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[–] 100 points 2 years ago (1 child)

$100k bond.

They're gonna destroy this woman because they're fucking her over and she dared to imply she could fight back.

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    There is no possible way that can meet the true threat standard. Unfortunately, the cops will face zero consequences for violating her first amendment rights.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    This is one of those post 9/11 things that really fucked over countless people. I used to work with the homeless and inconsistently homed and the amount of times those people were taken in for “terroristic threats” was obscene

    It depends on the state but generally the laws were hastily passed post 9/11 and give the cops free rein to jail you for saying anything vaguely threatening.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's because the headline left out the very next sentence she said, "You're next"

    Combined, with the fact that it was recorded, it's a very clear threat. The rest of the way it was handled is pure BS, but there is no denying that what she said was a threat.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago

    However, Boston added that she does not own any firearms and “was not a danger to anyone,” police said.

    “She readily admitted that, ‘Yeah that’s exactly what I said but I didn’t mean anything by it’,” Chief Taylor said. “Well, you don’t get to pull that back after you say it.”

    Based on Boston’s statements, investigators said they believed she meant to threaten the insurance company “by using the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s homicide to her advantage.”

    Boston was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, according to the affidavit.

    THIS is why the patriot act and its continued reauthorization is just so fucked. We don't have the rights we did before 2000 and she could not be charged with anything before that. Its especially ironic given she has done less wrong than our incoming president has done in his speeches. Threatening to execute many people rather than just one ceo.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “She’s been in this world long enough that she certainly should know better that you can’t make threats like that in the current environment that we live in and think that we’re not going to follow up and put you in jail,” said Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor.

    Land of the free (as long as you don't say the three No-No words), home of the brave (we will arrest the brave).

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As if the vibe determines how much free speech you get on any given day

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The fact that this happened is way more frightening than any statement she could have made.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Before change can happen the people have to want it.

    Keep saying it.

    KEEP SAYING IT.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago*

    Do you hear the people sing?

    Singing the song of angry men

    This is the music of a people

    Who will not be slaves again

    When the beating of your heart

    Echoes the beating of a drum

    There is a life about to start

    When tomorrow comes

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    is that the sound of 3d printers firing up all across the USA?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Wonder if Chief Piggy Sam Taylor's speech has been entirely free of no-no words his whole life, since that's the standard he's applying here?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Somebody opt to rally like a million different people across the country together to all call their insurance companies on the same day and say delay, deny, depose.

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