Posted on 05/27/2023 12:14:53 PM PDT by lowbridge
An Enosburg Falls man who attended the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., has been charged with a felony for marching with a torch during a demonstration with other white nationalists.
Ryan Roy, 34, faces one count of burning an object with the intent to intimidate. He's at least the fourth person indicted for participating in the August 11, 2017, rally on the University of Virginia campus. Marchers carried lit torches and chanted things such as "Jews will not replace us!" and the Nazi slogan "Blood and soil!"
Roy, who grew up in Essex, did not respond to requests for comment this week. But in 2017, he was outed as a rally attendee after locals spotted him in an award-winning Vice News documentary about the event. In an interview with Seven Days shortly afterward, he admitted that he'd attended and said the large crowd proved "that we’re a legitimate movement, that this is a movement of people. It’s not like a fringe thing."
“My views are right. I don’t feel like I need to hide it,” he said at the time. “I’m not oppressing anyone. I’m not hurting anyone. I’m not breaking any laws. I feel the way I feel.”
Virginia adopted the charge of "burning an object with the intent to intimidate" in 2002, "partly in response to the Ku Klux Klan, which was known for burning crosses in public to scare the Black population," the Washington Post reported. If convicted, Roy faces up to five years in prison.
The prosecutor who was in office during the 2017 rally declined to prosecute the marchers. But his successor, Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney James Hingeley, vowed to bring charges if elected, according to CNN. He took office in January 2020.
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The prosecutor is a Soros prosecutor
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one count of burning an object with the intent to intimidate.
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So if some cigar smoker (or cigarette smoker) looks at me cross-eyed, he is guilty?
How about the 2020 Summer of Love?
Our multitiered INjustice non-system:
1) Foreign invaders aka migrants
2) Democrats
3) LGBTZRSTUVWXYZ+ regardless of party
4) “People of Color” regardless of party
5) Muslims
6) Republicans in general
7) White, Christian, straight men
Prosecutor Hid Conflict Of Interest While Thwarting School Board Recall, Parents Allege. by Luke Rosiak
Sep 17, 2021 DailyWire.com
A far-left prosecutor thwarted parents’ efforts to recall a school board member without disclosing major conflicts of interest, a court filing charges.
Parents in Fairfax County, Virginia, collected 5,100 signatures, meeting the threshold for hauling school board member Elaine Tholen into court for alleged neglect of duty, in part for keeping schools closed for a year. Under Virginia rules, it then falls to a prosecutor to argue before a judge that the elected official should be removed.
Steve Descano, Fairfax County’s elected prosecutor, recused himself..., However, unlike a true recusal, he selected his own replacement: Jim Hingeley, the prosecutor in Albemarle County, with whom Descano founded the Virginia Progressive Prosecutors for Justice last year. Both men attained office with help from billionaire George Soros and have coordinated to bring far-left policies to Virginia.
Hingeley simply dropped the case, declining to pursue taxpayers’ petition. But the lawyer had conflicts of interest more brazen than Descano’s, and unlike Descano, he hid them from the judge...
The FIB squad Patriot Front gets a pass on carrying tiki torches.
“Jews will not replace us!”
But Muslims surely will, you fools!
If the West wants to portray itself as pro-freedom to oppose the totalitarian regimes of Russia and China they should probably not go around arresting people they disagree with politically.
I think they push pro-LGBT stuff just to give off the illusion of “freedom” while still oppressing its own citizens. The more pro gay the government gets the more it tramples on our rights
How can you prosecute a thought crime? Who was he trying to intimidate? Can people who refuse to wear a rona mask be charged with "intimidation"?
When I read of a man with a torch my first thought was...Victor or Harris.
Just for walking around with a Tiki six years ago?
BLM looted businesses and burned cop cars only three years ago — and where are the multitude of arrests for that?
The race is going to have to do better than wave generalizations and torches about or freedom of speech is wasted sooner than protected, and many potential valuable allies alienated.
Is it illegal to carry a torch?
I’m always amazed by stories like this that show that some states have these extremely long statutes of limitations. With some exceptions, and no SOL for murder, the basic law here in CA provided for 3 years for felonies seems about right
So if I burn an H. Uppman Sir Winston I’m a felon?
Well...since they were FBI agents and are totally corrupt, I have no doubt that they can be easily bought by any Middle Eastern potentate!
If he voted for Bernie Sanders, throw the book at him.
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