On 19 Aug 2023, Reem <reemnasser003302@gmail.com> posted some
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> In article <b790720716d8439c2f1a42a3ea2ef460@dizum.com>
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> Lie site flushed.
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> Subject fixed.
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>> Hand a nigger some authority and it goes directly to their head. This
>> stupid cunt neglects her own city while pursuing a questionable
>> political issue.
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> Trust in America�s institutions is at an all-time low. Partisan
> hostility is high and growing. Fulton County District Attorney Fani
> Willis�s political indictment of not just former President Donald Trump
> but 18 other Republicans will further erode trust in government and fuel
> hostility between parties.
>
> According to a CBS poll taken after special counsel Jack Smith�s
> indictment of Trump but before Willis�s, 56% of Republicans viewed the
> indictments as �an attack on people like you� compared to 28% who said
> the indictments were �upholding the rule of law.�
>
> Considering that the Smith indictment charged just Trump with
> conspiracy, but Willis charged Trump and 18 others, expect that 56% to
> rise significantly.
>
> Take, for example, Willis�s indictment of David Shafer, who, at the time
> of the alleged crime, was head of the Georgia Republican Party. Trump
> contested the results of the 2020 Georgia presidential election in
> court, and by the day the Electoral College was due to meet to approve
> slates of electors, litigation was ongoing.
>
> Not wanting his party�s candidate to be without electors in the event
> Trump won his lawsuits, Shafer did what the Democratic Party of Hawaii
> did in 1960 when its presidential results were being litigated: He held
> a meeting of Trump supporters at the state Capitol and elected an
> alternative slate of electors.
>
> Shafer told the press, �Had we not met today to cast our votes, the
> president�s pending election contest would have been effectively mooted.
> Our action today preserves his rights under Georgia law.�
>
> Shafer did nothing but openly exercise his First Amendment rights, and
> for that, he is being prosecuted as a member of a �criminal
> organization.�
>
> The same is true of Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, whose crimes
> include texting one politician for the phone number of another and
> attending various meetings with Trump supporters in the White House.
>
> Where is the crime?
>
> Real crimes may have been committed and are in the indictment, but they
> are surely not those cited above. Willis identified a scheme in which
> Trump lawyer Sidney Powell allegedly contracted for the unlawful breach
> of Coffee County�s election equipment. That is a crime and should be
> prosecuted as such. But you don�t need conspiracy law or the Racketeer
> Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to punish someone for hacking a
> computer. That is overkill.
>
> Much ink has been and will be spilled analyzing what this latest
> indictment means for Trump�s chances of being convicted of a felony and
> what effect a conviction might have on the 2024 election. Those are
> important topics.
>
> But eventually, Trump, too, shall pass. We will be left with precedents
> set by previously unprecedented prosecutions of not just a former
> president but of his supporters exercising their First Amendment rights.
>
> These precedents will not be forgotten, partisans will respond in kind,
> and our democracy will be weaker because of it.
>
> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-georgia-
> indictment-is-the-biggest-threat-to-democracy-yet
>