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DO NOT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR 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
______________________Douglass Mackey is alleged to be one of the many anonymous Twitter users who made the 2016 election so different, so memorable, and so important. Like other anonymous internet memesmiths (anons), Mackey had no external reason that anyone should care what he said. He held no office. He had no byline at an elite publication. He had no vast pool of wealth that conferred legitimacy, deserved or undeserved, on what he had to say. Mackey’s notability, like that of Bronze Age Pervert or Libs of TikTok, came exclusively from what he had to say, and that people found it funny and compelling. Over the summer and fall of 2016, Mackey allegedly went by the nom-de-tweet Ricky Vaughn (after Charlie Sheen’s character in Major League) and collected tens of thousands of followers who found him funny and compelling. Mackey was not single-handedly responsible for getting Donald Trump elected. But the work he allegedly did along with dozens of others is what made Trump’s victory possible. An MIT analysis estimated that Ricky Vaughn was a bigger influence on the 2016 election than NBC News. But for the regime, the specter of anonymous individuals making the system tremble was too much. And so, for more than two years, the regime has been battling to send Mackey to prison. You might not know much about Mackey’s case. It’s far less notorious than the January 6 prosecutions, or the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. But in terms of how much the speech matters for American liberty, it is as important as either of those — perhaps more so. 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.
Specifically, the DOJ claims that the above meme merits a prison sentence of up to ten years, for violation of 18 U.S. Code § 241. The law, which concerns “Conspiracy against rights,” is a subset of the Enforcement Act of 1871, better known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. The DOJ’s argument is that, by posting the above memes on Twitter in 2016, and designing it to resemble a Hillary Clinton ad, Mackey deceived the public into casting invalid text message votes, as part of a conspiracy to deprive them of the right to vote. To be clear, the federal government can’t show that this actually happened. But the government says that proving a dumb meme fooled a single person is not necessary to find one guilty of the dastardly crime of disinformation. [Revolver encourages anyone able to donate to the case at MEMEDEFENSEFUND.com. You can also donate crypto or send cash or check by going to douglassmackey.com, or if you prefer GiveSendGo, go to givesendgo.com/douglassmackeycase.] To drive home the absurdity of the charge, it’s worth quoting the relevant law in full:
Reading the law, it’s obvious how it was aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. It is plainly, and obviously, meant to criminalize physical violence, threats, or intimidation used to prevent people from exercising constitutional rights, such as the right to vote. Now, the DOJ claims that the law’s scope includes possibly tricking someone with a meme on Twitter. At the risk of being tedious, we will explain: memes promoting incorrect election dates are old hat. People have been making them online and in print since at least 2000, and who are we kidding, probably well before that. They’re either a humorous indication of one’s desire to win a race, or else a political in-joke — “Man, Democrats/Republicans are so stupid they’d probably believe someone telling them election day is Wednesday!” And of course, it doesn’t matter if some people were too dumb to get the joke. As the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in the 2013 case Farah v. Esquire:
Is the joke a very good one? People can disagree. But it’s absolutely a joke that existed long before 2016, and until the Biden DOJ decided otherwise, it was never a crime. This bears mentioning over and over again, if necessary: the law has never been used in this way before. This case is a drastic escalation in the use of “disinformation” as an excuse to target dissenting political voices. A regime that previously relied on deplatforming or doxing (both of which have already been used on Mackey) now makes use of outright felony prosecutions with the threat of decade-long prison sentences. The case against Mackey is facially ridiculous. The charges, first brought two whole years ago, should have been immediately tossed out in court. Yet, incredibly, in mid-January, Mackey’s bid to have the case thrown out was rejected by Clinton-appointed district court judge Nicholas G. Garaufis. Yet reading through Garaufis’s ruling rejecting the motion to dismiss does all the work necessary to show how repugnant and feeble the case is. “This case is about conspiracy and injury, not speech,” writes Garaufis. Yet the government has produced no injured party, and there is no conduct that has occurred besides Mackey’s speech. Then, Garaufis proceeds to make one of the darkest, yet also most ridiculous comparisons imaginable:
In a sequence straight out of a black comedy, Garaufis’s ruling describes what is plainly a freewheeling online groupchat as though it was a plot to overthrow the government.
Yes, the government is using the “Draft Our Daughters” meme as evidence to claim Mackey should go to prison. Permission is hereby granted to any and all to copy and paste any entry on this page and convey it electronically along with its URL, ______________________ |
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