on the one hand, I doubt you’d seen my last post just before yours, b/c I am not assuming (now) that it will turn out to be any felony or even a crime at all...... I simply don’t know enough about what statutes might or might not apply, what the real facts are, what the defense will be, etc.
also, upon a bit of reflection I am willing to *hope* that O’Keefe & co. had/have some sounder plan than many of us see at the moment..... I just speculated that maybe this is even some kind of set-up against the Democrats to draw attention and then backfire on the liberals.... but I really have no idea, and it would seem to be a severely high-risk strategy in “personal” terms unless they have reasons to be sure they stopped short of violating laws or at least stopped short of felonies..... I simply don’t know.
But what I don’t accept is that the obvious and appalling double-standards in media, law, and politics mean that conservatives don’t have to be better, more honest, living according to OUR best beliefs and laws...... the sleaziness of so many Democrats and Mediascum does not justify breaking the law against them (if that did happen here), although the stench of hypocrisy will be very foul as liberals jump to condemn these guys when they do nothing about ACORN, New Black Panther Party, and on and on and on.... not to mention Eric Holder’s involvement in pardons of terrorists in the Clintonista era etc. etc. etc.
No one needs to convince me that the Democrats and MSM are a cesspool of low standards, chronic dishonesty, blatant biases, immorality, and treason
but while all that justifies many kinds of political “hardball” tactics to oppose and expose them, I believe that *we* must remain within the law
Oh I agree with you that we haven’t much information just yet. It indeed may have been a stupid stunt. Or it could have been something else. What I am trying to point out is that there is a point when tyranny and injustice is so tipped in the favor of the bad guys that people start to take the law into their own hands. This is what happens when you do not have an ethical and functioning justice system.
We have an administration that doesn’t seem to have much respect for truth and ethical behavior either. It sometimes seems like the outlaws are in charge. Eventually there is a saturation point. I do not advocate always taking the high road when it only leads to hell. At some point you must fight back and you can’t worry about breaking a few tea cups if you know what I mean.
This is why it is so important that laws are enforced and enforced equally. I’d rather not see us end up having to make these types of choices. I’d rather see our system working like it was intended. Otherwise our laws do not mean anything anymore and the only ones following them are fools that won’t survive.
What I am hoping that instead of Sean Hannity and every conservative talk show host throwing these guys under the bus they point out that there are many crimes that have been excused and overlooked. When one part of society sees there are no consequences it isn’t long until the rest of the society starts to believe the same applies to them.