So recently I have come across a breaking news article of an incident which I think highly demon straights why fed posting in general is a bad idea.
For newbies who don't know what 'Fedposting' is it is defined as.
Now there are a lot of arguments in this day and age about the nature of free speech and if it truly ever is free and how far that freedom can go before going too far and becoming unreasonable, my point isn't to take sides in this but to point out the sometimes severe consequences that can result by those who overstep the definitions of the powers that be.
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Who was Craig Robertson? What we know about the armed Trump supporter shot dead in Utah FBI raid
'Remember Waco and Ruby Ridge': Man killed by FBI for making Biden death threat memes already a far-right rallying cry
Now to point out obvious, we don't have all details on how this shooting went down yet or who shot first, but I think I need to say this is a cautionary tale of how regardless of how we think the world should be or how laws are defined we aren't the ones who decide how they are enforced nor are we the enforcers.
This guy was an overweight 75-year-old walking around with a cane, I don't think he was really planning on doing anything to Biden and most likely was just blustering edginess online, but at the same time I also can't say he wasn't extremely reckless in his online posting behavior the entire ordeal could have been avoided had he dialed back on his tendency to post explicitly about violence.
Now that isn't to absolve the FBI in this situation hell to the no! But I do believe they had under present law the right to at least look into Robertson given how violent some of his posts were. That being said the entire way they went about looking into it was stupidity at its finest and I can name numerous ways it went wrong.
To begin with storming the house with an armed SWAT team should have never happened and is criminally negligent conduct at best, Robertson was known to be armed and known to be rightfully paranoid about government agents coming to arrest him, the SWAT team also knew that which probably also put them on edge which exacerbated the possibility for a flashpoint incident to happen during the search.
If they were so insistent on searching his residents, they should have waited until he left to go out somewhere or alternatively just called him to the local police station to answer some questions for them and done the same or just have two sheriff's deputies knock on his door and arrest him an army wasn't needed!
And that's not even the third option of just keeping tabs on the guy by just tailing him while Biden is nearby on his trip.
In any case, I think this is a lesson we should all take to heart as a cautionary tale, always watch what you post online and be careful when you vent! We all say things at times we don't really mean when we get angry over something we are deeply passionate about, but the brief rush isn't worth dying for nor is it worth potentially putting other people or institutions in harm's way by association.
For newbies who don't know what 'Fedposting' is it is defined as.
Now there are a lot of arguments in this day and age about the nature of free speech and if it truly ever is free and how far that freedom can go before going too far and becoming unreasonable, my point isn't to take sides in this but to point out the sometimes severe consequences that can result by those who overstep the definitions of the powers that be.
MSN
Who was Craig Robertson? What we know about the armed Trump supporter shot dead in Utah FBI raid
'Remember Waco and Ruby Ridge': Man killed by FBI for making Biden death threat memes already a far-right rallying cry
Now to point out obvious, we don't have all details on how this shooting went down yet or who shot first, but I think I need to say this is a cautionary tale of how regardless of how we think the world should be or how laws are defined we aren't the ones who decide how they are enforced nor are we the enforcers.
This guy was an overweight 75-year-old walking around with a cane, I don't think he was really planning on doing anything to Biden and most likely was just blustering edginess online, but at the same time I also can't say he wasn't extremely reckless in his online posting behavior the entire ordeal could have been avoided had he dialed back on his tendency to post explicitly about violence.
Now that isn't to absolve the FBI in this situation hell to the no! But I do believe they had under present law the right to at least look into Robertson given how violent some of his posts were. That being said the entire way they went about looking into it was stupidity at its finest and I can name numerous ways it went wrong.
To begin with storming the house with an armed SWAT team should have never happened and is criminally negligent conduct at best, Robertson was known to be armed and known to be rightfully paranoid about government agents coming to arrest him, the SWAT team also knew that which probably also put them on edge which exacerbated the possibility for a flashpoint incident to happen during the search.
If they were so insistent on searching his residents, they should have waited until he left to go out somewhere or alternatively just called him to the local police station to answer some questions for them and done the same or just have two sheriff's deputies knock on his door and arrest him an army wasn't needed!
And that's not even the third option of just keeping tabs on the guy by just tailing him while Biden is nearby on his trip.
In any case, I think this is a lesson we should all take to heart as a cautionary tale, always watch what you post online and be careful when you vent! We all say things at times we don't really mean when we get angry over something we are deeply passionate about, but the brief rush isn't worth dying for nor is it worth potentially putting other people or institutions in harm's way by association.
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