A Tennessee man has been in jail for a month, and will be there into December, at least, because a county sheriff 45 minutes away didn't like a meme he posted on Facebook about Donald Trump. Seriously, that is the alleged crime here. Larry Bushart, 61, of Lexington, Tenn., posted a meme in a Facebook group on a thread referencing a local Charlie Kirk vigil 21 with a photo of Trump and a direct quote from the president saying "We have to get over it," which Trump said after a 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa, attributing the quote to "Donald Trump on the Perry High School mass shooting one day after," and adding the message, "Seems relevant today." Bushart, a retired police and corrections officer and sheriff's deputy, has been in jail since he was booked in the early-morning hours of Sept. 22 on a charge of "threatening mass violence at a school," and is being held on a preposterous $2 million bond.
The link didn't work for me, so I found this one - in case anyone else has an issue:
augustafreepress.com
"This has everything to do with a guy coming onto a Perry County page posting this picture leading people in our community to believe that there was a hypothetical Perry County High School shooting that caused fear in our community " and we done something about it," Sheriff Weems said in an exclusive interview with NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
www.newschannel5.com
Fact is, there is always going to be a hypothetical Perry County High School shooting.
That's what the Second Amendment is for.
Anyway, if you say something that the cops say might "cause fear" in the community, Republicans think it's okay to send you to prison for that. More from the article:
We pressed the sheriff, "But you also knew this was an existing meme that was already out there on the Internet."
"Correct," Weems agreed.
Again, we noted, "So it's clear that he's not talking about Perry County High School."
"We knew," the sheriff said. "The public did not know."
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