The Comey prosecution and the "all or nothing" cult
Disagreement on one point does not mean disagreement on all points. Grow up.
I got an angry e-mail about my article about prosecuting James Comey for his childish Instagram post, saying I did not mention that President Trump explicitly said to "peacefully" protest on January 6, 2021. Yes, he did say that, and I specifically addressed this and defended President Trump back in 2021. My point was that even if President Trump did not say that, he could not be prosecuted for incitement because of Supreme Court precedent in a case that has been critical for free speech rights. I also called for Congress to reform banking laws to respect free speech in the wake of the revelation that President Trump was forced to close his bank accounts in the aftermath of January 6.
As an aside, absolutely no one legitimately believes Comey "found" the seashells arranged as numbers and did not do it himself. Stop pretending otherwise. It obliterates your credibility to be pushing this ridiculous fantasy, and harms the case for Comey's free speech rights. Once again, this illustrates the "all or nothing" mentality where people refuse to give an inch, and wind up beclowning themselves in the process.
Yes, the Obama Regime absolutely did illegally target and spy on the Trump campaign in 2016, an abuse of power that should have been prosecuted during President Trump's first term in office. President Trump took far too long to remove Comey as director of the FBI in his first term. That, however, has nothing do do with prosecuting Comey for a childish Instagram post of prearranged seashells. It was not a threat against the President's life, and if President Trump did not have a preexisting grudge against Comey there would have been no effort to criminally charge him for the post. Comey's behavior in the "Russiagate" investigation does not justify an abuse of power to attempt to imprison him for his free speech, childish and unprofessional as that free speech might be.
The most hilarious fraudulent accusation was that I am attempting to score points with the Bloomington Blue Bubble. Yes, the guy who was called a "cult leader" for participating in the annual Life Chain and who has been angering Leftists for 30 years with my speeches to local bodies, my writing in the Herald-Times and the Indiana Daily Student and my online writings on this blog and elsewhere is totally trying to score points with Leftists who have hated me for 20 years before President Trump was the Republican Party's nominee.
For the trillionth time, it is not all or nothing. The fact that I oppose the malicious prosecution of James Comey for exercising his free speech rights does not mean that I do not think there was any malfeasance in the "Russiagate" investigation, nor does it mean I am trying to curry favor with Leftists in Bloomington who have hated me for thirty years. Demanding "all or nothing" is how a cult acts.