A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through…all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, 106-43 BC
Bartholomew Roberts, the real “Dread Pirate Roberts”, understood this perfectly. He chose his subordinate captains for loyalty rather than slavish obedience to orders. He didn’t care if they did things without waiting for orders, as long as what they did was the right thing from his point of view.
And you really, really didn’t want to be the one who tried to double-cross him.
The problem be in the selection.
The Good will fall along with the Bad, often in greater numbers, if not done with Great Care.
Verily, the Founders, whose wisdom we cannot replicate even to this Day, would warn us to avoid the Heinous Fate we should face if the Republic Walk the Plank along with the Vile who would seek to own us.
Penultimate panel has bit of a John Wickish look to it, nice work Chris. I’ll be curious to see who LTC Tulsi Gabbard handed off the seditious materials to at DoJ. Not Bondi, but someone who actually knows how to pursue it properly while others Blather about Epstein. The Epstein who Trump literally threw out of Mar-a-Lago years ago and banned from all Trump properties for propositioning the teen daughter of a friend/associate.
@badger …… exactly…..if Trumps name appeared ANYWHERE in those files as a “guest” on the island, it’d be front page news 24/! And a simple question for “Blather”…..How the hell do you bribe a BILLIONAIR????
Why the delay in releasing the client list? I don’t know…..this could be another of Trump’s 4D chess moves, but one thing I AM sure of….when that list actually DOES come out……there’s gonna be some wailing and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale in DC.
Gots me a BIG kettle of buttered popcorn on stand-by for the event!
I feel what a lot are missing when talking about this “list” is what list. The one Epstein made or one the Government made or maybe one MI6 made. The chain of evidence I’m sure has been broken long ago. To release a list that can’t be truly verified could damage innocent individuals and just create a lot of problems. We a!l want to see justice done but we don’t want a witch hunt.
I disagree.
Once every ten years we should Decimate them until such time as they see fit to make the Law serve the Public rather than the Bar. The problem here is we have too much Law and not enough Justice.
As to the “Journalists” and the TV heads who they serve, the Internet is slowly strangling them. Were this not so, the Left would have already won and we would be devolving into North Korea.
Letters of Marque?
A fine idea if they targeted the likes of Soros.
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– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, 106-43 BC
Bartholomew Roberts, the real “Dread Pirate Roberts”, understood this perfectly. He chose his subordinate captains for loyalty rather than slavish obedience to orders. He didn’t care if they did things without waiting for orders, as long as what they did was the right thing from his point of view.
And you really, really didn’t want to be the one who tried to double-cross him.
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Remind me what happened to Cicero >:-)
“…..most of the aristocracy and half the governments would fall.”
And…….you talk like this would be a bad thing?!?
The problem be in the selection.
The Good will fall along with the Bad, often in greater numbers, if not done with Great Care.
Verily, the Founders, whose wisdom we cannot replicate even to this Day, would warn us to avoid the Heinous Fate we should face if the Republic Walk the Plank along with the Vile who would seek to own us.
Penultimate panel has bit of a John Wickish look to it, nice work Chris. I’ll be curious to see who LTC Tulsi Gabbard handed off the seditious materials to at DoJ. Not Bondi, but someone who actually knows how to pursue it properly while others Blather about Epstein. The Epstein who Trump literally threw out of Mar-a-Lago years ago and banned from all Trump properties for propositioning the teen daughter of a friend/associate.
I am NOT dying my hair.
@badger …… exactly…..if Trumps name appeared ANYWHERE in those files as a “guest” on the island, it’d be front page news 24/! And a simple question for “Blather”…..How the hell do you bribe a BILLIONAIR????
Why the delay in releasing the client list? I don’t know…..this could be another of Trump’s 4D chess moves, but one thing I AM sure of….when that list actually DOES come out……there’s gonna be some wailing and gnashing of teeth on a biblical scale in DC.
Gots me a BIG kettle of buttered popcorn on stand-by for the event!
I feel what a lot are missing when talking about this “list” is what list. The one Epstein made or one the Government made or maybe one MI6 made. The chain of evidence I’m sure has been broken long ago. To release a list that can’t be truly verified could damage innocent individuals and just create a lot of problems. We a!l want to see justice done but we don’t want a witch hunt.
First, “Kill ALL The Lawyers.”
And many the “journalists” and TV heads.
How about Letters of Marque ?
I disagree.
Once every ten years we should Decimate them until such time as they see fit to make the Law serve the Public rather than the Bar. The problem here is we have too much Law and not enough Justice.
As to the “Journalists” and the TV heads who they serve, the Internet is slowly strangling them. Were this not so, the Left would have already won and we would be devolving into North Korea.
Letters of Marque?
A fine idea if they targeted the likes of Soros.