Except “legal” and “legitimate” are not co-terminous terms. The former is limited to the field of law, and while many things may be legal, not all legal things are legitimate.And before we start splitting hairs on the difference between "legitimate" and "legal" — erecting a gallows or a guillotine at a protest against politicians is, by itself, both legal AND legitimate discourse. https://t.co/MYbvqCY8dD
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) February 6, 2022
Constructing a gallows for a protest is legal. That doesn’t make it legitimate political discourse. (Of course the phrase used by the RNC was not even vaguely referencing that gallows, which I’m sure they would rather was forgotten.) We can argue whether a gallows or even hanging in effigy is legitimate political discourse. I agree that it is not arguable that either is legal.Actually, constructing a gallows at the Capitol was probably one of the more legitimate and protected acts that occurred on J6. Symbolic speech is protected under the First Amendment. https://t.co/ffVetBgsKA
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) February 6, 2022
If this represents the quality of his arguments, he’s not attracting the best and the brightest to begin with. Addressing issues not raised by anyone is the definition of a straw man. Wonder if it’s sturdy enough to hang in effigy?Anyway, I periodically enjoy angering weirdo liberals. Helps me weed out the followers list. pic.twitter.com/kLVYcuPers
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) February 6, 2022
It is legal only because our judges and "justices" and lawyer-liars declare it's not what it certainly was, an incitement to commit murder and a means of intimidation to prevent the Congress from carrying out its official obligations. Considering the role of lynching terror in American history there is every reason to both criminalize and delegitimate the use of those "symbols". I would guess that those who fully intended to lynch someone but who failed to carry it out would claim that they noose they intended to use was "symbolic" and get some liar-lawyer to make that claim in front of a judge or "justice" who knew damned well that they would have made the symbol exactly what it was meant to symbolize and intended it to be.
ReplyDeleteThe role that word play and pretense plays in the legal profession and judicial corruption is one that needs a lot more investigation because we let the judges and "justices" get away with murder through that kind of linguistic dishonestly.