Todd Rokita Under Fire After Indiana AG Investigator Allegedly Threatened Resident Over Facebook Post

So this article comes to us from the Indiana Capital Chronicle, and I want to know what you guys think about this, because I think, and I’m going to go into detail on why I think this is totally unacceptable, what Rokita’s soon did. I’m sure it had to be at the, I can’t fathom this guy did it on his own without Rokita knowing. But maybe I’m way off on this. Maybe this is one of those ones where you’re like, Rob, you’re just wrong. Okay. YouTube chat let me know as we go into the story. Now, real quick, before we. Let me preface this. There’s a difference between being an idiot and being a criminal. There’s a difference between being inappropriate and being a criminal. There’s a difference between being a dumbass and being a criminal. There’s many people who are inappropriate, they’re idiots and they’re dumbasses, but they’re not criminals.

Indiana Attorney General’s Office Faces Scrutiny Over Facebook Threat Investigation

So a guy by the name of Lee Lawmaster, he lives in Monroe County. That’s Bloomington. Posted 86 on the official Facebook page of several top Indiana elected Republicans, and that included Attorney General Todd Rokita. So for those of you, most of you know, and this is now front and center with the news, with James Comey, the former FBI director, who put 8647 in seashells on the beach, and now he’s facing charges related to that. 86, it can be a slang to get rid of people, like eliminate them from a position, but it can also be a slang for eliminating people, as in their life. And Comey is now facing charges from the Trump administration about this. Now, look, I don’t agree with that. James Comey falls into the category of being a moron. He’s a dumbass. But is our society going to be better served by throwing some guy in federal prison because he put 86-47 on a bunch of seashells on the beach? Like, is that, is that, I mean, I kind of feel like we let really, really bad people, like really, actually hyper dangerous people who actually do really, really horrible things to humanity out of our prison system all the time. Do we really want to take up space with James Comey? Does anybody think James Comey was really, really, like, going to be a threat to the president? And I think now we’re just getting to the point where we have such, we’re on both sides because Biden did this crap too and Obama did this crap too, where we’re just weaponizing the justice system against our enemies. We’re just taking our justice system and we are just using it as a way to silence our enemies, people we don’t like politically. Again, James Comey is awful. He’s awful. But I don’t think any reasonable person thought, okay, the guy made a joke. You could say it’s totally inappropriate. Agree. But nobody thinks in their right mind that James Comey was plotting to take out the president. He doesn’t have the power to do any of that anymore. He’s a nobody. So this guy, this moron, Monroe County resident Lee Lawmaster, posts 86 on the Facebook pages of, it appears, several Indiana politicians, including Rokita. Inappropriate? Yes. Stupid? Yes. Are you an idiot? Yes. Are you a criminal? I don’t think so. Rokita, well, we don’t know for sure whether Rokita sent him. Knowing how Rokita’s office works, I can’t fathom that this guy went without Rokita’s express written consent slash direction. Rokita sent an investigator from the Attorney General’s office to this guy’s house and threatened to indict him for the threats. The Attorney General’s office sent an investigator to this guy’s home to threaten that he could be indicted for what he posted on Facebook. Now, the ACLU of Indiana is suing on behalf of Lawmaster’s protected political speech. So now I’m hating everybody in this equation. Rokita is being completely ridiculous, and we’ll get into why in a second. We’ll get into the hypocrisy of Rokita on this in a second. Rokita is being completely ridiculous. He’s essentially trying to use his office to bully this guy. But then I loathe the ACLU too, and now they’re involved. And so now we got this guy in a lawsuit. So this comes off as like attention grabbing. So this is one where we’re probably going to say all of these people suck completely. The federal lawsuit filed against Kurt Spivey, according to the Capital Chronicle, director of investigations for the Indiana Attorney General’s office in his individual and official capacities. So they’re suing him. What that means is they’re suing him both as Curt Spivey, the person, and they’re suing him as his position as director of investigations for the Attorney General’s office. The lawsuit claims Spivey came to Lawmaster’s home on May 10th and May 1st to question him about the post. And again, I’m reading from the Capital Chronicle here because I want to make sure I get their words correct. During the interaction, Spivey told Lawmaster that his protected expression had, quote, crossed the line and warned that, quote, we could easily indict you over this today and instructed him to, quote, tone it down a bit. Okay. Let’s talk about the 10 million problems with all of this.

Questions Emerge About the Attorney General’s Authority to Pursue Criminal Cases

First of all, investigators with the Attorney General’s office generally do not have police powers. For the most part, with very rare exceptions as it relates to the Medicaid Fraud Unit, the Attorney General’s office is not a police organization. Todd Rokita is not trying people for murder. That’s a big, huge misconception. Now, you may have it because you’re a member of the general public. I wouldn’t expect you to know. I would, however, expect the attorney general to know what his actual powers of his office are. So you have a guy, this Kurt Spivey, going to this guy’s house, threatening to indict him when he doesn’t have the ability to do that. Because the last time I checked, posting 86 on Facebook ain’t the Medicaid fraud division. The office, according to Capital Chronicle, generally can’t initiate criminal prosecutions. Now, this is important, and Rokita should know this because you guys remember last year when I was begging Rokita to do something about Diego, the 10 day trip to India where he wouldn’t tell you who paid for the trip. You guys remember that when I was like, Rokita has the ability to do something about it. And finally, Casey Hendrickson, I think WOWO is the station he’s on. I think he’s on two stations up there. He’s a radio broadcaster from Northeast Indiana. Casey Hendrickson finally was the only member of the media who would ask him about this. And Rokita on that show, I heard the audio, made very clear about his excuse not to do anything about Diego and the trip to India, because what it says right here in the Capital Chronicle, the Attorney General’s office cannot initiate criminal prosecutions. That was his excuse for doing nothing about Diego. So clearly, Rokita knew it then, or he was making it up then because he sure, since, well, I don’t know if he sent. But he sure appears to be okay with Curt Spivey, director of investigations, going to this guy’s house, threatening to indict him. How can that be possible? That when it comes to Diego and the trip to India and finding out who paid for that trip, oh, here we go, guys, because I know it’s a crowd favorite. Like Diego says, nobody believes I paid for India, I pay. Nobody believes that. Nobody believes that for a second. How is it possible that when it came time to, why won’t you investigate Diego, I don’t have the authority. But when it comes time to threaten this idiot who posted 86 on Facebook, they were all about that.

Critics Point to Alleged Double Standard in Rokita’s Handling of Diego Morales Investigation

Both of these things can’t be true. If you want to say you don’t have the power, okay, then you don’t have the power to indict this guy and you screwed up big time and you need to admit it. If you do have the power, okay, I’ll accept that too. Then I’ll ask the question again a year later. Why won’t you investigate who paid for Diego’s trip to India? This is the, when I talk about Rokita and the never ending blowhard BS. Now, the Attorney General’s office does have very limited concurrent jurisdiction with local prosecutors. But here’s the examples of this, right. Like, I’m trying to be as fair as I possibly can be with this based on the numerous articles I read about this. Some of these things are homicide resulting from an unlawful assembly. That didn’t happen here. Consumer protection. I think the only guy Rokita’s concerned about protecting is himself, and I guess he consumes things, but I don’t think that qualifies either. And public corruption from elected officials. Public corruption from elected officials, which is exactly why I was begging Todd Rokita to investigate Diego Morales once again. How many damn times over the past ten years has everybody just shit all over me, and then I’ve been proven exactly correct. And here it is. Rokita has had the ability to investigate Diego Morales. How many times has this happened where I get up these public officials backsides for not doing something, instead of doing the thing they’re supposed to do, they just come back at me and then it gets proven. Oh my gosh, Rob was right. Todd Rokita does have the ability to work with whatever prosecutor he wants to find out the truth about Diego Morales. And even if he didn’t, you don’t think the bully pulpit of the attorney general demanding to know, saying, hey, Ryan Mears, you need to launch an informal or a formal investigation into this. I want to know. I want to know. These guys are just the worst of everything. You send a goon to this guy’s house to threaten him, to indict him when you can’t indict him. But you use as an excuse, I don’t have the ability to indict when it comes to investigating what I think any person with an IQ above seven says could possibly, quite possibly be serious public corruption, and not just the India stuff. The whole freaking office that he runs, the whole show that he runs over there should be investigated. Here’s what the ACLU Ken Falk, legal director at the ACLU of Indy, Ken Falk has been there forever. I think Ken Falk has been there like 30 years. I remember in high school talking to him about something at the ACLU. I don’t know if that’s been his position the whole time, but he’s been at the ACLU forever. It was the high school student newspaper, quote, government officials cannot treat political criticism as a criminal threat simply because they disagree with it. Mr. Lawmaster did nothing more than express his view that elected officials should be removed from office. Sending a state investigator to his home to warn him that he could be indicted for that speech is exactly the kind of government intimidation the First Amendment forbids. Look, this guy’s a moron. I can’t imagine being friends with this guy or hanging out with this guy. Everyone should totally reject this guy. And look, if a local prosecutor or law enforcement agency wants to investigate it and they determine a serious threat was made, great, that’s on them. That’s their job.