Some of you have told me you won’t come because you can’t get behind what Derek did. I want to take that seriously rather than argue you out of it, because I don’t think you have to get behind it to be in that room.
A courtroom gallery is not a jury box. Sitting in it says one thing: that a man is not going to face the state alone. It doesn’t say what he did was a good idea. You can think he chose the wrong tactic — that it handed our opponents an easy story, that it cost more than it bought — and still believe he shouldn’t stand there with empty benches behind him.
Here is what I’d ask you to weigh. Nobody was hurt. He repaired what he damaged. Whatever else is true, this was a property offense committed in a season when a great many people were frightened and furious, and he has already answered for the material part of it. What’s left is the state’s judgment on the man.
I’d also ask you to notice how you’re actually deciding. If the objection is to the act, that’s a reasoned position and I respect it. But if it’s that the act was unbecoming — too crude, too embarrassing, not the kind of thing our people do — that’s a different objection, and worth being honest with yourself about.
Movements that only stand by their tidy members don’t stand by anyone for long.
If you can’t be there, there are other ways to support Derek: a letter to the court, a contribution to his defense. Presence is not the only currency. But if you can be there, be there. Attendance is free, it’s lawful, it’s visible, and it is one of the few things an ordinary person can put in front of a judge that costs the government something to ignore.
Derek has shown up for people in this community for years. This is a morning of your time.
Derek and JoAnn when they operated a vegan bar.
TIME:
Trial starts tomorrow morning, Monday 7/13/26 at 8:30 am and is expected to continue till Friday.
LOCATION:
Fayette Circuit Court, Courtroom D, 2nd floor
120 N. Limestone at Main, Lexington
PARKING:
Parking garage on Barr Street, beside the District Courthouse; an underground tunnel connects to 120 N. Limestone.
Metered street parking nearby.
Library lot across the street
Sit anywhere in the gallery. No signs, no shirts, nothing that gives anyone a reason to clear the room. Just people.
I can’t go because I have to work but even if I didn’t have to work I still wouldn’t go. Derek is one of my heroes but I have no doubt that if I step into that courtroom I will end up in jail. I hate those assholes and those corrupt, pathetic, idiot judges far too much.
I knew Dr Stack and his wife personally. His wife is an Immunologist. I was sending links to them of doctors and scientists who disagreed with what Stack and Governor Mom Jeans were doing. I sent proof there was no public health emergency. I sent proof Kentuckians were being killed by the protocols and the “vaccines.” Neither Stack nor his wife ever responded to me once, even after our daughters had played soccer together and I had coached their daughter. But Gov Mom Jeans DID respond to me. He sent a member of his private governor’s mansion security team to my HOUSE, lied about who he was to get in my door and then proceded to threaten and intimidate me about my communications with Stack.
Scared the shit out of me and took me a few weeks to calm down before I started sending info again. Next thing Stack filed an EPO against me for electronic stalking. Even though I had never stalked or threatened him, a state trooper and a sheriff showed up to confiscate my firearms. That was fun! Two weeks later in what I thought would be our hearing, I was prepared to prove Stack a liar and murderer, the judge spoke to ME like the criminal. It was all I could do not to jump over the rail and slap her. Her voice dripped with disdain towards me. Oh but we didn’t have time for a hearing because of “covid”🙄. It took 7 MONTHS to get a hearing and an EPO is only supposed to last 6 months if it is legitimate!! Two weeks before our hearing Stack tried to get me to sign an agreement to permanently leave them alone and honor a 500 ft perimeter. I said NO!! But he dropped the case anyway. He knew what would happen in an actual hearing. I eventually got all my firearms back.
He cost me months of stress and thousands in attorney fees and that was the point. The system is set up to punish us for speaking truth to power.
I hope Derek wins and I hope everybody involved with the state’s case against him suffers for what they have done. I hope that court is packed with his supporters.
And to anyone who wouldn’t support Derek because they don’t like how he responded to tyranny, I say to you, “Your country’s founders would be embarrassed by you!! Your cowardice is why we went through covid!” Those assholes used a fake pandemic to destroy 40% of small businesses, put 1 MILLION out of work, closed schools, harassed churchgoers, forced slave masks be worn, executed the largest wealth transfer in state history, and, oh yeah, KILLED thousands of human beings in Kentucky alone and disabled thousands more because they lied about covid bioweapon injections being safe and effective!
But some spray paint on a wall of a huge enabler to these crimes offends you?!?! I am DISGUSTED by you if that is your feeling! Go live in Canada!!