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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
Thu Feb 2, 2023, 05:29 PM Feb 2023

De Santis, clever as a fox.

I have always wondered how De Santis could get away with what he's doing shutting down exposure to certain ideas in Florida, considering that it's a Constitutional issue on so many different levels. Take into account that he didn't start with this anti-woke shut down in the education curriculm. He started by trying to silence professors from testifying in court.

What was he afraid of? I think he was trying to silence expert witnesses from providing a position in court that would challenge the kind of behavior he wants to see skate through justice, due to a sense of privilege. He doesn't like being challenged, so he's shutting down the opposition of thought in Florida.

Imagine a lawyer having the power to shut down legal challenges by removing the legal experts? Now imagine that lawyer being a crooked, ruthless governor who would stop at nothing to define the way that people should think in his State? Stopping the ideas before they even have a chance to take hold. How is this not violating the First Amendment?

I don't know why someone hasn't yet started that lawsuit, that would stop him in his tracks. The professors prevailed in a lawsuit against De Santis', who attempted to silence them. It makes sense that a good lawsuit would expose his anti-woke position as violating, not only First Amendment, but the Fourteenth Amendment as well.

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De Santis, clever as a fox. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2023 OP
But Florida is the bastion of freedom! RussBLib Feb 2023 #1
Imagine onethatcares Feb 2023 #2
I don't think it will be long mercuryblues Feb 2023 #3
Lawsuits have already hit the courts and he has lost several. Phoenix61 Feb 2023 #4
"He doesn't like being challenged" Totalitarianism 101 speak easy Feb 2023 #5

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
2. Imagine
Thu Feb 2, 2023, 05:38 PM
Feb 2023

if you write a letter to the governor that he posts your name, address, political affiliation on a website for all to see. .

Would that be intimidation?

The "free state of florida", only if you agree with what he's doing.

He's a flucking work of art he is,

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
3. I don't think it will be long
Thu Feb 2, 2023, 05:41 PM
Feb 2023

before the lawsuits hit the court. Another aspect of this they take time to be heard. He will run for president on what he has done for FL. The lawsuits won't be settled before the 2034 election.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
4. Lawsuits have already hit the courts and he has lost several.
Thu Feb 2, 2023, 07:41 PM
Feb 2023

It’s all political theater. He doesn’t care about the end result because he will orchestrate some fresh outrage to distract from it.

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