Highlights from Don Lemon’s indictment

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America isn’t complicated:   

"So let’s be clear where is mind is at. He doesn’t say “they” are about to do this thing. He says “we.” Don Lemon in his own words:" . . ."

. . . "For openers, the indictment alleges that Lemon met the group of 30 or so co-conspirators for a “pre-op” planning session in which the leaders of the group “provided instruction on how the operation would be conducted once they arrived at the church.” Later that morning, Don Lemon “began live-streaming” and “explained to his audience” he was with a group about to perform a “resistance” operation, but he did not mention that it was in church. He kept that part secret. That decision on his part, the government alleges, was an “over act” in furtherance of the conspiracy. (Overt Act #5).

As someone on X observed, if it’s okay for Don Lemon to disrupt church services and physically block parishioners trying to exit while trying to “educate” them on immigration law, then it’s okay for a pro-lifer to enter the an abortion clinic and intimidate and harass the pregnant patients there waiting for their abortions while trying to “educate” them on the baby they’re carrying. Of course, we would never do that, but that’s the flip side of this coin.

So let’s be clear where is mind is at. He doesn’t say “they” are about to do this thing. He says “we.” Don Lemon in his own words:" . . .   “after we do this operation” —Don Lemon

Don Lemon and 3 Others Arrested, Charged With Conspiracy to Deprive Civil Rights and FACE Act Violations › American Greatness   

"Lemon “briefly resisted” his arrest “after he had been handcuffed in a Los Angeles hotel lobby and was taken to an elevator,” law enforcement sources told Newsmax reporter James Rosen.

"Agitators disrupted the service and “intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized the parishioners, including young children, and caused the service to be cut short,” according to a federal affidavit."

"Churchgoers told law enforcement that members of their parish attempted to retrieve their children from a childcare area located downstairs, but the agitators were blocking the stairs, and the parents were unable to get to their children. One churchgoer later expressed fear that the agitators may have guns underneath their jackets and noted that aisles were blocked, making it difficult to leave." . . .

 . . . "Lemon, in his own words, knew what the protesters were going to do, and agreed that “traumatic and uncomfortable” was exactly what these white (as he observed later in an interview) parishioners, coming from an “entitled” place of “white supremacy,” needed to experience. I sincerely hope they add a hate crime to this thing. I’m not fond of “hate crime” laws as a general matter, but if we got ‘em, we should use ‘em." . . .

As MSNOW would have it: Elie Mystal Says Don Lemon Getting Arrested Is White Supremacy  “It’s limited to speech, which means it does not protect the method of gathering the information or delivering the information as a journalist. What you say is not a problem. If you say something offensive, that is protected. It’s not the words, it’s the weapons.”

"The question at hand is what to do when journalists are no longer acting as journalists but have turned into activists, and, in some cases, have engaged in crimes.

" 'That is really what this discussion is about and what this decision is going to be,” Crowder added." . . .