Even just intimidating jurors is bad enough. Juries are the only thing keeping the courts from running roughshod through democracy is they chose to.

I’m sure after a year and a half Garland will allow the FBI to think about taking a look.

This was downvoted. Just pointing that out.

Russia Russia Russia… How did that work out for you.

That’s very interesting, I had never heard of it. Thanks!

Edit: looked into it more; here is an article about it that includes an interview with Wilhoit himself. This is the actual site where the comment with the quote was made (scroll down some in the comments section).

The actual comment in its entirety (very impressive comment section on that site tbh…high quality):

Frank Wilhoit 03.22.18 at 12:09 am

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Found em, found the terrorist

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The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence — is shameful.

Historically, fascists (fascisus microdickus), were deep-forest dwelling creatures that would seldom leave their nests except when foraging the nearby land for tobacco or Mountain Dew. In some rare cases, you could catch them gathering lots of copper wiring from old houses for reasons that are still unknown to this day.

Several years ago, it was discovered that there were huge subsidies given in secret to communications companies to provide cheap internet to this developing species. It was assumed that the swift influx of non-baised and healthy information found on the internet could propel these people to heights in society that would have taken them years to do otherwise.

Unfortunately, due to unforseen consequences of a programming error mixed with a substance called jeebus, a condition erupted where they could only answer questions with vague sentences like “Obama gunna take yer guns!” and “You can’t tell me whut to do!”

In a flurry of screeching, they suddenly coalesced into a single gelatinous mass of Skoal, high fructose corn syrup and Budweiser.

In the past, we have been able to stop these things with a well placed nuke or several million pounds of high explosives. I am afraid that since they have been able to establish control over some large wildlife related cable networks, they have been able to target our most vulnerable with the threat of higher taxation rates. This is spiking a huge de-evolution trend like we haven’t seen in years.

It may be too late to do anything now.

Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook

Or a book?

One of those groups are corrupt government officials and the other is citizens compelled by law to do their duty.

One of those groups is protesters peacefully opposing a public official. The other is seeking to harass and intimidate, possibly assault or injure, jurors. That’s not turnabout.

Be interested to see if you had such a cavalier attitude if you were one of the jurors now required to sequester for their safety or have armed police officers outside of your home so your spouse and children are safe while you’re off fulfilling your mandated civil service at jury duty.

Worse yet maybe you’re one of the law enforcement professionals who has their life forever altered because they have to use deadly force while on their security detail at one of those homes, protecting innocent lives, because some radicals thought it was “fair play” to leak addresses and names of innocent members of a jury.

But these are just my two cents, and with inflation we know two cents isn’t worth what it used to be.

Not when it comes to fascists, no.

Death threats for citizens doing their jury duty and indicting based on evidence vs citizens practicing their rights and peacefully protesting. Is that truly what you consider fair game?

Ok, next protest’s at your house ;)

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I thought that was mighty convenient verbiage when I saw it too. Donald Trump is the deified god-incarnate of every 14 year old internet edgelord. Unfortunately that also represents the political desires of roughly (30%) of the electorate.