“Micah, I sent those riots to Washington. What you saw yesterday was my hand at work” Micah Beckwith [FN1], in a selfie video in his car on 01/07/21 [FN2], claims the “Lord” said this to him. Today Beckwith has a “Meet the Candidates” event at Life Church in Pendleton.1/6

Beckwith’s photo, w/a label of “Lieutenant Governor,” is above photos of three candidates for Madison County offices. Beckwith does not do well when he is on a ballot. He lost in the 2020 GOP primary for INCD5. The only public office it appears Beckwith has held is a seat on 2/6

HEPL’s board of trustees [FN3] For a few months he was in a 4-3 majority and pushed new measures to stop “porn” in the library. That episode drew national ridicule and blew a lot of money. Then the far right (& Micah) lost its majority. The Constitution is a thing of which 3/6

Beckwith knows little, but he says “stay away from higher education and [its] secular progressive bias.” That’s a “tell”: liars get tripped up when marks access truth in the “market place of ideas. [FN4] I say heed Lincoln: “Let the people know the facts and the country will be safe.” 4/6

Footnotes: FN1. Beckwith, a Hamilton County preacher and announced candidate for the 2024 GOP nomination for IN Lt Gov. FN2. There is no time stamp on the video, available at several places on the internet, but from Beckwith’s comments the video is a day after Jan 6. 5/6

Footnotes: FN3. Hamilton East Public Library. FN4. The “market place of ideas” is a phrase used by Oliver Wendell Holmes, J., in dissent in Abrams v United States, 250 U.S. 616, 630 (1919).
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