Posted on 07/18/2023 10:27:04 AM PDT by CFW
Last week Ray Epps filed a defamation suit against Fox News for coverage of Epps’ involvement in the January 6. The allegedly defamatory content in question concerned reporting from Tucker Carlson and Revolver News’ Darren Beattie that appeared on Fox News that suggested Ray Epps may directly or indirectly have been acting an asset of the U.S. government — in colloquial terms, that Ray Epps may be a “fed.”
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The U.S. Government has a long and storied history of using agents provocateur in similar contexts. Epps’ behavior on January 5 and 6th was considered so egregious that he was one of the first twenty people the FBI included on its January 6th Most Wanted list. Epps had formerly served as the head of the Arizona chapter of the Oath Keepers — the most demonized and heavily prosecuted militia group associated with January 6th (whose vice president was outed as an FBI informant). Epps is the only person caught on camera, as early as the 5th, in Trump hat and camo, repeatedly inciting the crowd around him to go “INTO” the Capitol, and prefacing each exhortation with the expectation that he would probably “go to jail” and “be arrested” for such incitement.
But Epps wasn’t arrested. The DOJ was frothing at the mouth for people to make an example of, and for whatever reason it declined to charge Epps with trespassing or conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, both easy charges given his conduct and the standards according to which the DOJ prosecuted other, less high profile cases. Even stranger, former Oath Keeper Epps became the only January 6th participant that the New York Times wrote a puff piece on, 60 Minutes did a sympathy segment on, and Adam Kinzinger would defend.
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When did Tupac become a judge?
He was killed in 1996 according to Wikipedia.
In the current threads, we have Tupac and UFOs…
Tupac went from a nopac to now having an impac?
I know he’s dead. It was a rhetorical question.
I never heard Tucker state definitively that Epps was a government agent or informant. I heard him question why Epps wasn’t treated like others and speculate whether it was because he was a government agent.
LOL!!!
Even the nuts on the J6 inquisition were defending Epps so you know he’s an insider working for the deep state.
He got smoked in LV. Biggie got his too….
Maybe Biggie shouldn’t have released the track “Who Shot Ya”…
Great analysis. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting article.
The only possible explanation is that Fox has already agreed to pay him off the way they paid off Dominion.
"Got bills and you need money fast? Call 1-800-SUE-FAUX" ... hell they could even have a "Sue Faux" actress pimping the call line.
I’d mentioned this before. The allegation that you are a federal agent is unlikely to be found to be defamatory.
That he incited some of the J6 action might be defamatory IF it were untrue.
Yeah, but the point of the article is, even if he came out and said Epps was a “fed”, and even if he said this knowing it was false, that doesn’t rise to the standard of defamation, since saying someone cooperates with law enforcement, or is employed by law enforcement is not a slanderous charge to a “right-thinking person”, which is the legal standard.
It’s COINTELPRO 2.0, with white, conservative pro-life Christians the new Black Panthers, Weathermen and SDS. And new FBI with a strong desire to kill.
They misspelled “cRap.”
“....Here, plaintiff alleges that Shakur’s song “Against All Odds” falsely accuses him of “working as an undercover federal informant” and that, as a result of this accusation, he has suffered damage to his reputation and been placed in danger. (Compl.¶¶ 18-19) Even accepting that the statements at issue are false and caused plaintiff injury, however, plaintiff's claim must be rejected. In order to be libelous under New York law, a false statement must hold the plaintiff up to ridicule or scorn in the minds of “right-thinking persons”; those who would think ill of one who legitimately cooperates with law enforcement officials are not such persons.......”
May there be some right thinking people who remain on juries.
And Wiz Khalifa too.
I’m hoping an Andy Kaufman thread pops up…
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