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Actually, I'm not asking this about impeachment, though it enters in some.


I'm talking about news media and high profile people who knowingly tell lies. And yeah, Tom K's example of Obama's lies COULD enter into it, if it could be proved that he knew that they were lies at the time.

But yes, at the moment, I'm ore worried about the far right lies that whipped all this up. Editing videos to make something look like voter fraud. Claiming that you have presented evidence under oath and threat of perjury when you haven't. And the thousands and thousands of times those lies got repeated are what have us in this constitutional crisis. Lies are the problem, and the fact that you're allowed to lie is an issue.

But Sith's post (where I've only read the subject line so far) is certainly the other side of the coin. The definite problem in seeing my thought as a remedy. Can the line possibly be defined well enough to actually be a reasonable law?

(In response to this post by hoolstoptheheels)

Posted: 01/13/2021 at 11:21AM



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