Link: https://www.404media.co/dhs-said-they-searched-man-who-wiped-grapheneos-phone-for-child-abuse-material-they-lied/

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.”

They lied.

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

And those 'terrorist activities'?

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

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.

So many terrifying human being like that, its a e(pid)(nd)emic

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

"He opposed us building our fascist thuggery theme park"

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.)

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.

Those are just Republicans

its a it's an epidemic / its a it's endemic

it's not really that complicated. conservatives like conservative pedophiles.

I suspect they assume saying "everyone is a pedo" distracts from the actual pedo's in charge

"Hey you got anything good in there?"

DHS hacker, after reading your comment:

Hey Grok, replace all instances of "Donald Trump" in the Epstein files with "Samuel Tunik".

Lol "hacker"

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.

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.

Call anyone a terrorist and now they have no rights

It’s the same “think of the children” bullshit they use for removing abortion rights, healthcare privacy, internet anonymity, location tracking, and any other law enforcement abuses that come up.

Seriously, I don't think they care one iota about public support on this one. He's already in front of a judge.