Posted on 09/17/2018 10:20:53 PM PDT by Signalman
It is almost impossible to overstate the damage done to America's moral compass by taking the charges leveled against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously.
It undermines foundational moral principles of any decent society.
Those who claim the charges against Judge Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford are important and worth investigating, and that they ultimately, if believed, invalidate his candidacy for the U.S. Supreme Court are stating that:
a) What a middle-aged adult did in high school is all we need to know to evaluate an individual's character -- even when his entire adult life has been impeccable.
b) No matter how good and moral a life one has led for 10, 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years, it is nullified by a sin committed as teenager.
No decent -- or rational -- society has ever believed such nihilistic nonsense.
This is another example of the moral chaos sown by secularism and the left. In any society rooted in Judeo-Christian values, it is understood that people should be morally assessed based on how they behave over the course of their lifetime -- early behavior being the least important period in making such an assessment.
These religious values taught us that all of us are sinners and, therefore, with the exception of those who have engaged in true evil, we need to be very careful in making moral evaluations of human beings.
And, of course, we were taught to extend forgiveness when people demonstrate through their actions that they have changed. As a well-known ancient Jewish adage put it: "Where the penitent stands, the most righteous cannot stand."
In other words, the highest moral achievement is moral improvement.
Perhaps the most important principle violated by taking this 36-year-old high school-era charge seriously is the principle of the moral bank account.
Every one of us has a moral bank account. Our good deeds are deposits, and our bad deeds are withdrawals. We therefore assess a person the same way we assess our bank account. If our good actions outweigh our bad actions, we are morally in the black; if our bad actions greatly outweigh our good actions, we are morally in the red.
By all accounts -- literally all -- Brett Kavanaugh's moral bank account is way in the black. He has led a life of decency, integrity, commitment to family and commitment to community few Americans can match. On these grounds alone, the charges against him as a teenager should be ignored.
So, why is this charge taken seriously?
One reason is, as I recently wrote, the greatest fear in America is fear of the left -- the fear of what the left will do to you if you cross it. Not fear of God. Not fear of doing wrong. Fear of the left. Offend the left and you will lose your reputation and, quite often, your job or your business.
Another reason is pure, amoral, demagogic politics. No honest American of any political persuasion believes that if a woman were to charge a Democrat-appointed judge such as Merrick Garland with doing to her 36 years ago in high school what Brett Kavanaugh is charged with having done 36 years ago in high school, the Democratic Party and the media would be demanding the confirmation vote be delayed or the candidate withdraw.
A third reason is feminism's weakening of the American female (and male, but that is another story). A generation ago, a drunk teenager at a party trying groping a teenage girl over her clothing while trying to remove as much of her clothing as possible would not have been defended or countenanced. But it would not have been deemed as inducing post-traumatic stress disorder either.
This weakening of the female is perfectly illustrated by the statement released by Susanna Jones, head of Holton-Arms School, the private preparatory school for girls in Bethesda, Maryland, that the accuser attended. "As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers," Jones said.
"Empowers women"? Please. Nearly every woman over puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her (the groping of a pre-pubescent is sexual molestation of a child and an act of evil). My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a "survivor," she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps, Japanese prisoner of war camps and cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.
When my wife was a waitress in her midteens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone and continued going about her job. That's empowerment.
In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don't believe her story. Aside from too many missing details -- most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago -- few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time. And no other woman has ever charged him with any sexual misconduct.
Do not be surprised if a future Republican candidate for office or judicial nominee -- no matter how exemplary a life he has led -- is accused of sexual misconduct ... from when he was in elementary school.
What charges? This dimwitted woman made an accusation decades old. It should be ignored. Instead we have devolved to trial by accusation.
I listened to about half an hour of a Ted Cruz telephone Town Hall meeting last night. One of the callers started to ask a question about this. You could tell the gist of his question was along the lines of "why do we Republicans keep putting up with this fake crap?", when his phone cut him off. If he hadn't rambled so much he probably could have gotten the question in. Cruz's response was that the charges were serious and that we need to hear her testimony to get to the truth. I was quite disappointed to hear that. Ted should have said exactly what Dennis said in this column.
Sure, lets hear what she has to say so we can shred it to pieces. He’s already had 65 women, two on tv interviews, say he’s a fine man. He’s not had any hint of scandal while on the bench.
“She would have blabbed years ago...”
The only blabb8ng years ago would have been giggling with her girlfriends. That kind of hijinks was only worth school hallway chatter...a non-event then. Now, democrats are retroactively trying to make it into a capital crime. Rest of the world is shaking their heads.
“Republican senators, if never want votes from us again, continue pandering to feminists. “
If Grassley had a sack he would have said F you...no hearing and we are voting Thursday.
“In the US legal system where the accused is innocent until PROVEN guilty...”
In the US legal system where the accused is innocent until accused...
No other reason I can think of.
You don’t let these traitors retire with their huge benefits in peace. They and the anti-G-d leftists who own them should be treated as they treat the decent among us: with contempt whenever they show up in public. And that is a light punishment compared to the damage they are doing to the Republic. “You shall have war on Amalek for all time because of what he did to you on the way. You shall not forget.”
“You got some bimbo 16-year-old teenager gal who likely smoked pot daily....doesn’t remember much of anything 36 years later....then keys in on this one thing with no witnesses to validate her story?”
And the less than worthless governing class of the “world’s greatest superpower” is paralyzed and dithering over crap like this? It’s a national disgrace and embarrassment and shamelessly disrespects the millions who have worn the uniform.
The filth Kennedy got his just desserts...you are next Joe.
Why isn’t Soros dealt with?
Here’s the thing which ought to make people curious....there’s probably well over 100,000 young ladies from the 1980s, 1990s and the early part of this century...loaded up on drugs and booze, getting hypnosis to recall memories, and at any moment....they might identify you or I....as being there at some party and putting her at risk.
There’s potentially over twenty-million men at risk now...for imaginary lifestyles syndrome, and you have to pay some lawyer $50,000 to go and defend you from something that never happened.
“Republican senators, if never want votes from us again, continue pandering to feminists. Otherwise, acknowledge your error and get the confirmation done with no delay. Your last mistake may have been agreeing to hear from what’s-her-name.
Confirming Justice Kavanaugh was the most important action you could have taken in your lives.”
Republicans had the ball with first and goal...and decided to punt.
“You got some bimbo 16-year-old teenager gal who likely smoked pot daily....doesn’t remember much of anything 36 years later....then keys in on this one thing with no witnesses to validate her story?”
A Greek farce....democrats produce a deus ex machina.
“She’s lying and she knows she’s lying. She’s intentionally concocting a false story with extremely vague details (no date, no location) that she knows will be difficult if not impossible to disprove.”
That’s a combination of criminality and profound mental illness.
We should be lighting up the phones and furiously writing emails to our senators to express our outrage at this dirty trick! Tell them we want Kavanaugh confirmed now.
They’re not “charges,” they’re accusations, and wholly unsupported ones at that.
Doesn’t anyone speak English any more?
Won't get any better after November. Feinstein's seat is between two Democrat/Leftists (one of who is Chinese Diane herself). You see, under California's revised election process, Republicans are prohibited from running for U.S. Senate (this is not a joke!)
Did "this" party even occur? Other than the existence of Brett Kavanaugh and chritine blasey, I consider every part of this accusation to be fake. False. Fabricated. Slander.
Blasey Fraud should be sued for slander and libel; Feinstein should be expelled from all committee assignments and censured by the Senate.
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