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In reply to the discussion: The most well written and fully fleshed out article on the Franken mess. [View all]WyLoochka
(1,629 posts)Makes it even more disturbing that the tale this notorious right winger, Zeigler, tells of the attack on Franken, started by one of his right wing friends -Tweeden - was then adopted and promulgated by Franken's own colleagues in the Senate.
Adopted and worked into an hysteria that resulted in a destructive, frenzied mob of Democratic Senators calling out all across the country for the head of what I will, now and always, regard as an innocent colleague. If one does not want to create a victim, you will allow time for truth to be found and justice based on that truth to be rendered. Wasn't allowed to happen.
The process of justice was deliberately blocked. It was denigrated by Gillibrand, she said it wouldn't give us what we are looking for. The process of justice would be inadequate to the task, she said. The task of what we need to ask. Whatever the end goal, the miscalculation and superficiality of Gillibrand etal resulted in a travesty. Victim created - Al Franken. That was unnecessary. That was shameful. That was disturbing.
To have witnessed Gillibrand demanding that we deliberately dump ordinary social interactions involved with ordinary photo taking into the ugly bubbling stew pot of abuse and harassment and demand that we call it all the same, was disturbing.
To hear her trash some of our finest God given capabilities as humans, to discern differences - was disturbing. To hear her demand that we not use these abilities to find truth, was disturbing.
To have watched in horror as the mob gathered and raced recklessly to make posts online that heaped public shame on, and called for the head of a person who has shown himself to be far more decent and far more dignified than all of those mob members put together, was disturbing.
Doesn't matter who shares in the telling of this disturbing story of a destructive run amok mob action. It's true and the ring leaders like Gillibrand and Harris, and weak followers like Schumer, will go down in history in ignominy.