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Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice

www.theguardian.com

The arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan.

Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington.

Legal experts say the case marks an escalation in the administration’s attacks on first amendment rights. Afghanistan war veterans who know him say the case against Mavalwalla appears unjust.

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That's going to get thrown right the fuck out of court, not even the fascist judges will bother with that shit.
But he'll be stuck in the jail system until that point, which is the real intent.
- Yeah but did you read the person's name?
  
  How dare their parents name them that?! Now they have no option but to become a terrorist /s
- And all his biometric and other data will be part of Palantir for use down the road when they start to claim “biomarkers that signal traitorous citizens” or some shit to round people up
- Don't count on it. They got the indictment which means enough jurors thought it more likely than not that he did it. Remember the charge is “conspiracy to impede or injure officers.” To prove this all they need is a social media post between protestors before the fact saying that they were going to block the drive way. That would, I suspect, constitute impeding the officers. This is a really stupid arrest, but unless some jurors just flat out refuse to convict, this guy could spend real time in jail.
  
  A reminder that Grand Juries indict 99.99999% of the time. To the point where the multiple grand Juries that refused to indict the guy that threw the sandwich at ICE officers was actually newsworthy.
  They aren't there to determine whether it is likely someone did something, just whether the charges are even minimally plausible.
Good! Protesting is NOT Protected by the Constitution!
-People who Say School Shooters ARE Protected by the Constitution!
- -People who Say School Shooters ARE Protected by the Constitution!
  (may not apply if shooter is thought to be trans)
  
  Or Antifa, or the Leeeeeeffffvt. (Seriously, saying your against Anti Fascism = ? Anyone? Beuler? Anyone? Right, you're pro Fascism. Don't deny it while proving it's what you are by opposition.)
You know, it sure is weird how much planning for the J6 terrorism was done right out in the open and those in authority at that time did SWEET FUCKALL to stop the J6 terrorists from doing what they did.
- Every time I think about the history of federal involvement in left wing organizing vs right wing organizing in this country, my blood pressure rises about 20%.
  I mean, fuck. We inspired and then "rehabilitated" the Nazis. We took a shitton of higher ups and just pardoned them and gave them jobs in gov. Shockingly, the gov has been rather opposed to left wing ideas since.
- That same opposition that we went to all of that trouble to get in power in 2020 despite them sucking and predictably failing is still in control of the party as arrogant as ever, shouting down anyone arguing for popular electable candidates. Sabotaging any popular electable candidates that might get in there as with Mandami in New York City.
  Without getting real opposition and otherwise real leadership there is no way we will unseat these guys ever. And unseating them for an establishment candidate just prevents things from getting bad at an accelerated rate. Nothing is fixed, things still get worse. Which is why they lose.
"Alarm"
.. fuck off the place is on fire
- the place is on fire
  Which is typically when you heed an alarm...
  
  Alarms exist to alert you when the dangers are not immediately obvious, or are somewhere else. The US is on fire both figuratively and literally and people are waiting for the alarms to go off before the even decide to start thinking about maybe doing something.
  
  Not months later!
- Due process was officially over the line. Before that it was alarm but that was the match and hes just been heaping gasoline on it since.
- Excuse me, you mean the trump/Epstein files?
  
  Trumpstein files
Release the Epstein files!
Yeah, that is a direct attack on the first amendment and a show of force to the rest of the population not to get in their way.
Republicans are responsible for this horrible economy, the constitution being burned and ignored, and our country losing all democracy.
I will be sure to remind them at every opportunity what they did to us.
- Don't forget every single person who voted republican in 24!
  
  Or who stayed home.
Looking forward to the day every single one of these jack-booted thugs from the Nazi leaders at the top all the way down to the ICE Gestapo pigs face Justice at our version of the Nuremberg trials.
- And who is going to do that? The rest of the world is going to sit idly by as the US marches brown and lgbt+ people into the extermination camps. Hell half of them will use it as justification to build their own camps and invade the other half. All while the world slowly cooks itself.
  
  The rest of the world has their own stuff to deal with. America is going to have to resolve its own problems.
  
  A depressing thought, if Nazi Germany had only done the Holocaust without the invasions, the powers of the time would have completely ignored it. At most they would have shook their heads disapprovingly.
- I’m thinking more like the terror from the French Revolution
- Do not hold your breath. By all indications these guys are going to consolidate power and make a one-party stay with rigged elections. We have no opposition popular or muscular or ambitious enough to unseat them. After 2028 it is doubtful any opposition could unseat them.
- Wasn't that the Jan 6th hearings? No one got pardoned from Nuremburg. Political pardons aren't even a thing in most countries.
- The Nuremberg Trials barely got down to the level that these guys are at. They sorta gave up after a while.
  Though Christopher Lee probably took care of a few of them.
- be the change you want to see
Dissenters will not be tolerated.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Looks like fascism
So much for the military being able to stand up for the country as opposed to be an individuals lapdogs.
Gotta expect that shit from a draft dodging psychopath

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Release the Trump/Epstein files