Posted on 06/28/2018 5:08:18 AM PDT by Nextrush
"Today's indictment should sent a clear message to every would be criminal in America that we aggressively prosecute violent crimes of hate that threaten the core principles of our nation."
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions statement 6/27/2018
"....Mr. Sessions has not determined whether to seek the death penalty..."
The "New York Times" 6/27/2018
President Donald Trump's Justice Department has indicted James Alex Fields Jr. already indicted on state charges including second degree murder, on federal hate crimes charges that could involve a death penalty.
Fields, after coming under attack by leftists who assaulted the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last August 12th, plowed his car into a group of protesters killing one of them and injuring others.
When the violence occurred in Charlottesville, President Trump cited violence on both sides and was condemned by Democrats, Republicans and the mainstream media.
Now the Uniparty and MSM narrative has prevailed in the Trump Administration.
The 30 count indictment, according to US Attorney for Western Virginia, Thomas Cullen, involved searching Fields social media accounts and said:
"We have to get into somebody's head and that takes time"
The "Washington Post" reported it will take several months until federal prosecutors decide on whether they will seek the death penalty in the case.
MSM reports describe Fields as a "Nazi sympathizer".
Observers of the events in Charlottesville last August believe that the control exercised by local and state authorities at the "Unite the Rally" herding people through a gauntlet of hostile and violently attacking Leftists was designed to trigger violent reactions.
It could be construed as entrapment.
An organizer of last year's Charlottesville protest, Jason Kessler, is planning an anniversary protest in Washington DC across the street from the White House on August 12th.
As one who went through the rigged and draconian federal charges associated with Oregon Standoff and Bunkerville Standoff cases as a reporter-writer on those matters count me jaded and cynical on this new federal case on the tragic events that happened last summer in Charlottesville.
And above all lets mince no words, a hate crime law is a thought crime law, a Nazi law, a Soviet law and an un-American law. For AG Sessions to be enforcing such law is defecation on the Constitution of the United States.
The state charges of simply causing bodily harm to other against Mr. Fields made more sense to me than this travesty.
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Is not all violent crimes hate crimes?
And if he isn’t doesn’t that tell you he is an FBI operative who actually works for Jeff Sessions when its all said and done.
A “hate crimes” law is a special law that criminalizes the words people use and judges ‘what is in their head’ or in other words their thoughts, the kind of law they passed in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.
I confront the notion of a “hate crime” in its face for what it is?
A totalitarian thought crime law. Contrary to the First Amendment period.
Damn Nazi's couldnt beat up on the Black Panters without the Anti-Fascist facsist communist getting in the way. The local riot cops knew exactly where they were driving each group and that face to face conflicts amung the different protesting groups had been planned into the days activities.
Still not convinced that its only one car or driver. The paint job on published stories of the same incident showes two cars with different paint jobs.
Personally, I still think all the damn clowns had something to do with this.
The organization of these protests remind me of the videos of the American Shooting Mag that gets a daily thread here on FR. Lets take a pressure cooker, throw in a pound of black powder, some thermite, 2 pounds of white phosphorous sealed in a mason jar, a half a gallon of gasoline and a cup of tide laundry soap. Seal it up tight and place it on a propane burner and light it. Let it build pressure for 5 minutes then stand about 10 or 11 feet away and shoot at it with a Barrett .50 and see if anything happens.
Maybe if enough leftist are prosecuted for hate crimes they will think twice.
It’s probably what will spring him. That’s why they went for 2nd degree.
No, some are crimes of passion/romance/jealousy.
She was hit by a car. That’s why she died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aStM9g-FRE Old one but a good one.
(I was unaware of the details of Charlottesville)
Thanks ro all posters. Very interesting.
“Funny how the articles never mention that, but its evident in the video.”
He’s been indicted...but not convicted yet.
Hopefully, a jury of his peers will consider ALL of the facts before throwing him under the bus.
How would 2nd degree murder import a death penalty? Is the suggestion by WAPO that when and if he doesn’t he’s sympathetic to that ‘side’?
“The state charges of simply causing bodily harm to other against Mr. Fields made more sense to me than this travesty.”
Have you or anyone else defending this guy actually seen/read whatever he posted? Fox radio news reported that he had praised the Holocaust and called for mass murder of the groups he hated. The report might be false, and I don’t admire the “Thought Crimes” concept. The question is whether he crossed the line between “political opinions” and specific calls for violence and genocide against targeted groups. I don’t have a problem with prosecuting those who exhort others to commit crimes and terrorist acts, be they radical Islamic clerics or white supremacists. The “hate” aspect speaks only to motive and hype. Whether Sessions is right to charge Fields depends on what Fields has said and done. He can argue about its meaning, and evoke the First Amendment at trial.
A good lawyer should pursue discovery of whether the feds or state/local police had any informants or agents involved in the entire affair, then depose Kessler, et al, on the same subject.
I find this just as plausible as anything else.
Totally agree. He did commit a criminal act so let justice at that jurisdiction prevail. I cringe at the term "hate" crime. That's a leftist term that is emotional not judicial. The DOJ has way bigger fish to fry besides acting like a Obama/Holder run DOJ.
I absolutely reject the basic concept of “hate crimes”.
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I agree. This is thought-policing pure and simple. Punish people by what they do, not what they think.
And, he did not hit the crowd. He hit another car that hit the crowd and killed the woman.
So protesters hit him, he hit another car, the other car killed. If you start at the beginning, the protesters that hit him are more guilty than he is.
I wonder why him and not a leftist who does the same thing?
(rhetorical question)
Cville reputation trashed forever now from lies..
“IF he had merely shouted at the people in that crowd instead of hitting them with a vehicle, would he have still be guilty of hate speech?”
Actually today, in the U.K., if certain “prejudicial” words were used, the answer is yes, you could be prosecuted for a crime, a hate speech crime; even if it were only a poster sign. If it can make someone angry that you have said something prejudicial toward them, it can, in the U.K., obtain a criminal charge.
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