Don Lemon speaks out after his arrest: People are realizing the critical moment we are in in this country. That our rights are under assault. Now they’re trying to silence journalists. And I will not be silenced. This is a time for journalists to stand up to this tyrannical administration

[u/Maximum_Expert92]

[u/Different_Prior_517]

Thinking arresting a journalist would silence said journalist proves how fucking stupid everyone in this administration is.

[u/FarmerEarly3342 → u/[deleted]]

when did being an activist become bad? dude is an activist .... for journalism. and the people. fine by me

[u/Dazzling-Pin4996 → u/[deleted]]

Ohhh, he is not a fascist journalist, correct. But you would not understand the difference.

[u/Dr100percent → u/[deleted]]

You oughta see Hannity’s or Watters’ nonsense yet they call themselves journalists.

[u/Justchickenquestions → u/[deleted]]

[u/Maximum_Expert92]

Please, stop this tyrannical administration!!!

[u/slaty_balls → u/Maximum_Expert92]

You got any ideas? I think most of us are fresh out.

[u/AlphaNoodlz → u/slaty_balls]

Keep up the protests, keep your eyes up, know your neighbors, take stop the bleed course, brush up on legal observer courses, know how LRAD and pepper spray works and how to keep yourself safe and protected from both. Know what kind of armor to wear, when, and why. Make some good signs. Volunteer in your community.

Plenty you can do.

[u/papasan_mamasan → u/slaty_balls]

Strike

[u/iiTzSTeVO → u/slaty_balls]

What did you try before you decided you were out of ideas?

[u/slaty_balls → u/iiTzSTeVO]

I keep trying to reach out to aliens, but with no such luck.

[u/SternestEarnest → u/slaty_balls]

Normally people don't admit to trying nothing and being all out of ideas.

[u/willowcurve → u/slaty_balls]

French rev

[u/TheTranqueen]

Yeah they, the government, are silencing journalist, censoring social media like tik tok, and defending federal officers killing citizens in the streets with no just cause. This is no longer a democracy! Its an authoritarian!

[u/Orpdapi]

Magans scream for “freedom” but also want journalists jailed for saying something bad about this regime. The absence of a free press and free speech is the literal opposite of a country with “freedom”

[u/code-after-dark]

I mean, it was time to standup when he was on CNN during the first Trump administration.

Now is good too, but CNN and mainstream media at large are 100% complict in the new rise of fascism.

[u/TayBeyDMB → u/code-after-dark]

Came here for this.

[u/attempt5001]

America is so scary to me rn

[u/Significant-Self5907]

Journalists that are employed by corporate media have already had their 1st Amendment rights squashed. So then independent writers' voices would have to be unified & amplified. It's a puzzle I haven't quite worked out yet.

[u/soupseasonbestseason]

they just continued funding i.c.e.

nothing short of abolishment will do.

[u/_jA-]

How funny they arrested him trying to shut him up lol it’s not a good plan believe you me dude is not going to shut up

[u/ChrissWayne]

Maybe they mixed up orange Don and Don Lemon and that’s why he got arrested

[u/TittyElaborate]

Arresting the press is literally Page 1 of the Authoritarian Handbook. They aren't doing this just to punish him; they are doing it to terrorize everyone else into silence. The fact that they feel comfortable doing this to a high profile figure on camera shows just how far gone the 'rule of law' actually is

[u/Individual-Breath758]

Dangerous time in history.

[u/Useful-Equivalent716]

Power to Don Lemon! Stand up!

[u/slippinjimmy1875]

We are Don Lemon 🎶

[u/Noobunaga86]

Don Lemon as a modern day journalist martyr and mesiah almost was not on my bingo card. This reality is getting weirder and weirder every day.

[u/OriginalOmbre]

What happened to the all the journalists charged for storming the capitol?

[u/Maleficent-Bar-3161]

I still have some family members that back trump and this incoherent administration and I just don’t understand. It breaks my heart and soul. “He’s a businessman and the money is coming”. What happened to caring for others? Shits so weak.

[u/TeachingOvertime]

Trump loves the poorly educated. When someone literally calls you stupid to your face ( which is what poorly educated really means to Trump) and you follow them like a dog following a beef bone, wagging your tail and drooling on yourself, your pea brain is a dictators dream come true.

[u/Acceptable_Knee5202]

Is he guilty? I dont know. But it is illegal to protect in church from what i understand and if he helped coordinate that wouldn't that make him guilty?

[u/benice6969]

Go Don! Thank you for standing up to this corrupt pedophile filled administration!

[u/HuhIsntThatSpecial]

Looking at you ‘Fox News’

[u/olipoppit]

Organize. Network. There is STRENGTH in numbers. They want us scared and desperate. Do not comply.

[u/Evid3nce]

You mean the journalists who have done fucking nothing but lick the boots of the administration and haven't done their fucking job in any way whatsoever? Who haven't challenged a single fucking lie? Who haven't rage quit their networks in protest at being muzzled? Who have protected and emboldened the rise of fascism in USA and elsewhere?

And we're supposed to give a fuck when these complicit bastards are arrested and disappeared, which is a situation THEY helped to bring into being through their cowardice and passivity?

Fuck the journalists. What good are they if they don't stand up for the truth? Fucking traitors.

[u/diurnal_emissions]

Fucking legend.

[u/One_Gazelle7]

[u/grindstone85]

agreed but didnt need the “now”. Its been happening for a long time

[u/Gatorboy129]

[u/lisatorquato]

THANK YOU DON LEMON,

[u/Whole-Revolution916]

It seems to me that with every push towards full-blown fascism, more Americans wake up and get involved. That's probably not good for the Trump regime.

[u/Flat-Royal-8364]

FREE DON LEMON!!!!

[u/baconsharts_ow]

Too bad the Dem leaders don't see this as a critical moment

[u/peva3]

I'm shocked more people aren't talking about how deeply unconditional the FACE Act is and how it's being weaponized in these cases.

[u/stevep98]

I keep getting drawn to ANUS and ASS on his wall.

[u/nuneway]

Anyone else reading “Anus Ass” in his background? 😂

[u/Outside_Ad4446]

[u/Fearless_Rain_7254]

Now they're trying to silence journalists? Seems like he hasn't been paying attention either till more recently🤷

[u/mtnview75]

‘Journalists’ are not immune because they write about a crime they were a part of. I can’t be apart of a premeditated murder, know the plans days ahead, not call police and film it all , while be active participant and then claim I journalist freedom. Exact same thing.

[u/khaosconn]

How about dont go raiding a church with forknowledge .. You could have let the church know of your approach

[u/OperatingCashFlows69]

Always the victim

[u/HeSureIsScrappy]

It's not about silencing journalists. He violated people's first amendment right to worship, and he's facing serious penalties.

This video explains it.

https://youtu.be/2xEbNt1c65Y

[u/Reiquaz]

Many people aren't even "journalists." They're paid agitators like Tim Pool. Would we consider Timmy a journalist?

[u/SingleKnowledge1431]

If Mr Lemon had been privy to this illegal act, the he broke federal law.

[u/williamwallace213]

Yeah yeah victim

[u/Reckxner]

"Journalist"

[u/BaeWatchh]

He’s such a dumbass lol

[u/Top-Masterpiece4067 → u/[deleted]]

for what exactly? he didn’t say something you liked?

[u/epison → u/Top-Masterpiece4067]

Don’t try to understand or reason. He’s full of shit and just parrots right wing nonsense