Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets

Last Independence Day, several protesters were arrested following a demonstration that turned violent outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Prairieland Detention Center. On Tuesday, nearly a year later, eight individuals were given their sentence from a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas: a combined 450 years in prison. The defendants, whom federal prosecutors argued were part of an “Antifa Cell” and provided “material support to terrorists,” were convicted earlier this year on charges ranging from rioting to attempted murder.

He wasn’t even at the night of the incident. He’s just moving documents out. What a load of bollacks.

Meanwhile child rapists get off with 90 days.

Make it make sense.

As sad and disturbing this is, the absurdity is “funny”, in a most depressing way.

You have to be pretty tone deaf to be anti anti fascist, and not realise that the anti’s cancel out.

which zines

Even the possibility for a judge to give this case such a sentence, legally speaking, is insane. USA might be one of the most fucked up countries in the world.

This is very, very sad and unfair!

Woo! FREEDUMB! MURICA! Most free country ever! Woo!

Whatever this “anti-government” material was, it is almost certainly covered under the 1st Amendment.

This should be a fast-track appeal, and vacate these ridiculous sentences.

reason is a libertarian rag BUT blind pigs and so on

At sentencing, one of the presiding judges, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, called the Priarieland demonstration “an assault on democracy,” emphasizing that “the need to deter this type of conduct is high.”

If only they were also carrying zip ties and intended to beat up/kill elected officials, their “assault on democracy” would just be supporting the president and they’d be out of jail in no time!

he picked up and moved around some anti-fascist materials, not anti-government materials. 🤨

only a fascist government would have a problem with that, and it’s wild that neither the headline nor the article spells out the full term anti-fascism. not doing so helps to obscure its meaning for those who don’t already know the term, and they then might be swayed into believing the propaganda. 🫠

Meanwhile all of the January 6th terrorists were pardoned, and many proceeded to commit more crimes afterwards.

Do we know which zines he had?

The strength in faux “democratic” powers comes from silencing people who dare question the class inequality. And their people wonder how it inevitably leads to rise of fascism again and again.

But it was anti-fascist cont… oh