How to Survive a Character Assassination

Watching the left's insane treatment of Kavanaugh reminds me of some of what you dealt with at CSUN.

"CSUN" stands for California State University Northridge. My friend referred to the eight years during which I worked for that organization, 2008-16.

My friend sent me the note because the factors involved with Brett Kavanaugh's frightful battle for the Supreme Court coincided with my own harrowing experience with liberals: the California university professoriate; the Clintons; feminists; the intelligence field; Dianne Feinstein; Kamala Harris; the Supreme Court; and, most importantly, a psychedelic and Kafka-esque series of sexually charged investigations.

Ten tips in summary:

1. You have to defend yourself. Do not let publicists, lawyers, or spokespeople strategize for you. Do not go into hiding.
2. Do not let people pay you off. Accept poverty before you accept money that binds you to silence.
3. Be very public and firm. This will allow you to get public support.
4. Pick a side and stick with it. When being smeared, you have no viable option to strike a middle ground.
5. Give up on trying to document your way to vindication. The attackers will make up lies about you, and their lies will be carefully woven to surprise you. If you try to document everything you do, you will lose your mind.
6. Accept that most people may believe the worst about you. What does God know about you? That is what matters. Pray several times a day, and never miss church.
7. Have a sense of humor. The absurd circus that America has become can entertain you.
8. Sleep, eat well, and exercise.
9. Be very attentive to your spouse. She suffers in ways you may not notice, and if you do not keep her happy, you will lose the most important thing you have.
10. Forgive all, for they know not what they do. A priest once told me, "Their hate is a cry of pain because they live in such darkness." If I do not forgive Elizabeth Say, the dean who did much of this against me, I will live in a prison of unsatisfied vengeance. That woman may likely never pay any penalty in this life for the vast devastation she wrought on my family. By forgiving her, I get the only freedom I can expect.

“Be very attentive to your spouse. She suffers in ways you may not notice, and if you do not keep her happy, you will lose the most important thing you have.”

This is true in every thing that you might do. Always.

I do have a slight issue with number 10, "Forgive all, for they know not what they do." Some of these degenerates DO know, having completely seared their consciences after having known the Truth. They are the unredeemables, the vessels fit for destruction, who exist on earth for God's purposes only to bring about the final Tribulation.

Jesus' prayer in this regard was directed toward the Roman soldiers, the executioners, who were carrying out official orders and who were truly ignorant. His sentence upon his accusers was much different: "Woe unto you!"

Actually #10 is the best advice. Forgiveness is more about the forgiver than the person being forgiven.

Letting God settle the score is always best. He says to leave it to him and he will take care of it. I have way too many of my own issues that need forgiveness to worry about getting even.

Always keeping our eyes on Eternity is the best way to deal with character assasination.

11. Bring the fight to your enemies. Pick one and focus all of your energies on destroying that one person. Hold them accountable and make of them an example for the others.

12. When physically confronted by your enemies say what you need to say to provoke them into violence. Then do whatever you need to do to defend yourself. It helps to have video.

13. Have scary friends who take it personally when someone tries to harm you.

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