Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.
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If you say something to the Feds that is even SLIGHTLY untrue you can go to federal prison.
They will never ask a question they likely don't already have an answer for.
If you say absolutely nothing to the Feds, you cannot lie to them.
YOU DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS WITHOUT A LAWYER.
This is completely backwards.
DO NOT TALK WITHOUT A LAWYER.
IF they arrest you and charge you with a crime and you can't afford a lawyer, a public defender will represent you.
Your goal is NOT to need a public defender by
SHUTTING THE FUCK UP in the first place.
We need to repost that "shut the fuck up" video from the old activists.
SHUT THE FUCK UP do you want to talk yourself into an accessory charge?
https://youtu.be/5PZonyefBW4
They tell girls "you don't seem like the kind of girl who gets mixed up in this kind of thing." Girl cries, spills the beans on all her friends.
STFU!
https://bsky.app/profile/buny.bsky.social/post/3lablquxp4a2n
Never talk to any law enforcement, even if they are off duty.
*Especially* STFU, as well as optionally verifying that they really ARE cops depending on the circumstances.
The times in the past that I have talked to an FBI agent, it was twice and for the same reason both times: they were doing a mandatory background check on a friend of mine who was in the process of being hired by the Foreign Service.
About 10 years later, I filed a FOIA request and received my FBI file. /1
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I just quote replied with same, but PSA embedded within my own linked YT show.
THIS just doesn’t work for “everybody”!
👇💙👇
https://youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs?si=z_m3WSdO4tZUkXY7
This is just so social media silly
How many times has trump started out the same way
I’m surprised it took this long.
https://bsky.app/profile/buny.bsky.social/post/3lablquxp4a2n
Except the Feds, always have a lawyer and insist on everything being recorded when talking to the Feds.
ask to see their credentials or something.
It may not be easy, but oh boy is it possible
Remember that cops of any kind aren't going to DM or text you. They also aren't going to call you to bail your kid out.
That message on your phone that locked it out is also not real.
civil disobedience with EF! in the 90s. pre arrest trainings for those open to arrest. fun times. also sad with the clearcuts and muddy rivers. now fires and landslides
2) if you are under arrest then you have a right to a lawyer
3) never speak to law enforcement under any circumstance
Bring your boss!
("that's hardly anything" about a low-as-possible breathalyzer reading, probably within false positive range for recent nyquil etc -> "I hardly drank anything")
Too bad there wasn't some network of progressive lawyers who would offer discounted services for this sort of thing. In the likely event it becomes a problem.
2) Never say anything on social media you wouldn’t say to your mother.
Remembering, of course, that in East Germany the state apparatus was infinitely more organized and vaster than here.
One year's renewal I did get asked about my involvement with the "Libertine Party", and had to clarify that I hadn't been invited to any, but the Libertarians had come in third in the last election.
not the numbers game in the back room.
Like, what should a Canadian, Brit or German say?
Me: I didn’t say it Jesus did.. take it up with him
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zFx8vLZMZWA&pp=ygUMUG90IGJyb3RoZXJz
They never identified themselves & started asking about the AWOL friend by name. We both shut up and asked to leave. They let us go.
As an attorney who practices criminal defense law, I remind everyone that "STFU is free."
If you don't want to go the trouble and expense of hiring an attorney, then STFU.
Which ironically may save people their freedom
That is great, except for the legal bills.
If they arrest you, they must get you a lawyer.
If they don’t arrest you, they can’t force you to talk to them. So if you can’t afford a lawyer you don’t talk.
But it makes the scammers easier to spot when their opening line is, “hello handsome”!
I say, “who me”?
Biometrics have their place in social situations.
Helps to learn the button sequence to enter lockdown mode and get in the habit of doing it.
https://www.undigital.news/p/apples-big-iphone-change
https://www.imore.com/how-quickly-disable-face-id
quality script. 💞
have never utilized it … but may be worth testing out for folks in high risk areas. 💞
https://www.justlive.app
probably more out there too …
https://www.klf-law.com/blog/7-apps-for-police-recording-and-public-protection
WANT TO END SANE
WASHING?
BOYCOTT CNN
Start at 12:01 am Jan 19th and continue until 11:59 pm Jan 20. Gives people enough time in advance of inauguration to get comfortable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqo5RYOp4nQ
The guidelines are simple. Just say no. No additional context, no additional information.