• jimbo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So are we supposed to be shocked when people do illegal things and they get in legal trouble, or is that only supposed to happen to people whose causes we disagree with?

    Read the indictment. Regardless of what you think about the forest or the police training facility, there’s plenty of alleged criminal activity contained within that anyone would agree is criminal. It’s not all “passing out flyers” or “signing his name as ACAB”.

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      1 year ago

      Neither you nor the article link that indictment, but the article claims money laundering is based on $11 reimbursement for glue improperly transferred. Yep. RICO was designed to seize profits from crime bosses and drug traffickers, so I’m sure it’s appropriate to pile on to protesters fr $11 improperly transferred

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        1 year ago

        You misunderstand RICO. Such statutes are meant to make people who conspire to commit a crime equally prosecutable even if not all of them personally committed the crime.