Hannah Arendt was right that the greatest evils result from a remarkable shallowness and unwillingness to think in unremarkable people.
Some of these people have found their way into positions of power and influence. Some support those who have. The shallowness is the same.
Some of them find false assurance, from certain accumulated credentials, that they are somehow not unremarkable, but their very shallowness, moral and intellectual, and disinclination to think prove their banality.
Such shallowness and disinclination to think have permeated American society, notably among the "intelligentsia," here in the decadent phase of Western Civilisation, where truth--truth for its own sake--is held in contempt.
Breathtaking corruption, especially in the centres of power, notably Washington and the news media, is ignored, injustice tolerated, truth scorned in favour of banal propaganda, truth seekers vilified and destroyed.
The greatest danger to America--to the American Dream--to the American People--is this banal indifference, the banal unwillingness to think, to seek truth and embrace it wherever it appears.
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I'll feel better about this after a few hangings.
This business of “lying to the FBI” being a crime is so odious.
Unless you’re under oath you can lie to ANYBODY. That badge doesn’t make you an all powerful God that untruths must not be spoken to.
Ridiculous and offensive!
If General Flynn is innocent, then there are a lot of guilty Democrats.
It is time for prosecutions, Mr. Barr.
Of the six TV station/Newspaper websites I review every morning only one mentions this DOJ/Flynn story.
That ought to be a crime.
“I was concerned people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. ... I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system.”
There still is. The people that did this to flynn are still walking free.
Yet, Trump fired Flynn and publicly stated that Flynn had lied to him and Pence, a lie that never happened.
Trump let Flynn swing in the wind when he should have supported him. Trump acted on a whisper, top pet peeve about any manager. Trump should have acted only on verifiable facts, not whispers, especially whispers coming from the FBI.
This is the potential bomb many have been waiting on. Horowitz may have tried to claim the original investigation was legit, but he did not have access to all the testimony from Clapper et al that was just released yesterday.
If the AG has now declared the entire Russia investigation to be “illegitimate” the fallout could be immense.
This started when “Eric the Red” let the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia walk. “Eric the Red” should be getting out of prison by now.
“I was concerned people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. ... I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system.”
Then put the damned bagpipes down and empanel a few Grand Juries.
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So then what was done TO him is a crime?
Well you've got a long way to go Mr Barr. A really long way. There are dozens of people still walking around free after doing things that would put the rest of us behind bars for a very long time.