Dear Friends,
It seems self evident to me, that when someone attacks a thing, they clearly do not like it. People don’t attack that which they like. Who goes around kicking puppies? People who hate puppies, that’s who. Given this not so shocking insight, then all we have to do, to know if someone likes or dislikes a thing, is to watch how they treat it. A person who goes around kicking puppies, we can reliably conclude, doesn’t like puppies. Just as a person who perverts the democratic process, attacks free speech, undermines freedom of religion, vilifies freedom of assembly, exploits the law, spits upon justice and attacks gun ownership, we can reliably conclude they do not like those things, just as we did the person who goes around kicking puppies. Moreover, they are qualitatively the same things.
Those who love democracy don’t try their best to destroy it, undermine the results and pervert the process. That is something one who hates democracy would do. Now, let’s face it, someone who hates democracy, and by extension, the will of the people, will not let this be publicly known, (unless they are stupid). So instead of standing on a soap box, shouting to the world how idiotic and subhuman they think we are, and how we should willingly submit to their superior intellect and wisdom, the more effective means would be to just pervert it… to give the appearance of democracy, when there is only their will. Someone who is conniving and heartless would take the latter path, which conveniently, is the path that requires one to be conniving and heartless.
Those who cherish the natural Right of self protection don’t chip away at it every chance they get. That is more the wheelhouse of someone who would have others shivering afraid and defenseless. Living like rabbits, or if made sufficiently obtuse by “education…” like cows. A cow is fed, well cared for, has access to medical procedures when necessary and hasn’t a care in the world. Well… until it is shipped to the slaughterhouse. Such is the life of a cow… not a human being. Oh, there are some who would happily live the life of a cow, and those who would rule prefer them, to rational human beings. Those who are too intelligent to be cows can be rabbits. Terrified, defenseless and hopeless, hiding from the predators that the elite have loosed upon us. Why make us defenseless like cows or rabbits?
There are two theories of justice. One of Thrasymachus, Caesar, Tamerlane, Mohamed, Hitler, Lenin, etc… and the other by Jesus Christ, Confucius, Socrates, Aristotle, Buddha, and Zoroaster. The theory of justice as envisioned by the first group is as a means to power over the little people. Thrasymachus said it best. Justice is a trick the great men played upon the little men. To keep the little people in line so that we can be more effectively taken advantage of by the Great men… and it be called just. While the concept of Justice as understood by Jesus, Confucius, Buddha, Zoroaster, etc… was that all people be treated equally. That we treat others by the Golden Rule. Reciprocate instead of exploit. Those that take the side of Thrasymachus don’t love Justice… they love power.
It becomes clear who and what we are dealing with if we examine our leaders in these terms. Do they cherish democracy by keeping it secure and honest, or do they undermine it with vote fraud, and seek to undermine the legitimacy of it at every turn? Do they love justice and protect it or exploit it to their own ends. Are they hypocrites who care nothing about the suffering of raped women unless it can be turned to their advantage? Do the leaders defend our ability to worship? Are they staunch protectors of our freedom to keep and bare arms or do they attack and undermine it? Do they turn tragedy into opportunities to forward their agenda? Do they solve problems or make them worse? An honest answer to these questions will tell you everything you need to know… who kicks puppies.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
