Well folks, for those few remaining Americans who did not accept we were entering the full Orwellian era, you can eliminate those remaining shreds of hope. As unbelievable as it might sound federal authorities in the DOJ have arrested the person behind the Twitter Account “Ricky Vaughn” for posting memes against the interests of the U.S. government.
Let that sink in for a few minutes.
Literally all the guy did was post snarky memes poking fun of democrats and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election… However, the United States government has now claimed: “the defendant exploited a social media platform to infringe one the of most basic and sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution: the right to vote.”
So what was 31-year-old Douglass Mackey’s (aka Ricky Vaughn), activity? He posted a funny and snarky meme on Twitter:
DOJ – […] Mackey allegedly tweeted an image that featured an African American woman standing in front of an “African Americans for [Hillary]” sign. The image included the following text: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text ‘[Hillary]’ to 59925[.] Vote for [Hillary] and be a part of history.” The fine print at the bottom of the image stated: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by [Hillary] for President 2016.” The tweet included the typed hashtags “#Go [Hillary]” and another slogan frequently used by the Candidate.
You have to read the Press Release HERE and pick your jaw off the floor.
DOJ Press Release – A Florida man was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.
Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, 31, of West Palm Beach, was charged by criminal complaint in the Eastern District of New York. He was taken into custody this morning in West Palm Beach and made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida.
“According to the allegations in the indictment, the defendant exploited a social media platform to infringe one the of most basic and sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution: the right to vote,” said Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This indictment underscores the department’s commitment to investigating and prosecuting those who would undermine citizens’ voting rights.”
“There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “With Mackey’s arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes. They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
“Protecting every American citizen’s right to cast a legitimate vote is a key to the success of our republic,” said William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office. “What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft. It is illegal behavior and contributes to the erosion of the public’s trust in our electoral processes. He may have been a powerful social media influencer at the time, but a quick Internet search of his name today will reveal an entirely different story.”
The complaint alleges that in 2016, Mackey established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Election, ranking his account above outlets and individuals such as NBC News (#114), Stephen Colbert (#119) and Newt Gingrich (#141).
As alleged in the complaint, between September 2016 and November 2016, in the lead up to the Nov. 8, 2016, U.S. Presidential Election, Mackey conspired with others to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages designed to encourage supporters of one of the presidential candidates (the “Candidate”) to “vote” via text message or social media, a legally invalid method of voting. (read more)
Think about this folks…. It is demonstrably true the DOJ, FBI, CIA and aggregate United States intelligence apparatus use intentionally fraudulent evidence, created by government officials, to interfere in the 2016 election. Candidate Donald Trump was put under surveillance and all of his campaign communications and transition team communication was collected -and weaponized, by the United States government to eliminate the candidate…. And no accountability was ever delivered for that action.
Meanwhile, a 31-year-old random Twitter user is charged with “Unlawfully Used Social Media to Deprive Individuals of Their Right to Vote.”
You just cannot make this stuff up.
The United States is quite literally becoming a totalitarian and ideological police state using the same tactics as communist China, Russia, the former communist Soviet Union and East German Stasi, to target subversives for posting memes against their interests.
Rubicon crossed.
Shark jumped.
This is jaw-dropping to contemplate.
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Yes, the full weight of the federal government is using this one silly example to send a message to the current American citizenry that any ideological challenges, even words or pictures, against the interests of the federal government are grounds for you to be arrested.
Meanwhile back at FBI headquarters in Washington DC….
Cancel your Twitter account and wait for a new party. Peacefully mind you.
I always thought it was the Russians…
Go a step further and cancel your FB account. I don’t even have a ‘smart’ phone. We either ween ourselves now or suffer the consequences of subscribing to their methods of controlling US.
Gab is an effective alternative which allows free speech, it’s run by Christians & a great way for conservatives to connect & share info, it may run a bit sluggishly while adjusting to increased traffic, but having patience while they grow is worth it to drive business away from the left’s control.
Gab is reportedly getting lots of second looks. This may be true, or it may be false, but I have read about concerns that they may not be what they say. People in FL need to make some noise. If people don’t start being heard, then nothing stands in their way. And how about a fund to get some representation for this guy. First they came for the X, and I said nothing, because I was not X, then they came for X, and I said nothing, because I was not X, then they came for me, and there was nobody to speak for me. We need to start speaking. Cancelling your Facebook, Twitter, Amazon accounts, etc., is a given. I wouldn’t even call that the least we can do. If we are that fat and lazy, it’s over.
For him and all the others they are going to come after.
Gab is reportedly getting lots of second looks. This may be true, or it may be false, but I have read about concerns that they may not be what they say.
Concern noted. However, until I see concrete evidence that they are not okay, I will continue with them.
My own concern is that this time is ripe for people on forum like these to spread unfounded doubts about everything new we move to. It would be a very effective psyops for the left to gaslight us that absolutely no one or nothing can be trusted anywhere. They would love for us to lose all sense of the community that sundance talks of.
And we all do know that the left loves to psyop.
They tried for years to ban unapproved speech as “hate speech”. Scotus viewed hate speech as protected speech. Now they are trying to link unapproved speech with a voting rights violations. That was the whole Russia Concorde case. It will not work. They know it. the short term goal is to put a chilling effect for the 2022 elections and MAGA. Harrass people who lack the finances to fight back. Eventually this too will become a free speech case that will backfire. Lies and disinformation are protected speech
Never forget that they stole the election from President Trump.
And there are more of us than them.
Under these rules they can arrest Trump for trying to influence the elections. Remember all those Twitter warnings on Trump’s account that mail in voting was safe and secure? Those Twitter warnings will now be evidence. This case is probably being used to set precedent.
Yup! Obviously, they retroactively applied this “dictate” to Vaughn. So apparently you can now “break the law” BEFORE the “law” was even created.
that’s like China (the Communist one)
but they have been completely successful against us and have more power than us.
If that’s what you want to tell yourself, you make it true.
Who’s going to be the judge – Emmet Sullivan?
You mean, ‘just us’ Sullivan?
The government has unlimited money to bankrupt you on Trumped Up charges.
Who will be on the jury? A Trump supporter? Hmmm
“Well folks, for those few remaining Americans who did not accept we were entering the full Orwellian era, you can eliminate those remaining shreds of hope. “
And at the same time, the full Nazi 2.0 era.
As they say, we’re screwed, blued, and tattooed.
How much longer before posting a comment at The Last Refuge becomes illegal?
I know this is not a dream ergo it’s a nightmare. Hitler reincarnated.
Watch your back Sundance. The long knives are out.
This.
Why is any conservative still on twitter?
I’ve never used twitter (set up an account). When it first came out I said it was stupid and a terrible method of communications. I still stand by that statement.
I see evangelists etc asking to be followed on Twatter. I guess they haven’t gotten the memo that they aren’t wanted there. That is the single nastiest social site I have ever read. I am glad DT is gone. If you’re still there you aren’t serious.
This would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so dangerous.
Holy smokes, 1984 meets Idiocracy. I think it was here that someone posted a few days ago: Darwin never imagined a world where “smart” people had less kids and “dumb” people had more kids.
I guess we shouldn’t hold our breath waiting for Special Counsel Durham’s upcoming indictments. But we do know that the “Feds” could’ve arrested anyone involved in Spygate with ease because there was much more evidence of actual real felonies committed.
Having worked alone side cops for over 20+ years and knowing most of them are good people and a lot are “conservative”, I want to know what they think of the FBI and what the handful of good agents think about their organization. There probably is no fixing it, the political operatives have probably taken over any position that could in act institutional change that would improve the cesspool!
I get angry with statements by people like Hannity “Now don’t get me wrong, I believe 99% of the people who work for the FBI are honest patriots.”
I NEVER agreed with that, because if that was true there would be 1000’s of Whistleblowers. There is power in numbers. I recall about 25 FBI agents were whistleblowers about Hillary. They managed to squash them like a bug.
This is getting real now. Our government has now turned on its citizens. I have three different “sources” of three men who have had vivid dreams (visions) of major unrest, blood in the streets. None of them know each other and ALL their stories shared with me were identical. Scary shit.
Proves what a deep state traitor Wray was. Who the hell was advising President Trump to hire such deep state actors?
Wray was a Chris Christy recommendation.
I strongly feel DT was ordained by God to be a prosecutor of the evil in DC. He let Hillary go, he let Sessions and Barr jerk around for two years each. He let Wray and Haspel do their dirty work with not a word spoken. He didn’t fulfill his first mission. In the end it was the most devious Rs who took him down, Pence, Roberts and McConnell. Hopefully he feels more freedom to do so now.
The evidence must be clear before everyone before judgement and sentencing. As there must also be a time for repentance. It is how a just law works.
Look at the many examples in the scriptures. Eventually, the wicked will reap what they have sown and it shall be magnified beyond what they ever did.
We have a just God that follows the law.
is
“Darwin never imagined a World where smart people had less kids, and dumb people had more”;
SURE he did, he called it inevitable extinction.
Actually, the next time anyone brings up “Darwins theory” in an argument, you know you have won.
Just do what I did; CHALLENGE them;
“Have you ever actually READ “Darwins theory?”
They will say “no”, 99 times out of 100. Suggest you buy the book, each read it, and THEN debate it.
He was a terrible writer, much of what he wrote has been proven false, and oh, by the way, the SCIENCE he practiced, no longer exists.
He was a “Naturalist”, no such thing anymore. Sounds like he didn’t like wearing clothes, lol.
Lol, I only used that because of the movie Idiocracy, if you haven’t seen it you should watch it for a prelude to wear we’re heading at this pace. The funniest part is little snippets throughout where the Well-educated, job having couple keeps putting off having kids because of careers, money, etc and never do. The “trailer park” guy is having multiple kids with a whole bunch of people.
I believe most Americans are normal, decent hard working people and then there’s those that work in politics. I used to believe there was hope for salvaging the FBI. I don’t believe there is, most local cops poke fun when the “FBI” shows up and I now believe they are a political institution beyond repair.
I, too, worked alongside law enforcement for nearly 30 years. Many were patriots, many were veterans, and of those, some were conservative. There were also those who openly said: “I’m a federal cop. I can do whatever I want.” Now I fear there are far more of the latter than the former.
So the abject stupidity of a voter is grounds to put ME in prison?
Why, yes. Yes, it is.
You can’t really vote by text, so how the hell did this man really do anything wrong? This is laughable. I thought the FBI was careful NOT to arrest people and bring a case they are not certain they could win.
I saw an article about the FBI being careful NOT to arrest people who walked into the Capitol on Jan. 6th through a door held open by Capitol police as they “probably couldn’t win that case.” YA THINK!!!
Time for the ACLU to step up and do something, right?
Since their aim now is to intimidate political opponents and drive their viewpoints from the public square, they win by simply arresting one of them and bringing a case against that person. So they are no longer careful about only bringing cases they know they can win. They hope the number of people who will cease posting political memes after having seen this happen to Ricky Vaughn will be very large. Large or small, the number who cease will probably be many more than the number of people who tried to vote by text after seeing his silly meme. This is all politics now, not law enforcement or justice.
You can be locked in your house for being healthy to save the unhealthy. Why not incarcerated for a meme?
Hits home a bit for me especially because I followed him in 2016. He retweeted me a few times and I’m left wondering if the Gov’t explored my account. I have nothing to hide but the sudden reality of the thought is haunting.
It’s fair to characterize Vaughn as an ‘Internet troll’. I didn’t agree with everything he said but Vaughn helped me with the personal discovery that we Americans have a unique National, cultural identity which cultural Marxists in government are trying to destroy. This isn’t a joke. Our Civilization is threatened by the people elected (allegedly?) to preserve and protect it.
The government is your enemy. Anyone that is paid by them at best would sell you out for a pension. Many of them would send you to camps. If you associate with any Democrats just understand that they support this and will sell you out given the opportunity.
I thought cries for indoctrination camps was a joke. Now I’m not so sure. WTH. I am living in the Twilight Zone.
Right now indoctrination camps are called public schools and universities.
What the hell, all guv unions supported biden, not the trades.
I hate what these Democommunists have done to our country and its beautiful Constitution, I despise that my family and I have to live everyday in fear everyday for the rest of our lives,
I despise some family members of mine that voted for this government. I private messaged them how I felt then left Facebook for good. Not that we were close anyway, but this is a battle between good and evil and I wanted to let them know I felt they voted to destroy the greatest country in the world.
In 1945, America helped defeat Nazi Germany.
In 2021, America
is becominghas become Nazi Germany.“There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “With Mackey’s arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes. They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
Under this logic, Biden should be arrested, since he just announced to today that he’s banning fracking. And remember Obama’s “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
Stop it with the logic!
Seriously though we are at the precipice of destruction and it is real.
So jokes about stupid BT-1000s “voting by text” are “subverting the steal” are they? SMH! ?♂️
“They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted . . . “
did you see that?
“investigated, CAUGHT and prosecuted”
where does ARRESTED fit into the equation?
Not banning is what I saw.
“We’re Not Going to Ban Fracking” – Biden Mumbles Through Climate Change Presser, Signs More Executive Orders – Then Calls a Lid (VIDEO)By Cristina Laila
Published January 27, 2021 at 1:39pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/not-going-ban-fracking-biden-mumbles-climate-change-presser-signs-executive-orders-calls-lid-video/
These are the same swamp dwellers in charge that Bill Barr refused to do anything about when he had the opportunity. I wonder if he sleeps well at night?
He sleeps better than we do. Lives a luxury lifestyle in a beautiful exclusive area. Is retired and doesn’t even have to go to work pretending to have a modicum of integrity.
I believe Barr bailed because he has daughters and sons-in-law who are Assistant US Attorneys and did not want them being blamed for him working for Trump. Why else would he not stick around?
This is beyond shocking. That man must have thought he was being punked. But I posted elsewhere my daughter’s friend was visited by two FBI agents because he organized two buses of people to DC on Jan. 6th AND organized a Trump boat parade last summer. So this should not surprise me. They left business cards that read FBI Domestic Terrorism Task Force. This man did NOTHING to deserve such a visit so this is all beyond disturbing.
So Ricky Vaughan is the reason Cankles lost the election…..the Gmen always get their man
Guess it was too soon to blame Russia—so go after the American memers?
I saw this line in press release:
The charges in the complaint are allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
How in heck did that nonsense get in the press release?
All those who showed up at their polling places and discovered that someone else voted using their name? Absolutely nothing to see there.
These Gestapo like actions by DHS are intended to provoke a reaction from people who are livid over the stolen election and more.
And if you mess with the bull you get the horns. Our ancestors would already have taken care of this.
But when we go off, we can’t go halfway. Timid gets all of us killed. Re-read that quote about meeting the Organs in the hallways with pokers and clubs.
Maybe it’s time to make them be “careful what [they] wish for”…
it does seem to me calculated to provoke reactions – especially the way they word things –
“investigated, caught and prosecuted”
WTH?
Is there no Government official that believes in the First Amendment any more? Just like that our Constitution is meaningless? The damage to America’s standing in the world is multiplying right before our eyes. Our options are shrinking quickly. Quickly……
…and just like that, gone!
Send this article to any leftist you may still have as a friend. Ask them if this is ok with them, on any level. Listen to or read their answers. Then judge for yourself your friends. You can pray for them, as they need prayers, but do you really want to associate with someone who thinks this is ok? At some point you need a litmus test…this is a pretty good one.
Leftist do not understand or appreciate sarcasm.
They, like the prosecutors, take what he posted seriously, and think their actually are people stupid enough to believe they can vote with a text message, and that by deluding them this way, they wouldn’t REALLY vote, thinking they had already voted.
Yeah, thats the way they think. Its like the outrage when DJT said “Russia, if your listening, give us Hillarys emails.”
No sense of humor, or appreciation of irony.
In a way, the leftists are saying that their voters are naïve, uninformed and stupid.
When will they come for conservative site editors and their writers?
And posters.
Sadly, probably a lot sooner than we think.
By June.
Sooner
Using this logic, a Democrat could ask me when election day is. I could lie and tell them it was one day later. This would be prosecutable as a Federal Crime.
I’m not condoning lying. But if the Federal Government is gonna prosecute anyone who lies about stuff like this, about 1/3 of America will be in prison. This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in my life.
Beyond stupid.
Who has standing in this case?
How many people are willing to testify that they were/are so stupid as to have fallen for it?
They are trying to rewrite the 2016 election based upon what they did in the 2020?
“What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft.”
OK, I’m a little rusty on the elements of fraud (like not since Crim Law in law school), but does the DOJ have any actual victims of this “fraud” who will come in and testify that they didn’t vote in the election because of this? Without any victims, there is no causation?
Or is this just intimidating “Lawfare” meant to set an example for any other of the 73 million voters who might get some ideas about free speech and all?
Probably the latter.
Process is punishment. This guy is not a huge fish, probably doesn’t have resources, and will probably plead out to avoid a trial.
Paging Lin Wood…
I am wondering now what are they going to do with the person who put a potty on their front lawn, offering it as a place for ballots to be “deposited”
Witnesses are easy to produce. Manafort black book was fake and he is in prison for it.
Sheesh. And here I began joking around the gym back in November about cattle cars and education camps. I quipped that because I am so tiny I was going to have to have my Mao suits tailored and hoped they wouldn’t be beige. I so hoped they wouldn’t send me to a cold climate because I am delicate and can only tolerate Texas heat, not cold. Whadaya know, the times they are a changing. So glad I am almost 66 and won’t have much future to imagine such horrors.
How the hell would ANY “jury of his peers” convict this man? This is laughable and going back to 2016.
They could literally come after me for my posts and shares on Facebook if this could happen. WTH?
Never been on Twitter. This is outrageous.
There is no reason to assume the jury would be populated by his peers.
Believe what you are seeing.
Extend the continuum along the lines already established.
No way would the jury be made up of his peers.
Well, if it is charged as a misdemeanor, I don’t think he gets a jury. I am not 100% certain. But pretty sure. That’s what happened to Sheriff Joe.
That was then, this is now. The cost of defending yourself ‘is’ the punishment.
Never been on FB or Twitter myself.
Just be careful where and what you post, even on “conservative” websites, until we get over this hump, which we will. As Sundance says, thousands are watching. There’s one honey trap site right now that I wouldn’t post on IF YOU PAID ME.
My family was the victim of a prosecution for the crime of being inconvenient. The jury was not made up of our peers.
You just can’t make this stuff up!
What if you just LAUGHED at his meme? Is that illegal, too?
Asking for an enemy.
This is so messed up.
The Magistrate listed in SD article was appointed in 2017. There are 18 Judges in Southern District of FL Court, with 17 positions filled: 2-Bush I, 3-Bush II, 2-Clinton, 5-Obama and 5-McConnell/Trump, 1-Vacant.
Yep, cut the illegals loose, make space for the legals.
In The Republic, “Plato has the poets banned from his imagined republic because they are merely imitators of truth and thus distort truth. Two other problems with poetry are the following: first, poetry particularly corrupts youth by feeding it false ideas, and second, it confuses reason by appealing too much to the emotions. In other words, it clouds people’s judgments and, therefore, can be used for the wrong reasons. It ‘feeds and waters the passions’ and such deep emotions must be controlled and subdued for a state to flourish.”
-enotes on The Republic
poetry, satire, whatever doesn’t conform to “Unity.”
President Trump had millions of reasons to have many many people investigated and arrested for threats…..he left it up to the DOJ to do their correct job and they did not for Pres. Trump. We knew they would go full Totalitarian Commie under a Demoncrap
Trump needed an AG and DOJ who would investigate and prosecute. He got played big time and, therefore, so did we.
So. Who is going to pony up the jack for this guy’s defense? A few candidates:
1) Trump/Kushner
2) Steve Bannon
3) Stop the Steal slush fund
[ hiring Bill may not be a cost effective, efficient choice …but who knows? They did get Clinesmith, sort of…, after about 3 years. ]
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” DOJ Attorney General Bill Barr said in an interview with The Associated Press Dec. 1, 2020
{ so, since there was 4 years to review, and Bill was in the position for 2 years, and had Durham looking at 2016 election for a couple of years,
that comment should have covered the issue going back to 2016 too, correct? (at that time). )
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/barr-says-no-evidence-widespread-voter-fraud-defying-trump-n1249581
Or, maybe what Bill said, is not currently, or legally relevant nor has legal standing. He left office in latter Dec. 2020.
Say, Main Media, do you see that one of your arguments to not look into the 2020 election. and call it case closed has just been wiped from your list? – even though there are 20-30 court cases ongoing, and other discovery remaining. That just might take time to look at loads of evidence instead of finding miscellaneous reasons to find a problem with process.
I do not know
imho
Love thy neighbors
These evil bustids think we are too stupid to know the kid was making fun of the push to let people vote by text? And isn’t vote by text part of their precious H.R. 1? How stupid do you have to be to think a meme making fun of vote by text etc. is SELLING it the idiots who might vote for HER? If you voted in 2016 you KNEW you couldn’t vote by text! Throw this out, judge. Then censure these so-called lawyers and recommend they be disbarred.
Hey–why don’t all of us file bar complaints against these Berias? If hundreds of complaints came in at once over this overreach it might make the bar do something besides erode justice continually.
So, Americans are demed to be stupid and helpless fools when it comes to the Democrats.
Case in point…..Voter ID is discriminatory ’cause black people don’t know how to get ID’s. (racist thought in and of itself).
New Legal Precedent: American citizens are too stupid to not know that a meme is not serious.
Please note that after this recently stolen presidential election there will be no further elections held as they are moot. If you receive any information from the government to the contrary please throw away.
Note to FIB, you have my IP address. I’ll see you in 4 years.
Wonder what the Fed’s are gonna do to the kid on Reddit who is manipulating the GameStop stock?
SEC Rule 10b-5 market manipulation.
First has nothing to do with this. Second that is not the reason the stock market tanked today.
Political prisoners do have something to do with this thread. ?
Reddit users buy a stock= manipulation.
Government prints 4T for Wall Street= banking.
These Reddit kids are being accused- how long till they are arrested?
Wow this is starting to make McCarthyism look good.
McCarthy was right
“federal authorities in the DOJ have arrested the person behind the Twitter Account “Ricky Vaughn” for posting memes against the interests of the U.S. government.”
https://orthodoxreflections.com/for-your-safety-never-talk-to-police/
“…Unfortunately, my friend’s first reaction, based on his conservative upbringing, was to try and cooperate with the police as best he could. That is a reflex many of you reading this probably share. Either get out of that mindset right now, or risk becoming victims of the “new normal.”
For your own good, put your judgmental, middle-class Christian morality on hold for a minute. Growing up poor, I learned to deal with police in a different fashion than many of you. Early and frequent interactions with the law taught me that real life works very differently than the lectures in school safety class from “Officer Friendly.” Especially in the brave new world we are facing, please read and follow the advice in the next paragraph.
Don’t talk to police unless you are the one who called them for help. Even then, be careful. If detained by police, never answer questions, never consent to searches, never give the police the names of others or any information about them. Do not bring police into your home, if you can avoid it. Keep your business to yourself.
Always demand an attorney and teach your minor children to refuse to answer any questions without you present. That is vitally important, as police interrogate kids all the time if they can get away with it. Remember – you must verbally assert your rights as merely “remaining silent” is not the same thing. Even if you are innocent of what the police are investigating, providing too much information could land you in jail on something else…
…Last year a domestic terrorism bill died in Congress. The bill or one like it will be reintroduced. Biden has said it is a major priority. The bill will target “white nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.” Remember the article quoted above? The government will get to define what is and what is not “white nationalism” and “white supremacy,” so you attending a rally for a Congressman who supported Trump, your social media posts in favor of a “color blind” society, criticizing Nancy Pelosi, making a contribution to the “wrong” organization – almost anything falling under the rubric of “right-wing” politics could end up earning you a visit from the police. Depending on how that goes, you could face some serious trouble.
And please don’t make the mistake of thinking that being a person of color will help the situation. Because of “internalized oppression,” you don’t have to be white to be a white supremacist. Plus, you can be guilty even if you did not knowingly do anything wrong. Remember, providing material support for “domestic terrorism” is also be a crime, and that concept can be interpreted very expansively. Even innocuous conversations with a friend who gets into trouble could drag you into a world of hurt.
The police and/or federal agents may approach a situation as “asking for your help.” As a good citizen, you will likely fall into that trap. Don’t do it. Be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. Think twice about posting on social media or attending protests, and never talk to police without a lawyer present. For now, we still have the right to remain silent and every single American should be prepared to exercise that right in every single law enforcement interaction.
You will not talk yourself out of a ticket. You will not talk yourself out of an arrest. You will never be able to successfully lie or mislead the police. They are trained interrogators that trap suspects into contradictions even when the suspects are telling the truth. If you make someone repeat the same story over and over again, that person will inevitably start to slip up. Once he or she starts altering / shading the story under duress, no matter how slightly, then perjury may be on the table. Remember General Flynn? You can be completely innocent, but still suffer consequences because you inadvertently misremember details.
Any evidence against you is made infinitely worse once they have you on tape answering questions.
So don’t talk to police. Want a lawyer’s advice? Please watch this video from Regent Law Professor James Duane in which he tells you all the reasons why you should always exercise your Fifth Amendment Rights. This video is a few years old, but it is more important today than when it was first filmed. Please share it and this article with everyone.
Exercising your rights is not anti-Christian. Exercising your rights is not immoral. You are not lying if you are not talking.
Christians are the most persecuted group of people on Earth. As the new world develops, even publicly advocating for Christian morality could become criminalized. Do not believe we are immune in America because we have a Constitution – the government has violated it more than once. You could easily find out the hard way that you have run afoul of a new “hate speech” statute you did not even know existed.
Watch the video. Share the video. And don’t talk to police.
Vladimir is a member of the OCA who has been active in fighting for civil liberties for many years.
This is very important information. Watch the video mentioned. Do not talk to the police!
If you aren’t smart enough to know that you can’t cast your vote by texting you are beyond help. If your general knowledge omits that then you have an IQ below the room temperature in celsius and should under no circumstances vote or have children or play with matches.
The Babylon Bee uses this sort of humor. The Bee is under threat form the FBI.
Anyone who thinks they can vote by text is far too stupid to be allowed to vote. So “Ricky Vaughn” was actually doing the country a substantial service if he “defrauded” them of their vote.
adam schiff has had definitive proof trump colluded with russia to steal the 2016 election so that’s why he has not been arrested for exploiting the msm, etc to influence the 2020 election…
And meanwhile the media can lie with impunity.
Never in my wildest dreams would I have believed that I would watch the destruction of America in real time.
I know how you feel. It is sickening to see.
Not just the media – don’t forget the democrat politicians and their acolytes – from the top to the bottom.
We have been watching the destruction of the USA since papa Bush presidency.
So we are outraged at this behavior. So we are outraged at the gun grab. So we are outraged at the stolen election.
What are we going to do about it?
President Harris and VP Rice will have 2 years to do Obama’s bidding while we write nastygrams.
Lotta damage even if we can overcome fixed 2022 elections.
There’s plenty to do. Whether any of it will work in the long run is anybody’s guess, but 75 million people have power, especially economic.
I am very busy these days identifying and dumping the bad economic players, then substituting good or at least neutral ones. It takes work, time, and attention to detail. And it’s an emotional win far better than simply getting on a blog, even this wonderful blog, and venting anger.
Some are very obvious, like my new pillow and sheets on the way.
Some take some digging. I spent almost an hour last night identifying a small online business that will sell me a must-have cosmetic item that I used to buy on Amazon. It will cost a little more and take longer to ship. Will repeat the process for everything I used to buy from the enemy.
Like our great President, I’ll take any win…
Now suppose every MAGA voter adopted as a new hobby doing this boycott/buycott thing. We’re not like the left. We remember things. I remember sometime during PDJT’s first term that Costco did something egregious, causing me to dump that membership. I don’t even remember exactly what it was. But I remember it happened and I haven’t been there since.
While we are doing whatever can be done to restore our right to vote – we can vote with dollars.
Oh and sorry for the long post, but what I meant to finish with was (almost forgot!), if this meme artist manages to set up a usable donation mechanism (obviously NOT gofundme), I’ll donate.
He should ask for a jury trail,than jury nullification comes into play. There should be a good pro bono lawyer contacting him.
Why do you think they charged him in anew York, not Florida? To get a Dem jury, so no jury nullification. It will eventually be thrown out on appeal but not until he’s been bankrupted and his life destroyed.
This is insane. What do we do? How do we stop this? I am honestly asking. How do we fight this?
We wait for another country – maybe Brazil – to produce another Reagan to demand “Mr. Biden, tear down that wall!”
It’s a big F¥€k you to the right.
The Joesph Stolen administration has shown they will now not just blame, but also punish, us for what they did!
Oh, and what are you gonna do about it, sucka?
Can’t happen here. Oops. Just did.
Excellent book by Sinclair Lewis. I hope everyone here reads it.