“While I appreciate and welcome lively debate, unfortunately, there were individuals with less than good intentions and resorted to uncivil conduct against each other and law enforcement.” [FN1] Thus spake IN Lt Gov Christofascist Micah Beckwith. Only problem: 1/6

Beckwith is lying. On 2/1/20, Beckwith tagged me on (then-) Twitter w/a snotty insult & never disputed my inference that it was a challenge to debate. [FN2] On “the campaign trail,” Beckwith agreed that we arrange time, place & topics. He never got back with me. 2/6

The closest we got to a “debate” was on the FB podcast “Mouthwash.” I told Beckwith not to interrupt me when I was speaking. I guess that offended Beckwith. So Beckwith should consider, in the future, STFU. (Those initials are not in reference to St Francis University. 3/6

Beckwith seems to be following ideological predecessors. In Indiana, there is no record of D.C. Stephenson [FN3] agreeing to debate opponents. Nor did the fuehrer of the 12-and-a-half year reich debate anyone. Beckwith doesn’t welcome debate. He avoids it. 4/6

Footnotes:
FN1. At 8/20/25 Townhall event in Newburgh IN as a woman was tackled & arrested for speaking and another person, who tried to come to her defense was arrested.
FN2. FN6. See, Civil Discourse Now, “Twitter feud with Micah Beckwith - this might be fun!” 2/1/20. 5/6

FN3. Stephenson was grand dragon of Indiana’s KKK, bragged “I’m the law in Indiana,” and was removed after he was charged in 1925, convicted and sentenced in connection with the abduction, rape and homicide of Madge Oberholzer. (See, Lutholtz, Wm, “Grand Dragon.”) 6/6