On Thursday afternoon, prosecutors in Texas announced that terrorism charges had been filed against two people for alleged involvement in a shooting during a July 4 protest against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, in which a local police officer was injured.
This is the first time federal terrorism charges have been deployed in association with the “antifa” label, just a month after President Donald Trump announced that he was designating antifa a “major terrorist organization” — a designation that does not exist under law for domestic groups.
The Prairieland case is setting a chilling example for how the government will use so-called counterterrorism efforts to crush anti-fascist dissent. Neither of the people named in the indictment are accused of shooting the gun. Instead, Zachary Evetts and Autumn Hill are accused of “providing material support to terrorists” and having “aided and abetted” the alleged attempted murder of government officers.
The federal indictment accuses Hill, who prosecutors dead-named, and Evetts as being part of an “antifa cell.”
The terrorism charges are an escalation of government efforts to criminalize protest movements by attempting to attribute collective guilt.
There is no point in individual resistance of this sort. You will only go to jail. If you are truly a revolutionary fighter who is ready to do stuff like this well gtfo offline first, & get organized with a lot of ppl.
if constitution doesnt protect them, that means the whole thing is just piece of paper and effectively null under america’s current government.
One more indicator that the constitution has been suspended for the foreseeable future.
Step one of fascist government label anyone that doesnt agree with them as antifa
Well, I mean, are they not?
The real problem is the people in charge taking a common abbreviation of an arguably positive ideology, twisting that abbreviation into a “scary” name, calling it a violent group, packaging it all up with a neat little bow, and then parroting it to the brainwashed masses.
Agreed.
And, it’s a bit uncanny how eerily close this is to that of the far left when they accuse anyone that’s a hair’s width right of the bat-shit insanity of Stalin of being in support of genocide.
They have distanced themselves so far from an alt-right ideology- that they have circled all the way back around to being comparatively identical in their absence of logic.
EDIT: take note how well my point was made in the responses I’ve received. I’ve been accused of both being “programmed” and being a member of truth social- just for points out the fact that there are people who will immediately accuse you of being something you’re not- just because you disagree with them.
(For the record: this was purposefully done to net these results. Some people are so predictable, you can essentially get them to prove your point for you).
Did you get lost? This is Lemmy, I think you were looking for Truth Social.
Yeas. I forgot, this is lemmy: where hive-minded ignorance goes to ignore nuance while congratulating and weirdly- simultaneously competing with one another to see who can make the most smug and edgy response to things they don’t know what they disagree with but are told to.
And not just that, but it’s also where accusations are freely hung on anyone that disagrees with the flavor-of-the-week rhetoric of being a Trump supporter…
I’m guessing you probably don’t even see the irony in your comment accusing me of being a Trump supporter just because I said shit you don’t like- in a thread where I called out the fact that the far left accuses anyone that disagrees with them of supporting genocide.
(In this example, Trump supporter and genocide supporter are interchangeable if it wasn’t obvious)
In what ways specifically is this similar to the far left?
Did I not just spell that out?
You have not, please go ahead though
when they accuse anyone that’s a hair’s width right of the bat-shit insanity of Stalin of being in support of genocide.
Oh, I thought it was pretty obvious you were being hyperbolic there. Try harder
Will do! Thanks bud!
no
Cheers to you! Fuck them
It’s nothing like that.
It’s everything like that.
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You can be deprogrammed. You dont have to feel this way any more. You can be a happy empathetic member of the human race.
“Person that disagrees with my shit politics is programmed”
Isn’t this a bit too similar to how you all complained when people accused you of being paid bots during the election? Which is similar to how trump’s minions accuse anyone that disagrees with them of being anti-American?
It’s almost as if you’re trying to prove my point for me, but you’re too busy trying to be smug to notice.
Totally
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Just testing the waters
Let’s hope no court will consider antifa terrorists, but there’s always a few judges.
Antifa doesn’t exist. It’s a straw man label to get what they want.
Antifa is just short for “anti-fascism”. Everyone in the world should fall under that label.
If the government considers anti-fascism to be a threat, that speaks volumes about the government.
Yes i know. But as an official organization like they talk about it doesnt exist. I know because id join it if it did exist.
I’ve been looking for antifa for years. I bought the t-shirts and the pins, have gone to the rallies, signed the petitions, etc, but I can’t find the antifa.
Some antifa, but nowhere enough antifa.
We could really use some organised antifa right now. It’s not there yet, though.
Any protester is antifa. It’s a suppression tactic.
All the combined allied forces at WW2 where antifa.
Every single US military member swears an oath which essentially amounts to being Antifa
but will they follow that oath?
lol
In Texas, there’s going to be judges who goosestep behind Trump
First they claimed everything good is Socialism, and now there is a whole generation that thinks Socialism is good.
Now they are taking any opposition and call it terrorism, what do they think is going to happen when more and more people start opposing their living conditions?
btw, attacking them isn’t terrorism… at worst you could say treason? (although the people being attacked were actually treasonous).
terrorism would be attacking civilians randomly… like, say blowing up boats full of people who aren’t waging war…Between what?
what do you mean?
Or having gangs of non-uniformed, masked thugs kidnapping people off the street.
i would say that fits the definition of terrorism and treason
Better stop guys, making too much sense. I need to take more crazy pills before I begin thinking clearly.
sorry, i meant, keeping america safe from the invasion of hispanic gangs
yeah, but facts don’t matter.
to them… but they still matter….
might not matter until some future trial, or future historians pick apart what happened… but they matter
This was all easily avoidable.
Im not giving than an email address to read sn article.
So I like the intercept a lot. And also find their current way of collecting support really annoying.
I gotcha covered. https://archive.ph/WTdDN
Anti fascists are terrorists
Fascists are terrorists.
Antifa terrorist cells from around the world gather to celebrate defeating the heroic reich
So you’re pro-fascism?
No, I just liked the irony of the statement
