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The Real Story of January 6 | Documentary

 

“The Real Story of January 6,” a documentary by The Epoch Times, reveals the truth that has been hidden from the American people. While a narrative has been set that what took place that day was an insurrection, key events and witnesses have been ignored, until now. The documentary takes an unvarnished look at police use of force and the deaths that resulted in some measure from it. The film asks tough questions about who was responsible for the chaos that day. With compelling interviews and exclusive video footage, the documentary tells the real story of January 6.

What Really Happened on January 6?

While the dust from Jan. 6, 2021, has long cleared, it has been replaced by a smoke screen. A carefully crafted narrative has been set that claims the events of that day amounted to a “violent insurrection.” This claim, however, does not match the facts. “The Real Story of January 6” takes an objective look at what happened through the eyes of those who were there. The Epoch Times provides the first comprehensive look into what really happened that day. The Truth can’t be hidden.

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See also Ashli Babbitt Was ‘Murdered’ Under Color of Authority on Jan. 6: Use-of-Force Expert.

 

Political Theater: The January 6 Committee

 

The totalitarian pattern of the January 6 Committee is the biggest show trial I’ve seen in my fifty years in America. It’s a narrative piece for the next Presidential election.

The similarities to the staged show trials of Vladimir Lenin’s Soviet dictatorship are eerie and troubling, which were called “political theater intended for the instruction of the masses” (Engelstein in “Russia in Flames”). Newt Gingrich writes, “The parallels between the use of language by the woke Big Government Socialists and the propaganda techniques of the Leninist-Stalinist revolution are real and frightening. . . . They treat us as though we’re too stupid to see through a rigged game, a stacked deck, and a fraud of carefully selected and edited propaganda.”

The Committee sessions are carefully designed by a TV professional.

An incredible amount of selective editing of both video and papers were deceptively used.

The Committee kept the vast majority of the 1000 interviews and 25,000 documents hidden and in secret.

They are in no way bipartisan. Pelosi forebade Republican nominees to serve on the Committee – unless they had voted to impeach Trump. No speaker has ever before rejected the minority party’s nominees.

The clown show allows no dissenting views.

Victor Davis Hanson writes, “Its slick Hollywood-produced optics demonstrate that the committee has no interest in inconvenient facts. Why did a Capitol officer lethally shoot a petite unarmed woman entering a Capitol window? Why did the committee not investigate whether large numbers of FBI agents and informants were among the crowd? After all, progressive New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg who was there on Jan. 6 claimed, ‘There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol.’ . .  . A real committee would investigate why there were lots of warnings that a large crowd would assemble, but apparently little government follow-up to ensure security. A real committee would learn why the government and media insisted that officer Brian Sicknick was killed by Trump supporters – even when it was known he died of natural causes.”

Nick Searcy and Chris Burgard recently released a documentary called “Capitol Punishment” that reveals items the kangaroo trial doesn’t want us to know. Interviewing many Americans who were there on January 6, it reveals their experience was vastly different than what the media claimed.

Searcy shares, “It was just a day of orchestrated events that anybody that knew what they were looking for saw. I mean, we saw people changing from Antifa black-block into MAGA clothes. These same people were trying to get us to attack the Capitol Police.”

They interview Aaron Babbitt, the husband of the former navy officer Ashli Babbit - shot by Capitol Police. New footage shows her telling people to stop breaking the doors – stop trying to break in - just prior to her death. The fourteen-year military veteran and law enforcement specialist was acting as a law enforcement professional, telling the less-experienced cops to get backup now.

Other footage shows Capitol Police in different areas calmly removing barriers, opening doors, and ushering people into the building. Don’t look for it on YouTube. Any mention of election fraud is banned from their propaganda.

On January 6, 2021, I simultaneously watched two screens. One showed the final moments of the Trump rally; the other, showed US Capitol livestream footage, moving between the Congressional election debate and other areas of the building. As President Trump started dismissing the crowd, a guard inside the Capitol yelled something like, “They’re coming in.” I braced myself, waiting for the type of rioters and looters that destroyed businesses, statues, and cities in the 2020 riots. Instead, I watched people resembling smalltown Americans calmly walking in a single-file line.

A rotten trail leads to Nancy Pelosi’s office revealing 50% of the Capitol Police not working that day, intelligence information never disseminated to them, and Trump’s request for 10,000 additional National Guard troops flatly denied.

Where was the trial for the 2020 four months of rioting, arson, and stealing? Over 35 people died with 1500 injured police officers, about 14,000 arrests, and between $1-2 billion in damage to property.

Most of those arrested for violence at “iconic government buildings, from courthouses to police precincts" (Hanson) were simply released. Many of those arrested from January 6 are denied a speedy trial, shamed, and assumed guilty with dishonest framing.

Searcy explains, “This is like a terror tactic. They’re trying to instill fear in the citizenry, that if you stand up to the government and say, ‘I believe the election was stolen and shouldn’t have been certified,’ you’re committing some vile act. They’re trying to send a message to everybody: ‘Do not ever resist us again or this is what will happen to you.’”

Hanson goes on to warn, “None of the questions will be answered because none will be asked because the committee’s role is not inquiry but confirmation of a useful narrative.”

The Committee doesn’t want facts, because truth doesn’t conform to their political narrative.

One obvious rhetorical question is, “Would the committee even exist if Trump were not considering running for President a third time?”

In summary, Gingrich aptly warns, “Clearly, the left understands it can’t tell the American people the truth. It must hide the facts and present only the falsehoods. This is why the Jan. 6 Committee has been so manipulative and consistently secretive and dishonest.”

See the best articles I've read recently on the January 6 show trial.

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Best Articles I've Seen on the January 6 Show Trial

 

Lenin’s Show Trials and the Jan. 6 Committee by Newt Gingrich

Trust the American People, Not the Jan. 6 Committee by Newt Gingrich

What the Jan. 6 Committee Might Have Been by Victor Davis Hanson

Democrats’ Jan. 6 Fiasco Is Just Another Example of Conservatives Being Treated as Second-Class Citizens by Gabe Kaminsky

What If? Questions a Bipartisan Probe of Jan. 6 Might Have Answered by Fred Lucas

Movie ‘Capitol Punishment’ Tells Stories You Won’t Hear From Jan. 6 Committee by Rob Bluey

Congress Ignores Pressing National Business While It Obsesses on Jan. 6 by Star Parker

The Trump-Haters Are Now Desperate by Conrad Black

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Media Ignore Kamala Harris’s Lies

 

If democracy dies in darkness, what happens when no one even bothers to get out the flashlight? I just plowed through thousands of words of coverage in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN and found no effort whatsoever to flag the multiple lies told by Kamala Harris in her debut as the veep pick. (Quick: is the following the headline of a Democratic Party press release or a neutral news report: “Biden and Harris Pledge a Strong Challenge to Trump and a Path Out of Crisis.” Answer: It’s the Times.)

Amid headlines such as “Colbert: Kamala Harris delivered a ‘zinger’ on Trump” (CNN) and “In Kamala Harris, a Choice at Once Safe and Energizing” (the Times) and “’A trailblazer’: Indian Americans react with joy, pride to Harris’s VP nod” (WaPo) and “Tucker Carlson’s mangling of Kamala Harris’s name was all about disrespect” (WaPo, a few hours before Joe Biden mangled her name in the same way), there was no space to compare Harris’s various claims to reality. Some reports quoted her lies without mentioning that they were demonstrably and indisputably false, such as Harris’s claim that the virus “has hit America worse than any other advanced nation.”

The Paper of Record did find room, however, to report breathlessly that one of President’s Trump’s sons, Eric, liked a tweet, that was later deleted, that referred to Harris as “whorendous.” CNN did an entire story on this matter.

Read the entire article here by Kyle Smith.

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Propaganda Media and Coronavirus Lies

"The current panic-stricken news coverage of Florida, Texas, California focuses on cases and not on deaths. There is a deep desire by the propaganda media to make Republican-led states look bad, and to protect Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat-led states. Yet, the facts about coronavirus deaths are unavoidable. . . .

Remember: The next time you see a panic-inducing article about COVID-19 in the propaganda media, it may be accurate – or it may just be designed to frighten you and defeat President Trump."

Read the entire article here by Newt Gingrich.

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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Ban Doctors’ Video Advocating Hydroxychloroquine for Treating COVID

When esteemed physicians and epidemiologists like Risch and the group from America’s Frontline Doctors offer their medical judgments that challenge the current wisdom, should those medical judgments be deleted from the debate by social media elites? Is that how science advances, by squelching discussion of important subjects? And this isn’t the first time social media has played the arbiter of what people hear from doctors during the pandemic.

That’s why calls for the FCC to begin regulating social media platforms may be in the public interest. With that much control over what the public sees and hears, the social media giants have become monopolies who do not merely host the debate but tilt it in one direction. And that’s not right.

Read the entire article by Bruce Hausknech here at The Daily Citizen.

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The Narrative of Systemic Racism Among the Police Force

Heather MacDonald argues to yes, hold officers who use excessive force accountable, but shows there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias in the police force.

“Political commentator and attorney Heather Mac Donald posted an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week that argues police should be held accountable when they use excessive force, but evidence of ‘widespread racial bias’ by police doesn’t exist.

‘However sickening the video of Floyd’s arrest, it isn’t representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians,’ Mac Donald wrote in her piece titled “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism.” Mac Donald continues, ‘A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.’

Mac Donald backed up that claim with federal statistics explaining that police shot and killed 1,004 people in 2019, most of whom were armed and/or deemed dangerous. Out of that number, about a quarter of those, 235, were black, which is roughly the same percentage every year since 2015.”

Read the entire article by Andrew Miller here at The Washington Examiner.

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Tucker Carlson: Cultural Revolution has come to America – brainwashing underway

America: Where Most Blacks and Whites Don't Hate Each Other

Be careful who writes the narrative - or who frames the picture.

To listen to the story of the media, many politicians, and some universities, America is defined by racism. I believe that is like saying Disneyland is defined by kidnappers. Yes, unfortunately, sex traffickers sometimes use theme parks to snatch children. But the evil extreme does not characterize the parks. To infer so would be a gross generalization.

I work in an organization in Charlotte, North Carolina, that employs several hundred people, including various races. I stopped at several stores in town on my way home yesterday. I saw people of different colors, ethnicities, and backgrounds pleasantly interacting, being kind and civil to each other. When I shopped for socks for my wife and daughter, I found two black ladies at the display. I asked one a question, and she graciously and generously answered my questions and gave needed help, smiling at me the whole time.

In America, most white people don’t hate black people, and most black people don’t hate white people. In the America I know, blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc., get along, look out for each other, and work together.

This is a country where a white or black man can become the President of the United States – or be the janitor in the building. But it’s also a place with extremists – like Skin Heads and Antifa. These violent protests destroying stores, churches, public places and desecrating national monuments were well-planned and organized by anarchists and opportunists – people who do not love America. And they are desecrating the businesses of Hispanics, Asians, blacks, single moms, etc. 

These are not actions resembling the peaceful protests of Martin Luther King – they are the actions of anarchists who should be stopped immediately with force and incarcerated with severe punishment. Deeply funded protests and Antifa violence should not define our narrative.

The national monuments stand for all Americans - like the "Buffalo Soldiers" - a group of black fighting men who helped turn the tide for the Allies in Italy during World War II. Yet today, several of them are defaced with spray paint. Can you imagine spray painting the Lincoln Memorial or the World War II Memorial? Those resemble the actions of animals out of control. And out of control animals belong in cages.

Oh, and do you remember the riots and protests that took place when three police officers in Dallas in 2016 pinned the neck of Tony Timpa, a white man, down to the ground while he screamed for help thirty times? They thought he passed out – but when the ambulance came, he was pronounced dead. I didn't think so. No national monuments defaced. No stores looted. No buildings burned.

The large majority of Americans are peace-loving and peace-keeping. The huge majority would never loot, deface national monuments, burn down buildings, or practice violence in order to get their voice heard.

When violent protests erupt in city after city, these are not average Americans showing their concern. These are organized anarchists, well-funded by deep pockets and ready to move at a moment’s notice. They don’t love the United States of America. And they don’t represent the average concerned citizen – of any color.

The vast majority of policemen and policewomen in America are good, decent, and try to protect their neighbors and keep them safe.

The best new friend I made in seminary was a black man. I invited him to come and preach in three churches I served through the years. The best neighbors my wife and I ever enjoyed were a delightful, senior adult black couple. They loved us and our one child, and we loved them. We spent many summer evenings on their back porch with our toddler crawling up and down their stairs. The husband asked me to come and sing at her funeral a few years ago. Tracey said many times, “We’ve never had better neighbors.” I listened to Pastor Tony Evans, a black preacher in Dallas, Texas, on my drive to work this morning – as I do many mornings. My experiences here are not much different than the melting pot of many decent Americans.

For most of American history, the Golden Rule was taught in schools – “Love your neighbor as yourself.” I think most – not all – normal, hard-working men and women who grow up, get a job, and raise a family try to treat others with dignity and respect – and teach their children to do the same.

Dennis Prager, an American Jew, for years has challenged the narrative that America is a racist nation: "I am increasingly impatient with the libel that America is racist. Yes, there are racists in America – of all colors. But knowledge of history should restrain one from making unfair generalizations.” He writes, “America is the least racist multiracial society in the world. On a daily basis, Americans of every race and ethnicity get along superbly.” And, by the way, he believes that hatred of Jewish people is the oldest racism that exists – far longer than racism toward blacks.

Or, as black man Larry Elder says, "Racism is not in America's DNA."

Don’t let the extremists on any side define the narrative. And don’t let the media frame the picture.

Love your neighbor as yourself. Practice discernment. God bless you, and God bless America.


- In this article, I refer to "whites" and "blacks." I prefer that designation to "European Americans" and "African-Americans." We are all Americans. I also hope you will explore some of the links I inserted.

Check out America is the Least Racist Nation by Dennis Prager here.

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Petty, Poisonous Pelosi

President Trump’s February 4 State of the Union address will go down as a high mark in his tenure – not primarily because of a great speech but for the many accomplishments it celebrated. As CNN’s Stephen Collison shared, Trump cemented his reputation as a “rare politician who keeps his promises.” And for his opponents it was a “daunting warning.” This man, who resonates with many average Americans, can get stuff done that helps them. Tony Perkins cited it was “the message of a leader who’s beaten the odds . . . classic, confident, unconventional Trump.”

No wonder Nancy Pelosi erupted in ripping up his speech on national television – perhaps the rudest moment I’ve witnessed in American politics. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich aptly commented, “This was the behavior of a beaten, failed Speaker, who was desperately seeking approval from her left-wing fanatics. For most of the country, it was shocking and alienating.” After failing miserably with the empty Russian collusion attack, a phony impeachment, and championing the most vicious outward hatred towards a President in modern history, Pelosi’s pettiness and nastiness affirmed she is “maniacally opposed to working with President Trump under any circumstances.”

Many visible Democrats like her have displayed the behavior of spoiled brats the past three years – bent on undoing the 2016 election since Hillary refused to show herself publicly on election night and concede. To quote Gingrich again, they are showing themselves as the “party of incompetence,” and “a significant part of their failure will be traced to their pettiness and nastiness.” Pelosi personified herself as out-of-control and not in touch with much of the country.

Vice President Mike Pence remarked, "I think it was a new low. I wasn't sure if [Pelosi] was ripping up the speech, or ripping up the Constitution."

Fortunately, as Senator Lindsey Graham said later, she can rip up a speech, but she can’t tear up his accomplishments. Trump has kept his campaign promises. Things like confirming Supreme Court and federal court constitutional judges, standing up for the persecuted, protecting the unborn, defending freedom, honoring our military and police men and women, defending free speech, and encouraging the practice of faith in the public square are worthy of much celebration.

How wonderful to hear a Commander-in-Chief utter these words:

“My administration is also defending religious liberty, and that includes the constitutional right to pray in public schools,” Trump continued. “In America, we don’t punish prayer. We don’t tear down crosses. We don’t ban symbols of faith. We don’t muzzle preachers and pastors. “In America, we celebrate faith. We cherish religion. We lift our voices in prayer, and we raise our sights to the glory of God.”

The far Left, including several of the current persons running for the Democratic Party nomination, are in favor of limiting the rights of Americans, including freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Bernie Sanders has made it clear he does not think someone with a traditional, evangelical Christian theology should serve in the United States government. Pete Buttigieg has stated plainly he believes that churches who do not support the LGBTQ agenda should lose their tax ID status – and he would make that an agenda in his administration. Both men recently said the Democratic Party has no place for anyone who is pro-life.

Either of those potential leaders would produce a strong step away from democracy and liberty. No thank you.

Michael Goodwin of the New York Post wrote that Trump’s SOTU speech was long “because he had a long list of accomplishments to cite.” People like Pelosi’s real weapon is “her personal hatred of the commander-in-chief. [A]nd it’s not proving to be much of a fight. The president is on a winning streak . . . the country has noticed. She has overplayed her hand . . . and led her party into another embarrassing dead end.”

Meanwhile, the Trump Train keeps gaining speed.

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Baby, I'm Offended Outside

Here we go again. In the past several weeks, someone decided Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and the song Baby, It's Cold Outside all wreak of offense.

Just a few years ago in our society, such implications would have been laughable. Silly. Immature. But the "grow up and be mature" culture is systematically being transformed into a "I need a safe space" one.


Poor Franklin

Now Charlie Brown is racist. At the popcorn Thanksgiving meal, they audaciously sat Franklin, the black kid, on the opposite side of the table and gave him a deplorable lawn chair. Oh, the horror. How have black children for decades been able to be victimized by watching such atrocities?

What they failed to say is that, in opposition to the producers, Charles Schulz insisted the Franklin character be in Peanuts. He intentionally wanted the gang to have a black friend who was one of them. Schulz drew the line and said if there is no Franklin, there is no deal.

I read this anonymous post reposted on a friend's social media site this week: 

"If you're offended by 'Baby It's Cold Outside' you're going to have a tough go of it in life. And so are your kids.

First, you are completely ignoring the fact that the song is 74 years old--when women were ladies and men were gentlemen.

Her 'protest' was typical of a way a lady would speak to a man instead of just downing some drinks and hopping into bed with him.

No one seems offended by that, but you hear that 'rap' on the radio ALL YEAR LONG. Men actually had to court women back in those days, a subtle dance that for both men and women no longer exists. Sad but true.

Secondly, 'what's in this drink?' does not imply that she was roofied, or at least it didn't in 1944. Get a grip! She's obviously deflecting her indecision toward her drink, which again, came with the times. She was not being drugged. (Should we stop watching The Wizard of Oz because when they fall asleep in the poppy fields that means Dorothy is on heroin?)"


Feeling Excluded

The Left in America thrives off of labeling and division. The Left has repeatedly taught us to become a "culture of offense." They have taught us to feel excluded, victimized, and mistreated.

Does saying "Merry Christmas" exclude non-Christians? Read here what one Jewish American says in his article, Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas.

As I wrote in my article, The USA: A Graceless Place, we lack grace in our society. We lack forgiveness. The availability of the internet and social media hastens a short fuse and an inflated sense of self-importance. 

We lack margin. You know margin - the space in a book around the words on the page? We don't want to read a page filled only with words. We enjoy reading pages with good margins.

We need to step back and learn to take a big chill pill.



I'm Offended

Being offended is a part of life. Yes, it is.

It offends me when I hear rap music filled with profanity, sexual subjects, and demeaning words towards women blaring from another car at a gas station. 

I was offended when the White House lit up in the rainbow colors of the LGBT movement the day the Supreme Court overstepped their legal bounds, defied the legal bounds of the American system, and decided to redefine marriage.

I was offended yesterday when the Walmart clerk as the photo center overlooked me and helped another person.

You know what? Being offended is a part of life. I do not live in a world where I can control my environment to make it completely safe for me. That is what heaven is for. And maybe Dollywood.

In short, I have to deal with it and not expect everyone around me to protect me.

This culture of offense needs to turn around. Do you remember just a few years ago when someone decided the 1980's hit show The Dukes of Hazzard was too offensive because of the Confederate flag on top of the General Lee? 

Ben Jones, "Crazy Cooter" of the show, described it as a “wave of political correctness that is unprecedented in our nation of free speech and free expression.”  Jones compared it to the burning of books by the Nazis. 

I wrote about the Hazzard County fiasco in my article Focus on the Right Things.

Let's put on our big boy pants. What I can do is stop getting offended. Or, at least, stop letting my offense make me try and control everyone else around me.

The anonymous social media author I referred to earlier later wrote, "[H]ave you seen violent video games or watched modern TV or listened to modern radio? And you're still worried about a 74 year old Christmas song? If you are still offended by these things . . .  be offended. But please don't imply that the rest of us lack morals or good judgement, especially when it comes to parenting. If you want to raise your kids to be on the lookout and offended at every little thing that they might not understand or agree with, have at it. At my house we will be watching Rudolph when it's cold outside."

The Bible says, Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs. (Proverbs 19:11)

We must stop the descent into madness. We must resist the culture of offense. 



RELATED ARTICLES BY RHETT

Robert E. Lee and The Culture of Offense

The USA - A Graceless Place?:  The Culture of Offense, Part 2

Focus on the Right Things


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The USA: A Graceless Place?

President Gerald Ford announced on September 8, 1974, his plan to issue a full, free, and absolute pardon to Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. Dick Cheney writes, He described his actions as a way to ‘shut and seal’ the matter of Watergate and to mitigate the suffering of Richard Nixon and his family.[i] 

Ford’s grace and courage helped a country and family move forward.

The words of the song, America the Beautiful, asks the Almighty to “shed his grace on thee.”

Grace is undeserved kindness. The act of grace results in goodwill to an unworthy recipient. I’m afraid the United States of America is fast becoming a graceless place.

Lacking Forgiveness

We lack forgiveness today. To forgive means to set free – to not seek repayment or restitution. For the religious person it means, “I will not take responsibility for punishing the wrongdoer. I will leave room for God.”

Marriages, families, companies, schools, and countries work best with an atmosphere of grace coupled with an attitude of forgiveness.

Sadly, a vengeful spirit exists. A person can benefit society for years. Yet when one wrong act or statement surfaces from sometimes years earlier, the bandwagon loads up to vilify and reject the individual.

Regardless of Roseanne Barr’s highly successful career, including bringing the highest-watched sitcom of 2018 to television, one foolish tweet evoked an immediate firestorm. ABC cut her off and canceled the show.  Forget that she brought laughter and temporary happiness to millions of people. One wrong tweet and boom. (Click here to see why Roseanne wanted a black grandchild on the show.)

Comedian and author Torry Martin recently shared on facebook, "How is it that Don Lemon ,Maxine Waters, CNN,MSNBC and a slew of liberal left wing media and political personalities say such purposely, hateful, divisive and intentionally RACIST things and go unpunished by their networks BUT Roseanne makes one Tweet about Valerie Jarrett and ABC immediately cancels her tv show, she goes on an apology tour to every media outlet that would have her all to no avail and then lost her entire career ? Yes, Roseanne’s comment by the way was indeed in very poor taste but comparing her one comment which was accused of being racist to the slew of hate-filled extremely racist comments made repeatedly by the left for the last week against Kanye West is like comparing a faucet that dripped o a full blown firehose and yet it all goes without any sort of apology or correction for those media personalities? The double standard hypocrisy of the left has never been more obvious in my opinion."

And Joy Behar of The View mocks Christians who believe Jesus talks to them – a belief held my many evangelicals – as mentally sick. 

Imagine the hysteria a few years ago if Sean Hannity or Newt Gingrich acted to President Obama the way the liberal media acts toward Donald Trump. Or if Jon Voight or Mike Pence said transgender people experience mental illness.

Double Standard

Why the double standard? It is normal behavior for someone with leftist ideology to say anything they want about a conservative. But if a conservative makes a foul statement or disagrees with left-wing values, the leftist media goes berserk.

Showing grace to those with whom you disagree ideologically is not a leftist value. Just ask Communist Russia or Nazi Germany.

Recent weeks revealed Rep. Maxine Waters encouraged violence to members of President Trumps cabinet. Sen. Cory Booker told people to get up in the face of Congressmen with whom you disagree. Sen. Rand Paul's wife released a letter to Sen. Booker after her husband has been attacked and affronted physically recently. The recent fiasco of the Kavanaugh hearing showed the Left unwilling to tolerate an opposing viewpoint.

And Hillary trumpets to the Left to not be civil with Republicans until the Democrats take control.

My parents told me life was not fair. In a rights-driven society, they instilled in me a valuable lesson. When I face ideologies different from my own, cruel circumstances, or unjust treatment, wisdom often responds by simply dealing with it quietly and quickly moving forward.

When a person like Bill Cosby repeatedly raped women, it is wise and good to bring legal ramifications. However, as my mother recently shared, “When someone made a bad choice in life decades ago and since then lived a wholesome, productive life, I don’t think bringing it up publicly and ruining their family, career, and reputation solves anything. Some things need to be dealt with privately and left in the past.”

Sometimes empowerment comes by leaving matters in God's hands instead of seeking revenge.

The #MeToo movement sheds light on areas of national life needing improvement. Hopefully, awareness of sexual harassment motivates men and women to control our lusts and treat people with heightened dignity. Both sexes should understand that sexual choices matter. Consequences follow actions. 

However, with any swing of the pendulum comes imbalance.

In the 1950’s, Senator Joseph McCarthy led a clamorous campaign against supposed Communists in our country. A vindictive spirit emerged, resulting in the blacklisting and firing of many of the accused, though no credible evidence surfaced.

I’ve served in numerous leadership positions for three decades. How frightening to think one person who disliked me could emerge from the shadows and fabricate any lie about my character. Given the present temperature of our culture, solid evidence or multiple witnesses would not be required.  The accusation would suffice to make me guilty in the eyes of many people.

Before God will shed His grace on our country, perhaps we need to shed grace on each other, thus crowning our good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

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