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The judge and the Risque Facebook post.
I’m all about freedom of speech. I’m all about individual rights to creativity, and expression.
I’m a patriot of freedom.
I’m the original one if by land and two if by sea guy.
I’m Patton on a tank, steam rolling over anarchy, clearing a way for democracy and lady liberty.
But this story of freedom and personal rights is slightly skewed.
And that’s why this story is so interesting.
On one hand you have a citizen of the USA who has a private Facebook account.
This American posts a picture of a buxom blond. She is wearing chickini Bikini briefs and no shirt. She is pouring booze down the front of her ample bosom. A man is gleefully pressed against her naval, mouth open, doing a body shot, as the booze rolls down her silky skin.
There are number of adults watching. An older woman is laughing, and an infant is sucking a pacifier staring at the Barbie doll with the vodka flavored boobies.
The picture is erotic, yet stupid.
It is buffoonery at its best. It is absurd, and wrong, and just perfectly inappropriate for Facebook.
The caption under the photo says: 27 adults who are really bad at this parenting thing.
Bad at parenting? I guess bringing a toddler to a lick the naked girl party is not going to win you father of the year.
The post is salacious and humorous.
If you posted it, the overwhelming sense of so what would fill the air.
It’s America. You want to express yourself, then express yourself.
Now the catch.
The image was posted by a judge.
Yes.
A real life, American born, hand on the bible, swear to uphold the law, sitting judge.
The question suddenly becomes: When does freedom of expression get steam rolled by political correctness?
Should the judge be held to a higher standard?
He is an American? He has unalienable rights granted to all of us from our founding fathers.
Freedom of speech. Freedom to think what you want to think.
But he’s a judge. Sworn to uphold the law. He is elected to the bench, expected to live a life beyond reproach.
The question quickly becomes, should a judge refrain from posting something that is controversial, insensitive, off color, possibly degrading to women?
Should a judge rise above this frivolity? Does a judge have the American born right to post whatever the hell he wants to post on his own private Facebook account?
In a quixotic world, this site might be private. But in reality, the internet is less secure than an Arizona border town.
The internet is digital diarrhea, flushing everything in its path onto the front lawn of your existence.
If it is on-line, it cannot be private for long.
The judge will argue that to get to his photos you have to friend request him.
Yet, the questionable photo the judge says is so private was sent to me easily.
If I can get it, then even Hilary Clinton with her super secure server can see it.
I interview a man who has been before the judge on a probation violation warrant.
“The judge treated me fairly,” he will say.
But when I show him the picture from the Judge’s FACEBOOK post, he tells me that it is inappropriate.
“There are a lot of females who come into this court. They are victims and some are criminals themselves. it might have an outlook on how he judges them,” he will tell me using precise language and thought.
I will show a woman the same photo.
Before I can say a word, her jaw drops like McCauley Caulkin in Home Alone.
“that’s on a judge’s Facebook page?” she will scream over and over.
She calls it disgusting and says it would make her think twice about the man on the bench who was presiding over her case.
The judge assures me it is all a joke designed to make others laugh. He says if it offends someone, he will try to take it off his page.
It’s an interesting question. He is a citizen of America with all the rights afforded a denizen of this great nation. Yet, he is ridiculed because he is more than just a citizen. He is a judge. He decides whether people go to jail or walk free. He is held to another standard in the land of liberty and freedoms.
He is supposed to be neutral, without bias, without a perspective.
Just the facts mam.
But nothing in this world is that black and white.
In this social media time where a tweet can start a war and a Facebook post can get you fired, it makes you think.
What are your rights? Can you be so respected that you don’t get the same rights as every other idiotic American?
Life’s Crazy™