Free Speech

(Not the Chinese Boy George.)

Eugene Volokh | 12.18.2025 9:56 AM

From the government's Offer of Proof in U.S. v. Wu (D. Mont.), in which an 18-month sentence was just announced yesterday; Wu indeed appears to himself be Asian:

If this case were tried in United States District Court, the United States would prove the following:

On February 16, 2023, a detective with Montana State University (MSU) Police Department contacted the FBI to report that a potentially threatening communication had been sent to the Queer Straight Alliance (QSA), an LGBTQ student group on the MSU campus. The email, sent from ProtonMail account "tpusaatmontanastate@protonmail.com," contained the subject line "Killing all the groomers and faggots." The email read:

"Sinners of the QSA you must repent and turn to god, not the god that supports isis terrorists and sharia law but the white god of Christianity. If you do not call off your grooming party of young children tonight, we will send someone to the Rialto and send everyone present to an early death in hell."

On February 23, 2023, QSA received a second email, this time from ProtonMail account "tpusainc@proton.me." The subject line read "Repent the grooming children" and the email stated:

"Sinners, you may have been able to coerce some of us into silence but a majority of Montanan's along with our founder Charlie Kirk will always be against your satanic ways. True Montanan's will not stop until we expel all the groomers and colored people from our campus and great state!["]

On March 10, 2023, Student-1, a female MSU student of Asian descent who was affiliated with the QSA, received an email from ProtonMail account "DARIA_DD78@proton.me." The email subject line was "killing the chink," and the email read: "Hi Chink I have people watching your house day and night. One of these days you will get what's coming to you. This isn't Missoula in real Montana we kill gooks like you."

The following week, Student-1 planned an "Anti-Hate Teach-In" at MSU. Rex Wu assisted Student-1 with planning the event.

As part of the preparation for the event, Student-1 disseminated Google Forms to prospective attendees. On March 19, 2023, Student-1 reported the email she received to the FBI. That evening, Student-1 observed a response in one of the Google Forms. The form contained a weblink to a digital file that contained a........

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