Article by Pat Boone (yes, the singer) in "Newsmax":
I don’t usually spout off in an angry tone like this — but I’m sick
and tired — up to here — with this despicable, destructive,
counter-productive, nation dividing name calling and libelous, criminal charges against public servants and elected officials — with no substantiation whatever.
Our culture, particularly our political culture, has seemingly
deteriorated to such an amazingly biased and uncivil level that we don’t
seem like America at this point!
Elected officials, sworn to actually uphold the Constitution and
represent us in accordance with its dictates, are rushing to public
forums and spouting harsh, unsubstantiated, lying attacks on other duly
elected and appointed officials!
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, eyes bulging with animosity and barely
concealed hatred for her president, specifically accused him of asking
the Ukranian president to “dig for dirt” on “an opposing candidate for
his office”! The actual revealed transcript of the phone call in
question reveals that all the president actually did and said — which as
president of the United States he had every right, if not the duty, to
do — was mention there was widespread concern about Hunter Biden’s use
of his father’s position as Vice President to further his own financial
goals, and that he’d appreciate whatever facts the Ukranian president
could furnish him. That’s all he said.
For Pelosi to blatantly defame her president with false and
libelous accusations is demeaning to her and her elected position as a
Democratic leader. But the common consensus of opinion is that she is
kowtowing to pressure from the new, ultraliberal representatives who
have gained constant access and support from the equally rabid and
prejudiced media.
The equally distressingly pop-eyed Rep. Adam Schiff, almost
frothing at the mouth with obsessive determination to personally obtain
the president’s impeachment, read a supposed transcript of the Ukranian
phone call, in which he seemed to be quoting Trump as digging for dirt
on whatever unethical things Biden and his son had tried, or words to
that specific effect.
When confronted publically with the actual words of the transcript
which revealed his lying account — Schiff tried to evade the truth of
his audaciously false words by saying it was a "parody."
A “parody”?
It was more a tragedy — of the depth of sordid abandonment of truth
and proper political maneuvering. It’s sleazy, it’s immature, and it’s
obviously desperate. And it’s maddening.
And now, evidence, audio and visual, has been uncovered in which Adam Schiff himself is heard inviting supposed information, offered by a suspicious foreign party — the very thing he’s hounding and trying to convict Trump for!
Yes, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, before and after they
both served in George Washington’s cabinet, manifested open dislike for
each other, mainly based on opposing views of how a republic should
function. But they were fundamentally gentlemen, and never openly
disparaged or maligned each other. And never would either of them have
stooped to “putting words in each other’s mouths” and deliberately
misquoting things never spoken.
Yes, there was the abysmal McCarthy inquisition years ago, which
started as investigation into embedded Communists in entertainment,
media, and the Army itself — and degenerated into “guilt by accusation”
which smeared anybody even accused of being "fellow travelers." It got
so bad that just to be called before the McCarthy committee to be
questioned was seen by too many as a “guilty sentence.” It was carried
on television and the whole country was treated to a wholesale travesty
of justice, the scrapping of “innocent 'til proven guilty.”
Finally, in a dramatic moment of showdown, as McCarthy himself was
being treated to his own kind of grilling, on June 9, 1954, by renowned
counsel for the U.S. Army, the Senator, sweating and squirming and
uncomfortable (soon to die), withered under the scorn of Atty. Joseph
Welch.
“Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last—have you left no sense of decency?”
That question rang through the courtroom and echoed across the
country. The good people of America, still possessed of a sense of
decency, a deep sense of propriety and fairness, made up their minds.
They’d had enough — enough, they said — of groundless accusations
and guilty verdicts and condemnation without any proof whatever. The
investigation was over. But the lingering convictions-by-smear had
ruined many careers and reputations.
Two fine men sit today on the Supreme Court, duly selected,
appointed and approved by Congress, still bearing invisible mud and
blame and soiled reputations caused by claims that were never found to
be true. It’s unfair, it’s unjust, it’s way beneath the way responsible
citizens are meant to act — and our young people are the worst victims,
even more than the vilified justices.
They’ve lost all confidence in our government, our democratic way
of life and almost all of our elected public servants. They
understandably infer that "they’re all crooks, you can’t trust any of
‘em. Why vote or take part in the political system at all?"
And who can blame them? Shame on all of us for not demanding that
public figures throttle their own anger and frustration at opposing
views, and argue reasonably on policy and facts, not devolving to
mindless mudslinging and smear tactics.
I myself have had occasion to privately urge our president to adopt
the example set by Ronald Reagan, who when making his policy points
firmly, with reason and occasional humor, still showed respect for his
opponents. The result was that, even when some disagreed with his
policies, they liked him — and could respect and honor him when he won.
The Bible soberly warns, “Judge not. For with the judgement you judge — you shall be judged.”
We Americans, who still have the final say, must absolutely demand that the mudslinging and mindless smearing stop … lest our blessed republic itself be smeared beyond redemption.
