01-10-2022, 09:51 PM
(01-10-2022, 01:56 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:Quote:NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A New York man upset with what he perceived as Donald Trump's threats to democracy was criminally charged on Monday with threatening to kill the former U.S. president, who he once referred to as Hitler.
See? There are crazies on both the left and the right. Everyone knows Hitler and Trump are very different. Hitler's destruction of democracy went much further and much better justifies violence.
Inexcusable, of course. Donald Trump was lawfully elected President in 2016 and merits recognition for such even if one completely despises him as much as I do.
We liberals need not be hypocrites. We can recognize, expose, and prosecute our rogues; indeed we must if we are to have any moral authority.
Trump was also lawfully defeated in a free, competitive, and fair election, and that demonstrates that democracy works. Assassination is not democracy. I can cheer the demise of such terrorists as abu-Mursab al-Zarqawi and of course Osama bin Laden, the Mossad whacking Herbert Cukurs (Latvia's equivalent of Charles Lindbergh before WWII, but also a mass-killer of Jews as a collaborator with Nazi Germany) or even the Yugoslav secret police attempting to assassinating (he was not killed outright) wartime Croatian dictator, Jew-slaughterer, and Nazi puppet Ante Pavelic.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.