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….
First thing I would request is produce a witness that actually voted that way! Second, if they really did, they should not be voting in the first place for being stupid. What about the voter fraud of mail in ballots that the states actually did that disenfranchised like 74+ million voters.
Truth and the law do not matter.
Brutal show of force by the government is what matters.
They have all the money and time and lawyers – to destroy us.
THERE IS NO RULE OF LAW.
Why aren’t they arresting Twitter officials for allowing the post?
Because there is no rule of law.
The “law” is what they say it is.
It’s Biblical. God has given much of the world over to a reprobate mind and strong delusion. The Lawless one is almost on the scene and the wrath of God is about to be poured out upon a Christ rejecting world- this is not a drill but a hard reality whether you accept it or not.
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
“They say that what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.”
Isaiah 5:20
Just like what the Senator character said at the end of the movie Shooter. What a great movie.
Should be charging jack with accessory.
But she has a blue check mark so therefore is immune.
And a snowflake….that means she is extra special
Apparently she’s supposedly a comedienne. I only know who funny comedians are, though.
The AG will say he could not ascertain intent and so no reasonable AG would bring charges (the old Comey playbook).
Someone on her wall said she posted this AFTER the election. I don’t know how to check to see if that is true.
The post is dated by Twitter at the link as Nov 8.
I’m no lawyer, but I think that Tweets like this from Kristina Wong could actually form part of a strong defense for “Ricky Vaughn”. Equal Protection, etc. I think a valid defense argument against being charged for driving 64mph in a 55 is that everybody else was going 68. And charging that the DOJ is engaging in selective prosecution based upon political outlook should be a good defense.
Southern democrats also practiced selective (non-)prosecution with their KKK buddies.
Unfortunately there has been a foothold in the USA for a long time. Not sure how we dig our way out from under this authoritarian rule
Wrong verb. Shovels will not help any longer.
Neither will voting.
I dunno. Zig while they are zagging and asking us to zag?
Maybe ramp up the political content so we can accuse them of oppressing their political adversaries.
My confidential sources inside the FBI tell me the FBI has formed a new nationwide unit comprised of 140 field agents and 30 AUSA’s to track down and identify “skeptical cat.”
You mean Catturd?
I mean the “skeptical cat” meme Sundance posts for really off the wall weird stuff.
Yeah, I know what you were referring to,. As long as we were bringing up cats though, I thought I would bring up Catturd, who was often retweeted by Trump. I am sure Catturd made the “Brennan Subversive List” However with a name like Catturd, it might escape prosecution due to the unserious name.
Catturd is on gab. Apparently Dorsey didn’t appreciate the comparison between his beard and a wet dog’s back side.
Don’t touch my cat!
I love @Catturd.
Hey! Don’t worry! Hannity said that 99% of FBI etc etc etc
Good one, trapper!
But sundance’s cat is suspicious.
And prolonged suspicion, continually confirmed, leads to skepticism.
Been scratching my head on this one and it just hit me…
1. DHS states “domestic terrorism” for Trump supporters who have done nothing terrorist related at all
2. Trump supporters said “what?”
3. FBI charges a meme poster who was supporting Trump
4. Trump supporters get angry and start fighting back
5. #1 is now valid
The provocation will continue until they get their desired result.
It’s like those folks didn’t learn anything about pissing deplorables off.
HAS to be fake. No crime alleged either…….Who will reach out to the persons/offices/officers allegedly involved for
some fact checking?
they are trying to shut down everyone and every thing they disagree with.
I am sickkkkk of this. I wish everyone well. This is a good moment to prepare for rough days ahead.
I am wondering why the democrats are inciting a war.
Best way to permanently destroy the Republic & dissent.
Permanent installation of Communism – and the Great Reset.
Because they can’t compete in the world of ideas. Bring it on and let’s get this over with one way or another. Have you seen a democrat play dodge ball or throw out the first pitch? Pulleeez! They won’t stand a chance. Time for rough men!
We need you at the polls next time they try to corral our watchers or “stop the counting”.
Take a bike cable and lock and chain yourself to your ‘post.’ They try to move, have all R pollwatchers immediately do the same, sit down and start chanting ‘Hell, no, we won’t go!’ ‘No justce, no peace!’ ‘Stolen ballots, silenced people!’
Civil dissobedience. And live-stream it. I am prepared to do it, if needed, but likely it won’t be needed in my precinct.
Democrats are inciting a war because they hate us… their hate for us is not an exaggeration.
Martin Niemöller
De ja vu. They are coming for all of us.
They are demons from Hell. Sickening.
Just finished watching Other Peoples Lives about the Stasi. Everyone should rent it/watch it. We are closing in on being monitored by the Ministry of the State.
The phones are already being actively used for that purpose.
Leave the phone at home. It is trackable until you remove the battery.
OR, carry your smartphone with you in a Faraday signal canceling case. Then it is available for your use, if necessary, but you can’t be tracked as you go about your day. Of course, people won’t be able to contact you with your phone in the case.
If you can’t bear to be parted from your phone.
Remember when Muslims killed a cartoonist because they did not like the cartoon he made? We called them extremists/terrorist.
What happens when the government becomes the extremists?
Well, something tells me John Kerry ain’t gonna his friend James Taylor to sing “You Got a Friend.”
#JeSuitRickyVaugn
Sounds like a case could be made that it’s the fault of lousy moderation on whatever website these memes were posted to. A case for Linn Wood!
I read the Gulag Archipelago right after it was translated into English in the mid ’70’s. I remember reading about one individual who was a janitor in Moscow and was sweeping a large room that happened to have a bust of Stalin in the center of it, on a stand. The janitor was getting warm as he was sweeping so he removed his sweater and hung it innocently over the bust of Stalin. Someone happened to see that and reported him. The janitor was arrested for sedition and sent to a camp as punishment. Welcome to the Gulag comrades.
When will Ben Garrison be arrested for political cartoons?
I was thinking the same thing, and also Branco
These concerns are legitimate… as there really is no difference between a meme and a cartoon.
I wish I could use Bidens head as a coat hangar.
Oh no, are they coming for me?
Great classic work mspsgt. Because of our recent situation I am on a Totalitarianisms/Communism/Dystopian book streak. Since the election; 1984, Witness, Brave New World, and just finishing Darkness at Noon. All well ahead of their time. We are going to face a brutal Techno State if it does not collapse of its stupidity first.
The book Animal Farm is where we’re headed.
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To be clear, establishment Republicans are just as much to blame for this as the “out-and-proud” communists.
Even more so since they betrayed us.
Can the states stand against the feds in this persecution? Is it time for immediate secession to protect the citizens of those states?
If they arrest this poor guy for election interference because of misleading memes, then they ought to arrest Adam Schiff for his lies about Russia Collusion, Susan Rice for her lies about Benghazi and so many more.
Schiff, Rice, etc…..are all Globalists. Communists. On the ‘correct” side.
We are not.
As there is no Rule of Law – brutal force of the government used against the populace.
Satire is lost on these people when it’s coming from the right.
Stewart, Colbert, and SNL would never be held to the same rules.
And George Carlin would be doing his standup in prison.
I remember XiBiden at one of his “campaign stops” he claimed he wasn’t a radical leftist!!! He’s a nice guy!
Wow!!!
Is the post they are arresting him for from 2016?
yes
yeah… because between 2016 and 2020 there was a democracy… they had to wait after…
Republic. We are a Constitutional Republic, sometimes called a Representative Republic.
Democracy means ‘mob rule’. that’s why the Left keeps saying our country is a Democracy. Projection. That’s what they want it to be, and that’s why they’ve filled the country with illegals just waiting to be ‘legalized’.
I am hoping and praying that all those privacy safeguards that Sundance has installed here are working!
Reign of Terror Redux.
2021.
This is ABUSE of an entire Nation!
Yep. And they know it. They want it.
Total submission through sheer brute force & fear.
I dont do social media but don’t you have to follow someone to see his or her posts? But yes, we have entered a one party dictatorial state, but we probably have been one for awhile now. It is just that before Trump (BT) we didn’t know it
You don’t have to “follow” someone in the Twitter sense. Anybody can just type in an internet search box… “the official twitter feed of…” and you can see their tweets… you just cannot comment or see the threads.
I’ve been ‘following’ @Catturd on Twitter for a long time, just by typing it in and avoiding joining Twitter altogether.
Yy4u Maybe in the past you had to Follow somone to see their posts, but that hasn’t been the case for the last 4 years, at least. I think the Twitter folk pick and choose, sometimes I think the coice is to provoke or promote certain themes. Tonight they are running an endless line of DOJ indictments, i guess to prove that the DOJ isn’t just sitting around plotting their next stupid move. Or maybe it’s to provoke fear. And for the twentieth time, at least, they are running ads with photos of people who are wanted for the violence at the Capitol building 1/6/20. They want YOU to report where they can find those folks.
This arrest is a blatant middle finger to those who recognize we are a couple of weeks past the massive election fraud. It is intended deliberately to say a big f u.
Yeah, a big FU to us.
More than that.
It serves as a show of brute force by the government against us and any dissent.
It serves to install fear in any dissent about the election fraud & any thing else the government deems inappropriate, subversive, etc.
It serves to prepare us for laws that will be passed by US Congress – with GOP investment – to codify government action against any dissent – and to label us deplorables – as “domestic terrorists”.
It serves to gas light the sheeple to support the ongoing purge and reign of terror against dissent.
It serves as propaganda for the sheeple to show how “great the government is in protecting us”.
It serves as another step forward in the destruction of the Rule of Law & the Constitution.
It serves as forward momentum for the Great Reset.
It serves to demoralize any dissent.
It serves a lot of purposes……
“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.”
Nicholas L. McQuaid, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Soviet NKVD. There, fixed it for you.
“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.”
Blah, blah, blah. ROTF! Where were these worthless, mealy mouthed, water cooler, coffee mug cretins when election overseers were kicked out of vote counting, windows papered over, suitcases full of ballots run through machines multiple times in the middle of the night, mail in ballots without folds, perfect ink dots for Bidet and no one down ballot, etc., etc. Not one single investigation. Oh yeah, any kind of humor that satirizes (a big word for their simian 50cc craniums) their ridiculous existence must be intimidated publicly. Sheesh, just as ridiculous as the shampeachment. So satire is now illegal? Unbelievable. These small minded people are for real?
These small minded people are real & wielding brute power.
It does not matter if the indictment & arrest will be thrown out.
It does not matter if Mackey is acquitted in a trial.
This is a show of brute force.
The government has endless money, time, lawyers – we folks do not.
Submit or we will destroy you.
Financially, morally, spiritually.
There is No Rule of Law.
SMV- RIGHT THE HELL ON!
The process is the punishment.
Welcome to the Gulag.
American Gulags open for business.
This is expected as part of the Communist coup.
But it is still shocking to the soul.
Seth D. DuCharme was formerly the principal associate deputy attorney general to William Barr
O M G
So, if you’re a leftist dumbass, I guess you bear no responsibility to be able to tell a joke from reality? Anyone that stupid shouldn’t be voting, anyway. The double-standard practiced by the leftists, democrats and “free press” IS astounding in its scope and brazenness.
I guess this is why no Leftist comedian is the least bit ‘funny’. Ever glance through the late-night comedians and cringe before switching them off? Leftists are devoid of humor.
Their goal is to break us….
Imagine an official Republican response stating this arrest constitutes a direct abrogation of constitutional guarantees of liberty and any government agency involved will be targeted for abolition. This would be signed by all senate and house Republicans and echoed by state party officers and elected officials. The party would make it clear that it rejects the right of the government to act in this manner and that it challenges the government to declare the Republican party to be a terrorist organization.
A real opposition party would respond to this brazen act of tyranny in such a manner. Don’t hold your breath for what we currently have.
Yes. I wonder if Gaetz or Jordan would spearhead and we can all go and visit our state people. We could start the process with letters.
GOP is shit. They are in on this.
EXACTLY. Where are the damn Repubicans?
Oh, I forgot, they are spending all their time arguing about another sham Impeachment while our Country is being destroyed by these Communist monsters.
The republicans are part of the election fraud and election steal.
Pence and senators in on the coup to oust President Trump.
Damn traitors.
Hanbun, how about you run for Romney’s seat so we can get rid of him!/S
Am I the only one totally shocked that NOTHING is being done about the stolen election. And nothing is being done about all the declassifying of the documents.? Does this mean The Turtle and Kevin McCarthy have caved completly? And why aren’t we being selectively censored? Why hasn’t Dan Bongino been silenced?
I have never heard of this criminal statute:
18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241
So who was Ricky Vaughn’s co-conspirator? You can’t conspire with yourself.
Twitter maybe?
EVERYONE WHO READ AND COMMENTED ON HIS TWADDLE
Douglass Mackey is is a world of trouble. The prosecutors work in the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn. No one is safe.Assistant U.S. Attorneys Erik Paulsen and Nathan Reilly of the Eastern District of New York, and Trial Attorney James Mann of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section are prosecuting the case.
United States Attorneys Available To Receive Election Complaintshttps://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-attorneys-available-receive-election-complaints-3
The Supreme Court has already ruled that lying is not a criminal offense unless under oath, or to some federal officers under 18 USC 1001.
You mean what McCabe and Rosenstein did to Trump?
You mean what protestors did regularly in shutting down highways, blocking traffic, and harassing (or worse) drivers?
You mean what the Agencies are doing to regular Americans by threatening entire demographics?
Seems that Code applies to a lot of people presently making all the decisions lately.
I have maintained for several yrs now that BLM/Anitfa could be charged under this statute when they block streets.
I was shocked to see it used for a meme. There is nothing oppressive or threatening or intimidating about what Mackey did
We are in big trouble as a nation.
No more so than Germany was in 1933.
My son tells me that a similar meme was directed at Trump voters.
Will the FBI be arresting the people who distributed THAT meme?
It’s probably already been deleted.
I asked my son to see if he could locate it again and he said the same thing:
You talk about crossing the Rubicon, well Trump should have never surrender his office to such a pack of poltroons! No matter what it took!
As I expected, the Meme Kings over on GAB are having a field day.
WHAT about the –over– seventy, ~>70 MILLION “American Citizens” who voted in 2020 ~>???
Sure would be fantatic(al)
if this arrest for this “alleged” 2016 election interference
is going to be used as a precedent
for the interference, collusion…., conspiracy and fraud (stolen election)
for the Howoritz Investigation of the 2020 Election.
~not holding breath; eye roll gasp and sigh
On the other hand…. Will this be used to reinforce the double-impeachment charade;
and lay way that President Trump was illigitimate anyway?
~wouldn’t put it past the skunks
This is nothing more than a distraction campaign being run by your goverment with the assistance of media to avert eyes from the heinous crimes committed by the FBI and other departments being learned as well as the election fraud.
Do not take the bait. These charges are frivolous and if they ever go to a courtroom it will only be if the crimes committed “on your behalf” never get charged.
DEFUND THE FBI !
This was all put in place by Barr.
United States Attorneys Available To Receive Election Complaints
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-attorneys-available-receive-election-complaints-3
BINGO. This has been planned for months.
They were never going to let Trump stay in office.
Where I’m not surprise of this action. I can’t help but to feel a deep sorrow in my soul. As I watch the America that I love so much be destroy without recognition. I’m literally mourning as if I was watching the death of someone I loved very much die before my eyes.
Please don’t sink into despair it’s heart breaking to witness this evil assault on our great nation but we must find our inner strengths ,we are Americans and we will continue to be Americans.
Its not an ‘as if’ situation. The America I grew up in is no more. Freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Freedom to assemble for the purpose of religion? Gone.
I always remind likely Democrats to vote, on Wednesday. It really, really works!
How do we support each other so that the government has a harder time destroying each of us?
Good question, KA
I would favor demonstrations wherever Biden goes across our country.
If he goes to Florida, Texas, California or anywhere… locals protest his event and make themselves seen.
… waiting to see where the camps are going to be set up!
probably in shit holes such as Portland and NYC
They need free labor to rebuild the cities.
You know..”work will make us free”…
Whenever the Department of (In)Justice decides to go rogue, why do they always choose to use federal prosecutors from New York?
redlion, because that’s where the 100%Democrat prosecutors work. Did you know almost all lawyers are Democrats?
The American flag should no longer fly over the White House.
If there is to be any ‘Truth in Advertising”, it should be a flag with a swastika.
Arrest the Washington Post “fact checkers” for interfering in the 2020 Election
Yes, I believe so because lies such as that could have a huge impact on voters. Does anybody have the Citizen Report Line; I’d like to place it on speed dial. Should conservatives start a website to solely display the tremendous liberal lies told on the Internet? That way, the upstanding, never does anything corrupt FBI and DOJ, can easily access it.
PS: For the dumbasses who read: This was snark
He needs a good lawyer to take this case on and send a message right back to the corrupt Dept of “Justice”
Yet politicians lie across the board on the Internet & on the campaign trail while never facing consequences.
And they claim Trump is a dictator? Seems we now have a Stasi. We have a militarized zone at the Capitol. Stock market down 600+. Where are the lawsuits? If all these EO’s go unchallenged, we will soon be ruled by the ACP (American Communist Party). They are skipping socialism & going straight to communism.
I KNEW Communism would be instituted. You believed those lies about ‘its only socialism’? I didn’t.
Why wait 4+ years to do anything would be my first question, with the obvious answer that it took a change of administration for the demon rats to get in there and arrest an American citizen on bogus charges.
The only thing he did was make Fun of Hillary, I’m unsure of the Actual Crime.
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You mean I risk imprisonment if I were to post something like this?
Only if you post it on the 5th of May.