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Harvard Law Student, Others Trash Antonin Scalia
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| Javier Manjarres
Posted on 01/29/2020 3:11:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
More wisdom from the “The Constitution Is A Living Document” crowd.
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:42:52 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Exactly. See my post above. That is a mealy mouthed, weak sentiment I would just as soon take a leak on.
This country was founded on the rough principle that nobody is deserving of respect simply because of a conferred title, especially if their actions are not worthy of respect.
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:42:53 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: semimojo
I most certainly dont. That one line raised my hackles.
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:43:57 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: nickcarraway
Again, I am assuming (and hoping) you misunderstood our responses.
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:46:49 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: eyeamok
Interesting and cool story, I just hate giving those asshats of the lung turds a click ... ever.
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:46:50 PM PST
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: semimojo; rlmorel; bagster
Well, I guess I am more old-fashioned U.S. I think we should vehemently, disagree with someone, but also I believe in traditional values.
I wouldn't tweet out a picture of the gravestone of some politician I disagree with and write something nasty. What's the point.
Also, it seems like you guys don't disagree with some of the ways Trump has been treated, you just disagree with the target. You would agree with it if it was against Obama?
Certainly, I don't respect many elected officials and jurists in one sense. But, I won't be giving up my dignity and beliefs and acting like a leftist idiot. Nothing would be served by that.
To: rlmorel
Would you engage in some like the women’s march with those stupid hats and profane signs, like they do that last few years? Or are you a mature conservative who realizes that would only reflect on you, not the opponent?
To: bagster
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:51:06 PM PST
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: rlmorel
Yeah, I got a lot of grief from Freepers over the years because I refuse to call a skunk cabbage a rose just because they were elected to an office, served in the military or they are old.
In a perfect world their hearts would be changed and I could call them friend. It is not a perfect world.
And I will continue to call out the people who are trying to destroy me and mine.
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:52:46 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
To: semimojo
As Tony Soprano said: “Those that want respect, give respect.”
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:59:07 PM PST
by
Maceman
(Trump Trumps Hate!!!)
To: nickcarraway
So you two would post a tweet of some deceased jurists gravestone and insult him? And furthermore. I'd also piss on Bill and Hillary Clinton's grave. And Jane Fonda. And TONS of other people I can think of and some I can't.
We fought an entire revolution to escape a monarchy, where you were forced to 'respect' so-called 'leaders'.
Here in America, we are free. People given authority by us need to respect US, not the other way around.
#FreeBornManInTheUSA
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:08:18 PM PST
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
To: bagster
We fought an entire revolution to escape a monarchy, where you were forced to 'respect' so-called 'leaders'.You should tell that to the huge number of freepers who worship the monarchy and hate Americans.
To: nickcarraway
You should tell that to the huge number of freepers who worship the monarchy and hate Americans. Okay.
*megaphone*
Consider yourself told, Tories!!!!
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:23:05 PM PST
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
To: bagster
If the Clintons can’t get you to do that, then they succeeded in their mission.
To: nickcarraway
Wait. Can't get me to do what, exactly? I don't folla.
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:25:55 PM PST
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
To: rlmorel; nickcarraway
I stand by that. What he said.
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:37:55 PM PST
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
To: nickcarraway
“but when a graduate student and some other college kids from several of Americas most prestigious law schools and colleges decide to express their deep disdain for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, well, some of us take notice.”
Harvard law isn’t prestigious due to high achievement. It is exclusive for the ruling class and a few tokens. That is not the same as good. Their only metric of success is that their graduates rise in the establishment. Which is no surprise because they were picked to go there due to connections with the establishment.
But I see no evidence of respectable thinkers coming out of there. Certainly not compared to numerous non-Ivy schools.
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:47:31 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: bagster
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:53:05 PM PST
by
sauropod
(If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
To: nickcarraway
Foreign snowflakes. Even worse than domestic ones.
HEY ASSHOLES! GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY!!
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:54:32 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Ban Carbon Dioxide! It's twice as bad as Carbon Monoxide!!!)
To: nickcarraway; bagster
nickcarraway, I am not sure where you are coming from. Let's try to have a real discussion, so I won't fly off the handle. I read your post all the way to the end, I hope you will do the same for my response.
How do I go from refusing to give respect to someone (whose actions not only do not merit respect, but actively call for complete disgust and total rejection) to someone who would tweet out a picture of some politician's gravestone or wearing a hat that is supposed to resemble a vagina?
I completely do not understand the jump you make there.
Nowhere...NOWHERE in my post or bagster's post did either of us approve of ANYTHING those people did. As a matter of fact, if you read our initial posts, his was one word, and mine was two very short sentences, both of us focused on that ONE repulsive sentiment by the author "...respect should always be given to all elected officials and confirmed jurists, regardless of how they voted or ruled..."
We were speaking of that ONE sentiment: that we should respect someone with a title simply because they have a title? I wholly reject that concept root and branch. And I don't reject it because I am on one side of a political argument or another. I reject it because the actions of the people I refuse to "respect" COMPEL me to reject it.
I have a personal rule that over the years I have come to embrace over the years, I call it "Default Respect" and will touch on it at the end. I hope you will read that far. But I have specific examples of why I don't respect "ALL elected officials and confirmed jurists"
- If I were a colonial in 1774 whose business was destroyed or was in imprisoned because I was denied due process that was granted to British citizens living in England, should I respect King George III simply because he is King?
- I give default respect to people who serve and have served in the military. Should I respect Benedict Arnold because he was a General?
- Should I respect 2LT William Calley because he was a commissioned officer?
- Should I respect Joe Biden because was an elected politician, even though he has knowingly slandered an innocent man in the death of his wife and child?
- Should I respect Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Occasio-Cortez because they are or were elected officials even though they want to bring untold misery into this country by turning us into the Soviet Union or Venezuela?
- Should I respect Adam Schiff even though he knows for a fact that this entire impeachment is a political farce, but is provably openly lying to prosecute it?
- Should I respect the Governor of Virginia because he is an elected official, even though he wants to completely disregard the Constitution he took an oath to uphold with his hand on a Bible in his quest to remove the Second Amendment rights of the citizens of Virginia?
- Should I respect Hillary Clinton because she was a Senator and Secretary of State, even though she tried to sell her country's interests down the river in order to obtain money and power?
- Should I respect John Kerry for those same reasons who held the same office?
- Should I respect Edward Kennedy because he was a Senator for so many years, even though he left a woman to drown alone in a car he drunkenly drove off a bridge because doing the right thing would have ended his career? Not to mention his overtures to the Soviet Premier Andropov back in the early Eighties.
- Should I respect Pope Francis, because he is the Pope, even though he wants to mainstream homosexuality into the church, and is a Marxist to boot?
- Should I respect Pope Francis, because he is the Pope, even though he wants to mainstream homosexuality into the church, and is a Marxist to boot?
- Should I respect Lee Harvey Oswald because he was a US Marine, a group of people I give a huge amount of Default Respect to, even though he murdered an American President?
I could go on, but you get the idea.
There is one common thread through all of these examples-all these people should have held respect, but did not because of specific actions they took or activities they engaged in.
You mentioned you are old fashioned in some respect. I am too. My parents taught me two major things:
- To respect people until they demonstrated to me that they were undeserving of respect.
- That I should not expect people to respect me, but should earn their respect, and that was true respect.
I have developed a code for myself that I call "Default Respect". It means that I respect EVERYONE and treat with them as such, until they give me cause to not respect them.
In the case of all of these people and nearly the entire Democrat party along with the Leftist jurists who inhabit our court systems, they are attacking our Constitution and this country I love and owe so much to, and I know enough to see their actions WILL both bankrupt it and destroy it.
I cannot respect those people. I will not. That doesn't mean I have to tweet rude pictures of their gravesites or put a Pussy Hat on my head. But I damn sure will not respect them because they have a title, are elected, or sit behind a judge's bench.
I have had my current Free Republic tagline for some time, and that is because I think it is true: "Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both."
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posted on
01/29/2020 7:39:51 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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