...Laws were clearly broken; but the sentences turned on what the defendants said and believed, which the prosecution cast as proof of Antifa membership — a case that rested largely on one man: Shideler.
His job on the stand was to convince the jury of two things: that Antifa is a real, organized terrorist enterprise, and that these eight belonged to it. That task was complicated by the fact that the defendants had never actually called themselves Antifa..
Shideler was baptized into this worldview on the job. By his own account on the stand, he “lived over my parents’ garage for a little while” after college, took a job as a news director at a radio station “for a short period,” and did “some blogging and writing” before being recruited by Stand With Us, the Los Angeles pro-Israel group, where he was responsible for “managing their database of extremist groups and individuals.” From there he went to the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a foreign-policy nonprofit that bills itself as operating “from an unabashedly pro-America and pro-Israel stance,” where he studied Islamic movements “with a particular emphasis on the Muslim Brotherhood.”
In 2014 he was hired at the Center for Security Policy, the Frank Gaffney–founded think tank best known for promoting the Iraq War and claiming “Sharia law” is the leading domestic threat to the United States. He left for a stint at the Middle East Forum — a Philadelphia outfit whose stated mission is to “protect Western civilization from the threat of Islamism” — then returned to the Center in 2020, where he now directs Homeland Security and Counterterrorism research, which as far as I can tell means tracking left-wing Americans.
Under cross-examination, Shideler acknowledged he had authored an article on combating far-left extremism whose subtitle, a defense lawyer pointed out, was “A Roadmap for the Trump Administration.” It ran in The American Mind, a publication of the conservative Claremont Institute. He conceded his work isn’t peer-reviewed and rests on “open source research” — material one can “find on the internet” — which, he agreed, carries “both false information and true information.”
Somehow, some way, Shideler ended up being the Justice Department’s expert witness to explain “Antifa” and the grave threat it poses...
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Wow, I didn't even know that it was illegal to say "Anti-Fascist"!
How to know if your country is fascist:
- It's illegal to be anti-fascist.
Republican voters are confused
The laws actually broken?
Some vandalism and nonfatally shooting a cop who was drawing his gun to shoot at a nonviolent crowd.
The former warrants minor fines at MOST (and is an ethically acceptable method of protest against fascism) and the latter is TEXTBOOK defense of self and others against imminent violence from an armed assailant belonging to a vicious gang known for killing with impunity.
This fat fuck
Shortly after Hamas' October 7 attacks, he said in a social media post: "I would like every protesting communist scumbag to go to Gaza so the IDF can turn them into pink mist…"
Ugh, this shit is wild
The eight were sentenced to a combined 450 years in federal prison:
- Savanna Batten — 50 years
- Zachary Evetts — 50 years
- Autumn Hill — 50 years
- Meagan Morris — 50 years
- Maricela Rueda — 70 years
- Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada — 30 years
- Benjamin Hanil Song — 100 years
- Elizabeth Soto — 50 years
This is North Korea level justice, are you americans aware of that?
It's American propaganda version of North Korean justice, sure.
Remember kids, Kim Jung Un's uncle was killed by an anti-air gun, resurrected, executed by trained dogs, resurrected, killed by hanging, resurrected, and then killed by firing dogs, and somehow resurrected with the most recent public appearance in 2023.
Also North Korea, who had 20% of its population killed by bombs, and who had most of its farmland destroyed, some permanently destroyed by the US invaders deliberately totally sentences multiple generations of families to pointless labor camps hundreds of kilometers from farmland. Since they just have so much labor to waste and all and just have such an overpopulation issue they can afford to do that.
Firing dogs
I mean yeah? A large proportion of us are, this is one of many many things happening throughout this massive ass country. We have to do things where we can.
This particularly things is over 1150miles/1900KM+ away from where I live
I think it's worse
What a piece of shit. Hypocrite to the core.
Shortly after Hamas' October 7 attacks, he said in a social media post: "I would like every protesting communist scumbag to go to Gaza so the IDF can turn them into pink mist…"
Oh wow! Yeah, people like that should be jailed!! (not really though 🫣😁)
continues reading
... according to the State's expert witness, who doesn't have any academic background.
Nor is he a weather expert, I suspect. But I digress.
Shideler acknowledged he had authored an article on combating far-left extremism whose subtitle, a defense lawyer pointed out, was “A Roadmap for the Trump Administration.” It ran in The American Mind, a publication of the conservative Claremont Institute. He conceded his work isn’t peer-reviewed and rests on “open source research” — material one can “find on the internet” — which, he agreed, carries “both false information and true information.”
Somehow, some way, Shideler ended up being the Justice Department’s expert witness to explain “Antifa” and the grave threat it poses.
ENSHITTIFIED villain name: Shiddler
Has anybody here read the book Blood In My Eye by George Jackson? I saw someone recommend it in a comment I saw on another website. It seems relevant.