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Three people arrested for carrying tiki-torches during the Unite the Right rally six years ago (archive.vn)
posted 3 years ago by Mpetey123 3 years ago by Mpetey123 +40 / -0
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– simian 37 points 3 years ago +37 / -0

"Each is charged with a single count of burning an object with the intent of intimidating a person or group of people." It took them six years to figure out they wanted to charge someone with that? What a crock of shit. Fuck, if they're getting this treatment, I bet the US Government will come back for January 6 people in another few years with reckless trespassing or something.

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– Tourgen 24 points 3 years ago +24 / -0

political persecution

USA not a real country

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– OldBullLee 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Tell it to the Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.

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– Bottle_of_Memes 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

"Shit they know they were all Feds. Quick let's pretend to "arrest" some of them."

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– simian 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

I don't even think they'd need to do that. Weren't the people they did hold for a year+ never actually charged? If so, they can re-arrest them in a few years and actually charge them this time.

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– trump4044 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

I'll be flying my American flag higher today in defiance.

/s

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– Kienan 22 points 3 years ago +22 / -0

Three people arrested for carrying tiki-torches during the Unite the Right rally six years ago

I'm not sure what it says about me, but I'm too jaded to even find comfort in accelerationism. People don't pay attention, so what's the point of accelerating? It just means more innocents get tyrannized or hurt, and I don't think it actually gets us to meaningful pushback any faster.

Otherwise I'd be all for this utter clown show. But, yeah, people won't do anything. The "justice" system will keep doing utterly insane actions like this, while letting violent criminals brutalize everyone else.

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– MargarineMongoose 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

The "justice" system will keep doing utterly insane actions like this, while letting violent criminals brutalize everyone else.

Well I'd say the solution is to therefor become violent criminals who brutalize our enemies, but we all know that they only let criminals off the leash in a strategic manner.

I really don't know how to fix this and it's starting to eat away me.

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– Kienan 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

I really don't know how to fix this and it's starting to eat away me.

Don't give up, I don't think this will keep up forever. It's monumentally unsustainable, and surprising that it's lasted as long as it has.

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– MargarineMongoose 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

That's the thing though. We keep saying it is unsustainable in the face of it being sustained. The refrain of "it's unsustainable" may in fact be a cope to avoid the realization that for it to collapse will require proactive effort. I don't know what form that needs to take though.

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– deleted 19 points 3 years ago +19 / -0
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– Kienan 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

Their numbers are few, and they are not well protected. I am surprised no one has tried to show their displeasure

Honestly, most people - even elites - are relatively unprotected. I was actually pretty surprised when I realized this. It's frankly amazing how many of these fucknozzles are walking around, completely unmurdered.

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– KingLion7 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Western whites are too well behaved and deferential to authority for their own good.

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– TriangleGang 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

It's actually incredibly rare for judges and DAs to get rubbed out, and I've always wondered why.

It seems like someone who is going to prison for 20-30 years and is already in their 40's has little to lose and if they're on bail during the trial they let them stay on bail between conviction and sentencing. It seems like more people would choose to get their revenge on the way out.

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– when_we_win_remember 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0

My guess would be not a lot of criminals see a judge as the bad guy. DAs know that criminals are out to get them and are presumably hard targets.

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– deleted 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0
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– Tourgen 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

accelerationism = good goy! failing faster and harder means you are winning!

things could just be terrible and hellish forever and ever. That's an option. Acceleration is retarded.

Working towards winning instead of losing though - that requires work and dedication. intelligence. making good decisions. staying legal, free, and therefore effective.

nah, fuck it. right. too much work.

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– Kienan 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Take it down a good couple notches there, bud.

I think you read some things into what I said that weren't there.

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– censorthisss 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Acceleration is a terrible strategy (if you can even call it that) imo.

The founding of the United States is the one example I can think of where a man sitting in a bar a few years prior saying, "accelerate" actually got what he wanted.

99% of the time it leads to worse outcomes.

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– dagthegnome 18 points 3 years ago +18 / -0

In what universe is this not outside the statute of limitations?

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– simian 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

I’m sure they gave a lengthy period for hate crimes.

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– deleted 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0
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– when_we_win_remember 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0

Apparently meaning that you can be harassed for bullshit that happened any number of years ago where nobody got hurt so basically no one even realized there was a crime. In a way, the crime was made up later. It wasn't clearly a crime when they were doing it, and nobody would've arrested them for doing it, but later their protest is deemed a crime.

I'm very suspicious of crimes in which the victim is "the people" or some group of people generically. The people don't get to decide on free speech here.

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– deleted 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0
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– Kienan 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

"Rights? That's cute." - The "elites"

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– almond_activator 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Apparently that begins upon arrest, not at the commission of the act alleged to be unlawful.

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– realerfunction 15 points 3 years ago +15 / -0

this reeks of an activist da carrying a grudge

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– when_we_win_remember 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

How is that anything other than free speech as a crime? Lighting one's own object on fire is not an act of violence. The entire procedure is speech. Fuck these prosecutors. I dont' care what kind of lame anti-KKK statute they have on the books.

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– MegoThor 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

“I don’t think I’ll let you arrest us today, Behan.”

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