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DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied (www.404media.co)
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Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”

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[–] 14 points 2 days ago

Call anyone a terrorist and now they have no rights

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    [–] 111 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    And those 'terrorist activities'?

    "He hurt our fee-fees by highlighting the abuses we were committing!"

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    • [–] 78 points 3 days ago

    They lied.

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    [–] 26 points 2 days ago

    Weird how the DHS isn't stopping every Republican politician for suspected child abuse material, but they stopped a left-leaning activist who went to a protest.

    It's almost like we should never believe what they say or something.

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    [–] 46 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Seems like an odd thing to lie about as alleged terrorist activities also give them the right to search the phone.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Classic playbook, you'll see it used everywhere if you look closely.

    Need to decrease public support of someone? Push a fake story out that they abuse kids or had child abuse material.

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    • [–] 53 points 3 days ago

    DHS is always lying. They get caught often enough that you know that you are seeing a small fraction of their criminal behavior.

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    [–] 41 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    “Everyone I don’t like is a terrorist pedophile!”

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    • [–] 35 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Weird angle. He's not even in the Epstein Files.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Its kind of jarring to have them both trying to normalize child sex abuse while still using it as the emotional trigger for justification of losing rights.

    Like does the US like pedophiles or not? Pick a lane!

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  • [–] 19 points 3 days ago

    Conservatives (and shitty people more generally) will take whatever position best serves them in the moment and will change that position as needed. Their only true axiom is “fuck you, got mine,” anything else is fungible.

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    • [–] 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    But they're allowed to do that. SCOTUS believes everyone at or near a border or within eyeshot of their agents is ripe for phone searching and whatever else they want to do because they don't care.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

    SCOTUS also said that black people born in America weren't citizens and that rounding people up into concentration camps based solely on their race was A-OK. SCOTUS has a long history of tyrannical bullshit rulings, so what's your point?

    Blatantly unconstitutional "rulings" don't make DHS's behavior legitimate; they only destroy the legitimacy of SCOTUS itself.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I think frustrated_phagocytosis is implying that they didn't need this lie since they could already search his phone, which fits with the pattern of fascists lying out of habit than out of strategy.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago

    No, they want to absolutely destroy this guy in every possible way they can. He opposed Cop City, and that makes it personal for the fascist pigs.

    (Source: I'm a local who was intimidated into keeping my distance from Stop Cop City specifically because of tyranny like this.)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Oh I fully believe they would rule that the constitution only applies to men because women were property when it was written. It's wrong but there's no path to fix it without a lot of deaths so we can pass more needed amendments for privacy, civil rights, gun control, and politician ethics.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    "Hey you got anything good in there?"

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