Don Lemon’s Minnesota protest costs: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Don Lemon’s arrest for his involvement within the anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn.
Democrats wished to ban peaceable protests by pro-lifers at abortion clinics, in order that they crafted the FACE act, which was expanded to incorporate homes of worship (“Lemon gets pinched,” Jan. 31).
Now, the Department of Justice is charging Don Lemon with violating the FACE act for terrorizing worshipers inside a Minnesota church, and Democrats say this violates the First Amendment.
Wrong: Lemon and the different morons who laid siege to that church are guilty of violating a law that Democrats championed.
Walter Goldeski
East Brunswick, NJ
How is it that the DOJ arrests Lemon for reporting the information inside a Minneapolis church whereas refusing to analyze the tragic capturing of Renee Good?
Laws are in place to guard the rights of all people throughout the political spectrum. Good’s death and the violation of worshipers inside a home of God are equally deserving of clear, thorough investigations.
Denise Saupé
Minneapolis, Minn.
Churches aren’t public boards the place everybody has a proper to be heard. They’re non-public establishments, whose congregants, beneath the identical modification, have the correct to freely apply their chosen faith.
Lemon had no proper to trespass upon them. For that, he ought to forfeit his own freedom. He can all the time retain his proper to proselytize us from behind bars.
James Evans
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Worcester, Mass.
On one hand, I hoped the DOJ wouldn’t give Lemon the eye he must keep his profession alive. On the opposite hand, if he isn’t punished for this transgression, he’ll simply attempt a more silly stunt sooner or later.
John Dumary Jr.
Duanesburg
A disruptive, however completely peaceable protest is so deeply disturbing to this administration, however Jan. 6, an occasion during which dozens of officers have been overwhelmed, crushed and sprayed with poison is now seen by President Trump as having been perpetrated not by felonious thugs, however by great patriots.
Any costs in opposition to Don Lemon will certainly not be upheld, however the administration’s message is as clear as it’s chilling: It will harass and persecute journalists whom it dislikes.
Oren Spiegler
Peters Township, Pa.
The people supporting Lemon are probably the identical people who need demonstrators arrested for praying exterior abortion clinics.
William Carroll
Woodside
It’s seemingly nothing a lot will come out of Lemon’s arrest. But it’s more about taking the wind out of his sails.
Ronald Frank
West Orange, NJ
The Issue: Judge Garnett’s resolution to take the death penalty off the desk within the Luigi Mangione case.
Brian Thompson acquired the death penalty whereas his murderer, Luigi Mangione, will probably be free in 20 years or much less, regardless of his sentence (“ ‘Execution’ nix,” Jan. 31).
Our judicial system wants an overhaul. An absence of justice permeates our so-called “justice system.”
The Post reported Mangione didn’t seem to have a response to the ruling. He was in all probability making an attempt to decipher the phrase salad coming from Judge Margaret Garnett’s mouth.
Don Whitman
Cross River
It’s stated that a image is value a thousand phrases, and lots of people are nonetheless haunted by the image of alleged shooter Mangione aiming a gun at Thompson. However, that was not enough proof for Garnett to keep the death penalty on the desk.
It appeared as if she had even questioned her resolution, by stating that her ruling “may strike the average person — and indeed many lawyers and judges — as tortured and strange.”
Michael Headley
Brooklyn
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