Amy Suzanne Martin MA JD
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In Psywar, the enemy is deception. ☃️ Law & crime blogger. Creator-centered rationalist. Critical thinker. Unmonetized. Did you read the article?
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MASSIE: Secret Service cell phone records were deleted for January 6? Who was Secretary of Homeland Security when you discovered the records were deleted? THOMPSON: Alejandro Mayorkas. MASSIE: Do you still believe there may have been a violation of the Federal Records Act? THOMPSON: Yes.
Amy Suzanne Martin MA JD879,306 views • 2 years ago
⚖️A new form of UNRESTRICTED LAWFARE? Are politically-guided civil rights lawyers weaponizing their individual First Amendment rights to spew harmful misinformation? Does this misinformation tend to encourage unlawful, dangerous confrontations? Under the shield of commentary Jenin Younes, national legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Council, incorrectly and absurdly advised X readers that ICE officers had “no law enforcement authority over” Renee Good, and “no authority to search a U.S. citizen or arrest her.” Younes, a former appellate advocate for indigent criminal defendants, prefaces her commentary with her credentials, framing herself as a neutral expert: “I’m a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight.” Admitting she has “the right to change” her opinion “if additional information changes the calculus,” Younes says she has reviewed early video of the tragic confrontation between Renee Good and ICE and confidently asserts: “It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation.” As a trained attorney myself, I am astounded at Younes’ willingness to risk her reputation on such a strange hill without first investigating the facts of what occurred BEFORE the scene that emerges from the 9-second video clips. But what’s more astonishing (and frankly shocking) are Younes’ statements of law that are dangerously, absurdly incorrect. In the first wave of commentary about the encounter, many inferred Good was free to leave the scene — despite audio in some clips with the voice of an agent shouting to Good, “get out of the f—— vehicle!” There is no “right to flee” a law enforcement encounter simply because one believes it may be unlawful. And there is no reason to believe the encounter was unlawful. Because contrary to Younes’ assertions, ICE agents in the course of executing their enforcement duties have statutory authority to stop, question, detain and arrest U.S. citizens, codified at 8 U.S. Code § 1357(a)(5). For activists who seek to exercise their First Amendment rights, civil rights attorneys like Younes should advise on the limits of their rights to protest lawfully and on how to protest safely. And they should make it clear that actively interfering with ICE activities is absolutely outside the bounds of Constitutionally protected expression. Under Younes’ view, the assertion that ICE officers have “no law enforcement authority over” U.S. citizens tends to suggest that citizens can interfere with their operations or commit crimes against them with impunity. Clearly that is not the case. Statements from Good’s family members and eyewitnesses suggest that Good had coordinated with local activists and was consciously leading or participating in an operation to obstruct ICE by blocking the road with their vehicles. Obviously, investigation is ongoing, and more facts will come to light. I agree with Younes on one thing: Renee Good should not have died. If Renee had had a proper understanding of the law, and of the dangerousness of putting herself physically between ICE and the execution of their law enforcement duties, the 37-year-old mom might have thought twice before taking part. Was it foreseeable? Could a mistaken belief that the law does not apply to her, in someone who adheres to zealous anti-ICE ideology, be the catalyst to radicalize a mom to commit an act of obstruction, sabotage or terrorism? Being in a vehicle may have enhanced the dangerousness compared to anti-ICE activism we saw in 2025, where protestors blocked roads with their bodies. Driving a 2-ton vehicle means Renee was operating a potentially lethal weapon, justifying lethal force in a self-defense situation. Does Younes have a “political dog in this fight”? Glenn Greenwald touts Younes’ work combatting censorship, leading a lawsuit against the Biden administration, as evidence of her lack of political bias. But to assume, on the basis of minimal evidence, that ICE agents must be held accountable for “overreach” is the very definition of prejudice: to hold a preconceived opinion. Lawyers have opinions. But a preconceived opinion against law enforcement in this context strongly suggests a political agenda. Does Younes’ misstatement of law suggest a new form of “unrestricted lawfare”? You decide.
Kimberly Wexler MA JD236,576 views • 8 months ago
🔥ELI CRANE: I had a hearing this week in Homeland Security about foreign adversaries using direct energy weapons against U.S. citizens…. Havana Syndrome. When I went down to that SCIF, that was one of the most terrifying briefings I’ve ever been a part of.
Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD553,435 views • 2 years ago
SHAWN RYAN: I was doing a lot of stuff I shouldn’t be doing. Cocaine. And then once I left the agency, I started building a network down there. I wanted to see how far into the narcos network I could get myself. I started at street level and built the network out.
Kimberly Wexler MA JD216,043 views • 1 year ago
![Why is LIZ CROKIN defending ANDREW TATE? TATE: I became a multimillionaire by creating a webcam [porn] studio. By taking girls who had never been on webcam before … [and who] didn’t have the will … to make money with this exchange. I created a system that allowed me to convince girls to do this, allowed me to retain one hundred percent control of their income, allowed me to make sure they were effective … I learned every tip and trick it takes to make sure a girl gets paid. I know how to make sure the girl can’t run away. Because once you teach a girl how to do this, she has the ability to earn unlimited money from home. Why would she give it to you? Why wouldn’t she just run off? CROKIN: I don’t think it’s black and white, with him. … I think there’s a lot of truth to every viewpoint on his situation. … I guess he was involved in kind of encouraging girls to do OnlyFans type of stuff. I actually would really like to see him come out and, you know, um, speak out against that. And say that, you know, that was something he did in his past that was a mistake. You know, he regrets that. … Did he do anything that was criminal? I’m not sure, because I’ve heard that, you know, when he was doing his business, you know, he was in a country where the legal age of consent was 16. Um, but I didn’t know about the other girl possibly being 15. If she was, clearly that’s wrong, and it sounds like illegal, to me. I just don’t know enough about that to know if he has done anything criminal. I’ve also heard that there’s no victims that have come forward. I do believe that he is being unfairly persecuted. … Based off of what I’ve investigated about him, what he did comes nowhere close to what Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein and their associates are guilty of. I would love to see him ask for redemption. And to say, you know, porn isn’t the way, I regret doing this, any of the women, you know, that I brought into this, I’m sorry. MAGA is a very forgiving community. And I would like to see him encourage women to, you know, not get involved in porn, and to respect their bodies, and respect themselves. (Hey LIZ CROKIN, convincing women to do porn when they don’t have the will is recruitment. Doing it under the false pretense of a favor for a romantic partner is deception. Retaining their money is use of payment to control someone. Making sure they can’t run away is slavery. Andrew Tate literally confessed to being a trafficker, and you want to claim he’s being unfairly persecuted? REALLY? Other evidence of Tate’s violence, including his habit of strangling while raping his girlfriends, is circulating online. He doesn’t just pimp and enslave young women and girls. He teaches other men how to do it, too. This is not MAGA, and if someone in the MAGA movement wants to go easy on Andrew Tate, that is not someone we can trust.)](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1898162424299090009/ext_tw_video_thumb/1898157661993959424/pu/img/bRJ7Tbi3r_a_t2xg.jpg)
Why is LIZ CROKIN defending ANDREW TATE? TATE: I became a multimillionaire by creating a webcam [porn] studio. By taking girls who had never been on webcam before … [and who] didn’t have the will … to make money with this exchange. I created a system that allowed me to convince girls to do this, allowed me to retain one hundred percent control of their income, allowed me to make sure they were effective … I learned every tip and trick it takes to make sure a girl gets paid. I know how to make sure the girl can’t run away. Because once you teach a girl how to do this, she has the ability to earn unlimited money from home. Why would she give it to you? Why wouldn’t she just run off? CROKIN: I don’t think it’s black and white, with him. … I think there’s a lot of truth to every viewpoint on his situation. … I guess he was involved in kind of encouraging girls to do OnlyFans type of stuff. I actually would really like to see him come out and, you know, um, speak out against that. And say that, you know, that was something he did in his past that was a mistake. You know, he regrets that. … Did he do anything that was criminal? I’m not sure, because I’ve heard that, you know, when he was doing his business, you know, he was in a country where the legal age of consent was 16. Um, but I didn’t know about the other girl possibly being 15. If she was, clearly that’s wrong, and it sounds like illegal, to me. I just don’t know enough about that to know if he has done anything criminal. I’ve also heard that there’s no victims that have come forward. I do believe that he is being unfairly persecuted. … Based off of what I’ve investigated about him, what he did comes nowhere close to what Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein and their associates are guilty of. I would love to see him ask for redemption. And to say, you know, porn isn’t the way, I regret doing this, any of the women, you know, that I brought into this, I’m sorry. MAGA is a very forgiving community. And I would like to see him encourage women to, you know, not get involved in porn, and to respect their bodies, and respect themselves. (Hey LIZ CROKIN, convincing women to do porn when they don’t have the will is recruitment. Doing it under the false pretense of a favor for a romantic partner is deception. Retaining their money is use of payment to control someone. Making sure they can’t run away is slavery. Andrew Tate literally confessed to being a trafficker, and you want to claim he’s being unfairly persecuted? REALLY? Other evidence of Tate’s violence, including his habit of strangling while raping his girlfriends, is circulating online. He doesn’t just pimp and enslave young women and girls. He teaches other men how to do it, too. This is not MAGA, and if someone in the MAGA movement wants to go easy on Andrew Tate, that is not someone we can trust.)
Amy Suzanne Martin MA JD131,633 views • 1 year ago
🧵TODD BENSMAN (2023): Ending familial DNA testing for migrant children at the border, which was effective in detecting and deterring child trafficking, “has got to be one of the most terrible, egregious things I’ve seen the Biden administration do….” — Todd Bensman
Amy Suzanne Martin MA JD155,787 views • 2 years ago
MICHAEL HARDT: Social movements today are the most powerful agents for social change. Most of us associated with the lab have long had a kind of dual intellectual life. WE HAVE A DAY JOB IN THE UNIVERSITY AND A NIGHT JOB AS ACTIVISTS. The Social Movements Lab at Duke University
Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD28,849 views • 7 months ago