Public
- Public
- Network
- Groups
- Featured
- Popular
- People

John Dixon Keller, principal deputy chief, public integrity section, head of Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force This country was founded not only on the premise of free and fair elections, but also on the idea that public scrutiny of governmental authority is not only desirable, it is necessary. Debate on public issues should be robust and may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp criticism of government officials. But death threats are not debate. Death threats do not contribute to the marketplace of ideas. Death threats are not First Amendment protected speech. Death threats, and any threats of violence are condemnable, criminal acts and they will be met with the full force of the Justice Department. https://youtu.be/HWmyr4CmoLg?si=Ef2OtWoVlnpbVPPs&t=560 https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/justice-department-officials-announce-developments-election-threats-cases-arizona https://youtu.be/HWmyr4CmoLg?si=WHxbjgdbJ8al39Ig&t=489

Download link

John Dixon Keller, principal deputy chief, public integrity section, head of Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force This country was founded not only on the premise of free and fair elections, but also on the idea that public scrutiny of governmental authority is not only desirable, it is necessary. Debate on public issues should be robust and may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp criticism of government officials. But death threats are not debate. Death threats do not contribute to the marketplace of ideas. Death threats are not First Amendment protected speech. Death threats, and any threats of violence are condemnable, criminal acts and they will be met with the full force of the Justice Department. https://youtu.be/HWmyr4CmoLg?si=Ef2OtWoVlnpbVPPs&t=560 https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/justice-department-officials-announce-developments-election-threats-cases-arizona https://youtu.be/HWmyr4CmoLg?si=WHxbjgdbJ8al39Ig&t=489

Notices where this attachment appears

Embed this notice
Spocko (spocko@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 06:21:01 JST Spocko
in reply to

@DanaDee
"This country was founded not only on the premise of free & fair elections, but also on the idea that public scrutiny of govmt authority is not only desirable, it is necessary. Debate on public issues should be robust & may well include vehement, caustic, & sometimes unpleasantly sharp criticism of government officials.
But death threats are not debate.
Death threats do not contribute to the marketplace of ideas.
Death threats are not 1st Amdt protected speech.
https://youtu.be/HWmyr4CmoLg?si=WHxbjgdbJ8al39Ig&t=489

In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.online permalink