Thread by @SemiRespect

#FreeDankula is no joke!
1- In 1972 the low-budget adult movie Deep Throat took the country by storm, it crossed over into the mainstream & made $50M. Insane for a porn film! The movie industry was not happy!

2- Then the government decided it needed to prosecute someone for something. What happened? Well, they went after everyone like a witch hunt mob. Bertrand Russell once said "Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.” #FreeDankula

3- Everyone involved with Deep Throat was panicked, they arrested theater operator Richard Dexter & charged him with possession of a criminal instrument. What was the weapon? A MOVIE PROJECTOR! Yes, really! That's the gov't! #FreeDankula

4- The film's director Gerard Domiano & star Linda Lovelace copped pleas to cooperate with the government. Who was left standing in this ridiculous & malicious game musical chairs? The film's star Harry Reems who made $100 to do this now $50M phenomenon. #FreeDankula

5- The guy had nothing but was now on trial for his life, because the GOVERNMENT decided someone had to pay for something! The trial got into the filth that is the porn industry; back alley deals, money moved avoid taxes, all stuff Reems etc. had nothing to do with. #FreeDankula

6- But the gov't wanted scalps, so Harry, Richard & other bit nobodies would be the fall guys. But something else happened too, Hollywood people (Beatty & Nicholson below) actually got involved because they knew going down this road any one of them could be next.#FreeDankula

7- Nonetheless, Reems was found GUILTY of “conspiracy to transport obscene material across state lines.” Yes, really! He took $100 to be in a film & now look. Why? because the gov't wanted a scalp. #FreeDankula

8- Reems a $100 porn actor then found himself on TV debating the likes of William F. Buckley, Dick Cavett & Roy Cohn once played perfectly by @RealJamesWoods . Reems was fighting for his life! Why? Because the gov't made it so, no other reason. #FreeDankula

9- @AlanDersh (yes that one), represented Reems for his appeal & ACCURATELY said “It’s no exaggeration to say today Harry Reems, tomorrow Marlon Brando or Jack Nicholson.” #FreeDankula

10- Thankfully some sanity prevailed but ONLY on a legal technicality & the conviction was thrown out. If not for that technicality does anyone realize how DIFFERENT our free speech rights would be now? #FreeDankula

11- Reems was a hot property for a minute and was even offered the part of Coach Calhoun in Grease. But as the "free speech euphoria" wore off he was denied the part & Sid Caesar got it instead. #FreeDankula

12- Let's take a look at now: big gov't, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, the media & the left are in lock-step & are full on ASSAULTING free-speech across the world coming up with a new term, not "immoral" but rather "hate speech" to shut down the populous #FreeDankula

13- What's happening to @CountDankulaTV is just one step, the next are coming & these boots will step on & crush whomever they must to silence all. EVERYONE should be outraged & standing with #FreeDankula This is VERY serious!

14- #MeToo and all the rest of this Hollywood noise means nothing without #FreeDankula coming first, second, third and last. The End.