On Tuesday, Elizabeth [Soto] was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison; Ines’s sentencing is set for 1 July. All because, as she put it: “They didn’t like my book club.” Her laugh doesn’t quite reach her eyes.
After a three-week trial, a [Texas] jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of “providing material support to terrorists”, among other crimes. For the Sotos, this “material support” included owning a “printing press” used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences – 30 to 100 years – essentially life in prison.
If you want to do property damage and violence against police, you will be fine - if you are a radical right winger trying to overturn a free and fair election.
The names of Elizabeth and Ines Soto need to be on every lip, just like Alex Pretty and Rene Good.
Mark my words. This will pass, trump will die, this fascism will end, but these people won’t be freed, ever.
Not trying to be negative, or cynical, but this IS the USA, none of these victims will ever see freedom again even when they’re innocent. How else is the prison industrial complex going to get rich?
Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, a name is a powerful thing. It’s hard for some to rally around an idea, especially when it’s big and nuanced. People know who Nelson Mandela was though.
All the people still in jail for weed despite it being fully legal in their state now.
but this IS the USA
Even worse, it’s Texas.
The future doesn’t have to be set in stone. We can create the future we want by demanding it and taking action. I can see a future where a progressive is elected president in 2028 and a critical mass of people successfully petition that president to issue pardons.
They need to be on the lips of anyone who wants the Democratic party’s nomination for president, immediately preceded by “I hereby pledge on my first day in office to immediately pardon”
It was a state trial. The president has no pardon power over state crimes.
It was a state trial
Nope, just quoting from the above article (bolds added),
On Tuesday, Elizabeth was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison … Their attorneys announced their intention to appeal, but many supporters are doubtful that anything short of a presidential pardon from a future administration would free them.
Reich wingers were literally freaking the fuck out over some people being banned from Twitter for saying vile racist shit, claiming the government was attacking them for being Republicans, but are totally ok with Americans getting life sentences for protesting while being Leftist…
Hypocrite, Republican, no difference.
It’s not hypocrisy, they don’t recognize Leftists as “American”. Rights are for White Christians who support the military unquestioningly.
Bringing guns everywhere only acceptable for the right white people. Kyle Rittenhouse actually killed, and is free.
As I’ve stated so many times before here. USA is a sick society, it is mentally ill with sociopathy.
nowdo the fuckin pedo 1000yrprison
And this is why I store my zines on a encrypted USB stick
