Suicide case conviction is wrong

Michelle Carter decision is an attack on free speech.

And this is fundamental to the left’s overall quest to transform America. There must not be free speech. Not only that, folks, not only is there an all-out assault on free speech, they want to go after you for what you’re thinking. Now, we’ve long known that within the context of the so-called hate crime, which means if you commit crime, you’ve got a bigoted attitude about the victim before you even commit the crime, then you’ve really been bad, you committed a hate crime. You didn’t just kill somebody, you hated them before you did it, and that’s almost as bad as killing them in the left’s distorted, perverted view of everything. Make no mistake, they’re going after free speech, and they want to be able to criminalize what you are thinking.

Can I give you an example of that? Remember this sordid tale, this kid that committed suicide while his girlfriend was on the phone urging him to do it, and they tried her for manslaughter, and she was convicted because the judge — what kind of a judge — where did we get — A guy commits suicide, no matter what anybody said to him, he did it. He had the final say-so, yes or no. It was his free will that caused him to commit suicide. It wasn’t her words. But she has been convicted of manslaughter. This case needs to be thrown out and the judge wanted everybody to believe, “Well, you know, she was trying to encourage and her thoughts were transmitted and who knows what effect.” We can’t go there.

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