cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48526310
Two ICE agents harassed a poll worker on Election Day, demanding she remove social media posts they claimed threatened federal agents, according to Syracuse.com.
Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, said she received a phone call Tuesday from two ICE agents asking to meet with her. Not wanting to meet with them alone, she invited them into her work. “I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota,” she said. “And I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all.”
The ICE agents arrived with copies of her social media posts and driver’s license, and handed her a warning notice alerting her that they were investigating her for allegedly threatening ICE personnel. “They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working,” she said. The agents told her to “remove and/or discontinue” the behavior, according to the notice, which Gonyea shared on Instagram.
Gonyea frequently posts about immigration on social media. She believes the investigation was prompted after she shared a news article in January identifying Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted,” she wrote in the caption.
Gonyea did not believe that her post or caption qualified as doxxing. “I didn’t dox his personal information, such as address, phone number,” she told Syracuse.com.
Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the head, chest, and arm, faced virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight. It appears that federal law enforcement now view pleas for actual justice as some kind of threat.
If ICE calls asking you to meet just tell them to go fuck themselves and hang up. If they have a warrant for anything they dont ask politely.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Gag on the boot ICE
I am stunned by how passive America’s resistance has been.
but are you surprised?
I wish this headline made it clear that these agents have not been able to force her to delete her post, not to minimize how deeply fucked up this is but just to show people that it is possible for regular folks to tell these fascist cunts “no”
Should’ve called the police to report suspicious people claiming to be federal agents harassing/intimidating election workers.
Wonder if they tried asking Meta to delete it?
People doing bad things hate to be called out. Shame still exists, a little.
Anyone knows where all the free speech warriors went, In the moment we need them most?
On here and places like it, where everyone already feels the same way usually.
Try going on any of the sites where the majority of people are and you will get shadowbanned and blocked shortly after you bring up how messed up stuff like this is.
I bet Meta will delete that post for them soon.
You just have to remember their definition of “free speech”-- anything they like, and nothing they don’t.
Anything they want.
I’ve been a poll worker since 2020. Fuck ICE. If the collective of those brown shirts got dick and ass cancer, I would not feel bad. I hope they live in misery and paranoia for the rest of their days.
This is fascism, folks.
The time to buy a firearm is now. It’s a whole lot harder to oppress people when they’re armed.
And train with it! Guns are not magical totems – they require some skill to use safely and effectively, and you need to build that skill.
Unfortunately, the ammo and a proper practice range costs money. I haven’t been able to fully use my membership to a gun range, simply because of the shitty economy. Even if you put a bullet into a hotdog bun, the belly will still be unhappy.
But all the people that bought firearms for this very reason, joined the fascist.
GESTAPO
I hope she sues their pants off
Two ICE agents harassed a poll worker on Election Day, demanding she remove social media posts they claimed threatened federal agents, according to Syracuse.com.
Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, said she received a phone call Tuesday from two ICE agents asking to meet with her. Not wanting to meet with them alone, she invited them into her work. “I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota,” she said. “And I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all.”
The ICE agents arrived with copies of her social media posts and driver’s license, and handed her a warning notice alerting her that they were investigating her for allegedly threatening ICE personnel. “They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working,” she said. The agents told her to “remove and/or discontinue” the behavior, according to the notice, which Gonyea shared on Instagram.
Gonyea frequently posts about immigration on social media. She believes the investigation was prompted after she shared a news article in January identifying Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good. “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted,” she wrote in the caption.
Gonyea did not believe that her post or caption qualified as doxxing. “I didn’t dox his personal information, such as address, phone number,” she told Syracuse.com.
Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the head, chest, and arm, faced virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight. It appears that federal law enforcement now view pleas for actual justice as some kind of threat.
Only correct response to that:
Pathetic waste of time
