Most Important 1st Amendment Case You’ve Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes

[easyt65]

In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.

Yup, the Biden administration claims tbat posting extremely popular funny memes if Hillary Clinton deprived people of their right to vote and damn-near cost Hillary the 2016 election by himself.

Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News

Biden wants to put a young man alleged to be behind a popular pro-Trump meme account in prison for 10 years for mocking Hillary voters.

www.revolver.news

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.

Yup, the Biden administration claims tbat posting extremely popular funny memes if Hillary Clinton deprived people of their right to vote and damn-near cost Hillary the 2016 election by himself.

Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News

Biden wants to put a young man alleged to be behind a popular pro-Trump meme account in prison for 10 years for mocking Hillary voters.

www.revolver.news

Nope...case is well know, not sure what you mean 'no-one has heard about it'.

Alt-right Twitter troll ‘Ricky Vaughn’ busted for voter disinformation

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Trump-Supporting White Nationalist and Social Media Influencer Charged with Conspiracy and Election Interference

Douglass Mackey, AKA Ricky Vaughn, was charged with election interference for his role in a scheme designed to depress minority turnout in the 2016 presidential election.

lawandcrime.com

From New York City, he moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. At the age of 31, he was arrested in West Palm Beach on January 27, 2021. He made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida. He was accused of anonymously conspiring with others to use Twitter and other social media to try to trick Hillary Clinton‘s supporters to vote via text instead of casting an actual ballot prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. One of his co-conspirators Anthime Joseph “Baked Alaska” Gionet was arrested on January 15, 2021 for his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot in Washington, D.C., USA on January 6, 2021.

Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign

A Florida man was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.

www.justice.gov

The defendant is charged with telling people that they could vote on-line or via text--thus negating their votes and promulgating an invalid means of voting.

“Protecting every American citizen’s right to cast a legitimate vote is a key to the success of our republic,” said William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office. “What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft. It is illegal behavior and contributes to the erosion of the public’s trust in our electoral processes. He may have been a powerful social media influencer at the time, but a quick Internet search of his name today will reveal an entirely different story.”


The complaint alleges that in 2016, Mackey established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Election, ranking his account above outlets and individuals such as NBC News (#114), Stephen Colbert (#119) and Newt Gingrich (#141).


As alleged in the complaint, between September 2016 and November 2016, in the lead up to the Nov. 8, 2016, U.S. Presidential Election, Mackey conspired with others to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages designed to encourage supporters of one of the presidential candidates (the “Candidate”) to “vote” via text message or social media, a legally invalid method of voting.


For example, on Nov. 1, 2016, Mackey allegedly tweeted an image that featured an African American woman standing in front of an “African Americans for [the Candidate]” sign. The image included the following text: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text ‘[Candidate’s first name]’ to 59925[.] Vote for [the Candidate] and be a part of history.” The fine print at the bottom of the image stated: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by [Candidate] for President 2016.”


The tweet included the typed hashtags “#Go [Candidate]” and another slogan frequently used by the Candidate. On or about and before Election Day 2016, at least 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted “[Candidate’s first name]” or some derivative to the 59925 text number, which was used in multiple deceptive campaign images tweeted by the defendant and his co-conspirators.

 

[Synthaholic]

Yeah, I'm sure that's the whole story.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.

Yup, the Biden administration claims tbat posting extremely popular funny memes if Hillary Clinton deprived people of their right to vote and damn-near cost Hillary the 2016 election by himself.

Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News

Biden wants to put a young man alleged to be behind a popular pro-Trump meme account in prison for 10 years for mocking Hillary voters.

www.revolver.news

You post a lot of anti-Establishment stuff yourself......

You're next.

Knock...knock....

 

[Circe]

Took me forever to figure out what these supposed memes WERE.

This guy told that old joke about Republicans voting on Tuesday and Democrats on Wednesday.

Anybody who falls for that one, it's better for the country if he doesn't vote.

 

[Flash]

In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.

Yup, the Biden administration claims tbat posting extremely popular funny memes if Hillary Clinton deprived people of their right to vote and damn-near cost Hillary the 2016 election by himself.

Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News

Biden wants to put a young man alleged to be behind a popular pro-Trump meme account in prison for 10 years for mocking Hillary voters.

www.revolver.news

When we Americans say that the Democrats are hell bent on depriving citizens of their Constitutional rights it is things like that we are talking about.

 

[Mac-7]

Nope...case is well know, not sure what you mean 'no-one has heard about it'.

Alt-right Twitter troll ‘Ricky Vaughn’ busted for voter disinformation

The man behind pro-Trump Twitter troll account “Ricky Vaughn” was busted in Florida on Wednesday for spreading disinformation during the 2016 presidential election in a scheme to limit …

nypost.com

Trump-Supporting White Nationalist and Social Media Influencer Charged with Conspiracy and Election Interference

Douglass Mackey, AKA Ricky Vaughn, was charged with election interference for his role in a scheme designed to depress minority turnout in the 2016 presidential election.

lawandcrime.com

From New York City, he moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. At the age of 31, he was arrested in West Palm Beach on January 27, 2021. He made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhart of the Southern District of Florida. He was accused of anonymously conspiring with others to use Twitter and other social media to try to trick Hillary Clinton‘s supporters to vote via text instead of casting an actual ballot prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. One of his co-conspirators Anthime Joseph “Baked Alaska” Gionet was arrested on January 15, 2021 for his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot in Washington, D.C., USA on January 6, 2021.

Social Media Influencer Charged with Election Interference Stemming from Voter Disinformation Campaign

A Florida man was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.

www.justice.gov

The defendant is charged with telling people that they could vote on-line or via text--thus negating their votes and promulgating an invalid means of voting.

“Protecting every American citizen’s right to cast a legitimate vote is a key to the success of our republic,” said William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office. “What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft. It is illegal behavior and contributes to the erosion of the public’s trust in our electoral processes. He may have been a powerful social media influencer at the time, but a quick Internet search of his name today will reveal an entirely different story.”


The complaint alleges that in 2016, Mackey established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Election, ranking his account above outlets and individuals such as NBC News (#114), Stephen Colbert (#119) and Newt Gingrich (#141).


As alleged in the complaint, between September 2016 and November 2016, in the lead up to the Nov. 8, 2016, U.S. Presidential Election, Mackey conspired with others to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages designed to encourage supporters of one of the presidential candidates (the “Candidate”) to “vote” via text message or social media, a legally invalid method of voting.


For example, on Nov. 1, 2016, Mackey allegedly tweeted an image that featured an African American woman standing in front of an “African Americans for [the Candidate]” sign. The image included the following text: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text ‘[Candidate’s first name]’ to 59925[.] Vote for [the Candidate] and be a part of history.” The fine print at the bottom of the image stated: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by [Candidate] for President 2016.”


The tweet included the typed hashtags “#Go [Candidate]” and another slogan frequently used by the Candidate. On or about and before Election Day 2016, at least 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted “[Candidate’s first name]” or some derivative to the 59925 text number, which was used in multiple deceptive campaign images tweeted by the defendant and his co-conspirators.

I can understand how that might piss libs off since their biggest voting block are stupid and easily fooled

And whatever bothers the left bothers the Deep State too

 

[CrusaderFrank]

In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.

Yup, the Biden administration claims tbat posting extremely popular funny memes if Hillary Clinton deprived people of their right to vote and damn-near cost Hillary the 2016 election by himself.

Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News

Biden wants to put a young man alleged to be behind a popular pro-Trump meme account in prison for 10 years for mocking Hillary voters.

www.revolver.news

Biggest pile of kindling in the history of humanity

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.

Yup, the Biden administration claims tbat posting extremely popular funny memes if Hillary Clinton deprived people of their right to vote and damn-near cost Hillary the 2016 election by himself.

Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News

Biden wants to put a young man alleged to be behind a popular pro-Trump meme account in prison for 10 years for mocking Hillary voters.

www.revolver.news

Guilty.

MSN

 

[Doug1943]

If what this guy did is not a crime, it should be. Let's concentrate on defending real freedom of speech cases, not fake ones like this.

At the moment, the Enemy is working on shutting down conservative speakers on campus, and attacking our rallies, and trying to close off social media to us. That's where the real attacks are. And that's what we should be trying to do something about.

 

[ColonelAngus]

If what this guy did is not a crime, it should be. Let's concentrate on defending real freedom of speech cases, not fake ones like this.

At the moment, the Enemy is working on shutting down conservative speakers on campus, and attacking our rallies, and trying to close off social media to us. That's where the real attacks are. And that's what we should be trying to do something about.

10 years in the clink and ZERO identified “victims”.

Come the fuck on. This is RIDICULOUS.

Insane DOJ overreach.

 

[easyt65]

If what this guy did is not a crime, it should be. Let's concentrate on defending real freedom of speech cases, not fake ones like this.

I beg to differ but the REAL ELECTION DENIERS just used an OLD anti-KKK law to prosecute an American citizen for SHARING a humorous MEME, by CLAIMING yet NOT BEING ABLE TO PROVE he 'DENIED OTHERS THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE'.

1. Its a 1st Amendment right to share humorous cartoons / memes.

2. The ancient law they used to TARGET a partisan threat, an American who did not support Hillary / Democrats, is an anti-KKK law, a law designed to prevent the racist group THEY started from i tomidating and pre enting blacks from voting.

2. The guy they sent to prison was not a KKK member, was NEVER a KKK member, had no connection to the KKK, and has never been endorsed by tbe KKK or a member of the KKK ... LIKE HILLARY HAS BEEN.

3. He never i tended to deny anyone of their vote, and during the trial THE DOJ FAILED TO PROVE ANYONE HAD BEEN DENIED THEIR VOTE VECAUSE THEY COULD NOT PRODUCE 1 PERSON WHOSE VOTE WAS DENIED - THEY FAILED TO PROVE THE LAW HAD BEEN BROKEN.

4. The DOJ argued that he TRIED to commit the crime and that the fact he failed does not mean he did not try.

- If you want to go down THAT road, Hillary Clinton should be tried and conviced under tbe same old anti-KKK law for her proven false 'Russian Collusion' scandal that was intended to DENY PEOPLE'S VOTE for Trump by making them believe to lie and therefore either not vote at all or not vote for Trump. (Oh, that's right - the Gestapo will not go after Democrats, just non-Democrats...2-tiered banana republic justice system).

5. Despite failing to prove anyone's votes were denied the DOJ still claimed his shari g a Meme could have been / was the reason Hillary lost in 2016.




Yeah, lets just ignore the criminally partisan DOJ targeting conservatives, non-Democrats, Democrats' political opponents, parents, and Catholics...and whover might be next.

 

[easyt65]

10 years in the clink and ZERO identified “victims”. Come the fuck on. This is RIDICULOUS. Insane DOJ overreach.

Spot On!

This is singling out, targeting, and punishing Americans for their opposition to the Socialist Authoritarian Democrat Party, its socialist authoritarian agenda, and its failed policies.

 

[Dragonlady]

In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”

Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.

Yup, the Biden administration claims tbat posting extremely popular funny memes if Hillary Clinton deprived people of their right to vote and damn-near cost Hillary the 2016 election by himself.

Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News

Biden wants to put a young man alleged to be behind a popular pro-Trump meme account in prison for 10 years for mocking Hillary voters.

www.revolver.news

I thought that you opposed "Voter Fraud" Sleazy???? You said that those who deliberately deprive others of the right to vote through fraud, deception, or lies, should be punished. Were you lying when you said it.

 

[Doug1943]

10 years in the clink and ZERO identified “victims”.

Come the fuck on. This is RIDICULOUS.

Insane DOJ overreach.

I agree that 10 years is over-over-over-kill, and undoubtedly politically motivated.

Victims would be those who believed they could vote by text and tried to do so... were there actually none?
Assuming no one was taken in, it's still a crime: if I place a bomb somewhere and it fails to go off, I'm still guilty of something.

What I object to is our becoming like the MSM, with it's "Mostly Peaceful Protests". This wasn't an "Anti-Hillary Meme".

We've got to tell the truth, even when it's unfavorable to us.

 

[Doug1943]

I beg to differ but the REAL ELECTION DENIERS just used an OLD anti-KKK law to prosecute an American citizen for SHARING a humorous MEME, by CLAIMING yet NOT BEING ABLE TO PROVE he 'DENIED OTHERS THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE'.

1. Its a 1st Amendment right to share humorous cartoons / memes.

2. The ancient law they used to TARGET a partisan threat, an American who did not support Hillary / Democrats, is an anti-KKK law, a law designed to prevent the racist group THEY started from i tomidating and pre enting blacks from voting.

2. The guy they sent to prison was not a KKK member, was NEVER a KKK member, had no connection to the KKK, and has never been endorsed by tbe KKK or a member of the KKK ... LIKE HILLARY HAS BEEN.

3. He never i tended to deny anyone of their vote, and during the trial THE DOJ FAILED TO PROVE ANYONE HAD BEEN DENIED THEIR VOTE VECAUSE THEY COULD NOT PRODUCE 1 PERSON WHOSE VOTE WAS DENIED - THEY FAILED TO PROVE THE LAW HAD BEEN BROKEN.

4. The DOJ argued that he TRIED to commit the crime and that the fact he failed does not mean he did not try.

- If you want to go down THAT road, Hillary Clinton should be tried and conviced under tbe same old anti-KKK law for her proven false 'Russian Collusion' scandal that was intended to DENY PEOPLE'S VOTE for Trump by making them believe to lie and therefore either not vote at all or not vote for Trump. (Oh, that's right - the Gestapo will not go after Democrats, just non-Democrats...2-tiered banana republic justice system).

5. Despite failing to prove anyone's votes were denied the DOJ still claimed his shari g a Meme could have been / was the reason Hillary lost in 2016.




Yeah, lets just ignore the criminally partisan DOJ targeting conservatives, non-Democrats, Democrats' political opponents, parents, and Catholics...and whover might be next.

Unless I'm missing something here -- and I read the DOJ indictment -- he tried to trick people into 'voting' by sending texts or emails. It wasn't a joke ... he went to great lengths to make what he wrote appear authentic.

"Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid. For example, on November 1, 2016, in or around the same time that Mackey was sending tweets suggesting the importance of limiting “black turnout,” the defendant tweeted an image depicting an African American woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign. The ad stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,” and “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.” The fine print at the bottom of the deceptive image stated: “Must be 18 or older to vote. One vote per person. Must be a legal citizen of the United States. Voting by text not available in Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska or Hawaii. Paid for by Hillary For President 2016.” The tweet included the typed hashtag “#ImWithHer,” a slogan frequently used by Hillary Clinton. On or about and before Election Day 2016, at least 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted “Hillary” or some derivative to the 59925 text number, which had been used in multiple deceptive campaign images tweeted by Mackey and his co-conspirators."

[ Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Convicted of Election Interference in 2016 Presidential Race ]

The argument that they do bad things to us, so we can do anything we like to them, is a bad one.

In a shooting war, yes. Then, the laws are silent, as the old Roman said. But until we reach that stage, we must be the party of law and order, the party of the Rule of Law. This isn't being goody-goody -- it's part of what we must be and do to win over people who are now neither Left nor Right.

Here's an analogy: the Left, and most liberals, now oppose free speech. When a conservative tries to speak on campuses where they have a lot of people, they turn up at the meeting and violently close it down. The liberals here on US Message Board approve of this, so far as I can tell.

Should we do the same? There are some campuses where we're the majority. If a Young Democrats Club on one of these campuses invited a liberal speaker, should we close down the meeting by violence, like they do? (Again, in a shooting war, yes -- you suppress your enemy's civil liberties. But we're not there yet.)

The convicted man faces a maximum of ten years. He hasn't been sentenced yet. We'll see what he gets.

It's also untrue that the DOJ is used exclusively against conservatives. It's moving in that direction, but it's not there yet.

If it were already there, this would not have happened:

"Expelled former Democratic congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for federal election fraud dating back to 2014, the Justice Department said Tuesday, and was immediately taken into custody.
Myers, 79, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election as part of scams to stuff ballot boxes for certain Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania elections between 2014 and 2018, the DOJ said in a news release."

[ https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/poli...rs-election-fraud-prison-sentenced/index.html ]

 

[ColonelAngus]

I agree that 10 years is over-over-over-kill, and undoubtedly politically motivated.

Victims would be those who believed they could vote by text and tried to do so... were there actually none?
Assuming no one was taken in, it's still a crime: if I place a bomb somewhere and it fails to go off, I'm still guilty of something.

What I object to is our becoming like the MSM, with it's "Mostly Peaceful Protests". This wasn't an "Anti-Hillary Meme".

We've got to tell the truth, even when it's unfavorable to us.

They could not prove ANYONE fell for the MEME.

Pure jury nulification. He was guilty before the trial started.

It is a legal disgrace.

It would be like someone being prosecuted for wearing a shirt that says:

Federal
Boobs
Inspector

Like, literallly. Its laughably absurd.

 

[BackAgain]

Guilty.

MSN

Only hate-filled anti-American shitheads would support that conviction.

 

[Dragonlady]

They could not prove ANYONE fell for the MEME.

Pure jury nulification. He was guilty before the trial started.

It is a legal disgrace.

It would be like someone being prosecuted for wearing a shirt that says:

Federal
Boobs
Inspector

Like, literallly. Its laughably absurd.

Yes they could. The had nearly 5000 attempt to vote by that means.

Just like hundreds of people called hospitals asking about drinking bleach to cure covid after Trump suggested it. Those "Don't do this at home" warnings have validity. Some people really are just that stupid.

 

[Dragonlady]

Only hate-filled anti-American shitheads would support that conviction.

No, only those people who don't believe in the rule of law would object to that conviction. The Trump Cult proves over and over again that they think the laws don't apply to them.