November 19, 2019 Matt Downing NJ Advance Media RE: Questions and comments on your article on freedom of the press in today’s Star Ledger.

 November 19, 2019

Matt Downing 

NJ Advance Media

RE: Questions and comments on your article on freedom of the press in today’s Star Ledger.

Mr. Downing,

“Student charged after Snapchat photo of gun that

mentioned Columbine and NJ middle school.”

Some questions; some observations.

#1 – What was he charged with?

#2 – Congresswoman Tlaib [D-MN] called the President a “motherfucker’ Was she charged with hate speech?

#3 – Former skank ho Kathy Griffin walks around with a severed head of our beloved President. Absent bad taste and being humorless, was she ever charged with anything?

#4 – Now that we have exhausted Quid pro quo, how about we move on to Quis custodes custodiet? Translation? Send a SASE.

#5 – Edmund Burke, one of my favorite Irishmen – Your name seems Irish so I know that you too are familiar with him – said the conflict in any society is always between order and freedom.

#6 – I always thought, silly me, that journalists had Sophocles tattooed inside their eyelids. “Free men speak with free tongues.”

#7 – More Latin, a language learned at an all-male, Catholic prep school in NJ, just like Scalia and Kavanaugh. POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC. Translation? Use the same envelope as #4.

Kevin Smith

PS – Another headline says “1 Dead, 4 Injured in Pair of Newark Shootings on Same Block” How could that happen in a city with a Democratic Mayor, in a county with a Democratic Executive, in a city with 2 Democratic Congressmen, in a city where the only steady stream of Republicans is when they show up for jury duty? Speaking of jury duty, I was a witness and a participant in the court house activities on June 3, 1993. Later, I was witness at the trial