The Republic is at Stake
Popular speech is not necessary to protect under the US Constitution. Unpopular speech is the reason for the first amendment. It surprises me, well, maybe it doesn’t, that so many legislators would stand silent, or even support the attempted illegal and unconstitutional banning of a duly-elected senator from attending a constitutionally-mandated joint session of the Georgia legislature, Colton Moore’s crime simply being telling the hard, indelible and proven truth, especially when sitting all around them in the same chamber will be liars of every kind and reason, and whose rights and responsibilities to attend are never questioned. There is something rather biblical about all this.
When merely one duly-elected representative of the people is denied access to the legislative process, the entire republic is lost. Think about what I just wrote. The matter whether Senator Moore should or should not have spoken the truth he did from the well of the senate, is not a matter for the Speaker to decide, and summarily punish. It is solely a matter for the people of Georgia’s 53rd Senate District to decide, and they did last November. Senator Moore speaks for those people and represents them in the heart of Georgia’s government. They ratified his speech overwhelmingly at the polls. He therefore must be allowed to participate in the joint session regardless any personal animosity others, including the Speaker, may have for him.
It is my hope, and indeed prayer, that all freedom-loving legislators, summon the strength and use their positions of influence to urge Speaker Burns to do the right thing and stand down on this issue. The Georgia House of Representatives is the “people’s house,” not the Speaker’s house. The Speaker should stand down, and if he does not, he will only prove himself unworthy of the honor of that position and should be removed.
