Posted on 05/28/2023 11:25:09 AM PDT by Salgak
The Washington Post received advance notice about a protest in which environmental activists vandalized a sculpture in Washington, D.C., the Justice Department (DOJ) said Friday.
Joanna Smith and Timothy Martin were charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and with injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit stemming from a protest where they smeared paint on a case holding “Little Dancer, Age Fourteen” by Edgar Degas on April 27, and each faces up to five years in prison for each charge, the DOJ announced. The Washington Post, though not named in the indictment, received advanced warning of the attack, which reporters then captured on video, the DOJ said. (RELATED: Jesse Watters Has 10 Words To Sum Up Blocking Traffic For Climate Change)
“Members of the conspiracy had alerted the Washington Post, and two reporters from the Post recorded and photographed the offense,” the Justice Department said in the Friday release announcing the charges against Martin and Smith. “Additionally, other members of the conspiracy filmed and photographed the offense.”
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So the wapo is 100% in agreement with the crime, and gave it moral support. The wapo then deserves to be seized and its assets sold and redistributed.
Just like the fake fbi calling their libtard buddies while they terrorize old people at the crack of dawn
“Sounds like some Washington Post reporters need to be indicted as co-conspirators.”
Quick look shows this to be a figure of a black girl....... so a hate crime also?
Publicity, as in publicizing. As in marketing. As in manufacturing consent and nudging and all those lovely authoritarian games dear to the hearts of the political Left.
When O'Keefe does it.....
Given that the criminals only goal was the press from the WP, I agree. The WP caused the crime. They should be indicted.
By golly it sure changed my mind about Climate Change and such when I saw “activists” vandalizing art works.
Commit the crime, and sit and wait for the cameras arrive. It’s the cheapest, most cost-effective publicity campaign you could concoct.
They’re threatening works of art that are the essence of civilization. What they should do is kill them where they sit and dispose of the bodies in a secret location. Then there will be NO copycat crimes.
If they’re so concerned about the condition of the planet, let them volunteer to become fertilizer.
No. Call the cameras and the writers. THEN go to the crime scene and pose for the cameras. In the FBI and IRS cases, leak the arrest, the victim (er, perpetrator) and the crimes, the location and the date-time-group. THEN arrest the persecuted. (Er, prosecuted.)
Two more of Garland’s White Supremist Terrorist Groups, eh?
They all deserve one another.
Birds of a feather...
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