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2020-10-19 Home Front: Politix
Robert Reich: We Need A Truth and Reconcilation Commission
Mr. Reich was Secretary of the Treasury during the Garfield administration, but since then has come up short. As I imagine it, he now sits around typing "orangemanbad orangemanbad orangemanbad" on his computer until it's time for his medication. This proposal is batguano crazy, but he raises an excellent point: Right now the OrangeManBad Industry probably employs several hundred thousand people, if you include journo-lists, corrupt officials, all employees of FaceBook and Twitter, and several departments of the Chinese Communist Party. What are these folks going to do for a job if Trump loses? Yeah, they can probably spend a couple of months preaching Dire Revenge, but Dire Revenge just doesn't sell that many newspapers, and would get killed in the ratings by reruns of "Petticoat Junction." So Mr. Reich comes to the rescue with a proposal for a new organization that will endlessly investigate Trump and everyone who voted for him. Jobs for the boys! Perhaps we could even persuade Hillary to be the head of the commission.
When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.
Posted by Matt 2020-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Robert Reich: Like Democrats treated this Republican at a Republican Free Speech Rally?

Oh and twitter banned the man who tweeted this.
So twitter needs to go before the commission as a guilty part of the violence.
Posted by 3dc 2020-10-19 00:58||   2020-10-19 00:58|| Front Page Top

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Posted by 3dc 2020-10-19 01:14||   2020-10-19 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 America needs a Truth and Reconciliation committee to investigate the coup attempt by the Deep State Against President Trump and American Democracy.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-19 04:52||   2020-10-19 04:52|| Front Page Top

#4 A Truth and Reconcilation Commission

I thought that was the job of DoJ in covering up the failed coup.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-19 06:36||   2020-10-19 06:36|| Front Page Top

#5 "Truth and Reconciliation Commission.'

I don't think many folks understand where this type of thing will end up.

Wiki Truth and Reconciliation: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice[1] body assembled in South Africa after the end of apartheid.[2] Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings. Perpetrators of violence could also give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution.

The TRC, the first of the 1003 held internationally to stage public hearings, was seen by many as a crucial component of the transition to full and free democracy in South Africa. Despite some flaws, it is generally (although not universally) thought to have been successful.[3]

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation was established in 2000 as the successor organisation of the TRC.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-19 06:48||   2020-10-19 06:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Complete with CCP "self-criticism" sessions before they put you in front of the wall.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-10-19 08:48||   2020-10-19 08:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Reich: non-albino pygmy
Posted by Frank G 2020-10-19 08:51||   2020-10-19 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Reich's logic comes up... short.
Posted by Raj 2020-10-19 08:57||   2020-10-19 08:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Pains me greatly, but I'll have to agree with Musk on this one.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-19 09:01||   2020-10-19 09:01|| Front Page Top

#10 If he thinks an honest Truth and Reconciliation commission won't put a bunch of Democrats in prison he's really been pounding the Kool-Aid.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-10-19 09:25||   2020-10-19 09:25|| Front Page Top

#11 We needed one of these after the Cold War.

Imagine if Ayers and Dohrn had had proper justice meted out to them nearly 30 years ago.

Maybe the Kenyan Candidate wouldn't have been President.

If he thinks an honest Truth and Reconciliation commission won't put a bunch of Democrats in prison he's really been pounding the Kool-Aid.

He's counting on it being the opposite of honest.


Posted by charger 2020-10-19 12:16||   2020-10-19 12:16|| Front Page Top

#12 The whole point of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is *NOT* truth and reconciliation.

And since when are we looking at South Africa as other than an example of what not to do?
Posted by SteveS 2020-10-19 12:52||   2020-10-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#13 And since when are we looking at South Africa as other than an example of what not to do?

2008 or so, although we've been sanctifying and canonizing black criminals long before then.
Posted by charger 2020-10-19 12:59||   2020-10-19 12:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Well RBG prefered their constitution over ours
Posted by Frank G 2020-10-19 13:09||   2020-10-19 13:09|| Front Page Top

#15 more like Tooth [for a Tooth] and Retribution
Posted by Gomez Flavimble2594 2020-10-19 13:27||   2020-10-19 13:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Robert Reich might do well to study the life and times of Maximilian Robespierre.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-10-19 13:35||   2020-10-19 13:35|| Front Page Top

#17 It's frightening how obsessed they are with nullifying Trump. Not just get him out, but completely erase the fact that he ever existed.

And erase us, too. That's who he's really after. The American people.
Posted by Elmung Hatrack5948 2020-10-19 13:45||   2020-10-19 13:45|| Front Page Top

#18 The first rule of Communism, is there is no history before the rule of Communism.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-19 14:50||   2020-10-19 14:50|| Front Page Top

#19 we dont need another 'commission' we need to put people in jail!!!
Posted by irish rage boy 2020-10-19 14:54||   2020-10-19 14:54|| Front Page Top

#20  It's frightening how obsessed they are with nullifying Trump. Not just get him out, but completely erase the fact that he ever existed.

And erase us, too. That's who he's really after. The American people.

As Trump has said, "They're not after him, they're after us, he's just in the way."
Posted by AlanC 2020-10-19 17:51||   2020-10-19 17:51|| Front Page Top

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