Meet your Florida legislative candidate

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Stupid traitor.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Under my plan, you'd get the medication you so sorely need.

I mean, Luis Miguel, not ...

Oh, you know what I mean.

[sop]

3. Banned from Twitter, but not the Republican party.

[Samrob]

4. Can't he be locked up for this?

What is the FBI waiting for?

[Effete Snob]

6. The FBI would probably be waiting for a relevant law to be passed

Even then, it would be difficult to come up with a law that would address this statement in particular and which would be Constitutional.

There are federal laws about threatening particular elected officials. For example 18 USC 871

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/871

There is no federal law that would be applicable to this statement, saying that if elected he would somehow make it legal to shoot various classes of people.

The statement is not a threat against any of the persons noted in the relevant law, nor is it a specific threat against any particular person.

It is legal to say things like "I want to shoot cops" or "I want to make it legal for other people to shoot cops", etc.. If one believes otherwise, I would be interested to know the specific statute under which one can be arrested for saying those things.

[rsdsharp]

7. Again. Locked up for what? Espousing a legislative plan

which — if adopted at some future date — would purport make such conduct legal (at least before it was immediately struck down as unconstitutional)?

[Effete Snob]

5. It's the Republican platform at this point

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/548917-miguel-tweet/

Twitter ‘permanently suspends’ HD 20 candidate after he advocates shooting federal agents

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Miguel told Florida Politics Friday the suspension, which is “permanent” per a message he got on his Twitter app, “doesn’t affect (him) at all.” He stands by the proposal, which he says is justified because the IRS has been “weaponized by dissident forces.”

Miguel is still active on Instagram, where the post advocating shooting federal agents is still displayed, amid a host of other hateful graphics mourning the loss of confederate statues (“Southern memories,” he called them), advocating “complete enforcement” of the Stop Woke Act, and other such shout-outs to the populist right.

[sop]

8. Luis Miguel is a well-known Qanon follower who hangs out with the Proud Boys.

He was a 2022 U.S. Senate candidate, then dropped out of that race to run for District 20 of the Florida House of Representatives, trying to unseat Democratic State Representative Yvonne Hinson. The guy's a real nut case.

Miguel led a rally claiming the Jan. 6 attack was a “false flag” created by the FBI. Appearing with him at the rally were at least a dozen members of the Proud Boys, including Enrique Tarrio. Luis demanded everyone jailed for the attempted coup be released as "political prisoners."

He wrote an op-ed stating that a civil war between the red and the blue states was “inevitable”. And Miguel not only wants to ban abortion, but to punish it as a capital crime. Apparently, Luis is so pro-life he wants to punish the mother by killing her.