The Auron MacIntyre Show - October 23, 2023


Douglass Mackey and the Death of the First Amendment ｜ 10⧸23⧸23

Topics
job stacking
Hosted by
Auron MacIntyre
Mentioned
Mackie Hillary Clinton Donald Trump Douglas Mackey Justin Trudeau Vladimir Putin Ricky Vaughn Rolf Halza Leviathan Maggie Rocky
Privatizing Popular Sovereignty ｜ Guest： Furius Pertinax ｜ 10⧸20⧸23 The Predictable Cancellation of Jon Stewart ｜ 10⧸24⧸23

Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

174.99

Word count

1,990

Sentence count

101

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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A man named Douglas Mackie was sentenced to seven months in prison on Wednesday for the crime of insulting Hillary Clinton. Sending political opponents who mock the ruling class to the gulag is the kind of behavior one usually associates with China, North Korea, or some despotic Middle Eastern regime. Not anymore. Now it s the standard operating procedure of the United States government.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Douglas Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison on Wednesday for the crime of insulting Hillary Clinton.
00:00:43.700 Sending political opponents who mock the ruling class to the gulag is the kind of behavior one usually associates with China, North Korea, or some despotic Middle Eastern regime.
00:00:53.020 Not anymore.
00:00:54.100 Now it's the standard operating procedure of the United States government.
00:00:57.520 While the West has prided itself on open discourse and liberal democracy, it's become increasingly common to see individuals in European countries go to prison for hate speech violations, such as using the wrong pronoun or speaking ill of Muslims on social media.
00:01:11.080 Many of my European friends have told me how envious they are of the First Amendment, an explicit constitutional bulwark meant to protect the right of citizens to speak their mind without fear of state reprisal.
00:01:22.120 It's now clear that this central pillar of American liberty has failed, and the United States government has become simply another totalitarian Leviathan with the ability to crush dissent by force.
00:01:31.820 Mackie, who went by the Twitter handle Ricky Vaughn, was put on trial for election interference by the Biden Justice Department after posting a meme he created during the 2016 presidential election.
00:01:43.620 The meme jokingly suggested that Clinton supporters avoid long lines at the polls and cast their votes by text message.
00:01:50.300 Prosecutors couldn't produce any evidence that even a single individual had lost the ability to vote by attempting to use the number featured in Mackie's meme.
00:02:00.000 Nevertheless, the judge decided this totally victimless crime of meme making warranted seven months in federal prison.
00:02:06.700 Never mind that multiple Clinton supporters produce social media posts or videos making similar jokes, with one going so far as to tell Trump supporters to skip the line and text their vote on election day.
00:02:19.020 Basically the exact same joke, but of course none of them were charged.
00:02:23.640 The charges are fallacious and motivated solely by political vengeance.
00:02:28.560 The government knows what it's doing is a front to the rule of law.
00:02:32.160 That's the point. This is about sending a message, a flex of power meant for all to see.
00:02:38.660 It's easy for mainstream conservatives to turn a blind eye to Mackie, an edgy internet poster who swam in the meme culture of a bygone election cycle.
00:02:46.920 That's a mistake.
00:02:48.720 While the seven-month sentence seems light compared to the ten years Mackie could have faced for his crime, the precedent set is absolutely devastating.
00:02:58.600 Mackie missed the birth of his first child due to the sentencing hearing.
00:03:02.160 And the judge refused to issue a stay during the appeals process, so the meme-making satirist will be separated from his family as he fights this incredible injustice.
00:03:12.260 Knowing that the regime will look for any minor legal justification to incarcerate anyone who mocks it will have a chilling effect on those who would use humor to push back on the absurdity of our ruling class.
00:03:24.280 Comedy is far more threatening than any rational argument to our contemptible elites, and memes have proven one of the most effective ways to communicate how farcical the clown world we inhabit has now become.
00:03:37.620 They aren't just going after Mackie because they're vengeful or petty.
00:03:41.360 They're going after Mackie because he represents the synonymous internet gadflies who humiliate the regime and its grotesque character of piety on a daily basis.
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00:06:26.120 There's nothing Western leaders love more than proclaiming their moral superiority.
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00:07:26.360 The United States has joined these ranks, making itself a self-righteous laughingstock as its leaders mouth empty platitudes about the critical nature of openness and liberty
00:07:35.660 while imprisoning a citizen who makes jokes on the internet.
00:07:39.880 Although Maggie's case may seem like a relatively minor news story,
00:07:44.220 if it's allowed to stand, it would effectively mean the death of the First Amendment.
00:07:48.700 Laws limiting hate speech or other woke nonsense are already dangerous,
00:07:53.060 but the prosecution of an individual for political jokes strikes directly at the heart of the Constitution.
00:08:00.020 Some forms of censorship, such as restricting the sale of pornography to minors, have always been allowed by the courts.
00:08:06.300 But the one form of speech that the First Amendment has always held as absolute is the right to disagree with the government.
00:08:14.320 It's unlikely that the government will suddenly start arresting everyone who mocks it on the internet,
00:08:19.220 but the inconsistent application of the precedent is a feature of a narco-tyranny, not a bug.
00:08:26.360 By abusing the wording of obscure laws and manipulating the judicial process,
00:08:31.280 the regime can pretend that Mackie is a radical outlier, and the rule of law remains in place.
00:08:36.460 The illusion of a neutral process makes the masses far less likely to push back against tyranny,
00:08:42.840 but the arbitrary nature of the process allows the regime to make it clear that enemies will be punished.
00:08:48.820 Now we all walk on eggshells, hoping we're not indicted next.
00:08:53.260 Mackie's conviction is just one of the recent events that do not bode well for the future of our constitutional order.
00:09:00.180 Donald Trump, the leading political opponent of the sitting president,
00:09:04.680 faces a slew of partisan legal charges brought with the obvious intent of influencing the 2024 presidential election.
00:09:12.380 Dozens of Trump supporters face life-ruining charges for being involved in the events of January 6, 2021,
00:09:19.960 despite the fact that leftist protesters regularly rioted, looted, and burned cities around the country in 2020 with little or no legal consequences.
00:09:29.040 The FBI has designated Mackie supporters as the most serious domestic terror threat that America faces,
00:09:36.240 while spying on Catholic services that might have too many Donald Trump fans in attendance.
00:09:42.400 And all of this comes in the wake of a 2020 presidential election fraught with direct government interference
00:09:48.260 by intelligence and police agencies, as revealed by the Twitter files.
00:09:52.900 If these events were unfolding in any other nation, we would recognize them as the consolidation of hard power
00:10:01.300 against all domestic political rivals, because that's what they are.
00:10:06.540 The regime is very clearly attempting to tighten their grip on the domestic politics of the United States
00:10:12.960 in anticipation of a backlash during the 2024 election,
00:10:17.360 and they are willing to use intimidation and destroy the rule of law in the name of victory.
00:10:23.680 The Bill of Rights might hold a sacred place in the American civic religion,
00:10:28.380 but if our rulers can throw their opponents into jail on a flimsy pretext,
00:10:33.060 then the document is simply an artifact of a constitutional order that is already dead.
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