by Chris Black
Elections have consequences.
I wonder, were there any specific things outside of just carrying the tiki torch and marching with the crowd that these 3 fellows have been accused of?
To my general knowledge, there were well over 250 people in that march, maybe 4-500, who knows?
Are hundreds more indictments in the works?
Is Charlottesville building a new prison to house all these thought “criminals”?
Or are these 3 guys just the low hanging fruit because “reasons”?
The prosecution probably can’t win this case in the long run. They might get a conviction at trial with a stacked jury, but they will lose on appeal under the precedents in Texas v. Johnson and Brandenburg v. Ohio
In the meanwhile, they will ruin the lives of the defendants and bankrupt them with legal fees.
The strategy is that the arrest is the punishment — “you can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride.”
It is becoming very commonplace to persecute (not prosecute) defendants who are on the wrong side of wokeness and political correctness in this manner, while letting actual violent criminals free if they are nonwhite or leftist.
It is absolutely intended to send a message.
So is what they did to Trump.
“Want to challenge The System? Look what we can do to a celebrity billionaire who is a former president, now imagine what we can do to you little people.”
“The Soros-funded prosecutor of Albemarle County, Virginia has had multiple men indicted nearly 6 years after the mostly peaceful “Unite the Right” rally for the newly-invented crime of “carrying a tiki torch with the intent to intimidate.”
James Hingeley, the Soros-funded prosecutor of Albemarle County, Virginia has unsealed the indictments of at least 3 men who have been charged with “carrying a tiki torch with the intent to intimidate,” a whopping 6 years after they marched in Charlottesville in support of Civil and Revolutionary War monuments.
According to electronic court records, James Hingeley’s Soros-funded prosecutor’s office in Albemarle County, VA has charged William Zachary Smith, of Nacona, Texas, Tyler Bradley Dykes, of Bluffton, South Carolina, and Dallas Medina, of Ravenna, Ohio with tiki torch crimes.
They all face a penalty of up to 5 years in prison. …”