Tyranny in government is a major problem in the United States, and it was allowed to grow due to a lack of real journalism from Fake News. Democrats fed what propaganda they wanted published to all their “news” departments, including CNN, ABC, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC (MS NOW), NPR, BBC, PBS, DW, REUTERS, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Time Magazine, Politico, Al Jazeera, Financial Times, The Hill, France 24, Facebook, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, and hundreds of others, collectively known as Fake News. As tyranny grew, it went unreported. You never saw reporters chasing Nancy Pelosi, Ilhan Omar, or Barack Obama down the street.
Evil politicians were only the tip of the iceberg. They presided over a vast, submerged mass of enduring structures, including career bureaucracies, regulatory bodies, advisory committees, contractors, consultants, lobbyists, compliance authorities, and administrative cultures that persisted regardless of who won an election.
Over time, powerful unions and corrupt Democrat governments turned most public servants bad, and Fake News only reported on it when it suited them. For instance, a whistleblower might be set up and thrown to the press wolves, so Fake News could say, “See, we DO report on corruption!”
President Trump has been trying to crack down on such unions and is being held back by treacherous senators in his own Republican Party. Unions use blackmail and bribes to stay in power. Under their sway, no culprit is ever sacked, and “servants” soon turn into power-mad untouchables.
Many so-called servants “work” at home, doing whatever they like on full pay, courtesy of you, the taxpayer. Often, a palatial government building has but a handful of freeloaders inside, and the last thing they want is for a citizen to walk in and discover their dirty secret—that nobody else is there.
A favorite hobby of these overprotected moochers is to lock themselves inside and block citizens’ access with intercoms and RFID card readers. When an old lady presses the intercom buzzer, a corpulent receptionist snarls, “Department of Non-Service, can I help you?”
“Yes, I’d like to come in, please,” replies the hapless peon.
“You gotta pointment, ma’am?”
“Well, I—”
“Can’t letcha in without no pointment.”
“I wanted to make a records request…”
“Yeah, you gotta go online and fill it in. It’s all online, ma’am.”
“But I’m here now, and the law says that I can do—”
“Can’t letcha in without no pointment.”
“Why not?”
“Like I say, go online and fill it in there. It’s all online.”
“Whereabouts online?”
“Ma’am, go to www dot non-service dot com and use the search box to find it.”
“I tried that. It’s not working properly. Why don’t you let people inside anymore?”
“This day and age, since nine-eleven, with terrorism and all, and with covid and all, we can’t letcha in without no pointment.”
“You think I’m a terrorist?”
“Didn’t say that, ma’am, but you…”
“You afraid of me? An old lady?”
“It’s not a matter of wheth…”
“Sounds like bs to me!”
“Have a nice day, ma’am.”
“Yeah, real welcoming, keeping an old woman out in the cold,” rasps the disgruntled taxpayer.
“Have a nice day, ma’am.”
“Real cozy in there, isn’t it? Courtesy of the taxpayers!” Giving up, she trudges away. Seeing another rube heading in, she snorts, “Don’t bother. Place is locked up tighter than a nun’s purse.”
First Amendment Auditors
When journalists and reporters were almost all working for the Left, it was up to citizens to replace them somehow. With smartphones and the internet, a few patriotic Americans realized they could expose their government’s faults. The First Amendment gave them the right to record in public, and auditors began exercising that right across America. Unionized public servants, with their unionized brothers in law enforcement, fought tooth and nail to stop First Amendment Auditors from recording them.
And failed.
In the end, all they accomplished was a tremendously embarrassing walk of shame. See articles I’ve written about auditors here, here, here, and here.
Big Brother was filming you first.
When it came to cameras, which were once extremely expensive, governments were quick to take advantage of their First Amendment right to record in public. Using mountains of taxpayers’ money, they bought and installed millions of cameras across the country, in and on schools, colleges, government buildings, post offices, roads, highways, freeways, and anywhere public they could. Money was no object, since it wasn’t their money; it was yours.
At the time, a few people expressed concern, but soon forgot about it. Any letters of complaint they wrote to newspapers were consigned to the wastebasket. Governments were putting citizens under surveillance and watching every move they made, and the populace sheepishly accepted it. When asked about this, folks usually say, “Oh, well, that’s for security.”
That may be true, but have you noticed some government lobbies sport 15 cameras when one or two would do the job? It’s like Elmo, the surveillance operator, is obsessed with getting every possible angle of your body—and no one stops him from decking out a Post Office or City Hall lobby like it’s a set for a spy movie. Really?
What do those creeps get up to as they sit in front of their monitors, aroused, staring at your daughter’s breasts or your girlfriend’s backside? How many billions of times have women’s bodies been ogled, studied, duplicated, and used for sexual gratification by faceless functionaries who can’t be trusted to do their job, let alone respect your privacy? And all that time, you, the public, thought, “Oh, those cameras? They’re for security.”
AEIOU Cams
Smart cameras are shrinking every year and learning to fly. It won’t be long before intelligent swarms of bug-sized smart government cameras will be circling you, recording from dozens of angles.
A, E, I, O, and U are the vowels we have in the alphabet. They also stand for Airborne, Embedded, Invisible, Omnipresent, & Ubiquitous. Such cams are coming.
And because we have previously accepted governments recording us without objection, we may let their mini-drone-cams into our homes. Since they’ll be camouflaged and easy to miss, we won’t object. Out of sight, out of mind. Then Big Brother can watch us in the privacy of our homes. More thrills for paper pushers and permit lords at our expense!
Why First Amendment Auditors are vital.
- As citizen journalists, they replaced reporters taken over by the Left.
- Exercising the right to publicly record keeps Amendment I strong.
- Public recording inevitably exposes layers of government corruption.
- They reveal the hypocrisy of those who resist auditors but happily submit to government surveillance on a far larger scale.
- They highlight the need to limit government cams & protect privacy.
- They prepare folks for the advent of government AEIOU Cams.
Many critics claim that 1A auditors simply want to annoy people for clicks and views. That charge misses the mark entirely. By that logic, one could just as easily argue that
— lifesavers only want to grab swimmers for gropes and rubs,
— dentists exist to torture patients with needles and drills, or
— surgeons just want to slash people open for blood and guts.
Psychological and behavioral aspects of 1A audits.
Many residents who encounter a First Amendment Auditor feel threatened and robbed of their privacy, which is silly because wherever they go, they are constantly being recorded by thousands of cameras on buildings, vehicles, and people.
As the auditor continues recording, a Karen threatens to call the police. About this time, it occurs to her that she can also use her phone to record her “attacker.” A look of victory washes over her face as she holds her phone up to record, nearly always vertically, which is not the best position. Karen decides to do what she thinks the auditor is doing. She walks up, pushes the phone against his nose and ears, to “record” him. When the auditor objects, Karen squawks, “You were in my face, so now I’m in yours!”
“I was not in your face,” the auditor clarifies. “I was six feet away. You came up to me! You have a zoom function on your camera. Why don’t you use that instead of assaulting me?”
Looking at the auditor with a dazed, stupefied expression, Karen can’t believe she didn’t do exactly what he did, yet her actions were nothing like his. Karens and Darrens often assault auditors in their zeal to revenge/record them, and sometimes they are maced for their trouble.
*Note for 1A Auditors
Use reverse psychology to stop Karens face mashing (recording) you, using this approach:
Scene: A 1A Auditor records a Karen outside a government building.
Karen: You there! What are you doing?
Auditor: Me? Oh, I’m trying to get you to record me.
Karen: Huh? You’re what? What did you say?
Auditor: I said I’m trying to get you to record me.
Karen: Trying to get me to..? I’m sorry. I don’t understand!
Auditor: I want you to get your phone out and record me.
Karen: But I…, you…, he…, you can’t…
Auditor: Do it now! [shout out to SGV and PLA]
Karen: No, I will not! You will not order me around!
Auditor: You won’t get your phone and record me?
Karen: That’s right, sir! I’m never going to record you!
Auditor: Okay, thanks. Anyway, you’re already recording me.
Karen: I most certainly am not!
Auditor: What about those cameras? [points at wall above]
Karen: [Looking up at surveillance cams] Oh, those?
Auditor: Yes, those.
Karen: [Blushing] They’re for security.
Auditor: As is mine.
Karen: And… they’re not mine.
Auditor: Yours are mostly for perving.
Karen: Like I said, they’re not mine!
Auditor: If you work here, they’re your cams.
Karen: Oh, this is just ridiculous. I’m calling 911.
Auditor: Bringing guns to a camera contest? Tsk tsk.
Good, bad, and tyrant cops.
Despite what some people think, there are many good cops, but these days, good cops are outnumbered by those who do what union bullies tell them to do. Many would like to do the right thing, but to keep their jobs, submit to the bullies.
From an auditor’s point of view, those unionized officer serfs are worthless. Union cops would rather eat live scorpions than arrest anyone for assaulting an auditor.
A crazy assailant will push, slap, or bash an auditor, often smacking his camera out of his hands, and this behavior will be recorded. When the cops arrive, the first cop takes the aggressor away to talk, turning off his bodycams in the process, which is against his own rules. “Come over here, away from that guy,” he says, while the second cop approaches the auditor.
The assailant complains about being photographed without his consent, and the first cop shrugs. He says, “Unfortunately, Americans have a constitutional right to record you in pubic, and there’s nothing we can do. The Founders did it.”
“That’s ridiculous!” the assailant gripes.”
“I know how you feel,” gushes the cop. “I wish I could arrest the bastard, but I can’t. My partner’s talking to him right now, so why don’t you just quietly head that way, get in your car, and go?”
“Okay, thanks,” the assailant mutters, slinking off and escaping.
Meanwhile, the second officer is busy copsplaining to the auditor, who notices the perp leaving. He yells at the first cop, “You’re not letting him go, are you? I want him arrested for assault!”
“Sir,” the second cop shouts, waving for his attention. “Don’t worry about him, focus on what I’m saying.” Using a mixture of gaslighting and doubletalk, he weasels his way out of arresting the perp, who is now gone.
“Why won’t you arrest that guy?” asks the auditor. “You saw the footage.”
“Yeah, well, the thing is, we got to go through the protocol, and…”
“So you’re not going to arrest him? This is ridicu…”
“Now wait a minute, I didn’t say that. Don’t put words into my…”
“It’s all bullshit. You cops never arrest anyone who attacks us.”
“No, no, it’s not like that. We’ll take all his details, see, then give them to one of our detectives, who’ll go over everything, and after that, it’ll be in his hands, and he’ll…”
“Yeah, and he’ll never contact me, I know the routine, you son-of-a…”
“No, he will decide whether to take the matter to court, so it’s not in our hands. Sorry, but that’s the best we can…”
“Bullshit, stop copsplaining and f**k off!”
“Okay, buddy, I’m just doin’ my…”
“You ain’t doing shit. You know damned well that if I’d hit Darren, I’d be arrested in two seconds, handcuffed, and thrown in the back of your cruiser. So get lost and take this with you.” [flips the bird]
“Okay, buddy, see ya around.”
“Don’t call me ‘buddy,’ jackass!”
The officer hops in his squad car and, without using a seatbelt or signals, drives into traffic, forcing a woman to brake, then drives straight through a stop sign without stopping, turning right without signals. His partner does the same.
“Pair of clowns!” yells the auditor, giving the twin birds. “Get outta here!”
Directions and influence of 1A Auditors
How are First Amendment Auditors affecting society? A perfect example is Nick Shirley, a 23-year-old YouTuber and independent journalist from Utah. Influenced by 1A Auditors, he takes a camera into politically charged places and approaches people unexpectedly for ad-hoc interviews. Those people often run away from the camera, and all this reminds us of how reporters used to be and of how 1A Auditors are today.
In the past, Nick confronted the deported migrant scammers in New York City, and recently, he investigated Minnesota’s billion-dollar Somalia fraud scandal. See that very enlightening video here, and notice that Nick is doing exactly what auditors do. How many times have you seen Auditors trying to get into a locked government building, only to be met by two shady-looking black security guards smoking cigarettes outside who won’t answer questions like, “Why can’t I get in?” or “Is anyone in the building?”
Nick Shirley is the natural result of years of First Amendment Auditing. Without that, Nick would be sitting around his Utah home playing GTA and wondering what to do. Instead, they inspired him take his camera and start poking around government or quasi-government facilities to see what the hell was going on. By doing so, he is exposing billions of dollars of fraud and money laundering by Democrat governments. Thanks, Nick, and THANK YOU, First Amendment Auditors!
*Note – I wrote the above shortly after Nick Shirley put his video up about Minnesota’s Somalia fraud, and the next day, everyone online was raving about that video. Nobody pointed out how auditors made his work possible, though. In the days before auditors, people believed that only those with suits, perfect hairdos, high heels, a camera crew, giant cameras, and “press credentials” could tell the news. Auditors proved otherwise. They reported real news in jeans and T-shirts, with cell phones. They paved the way for Nick Shirley.
Keeping Up with the 1A Auditors
SeanPaul Reyes (Long Island Audit) has carried auditing to new heights by taking many powerful government despots to task, from psychotic police chiefs to corrupt, money-grubbing mayors. He routinely takes them to court and sues, or rips them to pieces at town hall meetings, which is an important development in auditing. He flies thousands of miles to expose such people and is making great progress.
Sean even rented a digital billboard truck to announce such corruption on the go, in front of government buildings and private homes. In return, the cops pressured the truck rental company to blackball Sean, who retaliated by buying his own digital billboard truck. He regularly uses it to expose tyrants where they live.
When Sean first began auditing years ago, he was condemned, rebuked, and ostracized by most auditors for apologizing to a bunch of cops after they harassed him during an audit.
Auditors didn’t like his approach and insisted that no self-respecting First Amendment Auditor would ever apologize to police officers who harassed him for recording. I defended Sean at the time and pointed out that many of them had probably done the same, but hadn’t uploaded the incriminating video as Sean had.
That shut them up, since they knew we only see videos that auditors want us to see. Much is “left on the cutting room floor,” as film editors used to say. Every auditor has recorded things they know they’d be roasted for if anyone saw the video, deleted long ago.
Sean was always able to afford to take his battles to court, and may have been financially helped to do so. If so, that is awesome, and more parents or relatives should do the same for kin who wish to pursue a career in this area. Most 1A Auditors find it almost impossible to take corrupt government agencies to court, so we need many more individuals to sponsor auditors. Do it for America and the Western world, which is on the brink of collapsing into tyranny.
Steve McStevenson (Inland Auditing Media) of Washington State, is elevating auditing with his remarkable legal knowledge and razor-sharp memory. He visits government entities across Washington and the Pacific Northwest and may be the most secretive auditor of all, guarding his identity as carefully as Superman. Steve, sometimes known as Gandalf the White, walks long distances to government facilities so that no vehicle can be identified. Government Vogons instinctively latch onto cars as an identification shortcut, and Steve denies them that opportunity entirely. He won’t even use Uber, knowing that rideshare drivers have been stopped by desperate cops hoping to extract an ID.
A slim, fit 50-year-old with a goatee, glasses, and short, silver, graying hair, Steve McStevenson is a self-described math and STEM nerd. In college, a Logic and Philosophy course inspired him to minor in math and physics, and he discovered he could translate language into Boolean algebra and prove arguments. He went on to study structural engineering, computer science, and business, eventually earning a degree in computer forensics. His semantic, systems-based memory lets him recall numbers and text with ease, making him a walking encyclopaedia—and the last person bureaucrats want to tangle with.
Steve is polite and friendly but firm with rude public servants. When cops threaten him with arrest, he leaves a place he has every right to be, then takes immediate action to correct the abuse and enforce accountability. A prime example is the video “Professor Tries To Stop Me Filming On Campus—Big Mistake,” where a power-mad professor quickly regrets trying to boss him around.
Steve Joaquin Perez (Furry Potato), or Zhoie, as *he prefers, is back auditing each day, at least for the moment, and uploading his videos to Ice cold audits. Steve was on parole for a year and was released from that around November 25, 2025, which allowed him to make his videos without restriction. Furry is, was, or can be one of the most remarkable auditors, and folks either love him or hate him, but you cannot deny his ability to draw bullies and charlatans out of the woodwork.
*Steve’s speech, appearance, and self-references are conventionally male. On that basis, I refer to him as “he.” I’ll be the one who states what is plainly observable; others may prefer a different framing.
In late 2017, Steve was watching Johnny Five 0 auditing and found it intriguing. He went to see Johnny during a live audit and asked whether he could do it himself, only with a little humor. After collecting some tips, he was ready to come up with a name, and Furry Potato was born.
With Furry, there is much to marvel at and to critique. He is a tall, gangly, long-limbed, and loosely assembled jaunty assemblage of hips, elbows, and shins. As a youth, he had run-ins with the police, who kidnapped and beat him, allegedly. Later, he joined the Army, drove a truck, and practised Taekwondo for 8 years.
Although Furry always tells his foes he will destroy them should they touch him, he usually ends up the worse for wear, and usually lets them off when he should have insisted on their arrest. There may be a little Rex in Furry’s Kwon Do.
Like millions of others, Furry was fed far-left-wing propaganda in “school.” Hooked by the transgender myth, he acquired silicone accessories, Jew hatred, and TDS, and continues to be fed Leftist diatribe from an anonymous character he calls Mrs Potato. Like many socialist sex bandits, she may have thought of her accessorized mate as a fashion ornament, and may do the same with offspring.
Despite all that, Furry Potato has an almost magical ability to go to just about any location and, within minutes, draw aggressive people out of nowhere. You could drop him in the bleakest, most godforsaken backstreets of LA, and the moment folks see his getup, they start to home in. “Whatcha doin?” they moan, like demented zombies. Soon, a gaggle of birdbrains surrounds him, griping, “Why’re you photographing me?”
Furry’s Technique
He likes to target places of worship while dressed like a covert operative, all black, fully masked up, with all kinds of gizmos and cameras. Some strongly religious people are happy to use the protection of the 1st Amendment to practise their religion, while forbidding Furry’s 1st Amendment right to enjoy his freedom of the press. When they see a weird-looking tactical-gear-clad agent on the sidewalk outside giving hand signals to unseen forces while recording their cars’ license plates and VIN numbers (all perfectly legal actions), they march over to demand answers.
Furry interrupts their inquiries with a “Shhh!” and uses hand gestures to shoo them away, including pointing and making “fingers walking away” motions, as if to say, “You! Walk away!” (all perfectly legal behavior). This infuriates most of the dummies, and of course, they all pull out their phones to record the recon soldier.
Some get physical with Furry (strictly illegal). Some have no front license plates (illegal). Some block Furry’s movement (strictly illegal). Some block his camera (illegal). Meanwhile, Furry does nothing illegal.
The law-breaking mob is fascinated with Furry’s strange looks, his costume, mask, cameras, and the fact that he also appears to have giant, indestructible, spheroidal breasts. Given that he is so obviously male, this seems bizarre and confuses them. Which is funny.
About this time, special ops Furry Potato moves away, and his mob follows. The sometimes goofy-looking auditor lumbers further away, and they stalk him faithfully. Soon, he will conduct his “walking the dog” part of the operation, walking them around the block and back to where they began. Which is hilarious.
By this time, they have called ‘whine 11,’ and cops tell the stalkers that, unfortunately, Furry has the right to photograph them from a public place, and that they should go back inside and ignore him.
Furry asks his live audience, “Did he say unfortunately, everybody? Really? That’s crazy! That’s CRA-A-AAZY, everybody! Unfortunately? HO HO HO HA HA HEE HEE HEE. Unfortunately? Unfortunately, everybody? HA HA HEE HEE HEE!”
While the Feelings Police apply butt-hurt cream to those who need it, Furry records their squad cars’ CAD or MDT screens, which lazy officers frequently leave up. Like any good auditor, he captures all the juicy details, including the names and phone numbers of reporting parties, and the lies they always tell. Things like, “He’s got a gun,” or, “He cursed at us,” or, “He’s shouting and threatening us.”
Once again, someone called the cops for help, and the cops allowed 100,000 people access to the caller’s private details. Once Furry’s video goes up on YT, the cop-caller will be bombarded with angry calls for weeks. Thanks, officers, you were a big help!
After obtaining officers’ names and badge numbers, usually by zooming in on them, Furry avoids any copsplaining by literally running away from the Feelings Police. They sometimes give chase, but eventually give up, since no crime was committed.
Furry harbors a disdain for white people, which is part of his brainwashing. You can tell, though, that minus the indoctrination, Furry is, in many ways, like Goofy dressed up in tactical gear. That makes him lovable to the fans he calls ‘everybody.’
Like Gabriel Rojas (SLO County Observer) and Jeff Gray (HonorYourOath), Furry Potato adores homeless bums, who are mostly only homeless because they prefer drugs to paying rent. If welfare didn’t exist, hobos would almost entirely disappear. Nonetheless, Furry stuck to traditional First Amendment auditing. His approach may be rough, but it is also effective and often hilarious. He has a knack for exposing the hypocrisy of churchgoers who assault him on the sidewalk, only to step inside moments later to ask their god for forgiveness. He shines a light on bad cops, belligerent religious leaders, overzealous guards, and the ever-present squad of nosy Karens and Darrens.
[*Note – I address attacks on Manchon by ex-girlfriend below.]
Marc Jon Manchon (NH Press Now) does it all and stands up to bullies like a terrier on burglars. A good auditor must be fearless to command respect, and Marc knows exactly which words hit hardest. He wields them like a ninja, cutting down government clowns by the dozen, sweeping through buildings like a firestorm, fearless and confident—a conviction that unnerves anyone trying to block his rights.
Armed with a police scanner, Marc often knows what the cops have said before they arrive. He bolsters his videos with body-cam and building-cam footage obtained through record requests. Government thugs peel away as he assails them with logic and rapid-fire answers drawn from countless experiences. Sharp memory, nerves of steel, and fearless execution define his approach. Like Furry Potato, Marc also has a mischievous sense of humor, occasionally tricking public serpents into thinking he owns a car that actually belongs to one of their coworkers.
Ex-girlfriend
Alas, Marc Manchon, NH Press Now, had problems at home. The 39-year-old, top-tier auditor was doing well until his ex-girlfriend accused him of violating a no-contact order, an allegation he denies. That accusation gave eager police grounds to arrest Marc, and, at last report, he was being held at the Grafton Department of Corrections in New Hampshire. Hopefully, his confinement will be brief.
The ex-girlfriend played a central role in his arrest by taking her claims to the police. By all appearances, she was determined to see him brought down. While they were still together, the relationship had deteriorated into verbal brawls, screaming, and threats, seemingly fueled by alcohol and recreational drugs.
At some point, she secretly recorded an argument. As the fight escalated, she deliberately provoked Marc, calmly pressing the very buttons she knew would anger him, while he, audibly intoxicated, grew increasingly upset. The contrast is striking: she sounds composed, aware she was being recorded; he does not.
During the exchange, Marc made drunken, reckless statements, including an ill-considered remark about strangling her, which he immediately walked back. Her own words and tone suggest no fear; she even dared him to kill her, which he refused. The poor-quality recording was later handed to police and to an online troll hostile to 1A auditors, who used it in a smear video dripping with predictable venom.
Those who have watched Marc confront violent, corrupt cops and security guards know that he is not physically aggressive; his bark is worse than his bite. He speaks with authority and intensity, but only verbally. A valiant auditor needs such traits, just as Davy Crockett once did. Both are the sort of men who can be betrayed or sabotaged by a wily, scorned woman. Nonetheless, as the saying goes, a good man always lands on his feet.
Jeff Gray’s First Amendment Double Standard
Jeff Gray (HonorYourOath) has spent years defending a homeless beggar’s supposed “right” to plant himself on a sidewalk outside a small business, day after day, until customers stop coming and the doors finally close. Let’s drop the sanctimony: this isn’t principled activism, it’s reckless absolutism that elevates one man’s cardboard sign above the livelihoods of working families. Gray frames it as free speech, but that framing collapses the moment you apply it at scale. If one hobo can legally drive a shop out of business, then hundreds can cripple entire commercial districts. Cities would implode. Tax bases would evaporate. Governments would shut it down instantly, and they do, no matter how loudly Jeff invokes homeless vets or threatens lawsuits. Society does not owe anyone the right to destroy commerce under the banner of “expression.”
Gray loves invoking the Founding Fathers, preaching the Constitution as though the ex-truck driver were a constitutional scholar. But the Framers did not write the First Amendment to protect aggressive panhandling. In 1791, Hamilton, Franklin, and their peers were concerned with safeguarding political dissent, religious liberty, and a free press from tyrannical power – not insulating vagrancy from regulation. Begging was criminalized under colonial law, inherited from England, precisely because it disrupted trade and public order. No Founder imagined “free speech” as a tool for economic sabotage. That distortion emerged much later, courtesy of 20th-century activist courts, most notably Schaumburg v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1980), which inflated the First Amendment beyond its original scope. Jeff isn’t defending the Constitution; he’s defending a modern judicial mutation that openly contradicts the Framers’ intent. Hamilton wouldn’t debate him; he’d dismiss him.
Then there’s the hypocrisy. Gray audits churches, signs off on every video with “God bless homeless vets,” and worships at Anastasia Baptist Church in St. Augustine, Florida, an affiliated Southern Baptist Convention church. That same denomination’s Baptist Faith and Message 2000 teaches that atheists and non-Christians are condemned to eternal punishment, explicitly described in verses like Mark 9:43–48 as unquenchable fire and everlasting torment.
So here’s the contradiction Jeff never addresses: he aggressively defends a beggar’s First Amendment “right” to preach atheism or another faith on a sidewalk, even as it destroys a business, while belonging to a church that teaches that exercising that very freedom earns eternal damnation. You guard speech in this life that your theology condemns as spiritual suicide. How does that square, Jeff?
A beggar’s “right” to beg has never been absolute. Courts routinely uphold content-neutral restrictions for safety, access, and nuisance, and that’s exactly where the line belongs. Yet Gray clings to an absolutist fantasy that ignores real-world harm to small businesses, the backbone of American communities, while his own religious commitments undermine the tolerance he claims to champion. His audits don’t just strain cities; they erode his credibility.
In the end, this isn’t about hating the homeless; it’s about balance. But Gray’s one-sided zealotry dishonors the Founders, mocks economic reality, and clashes with his own eternal truths. Jeff, your “honor your oath” mantra rings hollow when it dishonors both common sense and divine judgment. Now, in regard to real auditing, how about taking some advice from David Chavez (Riverside County Accountability), and get the f*** back to work? Toss the hobo sign and pick up the cell phone. You feel me, Pops?
Jonathan Travis Moore (Bay Area Transparency) tried teaming up with others once, but it didn’t work out. Like SeanPaul, Jon is a lone wolf auditor. At 36, he has spent a few years auditing off and on, and was quite successful in his day. He takes long breaks, so I doubt he enjoys it much nowadays, but I guess when money gets tight, he returns for another string of wrangles with half-witted office gremlins, uninformed cops, and clown sheriffs.
Jon said he has ADHD and that English is his second language, with Spanish being his first, I assume, since he spoke it fluently in one video. He said his father changed his name from Jonathan Kasprowicz to Jonathan Travis Moore when he was fifteen. Kasprowicz is a Polish name, meaning ‘son of Kasper.’ Christian Poles believe Kasper was one of the three kings who visited Jesus.
Jon also said he was in prison in his youth for ten years. Perhaps he was the victim of bad police work, bad government lawyers, and a cop-loving judge. Perhaps the young Jon was sent to prison for something he didn’t do, or perhaps his crime was exaggerated. No doubt the prison staff were tyrants, and he probably grew to detest them. It would certainly explain his desire to become a First Amendment Auditor. Jon also said he was a Youth Counselor, and I’m sure he did well in that role. He is also a caring father and a construction worker.
Whether it is his age or the long breaks he takes, Jon is a little rusty now. He doesn’t fend off attacks as he used to, and his verbal jiu-jitsu isn’t what it once was. There are time-honored answers to questions that he used to provide in the blink of an eye, but now he might pause or waver before giving a less-than-perfect answer. I’m paraphrasing, but an example might be when a public servant Karen says, “Why are you filming me?”
Jon might reply, “That’s okay, I’m just here, taking some shots.”
Karen might ask, “But you have to ask permission to record me!”
The old Jon would have pointed at surveillance cams and said, “Did I give you permission to record me?”
Today, he might say, “Er, I don’t think I need your permission, so I’ll just keep on, oh, that’s nice, I like the flowers, I’ll just take a shot of that…”
There is a distinct difference in these interactions, and it may be that Jon’s interest in audits is waning. I hope he practises some of those great lines auditors often use, and brings back some of that old fiery spirit we used to see from the BAT-man. Also, I hope he doesn’t take such a long break next time around.
I wrote about Conrad Jack Rankin (iiMPCT Media) in May ’24, when the masked auditor was going very well. I only knew him as Jack back then. Someone eventually posted his photo and name online, and shortly after, Jack, I mean Conrad, threw the mask and giant fake beard away, though he still likes his hat, sunglasses, and real beard.
Conrad told one John Doe auditor (Freedom of the Press) that he’d stopped wearing masks because they caused too much alarm in people to be worth the trouble. Furry Potato was present in that same video. Though I didn’t see Conrad and Steve talk, it was something to find them in the same audit—like seeing Homer Simpson and Goofy in the same flick.
Many months ago, Conrad reduced his output and began mixing older audit content with newer material without marking it as such. I thought he was burning out because he didn’t seem as cheerful in his audits. Then he announced three months ago that, when his old, unseen material ran out, he would be shutting down his 1A Auditing. A month later he made his final post, saying, “THAT’S ALL FOLKS!“
Conrad was a superb addition to the auditing community. He did a great job working with his sons and numerous other auditors. They operated as a team to make the audits much more effective, with people walking past wondering what was happening. It created many moments of hilarity and education. Miscreants were often outflanked and would be headed off before they could attack or do much damage, and there is nothing like a team of auditors to shut villains down. Under Conrad’s leadership, those days were a lot of fun.
Conrad is too fine a First Amendment Auditor to lose. We need him back, and I urge others to send that message to him, and his sons, and hopefully, we can get iiMPCT back on the job. He will be sorely missed while he is gone, and I know there are tens of thousands of viewers out there who will agree with me. Let’s go, Conrad – we want to see you back in the top ten American 1A Auditors ASAP!
John Doe (Freedom of the Press) is an interesting addition to the world of First Amendment Auditors. He appeared on March 19, 2025, citing Amagansett Press, FirstAmendmentProtectionAgency, and RiversideCountyAccountability as three of many auditors he had enjoyed watching, and who inspired him to take up arms (cameras) as a First Amendment Auditor. I’m sure Jason Adam Gutterman, John Doe #2, and David Chavez will toast you back, John.
I’ve watched John’s videos, and he is a nice fellow with lots of vigor who loves the Constitution. If Furry is Goofy, then John Doe might be Frodo, of LOTR. The photo above shows him being kicked in the nuts by a crazy black Karen. Like Frodo, John is not an aggressive hobbit. Although his temper rises the more Trader Joe’s orcs aggravate him, he is usually as calm as any good Halfling on a Sunday, picking mushrooms.
Hopefully, John will learn to stand up to dirty cops and find his way into the top ten 1A Auditors. Presently, when cops refuse to arrest those who assault him, he simply smiles and takes it. As Gandalf might say, “You are a Halfling, Frodo — not a mouse. Stand as one, or be trampled like one. Even the smallest feet may yet leave their mark. Fail to stand, and you will not be numbered among the great.”
People have no right to assault 1A auditors, and it’s about time all auditors demanded that cops act. To get cops to change their ways, their precincts have to be shamed, and that is accomplished by obtaining police:
- Names
- Badge numbers (aka shield no., star no., ID no., officer no., employee no., or serial no.)
- Incident numbers (aka case no., event no., incident ID no., or record no.)
- Police station name & location (aka precinct, district, substation, division, or area location)
- Police station contact details
- Bodycam footage
Once videos with those details are uploaded, viewers can loudly complain and make change happen. Written complaints should be filed against the officers, with a demand that their supervisors take disciplinary action against them and charge the assailant. This must be followed up later, to let viewers know what happened – were the flawed cops disciplined? Were they sacked? If not, why not? Who was their supervisor? Viewers can then take action. Instead of just laughing off the cops’ dereliction of duty and never mentioning it again, auditors must make it into a big issue, the way other major auditors do.
Remember, obtaining information is essential because VIEWERS want to know where to call to report or file a complaint, who to complain to, and what contact details to use. John Doe, Gandalf commands thee to reveal which T‑Joe’s or Post Office you’re at and what their number is. Those details help angry hobbits direct their complaints.
A unique method auditors use to humiliate their foes is to combine their own footage, police body-cam footage, and footage from government buildings. They obtain police and other government recordings by filing Public Records Requests or a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Request with the relevant agency.
Mike Norton (Kult News) has been auditing for some years now, and specialises in banks. He often records or photographs a glass-fronted bank from the sidewalk. His wife and assistant, Stacey Norton, records from a distance. The bank manager, accompanied by a Karen and a Darren, comes bowling out to accost Mike, make ridiculous demands, and call the police. Officers arrive, take the manager inside the bank, and listen to him whine and cry. They tell him that, unfortunately, there’s nothing they can do because Americans have rights. Mike Norton yells out, “What’s unfortunate about that, officers? Oh, that’s right, you guys hate the Constitution, I forgot.”
Eventually, the officers leave, and the manager decides to shut all the bank’s blinds—a stroke of genius! Later, Mike Norton, who collected the cops’ names, badge numbers, and the incident number, files Public Records Requests for their bodycam footage. After receiving the digital recordings, he finishes his video edit and uploads the completed work.
Viewers not only see Mike being accosted by the bank manager outside, but also the bank manager whining to the cops inside. The last thing he wanted was for his sobbing to cops to be seen by 150,000 people—a crowd the size of a small city. He was upset about one man outside on the footpath, and now two stadiums of people have seen him whimpering inside his bank! Could it get any worse? The very police he called created the recordings that are destroying his career!
Here is a classic Kult News example of this trap: the owner of a jewelry shop embarrasses himself in front of the whole world while a cop records him in his store.
Lana Patrick, born Mark White (The J-Town Press), is such an effective First Amendment Auditor that there is little to critique, so this won’t be very long. Police body-cams, building-cams, excellent video effects, and text, headings, arrows, symbols, divided screens, and everything needed to communicate clearly are seen in J-Town’s videos. The footage is well-made, showing a natural artistic flair when recording, and the commentary is also spot-on.
J-Town often has a partner while auditing and knows every conceivable line needed to answer every possible gripe, taunt, sneer, insult, question, and demand made by all the numerous Karens, Darrens, guards, cops, and trouble-makers who insist on making an issue out of the presence of an American with a camera.
J-Town is highly intelligent, very creative, and carefully plans every audit. Maybe J-Town could tone down on the girly waves, involving shaking the hand in the air for long periods at people when saying hi, as it’s a little too girlish and gay for my liking. I know—that’s expected from a guy with a girl’s name, but cutting it out might gain more male viewers. Just saying. Other than that, it’s full steam ahead to J-Town.
Some police stations, like those in Five Cities and South County, California, stubbornly refuse to hand over body camera footage. This is partly due to tyrannical union leaders. It’s illegal for them to withhold such recordings, but since when did laws stop a union?
A prominent auditor in that area, Gabriel Rojas (SLO County Observer), said that he has given up doing record requests for this reason. Police in larger cities find it too risky these days to cover up such records, and in time, regional areas like the one Rojas lives in will have to submit to the Rule of Law.
Frank Ornelas (PedoLibre Audits) is still producing strong audits, and he recently won a court case after a ridiculous cop tried to have him jailed for filming on a public sidewalk. Frank consistently delivers interesting interactions and stands up to bullies and corrupt cops, regardless of rank, sex, race, or religion. Like Furry Potato, he often audits places of worship, and when a sergeant insults his intelligence, Frank gives it right back.
Unfortunately, he’s also a fan of all-night copwatching, which is dull. Frank was at his best in daytime audits—especially during his SGV days, walking sidewalks under blue California skies. Those were peak PLA. If SGV isn’t interested anymore, he should find another partner; the right teammate would sharpen his already solid work.
Copwatching at night, however, sucks donkey hooves through a straw. Sure, there’s always a small online crowd that enjoys six-hour driving vigils, but they’re not representative. Most viewers won’t hunt for the good moments buried inside marathon streams.
The same problem affects Frank’s live audits. The quality is often low, like chewing tinfoil with your ears. Two clear, well-shot daytime videos on a weekend would outperform a week of fuzzy, dark, hard-to-watch night streams.
Hopefully, we’ll see Frank return to crisp daytime audits soon. Either way, he still produces standout moments, and when he hits, he really hits.
Eliezer Santos (Ely The People’s Guy) is a New York First Amendment Auditor Furry Potato wants to do an audit with. He has his own very distinct style, making videos in the rough streets downtown, mixing it up with hotel security, New York cops, pimps, prostitutes, and drug addicts.
Ely scores his audits with his own gritty, boom-bap–style hip-hop, and likes to do a few theatrics in the street while taking on his assailants. He will place the camera on the sidewalk and dare the aggressor to take him on, and they usually back off. Ely will then stand up on his hands and do a victory walk, that’s right, walk, back and forth on his hands, before standing upright and retrieving his camera.
His camera work is excellent, and Ely has an eye for detail – in that respect, he reminds me of Furry Potato, Press NH Now, The J-Town Press, PedoLibre Audits, and FricnMedia. All are eagle-eyed and have an innate feel for when a perp is going to look back or peer around a corner. Seeing a distant face leering at them, they stay focused as it moves away, and, sure enough, after ten seconds, reappears. Got him!
There is a noticeable tug-of-war between Ely the auditor and Ely the musician. That tension runs through many of his videos and divides viewer focus.
My advice to Ely is to narrow his focus and let 1A auditing take precedence. Strong work in any discipline usually requires sustained concentration, and splitting attention across multiple pursuits can dilute results. Ely shows real promise as an auditor, and with a tighter focus, he could rank among the very top. Toning down the side projects and concentrating on auditing would strengthen his work considerably.
Cancelling the myth of transgenderism is a great cause. This ludicrous nonsense, along with a whole spectrum of weirdo, gay bunkum, has been taught by socialist white women in schools for the last thirty to forty years, and a large chunk of our society now believes it. Quasi-religious cults like this and man-made global warming were developed by communists to help take apart Western democracies.
One pair of First Amendment Auditors devoted to educating the public about transgender women being men are John and Jane Doe, who run the channel Midwest Audit. They wave a sign bearing the words TRANSGENDER WOMEN ARE MEN at traffic, and either receive praise or abuse in response. During their work today on attacking the myth of transgenderism, they record many aggressive left-wing crackpots who hurl abuse and sometimes attack them. Luckily, most Americans agree with John and Jane Doe on this issue, but they are known as the Silent Majority because they prefer to keep their views to themselves. Even so, the more courageous among them call out or honk in support as they drive by.
Steve Jones (FricnMedia), aka SpankyPants, is an old favorite, and I wrote about him in my other articles on First Amendment Auditors. He worked with Matthew Wrosch (Michigan Constitutional Crusader), and they made a great team.
Jones was always fearless in standing up to tyrants, like the little tyrant cop, Greg Morabito. Steve called him a numb-nuts bitch ass tyrant Willie Wonka munchkin motherf***er, and then made T-shirts with that blurb – one of which was worn by iiMPCT Media.
YouTube was not kind to Steve because he was a fierce and courageous auditor, and YouTube’s mods are the wokest pansies in the world. They employ giant rooms full of the worst kinds of cretins, blue-haired poutrage freaks with ugly nose rings and huge communist nostrils, sniffing out anyone with talent to ban and delete. The stench of DEI stupidity rising from YouTube is like a vast, mushrooming black cloud blotting out the sun, and that nuttiness is what Steve Jones has to battle when uploading there.
After Jones suffered yet another ban from YouTube, he took a break and then slowly began uploading again – this time to Facebook, a clear step down. However bad YouTube may be, Facebook’s ecosystem is vastly worse, with weaker reach, clumsier tools, and a video player that feels like it hates users. People complain that Threads videos are low-res, the screen is small, and they can’t play them on their TVs. For all his billions of dollars, Zuckerberg couldn’t make a video platform work – it sucks like a cheap hooker. Recently, Furry Potato found a way back onto YT – I think Steve could do the same, even if he has to use someone else’s account.
Regardless, Steve Jones (Spanky Pants), will always be remembered in the First Amendment Auditor Hall of Fame, along with his buddy, Matthew Wrosch (Tater Salad).
Top Ten First Amendment Auditors January 2026
This is for Auditors who are still active, or who would have been but are in jail, and is not governed by the number of views or subscribers achieved, but by what an auditor can accomplish on their own with a camera and how they manage it. If they have a million dollars’ worth of equipment and make a lot of noise and hype, but chicken out when the thugs arrive, they lose points. Judgments are made based on how effectively the auditor exposed bullies and tyrants, captured bad behavior on camera, held villains to account, created drama, comedy, and action, presented intelligent arguments deftly or silent treatments effectively, exhibited courage in the face of adversity, and, last but not least, created quality video production incorporating video, police cams, other cams, scanners, 911 telphone or radio recordings, and so on.
Top 10
- Long Island Audit—SeanPaul Reyes—Channel
- Inland Auditing Media—Steve McStevenson—Channel
- Furry Potato—Steven (Zhoie) Perez—Channel
- Press NH Now—Mark Manchon—Channel
- Bay Area Transparency—Jonathan Travis Moore—Channel
- Kult News—Mike Norton—Channel
- The J-Town Press—Lana Patrick (formerly Mark White)—Channel
- PedoLibreAudits—Franklin (Frank) Jacob Ornelas—Channel
- Ely The People’s Guy—Eliezer Santos—Channel
- Midwest Audit—John and Jane Doe—Channel
It’s not easy to make the top ten, so congratulations to those who did. And to the hundreds of runners-up, keep auditing, keep your chins up, and keep those cameras rolling. I’ll be back in time with another look at America’s First Amendment Auditors. Until then, farewell.
Rob Larrikin
