Sources on Beau's crimes: https://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/sites/dcjs.virginia.gov/files/publications/victims/florida-strategic-plan-human-trafficking.pdf http://justin-king-snitch.blogspot.com/ this one compiles many of the available documentation from the trials/testimonies/etc Sources on Beau's real past which he seems to prefer to keep under wraps: http://justin-king-snitch.blogspot.com/ The same blog from above includes a lot of details https://www.digitaljournal.com/social-media/profile-of-a-digital-journalist-activism-fuels-justin-king/article/398161 interview with him where he contradicts much of his own story especially regarding where he's from Vids from his time in Cincinnati after he was found out in Florida, when he still used his real voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzaDXYaC-1w https://www.facebook.com/awakenedcincinnatians/videos/2032908463601741/

  • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I was thinking the same before I watched the video too. The lawsuit did not charge some crimes they could have, and instead focused on visa fraud and what the government calls human trafficking -- which in this case essentially meant people got in without the right visas.

    Getting people into your country is actually based, so I don't give much credibility to what the government considers to be trafficking in this instance.

    However, from the video, it seems King and his cohorts used threats to keep the people working for them, and made them pay absurd amounts of money for the visas and such. I know US visas are expensive, but BadEmpenada looked it up and such a work visa costs around 200$ and not the 1500 they were charging the workers.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      The lawsuit did not charge some crimes they could have

      because they planned on using him as a fake activist snitch

      • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        This happened afterwards, e.g. they seized his properties and then gave them back to him for no reason while he was in prison, which happened after sentencing.

        Possibly the prosecution was in on it but I think what's more likely is they wanted to stick to the charges they could easily prove in court. This is common in the US from what I understand, and when he was facing 60 years already and is white, they probably didn't care to try and add a smaller charge on top of that.

        • Tachanka [comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          no. watch the video. when a convict has their confiscated properties given back to them, the court usually documents the reason for doing so. Not only is it unusual, but the court kept their reasons for doing so confidential. Making the whole thing far more suspicious than usual.

          65 years dialed down to 3.4 years + confiscated property returned for deliberately classified reasons + immediately become a left wing "activist" with opinions suspiciously in line with US foreign policy immediately upon leaving prison = SUPER SUSPICIOUS

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      1 year ago

      BadEmpenada (who’s kind of a sexpat in Latin America tbh, so it’s a bit rich coming from him)

      Source? This sounds like some bullshit the national socialists or the pro-Israel neolibs made up about him. I've been his follower for a long time and according to him, he just moved because he went there during uni and decided to live there upon graduation. Essentially he's a weeabo for south america.

      However if there is proof he is a sexpat then there is no denying it.

      • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        You're right, this doesn't seem confirmed. I legit don't remember where I heard it.

        He remains a trot though but when he's right, he's right (and if "Beau" has taught us one thing it's that you can't trust what breadtubers say about themselves :P)

        • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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          1 year ago

          I legit don’t remember where I heard it.

          If you remember one day and its legit please don't hesitate to share it so another one of these streamer fucks can be executed in the public eye

          What are the signs of him being a trotskyist? I haven't read any of trotsky's works so I have no clue at all.

          • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I don't think he's confirmed it but he really gives the signs of a Trotskyist lol

            Trostkyists don't really take after Trotsky himself. At least I wouldn't say that's the defining feature of a trot. Trotsky himself said some stuff that wasn't entirely wrong, and he said some stuff that was completely wrong, and Trotskyists somehow evolved into following just Trotsky and nobody else. That's all they read and care about, and anything Lenin said was, when you speak to one, superseded by whatever Trotsky had to say about it.

            Trots were the ones who started "Neither Washington nor Moscow (but yes Washington)" back in the day, and are not back with "Neither Washington nor Beijing".

            Empenada's video on Xinjiang which was supposed to look at every argument just ended up saying "there's propaganda in the West but actually they're right regardless". He can't bring himself to support any current socialist experiment but he still calls himself a Marxist, which is 90% of the defining features of a trot.

    • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah the US's definition of human trafficking is...not good. Like if this was on a much larger scale, it wouldn't even be illegal. JP Morgan Chase hiring thousands of visa workers and paying each one $10k/year less than comparable American-born employees? That's just the system working.

      And that $10k reduction in pay is essentially the result of them holding deportation over your head. If the threats are made via boilerplate contracts then it's good and legal.

      • CriticalResist8 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think to most people human trafficking implies something like the slave trade. But in legal parlance it's literally as small as getting someone into the country with the wrong visa.

        If you hire someone and request say a tourist visa for them instead of a work visa, you could be guilty of human trafficking and visa fraud. And I'm no fed or snitch, what do I care about visa types.

        Marrying someone so they can get a passport for example, if both people consent to it, is based.

    • Madcat [any]
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      1 year ago

      who’s kind of a sexpat in Latin America tbh

      not confirmed but worth keeping in mind