Max McGuire on the Failure of Conservative Protest

Max McGuire below ain’t wrong: 

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“Watching videos from the Arizona protest. It is very sad how sparsely attended it has been. 

I don't think it can be overstated how much of a chilling effect the Jan6 prosecutions have had on the Conservative movement. I support the effort to get to the bottom of election fraud in AZ and around the country. But I don't know if I would personally attend one of these rallies. Not because I don't support their mission - I do - but because attending comes with a real risk of being prosecuted, even if you do nothing wrong. And I believe the reason they're being so sparsely attended is because conservatives agree.

There are a ton of people who got caught up in the DOJ dragnet and were prosecuted for nonsense "crimes" they "committed" on January 6th, like "standing on a structural element" because they sat on a waist-height wall or "entering a restricted building" because they walked through opened doors to use the restroom inside the Capitol building.

No one actually knows precisely how many laws/crimes there are on the books. For that reason, it's impossible for anyone to know with any certainty that they are actually complying with all of the laws. 

We live in a world today where the DOJ is run according to the Stalinist mantra of "you show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." If the DOJ wants to prosecute someone for attending one of these protests, they can easily do it. Federal and State Laws prohibiting intimidation against election officials are so broadly written and could easily be applied against people protesting outside of the Maricopa County elections board. The Deep Staters don't care whether these charges stick. They'd just as happily force patriots to spend their life savings defending themselves against frivolous charges.

There's also always a fear that people at these events - either idiots on our side or leftist provocateurs - will stir up trouble. If I was going to attend one of these events, I would absolutely carry a concealed weapon. I carry everyday. But my general rule of thumb is that if I believe a concealed weapon is 100% necessary to keep me safe at an event, that's probably not an event I should attend. 

Then there's the other argument: that the risk to the country if fraudulent results are certified outweighs any individual risk of attending the protests. I appreciate that.

But I think that the unfortunate truth is that until there is real oversight and accountability to stop the tyrants in the FBI/DOJ from prosecuting innocent people, it will always be an uphill battle convincing people to attend these rallies and protests.”