Promoting anarchist ideas! The horror! (/s)
Definitely what the RICO Act was sold to us as being designed for. /s
Fuck the police. Fuck the state.
Something tells me this isn’t the whole story… “Promoting anarchist ideas” sounds like political speech to me, which isn’t illegal, whether in Georgia or anywhere else in the US.
You can find the indictment online at the link posted above. It goes pretty deep into how the prosecutors understand anarchism. There’s definitely an ideological bent to the prosecution, but the things they’re being indicted over are arson, destruction of private property, and a host of illegal means of preventing the construction of Cop City. Still…the prosecution is clearly extremely concerned with misrepresenting anarchism as a political ideology.
They are using the claim that this is all ideologically-driven in order to charge them as co-conspirators. One person in a protest burns a trash can, and you claim they were all ideologically in support of that as members of the same “criminal organization” and charge them under RICO laws.
Of course political speech is illegal. Always has been. It just isn’t nominally legal on paper. People have been indicted, prosecuted, and imprisoned for it constantly. A famous example is Eugene Debs, who was prosecuted under the Espionage Act and imprisoned for an anti-war speech he made in 1918.
Please don’t be taken in by the veneer of moronic constitutionalist liberalism. The state punishes people when it feels like punishing people, and does so especially for political speech and dissent…for being an anarchist; for being a leftist. The propaganda it puts down on paper has never changed that.
So Georgia is prosecuting mutual aid?
Hey conservatives, why are they virulent ideas? Why do you think these messages spread like wildfire and resonate with so many?
