She is sssoooooooooo not guilty.
Posted on 01/17/2019 11:13:58 AM PST by sparklite2
Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina, the pro-gun activist who pleaded guilty for conspiring to act as an agent of the Kremlin in the US, took an interest in shooting as a child, and from a young age wanted to “influence society,” her parents said in a wide-ranging interview about her upbringing.
The 30-year-old admitted in DC federal court last month to working with an American and a Russian official in an effort to establish unofficial lines of communication between US pols and Moscow.
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But you're right, she is definitely Not Guilty.
Amazing how they can just make crimes up. Whatever you are doing in your life, if the State doesn’t like you, they can put you in jail for pretty much anything.
Not even a blip on the danger meter. While we have Mexican and Muslim activists overtly plotting our overthrow.
(((YAWN))) Another slow news day in the Snowflakehood. Time to go lounge in the pool on their pizza air mattresses and wait for the pizza guy (with whom they all are in love with) to float another small pizza out to them.
Yeah, that gets me too. Is it illegal while in a foreign country to talk to anyone in government? We used to look forward to being free, white, and 21. But we are less free everyday, being white is toxic, and 21 means living in the parental basement.
(with whom they all are in love with)
So where is there a violation of the Espionage Act?
I doubt USG secrets are available through vendors at NRA gun shows!
In fact she was a public figure of sort in Russia but virtually unknown outside the gun crowd.
She was a lover of all things American and a big time activist for a US-style legal regime for gun ownership or more specifically for easing restrictions on handguns.
I’d say a very unlikely spy but at some point based on her activism she developed connections with a conservative senator Alex Torshin representing Republic of Mari El in Russian Senate and he helped the gun crowd in pushing pro-gun agenda.
Torshin himself was a non-establishment type and now out of Senate since 2016. He is mostly remembered for advocating of lax gun, alcohol and tobacco regulations, privatization of a prison system and also as an opponent of EU HR court jurisdiction in Russia.
At some point Torshin was accused of being a head of organized crime network in Spain by ABC periodico diareo, Bloomberg and BBC citing confessions of some arrested mobster but as far as I know official Spain didn’t find it credible and never indicted Torshin.
Butina was probably trying to make connections in US the same way she did with Torshin but in this case I think it is pushing a term espionage too far. You may indict every foreign activist, lobbyist and outlaw diplomacy outright based on the same logic.
Thanks for filling in the details. I’m surprised a post about the NRA, spies, and a beautiful woman gets so few comments. FR should be ashamed.
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