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Celia Farber's avatar

When I think about Reiner I feel my whole being is a bruise and there is nowhere to go. It's happening to him, him alone, at the same time, as a representative of us all. Scapegoat. (Rene Girard) He bears the brunt but the pain and degradation is for us all. It is an unbearable situation. It is the most horrific thing imaginable. And for WHAT? There are people on "our side" who think he maybe deserved it. I wish they would spell it out. Do they still THINK this is what Reiner "deserves?" I feel too "stupid" to understand their interpretations. Is it that he took some money even though the lawyer guy took the money? Is it that he defended a Scientologist 30 years ago? Is it that he was rude to Stefan Lanka and Andy Kaufman or Tom Cowan? (Can't recall who was on that interview but seemed anti-Reiner-ism got a foothold then) Is it that he didn't prosecute them in a magical court all by himself? That he overpromised? HELP ME. I don't get it.

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"It is time to get some adult supervision to wrest control from this odious mind set which has subverted the German spirit of reason, fairness and justice."

And to achieve this?

In the USA, they not only made political prisoners of January 6 protestors (who have not been charged with insurrection) but criminals of people who just happened to be there. In Canada, the government and RCMP railroaded the Coutts Four of which two remain in prison. A country that used armed police to crush a peaceful protest (far more so than any BLM/ANTIFA protest) and subsequently froze bank accounts of citizens including those who merely donated to the cause. An attack on civil liberties that was opened by the illegal invocation of the Emergencies Act. They want to throw in prison Pat King for 10 years for what amounts to mischief. The Crown piled on charges on protestors they disliked and got some to stick through shameless manipulation of the evidence. And media played ball all along misrepresenting the facts at every turn. King no exception. It's very easy to criminalize when you dehumanize. We saw this clearly during Covid.

What's going on is very serious. These are two countries that thump their chests hardest and chirp the loudest about "freedom and democracy". Yet, lawfare against political opponents and citizens has become routine. At the moment, our judicial systems is tolerating the communist refrain of "show me the man and I'll show you the criminal'. Which appears the case with Reiner with the added touch of Joseph's ordeal in The Trial.

The punishments are NOT fitting the crimes.

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