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Carolyn Geiger's avatar

A beautifully written piece to memorialize and honor Judge William Webster. Thank you for this wonderful writing and I hope someone somewhere will carry forward Judge Webster’s profound legacy and love for our country. πŸ™πŸ»

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Jesse Silver's avatar

Thank you for this glowing tribute to, and appreciation of, an American patriot, whose loyalty was to his country and not to parties or personalities.

It's unfortunate that his audience didn't share those attributes.

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Erla Gibson's avatar

Thank you for sharing these words of wisdom for generations to come and especially for us today. Your words honoring his service to our country are beautiful and inspiring!

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gary krane's avatar

Austin, this was so beautiful and inspiring of you to bring our attention to this which I hope will inspire any and all in public service. Speaking of which, a reminder that my passion is the development of simple tech able to catalyze moral courage at scale, hoping to have the privilege of helping you in tapping the rapidly emerging Left-right coalition to Tax The Rich , and that we can agree on the best strategy to do that. For now, here's some more inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je2zPr4VGME.Because you know your social change history, are outraged, and know that it would be naive to put all our eggs in the single electoral 2026 strategy basket, I hope upi realize that our only realistic hope is to ALSO start organizing and mobilizing for a NonViolent Direct ACTION STRATEGY BASED 10-12M NATIONAL CIVIC UPRISING (since protests do little if anything!!) . The GOOD NEWS: this is now more feasible than since the 30s and 1946. and I have 10 arguments to prove it. I just want to offer some signficant help to you major players including fundraising, new NVDA tech that can CATALYZE MORAL COURAGE AT SCALE

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john@johnmdowd.com's avatar

I hate the great honor when I reported to him the results of the U.S. Recording Investigation involving corruption at the top of the Bureau. He made it required reading for all ne agents of the FBI.

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Hal Bogotch's avatar

Typos?

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john@johnmdowd.com's avatar

Yes. AI

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Hal Bogotch's avatar

Ooh! For me, AI is a big no-no.

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Carol Burke's avatar

Thank you for honoring a true patriot who stood up for the Rule of Law and our Democracy.

It is ineffable that the Republicans in Congress were not willing to listen to Judge Webster's

wisdom. Competence must supersede partisanship most especially in such high level

positions as CIA, FBI, Justice Department. May his legacy live on. May he rest in peace knowing he gave his best to America.

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Stuart Wagner's avatar

Thank you for this. Judge Webster was the type of public servant who worked in the background of government rather than trying to make a splash. And although I lived through all of his tenure in government, I knew very little about him. Thank you for enlightening me and the world to an honorable man’s service. Especially today, we need more people like him.

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