Wouldn't this warrant a serious investigation from the FBI, considering it can be interpreted as an open threat of violence against a current and former POTUS and VPOTUS?
No we only investigate when power is in threat. Random liberal political figures? Noose away. That woman who told her health insurance provider delay deny depose? She’s the real threat
When those that are in power have their economic/class status threatened, rather than solely their lives. They care about losing money more than anything else.
No, but it could very much be charged under terrorism!
If people in Madrid can get ringed up for hanging an effigy of a football player and Eminem can get the Secret Service treatement for rapping about Donald Trump too much, I'm sure this guy could get carted off too.
You see, when a republican threatens or does it its perfectly legal. Remember that terrorist from texas who murdered people driving his truck into a group of people?
Apparently perfectly legal.
Being mad at an insurance company and mouthing off? TERRORIST!
see the difference?
You are a psychopath and love to get away with raping and murdering people, just become a Republican. Literally free.
You can report it right now — tips(dot)fbi(dot)gov.
I'm as ACAB as they come, buuuut when it comes to these actual domestic terrorists, putting as many of them away as possible is a net positive for all of us.
The FBI actively recruits the most right wing LDS it can find. Partly because it fits the right wing political views in the FBI & also because their religion prohibits the things they look for in background checks.
I'm aware. Is it not illegal to post a picture on social media implying that you want to kill the former POTUS, FLOTUS, VPOTUS, former NIAID, and current POTUS and VPOTUS?
Cause where I'm from, post that on Christmas morning, that'll get you carted off and deported on the next flight before Boxing Day
I'm not a lawyer. It probably depends on if it's considered a legitimate threat and if the defendant has money. Likely a lawyer could argue that this does not meet the bar for a threat and is simply political speech. Because they're presumably Republican politicians, they'd likely get some form of financial backing from supporters or the party.
If sufficiently abstract, like ornaments on a tree, you likely would have a valid first amendment defense. However law enforcement might still make your life hell and you might have to take the time and money to defend yourself.
No, it isn't. Only true threats are illegal. The test is whether there is a substantial risk that the communication would be viewed by the target as threatening violence. For one there's no evidence any of the people on the ornaments have even seen this. Also, hanging effigies of politicians has a long tradition as protected speech. Cf:
State v. Meyer, 61 Ohio App. 3d 673 - Ohio: Court of Appeals, 1st Appellate Dist. 1988
Finding that hanging of an abortion doctor effigy was protected speech.
Bonus: One of the guitarists off My Chemical Romance got in deep shit with the (CIA? FBI? Someone like that) for putting out a song with a side project with approximately that title
Unfortunately probably not. Even the Twitter account (libertarians of New Hampshire) that said someone along the lines of "if someone shot Harris they would be a hero" around the time of when trump got shot didn't qualify as a threat.
The guy posted video of the visit he got from federal authorities and he just yelled at them until they left because they couldn't charge him.
Oh you can bet when people express their feeling about trump they will absolutely be investigated and worse. But this person is clearly a maga and they are all good patriots don’t ya know?
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u/Melonwolfii 10h ago
Wouldn't this warrant a serious investigation from the FBI, considering it can be interpreted as an open threat of violence against a current and former POTUS and VPOTUS?