Thread by @jeggybottle

Things people who served on active duty never say...

@tedlieu has tweeted “I served on active duty in the United States military to defend your right to say...” 75 times since 24/3/2018.

Ted Lieu’s ‘active duty’ comprised prosecuting airmen from a comfortable JAG office chair.

https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1082382541657497602

Each and every time he tweets “I served on active duty in the United States military to defend your right to say...”, he gives himself false equivalence with and diminishes the endeavours of those who put themselves in harm’s way to genuinely “defend your right to say...”.

And he accepted payments from a donor who was known for drugging men of a specific racial profile with meth during fetish games, two of whom died.

Now he’s giving the dubious donation money away in a lame effort to keep himself clean.

Why accept that money in the first place?

But remember, he “served on active duty in the United States military to defend your right to say...”.

Ted Lieu, thank you for serving on active duty in the United States military to defend my right to say this.

I look forward to him tweeting “I served on active duty in the United States military to defend your right to say...”.

It won’t make the donations from a murdering deviant go away.

Ted Lieu’s donor Ed Buck:

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…

Ted Lieu served on active duty in the United States military to defend Jermaine Gagnon’s right to say what Ed Buck did to him.

The same Ed Buck that Ted Lieu accepted donations from.

So next time @tedlieu tweets “I served on active duty in the United States military to defend your right to say...”, remember his active duty was as a JAG, and that he knew what type of person Ed Buck was and what he got up to was wrong whenever he accepted donations from him.

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