Far-right influencer convicted in voter suppression scheme

[Augustine_]

Douglass Mackey, who went by the alias Ricky Vaughn on social media, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday for a “scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” according to a statement from the Justice Department.

Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after his purported offenses. The Justice Department claimed that Mackey had conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their right to vote.

James Lawrence, an attorney for Mackey, previously said in an interview with The Daily Wire that his memes were satirical and were therefore not relevant to the law he purportedly violated. Mackey could serve as many as 10 years in prison after he is sentenced.

The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to “disseminate fraudulent messages” which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media. One image depicted a black woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign and said “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”

Pro-Trump Memester Found Guilty Of Election Interference | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

Look at the freaking Leftist Gestapo going after political opponents using their gov't power.

The problem is that I can imagine some leftist asshole tricking thousands of religious nutjobs into not voting, and I wouldn't mind seeing that person punished for being an asshole either

 

[BackAgain]

The problem is that I can imagine some leftist asshole tricking thousands of religious nutjobs into not voting, and I wouldn't mind seeing that person punished for being an asshole either

Nice tidy confession of the thought police.

Satire is actually protected speech.

At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern.


"[T]he


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freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty -- and thus a good unto itself -- but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole."

Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., 466 U. S. 485, 466 U. S. 503-504 (1984).

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 at 50 - 51 (1988).​

Thus, while such a bad motive may be deemed controlling for purposes of tort liability in other areas of the law, we think the First Amendment prohibits such a result in the area of public debate about public figures.


Were we to hold otherwise, there can be little doubt that political cartoonists and satirists would be subjected to damages awards without any showing that their work falsely defamed its subject.

Id. at 53.

This case — which disregards that satire is protected speech — has to be reversed.

 

[Burgermeister]

The criminalization of the right has been put on display for all to see.

I'm not sure you understand what you wrote, but in any case, I agree 100%.

 

[Burgermeister]

It didn't occur to Mackey that the Democrat voting block is so dumb, it wouldn't be impossible (obviously wasn't) to make a case that the meme is real threat.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Douglass Mackey, who went by the alias Ricky Vaughn on social media, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday for a “scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” according to a statement from the Justice Department.

Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after his purported offenses. The Justice Department claimed that Mackey had conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their right to vote.

James Lawrence, an attorney for Mackey, previously said in an interview with The Daily Wire that his memes were satirical and were therefore not relevant to the law he purportedly violated. Mackey could serve as many as 10 years in prison after he is sentenced.

The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to “disseminate fraudulent messages” which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media. One image depicted a black woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign and said “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”

Pro-Trump Memester Found Guilty Of Election Interference | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

Look at the freaking Leftist Gestapo going after political opponents using their gov't power.

America 2.0

full Fascism

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The problem is that I can imagine some leftist asshole tricking thousands of religious nutjobs into not voting, and I wouldn't mind seeing that person punished for being an asshole either

Fascists for Fascism. Lovely

 

[easyt65]

Its sad the 2016 election deniers are going after an American citizen 7 years later for 'election fraud' consisting of a Hillary meme they blame for Hillary losing the election.

 

[Moonglow]

It didn't occur to Mackey that the Democrat voting block is so dumb, it wouldn't be impossible (obviously wasn't) to make a case that the meme is real threat.

Yes, there are some folks who are gullible and there are folks that are predatory who should know better, after their sentence I bet they will know better.

 

[Resnic]

And yet no one tried to prosecute CNN or it's technical director when he was caught on camera admitting he joined CNN to create propaganda about Donald trump to get him out of office. Isn't that lying to people in order to interfere with the election?

CNN catfished on Tinder admits network is 'propaganda'

CNN technical director Charlie Chester was caught in the embarrassing footage after a woman working with the conservative watchdog group spotted him on Tinder.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Moonglow]

And yet no one tried to prosecute CNN or it's technical director when he was caught on camera admitting he joined CNN to create propaganda about Donald trump to get him out of office. Isn't that lying to people in order to interfere with the election?

CNN catfished on Tinder admits network is 'propaganda'

CNN technical director Charlie Chester was caught in the embarrassing footage after a woman working with the conservative watchdog group spotted him on Tinder.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Was it a fake link to a voting site?

 

[miketx]

Douglass Mackey, who went by the alias Ricky Vaughn on social media, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday for a “scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” according to a statement from the Justice Department.

Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after his purported offenses. The Justice Department claimed that Mackey had conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their right to vote.

James Lawrence, an attorney for Mackey, previously said in an interview with The Daily Wire that his memes were satirical and were therefore not relevant to the law he purportedly violated. Mackey could serve as many as 10 years in prison after he is sentenced.

The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to “disseminate fraudulent messages” which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media. One image depicted a black woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign and said “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”

Pro-Trump Memester Found Guilty Of Election Interference | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

Look at the freaking Leftist Gestapo going after political opponents using their gov't power.

Only democrats are stupid enough to think that was true.

 

[petro]

Anyone who fell for the meme should also have their driving privileges revoked for just being too stupid and a danger to themselves and others.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Prison.

For a meme.

If the Republic isn't dead yet, it's on life support.

 

[Moonglow]

Only democrats are stupid enough to think that was true.

The guy who got into trouble ended up being the stupid one, I do hope he enjoys his three hotz and a cot, he may opt for a tuck-in.

 

[Moonglow]

Prison.

For a meme.

If the Republic isn't dead yet, it's on life support.

 

[Foxfyre]

Douglass Mackey, who went by the alias Ricky Vaughn on social media, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday for a “scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” according to a statement from the Justice Department.

Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after his purported offenses. The Justice Department claimed that Mackey had conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their right to vote.

James Lawrence, an attorney for Mackey, previously said in an interview with The Daily Wire that his memes were satirical and were therefore not relevant to the law he purportedly violated. Mackey could serve as many as 10 years in prison after he is sentenced.

The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to “disseminate fraudulent messages” which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media. One image depicted a black woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign and said “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”

Pro-Trump Memester Found Guilty Of Election Interference | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

Look at the freaking Leftist Gestapo going after political opponents using their gov't power.

If this is accurate, just one more case of a glaring double standard in which those are the right are accused and arrested for what the left blatantly does on social media. Did not Twitter and Facebook etc. ADMIT they aided and abetted the Democrats in 2016 and 2020 by suppressing various information while promoting that favorable to them?

 

[blackhawk]

The people who need to be in jail are those who think the American people are dumb enough to take such a meme seriously.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Yet another addition to the abundance of evidence that President Trump was stunningly accurate when he said "They're not after me, they're after you - I'm just in their way."

The Justice Department, according to the Post Millennial, “was unable to provide evidence that anyone was deceived by the meme.” Not even a single person. What’s more, at least one memester on the other side did exactly the same thing, and was never arrested or tried and faces no prison time.

On Nov. 8, 2016, which was election day, Kristina Wong tweeted a video of a Trump supporter with the caption: “Hey Trump Supporters! Skip poll lines at #Election2016 and TEXT in your vote! Text votes are legit. Or vote tomorrow on Super Wednesday!” Not only was Kristina Wong never prosecuted, but her tweet is still live. Yet she did exactly the same thing Douglass Mackey did. She just had the good sense to do it against Trump, rather than against Hillary.

Trump Supporter Found Guilty, Faces Ten Years in Prison for 2016 Anti-Hillary Meme

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It is exquisitely, painfully obvious now to anyone who is not controlled by the zombifying influence of the Leftist mind virus that equal justice under the law is dead.

Antifa and BLM can burn and pillage and commit violence. Murderers and rapists can perpetrate sexual chaos and mortal havoc and get off with slaps on the wrists in blue districts such as DA Alvin Bragg's. And trans can murder children, and then have their "movement" defended by the White House itself merely days later.

But dare to exercise freedom of speech? Prepare for the full hammer of the state to press down upon you and punish you for "wrong think".

And now they're coming for President Trump, under the weakest of pretenses; after having extricated him from office by changing all the election rules and covering up a massive scandal (Biden being compromised by the Chinese) to install their puppet regime. "RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION!" No matter how much the loathsome Fake News protests otherwise, we all know it's true.

Enough is enough.

Turn off the corporate news.

Stop buying into the bullshit propaganda, promulgated by the globalist forces that seek to control us as they destroy the last vestiges of American freedom and principles.

The Normiez need to wake the fuck up and vote all of these authoritarian monsters out of office before we no longer have a country.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Turn off the corporate news.

.

Absolutely.

They are owned by truly evil forces.

.

 

[Moonglow]

Voting is a serious business unless you are a Trumptard.