Insulting congresscritters, revisited
A couple of days ago, I talked about the Honorable Representative from the State of Florida, Frederica Wilson, and her apparent belief that people who insult/mock/taunt members of Congress should be prosecuted. There is a tendency, common to us all, to take ourselves entirely too seriously. When this human tendency is combined with some greater-than-normal degree of power and influence, that tendency is often increased. So it is, I believe, with the good representative from Florida. She truly believes, if she is to be taken at her word, that insults are threats and that those who insult her and her colleagues are therefore proper subjects of prosecution.
There is a concept that existed (and arguably to some extent still exists) in Europe called lèse-majesté. If you’re not familiar with the term, that’s okay as Merriam-Webster provides the following definitions:
1a: a crime (such as treason) committed against a sovereign powerb: an offense violating the dignity of a ruler as the representative of a sovereign power
2: a detraction from or affront to dignity or importance
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That would assume any of them have any dignity to start with… And since Wilson looks like she escaped a pimp convention most of the time, that’s really not even a question. Sigh
Ha! Nice.