Many watch as major news unfolds now in NYC. In a courthouse at the lower end of Manhattan, the former number 3 at the DOJ, Michael Colangelo is spearheading the “Stormy Daniels” hush money trial. With a smell of election interference, a Democrat judge slapped a gag order on Republican Trump but not the other parties. Today the judge fined Trump for violating the order and threatened him with jail if he continues.
On the Upper Westside, a mob of fanatic, chanting agitators have grown in number at once respected Columbia University. There college officials for days have been powerless to end threats to Jewish students and professors or reopen the school to regular classes days before final exams.
It escalated last night as a not mostly peaceful, but mostly masked violent mob smashed windows to enter and take over a campus building. Now to end the occupation, the agitators demand amnesty, not being held accountable for any of their actions.
This is actually monumental. As a presidential candidate is in court over “Stormy” Daniels, blocks away some privileged youth at a very expensive private college “stormed” one of the campus buildings in defense of a middle eastern terrorist group. That kind of insane chaos typifies the state of the nation under Joe Biden and his progressive party as voters watch the storms in New York City.
Ralph Miller
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Now, I don't know anything significant about any of the numerous and frivolous, legal and illegal trials and tribulations that Mr. Trump is being subjected to right now. The whole business seems to be similar to a bunch of crows harassing a hawk in flight -- the crows are very noisy and very serious about it all, but the hawk is in no danger and really couldn't care less.
Right now, I cannot get my head around the notions of 'hush money' and 'gag orders.' Is there really a great difference between the two concepts?
The impression I get is that 'hush money' is a private payment made to someone, asking them to keep their mouth shut, while a 'gag order' is a public and quasi-legal order demanding that someone keep their mouth shut.
Maybe there's more to that than meets my eye, but I think using both of those terms in the same sentence and implying there is a difference is laughable.
It reminds me of the common old 'apples and oranges' argument, which supposedly involves two utterly different things. But apples and oranges are so much alike that most of the descriptive terms we use for them are indistinguishable. Fruit? Yes. Round? Yes. Juicy? Yes. Sweet? Yes. Colorful? Yes. Tree-borne? Yes. Seeds inside? Yes. You get my point ... .
Seriously, could you -- using only words, no actual fruit, no juice, no pictures, etc. -- could you really teach someone the actual, practical difference between an apple and an orange?
Seriously, could you -- using only words -- really teach someone the difference between 'hush money' and a 'gag order'?
Evidently the difference lies in which side of the bench you're on.
Larry Cloud