Posted on 05/07/2010 11:53:47 AM PDT by GonzoII
That needs to be qualified:
Mt 5:39: "But I say to you, not to resist evil: but if any one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. "
Ver. 39. Not to resist evil;[6] i.e. not to resist or revenge thyself of him that hath done evil to thee. --- Turn him the other cheek. Let him have also thy cloak. These are to be understood as admonitions to Christians, to forgive every one, and to bear patiently all manner of private injuries. But we must not from hence conclude it unlawful for any one to have recourse to the laws, when a man is injured, and cannot have justice by any other means. (Witham) --- What is here commanded, is a Christian patience under injuries and affronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more, rather than to indulge the desire of revenge; but what is further added does not strictly oblige according to the letter, for neither did Christ, nor St. Paul, turn the other cheek. (St. John xviii. and Acts xxiii.) (Challoner) --- Hence also the Anabaptists infer, that it is not lawful to go to law even for our just rights; and Luther, that Christians ought not to resist the Turks. (Bristow)
Source:
http://haydock1859.tripod.com/id19.html
We have a two party system and a one party media
I told my nephew, an editor for a local TV station, when he mocked what he thought I was saying, that there is a conspiracy among the media to help the Democrats. I told him that there is no conspiracy to help the Democrats, they ARE the Democrats.
Brietbart is correct. The media is the left, those funny people in congress are merely puppets to their media masters. Imagine that, the manufacturer of bread and circuses controlling the agenda of their consumers?
” Breitbart said he hoped his battle against the liberal media could become “an international movement,” and likened the battle to the previous century’s battle against Communism. “
Breitbart is one smart dude.
This is the primary reason why the American political class can be so far to left of the electorate and yet be reelected year after year, decade after decade.
In my 30+ years of observing the political tea leaves, it never fails the "Conservative" label ALWAYS handily defeats the "Liberal" label in polls. It also never fails that the "Democrat" label beats the "Republican" label when polled. Why this seeming paradox?
We have the media and hollywood to blame for this.
The Communist Party Media
I'd like to know who writes their lines...
Now that would be interesting.....
Let us not forget the publik skools and colleges now.
For over thirty years, I’ve been saying that were I to get a financial windfall, I’d set up a scholarship system for (bonafide) conservative J-school students.
Close.
We have a one party system that comes in two flavors and a one party media.
But the real problem is that we are supposedly protected by a Constitution that was designed to function in what would now be a 50 party system. Consequently the two national parties are free to run amok and trample our liberties... with the fools in the media cheering them on.
one thing we have going to us is that the Liberal Media can no longer financially sustain itself, and has entered a process of slow but certain demise (if some bold Conservative could get control of, say, CBS, fire the entire News Division, and put a guy like Breitbart in charge of rebuilding a new one, that would be a good start)
The Cold War was also a media war.
CBS, NPR, BBC, etc. have had the high ground for decades and did their best to defeat Reagan.
Difference is...now it's time to TAKE that ground instead of holding the defensive posture.
I’d put it at 1 and 1/4 party system. At best.
Very true, but the media will fall with the Democrats this November. I have never seen an industry actually go out to destroy themselves like the media is. You would think that the employees of the media would see that they are destroying their own jobs in the future.
This is what I have felt for over 20 years, it is a shameful fiasco.
And the cherry on top of the sundae is how the media slams any infraction of conservatives no matter how minimal, repeatedly and at high and wide volume—while bootlicking and influencing thought of the masses in favor of the left—with as Brietbart says, partial coverage or NO coverage of the sins of the liberals.
Todays “journalists” are sellout jerks. They are valueless, toady fools smitten by the most dysfuntional in our society—left wing hypocrits, the celeb debaunched and delusional radical progressives.
And these idiots actually strut a “superior” demeanor-—they are a JOKE.
Logic will prevail again one day, life always finds a way—the laws of cause and effect does not change because of contrived media fashion— and these dim glossies will flounder and be exposed.
Breitbart's an important member of the team - thank God he's on our side...
Good point. If the Liberal media could be effectively neutralized, closed down, etc. The Dem party would be truly a minority party.
The media sure has it in for their grandkids and great grandkids etc. Our generation will die off and the next one or two,,then their decendants will really get it shoved up their ying-yang...all because Gramps, who was a useful idiot wanted it so much????? (Orwell,, are you there?)
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