, note the 666 aspect to this spelling of your nominee’s actual name. Ronald Wilson Reagan is another case, incidentally. Interesting, huh?)
Shame!
“Thomas SM!” Why will Trump QUIT rather than show his tax returns?
I have become convinced that Progressive hegemony in the West and the US in particular has come to its bitter end and hit an impenetrable wall. I will explain further below, but part of what that means as that it is probably time to focus on our main enemy, Sunni Islam. Sunni Islamic eschatology is diametrically opposed to Orthodox Christian eschatology. A number of Christians, and Orthodox Christians in particular, have documented this. Their attitude toward the Jews in the End Times is the opposite of ours and their Anti-Christ is “prophesied” in their religion to do the things that Christ upon His Return will do in our eschatology.
Thus, Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam are absolutely intractable enemies. They must be converted or defeated. They will not all be converted and, in the Final Battle, the Savior will likely intervene. Nonetheless, we should all be on notice regarding the enemy among us. Trump is right on this subject, though I do not agree with him on Latin immigration.
The reason that Trump terrifies some in the military industrial establishment, the neo-cons and the left is that if he were to be elected, as commander and chief he could put a halt to Foreign Intervention, Inc. during his term(s). He has also promised tax cuts and elimination of the estate tax.
The prospect of that is terrifying to these establishments. The military-industrial establishment may already have had a hand in murdering one president in order to protect itself. But the stakes for the left are even greater.
Let’s say Trump shuts down our “can-do” foreign policy. Then the main drain on the economy would be entitlements. We would be forced to face the true, undisguised cost of an unbridled welfare state. Reagan’s problem was not the tax cuts he put in place. Tax cuts are quite popular and “Reagan Democrats” went for them full tilt boogie. What is harder, much harder to pass are spending cuts. The whole conversation of “slash and burn” economics (as Teddy Kennedy so memorably referred to Reagan’s proposals) was actually a difference of government social spending growing at about 7% under Democratic rule as opposed to 3-4 % under Republican proposals. That’s it. Slower growth.
We actually had greater revenue with the tax cuts because of the economic growth they initiated. Laffer was right about that. That is the reason that taxes since them have not really risen at the federal level above about 40%.
The deficit problem was spending. If Trump were elected and shut down War, Inc. which he could easily do as commander and chief, there would be no place for progressive ideology to hide. They could no longer blame spiraling deficits on war (which, admittedly, is to blame as much as anything else). They would have to admit that unbridled welfare spending is a serious problem. Since bribes are all they have to offer, that thought is utterly terrifying to them.
So they will do anything they can to stop Trump, psyche warfare, assassination, whatever. If he is elected, they cannot and will not stop. It is a matter of self-preservation for them.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/wow-breaking-video-julian-assange-suggests-seth-rich-wikileaks-dnc-source-shot-dead-dc/