Whether one agrees or disagrees with the Ulbricht sentence, this should be disturbing.
I've certainly read FR comments about federal officials that were just as rough as those on the Reason website. The fact that neither even comes close to being a genuine threat evidently will no longer stop the Feds from harassing and potentially prosecuting those who would exercise the freedom to engage in hyperbolic rough speech.
The article has links to the subpeona and other relevant information.
I’m not hard to find on twitter. I’m the one who calls Nancy Pelosi a syphilitic toad rectum.
More and more tyrannical every day.
Could FR be next with a similar Grand Jury Subpoena?
The Founders would have played felony poker with the persecutor...
Their goal is to silence dissent. They even want to make it a crime if you disagree with them.
Remember Free Dominion.
One radical Leftist got FR’s sister site to shut down permanently.
That was just one activist in a foreign court. Imagine now in this country, someone with the power of a nation-state at their disposal.
Whatever happened to the separation of church and state?
Someone makes a threat to kill someone, and they shouldn’t be surprised if the authorities try to determine if the threat is credible or if it is just a pasty faced internet cowboy hiding in his mother’s basement spouting off from behind an anonymous screen name.
Based on the threats posted at your link, the subpoenas appear to be justified.
Show a bit of integrity here. The four before the fifth one that you referenced go a good bit beyond that.
I’m interested in seeing how these millennial libertarians respond. Do they have the courage of their convictions, or do they fall in line and do as they are told?
Way back we had a Freeper get a visit from the Secret Service for a foolish remark.
Can’t make threats.
The prosecutor is hanging the threat of a 20-year prison sentence on anybody who has the temerity to express the hope that there’s a special place in hell reserved for the federal judge who would sentence Ulbricht to life.
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Oh somehow I think the comments are a bit more specific than that.
It has been used to try to stop even policy disagreements between political parties.
The language was mild compared to the "threats" discussed here -- but the issue was great. The targets were all critics of FDR Administration postwar plans beginning with the small fry.
Remarks questioning Obama, et al. abilities and motives could result in a version to the Great Sedition Trial of 1944.. the purpose of the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 was to destroy Roosevelt's pre-war critics as attention turned to post-war matters particularly about relations with communists. IMO.
The Great Sedition Trial of 1944
FDR started with small fry and planned to move up the chain of opposition.
FDR failed. Obama might succeed, the Establishment today is arguably aging 1960s New Left Marxist-Alinsky radical, campus psycho spoiled brats and their ideological issue. The Establishment in FDR's days were Americans who eventually stopped:
". . . one of the blackest marks on the record of American jurisprudence. In the legal world, none can recall a case where so many Americans were brought to trial for political persecution and were so arrogantly denied the rights [guaranteed] an American citizen under the Constitution.”
I want a list of all the grand jurors with their home addresses, work addresses, their home, work, and cell numbers, plus all email addresses.
THh only question is ... are we actually IN full blown Fascism? Is it too late? Furthermore, WAY too many Republicans also support these tactics. Houses need to be cleaned.
Right after the Elonis decision was issued? The Justice Department clearly has no sense of irony.