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I’d like to start off this post by restating the mission of our recently formed political action committee, Seismic Resistance:

 

“We exist to expose and dismantle false patriotism and corrupt leadership through bold action and unwavering truth!”

 

One of our central tenets, indeed, one of the pillars of our democracy, is to tell the truth and expose falsehoods not based on partisanship, but based on facts.

 

The reason I mention this is, we must be vigilant to prevent or correct misleading or patently false articles, statements, and headlines. Before you go any further, I’d like you to go to the bottom of this post and look at the first attached photo on the left (not the second one on the right; no cheating). This was posted on a Facebook group page with more than 50,000 members. It was also in headlines from major news organizations.

 

Now obviously with the dominant news topic being the Epstein files, and the possibility that high-level government officials have sexually exploited minors, this headline is very topical. And I am certain that, like me, when you read that first photo information you were pissed. Trump is getting his administration to allow the Catholic Church to continue to cover up pedophilia, even in the face of the states trying to protect these innocent children. How low can he go.

 

But that was not the story nor the issue. There are what I would call as an attorney sacred privileges. Some of these you might know and some you might not. There is an attorney-client privilege; a doctor-patient privilege; a husband-wife privilege; and a priest-parishioner privilege.

 

As an aside, I had as far as I know the only case involving an alleged exorcism in the history of Seminole County. One of the parties called a priest to the witness stand and proceeded to ask Father Bluitt questions about what was disclosed during a confessional. I could not allow him to answer when the parishioner objected because the priest-parishioner privilege is sacrosanct.

 

Now you can disagree with whether that privilege or any of the privileges I cited above should apply under certain circumstances. But that is not what the headline was about, and in fact, it deliberately misled by claiming what was at stake was a priest’s constitutional rights and privileges and not a parishioner’s constitutional rights and privileges.

 

Now go ahead and look at the second photograph attached below which was my comment on this 50,000+ member platform. Truth is truth, whether it aligns with our love or disdain for a particular person or cause or party, and misleading facts and lies are still misleading and lies, even if we would prefer they were not.

 

If you believe as I do that we absolutely need local, non-partisan groups such as Seismic Resistance to expose the truth and eliminate corrupt leadership masquerading as false patriotism, please take some time today to go to our website and consider donating what you feel comfortable to the cause. I’ll be back again tomorrow on this forum as well as Sunday evening on our podcast but still want to take this opportunity to wish you a fantastic weekend doing whatever de-stresses and fulfills you.