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Left-wing groups: disorganized
Right-wing groups: incredibly bad at opsec
Can't have bad opsec if you don't have an op to sec.
Well that's where the FBI comes in
It’s hard to justify infiltrating activist groups like Food Not Bombs if they never plan an attack on a federal building. For a fun listen, the second season of Bundyville talks about a small group with “anti-government” leanings and how the Feds tried to encourage them to act violently. My favorite part is when one Fed texted another Fed questioning their exact plan, because the cell of five members had multiple Feds! Multiple Feds to infiltrate and influence (what’s the exact line for entrapment I wonder) a small number of people and even then they were ineffective. I guess there weren’t enough lonely autistic teens in the group.
Yet it still ends up as:
Left-wing groups: Beaten and arrested by police for peacefully protesting.
Right-wing groups: Attempt to overthrow democracy, get off scot-free.
Given how they are being systematically hunted down and sentenced to long prison sentences one after the other and from the bottom up, I don't think this is accurate.
A few years for treason is not long.
No one has been charged for treason because guess what, it doesnt count as treason.
As of last month
Even directly assaulting cops got these fuckers below average sentences, let alone the literal act of trying to overthrow democracy.
That’s a valid point and one I hadn’t considered. I’ll certainly keep that in mind for future, as I do like statistical data.
Although I do find it reasonable in this instance to debunk the claim they received long prison sentences, as a handful of years is pretty short considering the severity of their attempted action.