Police visit over 'You lack values' postcard sparks First Amendment debate

[Moonglow]

Oh I don't doubt, this is something that I have heard of on the internet, too.

Honestly, if I were the Israeli government, I would be in a cold sweat right now. People are talking, the internet is free (well, for now), and some information simply cannot be concealed from the public forever. Either they change their way, or they start killing even more massive amounts of people.

They plan on it.

 

[MayorQuimby]

They plan on it.

And it gives you boners.

 

[Moonglow]

And it gives you boners.

Like petals on a dead flower, they will fall away from life.

 

[pknopp]

Agreed, but threatening is another thing.

This “story” is from a leftwing rag that only got one side of the story, who is a leftwing lunatic himself. Why else would places like raw sewage carry the story?

Find where he threatened anyone and ill reasses.

 

[MayorQuimby]

Like petals on a dead flower, they will fall away from life.

You sound like a multi-dicked leper.

 

[Moonglow]

You sound like a multi-dicked leper.

I am glad you noticed yer superior.

 

[Concerned American]

Agreed, but threatening is another thing.

This “story” is from a leftwing rag that only got one side of the story, who is a leftwing lunatic himself. Why else would places like raw sewage carry the story?

All of this hubbub about an "assessment of threat"? This is ridiculous--left wing rag is having a slow news day so they're looking for something to keep their base stirred up. By pknopp's response, it worked---at least on her.

 

[Concerned American]

Find where he threatened anyone and ill reasses.

Find where he was asked for anymore than five minutes of info and I'll reassess. You and he are snowflakes.

 

[MayorQuimby]

I am glad you noticed yer superior.

Why would I bow to a quasi-zombie with mutated dicks that are falling off like dead rotting flesh.

 

[pknopp]

Find where he was asked for anymore than five minutes of info and I'll reassess. You and he are snowflakes.

Yeah, never question the government.......

 

[Moonglow]

Why would I bow to a quasi-zombie with mutated dicks that are falling off like dead rotting flesh.

It's a living.

 

[Concerned American]

Yeah, never question the government.......

You never questioned the gov't during the abuses that the democrats have heaped up during the past eight years and now you're concerned because a guy was asked some questions on his door step for five minutes. I question my government all the time---I don't make mountains of mole hills in order to advance a political narrative, unlike you.

 

[pknopp]

You never questioned the gov't during the abuses that the democrats have heaped up during the past eight years and now you're concerned because a guy was asked some questions on his door step for five minutes. I question my government all the time---I don't make mountains of mole hills in order to advance a political narrative, unlike you.

Blah, blah, blah. You voted them into office so look in the mirror.

 

[Concerned American]

Blah, blah, blah. You voted them into office so look in the mirror.

Blah, blah, blah, I'm not complaining because they are attempting to protect and maintain order like we hired them to do. Let's speak the truth a bit, eh anarchist?

 

[Correll]

‘Minutes before 9 a.m. on Oct. 1, Catherine O'Gara's morning was overwhelmed by two sounds: Loud knocks on the door of her Pinellas County home, and the barking from her Australian shepherd, Red.

Of all reasons to open the door, she didn't expect two armed police officers. They were looking, it turns out, for her husband James.

It was all over a postcard that said only, "YOU LACK VALUES," in the ink of a large black marker. The recipient? Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia.
[…]
The O’Garas’ story highlights a growing tension in Florida and beyond, between government efforts to guard against threats to public officials and the right of citizens to criticize those in power.

What the couple viewed as an ordinary act of political expression became, within weeks, a law enforcement “threat assessment,” a sequence of events that free speech experts say risks chilling dissent and eroding the boundaries of protected political speech.’

Police visit over 'You lack values' postcard sparks First Amendment debate

A Largo man sent a postcard to Florida's chief financial officer that said "YOU LACK VALUES." Then armed police showed up at this doorstep.

www.tallahassee.com

“threat assessment”

This is the authoritarian right’s new tactic to silence political opposition – falsely accuse legitimate, appropriate criticism of elected officials as a ‘potential threat’ in violation of the First Amendment.

Conservatives aren’t advocates of free speech, they’re advocates of lawless intimidation.

Well that does sound bad, two obvious points come to mind.

1. Leftards lie all the time, so I have no reason to take your claims at face value.

and


2. Leftards have declared war on America, so them whining about us playing by the rules they have set by their actions, is completely FAIR.

Suck it up buttercup.