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Chapter 1: What led to Don Lemon's arrest by federal agents?
Ladies and gentlemen, Don Lemon has been arrested by federal agents. Now, the reporting today is that actually it was last night while he was covering an awards ceremony, the feds showed up, took him into custody, and good. He's being charged, according to numerous reports, under the FACE Act, which is the Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances Act of 1994, which is oh so poetic. Let me explain.
So first, let's start from the beginning. Don Lemon was with a group of, I don't want to say protesters, because what they're doing goes beyond protest. They're violating the rights of regular old citizens practicing their religion. It's one thing to stand outside and wave signs, another thing to march through a street, obstruct a roadway temporarily.
Those, one could argue, are First Amendment protected activities. It's another thing to go into a private place of worship during First Amendment protected activities, shut them down, screaming in children's faces. Now, this is where things get, well, let's just call it, it's a violation of civil rights. It is a crime, and it borders on the felony with the Klan Act. Now, Don Lemon
They were trying not to charge him. Despite the fact he knew in advance these crimes were about to be committed, he is clearly ideologically aligned with these individuals, and he went into the church with them. Listen, I want to make sure this is abundantly clear, okay?
Chapter 2: What is the FACE Act and how does it relate to Don Lemon's charges?
Public accommodation... One could argue a church is meaning it is open to the public. They have to trespass you first before you can come inside before, before they can arrest you for it. Right? So you go to a church, you open the door, you walk in, they say, Hey, we're trespassing you. You need to leave. Okay. That's how it works.
Now, if it was a locked door in a private house and you went inside, now you've broken a barrier. You've entered a private home and this is much, much different. Now you're going to get in trouble for burglary or something like that. But here's the thing, my friends. Don Lemon knew he was engaging in an activity that is not accommodated by this church.
That is, to go in with a group of extremists who are planning to disrupt the services in violation of their rights, and you're doing it to film it all as it happens, and You are not there as a worshiper for religious services, and this means you are immediately in the trespass zone.
You can't go into a private property engaging in criminal activity, or in this instance, it becomes criminal because of the group that he's with and because, let's just put it like this. It is a challenge always to figure out where the line is. But I think it's fair to say it like this. And again, it's going to fall down on if you're liberal or conservative always.
But the argument that I gave was, if you have advanced knowledge that a group of protesters are going to block a roadway, and you say, okay, I'll be there and I'll film it. No one's going to arrest you, okay? You show up, a bunch of hippies are like holding hands and singing songs. The cars are stopped. The cops come. They cuff them, move them off the road, restore traffic. You're filming.
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Chapter 3: What actions did Don Lemon take during the protest at the church?
They say, it's a minor petty thing. Yes, it's illegal. We're going to give these guys a slap on the wrist. Usually, these protesters will get like a court supervision. Nobody cares you filmed it. Now, hold on there a gosh darn minute. What if a group of people say, we're going to protest the oil companies by robbing their bank? And putting up a message. If you fund terror.
And you go, oh boy, I'm going to film that. And they break into a bank with masks and guns. And they rob the bank.
Chapter 4: How do First Amendment rights apply to protests and religious practices?
And you're with them filming the whole thing. Guess what? You're going to get arrested. You will be an accomplice. There's no question. Seriously? Okay, now let's apply to this circumstance. This is the line. On the left, they're going to argue it's nobody got murdered. They disrupted the service one time. It was a protest over the church and Don Lemon was just filming.
Well, I'm going to go ahead and tell you this. Y'all wanted the FACE Act. Y'all wanted these bills passed. You got them. Now you can't come around and be like, no, no, we changed our mind. Don Lemon was party to a group. He was privy to the knowledge, the foreknowledge, a crime was going to be committed. And he said the goal is to traumatize these people, innocent, non-political people.
This is what happens. We got some updates on the FACE Act, and I want to tell you the history of this law, because this is blowback in Democrat faces, because the FACE Act was only about protecting abortion clinics, and they only put in the place of worship to placate conservatives, and it literally made no sense. But, you know, conservatives fell for it.
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So I recommend it. Shop B-E-A-M dot com slash Timcast. Let's get back to the news and talk about our good friend Don Lemon over here. Mediaite reporting Don Lemon arrested by federal agents. They say Lemon's lawyers at the former CNN host was detained. Detained? Detained? in LA on Thursday night.
Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in LA, where he was covering the Grammy Awards. Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. Really? really protected work.
This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court. Lemon covered the anti-ice protests as they stormed a church. in St. Paul earlier this month.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Don Lemon's alleged involvement in the protest?
But this is a great video from Danny explaining exactly why Don Lemon, you're going to jail. Listen to this.
Because his argument is like, I'm a journalist. You are a YouTuber, my friend. January 6th. January 6th put those people in their place pretty handily, actually. We actually have the precedent for this kind of thing, where there was all these people on January 6th who are like, I'm a journalist.
I'm a journalist.
And they're like, no, no, no, no, no. You're a YouTuber. You're going to jail. You are a YouTuber. Yeah, you're like, what? I know Chris Cuomo. He goes, he's basically a YouTuber, too. I don't know if you've been following.
Also a YouTuber, because that's it. And, uh... Danny hit it out of the park on that one. Them's the rules y'all made. Here are three of the other protesters that were arrested for this action. Of course, I believe the woman on the left is the organizer, but these are the rules that you all have made, okay? Now listen. I'm not suggesting Don Lemon should go to prison for the rest of his life.
My argument is that he should get a slap on the wrist, six months of court supervision or something, just to say, don't do this. The FACE Act, as I understand, this is the breaking news. We have Jenny Teer saying, MS Now reporting that Don Lemon's been charged with the FACE Act. Of course, we're gonna have more information coming up as this story develops.
This is the freedom of access to clinic entrances, and it's all one big con. So my friends, you reap what you have sown. Do you guys know what the FACE Act is? Let me tell you about our two-tier justice system. In the 90s, admittedly, this is very bad. There were attacks on abortion clinics. There should not be terrorism or political violence.
And so they said, we're going to pass a special law that goes beyond just the violence. We're going to make it illegal to protest these things. So If you go and obstruct or intimidate or interfere in any way, intimidate, meaning they made it illegal to stand outside abortion clinics protesting. They said it's a violation of the FACE Act.
In fact, there were a bunch of little old ladies that were sitting in a lobby just sitting down and they got charged and arrested under the FACE Act. So they decided it's going to be illegal to protest abortion clinics. Now, again, the left obstructs churches. They block doors. They do this all the time. But abortion clinics are sanctified ground. So they are protected. But here's the thing.
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Chapter 6: How does the history of the FACE Act affect current legal interpretations?
The law's primary catalyst was the well-documented wave of violence, bombings, arson, and clinic blockades, and provider murders tied to anti-abortion activism, which of course was all already illegal. The provision protecting religious worship, covering force, threats, obstruction, blah, blah, blah, we get it, was added by Senator Orrin Hatch.
Accounts at the time indicated it was drafted to broaden or complicate the bill, sometimes described as a poison pill or rider, to gain bipartisan support or test proponents' willingness to expand the protections beyond clinics. One key factor mentioned was concerns about attacks on black churches.
But there wasn't a comparable epidemic of blockades or violent disruptions inside religious services. They added this just to placate the right. Now, to be fair, it looks like Orrin Hatch was doing it to test the boundaries of what they were willing to pass. But because there was no widespread violence or obstructions of church services, Democrats were like, sure, we don't care.
And now you reap what you all have sown. You wanted special laws to protect abortions? Okay, well now Don Lemon, you're getting locked up. Them's the rules. they're going to say the religious provision has remained largely dormant in enforcement for decades. Until more recent cases, like the DOJ investigations into protest disruptions at churches or synagogues, like the one we just saw.
Critics have noted that while the FACE Act covers churches equally on paper, its application has historically skewed towards abortion clinics. In essence, the religious protection was included to make the bill more palatable or balanced, not because religious services faced an equivalent crisis at the time. The core issue the act targeted was clinic-related violence and obstruction.
And now here we are, Jim Acosta with the statement from Don Lemon's attorneys. Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peacefulāoh, I love these zombie zealotsā protesters, peaceful protesters. The Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention, and resources to this arrest. And that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case.
This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court. Now, listen, I think principally, Don Lemon, he's going to get some benefit of the doubt on this one.
Maybe not benefit of the doubt, but some degree of protection in that because he filmed all of this, we know it happened. There's a benefit to the act of journalism that he was engaged in. But we are no longer in this era of classical liberalism where we all hold hands and sing songs together. The reality is that Don is an ideologue of the left. He said nothing of the Jay Sixers.
Numerous journalists hunted down by the Biden administration. He did not care. In fact, he repeatedly just condemned all the Jay Sixers. He treats them all like one group with no room for nuance. So let me tell you, as most of you already know, What is the right? What is the left? Why am I right wing? I can sit here and criticize Donald Trump all day. I've been calling him Buchanan.
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Chapter 7: What are the criticisms surrounding the application of the FACE Act?
You were explaining to conservatives they feel this way, but you were also telling them something they may have not considered. If a liberal were to have said the exact same thing, it'd be taken as a rallying cry. Whereas to a conservative, it's meant as a criticism of liberals. You are still telling people to go do something bad.
When Akeem Jeffries says you've got to put her on ice permanently, he can walk it back later. But there's going to be some person who hates Kristi Noem sitting there listening, hearing him say this, going, he's right. She's got to be stopped. Hey, here's Grok. What does it mean to put a person on ice permanently?
To put a person on ice permanently is slang for murdering them, making them dead and staying that way like a corpse in a morgue freezer or on ice to preserve it. Standard idiom to put on ice has two main meanings. Postpone, delay. If you say put it on ice. To kill someone. Gangster and mobster slang referenced in dictionaries like Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, and Quora.
The permanently pushes it firmly into the killing interpretation. Or postponing permanently doesn't, as postponing permanently doesn't make sense. When it says put her on ice permanently, it means to kill her. Oh wait, there's more. Here's Kathy Griffin. What did she have to say?
Those of you that are awake, that see what's going on, what do you think the solution is? I think the murder of Rene Good, the murder of Alex Preddy, putting children on planes and taking them to detention centers, which are really concentration camps. Call it what it is. They're concentration camps in the United States of America in 2026.
OK, I'll just pause and say, sure, fine, I guess if that's the case. But we've been living in this system with the quote unquote concentration camps for 40 plus years. So the issue largely is there are a lot of bad things in this country that we're trying to fix. But these people are only pretending. They don't actually know what's going on.
If they did, they've been talking about the FEMA camps 40 years ago.
So take that in, and I know you don't wanna participate in something radical, I don't either. I wish I could just go on the road and do my funny stories about celebrities or making fun of politicians, but not even have to acknowledge this. But it is happening all around you, it's happening around you. I live in Los Angeles, it's happening at targeted places in Los Angeles.
And I think it's time to talk to the neighbors in real life. It's time to talk to your neighbors, find out if they're MAGA or not. Sorry, but we have to know who's on our team and start to plan. Is there a way we can do something as a community? When I hear from my followers in Minnesota, they describe a very sophisticated channel of a system of things that they do to help one another.
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