Posted on 06/13/2020 2:49:23 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Lewis Hamilton, the six-time world champion British Formula One driver, recently criticised his colleagues in the sport for saying nothing in the wake George Floyd’s death.
If any answer to this accusation were required, a reasonable one might have been that it was not their place as mere car racers to comment on such matters. If they had wanted to engage in polemics, however, they might have pointed out that Hamilton had remained silent about many terrible events in the world, for example (to take only one such) the war around the Great Lakes of Central Africa, which so far has claimed not one life, but several million lives. Black lives matter to Hamilton, they might have said, but apparently not the lives of these Africans.
Such a response would have led only to further bitter and highly-publicised recrimination (and would take considerable courage). It was far easier to cave in to moral blackmail and get it over with by shedding a few crocodile tears in public. The interesting and important question is why such moral blackmail should work, almost without fail.
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Legalized Extortion
Moral, physical, intellectual, psychological THUGGERY. Asymmetric WAR. We will be in it the rest of our lives. The SUPERCRIMINAL always have the advantage over the innocent victim. Witness history and current events.
Excellent essay. “Actual good conduct, which requires some effort, restraint, and even self-sacrifice, has correspondingly become less important in earning a reputation for goodness. Holding a placard, chanting a slogan, expressing an opinion, is enough.” True.
Problem. The Left knows one thing: to destroy loudly and to scold people who are not destroying and who are not loud enough.
Solution. Praying, sacrificing certain meals, and trusting in the Lord who knows exactly what is going on and He knows exactly what to do. Watch the US economy to get stronger soon. Today is the first day since April 1 that I saw 20 cars at iHOP. Sweet.
I will not comply. ‘Pod.
John Galt’s Radio Speech
http://amberandchaos.net/?page_id=73
Thanks. It gets worse, combat_boots.
https://www.infowars.com/video-louis-farrakhan-warns-africans-not-to-take-bill-gates-vaccines/
Where’s OUR government?
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