Posted on 12/05/2016 8:33:52 AM PST by John Semmens
Despite numerous reports of harassment and death threats against electors pledged to vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when the Electoral College meets on December 19, the US Department of Justice, thus far, has declined to take any action. DOJ deputy press secretary David Jacobs cast the issue as “not yet ripe enough.”
“From what we have heard these electors have been called names and warned they could be harmed if they don’t switch their vote to Secretary Clinton,” Jacobs recounted. “Name calling is protected freedom of speech. Just weeks ago the two leading candidates were calling each other ‘racist’ and ‘crooked.’ Given such vituperation at the top it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the backers of the loser would vent in the way they have. In our view, bad-mouthing a few electors is better than rioting in the streets.”
“As for the death threats, without actual casualties it is difficult to determine their seriousness,” Jacobs continued. “Historically, it has been minorities that have been lynched for voting the wrong way—that is, against the white racists that controlled Jim Crow governments across the South. So far, none of the Trump electors have been lynched and none of the Trump supporters that have been beaten in the streets has been seriously injured. Unless this changes, the Attorney General sees no reason to get the Department involved.”
Ironically, the Jim Crow Era crimes cited by Jacobs were carried out by Democrats in support of racist governments run by Democrats. Given the widespread insanity emanating from the supporters of the defeated Hillary Clinton, it is impossible to rule out the possibility that the lack of casualties can be taken as a lamentation for a loss of passion among the Party faithful compared to times past.
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DOJ deputy press secretary David Jacobs makes a great point!
Kinda like “flag burning,” being “free speech,” right?
Yeah, it’s disgusting, deplorable and terribly offensive to the vast majority of us, but unless the burning flag causes a 3 or 4 Alarm fire to break out, what’s the harm?
Nobody would ever be so damn dumb to burn a flag in a dry forest or at a Rave in Oakland or at an artist’s show downstairs in a Warehouse Building in Oakland, right?
Elector Lives Matter
Trump!..... in the first 100 days - INSTALL A “REAL” JUSTICE DEPT.
SCOTUS said cross burning is not free speech, as it is implicitly a threat. I wonder if SCOTUS thinks actual threats are threats?
This type of government CORRUPTION will soon be ending, thank God! The so-called DOJ has been corrupt to the core for the last eight years. What a DISGRACE for AMERICA!
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