Editor’s Note: Michael Weaver asked me to share this.
Jacobs, et al. v. Catlin, et al. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
The distribution of flyers, pamphlets, and similar literature has long been protected by the First Amendment. These protections apply even if the distribution is anonymous and even if the contents of the flyers or pamphlets would be regarded as offensive by many. The sheriff’s office and related state authorities in Douglas County, Georgia, however, have flagrantly ignored these protections, arresting Philip Matthew Jacobs and his wife Hilary on bogus “littering” charges for distributing flyers critical of Jewish power and influence and threatening Michael Weaver with a similar arrest. Adding to this outrageous and unconstitutional conduct, Mr. Jacobs was physically assaulted while in jail and both of the Jacobs were required to post $30,000 bond — $60,000 total for “littering.”
Such imperious governmental lawlessness must not be ignored or tolerated. It must be defied, and Glen Allen, Randy Sheppard (FEF board member), and Fred Kelly are doing just that. In March 2025, they filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights) First Amendment claim and other claims on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs and Mr. Weaver against 13 Douglas County law enforcement and related persons. In late May 2025, the government defendants responded with a lengthy motion to dismiss. The FEF lawyers responded to that motion with an amended complaint and a motion for preliminary injunctions. The case involves many complicated legal issues and will certainly be expensive and hard-fought, but it is an important case and deserves the support of everyone who cherishes the rule of law and our First Amendment freedoms. Ignoring governmental abuse only invites further governmental abuse.
Sincerely, Michael Weaver
The children of the lie hate the truth, Mike.
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Lawfare at its best.
Jews dominate right now. Trump is owned by the tribe but I won’t say everything is terrible. The Middle East- greater Israel is growing constantly. They have a chunk of Syria and will soon have Gaza and the west bank ethnically cleanses while Huckabee cheers it on. In this country they are protected like no other ethnic group. Heck, the attorney general , governor and secretary of state for Colorado are Jewish even! It won’t last.
Where overthinking comes to bury the laugh: These two “humor researchers” claim to unpack the strange world of absurdist oddities. Yet it’s like watching them try to pin down a cloud: in all their busy theorizing, they completely miss what social function humor actually serves. And all those “jewy” references, downright repulsive. In the end, it’s less an explanation than an accidental parody of not getting it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOG7lJf1IG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1LyTThf7V0
My stance on this: Little Johnny in the Banana Peel of the Cheerful Muse
Our media are, to paraphrase an old saying, a one?eyed muse. Entertainment so often looks as if it’s being made not for the people, but at the people—by folks who think the audience is less clever than a third grader. Out comes something childish, undercooked, lacking taste, instinct, wit, a sense of real life, of language, of irony—enough to make you switch off before the next laugh track kicks in.
This is entertainment aimed at small?town rubes. It talks to us in baby talk, because, apparently, that’s the only way we’ll “get it.” Nothing but tame bunny clowning. “Be nice to each other” – the convenient lullaby of the powerful, sung to keep the crowd calm, compliant, and too polite to question anything. The incessant torrent of chatter from the media relieves us of the obligation to draw our own conclusions.
Sure—there are exceptions: a couple of decent late?night shows, a handful of talented stand?ups, some genuinely brilliant absurdists. But what remains in the realm of mainstream variety and comedy? Grandpa’s TV, with a couple of trend?colored throw pillows. The same over?rehearsed game shows, the same “interactive” variety specials, the same neon glitz with an ever?smiling MC tying it all together with shameless banter.
And above all—the same language! That same clumsy, wink?wink tone.
Where does this come from?
I’d say it’s because our entertainment is forced to float in a vacuum. It cannot touch anything real. Don’t disturb, don’t provoke, don’t bump into anything—even “food for thought” is considered unsavory. Our humor is… neutered. I’m talking about the bizarre belief that you can cook up a kind of “pure humor” in a lab—humor vacuum?packed, free of any social reference. And the result?
You train the audience to accept a toothless snicker, a macaroni?and?cheese kind of comfort comedy—and call it “the people’s choice.” In doing so, you dull the already uncertain taste of the public. Does no one notice the vulgarity of those decades?old cartoon mascots, the forced cutesiness, the groan?worthy puns?
All on the unspeakably stale level of “Tony the Tiger says it’s Grrreat!” or “The Pillsbury Doughboy giggles again.” And the antique expressions repeated as if they still crackle with wit: “Wake up and smell the coffee,” “That’s the ticket,” “I’m walkin’ here!” “It’s Miller Time,” “Have a nice day!” How much sloppy thinking, how much language fatigue is revealed in that.
What’s the upshot? Simply this: Real humor must always be about something real, something telling about the present. People, conditions, convictions. Humor is the Fool in King Lear, the gravedigger in Hamlet, Sancho Panza in Don Quixote—not funny just for the sake of it, but above all as a contrast.
Humor is always sand in the gears. It grinds. It jabs—preferably at the sole of someone’s foot, forcing them to stifle an “ouch” so they don’t lose face. Real humor has teeth. It lets the wind out of pomp. It shows the flip side of the grandiose.
Hey Michael.
This is Jay Ryan. You’ve distributed some of my GOAT posters, flyers. Please give me an email, I’ve got some ideas and can $ fund them. I also have some suggestions for you.
Take care brother
Jaye Ryan left behind outside of Chicago.
Alas,I don’t have your email address?