Under Georgia, the Foreperson did nothing wrong. No matter you cry, pout, whine, ***** and carryon....she did not the law.
Yes, under Georgian [law] she did not [break] the law. And neither did Southern juries in the past, when they acquitted the white murderers of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. But decent people pointed out that although they did not break the letter of the law, they did break its spirt, which is equal justice for all, regardless of race, sex, religious beliefs, or political adherence.
I have no emotional investment in Mr Trump, who, I believe, is a disastrous leader for my side, and do not believe that the 2020 election was stolen. People on my side who break the law will have to face the consequences of their actions. (Which doesn't mean we should abandon them. If Kamala Harris can urge people to bail violent rioters out of jail, we cab help our side too.)
I completely understand why the Left wants to make full use of every mistake our side makes. We would -- or should -- do the same to you.
People on your side riot, burn down courthouses, set police cars on fire, murder our supporters in cold blood -- and we do, or we should, exploit ordinary Americans' revulsion for these acts to the full.
And when your side decides that something as important as a Grand Jury investigation should be headed by a loon -- presumably, the sensible people on the Grand Jury selecting their leader were intimidated by Wokeness into choosing her: -- let's-not-hurt-her-feelings and even, perhaps, the Leftist view that primitive-peoples'-religions-are-just-as-valid-as-civilized-peoples'-religions.
So we should point it out. We're both battling to sway the opinions of that broad third of Americans who are neither Left nor Right. We're saying, "This is the sort of nutjob the Left will choose to admnister the law -- remember this, the next time you or a loved one gets entangled in the legal system."
The Left used to be the side in favor of science and reason, whereas the Right was, shall we say, not totally comfortable with this, relying more on well-established tradition and customs to guide our forward progress. [Literate readers are referred to the intellectual father of conservatism, Edmund Burke, and his polemic against the oh-so-rational French Revolutionaries: [
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But as more and more of the Left repudiates Western civilization, this is fading away, and the cause of science and reason is being increasingly abandoned to (part of) the Right to defend. (With the honorable exception of those people, generally on the Left, whose main political focus is on secularism, such as those around the journals
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This poor 'Wiccan' in Georgia is a trivial example of something happening more and more: medical students -- people whose education should be centred on evidence-based science -- are being forced to claim they believe equally in the validity of primitive peoples' "medical" practices.
The danger is not that your illnesses will soon be treated by magic spells and herbal potions. It's that our culture is beginning to take on that quality which was so prevalent in the old Soviet Union: the Public Lie -- things you had to pretend to believe, that everyone had to pretend to believe, but in which no one really believed.
A terribly corrosive phenomenon, and one whose effects we are still seing in Russia today, a generation after the fall of Communism.