Authorities did not release details about the alleged threats, and it remains unclear what statements led to Cherry’s arrest. The case comes amid ongoing debates over free speech on X, a platform owned by Musk, who has positioned himself as a strong advocate for open discourse.
This brings up questions that are not answered in the ISP press release. Were Cherry’s statements merely inflammatory speech without a direct or imminent threat? In that case, some might argue that his prosecution is politically motivated—especially given Musk’s vocal stance on free speech. Whether Cherry will be considered a political prisoner depends on whether the legal process is seen as fair or an example of selective enforcement against speech that challenges powerful figures.
This reads to me like it could be another case of Tesla rapid unintended acceleration bugs behind the “veered” crash symptoms. Maybe the driver was asleep when the software decided to terminate him at high speed?
Source: King 5 Seattle
The man was driving alone in a Tesla eastbound on 128th Street East in excess of 100 mph shortly before 11 p.m. when he passed a deputy traveling the other direction, Pierce County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Carly Cappetto told The News Tribune. The deputy pulled a U-turn and activated their emergency lights in the area of the street’s intersection with Woodland Avenue East but terminated the pursuit as the Tesla sped out of sight. “It was too high speeds,” Cappetto said. The Tesla crashed off the road within a half-mile away from where the deputy spotted it. The vehicle hit a fence and struck three large trees and was on fire, according to Cappetto. The deputy broke the driver-side window in an effort to rescue the victim, who was described as “very large,” but could not pull him out before flames engulfed the vehicle, Cappetto said.
Imagine going to bed at night in America knowing… at any minute a Tesla algorithm “error” could send one of their loitering road robots at over 100mph crashing into your house to explode in a fire so rapid and intense it requires more water itself than a huge building to extinguish.
Look closely and you can see it’s “Zeit” for some spelling mistakes. Seriously, they misspelled their own country name. Source: AfD Twitter
Aexander (formerly Alexander) Bertram, of the Berlin House of Representatives for the AfD, posted photos to Twitter of his propaganda stand in Friedrichshagen on Sunday in the Treptow-Köpenick district, where he tried to find someone to influence with his targeted typography.
“Zeit fur Deutschand”
“Vote for me and this horrib’e city we hate where nobody shou’d ‘ive becomes known as B-E-R-‘-I-N” the angry Aexander said, slowly misspelling the city name into a deserted snowy street corner, while pigeons poked at the empty AfD stand for pretzel crumbs.
Aexander seemed to become increasingly agitated, shaking his fists at the sky. He yelled out to nobody in particular “whoever dares uses the AfD forbidden ‘etter is in big troub’e, as he must go straight to HE!”
Here are some famous and not so famous quotes from one of the greatest military leaders in history, General Creighton Abrams (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974).
The following excerpts and more can be found in “Thunderbolt : General Creighton Abrams and the army of his times” by Lewis Sorley, 1992.
When Secretary of Defense McNamara recommended Abrams to be the Vice Chief of Staff (page 179):
When the January 1968 Tet Offensive showed that President Johnson and General Westmoreland had been lying, Abrams was promoted in June to command of U.S. Armed Forces in the Republic of South Vietnam (page 243):
When Abrams became chief of staff of X Corps (Group) in 1953 during a Korean stalemate (page 129):
26th December 1944 Commanding 37th Tank Battalion, CCR, 4th Armoured Division, Lt. Colonel Abrams suggested that he dash his Sherman tanks through Assenois to breach German defenses and reach Bastogne to relieve the 101st Airborne, which had just replied “NUTS” to Nazis demanding surrender. Adams was right, and Third US Army Commander, General George S. Patton then called him the “world champion” tank commander.
For what it’s worth, the always superstitious and easily spooked Nazis feared his successes in battle most because they thought he was Jewish (NYT, 5 September 1974, Page 42).
The retreating Germans were said to be fascinated and terrified by Colonel Abrams because they assumed from his name that he was Jewish, and that he saw himself as a wrathful Jehovah taking destructive vengeance on the Germans for what they had done to the Jewish people. (Actually, he was [Catholic and] descended from a long line of New England Methodists.) […] In doing the job, Colonel Abrams collected the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, all with clusters, the Bronze Star and a dozen foreign decorations.
He was America’s greatest general after Ulysses Grant, as evidenced by his sense of what mattered most in peace and in war:
The longer I serve the more I become convinced that the single most important attribute of the professional officer is integrity. […] I don’t want war, but I am appalled at the human cost that we’ve paid because we wouldn’t prepare to fight.
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