- DOJ hasn’t brought charges or indicted any #AmericanNazis
- This guy who trolled #AmericanNazis is being charged with hate crime for trolling #AmericanNazis.
How much more obvious does it need to be before one sees what’s obvious?
The lawyer should scour 4Chan and other right-wing sites for threats to people on the left, or the gov’t, and ask why none of them are being prosecuted. I mean, it sounds like a case could be made that this is selective prosecution.
This is chilling, intentionally.
How does that old saying go? Never bring a phishing rod to a gun (nut) site…
I agree. Five years? That’s excessive as hell.
My thoughts exactly. Either this is just a bizarre mistake by a first time prosecutor unfamiliar with reality, or somebody has decided to send a very precise message to those of us horrified at the rise of hate, misogyny, and racism increasingly visible across a large portion of the population. The comparison to what was happening in early 1930’s Germany is increasingly real
Unfortunately, I see it purely as the latter.
I just posted these elsewhere, the echoes are getting louder and I am very concerned. We all need to be sounding the alarm. Consider that this administration is preparing to incarcerate 20,000 children hidden further away from public on military bases while the thousands already traumatized, being drugged with antipsychotics (chemical straight jackets), told if they misbehave they’ll never see their parents again, children too young to communicate who they are and where they came from, little girls shuttled through the streets of Harlem in the dead of night and no one knows who they are, the thousands dead in Puerto Rico due to their racist negligence and more…
As the story points out, they have substantially similar threats from people who then went out and committed acts of violence. But they prosecute this guy. Maybe the argument is that people on the left never read the media where the alt-right folks threaten to kill them, so they’re not actually threatened?
Fascists who engage in violence are innocent. People who pretend to be fascists and don’t engage in violence are guilty.
Dare I ask who’s winning?
They don’t just threaten in social media. Spanky’s alt-right troll army dox’s, stalks, and directly threatens people who disparage Spanky. No prosecution of that. Zero. And it’s been going on for two years now.
I didn’t say it was a good-faith argument.