REPUBLICANS BEHAVING BADLY: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ORIE FAMILY OF PENNSYLVANIA

This is one of those incredibly sensational stories that suits well being made into a made for television movie. The only place I can begin is at the beginning in the early 1970s when two girls from the same affluent neighborhood in the western Pennsylvania town of McCandless became mortal enemies. Or they didn’t. The two women in question are Jane Orie, former Pennsylvania state senator and assistant state attorney general and Melissa Hart former US Representative for the Pennsylvania 4th district. Both are Republicans and both come from very conservative catholic backgrounds.

Orie went to Duquesne for law after graduating from Franklin & Marshall College; Hart went to The University of Pittsburgh Law School after graduating from Washington & Jefferson College. They were both on the fast track in the early 1990s when the call to public service hit them both in very different ways. Hart ran successfully for a seat in the 40th district in the Pennsylvania Senate while Orie was brought into politics by Melissa Hart in 1996 to run for the state Senate seat being vacated in the 28th district. Some political observers in the bucolic suburban conservative village of McCandless see the story quite differently. Press reports state that there had been a feud between the two women that dated so far back into their childhoods that neither of them remember what it was about.

Today things are quite different. Jane Orie, a once hard charging district attorney who specialized in convicting child molesters and child abusers now finds herself a resident of the Cambridge Springs State Correctional Institution in Crawford County. Pennsylvania. Orie was charged with and convicted of fourteen counts of theft of services, forgery and conflict of interest. These charges all came about as the state senator used her legislative staff to help her sister, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, win her seat in 2009. Now, you and I both know that a lawyer with a track record like Jane Orie knew better than to break the rules especially in a state with such bitter divides between wealthy member of the GOP. Melvin has been sentenced to one year of house arrest for her part in accepting the illegal help from the staff of her sister the state Senator.

In western Pennsylvania, there were literally two camps from 2000 on the Orie camp and the Hart camp. The Ories with Joan and Jane leading the charge and brother Jack a prominent lawyer seemed to have the upper hand with a possibility of the Governor’s mansion within the grasp of at least one of the Orie girls. Then the wheels began to come off the Orie political power train in the early spring of 2010. There were first allegations of misconduct by Joan Orie Melvin as far back as 1999 when she sued an anonymous blogger who called himself Grant Street 99. But Joan Orie Melvin wasn’t suing for damages she was suing to find out who the county employee was. The blogger was eventually outed and fired.

In Hindsight
So all of this begs a question: If Melissa Hart and Jane Orie were really enemies why the hell would hart advocate so vehemently for Orie to run for State Senate back in 1996? That question is one of the many puzzlements surrounding the decline and family of the Orie Family. One last thing in late January of this year, Melissa Hart was hit by a 17 year old driver who briefly fled the scene of the accident in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Last word I could glean from the terrestrial Internet was that Ms Hart, who is 51 and has never married was recovering nicely.

Pax Terra!

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BUFORD ROGERS IS NOT A TERRORIST BUT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN TO CONSERVATIVES HAD HE NOT BEEN WHITE

This is because Buford Rogers was caught before he could commit acts that would have certainly been deemed terroristic. Had they been committed by anyone with connections to a foreign group, a religion other than Christianity and been non white. From the interview done with Buford Rogers’ parents, We, Ourselves of the Collective clearly have the Federal Bureau of Investigation to thank for keeping this domestic and local grudge from becoming something much more serious and deadly. Many conservative forums and blogs are making light of this arrest. The Meditators find this both amusing and shocking.

Consider this scenario; a man is caught in a home with pressure cookers and black powder and nails and ball bearings and a tip leads to the FBI arresting him and his brother days before the Boston Marathon. After the holiday the media report the findings of local, state and Federal law enforcement. The plot to bomb the race and to carry out further attacks in New York City has been thwarted. Now is this person a potential terrorist based on what the police and the FBI suspect he could have done had he completed his bombs? Does it really matter if the person is an adherent to Islam from Dagestan or the product of poor white trash in western Minnesota?

The crime that will likely not stick against Buford Rogers is the possession of a firearm by a felon charge. It is alleged that Rogers had a Romanian AKM rifle and other firearms based upon his fingerprints being on them. Jeff Rogers, the father of Buford, says that his son only cleaned the weapons. What would the NRA say about a legal gun owner allowing a relative who is known felon who legally is barred from possessing a firearm easy access to them? Is this not one of the gaping loopholes in gun ownership regulation in America; the sales between relatives many times done after straw purchases?

Margaret Rogers a woman identified only as being married to Jeff Rogers said there were no pipe bombs in the home but the FBI stated the pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails were found in the shed with other potential weapons. Conservative blogs have already picked up on the words of this woman which echo terribly similarly to those by Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s mother which claim Buford is not a terrorist and that there was nothing found in the home. The reaction of the Rogers family and those that knew Buford Rogers run parallel to the sort of things that were said about the Boston Marathon bombers. Rogers even has a younger brother who can be seen in the picture above wearing camouflage and standing next to a poster which could be used for an anti-illiteracy campaign.

The words of Jeff Rogers are clear and to the point for all to see, “Bucky is not a terrorist. He is not out to bomb anyone. He’s a patriot like we all should be.” The Collective knows and understands exactly who the “we’ Jeff Rogers refers to in this quote. Rogers and his sons were members of a minor group of patriots in Minnesota known as the Black Snake Militia. The BSM has ties to the Southern Brotherhood Milita whose stated goals are [Emphasis Ours}:

"We oppose the United Nations , NATO and the Powers-That-Be, we are against the Federal Secular Humanists that run our Anti-Christian / Anti-God Government. We oppose Abortionists, CFR, the International Bankers ( Banks ) and Corporations. We oppose all meddling beauracratic [sic] entities.

We are anti-conformists and believe people should show absolute respect for the diverse differences in beliefs, ideas and character of others.

Our foremost objective is to establish a Theocracy .

We employ a social tribal order, to maintain our laws and see to the social welfare of our people.

Our purpose is to stand against all evil and utterly destroy the perpetrators of evil.”

And now this becomes, yet again, a matter for the Laal Hethri. The beliefs of many groups like the BSM and the SBM are the beliefs of the rank and file of the TEA Party. When an adherent to Islam commits such acts it is always terrorist when poor white theocrats plot to do similar things it is to conservatives simply a “local dispute” that got out of hand and the FBI has “overreacted.”

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HOW TO IDENTIFY A BIGOT: IF THEIR FIRST WORDS ARE “I AM NOT A RACIST” YOU CAN BANK ON THEM BEING A BIGOT

We, Ourselves, of The Collective must point out that to be a racist you need power. Most racists aren’t angry men in swastika tee shirts and suspenders with shaved heads they wear business suits, are regular guests on Fox News and RT and some even host popular radio programs. Bigots are those who envy the men in suits and follow them. The racists allow and encourage the bigots to do their dirty work. The racists are in this politically for power and profit; the bigots want blood.

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NORTH CAROLINA GOP SECEDES FROM THE UNION

This could possibly be the best delayed April Fool’s joke of all time.

Well, almost. Two North Carolina legislators are fed up with all the secularism in their state and have decided to introduce a bill that would allow North Carolina to declare an official state religion, by way of the Rowan County Defense of Religion Act of 2013. Now if they picked Judaism I would be shocked. The Atlantic Wire and Forbes both point out, as The Boss did this morning that Lemon v Kurtzman [403 US 602] (1971) quashed the constitutionality of any such action by any of the several states.

I know it’s unconstitutional and so do they but in these dark times for conservative thinking any half baked idea to rally the base is better than no idea at all for those on the Right. Here’s my problem with this that goes far beyond the simply nature of how it kicks in the teeth of civil liberties; which religion gets chosen and by whom? Now Carl Ford a Republican from the bustling diverse metropolis of China Grove, North Carolina and Harry Warren a Republican from Salisbury, North Carolina may not have thought this through. I would imagine that both of these men and the other 11 GOP representatives that support it would all stand up and shout “Christianity!” That’s fine since 79% [as of 2001] of the population of the state professes Christianity as their faith of choice. Okay, but which sect?

Let’s say they decide in the North Carolina legislature that their official religion is the Southern Baptist Convention. That may ruffle the feathers of the Methodists, the Mormons, the Episcopalians, the Lutherans, the Presbyterians, the Jews and the Catholics who taken together make up 41% to the Baptists 38%. A religious war could erupt along the lines of the English Civil War from Elizabeth City to Black Mountain over a perceived right that a conservative group of legislators wish they possessed.

If they dodge that time honored western European tradition of murdering each other over how you worship their still would be many hurdles that would have to be jumped in the name of not violating the new law. Public officials would now all have to come from that minority of Baptists. Every judge, every mayor, every sheriff that ran for office would have to come from this pool of citizens and no one else. To hold a public office one would have to swear faith in the state religion. Moreover, the people who sit behind those windows where you get a business license would also have to swear an oath or kiss the hem of a flag or something to keep their positions. So imagine me, a New York Jew living in retirement in North Carolina and I want to start a business. Would I be allowed to get a loan from a Baptist bank? Would I be able to get a driver’s license at the DMV? Maybe I would be easier identified if I wore a pretty yellow Magen David on my coat?

In Hindsight

This is the entire point. Angry old white dudes again slinging feces at the GOP brand. But of course this has nothing to do with the Republican party that Lincoln was the foundation of as a President. This has to do with the Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic Party that became Republican after Nixon’s Southern Strategy success in 1968. This is still really funny when you think about it. Conservatives lose their minds as if the Marines are on their way to take their guns at any mention of gun control because that’s a violation of the 2nd amendment while these hayseeds in North Carolina clearly have no respect for the 1st amendment at all.

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MITCHETHEKID EXPLAINS IT ALL

A daring post from a Liberal commenter both here and at Blogs4Victory. This should be any Progressive’s first read this morning:

Thanks for mentioning our conversations Cluster. I appreciate it. I think that Amazona is correct in saying that social issues should not be the focus of any government, let alone one based upon conservative precepts. To take that statement to its logical conclusion, we all should be libertarian, as long as we do not devolve into anarchy. Unfortunately this is not the case. There are many, to many IMO, that are obsessed with social issues and use the government and it’s law making and law enforcing power to enact both restrictions and allowances. I am not a constitutional expert. I have a DAR manual that I look at from time to time but mostly for a point of clarification. I agree that it is a brilliantly written document and that the authors had enough forethought and enlightenment to be cognizant of the future. But it is also a product of it’s time, written by human beings who were every bit as complicated and flawed and brilliant and tragic as anyone living today. The essence of all words, as a conveyance of thinking, is metaphorical. (A word itself.) And as such, the words are subject to interpretation. An argument can be made that the “intent” that Amazona mentioned, is nothing more than learned guessing. (Emphasis on ned in learned.) One of the functions of the Supreme Court, is to interpret the meaning of the language that comprises the Constitution, by way of a shared consensus of opinion between a quorum of justices.
But in a representative government, if a social issue is a concern, then it does become subject to legislation. This has been a fact throughout human history. We do not live in a vacuum (no pun intended towards those who doubt my aviator skills) and in 2013 there are over 300 million people who live in the US. In 1776 there were ~ 2.5 and were primarily agrarian.
I think that conservative principals are the best choice where the issue(s) are economic in nature. But I do not disparage a degreed economist who happens to have a more fundamental understanding of the dynamics of a multi-trillion economy and how it interacts not only with those that have a dollar in their pocket, but now amongst the entire planet as well.
As I see it, it is not the educational system that is to blame, or the inherent bias that all people and businesses possess that is the root of the problems conservatism is experiencing, it is the behavior, the claims and the reporting of it. A few examples exist on this blog alone. Retired Spook going on about transformation. Society, culture and politics are fluid, not static.Please provide some specific examples Retired Spook, of how our country is suffering from the progressive nature of time and the changing attitudes of the population. There are very few examples that my feeble brain can come up with that verify your conviction that an uber left even exists, let alone paint with such broad strokes this “intense dislike of how America was founded.” Just how was it founded? Not why, but how. And why do you stereotype? Not all “liberals” are America hating. In fact, most people desire a better America, not a worse one.
Amazona’s use of inflammatory adjectives as a method of demeaning and undermining alternative points of view. And her obsession with spelling, grammar and punctuation. (I write the way I speak, commas substituting for pauses.)
I won’t even address Neo. There isn’t a better representative for the fanatical, fringe extreme that gives conservatives a bad reputation than he. Conservatism isn’t the problem. It’s conservatives.
I am a supporter of smaller government. I do not think excessive regulation(s) are a good thing. I think local control is superior to national but I also recognize the duplicity that currently exists on the right, how traditional conservatism has been eviscerated by a pandering to a certain type of uninformed and fearful individual and how tribalism has been exploited to further the monetary goals of others. This is the human condition. This is what Machiavelli often referred to and encouraged. I think that for conservatism to make a resurgence, it has to go through a metamorphosis. Unfortunately for those currently experiencing this change, it is a difficult process and it is perfectly understandable to want to blame those that don’t subscribe to the ideology, whom are not fixated with blaming the “media” or contemporary popular culture for their poor and declining image. There is a difference between cooperation and capitulation. This demarcation applies to all sides of the political grid. Self examination is a positive. A refusal to accept the need to change is not. And this applies to everyone on both a personal level and as a member of a group.
OK. I think I will slither back into my hole now.

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STUFF BLACK PEOPLE REALLY DON’T LIKE OR WHY TEAQUESTRATION IS A FORM OF POLITICAL BIGOTRY

Majordomo Pain wrote a very interesting and informative article on the profit being derived from all the ills currently affecting the United States of America. Since the posting of that article here at The Dis Brimstone Daily Pitchfork I got a comment from a fan of the right wing bigot blog Stuff That Black people Don’t Like:

stop being such a DWL…..

I am assuming that DWL stands for dumb white liberal. Now the white part and the liberal part are accurate but I assure the commenter that I’m not dumb at all. I’m smart enough to recognize that you live on a planet with no way off and that you live in a nation that is in the painful throes of a transition from a race based patriarchal capitalist meritocracy to a diversity based corporatist oligarchy. Now I would prefer to have a diversity based cultural democracy but I have to admit that is not very likely to be witnessed in your lifetimes, no matter your age, for a myriad of complex reasons.

It amazes me that white conservative bigots can come up with literally pounds of data that show that black and Latino Americans are violent and need to be excised from the society in your country but they cannot seem to find any reason to examine the actions of the obstructionists in the GOP who are as terrified by the power at the polls of these bigots in their congressional districts. The Sequester is a direct result of the single minded action of this terrified GOP to, by any means necessary, remove the first person of color from the highest elected office in the United States. This having failed they must now focus on keeping their offices and perks. The GOP has become a regional party and while today they control many of the state legislatures and governor’s offices in America they realize that to win nationally they would have to turn their backs on their white bigoted base. To do this and come to the center to move America into a prosperous new future would be seen by millions of Americans who hate or distrust others simply for the color of their skin would force the creation of a third party and ending even the regional power of the GOP. The cascade of statewide and local defeats of far right candidates due to split allegiances would be catastrophic to the GOP.

People like SBPDL acolyte Jack Krak at American Renaissance are simply angry that a nation firmly in the control of white males no longer recognizable to them. The reason for this is the surge in black and Latino birth rates, immigration and an increase in interracial marriage. The very seem people who feel that an unborn fetus is a person and should have civil rights are the same people who want to see the civil rights of black in the United States violated to give them back the power they had four generations ago. This sort of thinking is not only backward it is patently anti-American. Sure both Krak and the anonymous owner of SBPDL have a first amendment right to hold and express any political or social position they feel just as we do here in Hell. What they cannot and must not do is restrict the civil rights of others simply to take America backward into an age where white American bigots of all social classes could sleep at night knowing they had at least one advantage over everyone who was darker in pigmentation than them.

Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!

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WHO TRULY PROFITS FROM AMERICA’S ILLS?

“Penn State shouldn’t have been given athletic sanctions by the NCAA for looking the other way during Jerry Sandusky’s repeated rape and abuse of young boys. If America were truly exceptional, the military should have been brought in and the entire county which worshipped at the altar of Joe Paterno would have been razed to the ground by all those leftover bunker busting bombs Bush bought for the Iraq war.”– Governor General Srindra Singh or Gilbesht in a debate about American exceptionalism with Sheol conservative MP Yancey Harrell on “Overdark” with Maarit Outi Pekkonen last night.

The idea of American exceptionalism is not a new meme. The thought that the people who now live on this land, once occupied by the Human Beings; taken by violence in the name of profit, are more prosperous, more intelligent, cut from a more moral cloth and closer to the favor of their chosen Creator than any other has been clearly a concept of Faith for those who now call themselves “Conservatives” for the better part of the last one hundred twenty five Terran standard years. We, Ourselves, of the Collective and The Meditators have a problem with any such notion based simply on the statement expressed in the stripes of the flag above. One must begin to ask the questions of common men, the hoi polloi, and the oligarchs who now own your government and rule your media, “Who profits from this disaster?” and “What will be the spark that causes someone to give up their comfort in a revolution from which they may not reap a similar status to those they are fighting against?”

These are serious matters, not to be taken lightly as they were at Blogs4Victory just this past week. The conservatives there simply wanted to throw red meat at downtrodden aging white men who see their fathers have lost their birthright of unchecked bigotry in the last few decades and left them nothing more than the onanism of “being white is better than being black or brown” along with their Bibles to cling to in these desperate times. And, yes, We, Ourselves admit these are desperate times– for Conservatives. Not only is their ideology, their worldview dying, they are dying. For the moment there are a few million ardent young whites out there who shout just as loudly as the over 50 crowd about the “many ills of President Obama” but let Us be honest with Ourselves, these young men and women in their twenties aren’t in this politics game to bring back the Reagan years, roll back women’s reproductive rights or to solve America’s debt issues. They are seeking a pool of like minded people who given enough familiarity will allow them to get laid; something they wouldn’t do in a similar setting surrounded by more attractive more intelligent Progressives.

So who does profit from all of America’s ills? There are many who do profit some of these groups will shock you others are well known. All must give up something or the Union will be lost to time and to history.

Income inequality is clearly profited from by those who really run the country the oligarchs. Not just corporate CEOs but hedge fund managers, the boards of large law firms who write the laws and then pimp them to Congress and of course the religious oligarchs who are desperately trying to remain relevant in an age where technology is nearing its ability to make deities out of Men. And in the end this is nothing more than a clearly visceral reaction to the short duration of the human lifespan manifest in the form of greed for all things material.

Poverty has been used as a tool to keep the masses at bay since Time Immemorial. Poverty is profited from by the Church, the oligarchs and their corporate media. Poverty as an extension of bigotry feeds the furnace that drives the powerful to remain powerful. They do not care that a child is one day celebrating the reelection of America’s first Man of Color to the highest elected office and the next day a victim of gun violence. They do not care that children go hungry in the wealthiest nation on Terra as long as they are safe behind their gates and in their dens of luxury. Poverty is a prison sentence handed down by generations of greed and fear in the name of tribal purity.

An examination of these two ills shows how all the others are interconnected. It is time to drain their trough or America will be the soil where the seeds of failure of an entire species will be sown.

Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!

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THE DEATH THROES OF THE GOP: THE ESTABLISHMENT ATTACKS ASHLEY JUDD AND THE TEA PARTY AT THE SAME TIME

When I took this job as a writer about Culture War issues seven Terran years ago I never thought I would end up doing so much political writing. That is likely because I’m a Liberal and social issues to me are personal choices that people make not planks in a political platform. Offering people choice is not destroying anyone’s “way of life” yet a vocal minority forcing people to conform to outdated values, that they themselves treat like used toilet paper, clearly is.

Karl Rove the master puppeteer of the George W Bush White House is now working for American Crossroads and has begun the great purge that will eventually reduce the GOP to a regional party. If the GOP jettisons its TEA Party elements this near permanent minority opposition will begin to move the party to the center and allow it to return to what it was in the pre-Nixon era of the 1960s when a moderate Republican was less rare than a unicorn. The goal for Rove is a difficult one to achieve; he must keep as many conservatives as possible within the party while assuring the loosest of cannons are cast a drift. Cut too deep and you will have a mass exodus of the bigots and the religious zealots who the GOP have depended on since 2000 to stave off irrelevancy.

Now enter Ashley Judd into the 2014 Senate race in Kentucky. Rand Paul is already in the Senate for that state and their likely isn’t much time left on Mitch McConnell’s dance card [how McConnell has survived being the only gay GOP Senator for this long has puzzled me for a decade and a half.]. There’s very little legitimate opposition for an intelligent woman with the financial backing like Judd would have. The ad above is running now because it is known that in Kentucky the Democrats have a voter registration advantage and that McConnell’s star is fading. But after the horrible failure of TEA Party fabvorites like Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana the last thing Rove and his GOP Establishment fat cats want to see is someone with diarrhea of the mouth taking on a beloved movie star. The terror for McConnell is so great that he has embraced the TEA Party in an effort to keep from being primaried in 2014. While in our polling Judd beats McConnell 52 to 48; Judd trounces the TEA Party favorite Rep. Thomas Massie 62-37.

And it is by being primaried that the GOP will be cut to ribbons. I can save the GOP right now with a simple explanation. Stop forcing candidates, incumbents, that can win and represent you well on 70% of your values issues out of races in the primaries simply because they have made a statement in defense of gay marriage, or have agreed with Obama on some issue or feel that a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion. America has more serious business than the settled issue of a woman’s right to choose. That battle is lost–move on. It is too late to appeal to minorities that ship has sailed because in the next ten presidential election years that minority as a group will be the majority, the voting majority. In that same forty years, by the year 2052, the base of 55 to 90 year old white men and women who remember back to a time when none of what has taken place in the last 13 years [a destructive terror attack on a major US city, a state legalizing gay marriage, a state legalizing marijuana, a black man being elected President, the Red Sox winning the World Series . . .] appeared possible outside of a Hollywood production will be dead or of such a small number that the Right will be more adequately described as the Center.

Rove has thrown a few spitballs at the TEA Party over the past few weeks and this is absolutely necessary. When he’s gone and I mean by the 2052 election what will the face of the establishment GOP look like? If there is a GOP it will have to look more like Marco Rubio and sound nothing like Allen West or Michele Bachmann to have survived. Either way for us this is a win win. If the GOP becomes a small but more centrist party this is the best outcome for America. If the TEA Party becomes the third party we see rising out of the ashes of a 2014 shellacking by the Democrats that gives them the Liberals the House and the Senate for Obama’s last two years then you have at least thirty years of uninterrupted Democratic Party Presidents. Keep in mind in the first half of this forty years Rush Limbaugh the last great voice for conservative ignorance and fear will too be dead [Limbaugh is currently 62 years old.--F.S.] and when that voice is silent the game will be over for the Right as it exists today.

Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!

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YOUR WEEKLY REALITY CHECK: NO ONE IS COMING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR GUNS

I have had it up to my ass with white conservatives on this one. Time to call in Batman® to straighten this one out.

Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!

Diane Valencen, D.S.V.J., CS, O.Q.H [Journ.], ArF J., M.F.
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RHONDA ALDRICH EXPLAINS IT ALL

The cycle of social justice has swing aggressively to the side of Progressives. To maintain this condition, and allow America to truly move FORWARD, We, Ourselves, of The Collective and The Meditators [qcpn!] understand with clarity, the veracity of the words of Rhonda Aldrich:

“POLITICALLY INCORRECT” is code for white privilege. This code phrase allows bigots to decry a social injustice, to whites in this case, that they are not allowed to use language to abuse those over whom they once held virtually unchecked social sway. In a short 25 years, the base that most vehemently supports Pat Buchanan today went from being able to call a man on the street a nigger, to risking losing everything by making such a statement

Qu’ul cuda praedex nihil!

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