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From beginning to end the trial of Douglass Mackey was a kangaroo court. He was tried in Brooklyn because the prosecution argued the fiber optic cables passed through there. A sham.
The FBI groomed a witness, and held the threat of conviction over his head based on his cooperation in the Mackey trial.
When Douglass tried to bring a witness forward, SPLC goons intimidated him with the loss of his livelihood.
Why did the FBI pursue an anonymous internet poster for seven years? What interest did they have? Did it have anything to do with the Clinton campaign? Their headquarters was right across the street from the FBI office in the E District of NY. This question must be answered.
Govt. goons and journalists are no doubt high fiving today. Their dirty work is done. But they don’t know that this doesn’t end here. This is just the beginning. Justice will be done.

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Apr 1
Some thoughts about Douglass Mackey, the hard times ahead, and how we win in the end.
The United States as we know it will pass away. I cannot say how, but I know that it will, because BOTH the left and the right want it gone. The left has their insane race and sexual grievances, and the right is realizing more and more that the US is a decaying, abusive monster.
So best to be done with it. This will entail a lot of suffering and a lot of change. People underestimate the amount of change that can occur in 100 years. In 1923, who could have imagined today? So who can imagine tomorrow? Tomorrow is free space. Tomorrow is unwritten.
Read 13 tweets
Mar 29
Community notes is actually a great feature. Remember how NPR had to retract a tweet after they got a community note? This should have a note saying “There is currently no evidence of any credible threats to the trans community in Tennessee”
For that matter, every single tweet by every media organization should always have a community note.
Community notes are a system that any Twitter user can participate in. You sign up and receive an anonymous ID. Notes you submit get rated, so you should strive for accuracy and neutral tone.
Read 8 tweets
Mar 29
Doug Mackey's case is just wrapping up another day of deliberation. I'm taking pause here to consider how everything hangs on the knife's edge: either this jury acquits him or we open a new era of brutal censorship.
Please lend him your support and send him messages of encouragement. Justice in America, unfortunately, is expensive. Even if you've already given, give again. This is important.
Raising money is a slog. No one likes to ask for it, but we have to give. There's literally no one else. We don't have eager moneybags like they do on the left. It's just small dollar donations to hold the line. That's it.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 13
The larger reason why the DOJ, the courts, and the media are going after Douglass Mackey is every more interesting. It's because they are scared of YOU.
During the 2016 election, the establishment suddenly had to contend with a new and powerful force: anonymous people on the internet who could engage with them directly and hold them to account.
Before the internet, media was 100% centralized and establishment-owned. There was no possibility of response or dialogue with the NYT, or with network TV. They spoke and people listened. It was a one way conversation. If they didn't want it in public, they wouldn't cover it.
Read 8 tweets
Mar 13
The reason why comedians can make election jokes like this is that it’s “common knowledge” that Election Day is on Tuesday. Why didn’t this standard apply in the case of Doug Mackey?
Surely it’s common knowledge that all voting must occur at a polling place or using an official mail ballot? Yet Ricky was arrested for a satirical post encouraging people to “vote by text.”
In this case, a judge got to decide the difference between speech that gets the benefit of “common knowledge” and speech that gets you arrested.
Read 11 tweets
Mar 13
For those who are just reading about the case of Douglass Mackey, I understand that many people might find what he was posting objectionable. That is not the issue here. The issue is that he was arrested for speech made on a public forum. Period.
The joke he made was common. There are examples of the same joke, on the same day, by left-leaning twitter accounts, that remain un-prosecuted (as they should be). The government has no business determining what's true and what's a lie on a public forum.
The precedent that gets set with this prosecution has chilling implications for everyone. The DOJ is taking a 100 year old law and applying it for the first time to speech, speech on a public forum. This is egregious overreach in order to crush a private citizen.
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