@Ivote4US2 @SchoolChoiceNow This ruling has nothing to do with the topic. And unless AZ passes a mandated reporting law that includes clergy, the AZ Supreme Court cannot force the issue. If a private citizen knows of a crime like child abuse and doesn't report it, it isn't a crime, either.
Michael Smith wrote this moving account of the fate that befell many of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence:
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: ‘For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.’”
Imagine being @JoeBiden. Your son makes millions of dollars from foreign entities but does not pay taxes because that would mean disclosing that he is engaged in foreign lobbying. With the millions of dollars and no serious job, he becomes a drug addict and illegally obtains a gun. All he tells them is that he is the son of the US Vice President, and he claims that part of the money will go to the "Big Guy." He promises them access to his dad and top US officials. They hire him without any qualifications and pay him millions of dollars.
Eventually, the information comes out, and the Justice Department has to investigate. The investigation drags on for five years, and eventually, they strike a deal with him to plead guilty to two misdemeanors of tax evasion so that the government would not prosecute him for illegally possessing a gun as a drug addict, a serious crime that has sent tens of thousands of Americans to prison for years.
Imagine being the same father who, as a senator, drafted a draconian anti-drug law that sent tens of thousands of black people and others to prison, confiscated all their belongings, and gave a big speech boasting that the drug addicts should all be taken off the streets. Now that your son is one of them, when you're asked about his case, you say you're proud of him and he has done nothing wrong.
Imagine journalists and commentators like @joenbc justifying it on television, singing your praises when their own child would have been in prison long ago for the same crimes. Imagine the people who believed in the rule of law watching the two-tiered justice system so brazenly displayed.
America is in crisis. May God help us all!
@MartinC23765880@FoxNews@EliseStefanik You can say this after Kavanaugh, the Russia Hoax, and the non-stop persecution of a political opponent if the Democrats? Wow. Pretty myopic.
@NEWSMAX Tony the trans says they're GRREAT! Remember when there were people on cereal boxes you could admire? Now they are promoting body dysmorphia instead of excellence to children. Kellogg's lost another customer.
Here’s the deal. We’ve watched you all on the left go insane for 7 years. There is literally no bridge you wouldn’t jump off in the name of Trump hatred.
Hell, I was right there with you at first.
But the thing is- I got out of it and you guys didn’t. And it festered and festered and grew and grew and metastasized in all of you for 7 years until it robbed you of all ability to see the world around you rationally, logically, and soundly.
And then, sadly, you all lost your humanity and your compassion to this irrational hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters. We’ve seen with our own eyes time and time again that there is nothing you wouldn’t do to try to destroy this man. And you lost your souls in this pursuit.
So, yes- we can recognize how insane it sounds to say, “We trust Donald Trump… and we don’t trust any of you.”
But we don’t trust any of you because we’ve watched your emotional stability and your ability to reason unravel before our eyes. We’ve watched your hate devour you like a cancer and destroy any kindness and good judgment you once possessed. We watched a man lead our country better than anybody else has in our lifetimes, and stand up and fight against the establishment for all of us- and we watched you lie about everything he did, and tear our country apart.
We watched your anger and bitterness and acrimony spread like a virus everywhere- into our school systems, our courts, our law enforcement agencies, our election systems… your malignant rage and malevolence was airborne. It went everywhere and knew no boundaries.
No. We don’t trust you. Because you’re not worthy of trust. You’ve behaved reprehensibly for 7 years. You’ve treated good people like trash. You’ve harmed our nation in ways we will likely never recover from.
You have lied. And yes, you have cheated. And you have stolen.
No. We don’t trust you. And I doubt we ever will.
So let me get this straight
The same FBI & DOJ that was caught illegally spying on President Trump in the Durham Report are now indicting him for possessing evidence of their crimes in his home?
The indictment of @realDonaldTrump, 2024 elections and the law of unintended consequences:
In ancient Rome, a group of men loyal to the Republic feared that Julius Caesar was going to make his dictatorship permanent and establish a monarchy. In 44 BC, they decided to assassinate him, thereby restoring the Republic.
In the ensuing chaos and power vacuum, Caesar's great nephew Octavius quickly rose to the top, assumed power, and permanently ended the Republic by establishing a de facto monarchy. After Caesar's death, it came out that he had never intended to create a monarchical system. The conspirators brought about precisely what they had tried to stop.
In 19th-century India, under British colonial rule, authorities decided there were too many venomous cobras in the streets of Delhi, making life uncomfortable for the British residents and their families. To solve this, they offered a reward for every dead cobra residents would bring in. Soon, enterprising locals began to breed cobras in order to make a living from the bounty. The government caught on to this and canceled the program. The breeders, resentful of the rulers and angered by their actions, decided to release their cobras back on the streets, thereby tripling the population from before the government program.
Other notorious examples would include the 18th Amendment establishing prohibitions in the United States in 1920, which was designed to stop the spread of alcoholism but only ended up increasing alcohol consumption by a substantial amount.
Another example is the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941, designed to decimate the US Naval force in one blow and bring America to its knees. Instead, it shook the American public out of its deep isolationism, ensuring the total mobilization of the country's superior manpower and resources to not only defeat the Japanese but also to obliterate its military for good. The very success of the attack guaranteed the opposite of the intended result, Robert Greene writes in his spectacular book, "The Laws of Human Nature."