If our elected officials really want to do something bi-partisan, then make it a crime to create or pass along a conspiracy causing a crime. It would be like a law inciting a riot or yelling fire in a theater. Both laws limit free speech.

Examples of what would be criminal would be the story that a Pizzeria in Washington D.C. is a base for a child sex ring. Besides the death threats and harassment of the owner and his employees, a gullible idiot drove six hours with an assault weapon to stop it. He surrendered after the police assured him nothing was true. Another was the Sarah Palin tweeting that people should target twenty Congress people. A nutcase followed her directive and shot representative Gabrielle Giffords wounding and killing others.

Some of Donald Trump’s speeches and tweets have caused the ethnic slurring signs and actions. Some people think they are the reason for the sudden increase of white on brown and black assaults and killings.

Responsible media should never allow such stories to be aired or printed since it continues the incitement. The electronic media like FaceBook and Twitter isn’t catching and erasing the lies and half truths as fast as they do in Europe. Trump’s new security advisor or his son (sharing was on Dad’s device) shared the pizza shop story. A quick fact check would have revealed the truth.

Have Americans gotten so gullible or stupid they will believe any hare-brained story? How long will we allow Putin’s dirty tricks people to tell us what to think? How long before the Chinese follow his lead?