I was a bit disappointed. One of our favorite quasi-Conservative Law Professors John Yoo spoke once again at the San Francisco Republican Club event at the Italian Athletic Club in my favorite part of San Francisco and still beautiful North Beach. Unfortunately during Q&As, he didn’t take my question. Just as well, for a legal scholar of his standing – it would take a semester or two of lectures to cover the topic adequately. The question more or less was: Given the violence, assassination attempts on Trump and the assassination of Charlie Kirk – the nasty over the top rhetoric coming from the illiberal left in the Democrat party – what are the limits of “Free Speech”?
For me the answer is actually not much more than a bumper sticker – Hitler rhetoric is like yelling fire in a crowded theater! Yes, it is time to stop with this bullshit that you can incite violent riots with your propaganda and endless dehumanizing of individuals like Trump or Kirk or ICE – call it Protected FREE SPEECH and then change the subject – which Alinsky radicals that run the Democrat party are so good at doing – that Conservatives who want some scumbag ratings loser talk show host to be taken off the air – that is the ACTUAL free speech issue – and besides Charlie Kirk was a racist and supporter of the Fascist Trump – so that’s why he was assassinated!
Not only should those talking heads be punished – but it is time to follow the money – to Soros and the crowd that funds the “insurrection” – that funds the Democrat radicals that gave us AOC, the squad, soft on crime DAs/AGs, and anti-Semites on College Campus (in addition to self loathing Jews like Soros – the Islamist countries like Iran or the U.S.’ real existential enemy – China).
On the one hand, Republicans and Conservative representatives have finally shown some balls and most no longer cave every time a hypocritical lefty calls them a racist or fascist, as exemplified by the Schumer Govt shut down. It looks like the sombrero memes from Trump – that are eliciting endless calls of racists from the illiberal left – are simply making most on our side simply laugh our collective asses off!
WE do sombrero memes – They do brick throwing – and assassinations. So, to any rational person, which doesn’t include those folks indoctrinated by schools and media – one side is clearly qualitatively worse and dangerous – and the other – is just chock full of funny insults. The deal is after endless repetitive talking heads calling Trump, Kirk and any Trump supporter Hitler and fascists – where exactly can they go or do they go from there? I mean, there is no where to go – other than violence. But the pencil neck liars like Schiff – or follicle challenged bi-focal-ed Schumer – what else have they got but to ratchet it up – and hope more of their unhinged mobs commit more acts of violence – so that Trump and the meme throwing Conservatives will shut up and cower like the Bush/Romney Rinos.
I digress. Back to Yoo. Yoo, did make I suppose, an unintended insulting remark to our Republican Club when he was talking about being a contemporary of Kavanaugh – with something to the effect while Kavanaugh was playing softball and becoming a Supreme Court judge – he was actually working and becoming an actual legal scholar! Kavanaugh’s on the bench and being wined and dined in DC with all the elite – and here he was with a bunch of nobodies at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club.
Oh yes, I guess my eyes glazed over waiting for something other than talking around this free speech issue to come up from Yoo and the questions that followed – but it didn’t. Some guy got up and gave the inverse of my stats on Prop 50 – CA let’s Rig the Election Action – in true Orwellian fashion they call the Anti-rigging Act. Republicans in CA have ONLY 17% of the House seats despite the fact Trump got 40% of the vote – and with this new Newscum Rigging Prop 50 – which will no doubt pass – he projects – CA will be left with 4 Republican House seats – and Dems will have 48 of the 52 seats – 92%! Of course, with Trump actually limiting illegals entering and actually deporting some – and sane folks in the middle moving to Texas and Florida – well, they have to do something to make sure they don’t lose the ’26 mid-term election. After all, as said before, the Dems have to save democracy by destroying it.
Yoo essentially confirmed my belief that there are no real Conservatives in the Judicial system today other than Alito and Thomas – and that even relatively conservative scholars like Yoo – don’t think that Comey and his lying to Congress under oath and games he played leaking information that benefited Hillary and harmed Trump will get a conviction. That 51 lying ex – so called experts can have Hunter’s very incriminating Laptop censored before the 2020 election by calling it Russian disinformation – and there will not be any consequences. Essentially, the system has been rigged – all you need to do is say “it looks like it could be” Russian Disinformation – and you’re off the hook – and then a year later you can say – oops – yep, guess the laptop was Hunter’s alright. Damage done – but never mind. No one is ever held to account. Some judicial system. And they keep telling us the lie that NO One is above the law. Of course, they are!
And then there’s that pesky 14th amendment that the illiberal left has used for decades to justify Birthright Citizenship. The 14th amendment was clearly meant to give citizenship to the newly freed slaves – not to be the ongoing magnet to allow any foreign born couple to get automatic citizenship for their baby if it was born here. The example of the foreign diplomat who has a baby in America is not granted automatic American citizenship – but the SCOTUS will no doubt ignore that fact and continue the policy that has been a way for illegal aliens to jump the line. It’s not fair. It’s not what the 14th amendment intended. But if you are a Democrat and can see how mass illegal immigration over recent decades has turned California from a moderate state with two parties where Republican governors and representatives get elected to a ONE Party state where now only Democrat Governors, Senators and with Prop 50 92% of the House will be Democrats. This is what Democrats call Democracy. In Massachusetts where Trump got 36% of the vote – they have zero House representatives. Of course, this is the goal for the Democrats. Democracy where there is only one party in power. They call it democracy – I call it an autocracy and a quasi-fascist state. Yes, I know the left likes to start the definition that fascism is only a “far right” one party state but if you take the rest of the definition – this looks a lot like California with a one party “dictator” with no real opposition and the violence like throwing bricks and Molotov cocktails at ICE agents in their Democrat controlled cities – “A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition.”
Yes, Yoo also predicts SCOTUS will decide to continue to allow any baby born from a non-citizen to become automatic citizens – so parents, relatives, chain migration – and further chaos ensues as this incentive will continue. No other first world country allows this (except Canada sort of) – but if Yoo is correct – the squishy judges Trump appointed will not be his friend on this issue. Not quite as harmful as the Dred Scot case that legalized slavery that led to our first Civil War – but I do believe – that a SCOTUS decision that justifies using the 14th amendment to allow illegals’ babies automatic citizenship rights will be further gasoline on the flames for this ongoing escalating Civil War.
One other thing I do remember. He began his talk by telling us we are not in a Constitutional Crisis! That is, Trump is not causing a Constitutional crisis because he is more or less following the law and not doing anything that most presidents up to Nixon didn’t do – like run their executive department at their discretion. And he did mention that what FDR did with the New Deal was the by far the most radical take over of the Government of any President – after the 1936 election he got both the house and senate – and tried to pack the courts with a very creative scheme – that fortunately didn’t quite work. He wanted all three branches of government – and he almost succeeded. What Yoo didn’t mention is that in fact after FDR died – Congress and the States were able to propose and ratify the 22nd Amendment that gave us term limits for POTUS should have been called the limit FDR imperial president amendment.
But I strongly disagree with Yoo about whether or not we have a Constitutional Crisis today. Trump is not the cause, but the chaos coming from unconstitutional Sanctuary Cities is. He rightly noted that the Civil War was our first real constitutional crisis – where the south seceded from the country – and 600,000 Americans died -and the resultant end of the war gave us the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and decades of reconstruction after the War. In our FIRST Civil War, the South nullified Federal Law by simply saying they would no longer abide by our Federal Constitution and its laws.
Today, we also have states and cities no longer abiding by the Federal laws – specifically as they apply to immigration. Hence, Sanctuary Cities are nothing more than nullification of our Federal Immigration Laws – the same sort of disregard for the rule of law and our Constitution as what happened that led to the first Civil War. Some of us are saying we’ve been in this new Civil War for some time – but because it has been relatively peaceful – only the occasional mass riot – assassination attempt and now actual assassinations of public figures – no one wants to call it what it is. We are extremely divided as a nation and one side attempts to actually uphold the Constitution – especially regarding immigration and the rights of the Federal Government to determine immigration policy. The other side – simply nullifies that law – disregards Federal immigration laws with sanctuary cities and states. Now we are seeing the violence and insurrection in full bloom since we have a President who is actually enforcing these laws that the Biden administration not only ignored but also actively encouraged open borders and millions of illegals to enter the country unlawfully.
I guess this difference of viewpoints is why we talk about professors and their ivory towers. I guess in his ivory tower he didn’t think it was a big deal or notice the shooting that wounded Representative Scalise at a congressional softball game. Or the two assassination attempts on Trump. Or the death of the bystander that occurred when Trump nearly had his ear shot off in Pennsylvania. Or the bricks thrown injuring ICE agents. Or the bullets that killed detainees – and not actual ICE agents. And finally, what I call the Fort Sumter of this Civil War – the Charlie Kirk assassination.
We are in the midst of a Constitutional Crisis alright – but it’s not Trump’s doing – it’s the violence coming from the illiberal left and their allies in Sanctuary cities and states that no longer abide by the US constitution. For me, we do need to find limits to free speech and one thing that we can be pretty sure of is that during war time and Civil Wars – free speech is not so free. It’s a little late – but maybe we could have avoided this Civil War most of us pretend doesn’t exist if we would have been more intelligent in how we defended free speech and which “speech” we decided to defend.