Updated and bumped Faith in FBI now restored! "MSNBC Trots Out Peter Strzok to Tell Americans to Trust the FBI".
Victor Davis Hanson does his typically good job in summarizing a scattershot bunch of facts in this article on the sins of the FBI and the DOJ: "Why Merrick Garland Is Losing the People". A sample:
In 2020, the FBI sat on the Hunter Biden laptop and its analysts helped feed leaks protecting Joe Biden’s presidential campaign from otherwise damaging disclosures.
Some of the laptop’s contents, however, were in the public domain prior to FBI confiscation, and they had variously suggested that Joe Biden and his family were likely involved in selling influence for sizable sums to foreign governments. The laptop evidence suggested, additionally, that Hunter Biden had committed a series of tax, drug, and sex felonies.
Yet somehow, 50 former CIA and other intelligence officials—among them prior intelligence heads John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, and James Clapper—believed they had enough knowledge of the laptop on the eve of the election to assure the country it was “Russian disinformation.” Note that Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and other senators believe that an FBI agent and or analyst had deliberately mischaracterized the laptop as “disinformation” to protect Biden.
I shall have to say a rosary for the forgiveness of the FBI's sins. Oh, wait: "Atlantic Writer Claims the Rosary is an Extremist Symbol for Christian Nationalists".
Catholics, tired of waiting for their rosary prayers to kick in, take their concerns for the soul of Atlantic writer Daniel Panneton to the next level .
Seriously, the Left is attempting to place everything we believe in beyond the pale.
Looks like I need to add one more item to my list of provocative domestic terrorism symbols...
Nationalism only took off after the Protestant Reformation. Before that the Vatican in Rome was a sort of globalist United Nations, authorising and overseeing regional leaders, as Henry VIII found out, for one.
ReplyDeleteAnd that continues to this day, where Catholicism is a kind of global comsopolitan fraternity with members and leaders of every race.
While most people of African descent in the US may be Protestant/Baptist, in the Caribbean (where my wife grew up) they are mostly Catholic. American leftist commentators see everything heavily slanted towards American experience, and even then are clueless about how things came to be this way or how complex the underlying currents of history.
Over here, most Catholic priests come from non-white countries which are more conservative than 'modern' white ones.
Here's a recent pic of St Joseph Church, Curepe Trinidad - the town my wife is from:
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(Officially Trinidad and Tobago or T. 'n T.).
'Rad-trad'? I tell you what, try to do a 'drag queen story hour' in Trinidad and see how far you get with that.
PS, I'm not criticising nationalism or Protestants. The point is that history moves in mysterious ways, and new ideas bring new branches of experience while the meaning of older things can be forgotten, even turned into their opposites.
ReplyDeleteThe novel Canticle for Leibowitz was written to demonstrate this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
Yes, I had read that the African clergy were more doctrinally conservative than many of their western counterparts. I wonder what they make of the current Pope.
ReplyDeleteThat church in Trinidad looks remarkably similar to the Catholic church in my hometown.
Actually, not so similar, now that I went back and looked at an old photo. But it does have a small statue on the overhang extending out over the front doors; my fuzzy recollection turned out to be different from the reality.
ReplyDelete'I do enjoy a good statue' as Sister George in Derry Girls says:
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But seriously, I was in this cathedral in southern India ten years ago for a visit:
https://youtu.be/V26OK7-cecI
and on weekdays there are a bunch of ladies saying rosary in a side chapel. So much for a 'symbol of (white) nationalism'. Especially among the women, the amount of Catholic devotion I saw there just stunned me. India supplies our parish priests now, and Africa. I don't see them becoming like our decadent, collapsing societies any time soon, despite all the self-congratulation of our elites.
My mother-in-law had a drawer full of rosaries she inherited from her mother and various ancestors. I suppose the left would see her as a dangerous subversive, which she definitely would be if anyone had ever crossed her. The left is lucky she's not still alive.
ReplyDeleteMy God, Rebecca, she was practically a Ted Kaczynsky of rosaries!
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