Let me work backward:
Every time I mention Rittenhouse in other media, he becomes the focus of the thread. Most of it revolves around the way he has treated his family amidst his new found fame. It doesn't need to be gone into; I agree with those who call him out. It's just that it is irrelevant; I was only trying to answer an objection before it went that direction.
Back in the 1990s I heard a guy at a patriot meeting say he was tired of hearing about the tyranny of King George and how we overcame it. You are going to get the same reply he got:
Those who refuse to learn the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. You cannot marginalize the value of experience.
Finally, that one poster simply cannot understand that if compromise is a give and take, you gain nothing by giving up what you have and not getting anything in return. That is true today, tomorrow, and a thousand years from now. I live in the here and the now. I just have no more patience with people doing the same old song and dance, expecting a different outcome. It's difficult to have spent decades in the trenches, forgetting more than your critics know (or probably ever will) and not being able to get people to focus on the here and now. It was supposed to be an insult for someone to call me a"know it all," but when you've been in the courts as many times as I have, researched and written briefs to the tune of thousands upon thousands of pages, rallied, marched, supported those who became victims of the system; went on radio, tv and in newspapers - on this subject it doesn't matter what they call me. Next year, two years from now, five or fifty they will lose if people keep doing the same thing they've been doing over the last half century.
