Posted on 02/16/2021 9:45:29 AM PST by A.M. Smith
A Florida mother got a late-night knock on her door from Palm Beach County police after making an anti-mask joke with a friend on Facebook.
Angelique Contreras, a mother of three and a daughter of Cuban refugees, was left stunned when the officers showed up at her door in the middle of the night. She was even more shocked to find out the reason for their visit — a joking post on Facebook.
In a video posted online, Contreras verbally confirmed with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office that it was a sheriff’s officer who made the house call.
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What a disgusting remark!
Why aren’t those masks being place in the many red HAZMAT containers on almost every corne............ Oh. Guess they’re not hazardous waste?
Bad people have to have good men carry out their evil desires.
Good men should find a way to not do it.
1984 was prophetic.
Please, for the love of god, don’t speak to these people.
Fascists and communists look very similar when they're standing on your neck.
Lot of Karens in Palm Beach county. Probably one of them who called the po po
We need disco demolition night for masks.
This is about wanting to leave bags of garbage on the lawn. That’s is not the same as a joke about masks.
Regardless, this shows that the USA is already a fascist state. The cop said very clearly that facebook posts are monitored. In other words, facebook examines every word that you post and then alerts the police, or the thought police.
I know the Constitution forbids this, but here’s how they get around it. Private companies do it with the permission and support of the government. So they can claim that what they’re doing isn’t illegal. In reality, the government IS doing it, by proxy.
They have our name and address. That can come from the internet service provider. Apparently, this information can be obtained in a few minutes.
It would be nice if they would use this capability to catch terrorists. But the jihadi type terrorists are NOT what they want to catch. In fact, they will allow them to commit acts of terror. It’s those eeeeevvvvilll Gasden flag people they want!
Utterly inexcusable to do it at all. But at 10:30 at night it’s effing unforgivable.
That is pure Stasi and mark my words, the cops will rue the day they turned on the only part of society that was on their side.
Still wonder if the police and military would turn on the American people? In nazi Germany, Gestapo was merely an update of existing secret police. Local officers did nazi business dutifully. The leader of the raid that arrested Anna Frank and her family was a pre-war normal cop.
NKVD was merely the latest incarnation of the Czar’s secret police.
The FBI/Military/and local police are rapidly showing the same pattern.
Yeah, that was a bit overboard.
Hey, Funny, “nonliberal” vs “notaliberal”! LOL
BULL! At what point do you admit that the pigs are no longer defending the Constitution they are sworn to defend?
These F%%KS need to expect gun fire when they decide that they are the personal thugs of whoever stole the current election.
I don’t understand why you chop your blog off at a critical point instead of posting the rest, which is relevant to the point at hand? It isn’t like you wrote the material or own the words. It makes more sense to post the remaining four paragraphs for context.
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According to Contreras, Palm Beach County is trying to send citizens who can’t wear masks due to medical exemptions into a parking garage basement while County Commission meetings take place. Local press reporting confirms that mask-exempt citizens who want to speak at meetings will be sent to a separate building beneath a parking garage, instead of being able to address their leaders directly. When a man on Facebook joked about dumping garbage onto a County Administrator’s lawn, Contreras replied with the retort, “thousands of Mask(s).” This was enough to get the sheriff’s office to show up to her house, with the officer making clear that such Facebook posts are monitored in this day and age. Contreras’ children are aged 11, 3, and 1.
“No matter what a person’s political beliefs are, I do not believe anyone deserves to be bullied by our local government officials. We should not be intimidated by law enforcement. What happened at my house was clearly political intimidation,” Angelique Contreras, who hails from a family of patriotic Cuban refugees, told journalist Patrick Howley. “I know what Communism is and we have been living in it for the past year.”
Contreras replied to a friend’s joke, stating that they could leave “thousands of Mask” on a county commissioner’s lawn. Contreras said the post could be interpreted to mean leaving masks on public property where county government meetings take place.
“As a United States citizen I do have the right to peacefully protest on any public property and I don’t understand why I was chosen to be intimidated and harassed for my posts,” Contreras said. “In regards to my situation, I want to know who’s watching my Facebook page, who is the unknown citizen who was on my property and the officer’s dereliction of duty, and who gave the order.”
It was a joke in response to mask mandates. And it was CLEARLY a joke. Are we are going to believe that several cops are going to go out to someone’s house in the middle of the night to tell someone not to litter?
They weren’t there to keep her from littering, they were there to send her a message.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said that, if people were prepared to fight back, and it wouldn’t take many to start a reaction, then they would soon run out of cops prepared to do the dirty work.
The Gov needs to step in an discipline these LEO sonsabitches.
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