Eight defendants have been sentenced to 30, 50, 70, and 100 years.
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“I guess everybody’s a domestic terrorist now.” I can’t say how many times I’ve heard these words in the last few months. After the murder Alex Pretti, top officials were quick to defend the ICE officers who extra-judicially executed him by labeling him a domestic terrorist. They said the same about Renee Good. Over the last year, I have been forced to keep my silence as the government spun a conspiracy theory labeling my friends and I as domestic terrorists, as members of a shadowy terrorist conspiracy that does not exist. I have watched them lie about the compassion, loving…
The government is using zines and a printing press to sentence me to 50 years, a life sentence in prison. My crimes have been made clear by the prosecution, they don’t want people like me to have access to these constitutionally protected and invaluable resources. This is an attempt at silencing decent, at creating fear amongst its citizens to insure no one speaks against this current administration. The fictitious narrative presented by the government doesn’t exist in reality. It is their design created to criminalize people for protesting, for not conforming. We are living through a moment in time that…
As I stared at the numbers that came in from federal sentencing, I can only say I’m heartbroken and distressed. Maximum years per charge assigned, to be served consecutively, to ensure the greatest amount of suffering is inflicted. And for what, besides to “send a message”? What justice, this? And to know this isn’t the end of the state’s case is all the more anxiety inducing. State level charges are waiting to be or have been filed, and trials are inbound for those convicted so far, and for several others, including myself. We face a sentencing range of 15 to…
This conviction is the continuation of a campaign of terror and violence that has been allowed to imprison people speaking out against the immigration policies of this administration. Experts warn that my conviction will have a “chilling effect” on previously constitutionally protected activities; this was made clear as the intent when Judge O’Connor said he wanted to make an example of us, with clear disregard for the facts of the case. This is a government telling its citizens that to raise a voice of dissent carries a life sentence, maybe even death. To my friends, to Renée Good, to Alex…
Zine version available here. Versión en español a continuación I don’t hate. I don’t hate anyone. I don’t hate cops. I don’t hate Trump. I don’t hate Nazis. My beliefs are composed thus: First, that we should help each other. And second, that we should protect one another. I never want to see anyone get hurt. I never want to see good people, standing up for what they believe in, gunned down in the street. What we all saw happen to Renee Good and Alex Pretti is my worst nightmare. It was the kind of thing I had feared for…