Wait a minute...Conservatives are fine with smear campaigns against liberals whereby someone emerges from the "woodwork" to accuse a prominent (to a more or lesser degree) figure of illegal temerarious and turpitudinous behavior, yet are up in arms when the same thing happens to a conservative???
Am I the only here who sees the problem as that of our society condoning people trying their cases in the court of public opinion rather and before doing so in a court of law? My response to all these people making their character impugning accusations about the illegal acts prominent figures have made is the same: go to the police and file an affidavit, thereby putting themselves on the line for perjury (and the legal penalties thereunto) should it be found that their claim(s) are specious.
To the general public that seems almost literally to feed on feel compelled to make something of news of such things, I say, "get a life" because to the extent that one has not succeeded in achieving everything one has wanted in one's personal goals, one, without question, has better things to do than be a consumer of or contributor to discussions about another's alleged transgressions. For instance:
- If one dreams of enjoying a middle class, upper middle class or wealthy lifestyle and one has not yet achieved that, one has something better to do.
- If one's kids are not "straight A" students, one has something better to do.
- If one aspires to have sex on steps of the U.S. Capitol, one has something better to do.
- If one doesn't have a "bucket list," or has uncompleted task on one's "bucket list," one also has something better to do.
- If one is committed to being a Christian, one most certainly has something better to do.
- "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone." -- John 8:7
- "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." -- Matthew 7:12
- “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap." -- Luke 21:34
- "These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage." -- Jude 1:16
- "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." -- Galatians 5:19-21
By all means the transgressions of reprobates deserve to be rebuked and punished, but as one who's not party to them, it's not my or your place to do so, and as Christians, it most certainly is not either of our places. Now who is and isn't a Christian? For the most part, I don't know, but I know that each and every one of us knows whether we construe ourselves thus, and that knowledge alone calls each of us to pursue the "something better to do" that entails letting the parties involved -- law enforcement officials, the alleged offenders and those whom they are alleged to have wronged -- resolve the various matters of an alleged offender's transgressions. It is our duty as Christians to refrain from using the occasion of someone's offense and misfortune to make "political hay."
you are a liar....
