The following report is by Reason (excerpts):
Back in December, during an interview with a local NBC affiliate about blunders by officials in the lead-up to the Lewiston mass shooting, Maine Gov. Janet Mills left the door open to tighter gun restrictions, including a ban on so-called “assault weapons.” That segment was picked up and publicized by The Maine Wire, a conservative-leaning news site. That outlet’s post, in turn, drew a pungent comment from the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), a pugnacious self-defense rights group that pulls no punches when it comes to defending individual liberty. So, of course the governor’s office went crying to the cops.
“Documents obtained by the Maine Wire via a Freedom of Access Act show that Gov. Janet Mills’ personnel referred social media posts from the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Maine Wire to the State Police, flagging them for the governor’s Executive Protection Unit,” The Maine Wire‘s Steve Robinson reported last week.
The posts in question were entirely unthreatening, except perhaps to sensitive feelings. The Maine Wire added nothing to the video clip except for a short summary of the content: “Governor Mills is leaving the door open for a possible assault weapons ban following the Lewiston shooting.”
The FPC was, characteristically, a little sharper: “Hey @GovJanetMills, Three words: F*** you. No.”
That’s short, to the point, and perhaps a bit sharp, but it implies no threats whatsoever.
Nevertheless, The Maine Wire found emails showing that Mills’ press secretary passed a link to the post around the office, and that “another staffer immediately forwarded the post to the Maine State Police employee responsible for protecting the governor.”
According to Robinson, this isn’t the first time officials in the Democrat-led state government have tried to get the outlet in legal hot water. Emails revealed the office of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows questioning if an article illustration depicting a stylized presidential ballot featuring only the Joe Biden–Kamala Harris ticket qualified as a “fake ballot” since it showed the state seal. This happened after Bellows tried to boot Republican Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot.
“The disdain for natural rights by government officials like Maine Governor Mills and Secretary of State Bellows bolsters our commitment to our mission to render them irrelevant,” the FPC responded to the dust-up over the X post referral.
In a July 18 letter to Mills and Bellows, FPC President Brandon Combs vowed, “we take First Amendment-protected rights just as seriously as we do others.”
“You must surely be aware that our X post responding to Governor Mills’s discussion of an immoral ban on protected arms is clearly protected speech as there is absolutely no uncertainty about the law regarding this form of speech. If not, some education is in order,” the letter continued. “Naked authoritarianism, such as efforts to chill free speech, is not acceptable to FPC and our members. We strongly encourage you to learn more about protected speech and arms.”
When abusing the power of the state to punish critics becomes the norm, it erases the line between people who have committed actual criminal acts, and those who have just pissed off the powerful. That’s what lands us at the point when the office of a state governor refers insulting social media posts for the state police to do something about.
Read the entire report here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Two things:
First, publicly cursing your leaders – like them or hate them – is not wise. Criticism is one thing, especially in the U.S., where it’s supposed to be legal to criticize politicians and public servants, but cursing them so brazenly is not a good idea.
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Having said that, Mills is indeed another one of these self-absorbed paper tyrants, who thinks she is some sort of queen of royalty, that when criticism comes her way she just runs to the police to shut up people she doesn’t like, or quiet speech that she does not agree with; and the people have every right to criticize her.
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Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Evil, evil woman! She’s a Jezebel if I ever saw one!
But, par for the course because America is wicked, their leaders are also wicked.
These western women are doomed. I’m not trying to advocate MGTOW but it’s a thing and going strong because western women are so evil and such spoiled over-pampered brats. Men are either MGTOW or they’re passport bros getting a wife from the Philippines, Thailand, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Japan and other nations where traditional women are celebrated and the rule.
Except then you run into the issue of mixed kindred marriage, which comes with its own host of problems.
Yeah you’re right Andrey, I agree with ya.
That’s the catch-22 to passport bro marriages, it also ruins and mingles the kindreds.
Such a shame, such a pity. This is one of the hallmark signs of the very last days and we’re seconds away from the catching up!
Waaa, Waaa, he said a swear word at me, call the police.
I’ll bet the police jumped right on it.
When I grew up it was: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me. People utta take that to heart and quite being so “triggered” by every little word and having a mental melt down. Boo Hoo
This exactly why women do no belong in politics lol
The police need to give this Janet Mills character a stern lecture about the incorrect use of emergency services, yet these days I suspect that they’ll shrug and say nothing at best. That’s justice in America these days, while some victims can get the justice they deserve, a lot of time time the perpetrator of a crime are given a slap on the wrist. And that’s not including the times officers and authorities turn a blind eye to crime, which happens far too much these days.