Nov 18, 2025 07:07 PM
(This post was last modified: Nov 18, 2025 07:10 PM by C C.)
(Nov 18, 2025 02:03 PM)confused2 Wrote: Somewhere buried in US law (I suspect) is something like-
Quote:Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—^^Can anyone can think of someone who might fall into that category?
Syne (but not Trump) has a problem with the meaning of ".. fight like hell, or you won't have a country" .. having successfully shown the harmless rhetorical nature of the words .. Trump now wants a billion dollars because (he now claims) the words he used DO encourage violence.
What this exemplifies is how predatory the litigation system has become, in which opportunistic lawyers have sculpted a legal landscape where justice is relative. High crime from one perspective is defamation or abuse from another. What is right or wrong boils down to who can control the narrative. Morality is not absolute, it is a contest to be won.
Predatory judicial proceedings are a major reason for why health care is so ludicrously expensive and consequently bureaucratic in the US. "Saving and healing people" has deteriorated into an institution that deserves constant punishment. Along with hefty malpractice insurance for both the facility and the medical personnel, an army of extra people must be hired to meticulously keep track of data and accommodate all the lengthy protocol and burdening standards required by both policy and the self-defense against the onslaught of lawyers.
Non-foreign doctors increasingly grow less in number -- because who wants a thankless job that invites persecution and a circle of hovering vultures? After the operation: "What, What? I can't understand the nurse assigned to me, I can't understand the doctor."
Back to suing the BBC... One plus of what predatory practitioners of law have crafted is that Trump accordingly receives the trophy of "moral victor" each time he wins. Relativism decides right/wrong by battle. Thus, MAGA supporters are not hounded conscience-wise by past and current questionable antics of Trump behavior. Trump achieves his virtue via the proper means of the contextualism that postmodernism itself introduced to the world.
Also, many Presidents prior to the 1970s probably did everything under the sun (including sexual indiscretions). They were not as closely monitored, GI-tract probed, and chastised as they are today. And yet, the US not only survived their imperfections, but thrived. Compared to them, Trump's primary difference is that his nature is out in the open, whereas they tried to conceal theirs. He is not really anything new, he's an atavist, and the country --again, rose to prominence under the "never or rarely punished" flaws of such dinosaurs (or despite them).