Good riddance, Samuel Doolin, J6-adjacent hater of "hippy Jesus"

A good victory for the decent people of Polk County against its anti-social fake MAGA "Christians," who contribute nothing to our daily civic life, and think they're above the law.

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Buh bye:

I am overjoyed that there will be one less member of the Doolin/Pollack klan in Polk County to reject the citizenship and votes of their neighbors — and insist no one has any rights they’re bound to respect.

And no wonder Randy Wilkinson came in last with 11 percent of the vote in his 4-person race in the recent GOP primary.

“Manly firmness”

Here’s what Samuel Doolin had to say when I asked him on Facebook in 2022 1) where his violent, cop-beating fugitive cousin Jonathan Pollack was 2) and if his supporters were calling for “another public lynch mob.”

Here’s answer 1:

When a man is in Christ and God hides a man, no harm can come to him. have a blessed day, sir.

I guess Christ didn’t hide Jonathan all that well after all. He was arrested, rather theatrically, on January 6 of this year.

Here’s answer #2:

sir and unjust man answers a matter when he hears one side, you used the word again, there was never a before. lynch mob? unless you believe all you read on the internet. dont confuse hippie Jesus for Biblical, or manly firmness and keeping an oath to God for riotousness

Doolin went on to heroically plead no contest, with manly firmness, to illegal possession of a machine gun. He was adjudicated and sentenced to time served.

If we’re to believe Randy Wilkinson, “local scribes” ran Samuel Doolin out of Polk County. (Along with unnamed Pharisees, which I guess makes prosecutor Brad Copley the Pilate to Doolin’s J6 Jesus.)

Well, I’m the “local scribe” who wrote most often and most pointedly about Doolin. So I’ll take that credit. And don’t let the door hit you in the manly firmness on your way out, Samuel. Go be Eastern Washington’s problem.

We must fill the social vacuum when leaders fail to

You can get my full rundown on Doolin — and the wider Doolin/Pollack anti-social, fake MAGA Christian J6 cell in the three articles below:

Scenes from a Capitol Lynch Mob wedding

Sheriff Grady Judd: Florida J6er family "sovereign" cell "has not been violent toward us"

Samuel Doolin: God is hiding Jan. 6 fugitive Jonathan Pollock; and "manly" Jesus is coming for us

The last article in that sequence ends with a passage, written almost two years, that I think has proven correct — and is just as important today.

Moreover, if you look around at the space we’re gradually taking back from gross fake Christian MAGA grifters all over Florida, you can see this approach is beginning to deliver real success, especially at the community level. (State-level power remains a corrupt and pointless shit show; but we’re working on it.)

Now you can add the Doolin exodus to the pile of recent community-level successes across Florida. He is addition by subtraction to our community.

Here is that reprinted passage:

There are many people out there who think ignoring these people and hoping they just go away and don’t attack us, personally, is the best way to address them. Don’t poke the bear, etc.

I disagree.

We saved our Polk County school district from the total chaos that Brevard, Collier, and Sarasota County are experiencing now because we did not try to quietly wish away the grossness and criminality of the CCDF/GOP “movement.” We engaged it, elevated it, confronted it morally and politically— head on. We poked the hell out of that bear. And it rolled over, tamed.

Whether the cheater Rick “T.I.T.S.” Nolte stays or leaves the School Board is almost irrelevant. We’ve already weaponized him and the CCDF against every gross thing they all stand for. Nolte will have no other function but “helpful-thing-for Billy-to-strategically-mock” as long as he stays on the board.

The Pollock/Doolin family cell is an extension of the CCDF/Nolte dynamic. And yes, it has demonstrated its capacity for violent anti-social, anti-police behavior — as part of a mob that hates America, both physically and ideologically.

Some people I like very much think such demonstrated capacity for violence and threat means we should give them a wider berth. One friend expressed it like this in a text to another friend, in response to my article about Judd’s press conference:

Tell [Billy] to settle down! He’s tryin’a pick a fight with Grady AND mobsters. This is how books get written. Jesus.

I disagree, again.

Mobs form in the vacuums of society, where public spaces are unhealthy or untended, physically and metaphorically. I’m not trying to pick a fight with anybody. I am trying to tend our shared public space, to fill the vacuum and deny momentum and power to the gross and the anti-social. The leaders most responsible for tending Polk’s public space, Grady Judd and Brian Haas, etc. have certainly shown themselves unwilling to do it. So I don’t have much choice.

I think by filling the social vacuum publicly, confrontationally, I’m helping deny the “mobsters” the space and momentum they’ve shown they need to do their worst damage. I actually think that’s a much safer personal approach than snarking around the edges at them as they gather steam.

I hope I’m providing a disincentive for anti-social behavior. If the Doolin/Pollock clan responds to that disincentive by accounting for its individual behaviors, obeying the law, and leaving us all alone, they won’t have to worry about me getting in their business.

If that’s too much to ask, and they feel the need to bring their “manly” Jesus to bear against me personally, I suspect that will help trigger deep wells of latent power in our society to confront them even more powerfully.

I “win” either way.

I don’t prefer winning in the last way; but true citizenship demands acceptance of whatever risk — small or large — it entails.