Lakeland woman was charged Tuesday after police said she ended a call to an insurance company with the words, “Delay, Deny, Depose.”
Her words after this were “you people are next”
Kinda gives her less leeway here
I don’t think so tbh, at least for me personally. People in power have said way worse things
That’s a prediction.
It is by no means illegal to predict the likelihood of a copycat with the same motives as the original.
And unless you can conclusively prove her intent to commit harm, you can only investigate. You can’t arrest or charge her without violating her right to free speech.
Her prediction is entirely plausible. The general public is completely pissed at the entire industry over this kind of behavior.
First amendment violation. I hope she sues the shit out of them.
[she] was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism
How
She doesn’t even own a gun and seems to pose little tangible threat, yet they’re claiming intent to commit mass murder or terrorism. Its a ridiculous stretch from that little comment
You do realize that it’s possible to possess a weapon that isn’t registered to you, right?
Why would you not take a person referencing a recent assassination and telling you that you are next seriously? I’d 100% call the cops if that happened to me when I was a call center agent.
No, see, everyone is misunderstanding. She was threatening to commit mass murder by starting her own health insurance company and using the tried and true Delay, Deny, Depose method of profiting from murder.
They set $100K bond and she could get a 15 year prison sentence!?!?!? That’s insane. Far far out of proportion to what she said. Obviously there’s no way she is any kind of a threat to anyone and they know it. But they’re going to fuck her over to make an example of her. What a dystopia we’re living in.
More likely, she’ll get a 100k settlement for the violation of her first amendment rights.
“You’re Next” is a prediction, not a threat. She is predicting the potentiality of a copycat with similar motives. She is fully within her first amendment rights to do that.
Her statement was enough to justify an investigation, but it was not enough to justify an arrest, or the bringing of charges. So, I predict that she has a good case for a settlement, and I predict that the amount of that settlement will be $100,000.
It feels like the elites “putting us in our place”. This is a form of torture, a sentence or threat of a sentence that is far too strict for the crime. Publicize it so the masses can see.
Feels like they’re trying to show us what happens when we get uppity with the billionaire class.
Hopefully I’m wrong. Hopefully there’s still rule of law, a judge throws it out, and maybe she can sue. Time will tell.
I think it will backfire on them. I think “the elites” have lost control of the situation, and efforts like this are just throwing fuel on the fire.
