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Moral Legitimacy and the US Government
American Thinker ^ | 30 Jun, 20211 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 06/30/2021 4:21:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Moral legitimacy is a valuable commodity — one our elite betters seem to have lost their respect for.

Consider these three statements:

(1) I will judge others not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

(2) I will treat others as I would have others treat me.

(3) I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The first moral statement comes from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. The second is the Golden Rule, articulated, in one form or another, by every major religion on Earth. The last is part of the presidential oath of office, meant to elevate official duties to moral obligations before God.

Now ask yourself how many elected or unelected members of the American government could honestly affirm all three moral propositions today. Can you name anyone? What if I were instead to ask you to list every member of the American government who intentionally disregards all three of these moral principles? Would you ever be able to complete your list?

In a hundred or so words and with three simple moral duties as our guide, we've gone a long way to showing why the American government has lost its legitimacy and why it has begun resorting to increasingly hostile and threatening rhetoric against its citizens.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 06/30/2021 4:21:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left actively oppose morality. What do we expect when they take over the government?


2 posted on 06/30/2021 4:21:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

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3 posted on 06/30/2021 4:24:29 AM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: MtnClimber

Federal Protection of “Oath Keepers” Kingpin Stewart Rhodes Breaks The Entire Capitol “Insurrection” Lie Wide Open
June 30, 2021

https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-missing-link-fbi-unindicted-co-conspirator/

If 1/6 was an “insurrection,” why protect the one man who, more than any other individual referenced in the charging documents of the 530+ open criminal cases, comes closest to the media’s ravenous description of a “lead insurrectionist?”

Is it possible that the Oath Keepers, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, has been run, in effect, by the United States government itself — and nobody has mentioned it until now?

Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 (“1/6”) with one simple, relentless question: what is the FBI and Army Counterintelligence’s relationship with Stewart Rhodes?

Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers.

The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America’s largest militia, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat to the entire U.S. military.

Whatever the truth of these hyperbolic claims, the fact remains: the Oath Keepers are the most extensively prosecuted paramilitary group alleged to be involved in 1/6. Indeed, it was the alleged “pre-planned assault” on the Capitol by Stewart Rhodes’s alleged Oath Keepers lieutenants that was used as the key talking point to try to convert the day’s events from a protest into an “insurrection.”

[much more at link]


4 posted on 06/30/2021 5:41:31 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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It is looking more and more like an orchestrated “Reichstag Fire” type of event.


5 posted on 06/30/2021 5:49:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s an amazing piece in Revolver, and worth the time to read it all.


6 posted on 06/30/2021 5:59:54 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
Darren Beattie has been doing great reporting on the 1/6 event. Great interviews with Steve Bannon on War Room as well. I would post this article, but it is already posted:

Federal Protection of “Oath Keepers” Kingpin Stewart Rhodes Breaks The Entire Capitol “Insurrection” Lie Wide Open

7 posted on 06/30/2021 6:09:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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