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Other States Look To Texas For Advice On How To Get Democrats To Leave
The GOP are fascists who hate our form of government (democracy)
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Other States Look To Texas For Advice On How To Get Democrats To Leave
remember kids, theocracies are bad 'mkay:
inb4 buzzfeed lol
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/woman-hate-crime-destroying-back-the-blue-sign
A 19-year-old woman was charged with a hate crime in Utah after a sheriff's deputy accused her of destroying a "Back the Blue" sign and "smirking" at him in an "intimidating manner" following a routine traffic stop at a gas station last week.
Lauren Gibson of California was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief with a hate crime enhancement — a misdemeanor committed with the "intent to intimidate or terrorize another person."
The charge carries a maximum one-year sentence.
Garfield County Sheriff's Deputy Cree Carter wrote in a probable cause affidavit that he saw Gibson "stomping on a 'Back the Blue' sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumble it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me."
Carter also wrote that the allegations were being treated as a hate crime because of "the demeanor displayed by Gibson in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a 'Pro Law Enforcement' sign."
The Garfield County Attorney's Office did not return a request for comment.
The ACLU of Utah said the charging decision "sends an extremely chilling message to the community that the government will seek harsher punishment for people charged with crimes who disagree with police actions."
In a statement Monday, the organization said it has consistently warned that hate crime enhancements are often used to "single out unpopular groups or messages rather than provide protections for marginalized communities."
"Bringing a charge against this person that could result in her spending a year in jail makes no sense both in terms of simple fairness and expending the county’s time and money," the ACLU said.
Gibson told the Daily Beast on Monday that while she was not "anti-police," she believed that they tend to abuse their power.
Her attorney did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Gibson said that she and her friends were returning to California in cars after camping in Panguitch on July 7, when the sheriff's deputy pulled them over and wrote her friend a ticket for speeding.
Gibson said that she got angry over how the sheriff's deputy treated her friend during the traffic stop, saying he was aggressive. Gibson said she then picked up a rusted "Back the Blue sign" that she and her friends had kept in a car after finding it on the side of a road, waved it at the deputy, stepped on it, and threw it in the trash.
“I just wanted to, I don’t know, make her feel better or something or stand up for her,” Gibson told the Daily Beast, adding that she was shocked by the charge.
The Garfield County Sheriff's Office disputed Gibson's claim, saying that the officer did not give any of the occupants of the vehicles a ticket.
In a statement Wednesday, the sheriff's office said the deputy initiated a traffic stop at the gas stop after three vehicles were going 50 mph in a 30 mph zone. The officer advised the drivers to slow down, but did not give them a ticket, the statement added.
The sheriff's office alleged that Gibson used a stolen "Back the Blue" sign and showed "extremely aggressive and violent behavior towards the officer in a very busy parking lot."
However, in court documents, the deputy did not describe any violent behavior by Gibson and did not provide evidence of the sign being stolen.
In his affidavit, Carter wrote that he confronted Gibson about where she got the "Back the Blue" sign from after he saw her destroying it. He said that Gibson told him it was her mother's sign and that she was in California. He also said that he told Gibson those signs were made by the sheriff's office, but he could not determine where the sign had been taken from.
Carter wrote that he separated Gibson from her friends and began questioning her about where she had acquired the sign. He accused her of offering "inconsistent stories" before she said she found it on the ground. Carter said that he arrested her because she destroyed property that did not belong to her "in an attempt to intimidate" him.
In their statement, the sheriff's office said that Gibson "purposely targeted the officer in a very unpeaceful manner," describing the deputy as a veteran with an "exemplary record" and without a single complaint against him.
The statement said that the sheriff's deputy was "singled out and attacked by this person because he was a law enforcement officer."
The sheriff's office also said that the "Back the Blue" signs were made in Panguitch and are found in yards and businesses all over Garfield County.
"We are greatly disturbed by the hatred shown to law enforcement officers for no apparent reason," the sheriff's office said. "We are hopeful that this country can mend and heal from the division."
In 2019, Utah passed a hate crime law that provides harsher penalties for people convicted of targeting victims based not only on their personal attributes, such as race, gender, and age, but also things like their "status as a law enforcement officer," among others.
Last August, the Garfield County Sheriff's Office arrested and charged Joseph Dawson with a hate crime for vandalizing a "Back the Blue" sign in Escalante. Dawson, 32, was accused of pulling down the sign and spray-painting the word "bisexual" over the word "blue" in pink letters, the Daily Beast reported.
He spent two nights in county jail, was sentenced to a year's probation, and fined $500.
inb4 buzzfeed lol
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/woman-hate-crime-destroying-back-the-blue-sign
A 19-year-old woman was charged with a hate crime in Utah after a sheriff's deputy accused her of destroying a "Back the Blue" sign and "smirking" at him in an "intimidating manner" following a routine traffic stop at a gas station last week.
Lauren Gibson of California was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief with a hate crime enhancement — a misdemeanor committed with the "intent to intimidate or terrorize another person."
The charge carries a maximum one-year sentence.
Garfield County Sheriff's Deputy Cree Carter wrote in a probable cause affidavit that he saw Gibson "stomping on a 'Back the Blue' sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumble it up in a destructive manner and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me."
Carter also wrote that the allegations were being treated as a hate crime because of "the demeanor displayed by Gibson in attempts to intimidate law enforcement while destroying a 'Pro Law Enforcement' sign."
The Garfield County Attorney's Office did not return a request for comment.
The ACLU of Utah said the charging decision "sends an extremely chilling message to the community that the government will seek harsher punishment for people charged with crimes who disagree with police actions."
In a statement Monday, the organization said it has consistently warned that hate crime enhancements are often used to "single out unpopular groups or messages rather than provide protections for marginalized communities."
"Bringing a charge against this person that could result in her spending a year in jail makes no sense both in terms of simple fairness and expending the county’s time and money," the ACLU said.
Gibson told the Daily Beast on Monday that while she was not "anti-police," she believed that they tend to abuse their power.
Her attorney did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Gibson said that she and her friends were returning to California in cars after camping in Panguitch on July 7, when the sheriff's deputy pulled them over and wrote her friend a ticket for speeding.
Gibson said that she got angry over how the sheriff's deputy treated her friend during the traffic stop, saying he was aggressive. Gibson said she then picked up a rusted "Back the Blue sign" that she and her friends had kept in a car after finding it on the side of a road, waved it at the deputy, stepped on it, and threw it in the trash.
“I just wanted to, I don’t know, make her feel better or something or stand up for her,” Gibson told the Daily Beast, adding that she was shocked by the charge.
The Garfield County Sheriff's Office disputed Gibson's claim, saying that the officer did not give any of the occupants of the vehicles a ticket.
In a statement Wednesday, the sheriff's office said the deputy initiated a traffic stop at the gas stop after three vehicles were going 50 mph in a 30 mph zone. The officer advised the drivers to slow down, but did not give them a ticket, the statement added.
The sheriff's office alleged that Gibson used a stolen "Back the Blue" sign and showed "extremely aggressive and violent behavior towards the officer in a very busy parking lot."
However, in court documents, the deputy did not describe any violent behavior by Gibson and did not provide evidence of the sign being stolen.
In his affidavit, Carter wrote that he confronted Gibson about where she got the "Back the Blue" sign from after he saw her destroying it. He said that Gibson told him it was her mother's sign and that she was in California. He also said that he told Gibson those signs were made by the sheriff's office, but he could not determine where the sign had been taken from.
Carter wrote that he separated Gibson from her friends and began questioning her about where she had acquired the sign. He accused her of offering "inconsistent stories" before she said she found it on the ground. Carter said that he arrested her because she destroyed property that did not belong to her "in an attempt to intimidate" him.
In their statement, the sheriff's office said that Gibson "purposely targeted the officer in a very unpeaceful manner," describing the deputy as a veteran with an "exemplary record" and without a single complaint against him.
The statement said that the sheriff's deputy was "singled out and attacked by this person because he was a law enforcement officer."
The sheriff's office also said that the "Back the Blue" signs were made in Panguitch and are found in yards and businesses all over Garfield County.
"We are greatly disturbed by the hatred shown to law enforcement officers for no apparent reason," the sheriff's office said. "We are hopeful that this country can mend and heal from the division."
In 2019, Utah passed a hate crime law that provides harsher penalties for people convicted of targeting victims based not only on their personal attributes, such as race, gender, and age, but also things like their "status as a law enforcement officer," among others.
Last August, the Garfield County Sheriff's Office arrested and charged Joseph Dawson with a hate crime for vandalizing a "Back the Blue" sign in Escalante. Dawson, 32, was accused of pulling down the sign and spray-painting the word "bisexual" over the word "blue" in pink letters, the Daily Beast reported.
He spent two nights in county jail, was sentenced to a year's probation, and fined $500.
So throwing a Back the Blue sign in the trash is now a serious crime???
Cops suddenly crumbling al the criticism but still no desire to fix any issues...
Cops suddenly crumbling al the criticism but still no desire to fix any issues...
https://www.newsweek.com/ex-trump-o...onal-security-threat-us-isis-al-qaeda-1610470
Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor has slammed the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP represents a greater threat to the country than U.S.-designated terrorist groups ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Taylor served as the chief of staff to the secretary of Homeland Security under former President Donald Trump from February 2019 to September 2019 and worked for the Department of Homeland Security in the previous administration for more than two years. However, Taylor went on to publicly condemn Trump and work with conservative groups to campaign against the former president ahead of the 2020 election.
During a Thursday evening interview with MSNBC, Taylor touted his credentials working in national security and said that the present-day Republican Party represents the "number one national security threat" to the country. Notably, Taylor still described himself as a member of the GOP.
"I'm a national security guy. I've worked in national security against ISIS and Al Qaeda and Russia," he said. "And the number one national security threat I've ever seen in my life to this country's democracy is the party that I'm in, the Republican Party." Taylor reiterated that the GOP "is the number one national security threat to the United States of America."
The former Trump administration official cautioned that if Republicans retake the House of Representatives in 2022 that it will "become a haunted house." He argued that Trump would be the "ghoul and the specter" haunting the legislative chamber. Taylor said that if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, became Speaker of the House that it would "really be Donald Trump's hand on the speaker's gavel."
"The fact that Kevin McCarthy continues to pay homage to a twice-impeached presidential loser should give all Americans pause and make them worry about the future of this country," Taylor said.
Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for a second time a week after he helped incite hundreds of his supporters to violently attack the U.S. Capitol in an effort to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory. Ten Republican members of the House voted with Democrats in that vote.
The former president's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, as many held or wore Confederate flags and other racist symbols. The violent crowd was animated by Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was "rigged" or "stolen" by Democrats. Just prior to the insurrection, the then president urged his supporters to "fight like hell" to keep him in office at a rally near the White House.
When the Senate held the impeachment trial for the former president in February, seven Republicans voted with all 50 members of the chamber's Democratic caucus to convict the former president. Although this marked the most bipartisan presidential conviction vote in U.S. history, it fell short of the high constitutional threshold (a two-thirds majority) for a successful guilty verdict.
Meanwhile, Trump and his loyalist allies continue to spread lies and misinformation about the 2020 election. These baseless allegations have been thoroughly litigated and wholly discredited. Dozens of election challenge lawsuits filed by Trump and his supporters have failed in state and federal courts. Even judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans have rejected the allegations.
Recounts and audits in key battleground states, including in places where the election was overseen by pro-Trump Republicans, have reaffirmed Biden's win. Former Attorney General William Barr, who was widely viewed as one of Trump's most loyal Cabinet members, said in December that there was "no evidence" to support the claims of widespread voter fraud leading to Biden's victory. Furthermore, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency at the Department of Homeland Security, which was led by a Trump appointee, asserted that the 2020 election was the "most secure in American history."
But a significant majority of Republicans appear to believe Trump's lies about the election results. Polling conducted by Quinnipiac in May found that two-thirds (66 percent) do not believe Biden is the legitimate president. Another May survey by Reuters/Ipsos showed that 53 percent of Republicans still believed Trump was the rightful president.
Key allies of the former president—such as My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and other prominent conservatives—have been hosting or participating in routine rallies promoting false claims about the 2020 election. The events often attract thousands of Trump supporters who appear to accept the misinformation as factual, with many expressing a belief that control of the country's government has been stolen.
Taylor infamously penned an anonymous 2018 opinion article in The New York Times, describing himself and others as the "resistance" within the Trump administration. He later anonymously published a book titled A Warning in late 2019 about his time serving under the former president. Just ahead of the presidential election, in October 2020, Taylor revealed himself as the anonymous author of the article and the book.
Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor has slammed the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP represents a greater threat to the country than U.S.-designated terrorist groups ISIS and Al Qaeda.
Taylor served as the chief of staff to the secretary of Homeland Security under former President Donald Trump from February 2019 to September 2019 and worked for the Department of Homeland Security in the previous administration for more than two years. However, Taylor went on to publicly condemn Trump and work with conservative groups to campaign against the former president ahead of the 2020 election.
During a Thursday evening interview with MSNBC, Taylor touted his credentials working in national security and said that the present-day Republican Party represents the "number one national security threat" to the country. Notably, Taylor still described himself as a member of the GOP.
"I'm a national security guy. I've worked in national security against ISIS and Al Qaeda and Russia," he said. "And the number one national security threat I've ever seen in my life to this country's democracy is the party that I'm in, the Republican Party." Taylor reiterated that the GOP "is the number one national security threat to the United States of America."
The former Trump administration official cautioned that if Republicans retake the House of Representatives in 2022 that it will "become a haunted house." He argued that Trump would be the "ghoul and the specter" haunting the legislative chamber. Taylor said that if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, became Speaker of the House that it would "really be Donald Trump's hand on the speaker's gavel."
"The fact that Kevin McCarthy continues to pay homage to a twice-impeached presidential loser should give all Americans pause and make them worry about the future of this country," Taylor said.
Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for a second time a week after he helped incite hundreds of his supporters to violently attack the U.S. Capitol in an effort to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory. Ten Republican members of the House voted with Democrats in that vote.
The former president's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, as many held or wore Confederate flags and other racist symbols. The violent crowd was animated by Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was "rigged" or "stolen" by Democrats. Just prior to the insurrection, the then president urged his supporters to "fight like hell" to keep him in office at a rally near the White House.
When the Senate held the impeachment trial for the former president in February, seven Republicans voted with all 50 members of the chamber's Democratic caucus to convict the former president. Although this marked the most bipartisan presidential conviction vote in U.S. history, it fell short of the high constitutional threshold (a two-thirds majority) for a successful guilty verdict.
Meanwhile, Trump and his loyalist allies continue to spread lies and misinformation about the 2020 election. These baseless allegations have been thoroughly litigated and wholly discredited. Dozens of election challenge lawsuits filed by Trump and his supporters have failed in state and federal courts. Even judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans have rejected the allegations.
Recounts and audits in key battleground states, including in places where the election was overseen by pro-Trump Republicans, have reaffirmed Biden's win. Former Attorney General William Barr, who was widely viewed as one of Trump's most loyal Cabinet members, said in December that there was "no evidence" to support the claims of widespread voter fraud leading to Biden's victory. Furthermore, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency at the Department of Homeland Security, which was led by a Trump appointee, asserted that the 2020 election was the "most secure in American history."
But a significant majority of Republicans appear to believe Trump's lies about the election results. Polling conducted by Quinnipiac in May found that two-thirds (66 percent) do not believe Biden is the legitimate president. Another May survey by Reuters/Ipsos showed that 53 percent of Republicans still believed Trump was the rightful president.
Key allies of the former president—such as My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and other prominent conservatives—have been hosting or participating in routine rallies promoting false claims about the 2020 election. The events often attract thousands of Trump supporters who appear to accept the misinformation as factual, with many expressing a belief that control of the country's government has been stolen.
Taylor infamously penned an anonymous 2018 opinion article in The New York Times, describing himself and others as the "resistance" within the Trump administration. He later anonymously published a book titled A Warning in late 2019 about his time serving under the former president. Just ahead of the presidential election, in October 2020, Taylor revealed himself as the anonymous author of the article and the book.
Attachments
apparently a worse crime than attempting a violent coup by the sentences netted so far.