Yikes, LJ!
I knew you would disagree with my opinion—that for good of the country PDJT 47 should pardon Obama & Biden and go nuclear on all the rest of the derps.
But did you have to hit me with 4 separate posts? :)
Sorry, new thoughts came to me, and then I decided some Q posts would be good, too. If I had more wits I would have done one longer post.
I must admit I feel very strongly about this. Let me take a break on my fainting couch now.
:-D
Not that LJ needs it (at all), but I am going to weigh in strongly on her side.
When we “for the good of healing” exclude the culpable from justice, it is not only anti-American, as in equal justice under the law, but it can only lead to a quicker revival of the most evil among us.
We seemed to understand this after the conclusion of the war in Europe in 1945. We sought out, gathered evidence against, tried, convicted, and where warranted, executed the bastards. This led to driving Naziism underground, where it has remained until only the last few years.
Although the Wehrmacht, the Kriegsmarine, and the Luftwaffe were obliterated physically, the intellectual homunculus of the Nazis was not defeated, only subdued. It has resurfaced. Witness what the left proposes: governance by elite (for your own safety), rule of government over rule of God, from whom all rights actually are granted, suppression of all dissenting views, complete control of the media, disarming the populace, mandatory medical experimentation, and of course Jew-hatred. Naziism stand naked before our very eyes. Again!
Nuremberg bought us 70 years. No one said something to the effect of “in the interest of healing we should cut Goering some slack”. No, we wisely did the opposite. We followed evidence.
And so we should here too. Expose it all. Bring charges. If the evidence stands, convict. Where the crimes are sufficient: execute.
It may buy us another 70 years. We’ll see. Of this one thing I am completely confident, and that is that it’s coming. It will happen.
I see two choices there. 1/ Jesus uttered forgiveness for those misguided souls that had decided to cut off his ministry - and his life. --- 2/ Speaking politically, average 'right-ist' citizens have complained that top instigators of lawlessness get off scott free; if PDJT prosecuted the foot soldiers while letting the generals walk away, confidence in his administrative leadership might suffer as a result.
Gerald Ford discovered that in 1976 to his dismay: the only president never elected to office.
I am a Christian and have been put to the test in forgiving those who harmed me. I would undoubtedly make a terrible political leader. 🤷
Maybe TtT knows some things about the future that we don’t: maybe Xiden will have died by then and Obummer be in Gitmo...
back to my original question.
Can someone turn down a pardon ?
Discussions back and forth about accepting a pardon - is it an admission of guilt ?
so, what do they get pardoned for ?