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Man Posts On Facebook About “Police State” And Guess Who Shows Up?
http://freepatriot.org ^ | january 18, 2014 | sean brown

Posted on 01/19/2014 8:44:49 AM PST by lowbridge

We use Facebook for many things, some of us use it for posting pictures of our food, others for posting the infamous “selfie”, and some of us to vent our frustrations with thegovernment and politics as a whole. No matter the reason you use Facebook, you expect to be able to post just about anything you want(aside from death threats to the President) without being hassled since our right to free speech is protected.

Well that’s not the experience Blaine Cooper from Humboldt, AZ had. The 34 year old posted a rant on Facebook showing his frustration with the country and within 24 hours he was contacted by the police and FBI. On August 23, Officer Jason Kaufman of the Prescott Valley Police Department contacted Cooper and told him that he needed to come down to the station for questioning with the FBI. He complied and the interview, with federal agents present the whole time, lasted 45 minutes then Cooper was released after it was determined he wasn’t a threat.

“They had every Facebook post I had ever made in a huge file, along with all my wife’s information, and parent’s information,”

Cooper stated that complying with the request for an interview saved him from having his home raided by the Feds, and that by complying he was “diffusing the situation”, according to police who said his home may have been raided otherwise. 

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; blainecooper; counterterrorism; domesticterrorism; donutwatch; facebook; facebookisthedevil; fbi; humboldt; jasonkaufman; policestate
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To: Cementjungle
I never get into political discussions at all on there...

Curiosity question, do the Lefties treat you with the same respect?

The reason I ask is that I have BIL who manages to get one last dig in every year in the Christmas letter he sends out.

41 posted on 01/19/2014 9:49:58 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: Yorlik803

“Never speak to the FBI...even if they ask nicely. And if pressed remember don’t say anything without a lawyer.
They are not your friend......”
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Sure as hell NEVER talk to the Barack Obama/Eric Holder FBI without your lawyer. Holder and his operatives have corrupted ATF, FBI and other components of the DOJ. The ambitious civil “servants” in those agencies may have welcomed the corruption as a way to gain promotions and other favors. The cancer is spreading.


42 posted on 01/19/2014 9:50:49 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Balding_Eagle
Curiosity question, do the Lefties treat you with the same respect?

Only my relatives and close friends know my political positions on things, and they just "tolerate" me as a result. Most of the "friends" I have on FB are old co-workers, school mates, models (I do glamour photography now) and they don't know from my posts what my positions are. I get work from FB (photography), so I don't want to burn bridges that way.

43 posted on 01/19/2014 9:56:19 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Yorlik803
Never speak to the FBI...even if they ask nicely. And if pressed remember don’t say anything without a lawyer.

And record the conversation visably in front of them and your lawyer.

44 posted on 01/19/2014 9:58:46 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: lowbridge
Imagine the file the boys and girls down in the fusion centers have on me!


45 posted on 01/19/2014 9:59:25 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Nachum

excellent Idea


46 posted on 01/19/2014 9:59:37 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Actually, posting rants in any social forum is a GREAT idea. Do we or do we not have a 1st Amendment Right?

Social media forums can be argued to be the new town square, without the need for ‘permits.’


47 posted on 01/19/2014 10:03:19 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Real question: are anti-regime comments on FR being monitored, & individual FReepers’ attitudes noted, by the NSA po-po? Is it as risky as doing so on Facebook?


48 posted on 01/19/2014 10:03:42 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: TheGipperWasRight

Correct he should be suing them for intimidation tactics and potentially violating his 1st Amendment Rights.


49 posted on 01/19/2014 10:04:38 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: McGruff
Looks like it was a little more involved than a Facebook post.

So he excercised free speach in public as well? Clearly a threat to the state.

50 posted on 01/19/2014 10:06:20 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: TheGipperWasRight

Exactly!

That little, “come down to the station”, was a warning to ALL conservatives to SHUT UP!


51 posted on 01/19/2014 10:06:49 AM PST by wintertime
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To: bike800
And there is a huge difference between being asked to come down and being told he needed to come down...at that point I would argue it was a seizure...

If they state that they are going to search you home if you don't comply, its clearly intimidation tactics. And are you super positive that they won't be walking out with whatever it is that they decided they needed to find?

52 posted on 01/19/2014 10:07:48 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: elcid1970

Short answer on that is YES!

Regarding salty talk aimed at the president (or other officials) vs visits from the SS
March 5, 2009 | Jim Robinson

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200093/posts

To think otherwise is truly a level of ignorance that belies any good FReeper or conspiracy nutcase.


53 posted on 01/19/2014 10:07:56 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: lowbridge

“Should he have had to comply with coming to the station to be questioned to begin with?”

No, he did not need to comply with the interview but that would have been ‘probably cause’ to get a search/arrest warrant with these FBI and ‘police’ thugs who would go to a judge with totalitarian leanings and he would happily sign the warrant. He might even drool or have other bodily secretions while signing it.


54 posted on 01/19/2014 10:09:02 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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To: lowbridge

Ah yes . . . the “champions of dissent” who run the country show their tolerance!


55 posted on 01/19/2014 10:09:07 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: lowbridge

“Kaufman of the Prescott Valley Police Department contacted Cooper and told him that he needed to come down to the station for questioning with the FBI. “

“No Officer whatever your name is, I don’t. Have a nice day.”


56 posted on 01/19/2014 10:10:04 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: lowbridge

57 posted on 01/19/2014 10:11:13 AM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: virgil

“They just pass laws to make it look like they’re doing something.”

Exactly! In their minds they were elected to ‘legislate’. It never occurs to them that vetoing is also legislating.


58 posted on 01/19/2014 10:13:24 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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To: SkyDancer

So you hiding under your bed is going to make you a free man?


59 posted on 01/19/2014 10:15:22 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: Yorlik803

Nor is any member of law enforcement now.


60 posted on 01/19/2014 10:17:29 AM PST by sport
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