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Posted on 02/01/2026 11:44:32 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
On January 18, 2026, former CNN anchor Don Lemon entered Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, alongside anti-ICE protesters who deliberately disrupted an ongoing worship service. The group chanted “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good,” accusing one of the pastors of ties to immigration enforcement and thereby interrupting the congregation's First Amendment-protected religious exercise.
Lemon livestreamed the event, positioning himself within the disruption as it unfolded.
Federal authorities subsequently arrested Lemon and three others, charging them with conspiracy against rights under 18 U.S.C. § 241 and interference with the free exercise of religion. Lemon maintains that his presence was purely journalistic and protected by press freedoms. This defense, however, rests on the flawed assumption that journalistic intent shields one from liability when possessing foreknowledge of an impending felony and choosing to document it rather than prevent or report it. Apply Lemon's logic retroactively.
Had he been a journalist in 1963, he might claim no wrongdoing in stationing himself beside Lee Harvey Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository, camera poised, awaiting President Kennedy's motorcade to broadcast the assassination live. Under this view, press credentials would exempt him from misprision of a felony (18 U.S.C. § 4), which is the crime of knowing of a felony and failing to disclose it promptly.
The analogy is exacting.
Misprision demands only advance knowledge and nondisclosure; participation or aid heightens guilt. Reports describe the church disruption as coordinated, with Lemon entering alongside the protesters to capture the planned interference. By prioritizing footage over alerting authorities, he crossed from observation into complicity.
No statutory exemption exists for journalists under either misprision or conspiracy statutes.
Ignorance of the law offers no defense - a principle enshrined in Anglo-American jurisprudence (ignorantia juris non excusat). Lemon's actions betray not neutral reporting, but alignment with a foreseeable violation of worshipers' rights, mirroring the hypothetical sentinel for an assassin cloaked in media privilege.
Accountability must transcend status.
The Oswald parallel illuminates the peril inherent in Lemon's rationale - no press pass absolves one from responsibility with foreknowledge of harm. He is guilty, and the law brooks no exception for those who favor the spectacle over duty.
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Using the term “logic” with any Leftist is, well, illogical.
I will never forget my college Logic Class. It was very straightforward, and, yes, very logical.
A few years later we began to see the college insanity of
Logic In Gender Studies
Logic In Black Studies
Logic In [FILL-IN-THE-BLANK] Studies
Yep, they’re trying to portray this as a freedom of the press issue.
They’re trying to portray this as Lemon being arrested , as being something that would happen in a ruthless dictatorship. Which ties in with the Trump is a dictator etc.
And then if he does get convicted of anything related to this, and sent to prison, the left will say he’s a martyr for freedom of the press , and that he’s a political prisoner. And then that will morph into claims , about how Donald Trump’s America is just like Nazi Germany.
Imagine further that he told Oswald to not say what he was doing because he was on camera. And then helping Oswald jump start his car (rather than him helping these guys get their jeep out of the snow) on his way to the book depository. Because that’s what he did BEFORE he stormed the church.
“Using the term “logic” with any Leftist is, well, illogical.”
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Logic has no space whatsoever in their psyche.
You can’t reason with a crazy person.
“I can’t tell you where we’re going or what is going to happen because it is a secret.”
The absurdity of Lemon claiming First Amendment privilege to destroy the First Amendment rights (freedom of religion) to another is delicious irony.
8 J6 defendants tried to claim First Amendment protection. They were railroaded into the DC Gulag anyway. They had the stronger case than Lemon: public protest on public property. Ironicly they set the precedent that will sink Lemon.
The left’s version of logic is rhetoric. Unfortunately rhetoric is more effective than logic as tool of persuasion. Logic is hard to follow, rhetoric is easy to swallow.
The Kennedy assassination analogy is brilliant. Lemon can only rely on judicial corruption; his attonry would do well to recommend he go for a plea bargain, but Lemon being charged, playing the journalist card, etc., is part of the circus the communists planned.
Terrorism has little effect unless it’s known about widely. Lemon was present by design with the role of promulgating the communist cell’s message of intimidation, to force Christians to join the Left rather than support their own government. Lemon was a participant from the get-go, and his claim of “journalism” is not just a cover, but a way to give the incident legs. When civilian war correspondents are “embedded” with military forces, they aren’t supposed to be doing the fighting, just cover it. Lemon was grilling the pastor with pointed questions about why, as a Christian, he wasn’t backing the illegals. I hope he hangs.
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