Posted on 11/28/2024 4:40:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President-elect Trump has stated that success will be his revenge. While those of us on the right pray that his next term will be successful, there are distinctions between revenge and justice. Revenge is emotional, personal, vindictive and cyclic, whereas justice is rational, impersonal, and brings about vindication and closure.
We’re seeing what happens when people break the law with impunity. Those who commit smash-and-grab burglaries are given a slap on the wrist, when and if they’re apprehended. Stories of public figures committing blatant crimes flash across our screens and then fade into the ether. Millions of illegals are welcomed into our country and many wreak havoc. Meanwhile, grandmothers praying in front of abortion mills get sent to prison and government officials burst into people’s homes and euthanize their pets. Police departments, like our military, are having difficulty meeting recruitment goals as candidates have no wish to risk life, limb, and liberty for woke bureaucrats who don’t have their back.
At one time our government was ostensibly composed of people who respected the Constitution and the rule of law. Republicans campaign on being the party of law and order. Yet the GOP has a fairly well-established pattern of summoning people to their committees to testify as to their actions, writing up lengthy reports and then...nothing happens.
Case in point: a story broke on November 27, 2024 concerning Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police (CP) officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021. Byrd has a checkered career in the CP. During the J6 demonstration he shot Ashli Babbitt, a small, unarmed female Air Force veteran in the neck, killing her. Byrd says that by shooting Babbitt he “saved countless lives”. Babbitt was reportedly 5’2” tall and weighed around 110 lbs.
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What is the difference between punishment and discipline?
They can look the same so what is the difference?
President-elect Trump has stated that success will be his revenge.
I have no problem if correction is in order.
Defining words is a nemesis for the adherents of nihilism and a challenge for those of right mind.
I think of discipline as preemptive and punishment as post facto.
The law has been used to destroy its own objective. It has been used to annihilate the justice it was supposed to maintain.
[paraphrase] The Law - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
The summary justice in need of administration must needs be dispassionate. Difficult in an age imbued with the emotions of idiocy.
I think of discipline as preemptive and punishment as post facto.
One is the heart of the administrator. Some parents are punishing, and some are disciplining.
The second is the heart of the receiver. I thought Mom was punishing me, as time went by, I reflect on what her heart really was and how hard it was for her to do it.
The libs only see punishment, not correction. That is their heart. Trump and we see correction and discipline.
We WILL have justice, I promise. Be patient and wait and see.
As long as he also fixes the border. Crime. Economy.
Treason and Conspiracy are Constitutional crimes and should NEVER be allowed to become “normal” or forgivable.
Yes,IMO most of them...but perhaps not *all*...deserve a full pardon.
my dad always said “some people get mad and some people get even...I get mad and THEN I get even”.
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If Justice is to be achieved, then it will necessarily require indictments, trials, convictions and sentences for Demonicrats giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
Well… Quite frankly, I want some revenge too.
Revenge will be justice in this case.
Those who broke the law need to be prosecuted!!! Period…
The J6 political prisoners have suffered extreme injustice. However, because we have a corrupt biased media, most of the country still believes that they were seditious traitors. We have to get the whole truth out there so that the public will know that these people were exercising their free speech rights and they were motivated by election integrity not rebellion.
If we don’t get the truth out, pardons will be considered political favoritism and Trump and conservatives will lose credibility.
The truth will set them free. It will also deliver justice to those prosecutors and agents that violated defendants’ rights.
My personal feeling is that punishment is definitely warranted; what Biden and Co. have done in the past 4 years, to me, borders on personal; trash talking us, calling us Nazis, tearing down our borders- someone should ask the families of those young women who were raped and murdered by illegals what THEY want….
If someone advocates for playing dirty, I won’t by buying in.
If that same person advocates clearly defined cases and
sites and justifies the use of case law in his pleading,
I’m in Big-Time!
It’s time to make it clear this won’t be tolerated in our
nation, and the next time folks think they can get away
with stuff like what took place, I want them to look back
and see long prison terms for those who tried it this time.
“...because you’d be in jail”, comes to mind.
That B had her campaign staff draw up a fraudulent case
against Trump that hobbled his first term, and she should
be called to account for it, along with a lot of others
who knew there was nothing at all legitimate about the
charge of Russian collusion.
That includes Obama, and national security staff who were
all in on the charade from day one.
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