You can’t question the questionable, at least if the questionable involves Democratic election shenanigans. Tina Peters found out the hard way. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:
“The prison sentence made Ms. Peters, 70, a martyr for the election-denial movement, and launched a fruitless campaign by Mr. Trump’s followers to win her release from state prison.” —The NY Times
Tina Peters, sentenced in Colorado
“Election denier” is a curious term. It implies that anyone who even questions the validity of an election is not right in the head, maybe even. . . a heretic, a sociopath, a criminal, an enemy of the people! The New York Times flogs the term incessantly as a sort of talisman, to ward off suspicions (branded as evil) that US elections are anything but free, fair, and upright.
Tina Peters was County Clerk in Mesa County, western Colorado, at the time of the 2020 elections, which Donald Trump won in her county by a 63-percent margin, though “Joe Biden” won the state. In May, 2021, during a so-called “trusted build” update of her county’s Dominion ballot tabulation machine software, Tina Peters sought evidence that the machines were capable of being manipulated by wireless internet. She made copies of the hard drives and published passwords online, exposing proprietary software and sensitive system information. She was indicted in 2022 on 13 counts and convicted in August of 2024 on seven counts.
Judge Matthew Barrett threw the book at her, handing the then-69-year-old grandmother a nine-year stretch in state prison. His spoken remarks at sentencing included: “You are no hero. . .” “You’re a charlatan who used, and is still using your prior position to peddle snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again. . .” “You’re as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen. . .” “Prison is where we send people who are a danger to all of us, whether it be by the pen or the sword or the word of the mouth.”
Meanwhile no one will face any consequences for the Somali shoeboxes and briefcases full of free shekels fraud in Minnesota.
Judges should be up for election and they are not gods.