May I see the zine?
Yes, but it will cost you a 10 stretch.
You can see the titles here: https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-z...
Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
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Re: Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recommend reading the whole thing to find the relevant bits. The judge says he is sentencing based on thought crime. > U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said he intended to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” > The following can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern: “If prosecutors are correct that Sanchez moved zines because he feared they’d try…
> The judge says he is sentencing based on thought crime. > Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal The existence of hate crime laws in the US says otherwise - political motivation to a crime has long been a component in sentencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_...
So now hate the government is a hate crime?
Re: Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
What difference does it make? The point being that nobody should be sentenced for transporting pamphlets, regardless of what's in them. And the 30 year sentence? This is absurd.
I wanna see what the administration is so afraid of.
They're afraid of "We The People". They want us all too scared to do or say (or even think) anything about anything they do, no matter how heinous the crimes they choose to perpetrate against the citizenry of the "Land of the Free".
Re: Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The judge says he is sentencing based on thought crime. > Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal The existence of hate crime laws in the US says otherwise - political motivation to a crime has long been a component in sentencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_...
So now hate the government is a hate crime?
Nowhere did I say that. I addressed the "thought crime" claim, i.e. both take into account the perpetrators motivations and beliefs.
Re: Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
#65Ah....so USA is the new CCP.