"Easy Sunday" posts are meant to be short.
So I will ask a simple question:
Are there any readers whose mental alarm bells don't go off if you were asked to sign a government document that asserts a lie?
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A Nevada grand jury this week indicted six Republicans who pledged Nevada's electoral votes to Donald Trump. They signed and submitted documents claiming they were "duly elected and qualified" as Nevada electors. They were not. They are charged with offering a "false instrument for filing” and “uttering a forged instrument,” both felonies.The six people did this openly and proudly. They stood for photographs.
The Trump campaign organized slates of electors to meet on December 20 in all seven of the states with close results that certified the election for Biden. In two states, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, the electors balked at signing the document the Trump campaign prepared. They insisted on including language that their votes were valid only if some future court reversed the result. The Trump campaign was adamant in opposing a contingent claim of victory. Say you won, the Trump campaign insisted. The Trump strategy was for there to be two slates presented to Vice President Pence, both claiming validity.
Fear of prosecution and being found guilty is a deterrent. A deterrent is the prospect of spending several years in prison, with the attendant misery and brutalization that takes place there, one's freedom lost, one's family disrupted, one's livelihood lost, and the persistent social stigma of having been an incarcerated felon. Prison sends a message that Americans do not condone claiming to have won an election when you have not.
Trump isn't going to prison on behalf those six in Nevada, if they are found guilty. They are. He is home at Mar-a-Lago. He is golfing. He is out campaigning, flying on his jet, being protected by Secret Service people, sending out multiple fundraising solicitations every day.
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3 comments:
Good for Nevada! But Peter says this sends a message, that “The American people do not approve of claiming to have won an election when you have not.” Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The latest poll average in RealClearPolitics shows Trump leading Biden. The American people like him, not in spite of his well-documented criminality, but because of it.
In California, having work done on your house triggers compliance inspections, such as CO2 detectors. The routine is, the contractor brings the inspector to your door. Explains the inspector doesn't want to disturb us and just sign here to certify, say, you've got CO2 detectors in the bedrooms. Work gets done; inspector gets paid (plus a little treat, I'm sure); and weeks of pure hassle and expense are avoided. So, yeah, guilty as charged. I didn't know about this; the contractor kind of guides one through the well-established process. And guilty as charged.
Perhaps if the Nevada 6 actually go to prison for a couple of years and the Media doesn't ignore that result, it might act as a deterrent..
A Google search doesn't reveal anything happening to any of the fakes beyond being charged or granted immunity as od today.
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