I have a bad feeling I might need it
I joined the Free Speech Union today. They’re the only organization I know (along with Fair Cop) sticking up for those poor bastards arrested for Facebook posts, “it’s okay to be white” stickers or silently praying in front of an abortion clinic.
It’s genuinely scary, y’all. I’m spoiled by a lifetime living under the First Amendment.
The ones you see going from arrest to sentencing in a matter of days, they’ve been persuaded to plead guilty by lawyers who I don’t think have their best interests at heart. I suspect they were told if they insisted on a trial, they’d wait in a jail cell for a year before that could happen.
Lawfare. There’s nothing lower.
The ones that don’t immediately plead guilty, though, the FSU may step in with legal aid. They’ve had some successes, thank god.
I made a resolution this year to spend more money on things I believe in. It’s little enough.
Posted: August 21st, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 8
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Comment from Uncle Al
Time: August 21, 2024, 9:35 pm
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zOMG! You JOINED! That means there’s a PAPER TRAIL back to you! TPTB will see that not only are you a hatemongering free-speecher, you’re a hatemongering free-speecher ENABLER! You are DOOMED! DOOMED, I say!
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Well done, Mme. Ermine. Thank you. I think it won’t be long before we’re all getting into boxcars on the way to the camps, or there will be an awful lot of permanently and totally incapacitated despots. For all practical purposes, despot roadkill.
Comment from Anonymous
Time: August 21, 2024, 11:19 pm
Fire! Fire!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 21, 2024, 11:22 pm
Won’t be boxcars you silly.
It’ll be nice quiet electric buses taking us to healthy outdoor camps where we’ll get close to Gaia and learn to eat zee bugs.
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: August 22, 2024, 12:14 am
On a more serious note, might I suggest that you and Uncle Badger start pondering fallback plans to get yourself and such of your assets as you can out of Soviet Britain. Mind you, the US probably is not such a safe haven. But y’all probably should try to give yourselves as many options as possible.
Subotai Bahadur
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: August 22, 2024, 2:09 am
Thanks to President J. Milei, Argentina looks like it should be on the list of possible safe havens. As a bonus, Argentina is the home of Lyncodon patagonicus, the Patagonian weasel.
Comment from Oceania
Time: August 22, 2024, 7:56 am
If only you had moved to Russia – you would still have freedom of speech!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 22, 2024, 1:34 pm
At least Putin hasn’t threatened to legally attempt “kidnapping” and trials if you say mean things about him.
Comment from Mark Matis
Time: August 22, 2024, 6:55 pm
Come on now, Durnedyankee, we won’t be eating bugs THEY have feelings!
But it will be electric buses. Designed and built by the best that DEI has to offer. Which will either catch fire and burn you to death, or electrocute you!
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