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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:10 PM Jun 2018

Dem Senate Candidate Arrested 'Trying to Deliver Toys, Books, Water' to Kids in Detention Center


by Matt Naham | 12:51 pm, June 22nd, 2018

An attempt to deliver necessities and comfort items to children in a detention center in McAllen, Texas appears to have gone awry for Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein. Ringelstein, who is challenging Sen. Angus King for his seat, was arrested and it was all caught on camera.

The politician’s Twitter account and a lengthy video documented what went down at the facility. The Twitter version of events had four stages: #resist, attempted toy etc. delivery, #FreeZak and then an official campaign statement.










“U.S. Senate candidate Zak Ringelstein of Yarmouth, Maine was arrested this morning outside an internment camp in McAllen, Texas. Ringelstein, 31, was attempting to deliver water, food, blankets, book and toys to children imprisoned by the Trump administration,” the campaign said. “At this time, specific charges are not known. There has been no communication from Ringelstein since his arrest about 9:30 am EST.”

The Facebook video on Ringelstein’s campaign page, on the other hand, is more than an hour and half long.

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Dem Senate Candidate Arrested 'Trying to Deliver Toys, Books, Water' to Kids in Detention Center (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
Zak, please don't speak in the Third Person. Trump does that. TheBlackAdder Jun 2018 #1
It looks as if a compatriot took over tweeting, because Zak himself was "busy" getting arrested Leghorn21 Jun 2018 #3
Seems like a staffer or friend took over posting while he got arrested. Tatiana Jun 2018 #14
What type of person would assist in anyway this tragic miscarriage of justice. olegramps Jun 2018 #21
Moliere could have written 'Tartuffe' just by modeling the actions and behaviors of these people. TheBlackAdder Jun 2018 #23
Yet no arrests duforsure Jun 2018 #2
There is something bdamomma Jun 2018 #4
No doubt. Initech Jun 2018 #10
Sick fkers. You know that once they've all been moved behind the Wwcd Jun 2018 #5
Where are the girls? Why isn't there a stop order filed on trump's policy, RestoreAmerica2020 Jun 2018 #12
We all need to show up on June 30th, so the POS can see how many people oppose him. sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #6
I think there will be many people bdamomma Jun 2018 #11
My local protest is tomorrow and has been planned for 3 weeks. BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #15
Thank you Zak Ringelstein, goddamit!! What a nasty business he willingly stepped into, and Leghorn21 Jun 2018 #7
This is so fucking wrong. My mind is just about to explode. What the FUCK have we become? Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #8
A country where the assholes have taken over. Initech Jun 2018 #13
Hey Y'all, is this a dictatorship yet???? nt Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #9
It's because the books were all wrong. Ilsa Jun 2018 #16
K&R Scurrilous Jun 2018 #17
K and r. eom Tipperary Jun 2018 #18
Kick democrank Jun 2018 #19
And now Trump is calling the kids "angels." And I'm sure Fox and "Fiends" is eating it all up... C Moon Jun 2018 #20
You sure have that right. They are like the imps from hell. olegramps Jun 2018 #22
Last year, I read an article that said it's time to leave when a sitting congressperson is arrested. ecstatic Jun 2018 #24
How do we donate specifically to his campaign? uponit7771 Jun 2018 #25

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
3. It looks as if a compatriot took over tweeting, because Zak himself was "busy" getting arrested
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:22 PM
Jun 2018

and driven to jail - ?

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)
14. Seems like a staffer or friend took over posting while he got arrested.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:55 PM
Jun 2018

I don't think he'd tweet about himself in the third person like Trump.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
21. What type of person would assist in anyway this tragic miscarriage of justice.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jun 2018

How do they go home and face their own children. How do they stomach to look in the mirror. What do they think when they go to church on Sunday; signing hymns and praising the Lord who must be horrified. These are Christians? These are the Bible Belt God fearing people who are so fond of demonstrating their faith with quotes from the scriptures. It seems to me that they are willing child abusers without a shred of compassion or human decency. It seem to me that they sold their soul and hitched their fate to a one of the worst monsters to have ever obtained the presidency. If this is what populates heaven, Peter can give me a pass.

TheBlackAdder

(28,208 posts)
23. Moliere could have written 'Tartuffe' just by modeling the actions and behaviors of these people.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 06:05 PM
Jun 2018

.

The play is quite fun to read.

It's about a pious man being welcomed into a house, only to swindle the home away from the family, using religion.

Pretty much, the more pious a person presents themselves to be, the more of a hypocrite they are.

.

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
4. There is something
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:23 PM
Jun 2018

definitely illegal going on behind those walls and to arrest a US Senate candidate.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
10. No doubt.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:33 PM
Jun 2018

And given this administration's contempt for the press, I'm sure we're only hearing bits and pieces of what's really going on. I feel scared of what's going to happen to the people he's wrongfully imprisoned.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
5. Sick fkers. You know that once they've all been moved behind the
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:23 PM
Jun 2018

Lock & guarded gates of Military bases, no one will ever know what is happening to these people.

All we'll have to rely on is what our dictator tells us via his State Media.

Don't count on families actually being kept together.
Its a lie.


Why is it a crime to offer children's necessities to a children's shelter? It's not.
Why the need to arrest? There wàs no need.

They are hiding what's going on inside. That's what this is about.
Why????!!

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
12. Where are the girls? Why isn't there a stop order filed on trump's policy,
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:38 PM
Jun 2018

...just a court action did with Muslim ban? I've read that states are pursuing some type of action, yet trunp and his gang of child abusers are moving fast to relocate, disperse children across the country rendering it impossible to reunite children with parents.

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
11. I think there will be many people
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:35 PM
Jun 2018

all over the country so the POS will know how hated he is.

Geez, I think my mind is mush, I am not structuring a complete sentence.

BigmanPigman

(51,608 posts)
15. My local protest is tomorrow and has been planned for 3 weeks.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:12 PM
Jun 2018

Only about 50 people showed up on June 1st but that was a week day. I have the feeling tomorrow's protest will be a lot bigger since this is in San Diego and we border Mexico.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
7. Thank you Zak Ringelstein, goddamit!! What a nasty business he willingly stepped into, and
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:31 PM
Jun 2018

gets carted off for his efforts. Hey Maine, I hope you’re watching your native son stepping up and making you proud!!!

—————-Thank you Zak RESPECT

Initech

(100,080 posts)
13. A country where the assholes have taken over.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 02:52 PM
Jun 2018

Everything good and decent has been thrown out the window, and we live in a world now where it's socially acceptable to be a boorish jackass like Trump is. And the scary thing is that I think it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
16. It's because the books were all wrong.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 03:44 PM
Jun 2018

The books are supposed to exault IQ45, curse democrats, tell them that their parents abandoned them, and portray POC as being in subservient roles.

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
20. And now Trump is calling the kids "angels." And I'm sure Fox and "Fiends" is eating it all up...
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 04:52 PM
Jun 2018

and spitting it out to their pea-brained viewers.

ecstatic

(32,707 posts)
24. Last year, I read an article that said it's time to leave when a sitting congressperson is arrested.
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 06:51 PM
Jun 2018

This is getting pretty damn close. It'll be interesting to see how sitting congressmen/women are treated in the event that they insist on visiting the child prisoners.


Like porn, we’ll know The Moment Everything Changed when we see it.

The arrest of a politician would be such a moment. As would a “temporary” suspension of civil rights, even/especially if it followed the inevitable next terrorist attack.
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