Relevant Quotes

[jpl458]

Lord Acton	"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Isaac Asimov	"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.”
Karl Marx	"If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded."

I find the last one interesting in light of removing books from libraries.

 

[jpl458]

I fail to see the explicit sex that was in the Diary of Anne Frank. DJT appears to have broken the law. If you or I had kept secret documents in our possession, we would be in jail already. He was asked politely for a year to return the docs, and didn't. That is a crime, and he should be held accountable for that. That's why there are trials. He is innocent until proven guilty. I do not believe the the DOJ and the FBI are singularly out to get him. He pretty much brought it on himself. As I've noted before, I know what he tried to pull with Trump Tower in Chicago, because I have a family member that was involved. That was 25 years or so ago. He has not changed since then.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Pat, a MINOR quibble here... DJT perhaps had the ability to declassify documents - but there is a formal procedure that he would have had to follow to do that, and the documents AS FOUND showed no evidence of the "declassification trail" (like a security audit trail) that is part of the process. As much as I liked what Trump did, he WAS a bit loose with the rules. Not nearly as bad (in my mind) as Hillary and her illicit mail server... but loose.
The part that irks me was that the mail server incident didn't get her arrested for violations of the Federal Records Management laws. All of this loose treatment of classified documents goes back farther than any of those incidents. I wonder if ANY Senator or Representative is trustworthy given the sensitive nature of the documents they can access.

 

[Isaac]

Lord Acton	"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Isaac Asimov	"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.”
Karl Marx	"If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded."

I find the last one interesting in light of removing books from libraries.

That would be more compelling, if it weren't true that most of the book-removing pertains to content having nothing to do with history, but rather is meant to normalize the latest, newest, very much not-history, trends of sexual experimentation...AND defying an agreement that 99.9% of civilization has easily agreed to for millennia: NEVER mix KIDS & SEX- period, end of story.

Combine that with the fact that progressives have been removing & trying to remove literature that hurts some people's feelings or presents a reality they'd rather deny, important literature like Mark Twain, and it all adds up to a rather debunking of what MSNBC may have convinced you!