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Ethics Dunce: Unethical Groveler Kelly Stafford
NOVEMBER 20, 2020 / JACK MARSHALL
It’s really simple. If you don’t have the fortitude to stand up for your
opinions, resist bullying and tell the social media mobs to go fry an
egg, then shelter in your metaphorical womb, check with the Woke and The
Wonderful about their latest agenda items and directives so you can
parrot them accurately, and shut the hell up.
At least Galileo was threatened with torture by an authority that wasn’t
bluffing before he retracted what he knew to be true. What was Kelly
Stafford, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, afraid
of? Yet she quickly followed up her video, which was 100% correct, with
a nauseating retraction on Instagram, as she wrote,
“I should never have used the word ‘dictatorship.I got caught up in the
heat of the moment, that is my fault. I don’t know the answer and I
won’t pretend to. I care about the people who are losing their lives or
battling this.. and also the medical staff who care for them. and it is
hard knowing these local business owners and watching them struggle and
having to lay off their employees, not knowing how they are gonna make
it. So I’m sorry. i let my emotions get the best of me. I love Michigan
and the people here.. don’t get that twisted in this. This place was my
rock during my tough times and I wish there was an answer that pleased
everyone but we know that is definitely not the case.”
Her initial statement was concise, clear, sensible and correct. The
Democratic Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, has repeatedly
engaged in abuses of power in panicky, excessive, arbitrary executive
orders related to the Wuhan virus. The only reason it has not received
more attention is that so many Democratic governors have been equally
arbitrary and, yes, dictatorial. A conclusion that their party is
exploiting the pandemic to condition Americans to increased government
control and make them dependent on nanny state assistance for survival
is certainly supportable.
Of course, Hanlon’s Razor applies. They could just be fools.
For example, radical progressive Washington Gov. Jay Inslee issued new
COVID-19 restrictions for his state Sunday. They include more limits on
social gatherings, mandating the closure of bars, restaurants, and gyms,
occupancy restrictions for businesses, bans on indoor sporting events,
and prohibitions of wedding receptions and funeral wakes. The orders not
only limit the number of people permitted to attend religious services;
they prohibit choirs, bands, and ensembles, and even bans congregational
singing.
Good citizens of totalitarian regimes learn to keep their head lowered
and plead for mercy when they speak out of turn, or against the official
definition of the greater good. People like Kelly Stafford put all of us
in peril by emboldening the foes of our life, liberty, and pursuit of
happiness.
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