It’s comical watching YouTube grifters like Melanie Little,
@BrotherCounsel @melrevision @reblavoie @DropMicrodots and so many others churn out videos and livestreams portraying Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney as some kind of First Amendment martyr.
Let’s be VERY clear: The First Amendment is NOT a license to intimidate, threaten, or harass state and federal witnesses.
This was NEVER about reporting on a case, asking questions, or expressing opinions.
Kearney is systematically targeting WITNESSES and their families.
Telling people to “tell the truth” and the harassment would stop.
Warning them they would never be able to go out in public again. Dragging their children and loved ones into an alleged campaign of intimidation.
Massachusetts has a witness intimidation law for a reason.
It’s a law designed to protect the integrity of our justice system and the people who participate in it.
It is astonishing watching people who should know better attempt to repackage Kearney as some noble fighter for freedom of speech.
I hope These YouTube personalities understand how foolish they’re going to look when his trial begins and the public gets to SEE and HEAR the evidence of what these witnesses and their families endured.
You can scream “FIRST AMENDMENT” into a microphone a thousand times. It doesn’t magically turn unlawful WITNESS intimidation into protected speech.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability.