Summary
Antony Vo, convicted for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots alongside his mother, has fled to Canada and applied for asylum instead of reporting to prison to serve a nine-month sentence.
Vo claims his conviction was “political persecution” and part of a government conspiracy.
Currently living in Canada with his mother, who also faces federal charges, Vo believes Trump will pardon Jan. 6 rioters.
U.S. authorities have been actively searching for him, while his asylum application remains under review by Canadian officials.
Seeks asylum in another country while probably having a problem with people seeking asylum in the US
Well his situation is different. Did you ever stop to consider that?
Thats right I forgot he is one of Trump’s “warriors”
As a Canadian I feel like I just saw a rat scurry under my bed while I’m snuggled under the covers.
Yeah, now We got to root the bastards out.
Since Trump’s going to pardon them, justice will never be done by the judicial system. So if justice is to be done, it will be by other means.
Keep Alberta rat-free
Do the time, assholes
What a whiney bitch that doesn’t take responsibility for being an easy dupe that went on to violate the law in several ways. How is any of this political persecution?! It’s collective mental disorder, that we may all end up paying for.
9 month sentence? Just go do it you pussy. I’ve served longer for possession of fucking WEED.
You have to understand though, these people are cowards who absolutely do not think the laws or rules should apply to them, because they’ve never faced any consequences in their life up to this point.
Get him the fuck outta here.
He’s just waiting out the clock, Trump is almost certainly going to pardon his insurrection accomplices.
Why would he do that?
What do they have to offer him now?
Adoration from his base.
It’s a mistake to assume because he’s been voted in his base has nothing left to offer.
For him to fully seize permanent autocratic power or even implement the most horrific parts of his agenda, he needs Congress to stay under his thumb. The pardon will cost him nothing, and keep his base rabid, which will keep Congress in line.
Edit: A few important additional reasons:
- Trump never admits he’s wrong and never forgets being “wronged.”
- Pardons continue to overwrite history of Jan. 6th with the narrative he was the victim.
- They help create noise to drown out signal as to whether it was an insurrection, demotivating people to further seek justice.
- They solidify further his claim related prosecutions (including of him by extension) were politically motivated.
- They demoralize his opponents by subjugating reality to his own narrative (a classic Putin move, maybe not coincidentally).
It’s doubtful he consciously thought any of this through. If probably just “feels right” to him. But in typical Trump fashion, by pardoning those involved, he’d be doing something deeply nefarious for coincidentally shallow narcissistic and instinctive reasons.
Someone else on Lemmy referred to him as an instinctual fascist, and I really thought that was a succinct way of framing the “just feels right” aspect you laid out here
I wonder if he has to physically sign each pardon. That alone could keep him from getting everyone off.
I doubt he’s ever gotten anyone off.
Hopefully they catch another charge for resisting, which isn’t pardoned.
Sounds like a something a piece of shit traitor would do. Fuck that guy and his mother.
Well he only has a few more weeks until he’s pardoned.
This is why trebuchets were invented. Load them up and yeet them back to the USA.
Make sure you secure a rope around his neck that will reach over the boarder.
No need to bring another character into this
(It’s spelled ‘border’ when talking about the line between countries; a boarder is a person renting a place to sleep)
Send him back. We don’t need no seditionists.
Just shoot him and save us both some tax money. He’s Asian so the people that should care, won’t.
Ain’t you about to be da fiddy first state doe?
this headline needs some work. I can see a few different meanings…
dude is seeking asylum in Canada with his mom
they’re both seeking asylum because they skipped prison
dude skipped his prison time (for some other offense) to go storm the Capitol with his mom (awww…)
one or both of them stormed the capitol, got prison time, skipped it, and have fled to Canada to ask for asylum.
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probably some others…
They probably did that deliberately, to draw you into reading the article to solve the conundrum
This is one of donvict’s patriotic heroes. He should come on home since donvict will likely pardon all these pillars of humanity.
“Political persecution”, LOL.
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They could just return Jan 20 at noon, and kneel and lick the boots of their master and beg for a pardon, and maybe get a pardon.
“I really thought that the police were keeping their oaths to the constitution and were stepping aside to let us exercise our constitutionally guaranteed rights,” he told WISH. “I thought it was totally permitted.”
on one hand, this is so dumb that i have a very hard time believing anyone would actually think this. on the other hand, he is a trump supporter, and he did walk into the capital with his mom and then take pictures of it. i’m really at a loss here.
