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Cindy McCain, Free Speech Rattler, News, Opinion Column by Michael Lacey

Mangia Roma: Michael Lacey on Cindy McCain’s Roman Holiday

Michael Lacey/April 20, 2021May 4, 2021 /Leave a comment

The Eternal City. Roman legions. Caesar. the Colosseum. The birthplace of Sophia Loren. And now President Biden is sending Cindy Lou Hensley McCain to Rome to solve world hunger. Cindy endorsed Biden, an old family friend, over Orange Julius in…

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Free Speech Rattler, Freedom of Speech, News, Opinion Column by Michael Lacey, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

A TOURETTE’S QUINCEANERA

Michael Lacey/October 28, 2020November 17, 2020 /Leave a comment

It is difficult, for sheer outrage, to rival the French Revolutionary Tribunal where Georges Danton instructed the courthouse functionaries: “Let us be terrible, so that the people do not have to be.” His savage directive lives yet to this very…

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Free Speech Rattler, Opinion Column by Michael Lacey

Abu

Michael Lacey/August 23, 2020September 17, 2020 /Leave a comment

I quickly left a storage room attached to my garage thinking only one thought: How did a prepubescent Italian choir find my garage? When I ducked through the door, there was my cat, “Abu . . . the Abyssinian assassin”…

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First Amendment, Free Speech Rattler, News, Opinion Column by Michael Lacey

THE JOKERS . . .

Michael Lacey/June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 /Leave a comment

CAMDEN/UNIONS As a kid in Newark, New Jersey, when I got home from school, I would turn on the television to watch Officer Joe Bolton. He hosted a show that featured the Three Stooges. When you are 10, Moe, Larry…

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First Amendment, Free Speech Rattler, News, Opinion Column by Michael Lacey

Police Misconduct Videos in the Aftermath of George Floyd

Front Page Confidential/June 22, 2020 /Leave a comment

Below is a collection of some of the many videos posted to Instagram and YouTube documenting police brutality and misconduct toward the public in the wake of the George Floyd killing. Many were posted to the instagram account for SuperChief…

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First Amendment, Free Speech Rattler, News, Opinion Column by Michael Lacey

COP KILLERS

Michael Lacey/June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 /Leave a comment

Would the Phoenix police have opened fire on Saturday if community leaders had joined the young people protesting the murder of George Floyd? Would the cops have fired their rubber bullets at the mayor, the city council members, the state…

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Cindy McCain, Opinion Column by Michael Lacey

Mother McCain Meltdown: Cindy Comes Clean on Jeffrey Epstein

Michael Lacey/February 11, 2020November 10, 2020 /Leave a comment

She’d known all along. Cindy, Senator John McCain’s widow, knew all about the infamous Epstein and, apparently, so did everyone around her. “We all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing,” said McCain. WAIT A SECOND. Cindy…

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           Required Reading

  1. Lacey/Larkin Statement on Trial
  2. Major Points on Lacey/Larkin Case 
  3. The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time., Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, 8/21/18.
  4. The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, 38-minute Reason documentary, 6/26/19.
  5. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner’s decision in Backpage v. Dart,11/30/15.
  6. Inside Backpage’s Vicious Battle With the Feds, Christine Biederman, WIRED cover story, 6/18/19.
  7. Feds Bungled Preservation of Server Evidence in U.S. v. Lacey and Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 10/8/2019.
  8. Real Men Get Their Facts Straight, The Village Voice, 6/29/11.
  9. How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 9/17/18.
  10. Backpage’s Victories in Federal and State Courts, Front Page Confidential, July 11, 2022

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