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US charges 4 Americans, 3 Russians in election discord case
AP ^ | April 18, 2023 | CURT ANDERSON

Posted on 04/19/2023 10:16:14 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Four Americans affiliated with a Black empowerment and political organization have been charged along with three Russians with conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: russia
Actual Russian collusion. Not getting much coverage in the main stream media
1 posted on 04/19/2023 10:16:14 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Uhmmm.....What does this say of the tens of thousands of either direct or contracted government content influencers on social media? Biden runs an executive agency for this crap.


2 posted on 04/19/2023 10:19:58 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: artichokegrower

Deliberate Distraction——

Will die in silence-—nothing will end up really meaningful


3 posted on 04/19/2023 10:21:25 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: artichokegrower

Deflecting attention from the democRats’ election interference? Deep State in a panic?


4 posted on 04/19/2023 10:23:58 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: artichokegrower

Ahhhhh...... there’s nothing like low hanging fruit, or is that fruits?


5 posted on 04/19/2023 10:24:39 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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They better stop sowing discord all over the place


6 posted on 04/19/2023 10:26:18 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: artichokegrower

HUH?! Black empowerment folks arrested? Now I’m getting confused. šŸ˜‚šŸ‘


7 posted on 04/19/2023 10:28:39 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? šŸ˜•)
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“affiliated with a Black empowerment and political organization”

And which unnamed organization might that be, hmm?


8 posted on 04/19/2023 10:44:27 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: artichokegrower

A “Black empowerment and political organization”. Sounds like Trump-supporters from MAGA country. Hillary was right.


9 posted on 04/19/2023 10:46:47 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Friends of Obama, no doubt, otherwise known as black Marxists.
10 posted on 04/19/2023 11:00:39 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: artichokegrower

Ahh, they are being persecuted ‘cause they were spreading “lies” that the Ukraine war was wrong. As in, basically everything that came out on those leaked docs: UK is not winning, Russia was justified, Russian losses are no where near what the WHouse is reporting, etc.

And, unless you actually are a foreign agent you have every right to attempt to persuade anyone about any election. That is what the 1st Amend is all about. Unless this is pursued like the Jan6 BS this will get tossed by the frist judge hearing it.


11 posted on 04/19/2023 11:06:28 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: artichokegrower

Not transsexual enough?


12 posted on 04/19/2023 11:14:17 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! šŸ˜)
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“Black empowerment folks arrested? Now Iā€™m getting confused.”

The group was opposing US involvement in the war in Ukraine and if the article is to be believed, sound a bit nuts.

All this indictment says is that black folks don’t have immunity from the national security state when they threaten the goals of the national security state.

Had they colluded with foreign governments to advance the normal BLM tommyrot, they would be getting government grants.


13 posted on 04/19/2023 11:36:23 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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And, unless you actually are a foreign agent you have every right to attempt to persuade anyone about any election.

Not exactly. I think that if you are a United States government employee in a place like the FBI, DOJ, or CIA then you also don't have a right to work to influence an election by making up fake stories about Russian collusion, or covering up information about a guy like Hunter Biden, or getting people tossed off of Twitter because they are saying something different than the official Democratic party message.

Ordinary citizens can say what they want to say to attempt to persuade anyone about who to vote for. Government officials should not be doing anything to alter election results in their official roles. And they certainly should not be creating fake information, censoring opponents, and as we have seen this year creating fake "crimes" to accuse their opponents of.

14 posted on 04/19/2023 1:16:53 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Sounds like Black Lives Matter


15 posted on 04/19/2023 1:46:34 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Or the so called Black Hebrews...


16 posted on 04/19/2023 1:47:35 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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