Are they political prisoners or Antifa/CIA/FBI plants? Pick a lane conservatives
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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It's that whole WW2 Jew thing where they are sub human and weak but at the same time all powerful. Same same. Whatever the X newsletter says that day.
- The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for-identifying-fascists
They could have set the record straight by giving them longer sentences.
Part of why they think its political prosecution is how much of a fucking slap on the wrist we gave most of them.
Most of them will be back out in the streets believing this is all political prosecution, because we treated them like fucking babies we needed to coddle instead of nutjob insurrectionists.
Judges, go fuck yourselves, this is on you and talking about it after the fact won't make up for your fucking piss poor ability to hand out meaningful sentences to insurrectionists.
I mean come the fuck on, Judges take the word of Cops as gospel, why are we acting like they are operating in good faith as well. All cops are Fascist Bastards who are Right Wing Thugs. Our entire system is a fucking joke.
*persecution
they all should have been shot dead on the Capitol grounds that day
I’m not for extrajudicial killings or even the death penalty but the USA is clear on the punishment for this. At least some of them should have received the death penalty for their crimes.
Defending Congresspeople against thugs storming the building isn't "extrajudicial killing."
True, Ashli Babbitt for example was not an extrajudicial killing.
You're god damned right they should have shot down like dogs, and shot in the back running away.
They absolutely are political prisoners! By strict technical definition.
However, the fact of the matter remains that they committed crimes knowingly, knowing fully well that their political beliefs do not pardon their insurrection or their crimes.
You know, when you try to pull off an insurrection and you absolutely and utterly fail at it, you gotta expect there to be some consequences. Thank goodness America isn't an absolute dictatorship which would put dissidents to death. The punishment at least fits the crimes of each one of them. They get a fair trial and everything. What more could a criminal reasonably ask for?
I don't feel sorry for the yahoos who gathered on Jan 6th and caused mass chaos. I feel like if the feds rounded them up; they probably did something undeniably stupid.
Plenty of people who "Showed up" for the January 6th protest who actually stayed out of the way and did not engage in the rioting and such actually don't happen to be in jail...they were released at least 3 months later after nobody could find anything to charge them with. It's part of how the justice system works.
They had to know they would all have to be rounded up after the chaos and be sorted out. Hell; if they were smart, they left when things got hot and heavy and didn't get arrested at all, and at worst only had to speak to the FBI or the cops a little bit to prove they didn't join in the chaos.
It's not a crime for them to have been there protesting. The crimes were all the people breaking into the building(s) and trying to interfere with the process. Trying to terrorize and intimidate chosen people who were working to certify the election; which by the way; Trump lost. Unfortunately the protestors do not get to decide who our president is. The election does. It's democracy.
Unfortunately a small group of people got a little too salty about losing.
¿ I think everyone in this ~~country~~ world is a political prisoner ~~regardless of any party affiliation~~ ?