As many of you are aware, I think that the 2020 presidential election was about as close to thievery as one can get. … no, that’s inaccurate. It was blatant thievery! Both Democrats and Republicans have told me that I am wrong, and I am sure that if Mike Pence knew me, he would also tell me that I am mistaken.
So what’s the big deal?
Well, the big deal is that the USA is still a free country. Thus, I am free to think whatever I wish. If I want, I can cite major irregularities in multiple states, including Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Keep in mind that this is my opinion, and it is my right to think what I want to think. Even if I am wrong, it is still my First Amendment right to be wrong.
As many of you are aware, USA Today is a liberal newspaper, and Jonathan Turley is also basically a liberal attorney. However, that notwithstanding on 8/2/23 Jonathan Turley wrote an op-Ed in USA Today
in which he says,
“If you take a red pen to protected free speech in this indictment, it would be reduced to a virtual haiku. Moreover, if you concede that Trump may have believed that the election was stolen, the complaint collapses.”
What if Trump lied? Apparently, no importa, as in the 2012 United States v. Alvarez decision, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that it is unconstitutional to criminalize lies in a case involving a politician who lied about military decorations. The court warned such criminalization “would give government a broad censorial power unprecedented in this Court’s cases or in our constitutional tradition. The mere potential for the exercise of that power casts a chill, a chill the First Amendment cannot permit if free speech, thought, and discourse are to remain a foundation of our freedom.”
And, this my friends, “Is a big deal!”
[FYI, A haiku is a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.]
8/7/23