Curiously enough, though somehow completely in keeping with my eccentric personality, I don't mind jail. You get food, a place to live, and all the episodes of "Ice Road Truckers" that you can handle.
And there can be some fine people in jail. They're there because they don't follow rules. I get along well with people who do not blindly follow rules.
When people today ask me why I was in jail, I say, "Oh, the Justice Department expansively interpreted something I said as being threatening toward the president."
"Well what did you say?"
"I'm plainly stating that I intend to kill the president."
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[That's a quote, stupid. Sit down and shut up. And if we have time, we'll cover commas and semicolons. And then when you've got a command of speech itself, you'll be ready to contemplate a subset of speech, which is the discipline called free speech. First horse, then cart. Genius.
The entire thing was an inside joke anyway, considering that my law enforcement audience by then knew that I knew I was under Secret Service protection (or whatever.) And I was speaking to my law enforcement audience with my feet up on the desk in my living room.
The Justice Department elected to bring their cockamamie case based on one consideration alone: They desired to change my legal status from "dissident," which is inconvenient for them, and replace that status with "felon." That was their one goal.
The Justice Department did not proceed from a position of good faith. And now everyone knows that. The Justice Department comes out looking petty, stupid, and disingenuous.
It's nothin' new. ]