After looking carefully, I am unable to conclude that Trump - though culpable - legally “incited” violence
In fact, he specifically caveated his words with “legally & patriotically”
Words *must* matter
And these speeches - from the summer - appear worse
Listeners will recall that I said “culpable but not incitement” multiple times on my @LBC show last weekend
I hadn’t read the below but I am glad Andrew Koppelman, a constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, Illinois, confirms my assessment apnews.com/article/can-do…
“It looks to me like Trump was culpably reckless. But it seems to me the Brandenburg standard requires intention,” Koppleman said
He said Giuliani’s exhortation sounded more like a metaphor than an incitement to violence. “It’s like the word fight. It’s often used as a metaphor”
Here is a different clip from that same @LBC show of mine last weekend, decrying Big Tech’s hypocrisy in banning the President over this “incitement” charge
No fair assessment - and crucially no fair journalist - can ignore the below words of the President. Especially when they are contrasted against words that appear *far worse* (in the first video above) uttered by those who are now alleging “incitement”
“Trump didn’t even come close to incitement”
I suspect that top US constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ders…) would know that of which he speaks.
Many misunderstand whatabouttery:
I ask why you don’t like apples, you say “but Adam doesn’t like apples either”
= whatabouttery
I ask why you say you don’t like apples when I offer, yet you accept some when Adam offers
= pointing out hypocrisy
Let’s try not to be hypocrites.
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Thank you @unherd & @Perez_Writes for braving a more nuanced conversation about race in America, with the Proud Boys’ rather dark-skinned Cuban-American leader from the Hispanic-dominated city of Miami, as your case in point: unherd.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=…
“The idea that anyone in Miami is thinking about white supremacy is preposterous; to someone like Tarrio, the “spectre of whiteness” — or any other concept used by the Left to explain American race relations — is completely foreign.”
“Steeped in this culture, a figure like Tarrio, despite all his petty idiocy, has a more acute understanding of American racial dynamics than any African-American Studies major from an elite institution.”
“Covert warfare by Russia & China, including cyberhacking & disinformation, risks an “uncontrollable state of all-out war”, the head of the (UK) armed forces has warned.”
Read the next tweet in this thread & ponder our lockdowns:
“we might wake up one day & discover that we are in a police state & all of our freedoms have been denied us. That’s one end of it. The other end of it is that our opponents will have found a way to unravel our democracy from inside.”
Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Sir Nick Carter
“And our freedom, our way of life and all the things that we espouse would have been undermined. And we won’t have noticed it.”
Chief of Defence Staff, Sir General Nick Carter
CC:
U.K. Security Service (MI5);
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation;
Canadian Security Intelligence Service;
Bundesnachrichtendienst;
U.S. Department of Justice
“public supports lockdowns because the alternative, that they might have been implemented without good cause,is a possibility too evil for most to contemplate. But those who know history know that others with superficially excellent credentials have done even worse for even less”
To my knowledge, we have never met. You have apologised for what I believe has been yet another concerted campaign to libel & defame me on here simply for commenting on constitutional processes in the US election debacle. Best to leave it now. Thanks
They fail, because sheer anger clouds their judgement. My explicit words on this have never endorsed what they have been slanderously claiming. In fact, I have said the opposite of their claim here: