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originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Trillium
What do hackers believe they will accomplish by disrupting 8-channel? Surely they don't think they can stop what is coming.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the stronger individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradnally induced, by a like motive, to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.
Though today we often think of justice only in reference to crime and punishment, Aristotle understood that there is far more to justice than that: He contended that justice means arranging society in the right way, in accord with how humans are made and meant to live. The just society is one that permits its citizens to exercise their noblest gifts, to reach their highest potentials, to flourish. Thus while all partnerships aim at some good, Aristotle taught, the political partnership "aims at the most authoritative good of all," at justice.
We no longer think of justice in this manner, partly because for the better part of a century the term has been hijacked by the left. In the last hundred years, justice became oddly synonymous with labor unions and planned economies and then the anti-American radicalism of the 1960s. It is now too often taken to describe egalitarian economics. But the left's notion of justice has turned out to be both shallow and calamitous. The left's agenda has not delivered justice, and indeed, it has blinded us to the fact that justice is what we lack.
The just society depends finally on the character of its people. It can be built only by men and women of excellence, who do for themselves rather than depend on government, who commit to serving one another rather than to narrow self-interest, who use their talents to improve, perfect, and ennoble. Americans have been, and long to be again, such a great people. They long for justice. It is time to call them to it.
Graham said he heard it from Barr himself. “He told me that they had created a process that Rudy could give information, and they would see if it’s verified. Rudy Giuliani is a well-known man. He’s a crime fighter. He’s loyal to the president. He’s a good lawyer," Graham said on CBS.