RAPPER’S PROSECUTION SETS A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
|| By FITSNEWS || We recently published an item referring to the 1934 Reichstag Fire decree – in which Nazi leader Adolf Hitler successfully struck down civil liberty in Germany. And while that reference may have been a tad over the top … this one isn’t.
First, let’s consider the text of that onerous mandate …
“It is permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom, freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications,” the infamous Nazi decree stated.
Fast-forward to San Diego, California in 2015 – where an overzealous prosecutor is going after a rapper named Brandon Duncan (a.k.a. “Tiny Doo”) on nine counts of criminal conspiracy for his alleged “involvement” in local gang violence.
Duncan is accused of violating California penal code (Section 182.5), which holds that any gang member “who willfully promotes, furthers, assists, or benefits from any felonious criminal conduct by members of that gang is guilty of conspiracy to commit that felony.”
Yeah …
We’ve heard of some ridiculous efforts to make “conspiracy” charges (typically attempts by prosecutors to force plea deals in order to compel testimony), but this one takes the cake.
“Tiny Doo” – who has no criminal record – stands accused of gaining stature and respect (and of reaping additional sales of his rap album) in the wake of a series of violent 2013 gang shootings in San Diego.
Wait … huh?
You read that right …
No one is alleging Duncan pulled the trigger at any crime scene. Or helped plan any shootings. Or even witnessed any crimes. He’s being prosecuted simply because he’s allegedly a member of the gang responsible for the violence – and because his rap songs contain violent lyrics. In fact he’s been in jail for eight months already on the charges … and faces twenty-five years to life in prison if convicted.
Yeah … that is unreal.
We have no clue what’s motivating this prosecution, but barring any direct evidence linking Duncan to the actual commission of these violence crimes – he should immediately be set free. Meanwhile an investigation should be launched into the prosecutor filing these ridiculous charges – to say nothing of the statewide application of this ludicrous “anti-gang” conspiracy statute.
How many other Californians are being similarly mistreated, we wonder?
Hell, this is precisely the sort of case the Al Sharptons of the world should be all over – not because “Tiny Doo” is black, but because his right to free speech is being trampled on.
Fundamental freedoms must be colorblind … and zealously safeguarded.
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What about the unborn’s freedom of speech? When socialist Obama sends his Muslim friends from ISIS to medical school to become abortionists and then unleashes them in clinics all over America, who will listen to the cries of the fetuses?
What about the unborn’s freedom of speech?
If your fetus is “talking” to you, you may need a white jacket.
Not the (ORIGINAL) Flip Coscoe however I do like this one.Even the blog clown Smirks replied. LMAO!!!
Hey, stalker. Quit trying to impersonate me. Go back to worshipping Obama, you liberal homo! Better watch out or my partner GrandTango will smack you down so hard that you’ll be begging us to get dressed and quit oil wrasslin’!
Who the hell do you think you are stealing my username? Everyone knows I’m the real one. I am ordained by God so you better start respecting me!
GrandTango, wanna go bump uglies in your old trailer? Let’s go!
Nice try but you’re both frauds, probably the same person. Are you the one hacking me? Damn. You better not delete all my gay muslim porn emails you dirty socialist!
Doesn’t California have private prisons?
Quotas to fill, man, quotas to fill.
He deserves jail for the quality of the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwAygrI3jMo
As for the rest, there’s that first amendment thing that might be a problem…
So let me be the devil’s advocate here. After all the enemy of my enemy’s uncle is a second cousin of my aunt Jolene’s sisters…. MEH.
Maybe he needs to find out who NAMBLA’S attorney is 8-O
Hey Dumb@$$…Did Charles Manson EVER PULL THE TRIGGER or sink the knife…???
There is a form of accomplice liability law commonly referred to as the “hand of one, hand of all.” This is where a person who participates in a crime with another person or group of people can be charged with some or all the crimes committed by the other person or group as if the person participated in the separate crimes.
FITS will S#!* all over himself to try to protect the guilty…and bust his @$$ to attack the innocent…
You liberals have been pulling your Bull-$#!t for a few decades..and you are WORSE off – in prison at record numbers – your children starve and you’ve just produced more perverts, ignorant liberals and murder, rape and child molestation…ENOUGH is ENOUGH….!!!!
When when you leftwing dolts realize what a F*#k up and danger you are..and STFU????
GT I am out until I can figure out why i can’t post thru Disqus and/or my Facebook account.
All other ‘Flip Coscoe’ are not authorized and frauds. Have a great weekend.
’cause disqus is soooo hard to figure out…LOLOLOL
Not really Boz.
I’ll have you know I have a Ph.D. in Disqus from Justmadeditup University. They don’t let dirty liberal commies in like you! Just good little Haley worshipers like me and GT! Oh my!!!
These feebs still think you are me. Pathetic … but hilariously so.
GT, ignore this liberal dumb@$$. You and I both know that if I want to contact you, I’ll call your Mother’s house directly and ask for you (not after 8:30pm, of course). Looking forward to this weekend. Get out the baby oil, there are liberals on the Internet to slap around. XOXO
Damn, you trolls sure are annoying. GT does not live with his mother, she kicked him out years ago.
Come on GT, I got you a drink, let’s go to the dressing room and relax for a while.
“not authorized and frauds.”
LMAO!
You’re all frauds, but only 1 is not authorized.
Number 1 is full of both Number 1 and Number 2.
All other ‘Flip Coscoe’ are not authorized…
“RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!!”
So, say someone goes out and bombs FITS house based on the profane anger/hate you display towards him. You should be jailed and locked up for 25 years, right?
Don’t be silly. They send people like GrandTango to mental institutions.
I thought the first cop on the scene would save the taxpayers money and empty a clip into him when he answers the door.
:”I thought the can of tuna was a gun!”
Mmmmm maybe.
Lying sea lawyer talk, fur sure.
I suspect there is more to this story, but if not I agree it is a travesty of justice.
That said, freedom of speech in this country is not under significant attack from government trying to stop you from speaking. You can go out into any public place and say almost anything you want to, without fear of government reprisal. You can write and publish almost anything you want to, true or not, (as evidenced by the website) without fear of government reprisal. The attack on freedom of speech is coming from the right. From people who want to assure that no one interferes with their ability to drown out dissenting speech and crush dissenters into the ground. Those who would equate speech and money. Those who want the right to give unlimited money to politicians who support their agenda.
If speech is money, the average citizen is but a whisper among the screams, never to be heard; and the poor are mute.
I’d bet there is A LOT more to it…that the liberals will leave out…See Ferguson Mo….there ALWAYS is.
“I suspect there is more to this story”
I’ll never forget when the esteemed TBG posted a similar sentiment about police abuse in the Columbia cop shooting of the seat belt offender…and was wrong.
Most of the time in the case of gov’t overreach/abuse reported by the media(which is rare, especially the MSM), it’s right on mark.
“I suspect there is more to this story”</i.
You'll note that TBG didn't stick his hand in that fire twice!!!
Most of the time in the case of gov’t overreach/abuse reported by the media(which is rare, especially the MSM), it’s right on mark.
Exactly.
In this case, TBG suspects an unholy PTB alliance between “conservatives” that don’t like rap music and “liberals” who are always willing to throw freedom under the bus if it”s for “the greater good”.
“liberals” who are always willing to throw freedom under the bus if it”s for “the greater good”.
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Conservatives are the bed-wetters who made us take our shoes off, started recording every communication, and won’t let us smoke pot.
GOP! GOP! GOP!
The heroin of politics!!!
They don’t call it “compassionate conservatism” for no reason.
:)
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http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189
…instituted the draft…
Wilson, FDR, and JFK are not in the Pantheon of Conservative Deities that the Liberal-Tarian TBG worships at.
…put imagers in our vaginas
“Our”, who , Paleface?
Did I fuck up the draft?
Did you think I was referring to the royal wee-wee?
Non sequitur(s) fur sure … Except for the “?”
Republicans are scum.
Or “Conservatives “who don’t like freedom and “liberals” who don’t like rap music.
Well, not just from the right. How about the IRS prosecuting elements of the left, the middle and the right when those citizen groups speak out against the “progressive” Fascistic fed g’ment.
Unless you speak against The Establishment, then I know first hand you are subject to veiled attempts as a party to a lawsuit. I typically vote Republican, but posted someone’s blog and received a veiled threat from a gop chair. I might be making myself part of a lawsuit. Huh? But that is my opinion.
Why was he arrested again after being released? I thought this was over.
who’s his lawyer? Gloria Allred?
“”guffawing””
He’s too good of a citizen to lock up! Surely he has to be a respectable role model for a law abiding citizen…..
This immediately reminded me of Frank Zappa’s,”Porn Wars” featuring our very own,Fritz Hollings,and the then,Tipper and Al Gore(before it was leaked,he had the biggest dick in Washington).It’s a masterpiece of Zappa’s tape collages:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB76RphKmdM
What was leaked?
— or what was leaking?
So he’s a member of a criminal organization whose criminal acts he’s supporting and celebrating in his music, huh, it seems almost as if criminal conspircy could go beyond just being the one committing the crime in fact. Maybe they could come up with an entire act to prosecute associations like these. Oh, call it RICO? Damn, I’m full of good ideas.
Maybe all these “singers”, and I say that loosely, will start to realize that they DO influence the younger crowd and this kind of crap for music needs to go. It takes NO intelligence to rap about violence. Rap sucks as it is, and to glorify violence and make it look like it’s “cool” to behave that way is just plain stupid and takes no talent whatsoever to do so.
‘Dirty’ music has been around forever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPaK1EfqNU8
How many others are being unjustly prosecuted for what they say? … And for bein associated with supposedly anti-social group behavior?
Although it might not just be in Taxifornia, there was a large meeting of those types last week right there in South Carolina.
… You want Iced Tea with that?
“Tiny Doo”? ….He looks like a rather large piece of shit to me.
WTF is the sh!t ? I cannot believe this story, it’s so unreal. Ridiculous on so many levels my mind cannot wrap around it. And this is happening in LA and San diego, right next door to Hollywood. Hollywood that makes movies like Scarface and tv shows like Sopranos. This is more onerous than just an attack on free speech. They’re going after someone who is black and poor, doing completely socially accepted things that A LOT of much bigger fish are doing in much vaster reaching ways. I would have started suing them the moment I was arrested and this was what i was being arrested for. This is an incredible violation of what is decent and good. Insane that this isn’t a much bigger story, should be right on the heels of Charlie Hebdo