Important Free Speech Victory!
When Tyranny Meets It's Match
It has been over 1,000 days since the Douglas County Sheriff’s raided a law-abiding couple with nearly a dozen armed deputies for a misdemeanor littering charge and sent another man on the run to avoid being wrongly imprisoned. Today, in this latest in the series of articles following the Jacobs and Michael Weaver, I bring you excellent news!
Earlier this week, Douglas County Judge Brian Fortner finally returned a ruling on the General Demurrer that was filed by the guys over at The Free Expression Foundation on behalf of the Jacobs and Weaver. Despite the court taking the full 90 days allotted to them to rule on this case, I am happy to report that the Judge made the determination that there was no littering crime committed and ordered that all of the littering counts against them be quashed. What a General Demurrer means, is that even if every single aspect of their claim is true, there was STILL no crime committed. Their warrants and charges were deemed defective by the courts. If you would like to take a look at the General Demurrer in full, you can check it out in Part 3 of my write-ups on this case. The response from the Judge is posted below in full:
This is not only fantastic news for the Jacobs and Weaver, but this ruling has a few ripple effects going forward. First and foremost, this will massively strengthen the 1983 Civil Rights Lawsuit that was filed on their behalf! Since the original charges have now been quashed, it means that the odds of them winning this case (or at the very least see a possible settlement) are now very high because this First Amendment ruling from Judge Brian Fortner strips away ability of the sheriffs to claim they had a legitimate reason for raiding and arresting the Jacobs and putting a warrant out for Weaver. Due to the nature of the consequences that have been suffered by our guys… having to move, going on the run, losing jobs, having family turn away from them, having pets die and family sick that you cannot care for… there is a LOT of damage done here due to the trumped up charges that were set out here. I hope to see a glorious victory for our friends and will continue to support the rest of this legal journey that they have found themselves on.
What this ruling also means: that the case has been properly adjudicated… meaning that Douglas County no longer has the shield of an “open investigation” or an “open case” to hide behind and keep them from returning a true and proper response to the GORA (Georgia Open Records Act, their equivalent of FOIA) requests that I sent to them spanning the last year or so. If you have been following along, you will recall that they already tried to stonewall the request multiple times, finally yielding “results” in the form of a flash-drive being sent to me with the EXACT SAME document on it 6 times. So, they sent a single document- 6 times- on a single flash drive… and charged me over $70 for it! They cited that they had additional responsive records but would not be relinquishing them until the case was adjudicated.
So now, I plan to slam them with another request compelling them to now release the documents. Keep in mind, I am asking for any memos, emails, calls, comms, etc etc regarding the Jacobs and Weaver case. In addition, I will be asking them to release all of the communications between the Douglas County Sheriffs, Douglas County District Attorneys offices, and the ADL. Keep in mind, we are well aware of the communication between the ADL and these entities, particularly with regard to this case, so I am quite interested to see what they turn up. I will also be filing an additional GORA request to obtain any communication, coordination, funding, etc. between the Douglas County Sheriffs and GILEE. I detail this in the first article, but to recap, GILEE (Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange) is a program that trains American police officers from Georgia over in Israel. It is a public safety and police training program based at Georgia State University.
After discovering this, I have found that GILEE has participants from all over the country, with a whole host of different police and sheriff’s departments happily sending their officers off to Israel for pertinent training. The goal will be to turn this into a full investigation into not just GILEE, but other law enforcement agencies that receive funding to send our officers over to a hostile foreign nation for training. One must ask a very important question: what impact has this type of training had on officers such as those in Douglas County, who have now made it a priority to violate the civil rights of law-abiding citizens who speak negatively of Israel? Is it appropriate for American civil servants to be trained in a foreign country? Stay tuned for what I turn up!
What’s more, if the GORA requests turn over any incriminating evidence such as premeditation (we know this is likely since the sheriffs already admitting to surveilling them prior to the raid, and we have proof that the DA visited the workplace of Mr. Jacobs) or communication/ acting on behalf of entities like the ADL, it will make the case rock fucking solid. The ruling that the state’s accusation was fundamentally defective means that it can be legally argued that Douglas County officials knowingly twisted an inapplicable law (littering) to maliciously target a specific viewpoint. What this also means is that we will likely see a tactical shift in how the defense strategizes going forward. Instead of defending the arrest itself, they will likely focus on technical immunity shields. Though they may try, I do not think they will be successful. More than likely, the State will now come back with some sort of offer or deal to make a quiet settlement and try to sweep everything under the rug without much blowback.
Now that a victory has been declared here and the charges quashed, we need to be DEMANDING inquiries into not just the Douglas County Sheriffs, but also the corrupt District Attorneys, State Solicitor, and Judges who acted in cohesion to bring about these unlawful charges. Will Judge Susan Camp see any sort of penalty or reprimanding for slapping an exorbitant $30,000 bail each for the Jacobs for a fucking littering crime?! Will any of these people be held accountable for the blatant free speech and civil rights violations they perpetrated on law-abiding Americans?
Now that the bulk of this nightmare is behind them, let’s hope this can allow our friends to return to a somewhat normal life. Michael Weaver can now go home to his beautiful daughter and can return to see his father after spending months and months on the run for his bogus warrants. To help get him there, a GiveSendGo fundraiser has been set up on his behalf. If you are able to donate or share, please do so that we can spread the word and help get this man back home to his family where he belongs.
https://www.givesendgo.com/bolsheviklawfare
I also want to close out by again mentioning the amazing work of Glen Allen, Randy Sheppard, and the attorneys over at The Free Expression Foundation who have worked tirelessly on this case. They have already helped several of our guys and continue to do great work for our people across the board. They have recently put up a channel on Telegram as well as a new Twitter page, so go ahead and give them a follow and show some support. You can also donate to their work directly on their website.
Thank you to everyone who has read and followed along with this case. I am so happy to report that our friends have seen some semblance of justice here. A reminder that things are not always lost and the blackpill is not always what needs to be swallowed. This ruling is a demonstration of what happens when you don’t cower in the face of an unjust system that is stacked against you and what happens when you push back against the lawlessness and carelessness of rogue officers and their sycophants. Let this be a major whitepill for anyone reading. We will win!