{"id":88475,"date":"2024-10-10T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88475"},"modified":"2024-10-11T10:31:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:31:38","slug":"why-we-call-bergs-seventh-law-a-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88475","title":{"rendered":"Why We Call Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law A &#8220;Law&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70364\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"70364\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a> has been getting quite a workout over the past nine years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>When a progressive issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When leftists warn of waves of &#8220;right wing violence&#8221;, you can bet that either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85263\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"85263\">wave of left-wing violence has just happened<\/a>, or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A wave of it is in the pipeline and expected soon. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>John HInderaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2024\/10\/whos-threatening-whom.php\">has an example ripped from the headlines:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Here is another instance: a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/illinois-man-charged-with-threats-to-kidnap-and-kill-judge-cannon\/\">death threat<\/a> against Judge Aileen Cannon, the Florida federal judge who correctly dismissed the classified documents case against President Trump. She has been the object of a campaign of vilification by Democrats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Democrats and their media allies have been lambasting Cannon, a Trump appointee, since she was assigned to preside over the Biden-Harris Justice Department\u2019s prosecution of Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, and they have been apoplectic since July, when Cannon dismissed the indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past Thursday, Eric James Rennert was arrested based on a six-count indictment charging him with threatening to assault, kidnap, and murder a federal judge and that judge\u2019s family in Florida\u2019s St. Lucie County. The indictment does not name the judge. Nevertheless, as the New York Post reports, Cannon is the only judge who sits in the Fort Pierce courthouse in St. Lucie County.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>At the link, Andy McCarthy details the Democrats\u2019 shameful smear campaign against Judge Cannon, which has culminated in this assassination threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If Trump wins &#8211; what are you predictions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law has been getting quite a workout over the past nine years: When a progressive issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds. When leftists warn of waves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88477,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88475\/revisions\/88477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}