A five year old girl was brutally raped by three refugee children. She was penetrated in the mouth and anally by the trio and one boy urinated in her mouth and all over her body. But, you wouldn’t know that by listening to the US Attorney handling the case. The attorney, Wendy Olson, whom I suspect of having a drug addled brain. She seems to think the three boys are the victims. She threatened legal action against anyone who criticize the poor angels. For that she should be fired.
Olson released a statement that included:
…the spread of false information or inflammatory or threatening statements about the perpetrators or the crime itself reduces public safety and may violate federal law. We have seen time and again that the spread of falsehoods about refugees divides our communities.
That statement is illegal. She is threatening legal action against people who aren’t breaking any laws. The First Amendment has no exceptions for inflammatory speech or even lies during public discourse. Either she knows that and is trying to bully the victim and her family or she’s too freaking stupid to know it’s legal speech. Either way, she should be tossed out of office.
Julie Ruf has become an advocate for the victim’s family, but she says she is fighting an uphill battle as both the press and local politicians have sided with the rapist. Neither allow the citizens to express their fears about the influx of Muslim refugees who accept rape as normal.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh wrote a cathing editorial about Olson:
The prosecutor — a prosecutor backed by the might of the federal government — is not just condemning “threatening statements.” She is equally condemning “inflammatory” statements “about the perpetrators or the crime,” as well as “the spread of false information.”
There is no First Amendment exception for ‘inflammatory’ statements; and even false statements about matters of public concern, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, are an inevitable part of free debate.
After the US Attorney was called on her illegal threat she issued a second statement:
The statement was not intended to and does not threaten to arrest or prosecute anyone for First Amendment protected speech.
Yeah. Right.