Don Lemon needs to choose —journalist or agitator, – Latest News
Don Lemon has been squeezed by the feds.
Arrested in Los Angeles, the ex-CNN anchor has been charged after a shameful incident at a St. Paul, Minnesota, church the place a group of ant-ICE lunatics interrupted Sunday providers.
Lemon faces fees of conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers.
Predictably, his arrest has triggered all of the selective free speech advocates to come out screaming that our basic rights are being eroded. Yet journalists have been harassed and focused for a lot much less.
Don Lemon was closely concerned within the scene as anti-ICE agitators swarmed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Don Lemon / YouTube
“The FBl’s arrest of our former CNN colleague Don Lemon raises profoundly concerning questions about press freedom and the First Amendment,” CNN mentioned in a assertion.
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Celebrities and students like Josh Gad, Kathy Griffin, Andy Cohen and Billy Baldwin are amongst those that have fired off statements of assist.
That boob Lemon has now develop into a martyr.
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All of his supporters are spouting the same old phrases from their Trump resistance glossary, calling it fascism and authoritarianism.
Don Lemon launched activist and ringleader Nekima Levy Armstrong, who he additionally kissed on the cheek. Don Lemon / YouTube
Too dangerous most of these have misplaced their which means and their sting, because the left throws them round with impunity.
But a free press? Well that also means one thing fortunately.
The First Amendment is sacred, but it surely doesn’t simply guarantee freedom of the press. It additionally guarantees the proper of people to worship freely.
Lemon has acted like his journalist press “badge” is a power subject that gives every kind of immunity.
He is most positively guilty of being an utter device and victimhood fanatic, usually crying that any criticism of him is as a result of he’s black and homosexual.
But did he conspire with the rabid anti-ICE agitators who burst into a Cities Church earlier this month, shattering peaceable Sunday providers?
He definitely appeared gleeful as he embedded with the so-called resistance. “I can’t tell you exactly what they’re doing,” he mentioned, introducing the pinnacle of the group, activist Nekima Levy Armstrong. He greeted her with a giant kiss on the cheek.
He then mentioned he was turning the digicam off “because they’re giving some critical information here. But…there we go.”
And there they went, storming into the church, screaming “ICE out,” yelling in churchgoers faces, allegedly blocking mother and father from reaching their youngsters in lecture rooms and lowering frightened youngsters to tears.
As the agitators stormed into the church and screamed at parishers, a crying baby was comforted by his mother and father. @TimRunsHisMouth/X
They selected that church as a result of there have been rumors somebody high up on the church was doubtlessly affiliated with ICE.
As the chaos performed out, Lemon interviewed the pastor, who referred to as the invasion “unacceptable and shameful.” He even requested them to go away.
Still, Lemon continued. He didn’t act as an observer, as a substitute he lectured the pastor. Microphone in hand, he straight up badgered the pastor, lecturing him about how there’s “freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.”
He had the stones to ask him if he even tried to communicate to the unhinged invaders “as Christians?”
During his sermon to the church chief, Lemon made sure to make clear, “I’m a Christian.”
In different interviews with shellshocked parishioners, he defined why the protesters have been indignant.
To me, he acted because the group’s mouthpiece, not as a indifferent information gatherer.
Then, as soon as the backlash grew, he claimed he had “no affiliations with that organization.”
As the group invaded the church in St. Paul, Don Lemon interviewed the pastor who referred to as the chaos “shameful.” Don Lemon / YouTube
Now that he’s accused of being occasion to stopping people from exercising their First Amendment rights, he’s asserting his to wiggle out of bother.
If Lemon had performed the identical with a group barging into a mosque or an abortion clinic, there could be crickets from the so-called democracy defenders.
It’s ironic that simply earlier than his arrest, he was giving profession advice.
“Don’t try to be the old traditional journalist of yesteryear. It doesn’t play anymore. Blaze your own trail,” Lemon advised journalist Nya Etienne during a pre-Grammys occasion.
Don Lemon reported on the so-called resistance, earlier than they stormed the church. Don Lemon/Youtube
Could he have blazed his own path into legal bother? We’ll have to wait and see how a lot juice the feds have in opposition to Lemon, who was reportedly indicted by a grand jury. And we’ll be watching.
In this courageous new world of unbiased journalism, the traces can certainly be blurred.
But you can’t be each a journalist and an agitator. You have a to decide one.
