Charlie Kirk's legacy is a 30-year sentence for moving zines

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What a joke of a legal system where such fake crimes can be manufactured

as much as I am onside with many of the things these people are fighting against, there is no way that getting gunned up and all walki talky "red leader red leader" just like the forces they are challenging is going away with refences to "moving zines", which it must be pointed out, THEY chose, as a tactical move to make in conjunction with an armed encounter with live fire, making the significance and tie in theres, and proving that they were still trying to controll a situation that had gone very wrong indeed. does the guy deserve a 30 yr ticket?, very probably not!, but activly taking orders from gun toteing revolutionaries on the streets of ho hum somewhere USA is going to be very difficult to walk away from. pathetic.not quite as pathetic as the shoe bomber trying to borrow matches from other passengers on the flight he was trying (with no hope) to blow up, but in the same general heading of bieng prosecuted for the crime, as unfortunatly, moumental stupidity is still legal.

It's possible some people thought they were there to move zines. But then there's this.

> In addition to the encrypted messaging group chats, Song, Arnold, Morris, and others met in person on July 3 at a "gear check" at Morris and Arnold's residence. There, Arnold asked Song whether they would be bringing guns to the July 4 action. Song replied that they would because he would not be going to jail. Song repeated words to this effect multiple times throughout the evening, putting everyone there on notice of his intent to shoot at police rather than be arrested.

Some of these people had to know they were entering an armed conflict. The fact that their leader went on to shoot a cop looks real bad for the rest of them tagging along.

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