Senator Feinstein, didn't you take an oath too? - Granite Grok

Senator Feinstein, didn’t you take an oath too?

Feinstein taking oath of office

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), one of the chief apologists of the NSA domestic spying program, said on CBS’s Face the Nation that oaths are very serious, especially if you’re a would-be whistleblower. When asked about Edward Snowden, Feinstein said, “I don’t think this man is a whistleblower,” adding that he should have stayed and “faced the music.”

“He has taken an oath, and these oaths mean something,” she said.

True – and many are debating that very point – a blanket that stifles the exposure of malfeasance?  Or one that say (I cannot believe I’m about to say this, again) “speak truth to power”.  But I remind the long serving US Senator (Progressive – CA) of this (Matt 7:3):

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

I do remember that she took an oath to defend the Constitution – a “higher calling” compared to that uttered by Snowden.  That that would include:

 A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Funny thing about that word “infringed”; in the vernacular it means “leave the hell alone”.  Yet, didn’t you, Diane Feinstein, recently stated (and the second on 60 Minutes back in 1995):

  • “The purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time. Therefore, there is no sunset on this bill,”
  • “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States, for an outright ban, picking up [every gun]… … Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in. I would have done that.

Kinda insinuates that you DO want to take everyone’s guns away (the Progressive way – incremental over long time periods), Ms Feinstein?  How does that square with your oath to the Constitution?   that covers even “infringed“?  Or are we back to that idea that your Oaths (that most of us take real seriously – as words do have well and established meanings that should not be twisted) is simply something in which you can later pick and choose which parts you like and which you don’t?  Just gums flapping in the wind simply to put your seat into OUR seat?

Mote and beam – who has which, Snowden or Feinstein?

(H/T: The Corner)

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