Over the past couple of months, several contributors to the American Thinker blog reported on probable election fraud, including fraud allegedly related to the Dominion voting machines. Apparently, Dominion threatened to sue the blog out of existence, and as a consequence, the proprietor, Thomas Lifson, published an abject apology for publishing such outright misinformation. His “apology” was so out-of-character, so craven, that I for one did not believe one word. However, some comments turned up at other blogs that linked to the apology, indicating that some readers took Mr. Lifson’s “apology” at face value. (Mr. Lifson also discontinued publishing reader comments. The heavy hand of censorship is silencing so many conservative voices.)
I don’t think Mr. Lifson had a choice. As I read it, had he not issued his “apology,”
his blog – which is a labor of love – would have been crushed. So I continue to
visit the American Thinker blog and frequently share content with Cleveland Tea
Party readers. Today, I’m sharing some
extracts from an article by E.M. Cadwaladr:
I don't think any of us will be
going back to normal anytime soon. Recent events have broken not
buildings and a few thousand lives, but the last weak remnants of the
institutions that our founders left us. We have passed, in the
course of a couple months, from a world in which some grudging impulse toward
fairness usually prevailed into a world in which raw power is being wielded
without the slightest principle. From a world in which legalities
were worth the hope of pursuing into a world in which they are merely the
formal decoration on the underlying blunt trauma of the ruling class's
cudgel. From a fragile but functional republic into a grotesque
parody of one.
. . .
Unless you are willfully blind or
constitutionally numb, there is a pretty good chance you are quietly, or not so
quietly, afraid. You have good cause. If you love the
country that you have rightfully inherited, you now have a target on your
back. Our institutions have completely failed us. We
alone, you and I and the insulted tens of millions, are now the only obstacle
between our descendents and totalitarianism.
In the sobering and dangerous days
to come, let us lose neither our principles nor our humanity. If we
must journey through the darkness, let us walk proudly as freeborn men and
women and not as lawless animals or broken slaves. . . .
Read the rest here.
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