"The Amy Coney Barrett’s must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society"

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Keith Olbermann wrote "the Amy Coney Barrett’s must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society.” See:

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This is truly alarming. Is it really acceptable behavior now to call for Barrett to be “prosecuted and convicted and removed”? For living out ordinary Catholic beliefs? For not voting Democratic?

Then I came across this essay “Persecution? Bring It On” by Catholic Anthony Esolen who wrote: “In a few weeks I will be voting against the party that is eager to crush, to pen up, or worse, to deform, every faithful Catholic school, parish, and beneficent society in the country.” Here is the full essay:


And, in a very similar vein, Rod Dreher’s latest book, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents argues that our liberal democracy is sliding into a soft totalitarianism, with a progressive elite determining what thought and language is permissible and what must be cancelled.

What are we going to do?
 
Weild the sword Our Blessed Mother gave to us, do penance, and petition that the hand of God have mercy on those faithful. It’s trying times, but never forget that when we focus to the future to much, we forget judgement can be for any one of us tonight, so live in the now, and live the faith as we all ought to. God Bless!
 
mercyalways said:
Keith Olbermann wrote "the Amy Coney Barrett’s must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society.” See:

From:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1314692935267414016

This is truly alarming. Is it really acceptable behavior now to call for Barrett to be “prosecuted and convicted and removed”? For living out ordinary Catholic beliefs? For not voting Democratic?
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Here’s the statement in more context:

“The terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box. And then he and his enablers, and his supporters and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees, and the William Barrs, and the Shawn Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it."

In context, it is obvious he is calling for Barrett (along with Mike Lee, William Barr, Mike Pence, etc.) to be prosecuted and convicted and removed for being “collaborators” with the supposedly terrorist Trump. The goofiness of the statement really speaks for itself, and it’s confusing exactly how he regards Barrett as a “collaborator”, but it’s clear that it has nothing to do with “Catholic beliefs” or “not voting Democratic.”
 
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JSRG said:
In context, it is obvious he is calling for Barrett (along with Mike Lee, William Barr, Mike Pence, etc.) to be prosecuted and convicted and removed for being “collaborators” with the supposedly terrorist Trump.
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Olbermann sounds hysterical. What is worrying is the tenor of recent cancellations, not to mention all the riots lately. All of them suggest there is a large group in our society that will no longer tolerate dissent from their beliefs.

Has anyone else read “Live Not By Lies”? Dreher, who wrote it, also wrote “The Benedict Option”. “Live Not By Lies” argues that we need to face that the US and likely Europe as well is headed into a soft totalitarianism that will end with a kind of persecution of Christians.

Dreher thinks we need to form small groups. of orthodox believers, just as groups were formed right before the Communists took over, to support our families and teach our children.
 
Isn’t Keith Olbermann a sports commentator?
I’m sure Amy has a thick skin and couldn’t care less what he thinks.
I sure don’t.
He can go back to talking sports like he’s supposed to be doing.
 
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Perhaps it is a case of ideology driving someone with psychological problems over the edge.
This is a maladjusted response to someone you don’t agree with.
 
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mdgspencer said:
Perhaps it is a case of ideology driving someone with psychological problems over the edge.
This is a maladjusted response to someone you don’t agree with.
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Exactly! It is exactly like another case of ideology driving someone with psychological problems over the edge - President Trump shouting for AOC and Ilhan Omar to go back where they came from, when they are actually duly elected American Representatives of American Citizens deserving of American respect and civility.
His is a maladjusted response to someone you don’t agree with.
Which maligner has the loudest bully pulpit in America? (“Who is Keith Olbermann?” Or “Who is Donald Trump?” “How many read the story on Barrett?” Or "How many know of the call and chants to ‘Send them back!’ "?)
You attempt to chide people away from listening to Olbermann. Will you call them also away from listening to Trump seek to discredit American Lawmakers because they are democrats who do not agree with him?
 
Keith Olbermann is more than just a little bit unhinged. In a sane society, he would be ignored or shunned but he’s a “celebrity” and thus gets a platform to hold forth. I’ll try to say a prayer for him, but I so thoroughly dislike him I’m afraid it will be had to do so.
 
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In a sane society, he would be ignored or shunned but he’s a “celebrity” and thus gets a platform to hold forth.
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Olbermann appears on his own youtube channel. As platforms go, that is pretty close to being ignored.
 
Regardless,his comments are beyond the pale.He needs to get his walking papers,how about that?,
 
I think he was a muck raker reporter, who got transferred to the sports division of one of the majors. He failed therer, whent to ESPN, failed there, etc. Actually the laughing stock of both the left and right side medias. He just delivers sensationalist headlines, as above.
 
Yet you don’t offer our duly elected president the same consideration.🤨
 
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Yet you don’t offer our duly elected president the same consideration.
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I don’t recall trying to urge you to question his legitimacy as an American president, nor belittle him with base nicknames. I have asserted he has failed at his promises which all can see; MAGA failed in Trump’s America. He has not shown how AOC and Omar are not legitimate but he has his Trumpers shouting it.

Who invented “Sleepy Joe”?
Who invented “Crooked Hillary”?
Who invented “Crazy Nancy”?

Go to a rally.
 
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Nice deflection and not so nice reference to those of us who support our POTUS
 
Headed for totalitarianism? Absolutely, but dystopian authors have been sounding that alarm for well over a century. Europe and Canada are slightly ahead of us on that curve. I haven’t read Live Not By Lies, but I have read The Benedict Option. I wasn’t a fan of Dreher. It’s easy to tell people what you think they should do; I noticed he declined to do the more rigorous work required to offer practical suggestions about how to do it. I had the same problem with “The Marian Option.” (For the record, it’s a lot easier to criticize books like that than it is to write them!)

Homeschoolers have been “forming small groups” of like-minded people for a long time. Parents have always held the primary responsibility for the education of their children; as a society we lost sight of that so long ago that the idea seems revolutionary now.

Our small groups of orthodox believers are our churches. The orthodox find the orthodox priests. The unorthodox are offended by those priests, and they leave. Often not before complaining loudly to our unorthodox Bishops – so they do some damage in leaving, but they don’t win everywhere.
 
MrsAngelala said:
Homeschoolers have been “forming small groups” of like-minded people for a long time. Parents have always held the primary responsibility for the education of their children; as a society we lost sight of that so long ago that the idea seems revolutionary now.

Our small groups of orthodox believers are our churches.
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Hi, yes, I agree with you. Live Not By Lies actually suggests just what you do - the forming of small groups of devout people.

Dreher talks about what happened when the Communists took over, and how these small groups became the basis for the resistance to the Communists. I really, really enjoyed reading about the heroic actions of those who held to the faith.

Oh and another tip I liked was that the small groups of devout people aided in later marriages. The children grew up and married one another and this, also, helped them to continue in their religion.
 
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