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pre-Boomer Marine brat
” the Prosecutor’s office is supposed to be occupied by ‘a person of high moral character’ “
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John Profumo, decorated in the war, laid the foundation for Britain’s post-war military, born into nobility but never used the title. … … Disgraced himself not by the Keeler affair itself, but by lying about it in a formal statement to Commons.
Personal honor. For the next four decades, worked at Toynbee Hall, turning it into something of a national institution. It’s said, not a day passed that he didn’t feel humiliation over what he’d done back in the 60s. A Labour PM went to a formal event at Toynbee, went looking for Profumo (who by then was running the place) and found him standing in a back corner. Thatcher invited him to her 70th birthday party and sat him at the Queen’s right hand. His death in March 2006 brought a day of national mourning.
How, in the end, did he bring himself to that level? A gut-level, content-of-character commitment to personal honor.
Where are we in today’s popular culture? An American President who’s publicly said, he’s never ever felt a need to ask God for forgiveness. A former British PM whose inner Churchill is so strong, he probably expects to be buried at St. Martin’s.
Therefore — merely to ask — why should today’s ICC be bothered by such (cough) trivial matters?
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” the Prosecutor’s office is supposed to be occupied by ‘a person of high moral character’ “
——————-
John Profumo, decorated in the war, laid the foundation for Britain’s post-war military, born into nobility but never used the title. … … Disgraced himself not by the Keeler affair itself, but by lying about it in a formal statement to Commons.
Personal honor. For the next four decades, worked at Toynbee Hall, turning it into something of a national institution. It’s said, not a day passed that he didn’t feel humiliation over what he’d done back in the 60s. A Labour PM went to a formal event at Toynbee, went looking for Profumo (who by then was running the place) and found him standing in a back corner. Thatcher invited him to her 70th birthday party and sat him at the Queen’s right hand. His death in March 2006 brought a day of national mourning.
How, in the end, did he bring himself to that level? A gut-level, content-of-character commitment to personal honor.
Where are we in today’s popular culture? An American President who’s publicly said, he’s never ever felt a need to ask God for forgiveness. A former British PM whose inner Churchill is so strong, he probably expects to be buried at St. Martin’s.
Therefore — merely to ask — why should today’s ICC be bothered by such (cough) trivial matters?
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