I certainly admired Mace's no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, summary-execution style. It has its merits.
It's also worthwhile comparing Mace's approach to that of Lauren Boebert, another Republican woman on the House Oversight Committee into twitter. Boebert gives the ex-twitter executives more of a chance to account for themselves; but she too has done her homework, so it's 'summary execution' for the ex-twitter execs from her as well. The drawback with Boebert's style is that she's a bit on the excitable side.
There are other you tube videos of the House Oversight Committee available, but if I had to plonk for just one, I'd go for Mace.
One last point of comparison, since the parallels between the Nazi era and the world of today just keep on surfacing: at the end of WW11 at the trial of the appallingly sadistic camp guard Irma Grese, otherwise known as 'The Hyena of Auschwitz' and the 'Beast of Belsen', she confessed to her crimes, saying she did it for the Fuhrer. Looking backwards, I find something amid the moral stain of her life that resembles a touching, residual commitment to honesty, something one would be hard-pressed to find today among the executive class, who all seem to be well-trained in the art of lying and admitting to nothing. Of course, the ex-twitter execs never set killer dogs on anyone or capriciously shot anyone, but I'm pretty sure their ruthless suppression of scientific knowledge would have harmed or killed many. Are they not to be held accountable for this? Why is it so easy today, in this moment, to hide, overlook or excuse the orchestration of death from a safe distance?
In the end, not even honesty could save Grese; her crimes were too great. As she stood on the trapdoor, she called out "Schnell" to Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's hangman, who then sent her quickly and cleanly to her death with his customary professionalism. She was only 22.
If there was no mitigation for her honesty back then, how should we deal with present-day, professional liars, who are well-schooled in the art of corporate fibbery? Appearing before a House Committee is not a criminal trial, but it was utterly transparent to anyone watching that only lies and memory lapses were going to be offered up. We've all observed this too-clever-by-half, phoney kind of testimony too often; its easy recognisability should make it difficult for anyone, especially someone on a prosecutorial mission, to indulge it, collude with it or accommodate it. And Mace, to her credit, seemed determined to tolerate none of it.
Just love it. That is what I call putting a 'baboon' in their place! Great to see in the public domain. The change will be slow but it will come as we see more and more health injuries from these genetic injections across the world.
I certainly admired Mace's no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners, summary-execution style. It has its merits.
It's also worthwhile comparing Mace's approach to that of Lauren Boebert, another Republican woman on the House Oversight Committee into twitter. Boebert gives the ex-twitter executives more of a chance to account for themselves; but she too has done her homework, so it's 'summary execution' for the ex-twitter execs from her as well. The drawback with Boebert's style is that she's a bit on the excitable side.
https://youtu.be/gy7mtoyrlXI
There are other you tube videos of the House Oversight Committee available, but if I had to plonk for just one, I'd go for Mace.
One last point of comparison, since the parallels between the Nazi era and the world of today just keep on surfacing: at the end of WW11 at the trial of the appallingly sadistic camp guard Irma Grese, otherwise known as 'The Hyena of Auschwitz' and the 'Beast of Belsen', she confessed to her crimes, saying she did it for the Fuhrer. Looking backwards, I find something amid the moral stain of her life that resembles a touching, residual commitment to honesty, something one would be hard-pressed to find today among the executive class, who all seem to be well-trained in the art of lying and admitting to nothing. Of course, the ex-twitter execs never set killer dogs on anyone or capriciously shot anyone, but I'm pretty sure their ruthless suppression of scientific knowledge would have harmed or killed many. Are they not to be held accountable for this? Why is it so easy today, in this moment, to hide, overlook or excuse the orchestration of death from a safe distance?
In the end, not even honesty could save Grese; her crimes were too great. As she stood on the trapdoor, she called out "Schnell" to Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's hangman, who then sent her quickly and cleanly to her death with his customary professionalism. She was only 22.
If there was no mitigation for her honesty back then, how should we deal with present-day, professional liars, who are well-schooled in the art of corporate fibbery? Appearing before a House Committee is not a criminal trial, but it was utterly transparent to anyone watching that only lies and memory lapses were going to be offered up. We've all observed this too-clever-by-half, phoney kind of testimony too often; its easy recognisability should make it difficult for anyone, especially someone on a prosecutorial mission, to indulge it, collude with it or accommodate it. And Mace, to her credit, seemed determined to tolerate none of it.
Just love it. That is what I call putting a 'baboon' in their place! Great to see in the public domain. The change will be slow but it will come as we see more and more health injuries from these genetic injections across the world.