A Freedom Too Far?
The makers of the ICEBlock app are suing the Trump administration because of the pressure to remove the app. The app is intended to prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs ... and endangers ICE personnel. When does the "freedom of the press" or "free speech" fall outside legal protection? Should we be required to allow all speech even if it endangers lives and violates laws? Is this really the road we want to follow?
A Question Too Far?
Now here's an interesting story. The FDA is probing deaths from COVID ... vaccines. Over time, multiple stories have surfaced about deaths caused by the vaccine. They were typically squashed and ignored, but ... not absent. It wasn't ... an accepted story. The "freedom of the press" is very limited in our day ... just not always by the government.
A Question of Fraud?
Trump announced a pardon for Tina Peters in Colorado. Peters is serving a nine-year sentence for trying to aid Trump in overturning the 2020 election results for fraudulent voting. It was a state sentence, and legal minds largely agree that a president can only pardon someone for federal crimes, so it's only symbolic. However, the very real question of whether or not there was sufficient voter fraud in 2020 to skew the results will never be examined because the powers that be have manipulated public opinion against even asking the question with the completely truthful but wildly misleading statement, "There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud." (The claim is not "widespread," but largely localized and limited to three specific swing states ... but ... we can't ask anymore.)
A News Splash
Some odd news gathered this week. New Zealand police recovered a stolen Fabergé egg pendant after a thief swallowed it and stole it. It took six days to ... "extract" it naturally. A woman in San Francisco gave birth ... in a Waymo self-driving taxi. Waymo is promising to deliver, but ... that's not what they meant, was it? And a a drone in South Carolina dropped a meal of steak and crab legs, complete with some marijuana and a couple of cartons of cigarettes ... to a prison yard for a prisoner. The guards got it first. Nice try.
Your Best Source for Fake News
In politics, Jasmine Crockett has hit the campaign trail to "axe for votes". I'm afraid there might be a ... language barrier brewing there. Trump has announced a $12 billion farmers aid package (actual story) to help them deal with the growing economy. Finally, with Christmas fast approaching, the Pope is urging Jesus and Satan to put aside their differences in the name of peace. "Can't we all just get along?" (As a bonus, you might look at the Bee's 13 Things Safer to Give Your Kids Than A Smarphone story in view of the recent concerns over kids and smartphones.)
Must be true; I read it on the internet.
3 comments:
Re: A News Splash (all of which sounded almost like The Bee!) -- It seems that the Faberge thief laid an egg, so to speak. (I’m surprised you didn’t write “egg-xtract” rather than “extract.” ;)
A Freedom Too Far?
I'm sorry, but that certainly doesn't fall under freedom of speech. You are not free to aid criminals to get away with crime. That's called obstruction of justice. You might feel noble like you're protecting Jews from Nazis, but that doesn't make it less illegal, and thus not protected speech. Helping illegal aliens avoid ICE is called aiding and abetting, and criminal acts aren't protected by the first amendment.
A Question Too Far?
Maybe the real viral effect of COVID was that it actually infected almost everyone and just made us all stupid and sheep-like.
A Question of Fraud?
It's always really easy to debunk a claim nobody is making. Nobody is saying it was widespread, but that doesn't make the fraud less significant.
Come on, Lorna, you know I have no sense of Yuma. (Sorry ... Arizona joke.)
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