• fakero@lemmy.world
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    It is highly unusual for the Justice Department to criminally charge a reporter, though it is not without precedent. Those cases are heavily scrutinized before the decision to bring charges is made, and often face extended legal battles over whether the reporter is protected by the First Amendment before the case makes it to trial.

    I’m gonna go ahead and say its not even going to make it to trial considering the clown show currently going on at the Justice Department.

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      Wait - we all agreed last Tuesday that Don Lemon’s protection was YOUR job. Why’d you allow them to take him, Frobozz? Were you sleeping on the job, or did they pay you off?

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      I’m Canadian. Am I responsible every time the police in Canada arrest people for breaking laws I disagree with?

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        I am also Canadian- and we are both responsible for ensuring we don’t get to that point. Americans are armed to the teeth and thus have fewer excuses, however.

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          So there are currently no laws you disagree with in Canada? You agree with every arrest police make and will otherwise stop them?

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            I just realized you’re doing the MAGA thing where you frame what’s happening in the US as a difference of opinion. We’re done here.

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              The fuck are you talking about? I know what’s happening in America is fucked up. Check my comment history. I just think it’s ridiculous to hold every American responsible for every arrest in the country. It would be like holding you or I responsible for every arrest in Canada. Some kid got arrested for underage drinking even though pretty much everyone does it? YOU allowed it to happen