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question everything

(52,398 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:26 PM Aug 2025

Can the goons be successfully sued?

From yesterday’s post

VIDEOING THE GESTAPO. Anyone who films the Gestapo is attacked, phone taken away, cuffed, and hauled off

https://democraticunderground.com/100220568236

Is this legal?

Or, is there a court that can rule on this?

This is getting frightening

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Can the goons be successfully sued? (Original Post) question everything Aug 2025 OP
It was illegal in the United States of America back when it existed. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #1
Is it a felony to pull down a goon's mask? Sneederbunk Aug 2025 #2
Well, if you don't know who they are seems they're no one special. So why not unmask them? Lots of imitators and fakes. cbabe Aug 2025 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
1. It was illegal in the United States of America back when it existed.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:30 PM
Aug 2025

But something happened in 2016 where a bunch of people directed more attitude and anger at Hillary Clinton than the piece of shit she was running against and here we are.

cbabe

(6,814 posts)
3. Well, if you don't know who they are seems they're no one special. So why not unmask them? Lots of imitators and fakes.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:37 PM
Aug 2025

I’m not a lawyer but pushing back against thugs by filming etc. is good evidence for any defense you might need.

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