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Is beyond terrifying. There has been a lot of troubling news to read in the past few years. This one handily takes the cake. The most egregious act they’re accused of doing is…throwing stuff and helping each other pay off bail/pay for each others living supplies??
But from the sound of it, the most devious thing the GAG thinks they’ve done is subscribe to ANARCHISM! “defendants are anti police, anti government, and anti corporatist…” You…just described SIXTY PERCENT OF PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF FORTY.
This is such a dangerous shot across the bow for any of us ever thinking of trying to stand up for justice or goodness. Which is exactly what they want. This country has been putting anarchists to death since we’ve existed. For nothing more than the term “anarchist.” This is fuckin scary.
defendants are anti police, anti government, and anti corporatist…
Last time I checked that isn't a crime
That’s the point. That’s part of what makes this so terrifying. They dedicated six pages of their report to describing their beliefs as anarchists. Which goes to show that it’s a big part of what they’re being prosecuted for. Their ideas are dangerous and they need to be put away, is basically the argument. And fuckin RICO? Like…if I were he lawyer I’d make hay out of this big deal about them being anarchist and charging them under the laws used to charge organized crime. Because there seems to be an inherent disconnect there. RICO is used to charge up the chain of the mob…but anarchists don’t have an “up the chain.” You’re trying to charge a loose group of idealists as you charged the New York City mafia dons? Get the fuck out of here.
More and more over the last few decades, media and governments have been intentionally mislabeling ideological movements as organizations.
The first big one was Al Qaeda. It has never been an organization, it's literally just a vague set of beliefs. There was practically no coordination between bin Laden's group and any other Al Qaeda group.
Another was Anonymous. At any given point no more than 5 people were actually in any sort of communication or association with each other, it was just nerds doing online bullshit alone and pretending to be part of something bigger. This was breathlessly reported as a "hacker group" in the media.
In our atomized present world, there are fewer and fewer real organizations doing anything, and often times the fastest path to change (or at least prominence), is by posting some viral thing that gets a bunch of disassociated people to take some kind of action.
And it's very easy to get around the shocking concept of prosecuting "thought crimes" by simply calling an ideology an "organization".
If they commit the egregious acts of owning books, black clothing, fabric, and paint then actually it is illegal, at least on a defacto level.
Good people, please run for office and/or vote. If we forfeit the game these fucking evil people stay in power and will do everything they can to neuter any direct action.
Literally who are you going to vote for to stop the persecution of anarchists in favour of cops? This is bipartisan. This is the same grand jury that got Trump.
You really think AOC, Bernie, and Biden are putting energy into using RICO against cop city protesters? Just as much as Georgia Republicans?
And of Xi and Putin have done no wrong, blah blah.
You really think AOC, Bernie, and Biden are putting energy into using RICO against cop city protesters?
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4901106/user-clip-arsonists-anarchists-prosecuted
Grand Juries are often used when the state doesn't have evidence or want the trial to be public because it would embarass the state. They used a grand jury to tourture Chelsea Manning in an attempt to turn her against Assange. It's like a loophole to the constiution and bill of rights. They should be outlawed, but that might take an amendment to do.
do crime 
