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Subjective truth: The Pig that Will Never Fly

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Our nation’s issues have nothing to do with preferred pronouns or fake insurrections or manic pushes for equity. They stem from an application of subjective truth to virtually everything.

Consider our founding charter. Progressives say the Constitution is a living, breathing document that must adapt to the times. As if the principles of liberty require adjustment because things have changed so much in a mere 234 years.

Do progressives truly believe we should reinterpret the Constitution to fit their perception of reality? Or because it’s more to the liking of people who pretend that its truths are somehow less true with the passage of time?

Regarding truth, its meaning comes down to one question: Is it contingent on reality or feels? The notion that truth is whatever we feel it is—your truth, my truth—is absurd. The reality is that we all operate in a world of absolute truth, and we all affirm its supremacy a thousand times a day whether we accept it or not.

If truth doesn’t exist, then it would be true that truth doesn’t exist, and once again we arrive at truth. ~Nabeel Qureshi 

Church and state

As in politics, progressive leaders in Christianity believe that the Bible is not Scripture, but is merely a “library of books” written by men whose prejudices and viewpoints make it unreliable as a guide for Christian living. Question: If the Bible is a library of books, who’s the managing editor?

Rather than reject all Scripture, church progressives cherry-pick Bible truths they can live with it. Consider the easily digestible maxim that God is love. To them, God is only love. He doesn’t ask anything of them in terms of obedience or justice or truth.

To spiritual progressives, we have carte blanche to live without structure and without guidance other than what we feel is right. This eliminates personal responsibility and accountability. It also creates a contradiction: Spiritual life without the truth of Scripture is like self-governance without a timeless Constitution.

No truth, no compass

In the minds of progressives—in culture, government and religion—truth is purely subjective. Except when it comes to bolstering an agenda; then helpful truths quickly become absolute. Like these:

All men are created equal. This maxim actually means that everyone is created with equal worth to the Creator. It has been subverted to mean that everyone IS equal and thus should be given every opportunity to act upon this equality through denigrating measures such as affirmative action.

God is love. According to Scripture, love is only one of God’s attributes. The Bible also says God is holy and just and righteous and pure. These characteristics, if true, call for accountability and responsibility—just as our Constitution calls for rule of law based on self-evident truths.

Care for the poor. This is where progressives in religion and politics coalesce and differ most strongly with evangelicals and conservatives. In truth, it’s not a question of if we should help the poor; it’s how.

Polar opposite positions

Progressives think the federal government is best suited to help the poor. Conservatives think state and local government and religious groups and churches are best suited to help the poor. When we leave caring for the poor to the federal government, we wash our hands of them. The poor become enslaved to a system that crushes their spirits and keeps them dependent.

I receive care from the federal government—the Veteran’s Administration. Trust me, the federal government is a ponderous, inefficient caregiver; it’s far from ideal. Private healthcare, driven by incentive and the market, naturally provides the best quality of care. In terms of charity, local volunteers and people on the ground can make a real, lasting difference by helping poor people help themselves.

If political progressives think we should give people what they need without encouraging them to give themselves what they need, they do not understand human nature. Or worse, they have little faith in people and in the value of encouraging them to lift themselves up.

If religious progressives think God is all love and is not necessarily holy and just and that the Bible is not reliable, they do not understand God’s nature or human nature.

The pig that will never fly

On the subject of truth in politics and religion, allow me to offer these observations and concluding arguments:

I’ve never seen such a starkly obvious difference between those who rely upon Constitutional and Scriptural authority for governance and interacting with God and others and those who seek to create their own framework for the same. This faulty framework is based on feeling rather than thinking, emotion rather than cognition.

When progressives disregard the Constitution’s or Scripture’s authority, there is no rule of law—civically or spiritually.

Today’s progressives in the political and religious arenas seem to have forgotten this objective truth: What feels right is not always what is or ought to be right.

Subjective truth is by its nature not true. If a tree falls in a forest, it’s irrelevant whether anyone is there to hear its crash. And no, God cannot create a rock that even he can’t move. The size and weight of the rock is irrelevant. If he can make it, he can move it.

Subjective truth is like a sideshow clown who distracts and pleases childish minds with colorful balloon dogs. It’s a nonentity that binds the brains of many.

Dear leaders in government and the church: Let go of the lead balloon of subjective nonsense and let people soar on the wings of truth. It will truly set them free.

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Patrick is a journalist and writer with degrees in English and journalism. He served six years in the Navy where his life was changed forever by the Lord Jesus Christ. He lives in the Sierra Nevada of Northern California with his wife, dog and two cats. He enjoys hiking and cycling, taking pictures and blogging at https://luscri.com/



 
 
 

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A Brief Timeline Which Reveals All

Alvin Briggs is a Soros-funded corrupt District Attorney and among NY’s most evil elected officials

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March 6, 2022: The New York Times reports that the Manhattan DA’s investigation of Donald Trump has “unraveled;” thrown out of court. Stormy Daniels is ordered to pay Trump $300,000 for filing the junk law suit against him.

November 16, 2022: Donald Trump announces White House bid.

March 15, 2023: The House Oversight Committee, already having uncovered 150 questionable Biden family bank records related to payments from China, finds 11 more illicit Biden family business deals.

March 16, 2023: The Manhattan DA’s case is magically revived and somehow strong enough to prosecute Donald Trump.

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How the Left’s Corruption of the Courts Imprisoned Another Republican as a Fall Guy for the 2008 Real Estate Crash

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The fallout from the 2008 real estate market crash has continued for years, as Republicans languish in prison, demonized as fall guys for the big banks. When the public clamored for scalps, Democratic prosecutors pounced on conservative small business owners in the real estate industry. 

Here is a classic example of how the legal system is manipulated on the inside to target a conservative and make them the fall guy for a bigger scandal, protecting the powerful who are really responsible. Settlement agent Mark Andreotti was accused of defrauding banks out of $2.1 million in 2010 and 2011, and convicted without an opportunity to fairly defend himself during trial. 

But what was the real story, which never came out at trial? Andreotti’s former business associate, a real estate attorney, misappropriated money from business escrow accounts at a title agency. When Andreotti discovered it and confronted him, the associate promised to repay the money but never did, then he died. Incredibly, none of this information was allowed to come out at trial, but Andreotti has compiled all the evidence

It appears to show his attorney, John P. McGovern, colluded with federal prosecutors, making a deal to help “protect the credibility” of the prosecution’s key witness during trial. Andreotti recorded McGovern admitting to the “deal” several months before trial, but the Court refused to review the recording or allow Andreotti to change attorneys. 

Andreotti’s former bookkeeper was the prosecution’s key witness. McGovern could have attacked her credibility, as was his responsibility as defense counsel, to cast doubt on her testimony and invalidate numerous claims made by the prosecutors.  But something happened right after McGovern started cross-examining her. The prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Shana Chen, asked to speak privately with McGovern. After that conversation, McGovern shut down the cross-examination.

Bizarrely, Andreotti was never allowed to put his accountant Steven Weiss on the stand to testify, whose testimony would have decimated the prosecution’s case. When Judge Susan Wigenton was informed that Mr. Weiss could not testify before the weekend, she responded by stating,  “We’re not waiting for him.” Strangely, Andreotti said the judge’s comment was removed from the official transcript — which is a felony if true — but Andreotti recorded his attorney talking to him about it. McGovern never filed an objection or brought the judge’s statements up in Court again. 

McGovern did not cross-examine any witness, other than basic questions without direction and which favored the prosecution. He didn’t offer Andreotti’s version or any version of events that conflicted with the prosecution. McGovern did not put any witness on the stand except for Andreotti, and he suggested that Andreotti NOT invite his family and friends to the trial.

There were other shady maneuvers done to ensure Andreotti went away for a long time. The prosecution got him removed from his home with his wife by stating that his wife had volunteered to be a witness. They accused him of obstructing justice because he’d spoken to his wife about the case. His wife, who is now his ex-wife, said she never volunteered to be a witness; the FBI “forced” her to be on the list. Ultimately, she was never prepared for trial by the prosecution or called to testify. But due to this alleged “obstruction of justice,” 30 months was added onto Andreotti’s sentence. The entire incident was bizarre considering in criminal law, spousal privilege protects a spouse from testifying against another. 

Another strange trick that was pulled on Andreotti was not allowing his bookkeeper to discuss at trial a property she bought from him, which was one of the properties where his associate had diverted funds. It would not have increased his sentence. Instead, it was brought up after he was convicted as “relevant conduct” which resulted in an enhancement to his sentence, translating to another 30 months added onto his prison sentence.

Andreotti isn’t trying to escape responsibility for the loss of the money, after all it was his business, and his mistakes. However, there was no deliberate intent to defraud, nor did he benefit from the loss. Certainly, he should not have been sentenced to 12 years in prison, which is longer than a conviction of this type would require. By comparison, Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to less time than Andreotti, and she defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

His recorded meetings with McGovern show there is collusion going on between the court-appointed attorneys and prosecutors. McGovern gets referrals from the prosecution, and in order for those referrals to keep coming, I believe he’s expected to compromise his defense of clients. When Andreotti asked McGovern if he could hire him personally, he said McGovern responded and said no, “The government is my client.” That’s why Andreotti started recording his phone calls with him. At the very least, McGovern violated ethical rules by assisting the prosecution during trial, and for failing to report this “deal.”

The legal abuses are continuing as Andreotti works on his appeal. He said the clerk has tried to dismiss his appeal three times for failure to file, but all three times has been reversed. This is concerning since it may show a pattern of dismissing allegations of fraud in order to protect the status quo. He’s had no luck reporting the prosecutors to various enforcement and prosecutorial oversight agencies, he’s usually given the excuse that his appeal is still being litigated. 

Fortunately, Andreotti was allowed to transfer to home confinement last winter due to COVID-19. He must have been low-profile enough that the left didn’t block it, in contrast to high-profile conservatives. But his family has suffered immensely. He was unable to see his mother before she died because he was in prison. 

Andreotti says, “It was the overzealous, ‘win at all costs’ attitude of the liberal prosecutors and agents of the DOJ Federal Housing Finance Office that caused them to act fraudulently.” He is just getting started on exposing the corruption. 

 

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