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If stupidity were a crime, former FBI Director James Comey would serve time in jail. Fortunately for Comey, America doesn’t lock people away for their stupidity — unless they commit a crime.
Call it poor judgment, poor taste, or recklessly stupid, but when the former director of the FBI posted 8647 on social media, he did not commit a “crime.” At least not a crime worthy of incarceration. Comey’s crime is stupidity.
Comey claims that his posting constitutes political free speech. He also claims ignorance. He knew exactly what he was doing.
To prosecute on that basis would be to get into the operation of James Comey’s mind when he posted the comment 8647.
The prosecution of James Comey for posting on social media 8647 is as vague and non-threatening a threat as someone could make.
This prosecution has many legal experts questioning whether any real legal action is justified against Comey.
To date, James Comey hasn’t clarified what message exactly he meant to convey by posting “8647.”
So far, most legal experts who have opined on the meaning of “8647” come down straight along party lines.
The Democrats want to spare him, and the Republicans slay him.
The constitution protects some recklessness.
One day, a member of a religious congregation stood up and yelled a string of profanities at the preacher. ‘Hey preacher man,’ he shouts, you are a lying mother sucking piece of shit.’ ‘I wish you were dead.’
As the shouting man leaves the church, he gives everybody the middle finger.
The rest of the congregation and the preacher were shocked and disgusted by the disturbance.
However, as reckless as the man’s behavior was, there is nothing the churchgoers can do legally about it.
They could call the police and have the obtuse person trespassed, so the next time he sets foot on the premises, he could be arrested.
The police may arrest him for trespassing, but not for exercising his constitutionally protected rights, however vulgar.
The Constitution of the United States protects that kind of recklessness, as seen in cases such as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969.
As well as Texas v. Johnson (1989), and Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), where the Court held that speech advocating illegal action is protected unless it is intended to, and likely to, incite “imminent lawless action.”
The Constitution of the United States of America recognizes the rights of persons to speak freely and unthreateningly.
James Comey is afforded the same protections under law as all other Americans.
James Comey, Will beat the rap, but he won't beat the ride.
Bob Marley and Eric Clapton shot the Sheriff.
When Bob Marley recorded and released “I Shot The Sheriff,” followed by Eric Clapton’s version of the same song, they weren’t prosecuted for the lyrics.
“Sheriff John Brown always hated me, for what I don’t know. Every time I plant my seed, he’d say, “Kill it before it grows.”
So I shot him down.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang! I shot the Sheriff, but I didn’t shoot the deputy. Marley and Clapton, well, in Marley’s case, he probably had motive, and Clapton had the means to shoot the Sheriff.
Because, as he said, every time he plants his seed (children), the Sheriff kills (aborts) them before they can grow. But those lyrics are protected speech. Hence Nolo-prosecution.
Or when “Dr.” Dre and Snoop Dogg popularized the phrase “ do a 187 on an undercover cop,” referencing California’s penal code (187), which stands for murder.
California did not prosecute Snoop Dogg or “Dr. Dre because the lyric falls under protected speech. It’s entertainment.
Trump’s locker room talk vs Comey beach walk.
The DOJ’s prosecution of James Comey over foolish banter is similar to the wack jobs who persecuted Candidate Donald Trump for his locker room talk.
“When you’re a star, they let you do it. Grab ’em by the pussy,” Trump said.
The political hacks who thrive on inconsistencies persecuted Trump back then for imagining an assault. Today, they defend James Comey for “threatening murder,” or a premeditated killing.
Committing a murder versus committing an assault on someone. Both acts are harmful, but one is more egregious than the other.
If someone murders someone and another assaults someone else, to whom will the judge give the harshest punishment? Somewhere I read in a book that says, “Thou shalt not ‘unnecessarily’ kill”.
Yet the warmongers kill, wound, and promote murder every day.
“Think globally, act locally.”
It is crucial to be forward-thinking but not a forward person. “Be kind to everyone you meet because each carries his heavy burden…” Plato.
Embrace the three Constants: change, justice, and rightness.
The thought police are busy at work trying to suppress free speech. If allowed their march to madness, they will arrest your very thoughts.
“Free speech, but not free reach.” — Social media titans.
Free speech is thy Lord.
