By Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--October 5, 2020
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"I learned from those around me and tried to pass on to those I worked with that there is a higher loyalty...to lasting values, most important the truth."Higher Loyalty Comey's "Higher Loyalty" evokes Higher Law, aka Natural Law, overseen by God. Yet this tome is free of any sophisticated summary of such,foundational to our Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights. Frankly, Comey either suffers from memory failure, or confabulates. Yet he wrote:
"There was once a time when most people worried about going to hell if they violated an oath taken in the name of God...In its place, people must fear going to jail."Anti-Trump Russian Collusion Given Comey's conveniently leaky memory, he couldn't explain anomalies of his investigation, like finding Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn uninvolved, yet sending his men back to falsify dirt on him. Again, Comey couldn't admit warning Trump of the Steel Dossier while knowing it was falsified whole-cloth by a Russian spy.
"The easy, casual lies—those are a very dangerous thing. They open up the path to the bigger lies, in more important places, where the consequences aren't so harmless."
"I've seen many times over the years how liars get so good at lying, they lose the ability to distinguish between what's true and what's not. They surround themselves with other liars."Political Religion As Voegelin wrote, unsaved Philistines developed political religion following ‘works salvation.' Leftists plan salvation by good deeds, and Gnostic "enlightenment" which Comey justified by his wild collusion, sadly believing to save America's soul creating a hoax to destroy Trump. Comey quotes Jefferson:
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."
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Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.