Absolutely where we are headed if the left have their way. In fact, this is exactly where we were under King George. This is the exact reason the founding fathers put the Bill of Rights in our Constitution.
Crawl out of your troll dungeon and use a little intelligence here Jason. Freedom of speech never has and never will mean you can threaten people at will. However, liberals are already far along the road to silencing any dissenting opinions, most insidiously by labeling anything they don't want to hear as "hate speech." Conservatives are routinely shut out of Facebook and Twitter, and forget about freedom of speech on any college campus. This is THE reason they constantly push for "gun control." An armed populace is the only thing standing between our founding principles and EU style fascism.
@guest you might want to do your research. It's liberals being arrested, it's conservatives that just get kicked off the platform. By the way, when you sign up for those websites, you consent to their definition of acceptable content. Freedom of Speech only protects you from the government.
The government is meant to protect it, too.
And what's this about liberals being arrested while conservatives are silenced? Is it too much to ask that neither happen?
A group leader got arrested in Dallas because they were protesting police violence on Facebook. Not arrested by the Dallas Police Department, but by the FBI. He was denied his lawyer for 6 months for no reason, then they tried to label it domestic terrorism. All he did was say "fuck the police, they deserved it" @ the department, not an individual, while protesting using the exact same open carry laws that are entirely legal in the rest of the state. Oh, and then he was stalked by the police for another year. What's really funny is the dude is also a youth health counselor and totally against violence; he did what he did only after microphones and megaphones didn't get the message across.
I'm not saying this is nationwide, I'm just saying across the vast state of Texas, you see the exact same thing being treated entirely differently based on the "who".
Source? Your description doesn't exactly give me the impression of a man who was just speaking his mins. Taking a weapon while decrying the department in the aftermath of something that was presumably emotionally devastating hardly sounds like something a reasonable person would expect to go smoothly.
As for unlawful confinement while being denied due process, that's very solid grounds for a lucrative and civilly constructive suit.
anti-police statements, such as “oink oink bang bang” and “the only good pig is a pig that’s dead”. The agent also mentioned Balogun’s Facebook posts calling a murder suspect in a police officer’s death a “hero” and expressing “solidarity” with the man who killed officers in Texas when he posted: “They deserve what they got.”
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Found the case for investigating the ringleaders, but no cause for arresting anyone.
If local LEOs grabbed him it might be explained by his stated solidarity with cop-killers shortly after five officers were murdered, granted that they actually investigated him first to find solid cause, but I've got no idea why the fuck the feds were waiting to swoop in against every procedure in their book. I've spent enough time studying and training in criminal justice to know that much.
And what's this about liberals being arrested while conservatives are silenced? Is it too much to ask that neither happen?
As for unlawful confinement while being denied due process, that's very solid grounds for a lucrative and civilly constructive suit.
And yeah, that unlawful confinement is what is so worrying. Yeah, he said some crazy shit, but he did it for obvious reasons as a political gesture. The government jailing him over it is a clear first amendment violation.
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Found the case for investigating the ringleaders, but no cause for arresting anyone.
If local LEOs grabbed him it might be explained by his stated solidarity with cop-killers shortly after five officers were murdered, granted that they actually investigated him first to find solid cause, but I've got no idea why the fuck the feds were waiting to swoop in against every procedure in their book. I've spent enough time studying and training in criminal justice to know that much.