Stormy kills Bragg case

[Dill]

(05-09-2024, 08:18 PM)Nately120 Wrote: And I've said before that I had a different perspective on that because my ol' man did what his country asked him to and when he got back as soon as he let his hair grow to an "unacceptable length" the old country-lovin' patriots "knew" that he was an America-hating commie who ran and hid when his draft number came up.

That accords with my memory of the period. 

Vietnam Vets were often the vanguard of war protests, and it was the government, Pentagon, Johnson, and Nixon that the protestors attacked, not soldiers.
There are accounts of "patriots" spitting on war protestors. If the protestors were also veterans, well, that would make sense.

That history was revised in the late '80s and early '90s as the belief that deplaning vets were frequently spit upon and otherwise abused became a wide-spread about the time of the Gulf war, just in time to vilify protestors of that war. Message: "During war, patriots trust their leaders, not the protestors!"

It used to take a decade or more to turn history upside down; now it takes less than a year, sometimes only a month.

The current Trump trial is a case in point--how did it go from being a prosecution squelched/delayed by Trump's protective DOJ to one whose "timing" is suspicious?

Same way, I guess that Biden's "weaponization" of the DOJ became a thing less than a year after Trump tried to use his to overturn an election. 

False equivalence always seems to be the hinge which swings public attention from fact-based prosecutions of Trump to accusation-based mirror-charges of Biden, his DOJ, Dems in general. Gore contested an election too!! Why didn't the FBI raid Biden's house to collect documents? How can Garland get away with defying a Congressional subpoena?!  Dems can't get over the Capitol riots, but the Floyd protests did much more property damage!  Only right that Biden be impeached for something, anything, if Trump was--but we have a two-tiered justice system! Biden has become a threat to democracy!