By Carrie K. Hutchens

It’s difficult for me to understand how people who fight for justice for themselves or others, can then find it acceptable for someone else to be treated unjustly and lied about? But that is what I see too often transpiring.

In my lifetime, I’ve spent a great deal of energy fighting for others, especially underdogs that seemed to be standing alone against the powerful or at least more powerful than they. Sometimes I was directly involved in the cases and other times, I was merely someone striving to get the truth out and the attention of others, who were in a position to fight the particular injustice.

No matter my part, big or small, I was all in on fighting against whatever the injustice was.

I’ve seen innocent people look totally guilty. Likewise, I have seen guilty people look totally innocent. Appearance can be absolutely deceiving and often are – especially in today’s insane world, where deceit is accepted if applied to those not agreeing or somehow in the way. You know, like President Trump. The man who has often been in the way of what so many have wanted.

I don’t know how many times I have heard people say that Trump lied about things that he did not lie about. It was a lie that he lied. In short, numerous times, I have asked people to name the lies they are accusing President Trump of. Each time, there has either been a response of silence or an allegation of something not true or something he said or did that was taken out of context to give the appearance of something not true.

Yet, some don’t care.

Some don’t care the President has been lied about or treated unfairly because they don’t like him. The latter supposedly makes it okay. But it doesn’t.

No one should be treated unfairly or lied about. If it is wrong – it is wrong no matter who does it or who it is done to. Liking the person or being the person is, or should be, irrelevant if we truly believe in justice for anyone, including self.

In addition to some thinking it is okay to lie about Trump – it’s amazing how so many are saying there isn’t any evidence to support the Trump Team’s claims without their own evidence that there is no evidence. These people simply throw their allegations out there – without evidence – with the expectation that their word is all that is necessary. In a sense, they are right.

Many people only hear news from media that is hostile to President Trump. Media that doesn’t share much, if anything, that is ever positive involving him. Therefore, there are many things those viewers aren’t aware of. As a result, too many too often get dug in and ready to believe anything bad said about Trump and refuse to listen to anything that challenges those beliefs.

I had some contacts that I thought the world of. I would have sworn that their integrity was beyond reproach and nothing could ever shake it. Then came Trump and the hatred of him. Sadly, I watched some become everything I believed they could never be – liars.

Then there are those people, who were treated wrongly, who now seem to think being treated wrongly is wrong, unless it is President Trump, of course. Somehow, in their minds, he is fair game because they have believed all the lies about him and failed to see all he has done for them. They just believe what they were fed, while fighting to get the courts and supporters to not believe all the non-truths involved in their case or the case of someone they were fighting for.

Amazing.

Court decisions are not always right or fair.

Investigations are not always thorough, whether by intent or by obstacles blocking those in pursuit of the truth.

Truth assertion is claimed by propaganda artists and truth-tellers alike.

Not all is as it seems.

Major media is not necessarily your friend providing truthful information. Sometimes… some of them… are nothing more than gaslighters leading you to where they, and their masters, wish you to be, so you can be controlled and think what they want you to think, as obviously they have done with many.

This election should concern us.

Perhaps you were for Joe Biden, but do you really want him to win if he has only won by lying and cheating by any? If your answer is yes, will you feel it is okay for the next person to win that way as well – especially if it is not a person you are for? Or, is it only okay if it is done to Trump and your person always wins?

Biden may have won. How do we know though, as things have and are transpiring? How can we trust an election that has had Trump votes given to Biden and all the other irregularities? Shouldn’t we want our elections to be on the up and up? Shouldn’t we want to know? Shouldn’t we want to be assured we were right and our vote was, and always is, counted accurately?

Yes, this election, and many other things, should concern us all.

We should never give the stamp of approval for lying and cheating no matter who it is done to or who it is done by. Truth and justice only exists when we demand truth and justice for all – including those we don’t even particularly like. And, yes, that includes President Trump.

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An Open Letter to Trey Gowdy

August 4, 2017 by admin

Dear Representative Gowdy:

It is with great sorrow that I write to you today! Yes, sorrow. I feel as though I am at the execution of my best friend and finding there is nothing I can do to stop the wrongful killing of justice. A killing so wrongful that the cries of the people are relentless and piercing. Can’t you hear them?

You trusted Mueller in spite of the teams he was compiling? How is that possible? Even us lowly voters saw the deck was being stacked and not in a good and fair way, yet you were never suspicious? I don’t understand.

The leaks continue. Leaks that are always meant to harm our president and his administration. Leaks that are meant to take him down and void our vote. You know – the vote of the people. The vote that made Trump the legitimate President of the United States. Does that even matter anymore?

We watch as the liberals lie, cheat and bully in an attempt to de-legitimize the election and take down the president we voted for. We watch as few Republicans do anything to stop this wrongful attempt. We watch as people who claim to believe in the Constitution and our system – just shrug their shoulders and pretend all is working as it is supposed to.

Well, it’s not. It’s not working as it is supposed to.

The FBI director selectively answered questions. He answered when it would look bad on President Trump and claimed he couldn’t answer, if it would look good for him. You know, like the fact that Trump wasn’t under investigation though media & officials made the world think he was.

Lie by omission matters. It matters a great deal.

Rep. Gowdy, I have no doubt you have lived a squeaky clean life, but I bet even you are vulnerable to the evil and corruption that we are witnessing. Yes, I bet that if the media and so many in Congress set out to discredit you, that even your reputation and proven action couldn’t withstand their relentless attacks – not if you were standing against them alone. How would you feel then? How would you feel if it was you, rather than Trump, that was targeted for wrongful destruction?

I’m disappointed that you and a few others that I have trusted are doing so little, if anything to stand up for President Trump.

It’s simple really.

You don’t have to like Trump. That isn’t a requirement. However, if you are to claim you believe in the Constitution… believe in our system… believe in justice and the courts – you must stand up and fight fiercely even for Trump- the man we elected president. Otherwise, there is little hope of anything being right ever again.

Today we helplessly watch the corrupted laugh. We watch it because those in power are either using their power wrongly or not at all. We watch it because those who could make a difference have chosen not to and have closed their ears to our pleas to be the warriors they were sent to Congress to be.

Yes…

Today we helplessly watch as truth and justice are being devoured in a pit of the wrongfully executed.

We may be helpless to fight the swamp beasts but you are not. Will you help us by helping President Trump?

With Hope that Evil Hasn’t Already Won,
A Legally Registered Voter

The Strawman Over-Dose: An Adventure in Madness

June 27, 2017 by Carrie K. Hutchens

The Strawman argument is nothing new. It’s present day use, however, often takes one on a journey of madness. A madness unlike any other in any place at any time – or so it seems as it goes on and on and on. Will the journey never end? I beg that it might.

I’m not sure where the modern liberal came from, but I certainly wish there was a recall on the current model. The hatred… the willingness to lie with such sense of righteousness… is all a bit much to experience as a daily (and nightly) diet, as they linger everywhere waiting to pounce and proclaim whatever nonsense is the nonsense for the day. Don’t they ever rest? Perhaps they could snuggle with the Strawman and take a nap – a long nap in the field of cognitive renewal.

It is interesting when one launches into a Strawman argument, is called on it and then suggests the person doesn’t know what one is. Either the launcher had no clue or thought he could “brain toy” his proposed victim into utter frustration and submission. He picked the wrong target.

The game is on and it appears there is a Strawman training camp among us. A camp where people are programmed with misinformation & willingness to deceive with the air of righteousness.

Politicians and media seem to be taking the Strawman method to a new level, making statement of fact what actually isn’t fact, but mere allegation or lie. Truth seems to be of little concern. Say it… get the thought out there to be spread… and fade back into the woodwork. However, it is turning back on them more and more each day.

One example of the media-in-Straw comes to us from The New York Times. The NYT stated there was a wiretap and apparently thinks we are to believe. However, when Trump claims there is one – the New York Times abruptly claims there wasn’t? (Does the New York Times realize it is calling itself a liar, if it calls Trump one?) An interesting piece on the topic is by Kevin Jackson, “NY Times DENIES ITS OWN REPORTING on Trump Wiretaps.”

We continue to hear about the Russian Collusion. Such irony.

The investigations have not found ANY evidence of ANY collusion between Trump (or his campaign) and Russia. When that is pointed out to the the anti-Trump politician & media crowd, the response is usually something to the effect – “that’s why we need an investigation.”

Reminds me of that Einstein quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.

Now that Trump has agreed he or his campaign was wiretapped, we have the faithful anti-Trump group demanding he provide proof by Monday, March 13th. I don’t understand. He asked for an investigation, but he is not allowed one? Immediately it is determined (without investigation) there was no wiretap because a couple of guys in the government said so? Why didn’t they say so before? Why didn’t they say it at the onset of the claim? Why did they wait until Trump said it?

The media provides us mostly with slams to Trump and anyone associated with him, with a few countering those allegations. So, who is telling the truth? It can’t be both ways.

It would be easy to write an essay on this topic of the new Strawman method that involves more than simply Trump. It’s everywhere. It’s an over-dose of unsubstantiated or known false claims in the media and hot off politicians’ lips. It’s definitely an adventure in madness. May truth hijack the journey and return the world to sanity!

Originally published at American Clarion
March 13, 2017 at 6:45 am