Why The Senate’s Ritual Defamation Of Brett Kavanaugh Threatens Every American

[Right_in_Virginia]

Why The Senate’s Ritual Defamation Of Brett Kavanaugh Threatens Every American
The Federalist, Sep 28, 2018, Stella Morabito   

Any rational observer of the Democrats’ non-stop character assassination machine can see that something is seriously sick in our republic. Instead of allowing Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee were permitted to use trumped-up, hip-pocketed charges to stage a show trial more in tune with a totalitarian system.

Like Justice Clarence Thomas before him, Kavanaugh has undergone pre-meditated, well-coordinated attacks by Democrat elites who cling to the apron strings of an anti-human brand of feminism to justify this craft. There’s a good term for the practice they’re engaged in: ritual defamation.

Perhaps an apt metaphor for ritual defamation is the gang rape of one’s character and good name. Whatever the end result, this episode represents an underhanded rape of the rule of law, as well as of Brett Kavanaugh’s character.

So in light of the travesty of the Kavanaugh hearings—the character assassination; the utterly uncorroborated accusations of sexual misconduct when he was a youth; the use of a disruptive mob to hijack the process; the utter disregard for basic common sense and fairness, much less the rule of law—we need to study the mechanics behind these gutless acts.

In 1990, a Kansan civil liberties advocate named Laird Wilcox wrote an excellent and cogent essay entitled “The Practice of Ritual Defamation.” The essay provides a major public service. It clarifies the mechanics of ritual defamation and lists its eight primary features. It’s a short must-read for any citizen with a shred of goodwill.


More: https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/28/senates-ritual-defamation-brett-kavanaugh-threatens-every-american/

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Practice of Ritual Defamation,   Laird Wilcox, 1990
http://www.lairdwilcox.com/news/defame.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

“An important rule in ritual defamation is to avoid engaging in any kind of debate over the truthfulness or reasonableness of what has been expressed, only condemn it. .. . . The primary goal of a ritual defamation is censorship and repression.”

[Right_in_Virginia]

Perhaps an apt metaphor for ritual defamation is the gang rape of one’s character and good name. This episode represents a rape of the rule of law, and of Brett Kavanaugh’s character.

[Right_in_Virginia]

“An attempt, often successful, is made to involve others in the defamation. In the case of a public official, other public officials will be urged to denounce the offender. In the case of a student, other students will be called upon, and so on.”

[...] And we all know that bully-like swarming is the order of the day, whether in person or on social media.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

 The weakness of ritual defamation lies in its tendency toward overkill and in its obvious maliciousness. Occasionally a ritual defamation will fail because of poor planning and failure to correctly judge the vulnerability of the victim or because its viciousness inadvertently generates sympathy.

    It’s important to recognize and identify the patterns of a ritual defamation. Like all propaganda and disinformation campaigns it is accomplished primarily through the manipulation of words and symbols. It is not used to persuade, but to punish. Although it may have cognitive elements, its thrust is primarily emotional. Ritual Defamation is used to hurt, to intimidate, to destroy, and to persecute, and to avoid the dialogue, debate and discussion upon which a free society depends. On those grounds it must be opposed no matter who tries to justify its use.

[Jazzhead]

Perhaps an apt metaphor for ritual defamation is the gang rape of one’s character and good name. Whatever the end result, this episode represents an underhanded rape of the rule of law, as well as of Brett Kavanaugh’s character.

Yes, and it has led to death threats and vile, obscene messages directed to his family.

And when he got angry about it,  the Dems crowed SEE?  SEE?  He doesn't have the temperament to be a judge!


What scumbag behavior.

It is bullying, it is thuggishness,  it is extortion, it is something that if tolerated will tear this nation apart.  And even if Kav is confirmed,  the Dems won't apologize for his behavior and wish him well.  They will seek to ruin him even as a sitting Justice.   His civic life is forfeit; as he said he may never be able to teach class or coach basketball again.

The Dems have crossed a bridge too far;  if civil peace is to survive this kind of abominable behavior cannot be permitted to become the norm.   

[DB]

The Drumhead.

[WarmPotato]

I want to move to Mars at this point -_-