I'm shunning the councils of Denethor, May 1st, 2024. I have thoughts about the splash that Rory made, and so I'm just going to put them down in the

order that they occur to me with perhaps some arrangement after the fact. The transitions between

paragraphs may seem somewhat abrupt and so if it seems that way to you just say

ah he has decided to write aphoristically this morning which is fair enough this

will get filled out a bit more as we go along but this is what a lone

bulwark actually looks like Someone standing courageously against a surging mob defending something that honestly does not deserve to be defended, but standing for him anyhow.

More on this shortly. Mass bullies appear to have a thing about Rory.

Back during the COVID hysterics here in Moscow, he was charged for protesting the illegal

arrest of some of our church members of a Psalm Singh, and that case is now before the Idaho Court of Appeals.

If you are not up to speed on all those festivities you can go here and then follow the

sticker gate tabs and now a few years later when Rory does his hometown and his home state proud by standing up to a different

set of mass bullies, we find that Idaho officialdom is engaged in continuing to pursue the most

kakamamey prosecution I ever heard tell of.

Some of the online reactions to this episode on the right

were surprising.

It is quite true that Columbia is cram full of leftists

and that the mobs outside are cram full of hard leftists and so the thought occurs to some

conservatives about whether we shouldn't just let them devour one another and there are times and

places when that could be the appropriate sentiment.

To repurpose Kissinger's comment about the Iran-Iraq war, it's a pity both sides can't lose.

But in a situation like this one, Rory was not defending leftism or liberal hypocrisies,

but rather defending the rule of law.

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