Posted on 08/30/2023 5:23:10 AM PDT by RandFan
The U.S. Constitution is clear: Political speech is protected by the First Amendment.
Also, battles over the acceptance of electors to validate a presidential election are wholly within the political realm and should not be subject to criminal sanctions. Yet our nation is very close to setting a dangerous precedent by criminalizing speech and politics, and one political faction is rushing into this folly headlong.
If the Biden administration is allowed to criminalize speech and politics, we will become a nation where the losers of presidential elections are arrested instead of being sent into retirement with book tours and libraries.
The criminalization of politics is a dangerous game that Democrats used to decry, when they thought the shoe might end up on the other foot. No matter how you feel about former President Donald Trump’s activities after the 2020 election, the reaction of putting Trump in jail for his speech and activities to organize opposition to Congress counting Electoral College votes would degrade our political system and set the precedent that one party can criminalize the political activities of the other.
Notwithstanding all the legal spin you are hearing on a day-to-day basis from talking heads on cable television, it is a fact that the First Amendment to the Constitution vindicates the freedom of political speech. When you hear the talking point that “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater,” know that the media are trying to gaslight you — to make you believe that there are limits to political free speech, when in fact there aren’t.
If government is permitted to redefine the Bill of Rights as something subjective and not containing inalienable rights, then the government can take anyone’s rights away, including yours.
Yelling fire in a crowded theater has nothing to do with political speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Democrats want us to be like Canada, where any speech can be called illegal if the government doesn’t like it.
This is in “The Hill”?
Wow!!
BTTT
Democrats don’t care. Here’s why:
1) The ends justify the means
2) It doesn’t matter if bad precedent has been set because
a) They will likely keep maintain power
b) Republicans are wusses when they are in power
3) They don’t think that far ahead. They only care about who makes them promises of gifts now
The left is willing to literally burn the country to the ground and rule over the ashes rather than give up an iota of power.
“The U.S. Constitution is clear: Political speech is protected by the First Amendment.”
Hey, give the Democrats a break. All they want is to abolish that antiquated Constitution and replace it with a “Living Constitution” that they can change whenever it suites their fancy.
Instead of “the criminalization of politics,” a more appropriate description might be “the politicization of the criminal justice system and the government.”
I hold their motives in publishing it suspect.
My first thought is its a "hey guys, ignore all that water under the bridge, we're on your side" ploy. No mockingbirds, you're not.
What do you think all the "COVID" stuff was, morons?
That’s the whole point. If they can do it to Trump they can do it to anyone.
And they will.
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The USG is communists and with the ‘covid money’ have bought control all the way down to the small towns. It’s over folks.
Ice cold drinks now being served in Hell! Never thought I’d see the day.
A Rand Paul person.
The Traitorcrats openly work to destroy the Constitution and with it the United States of America.
Voting for a Traitorcrat, like Biden, is itself an act of giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
It is endangering the Judiciary.
I remember when we mostly believed in the FBI. Now, we are ready to dissolve it. The Judiciary is risking permanent damage to its reputation and to the Rule of Law. It is becoming a joke.
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