Welcome to The United States of America in 2023, where we see the first ever criminal conviction of a U.S. citizen for creating a meme. A man created a picture determined to be illegal by a Dept of Justice focused on the arrest and incarceration of people working against the interests of a weaponized government.
We will see what happens on appeal. After the jury remained deadlocked for three days, and after thrice telling the judge they were deadlocked, Judge Ann Donnelly threatened not to release them from duty unless and until they came to a decision on guilt. The jury subsequently found Douglass Mackey, a 33-year-old who went by the name Ricky Vaughn on Twitter and a resident of Florida (insert DeSantis silence here), guilty of creating a meme against the interests of the U.S. government.
The DOJ Celebrates – Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights stemming from his scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote. The verdict followed a one-week trial before United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly. When sentenced, Mackey faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), announced the verdict.
“Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election,” stated United States Attorney Peace. “Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote.”
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 Presidential Election.
As proven at trial, between September 2016 and November 2016, Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid. (read more)
This is a dark day for our nation. However, let this serve as a warning for what lies ahead as the United States Senate attempts to create criminal laws that will take control over online content. This conviction for the expression of speech is the first of many if the Restrict Act is passed as written.
Many are & many more will be below its crushing weight.
Hey DOINjustice , what about the operations of the DS & the Demonrat Marxist Party that DEPRIVED legitimate voters of having hundreds of thousands of their votes NULLIFIED WHILE allowing the MASSIVE fraud committed…CRICKETS!
Deprived and nullified? I don’t get that – sorry.
Sorry, you have “no standing” to comment on that…
Free speech is a threat to democracy if it isn’t the left speaking. Go against Joe Bama and you will spend life in the gulag. If they can impeach an innocent president, twice, then indict him for crimes that did not happen, then what will they do to you and I?
If president Trump is removed, we will surely find out. Restrict act or not.
So, it’s illegal to do this as a meme, but when Dems deliberately give inaccurate information regarding voting places, opening times, etc., that’s ok. Got it.
This is happening because all of those FRAUDS in Washington, especially the Republicans did nothing about the voter fraud. WHY? because they were in on it. We need a THIRD party.
Third party? When the soapbox is blatantly censored, the ballot box criminally defrauded and the jury box corrupted absolutely, how will a new party be the remedy?
We have one UNiparty now, they just pose as two parties. What we need is a SECOND party. A REAL second party.
Or, since the people who created the uniparty disguised as two different parties are the PROBLEM, how about get rid of “parties” altogether, and have people just run on their own platforms. Like in elementary school. We knew how to do it back then!
America is f****d.
Yes it is, and still people don’t believe it!
America is not yet f****d. Let us remember and live what John Paul Jones was quoted to say, “I have not yet begun to fight!“
Difference being that JPJ and other patriots didn’t wait decades or even years to begin overthrowing the tyrants.
Maybe I am wrong but is it legal for a JUDGE to tell JURORS that they are to find someone not guilty. How about some honest lawyers get together and on unjust sentences like this one file suits against these fraud Soros Judges.
The LAW no longer exists. Take that to the heart of you and store it for a rainy day. The floods are coming!
I did not interpret the Judges statement as saying they need to find him guilty. She demanded they come to a decision one way or another regarding guilt.
Earl, this is CTH comment section, don’t expect any critical thinking. All “DeSantis bad, Trump good” nothing in between. Don’t you dare stray from that dichotomy or you’ll be burned as a heretic.
You wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning,… or is using sardonic sarcasm to insult your host, Sundance, and his commenters your default ‘Critical’ attitude? Don’t bother answering,… just Troll on by.
Then why are you here? Oh yeah, leftists don’t create anything of value, they only take over and destroy what others create.
I love the site, but meatball is a derogatory term for Italian Americans. I agree with your analysis, but please think of another nickname for DiSantis.
Oh, PLEASE….Another one of those “Don’t you dare mean Tweet” people that walk around with their feelings hurt all the time….Obviously you don’t like Trump….
Get a life. I’m American of Italian heritage and it doesn’t bother me a bit. Yes, I’m not an Italian American, I’m an AMERICAN who is from an Italian heritage. I hate these labels which bifurcate all of us.
Get used to it its just begun… You cant play nice with the deep state judges and criminals
Wait, RDS is ITALIAN?
SO synthetic, I thought he was HISPANIC and I bet many others did, as well.
DeSynthtic candidate running DeSynthetic Campaign.
Grow up meatball
Do prefer WOP?
Probably dago.
I like DeRinoSoros but meatball seems apropos also.
Whaaaaaat? I have Italian in my ancestry, too, and never thought once that this was insulting to me. We mock Karens all the time on this site. Apparently that includes you.
You need to grow thicker skin
Trump cultists are just as juvenile as he is. You really expect mature behavior and discourse? As their Dear Leader would say, “Sad!”
What ever works I rather enjoy Trumps humor and the country was doing great until they unleased COVID on him to steal an election…on purpose OCT 2019 Military games Wuhan China we funded it and we helped release the virus CIA operation. Just like 1/6 FBI capital police Pelosi entrapment operation..
So is mafia but both correct >>>
WopWhat did you say, thin skin?The screws are turning now. Slowly but that will change soon too. Where are the protests? Why do the people seem to take this sitting down without imagining that it could happen to them? Because they are comfortable. The TV still works. Grocery stores are stocked even though everything costs much more. Cars are still available. Money is still available. Healthcare is still accessible. When these things begin to disappear then things will start to change. When comfort is removed the people will begin to stir. Unfortunately, like it always is, it will be too late. Patriotism, begat by deprivation is an undependable combatant.
It’s simple Barry…The past 2 generations in our country of young men HAVE NOT been raised as “stand your ground and fight” like the previous men of America were known for. Since the 70’s they have all been punked down to the point that they will allow Trans Ungodliness to be taught to their own children right from their school rooms, and NEVER get physical about it.
No violence only need truckers to shutdown the major US Democrat run plantations for 30 days it will work no food medicine or gasoline NYC DC ATLANTA PHILLY BOSTON ST LOUIS all we need.. Strave them out no food…
Scary and disgusting.
Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), counter-revolutionary activities will be ruthlessly suppressed.
This will be overturned on appeal.
Even I can see that.
We need to focus on this legal system.
It’s a mess.
Our legal system has been Borked from the beginning. When you pit a prosecution and a defense against each other, both committed to winning at all costs, and then expect “justice” you are sadly mistaken. I always have to laugh when people say we have “equal justice for all under the law”. Sick joke.
F**ing lib American Biden. DOJ.FBI and socialism mainstream media are HATED OWN COUNTRY Because of Dirty Money,
I HATE Them all liberals,
NO Matter what Trump 2024 save America,
It seems like the left is intentionally trying to start a civil war.
They already have….just the shooting has not started yet…..but, hopefully we are ready.
What weaklings that were on the jury to start with. That is where the problem starts.
I get it. Liberals are too stupid to understand a meme or a joke. And they are a protected class because they went to government schools with unionized teachers and were indoctrinated with liberal and woke ideologies. They were not taught how to think because they only need to know what Democrats politicians tell them. So they must be protected.
And on the other side of the coin, liberals who work in elections offices who actually do “subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote” are also a protected class and will not be prosecuted for real election fraud. They are assisting in the destruction of the democracy, which is the Democrats’ top priority. So those comrades get raises and promotions.
Trying to “look on the bright side”,..this prosecution and the lack of prosecution for the women who did the same thing, but aimed at Trump supporters, is an open aknowledgement;
Liberals are SO STUPID, they would actually BELIEVE that you can vote by text, but Trump supporters quite obviously are NOT!
Send a million emails, or maybe 100 million to various government goons (FJB comes to mind) with the meme as content.
If he lives in FL, why was the case brought in NY?
Since it is a Federal case, could it have been tried in any jurisdiction, and DOJ felt NY was their best shot at a conviction?
The nasty memes that have been posted against Trump don’t count? This is VERY scary for our country-
Well, if unsure prior, we’re sure now that hypocrisy and injustice are institutionalized. Remember this?
Where’s Trump’s statement? He’s being deprived his 1A rights for supporting Trump in an election year. Where’s Trump?
Time for Truckers to shutdown every major city run by Democrats in America**NYC DC CHICAGO DETRIOT PHILLY ST LOUIS ATLANTA all the plantation cites …4/15/2023 all food gasoline and medicine….All guilty in stealing of elections using their Warlords and tribe members.$$$. Thus no violence no marches no gathering of people we only need one protest Truckers …. Thirty days to start with.. Then medical people followed by police and firemen.
One downside of the shift from owner-operator to corporate trucking. Easy to get fired and blacklisted if going against the system in outfits without unions and still problematical if not a union action in those which are union.
We saw this during Covid in corporate medicine as employee doctors were cowed into going along if otherwise disinclined. Their jobs were on the line. Covert, and sometimes overt pressure. Medical boards did the rest, suspending licenses and DEA authority of any who went against the program.
Still, plenty of options. It all depends how serious people are about pledging their fortunes to the cause of liberty, along with their lives and sacred honor.
While this absurd conviction proves that the Fasacist Weaponized Feral Gubermint lacks a sense of humor, wich is does in spades,… it is really based on the Fasicsts’ desire to display their corrupted Power to punish any and all who channenge their hold on govt power by creating fear in All of their opposition as a warning to don’t even try to offend them, whether thru intended humor or even if you’re a former US President that announces a new run for the office in ’24.
It is also proof that they truly Fear their opposition because it outnumbers them by orders of magnitude now,… thanks in a great part now to their abuse of power to force their economy wrecking Green scams on Middle America and make them suffer the consequences. Something has to give, and soon.
Could it possibly be – the Impeachment of their now proven CCP bought-off criminal puppet, “Joey, Baby” in Depends???
Amazing how posting a meme that is obviously a joke amounts to criminal voter suppression; but stuffing dropboxes full of fraudulent ballots to disenfranchise millions of people is A-OK!
Anyone dumb enough to fall for the “vote by text” hoax is too dumb to vote anyway.
Let it burn.
Start with the dollar.
Truck drivers should refuse loads to nyc.
Online vendors should refuse sales to nyc residents.
Online buyers should refuse purchases from nyc companies.
so, when the FBI and 52 former intel personnel validate that Hunter Biden laptop is Russia disinformation right before Americans vote for a President of USA in 2020, but doesn’t “defraud” the election voting process then we are in a Banana Republic / Third World country land. The ONLY person standing in the corrupt Biden administration / Deep State players is Donald J Trump. If Trump go down, the next group will be Congressional Republicans who oppose Biden. Then the rules changes to control ALL guns in USA will be passed.
No one is dumb enough to think they can vote by text.
Oh, yes they are. And, as I pointed out above, the fact they prosecuted HIM, but not HER, is an open admission on their part, that there ARE plenty of libtards, stupid enough to be fooled, but NO Trump supporters that dumb.
Hence, it was only “voter suppression” when aimed at libtards, but not when aimed at MAGA.
It’s an open admission, when you think about it.
Well, then turnabout is fair play. The precedent is set.. google, twitter supressing info about trump, and others sounds like a slamdunk lawsuit to me
It is too bad I have not a clue what he did.
Yhis confuses me and I have little context.
Another case of writers assuming I know what they are writing about.
Stupid gullible people listen to stupid comments now the DOJ defends stupidity by prosecuting the Joker
Holy Shit Batman
I read this article three times so I don’t think I’m missing anything.
It seems as though the criminal conviction was not so much for creating a meme but encouraging people to cast their vote for Hillbag Clinton by way of the fetid and festering sewer known as Twitter.
I’m no fan of Hillbag but fair is fair. Encouraging people too cast their vote for her, or anyone else for that matter, by way of the fetid and festering sewer, otherwise known as Twitter is just plain wrong even though people should know better than to do so.
So for us overseas plebs, what exactly WAS the meme that he’s been found guilty of?