Pirate's Cove

The subhead for this NBC “News” article is a doozy, which is also repeated later in the screed

8 people convicted over shooting at a Texas immigration detention center
The trial was closely watched beyond the courtroom as some legal experts and critics called it a test of the lengths the government can go to punish protesters.

Huh what? They were involved in a criminal conspiracy. They were not protesting. They were violent. Is government NOT supposed to prosecute law breakers if they are friendly to The Cause of Democrats?

A federal jury on Friday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa, the far-left movement that has become a target of the Trump administration.

Jurors also handed down guilty verdicts on other charges, including attempted murder against one member of the group who prosecutors say opened fire last summer outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas, wounding a police officer who was shot in the neck.

Sentencing was set for June.

Maybe they should have tried this in a state with friendly judges, because, this isn’t ending well for the nuts

FBI Director Kash Patel has called the Texas case the first time a material support to terrorism charge has targeted people accused of being antifa members.

Short for “anti-fascists,” antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.

Wait, wait, did NBC just admit Antifa exists?

Prosecutor Shawn Smith told jurors during closing arguments that the group’s actions — including bringing firearms, first aid kids and wearing body armor — were all signals of the group’s intent. He said they practiced “antifa tactics,” and were “obsessed with operational security.”

“This was not a peaceful protest, this was a direct action,” Smith said.

Attorneys for the defendants have said there was no planned ambush and that protesters who brought firearms only did so for their own protection.

Protection from whom? Who was going to attack them randomly? Anyway, the jury said “you’re guilty!” Have fun in federal jail. I doubt it they’ll end up in a low or minimal penitentiary. There are 2 medium security in Texas. Or, will they get sent somewhere else that’s maximum? Which could be bad, since so many of these Antifa wackos are upper middle class to affluent class kiddies.

Let’s not forgot, for all the attempts to paint the Comrades as participating in free speech and protest, the same news outlet, and lefty wackos, cheered for the FBI to hunt down ever single person who peacefully wandered around the Capitol Bldg on J6, not hurting anyone, no violence, they were let in by security, and peacefully left.