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Ukraine Jails US Commentator Gonzalo Lira for Speaking Uncomfortable Facts
YouTube ^ | May 6, 2023 | Brian Berletic

Posted on 05/06/2023 4:05:39 PM PDT by Kazan

- US political commentator Gonzalo Lira was arrested by the Ukrainian SBU for allegedly “producing Russian propaganda;”

- The Kharkov Oblast Prosecutor’s Office posted a video of “evidence” which included Gonzalo pointing out Ukraine’s Nazi problem and the fact that the Ukrainian government has killed 1,000s by shelling the Donbass region;

- These are verified facts admitted by the both the Western media and Western governments now supporting and sponsoring Kiev in this current conflict;

- Pressure must be placed on the US government and Western “human rights” organizations;

- It is Gonzalo Lira today - it could be someone else you have more in common with or even yourself tomorrow;


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1 posted on 05/06/2023 4:05:39 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Just because something is true doesn’t mean its not propaganda.


2 posted on 05/06/2023 4:09:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like democrat spin are you sure you’re on the right forum?


3 posted on 05/06/2023 4:12:57 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Kazan

I suppose people shouldn’t talk about the Biden Crime Family’s connections to Ukraine either. After all, it’s only patriotic to support a corrupt Ukraine since it provides people a way to maximize their virtue signaling while perpetuating another endless war that enriches the military industrial complex and gives Biden every opportunity to deliver on his promises for hire.


4 posted on 05/06/2023 4:16:13 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Kazan

HURRAY ! Lets cheer on the arrest (per your videos instructions)


5 posted on 05/06/2023 4:16:40 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: for-q-clinton

Sounds like Kremline spin. Are you on the right forum?

Russia has a bigger Nazi problem.

The Nazis control the Kremlin.

Russian shelling and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities have killed 10’s of thousands civilians.


6 posted on 05/06/2023 4:17:22 PM PDT by Reaganez
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To: Kazan
Just searched and found a photo of Gonzalo Lira here.

7 posted on 05/06/2023 4:18:24 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Kazan

OH Please!!! More Posts on Ukraine and Saint Zelensky !! We don’t have enough on FR.


8 posted on 05/06/2023 4:22:09 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Kazan

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Ukraine is in a fight for its existence on its own soil. Gonzalo Lira is in Ukraine and is subject to Ukraine’s emergency wartime law.

German American Bund
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund#Decline

[Excerpt:]

Decline

In 1939, a New York tax investigation determined that Kuhn had embezzled $14,000 from the Bund (equivalent to $273,000 in 2021). The Bund did not seek to have Kuhn prosecuted, operating on the principle (Führerprinzip) that the leader had absolute power. However, New York City’s district attorney prosecuted him in an attempt to cripple the Bund. On December 5, 1939, Kuhn was sentenced to two and a half to five years in prison for tax evasion and embezzlement.[33]

New Bund leaders replaced Kuhn, most notably Gerhard Kunze, but only for brief periods. A year after the outbreak of World War II, Congress enacted a peacetime military draft in September 1940. The Bund counseled members of draft age to evade conscription, a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Gerhard Kunze fled to Mexico in November 1941. However, Mexican authorities forced him to return to the United States, where he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for espionage.[13][34]

U.S. Congressman Martin Dies (D-Texas) and his House Committee on Un-American Activities were active in denying any Nazi-sympathetic organization the ability to operate freely during World War II. In the last week of December 1942, led by journalist Dorothy Thompson, fifty leading German-Americans (including baseball icon Babe Ruth) signed a “Christmas Declaration by men and women of German ancestry” condemning Nazism, which appeared in ten major American daily newspapers.

While Kuhn was in prison, his citizenship was canceled on June 1, 1943. Upon his release after he served 43 months in state prison, Kuhn was re-arrested on June 21, 1943, as an enemy alien and interned by the federal government at a camp in Crystal City, Texas. After the war, Kuhn was interned at Ellis Island and deported to Germany on September 15, 1945.[35] He died on December 14, 1951, in Munich, West Germany.[36]

According to historian Leland V. Bell, George Froboese,[37] the Midwestern leader of the group (who had traveled to the 1936 Berlin Olympics with Kuhn to meet Hitler)[38] and “a few lesser known Bundists committed suicide,” and “some Bundists had their naturalizations revoked and spent a few months in detention camps”. In addition, 24 officers of the organization were convicted of conspiracy to violate the 1940 Selective Service Act in 1942. All of the defendants received the maximum 5-year sentences which were allowed under the charge. However, they were released after their convictions were overturned in a 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in June 1945.[39][40]


9 posted on 05/06/2023 4:27:34 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Kazan
Already posted: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4151129/posts

He was not arrested for speaking the truth. He was arrested because he returned to Ukraine after self deportation.

When he was arrested last year, it was for spying for Russia and getting paid for it. When he was caught and told he was facing life in prison, he made a deal and gave up five Russian agents. In exchange he was given a choice between house arrest and prosecution after the war, or leaving the country. He initially chose to stay until the fear of other Russian agents getting revenge got to him and he voluntarily self deported to Poland.

For most of the last year he was actually in the Netherlands while pretending he was live streaming from Kharkiv. They only way the SBU could arrest him is if he returned to Ukraine. By returning he could face prosecution under the previous charges.

By the way, this mean everyone who played along or was taken in while he lied about being in Kharkiv, is going to take a hit on their credibility. This includes Berletic.

10 posted on 05/06/2023 4:29:27 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: Kazan

Ukraine is under martial law, as any country would be in their circumstance.

And any/every country in their situation would shut down voices of opposition.


11 posted on 05/06/2023 4:31:16 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Yes. And even deport people who have slanted eyes.
Take all their possession, property, and send them to camps to sit out the war.

After the war, turn them loose and sa “So sorry” “Your property has been taken over by people who dont have slanted eyes.”

Matter of fact. During WW1, they put people who had German names into camps. Even killed a couple objectors outright.


12 posted on 05/06/2023 4:41:51 PM PDT by crz
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To: for-q-clinton

whaaat?

everyone knows about the Ukranian Nazi troop contingent..

so our freedom loving Strip club bouncer—Zelensky—isjailing reporters who dont toe the line? He’s always done that.


13 posted on 05/06/2023 4:47:43 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: BenLurkin

“- US political commentator Gonzalo Lira was arrested by the Ukrainian SBU”

Lira was charged under article 436-2 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, parts 2 and 3, pertaining to wartime propaganda. There is no freedom of speech there and by opening his mouth, whether right or wrong on the information

Article 2. Grounds for criminal liability

Commission by a person of a socially dangerous act that has such elements of crime as created by this Code gives grounds
for criminal liability

Article 3. Ukranian legislation on criminal liability

The laws of Ukraine on criminal liability must be consistent with provisions of existing international treaties, consent for the binding effect of which has been granted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

There is no law or treaty on the books that citizens of the US or Russia can openly say the things he did. The last treaty, signed in 1998, was violated by Russia in 2014 and the Ukraine refused to renew it.

He is a dual citizen of the US and Chile but has been living in Kharkiv, the Ukraine.

wy69


14 posted on 05/06/2023 4:48:53 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: EC Washington

HA.. YUP.. ST ZELENSKY...


15 posted on 05/06/2023 4:49:18 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: for-q-clinton

I think you’re missing the point.


16 posted on 05/06/2023 4:53:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: whitney69

#10. He says he was living in Kharkiv. He was actually living in the Netherlands.


17 posted on 05/06/2023 4:54:23 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: Reaganez

Your spin sounds like a Biden/Deep spin because that’s what it is.


18 posted on 05/06/2023 4:55:14 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Video found on YouTube.

Thumbnail (must see).
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2UtfkNZ17xc/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLDO7wTWpx_EsBlJOg_88HfxMO7jhg

Gonzalo Lira Arrest Footage

IvorMektin
May 5, 2023
https://youtu.be/2UtfkNZ17xc

Acting on orders of the NATO Cyber Police:

SBU DETAINED A FOREIGN BLOGGER IN KHARKIV,

WHO DENIED THE CRIMES OF RACISTS AND INSULTED UKRAINIAN DEFENDERS

The SBU detained a foreign blogger in Kharkiv who denied the crimes of the Rashists and insulted Ukrainian defenders

The security service gathered evidence against a foreign blogger who publicly justified the armed aggression of the Russian Federation and spread fakes about the war in Ukraine.

The figurehead has the citizenship of one of the countries of Latin America but has been living in Kharkiv for several years. After the start of the full-scale invasion, the blogger was one of the first to support the Russian invaders and heroize their war crimes.

He also engaged in discrediting the highest military political leadership and the Defense Forces of our state.

It is documented that last spring he personally filmed provocative videos in which he tried to capture the faces of Ukrainian defenders and insulted them.

He published his “streams” on two of his own channels on YouTube and Telegram with a total audience of almost 300,000 subscribers.

In addition, in his comments he denied the facts of Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and mass murders of civilians by rioters.

During searches of the suspect’s residence, mobile phones and a computer with evidence of illegal activity were found. Also a filthy toilet.

Examinations initiated by the SBU confirmed the facts of criminal acts of the foreign blogger.

So far, the investigators of the Security Service have informed him of the suspicion under Art. 213 of Art. 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (manufacturing and distribution of materials justifying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, committed repeatedly).

The court chose the preventive measure of custody. An investigation is ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crime.

Complex measures were carried out by SBU employees in the Kharkiv region under the procedural guidance of the regional prosecutor’s office. 12K 15:59


19 posted on 05/06/2023 4:56:43 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Kazan

Another Soros funded prosecutor?


20 posted on 05/06/2023 5:01:32 PM PDT by PAR35
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