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.
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.