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This is an egregious abuse of power. The US is built on protest, it’s often the only recourse available. If your policy ideas don’t hold up to public scrutiny and can’t survive a little peaceful demostration, then sorry, those ideas are shit.
One of the individuals charged in the RICO conspiracy is Thomas Jurgens, who was acting as a legal observer at a music festival March 5. Jurgens was arrested while wearing a bright yellow hat marking him as a legal observer.
These people would charge the Boston Tea Partiers with RICO if it was today.
"They conspired to destroy private property reeeeeeee!"
Dumbasses.
Ahhhh the man in the yellow hat ….. and what has his curious little buddy been up to?
Jesus. They are charging everyone who so much as sighed heavy about the cop city being built.
Helped on the website? RICO. Helped make protest signs? RICO. Undercook fish? Believe it or not, RICO.
This surely can only go well. The article doesn't state much about the protestors angle at all. It just sounds like an authoritarian play using a draconian interpretation of long-standing laws to fuck with people you don't like. Has nothing to do with actual racketeering or organized criminal activity, just some right-wing thought experiment trying to turn wording against their enemies. Never works in court though, so I don't get why they keep trying this noise.
It's to undermine the RICO case against Trump
Well that's just idiotic grandstanding if true, because Trump's plays out the steps EXACTLY on how to catch a RICO charge. It's like a 'Criminal Racketeering and Conspiracy to commit 100 Kinds of Fraud: For Dummies' book.
It's not 'just' idiotic grandstanding, it's also how Republicans are intentionally eroding the power of our institutions.
Any tool that is brought to bear against them, they'll try to undermine and abuse so it's less effective for anything. They want it to look like RICO is just a partisan tool to go after your enemies. That makes democrats look as petty as them - if you ignore reality.
One of the ways you can tell Republicans are actively trying to destroy our democracy is the way the prefer political strategies that do as much institutional damage as possible.
And the governor praised the charges. That mother fucker needs to be removed from office. Republicans and conservatives need to be all removed from society.
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Love to know more about his cheating and not surprised.
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Is still putting up a fight? Because I love for her to become Georgia governor. She shut down that cop city I am sure.
Thank you. I've been waiting for someone to point that out since the story first broke.
It’s to undermine the first amendment
I think it's an attempt to stifle resistance to cop city.
Did Trump pass out fliers? Organize a protest? Offend murders by calling them murderers? Was he arrested for wearing a yellow hat? Does he own a curious monkey named George?
Honestly, I doubt it. The state has been throwing their full weight against the Stop Cop City protestors from the beginning.
How would it undermine the RICO case against Trump?
"Never works in court..."
If you don't think dragging someone in to court and having to pay for and deal with all that BS isn't undue punishment enough, then you're either heartless all the same or not thinking it through.
Yeah the hassle/hardship that a lot of these people will endure due to these trumped up (no pun intended) charges is the real point; that and trying to deter others from using their rights to protest. I seriously doubt the prosecutors think they will actually win in court.
Lemmy is growing up, we gave them the hug of death.
They say it coming with a url like "itsgoingdown.org"
Lol, that’s funny. The site went down.
Checks out, literally
I seriously can't tell if the OP is a parody account or being earnest, his other posts have always been a little suspect like this one.
If you make protesting illegal, people will find other (often far more violent) ways to express their displeasure at and disapproval of the current administration.
Itsgoingdown is ironically enough down, so here's another article from a different source about the issue.
Personal favorite highlight:
[Allegations] include [...] being reimbursed for glue and food for activists who spent months camping in the woods near the construction site.
Trying to downplay Trumps case I see
Site is down. What type of activists are these? Most of the time, activists mean left-leaning, but I guess they could be stop the steal activists. My guess? Probably has something to do with the 'police city' training center if it is in Atlanta.