Stop Silencing Our Calls for Armed Insurrection

Parler’s whole thing is how big tech is censoring conservative ideas (which has been proven wrong again, and again, and again, and again, and again). No surprise then that a near constant theme in Parler’s emails is mopey, snowflakey complaining about how conservatives are being silenced and everyone is so mean to them.

One early example was a missive about the tragic fate of Lin Wood. Wood was a defense attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, who brought an AR-15-style rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin and killed two people.

Wood was silenced, as Parler put it, when he was banned from Twitter. But Parler doesn’t mention why he was kicked off the platform. Wood got banned for tweeting that “patriots” should revolt against the government, just moments before a mob stormed the capitol building during the January 6th insurrection. In fact, the woman who was shot and killed during the riot reportedly retweeted one of Wood’s calls for action just hours before she died. Wood was only suspended temporarily at first, but Twitter kicked him off permanently after he created a second account, triggering the platform’s rules on ban evasion.

Parler quoted Wood in one of their emails, who moaned that “the enemy has now refused to engage me.” Classic Big Tech TM, they just don’t want you to hear conservative ideas, like telling you to go out and do violence on government property.

Fun fact (if you’re feeling nostalgic about famous murders): Lin Wood has also represented the family of JonBenét Ramsey and congressman Gary Condit.