Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "Spokesperson for Mangione legal fundraiser defends support for suspect" video.
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@raptureready5004 I am 76. My pacifism crystalized in September, 1965 of my 17th year, during the Vietnam era. I was active -- nonviolently -- against that involvement beginning in June, 1965 through until its end 10 years later.
I'm against killing of any kind, including murder.
I'm one of those "Boomers" you history-illiterates attack. Let's see if you can sustain interest in an issue for longer than five minutes -- you knew nothing and cared not at all about the problems in the health care industry until you "thought" this murder was an opportunity to stir the pot for more violence.
Those problems impact mostly the elderly. I've been confronting them directly for more than 10 years.
Violence only has one result: more violence. But, ignorant and law-illiterate punk, ours is "A system of Laws, and not of men." -- John Adams. I defend the rule of law because it is the ultimate bulwark against chaos, out of which arises tyranny. Rule of law that too many blindly ignore, reject, and attack. Perhaps you get your defense of murder and domestic terrorism from Trump and the MAGA dregs who LOVE your contribution to their violent chaos and terrorism.
"Justice and the Rule of Law are to be ABOVE politics." -- John Adams. Note how Republicans, Trump, and MAGA, substitute politics for rule of law. You are indistinguishable from them.
Oh? -- you don't yet see that you have become the very thing you (claim to) rail against?
A few more facts that matter:
My generation of "Boomers" not only got the US out of Vietnam but also ended the draft.
What have YOU don't against killing and war? Defending murder and domestic terrorism is PRO-war.
We showed that a Vice-President (Agnew) could be got.
We showed that a president (Nixon) could be got.
We mainstreamed the environmental movement -- which is why your generation is aware of it. (I learned about Climate change in junior high/middle school science in the early 1960s.)
We invented the personal computer.
We invented computer bulletin boards, and email communications.
We invented the Internet.
We invented -- for better and worse -- "social media".
What have you done for the world? Accused us "Boomers" of "fucking up the world" because so astonishingly history-illiterate that you don't know that the world has always been fucked up? Compare that with the list above of the few accomplishments of my generation.
Instead of hating -- you're "anti-war"? -- on "Boomers" -- we won't be around much longer -- focus on the assholes in YOUR generation; there are plenty, and you're stuck with them. The best you can do is to not be one of them. But you aren't doing well in that concern -- personally attacking me because you haven't a response to the ISSUE: defending murder and domestic violence is immoral and promotes more of the same. If it gets further out of control and there are more shoot-outs in the streets, you'll hopefully take a SERIOUS look at your claim to be "anti-war".
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From "A Man for All Seasons":
In the following, Roper was Thomas More's hot-headed and impulsive son-in-law--
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you -- where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws, from coast to coast -- man's laws, not God's -- and if you cut them down -- and you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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