This is literally me
youtu.be
Hey user! Its the police open up
Alexander Phillips
James Phillips
all criminal shills are deaded
Benjamin Butler
I understand & empathize that trying to teach a leaf about freedom is like trying to teach a retard math. Hang in there user
Camden Nguyen
This.
I don't know how/when it happened, but somewhere down the line the average American forgot the most important lesson to be learned from our nation's founding: unchecked authority tends to result in tyranny, and positions of authority act as magnets for despots. Does this mean every cop/politician/judge/etc is a tyrant out to get you? Of course not, most are honest men and women doing whats best for their community. However, accepting the practical realities surrounding the grant and exercise of authority, assuming good faith instead of cautious ambivalence leaves you open to grievous injury against which you likely cannot defend.
Connor Lopez
Isaiah Thomas
>Explain to FBI that you will call the local Field Office to verify their identity. They are going to try to get you not to do that
I never understood this. Why is it that the FBI and state investigation bureaus are so sketchy and will try to weasel out of presenting ID or making direct statements/asking direct questions? It's like dealing with the fucking mafia from what I hear, even if you've done absolutely no wrong and aren't yourself a suspect in anything, they just behave like at any moment they might snap and murder somebody or something.
I can't seem to find the video some user took a while back, the one where the FBI come to his house and try to demand he work for free monitoring Jow Forums threads with weasel language? They try to get him to stop recording, too. The language used and their demeanor makes it seem like they're trained in weasel language and plausible deniability in making demands/intimidating people into doing things without actually asking if it's illegal to ask, that shit's disturbing.
Jace Hughes
They are trained in precisely that. Centuries of SCOTUS precedent have firmly established that police may act in a deceptive quasi-coercive manner in conducting investigations. The line in which this conduct becomes unconstitutional is blurry at best, with the progressive wing much more likely to land on deference to authority in murky factual circumstances (progressive as in the judicial philosophy, not legal. Scalia and Gorsuch as two examples of the opposit more libertarian wing). On top of that, the expansion of Qualified Immunity has made it virtually impossible to bring a 1983 suit for violation of your constitutional rights by requiring there already be an existing case with almost exactly the same facts establishing that the conduct was unconstitutional. The court has been willing to bend over backwards to try and distinguish older cases from what case they are deciding so as to avoid attaching liability to the officer. To make matters worse, the rare officer who has actually been found guilty does not pay out directly but rather uses department/city/county funds, and termination is the exception not the rule when it comes to professional consequences. There are very few tools left in the utility belt for the average citizen to protect against potential abuse of authority so I roundly reject any argument which attempts to cast their usage in a bad light. Constitutional protections must be protected or we will continue to see them whittled away.
Zachary Perez
THINK-- what happened to Anonymous?
The answer to this should be obvious!
Anonymous had what Jow Forums now lacks
The power to wage vigilante hacks,
And publicize corruption where it rots,
And force truth into sleepy public thoughts.
Has Anonymous now disappeared?
Once legendary, now no longer feared?
Once sparking protests-- is that fuel now spent?
The lulz are gone, gone the seething dissent?
What do you think this disappearance means?
Is speech still free in internet machines?
Well, look at what the chans have now become;
Examine what swirls in the daily scrum.
Ask yourself-- does it seem really real?
Does it show what actual people feel?
Does it seem organic and not fake?
How much repetition does it take--
How much frenzied vile monotony
Until we guess that internets ain't free?
Ask yourself-- if you sought to control
The media, and hence the public soul,
And something like Jow Forums was swelling up
And spilling truth from propaganda's cup
Would you let it go its merry way?
Or would you lock control down in some way?
And if you locked control down would you try
To do it in a way to fool the eye?
To make it seem like free speech carried on
Even though, in fact, it were quite gone?
For if you shut down free speech openly
The public would respond suspiciously;
But if you hid control beneath a ruse
What you once feared becomes a tool to use.
So that, controlling, you have it both ways--
Enslaving dissent, dictating what it says!
Landon Harris
Anonymous was infiltrated by
The famously mendacious FBI
Whose antics as shown by COINTELPRO
Target dissent, as I'm sure most people know.
Do we think that having sunk its claws
Into Anonymous, with lies and laws,
That the FBI would then allow
Free speech to have stayed quite free till now?
But it's not like we have far to look
To see by what means free speech got the hook;
The image made by chans' mirrors and smoke
Is so stupid it seems to be a joke!
How laughable must a deception be
Before the world opens its eyes to see?
The simple fact-- as stark as winter dawn--
Is that Anonymous, busted, now gone
Was replaced by swarms of-- wait for it--
Virulent nazis spewing nazi shit!
We would have to laugh if we were told
This outcome in the Jow Forums days of old.
So formulaic, politically cliched--
And yet this very game is being played!
How can a joke as stupid as this one
Be used to strangle free speech, and to stun
The helpless mainstream public with the fear
That an internet fourth reich draws near?
But if that preposterousness is not
Enough to spark the understanding thought,
Consider, even stupider to tell,
The arch absurdity of the “incel”!
No, it's not enough that nazis rose
To cloak and choke the chans in nazi throes--
No, these scary nazis all the same
Must wallow in their helplessness and shame!
The “incel” is not just a defeated man--
But a powerful extremist with a plan!
No matter that these two things contradict--
We'll just keep hammering at them till they stick!
Jordan Long
youtube.com
this one?