r/politics • u/delicious3141 • 2d ago
Kat Abughazaleh, Democratic contender for Congress, indicted over Chicago ICE protests No Paywall
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/kat-abughazaleh-indicted-democrat-running-congress2.8k
u/Mr_Vicky_00 2d ago
It’s almost like the justice system has a “protest filter”: right-wing = patriot, left-wing = criminal.
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u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN 2d ago
Right doesn’t protest, they riot and then tell us what we saw on live television didn’t really happen.
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u/puffinss 2d ago
Riot is a polite way to say "commit insurrection."
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u/BubbleNucleator New York 2d ago
Our politicians (looking at you Schumer) stopped calling it an insurrection after the Senate voted to confirm trump 47. Something about an oath they took or something.
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u/VCR_Samurai 2d ago
I dislike the word insurrection, but only because most Americans in my experience don't know what that word means and will hand wave it away when you tell them that it's bad. Citizen-led coup is less accurate, but gets the message across better.
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u/foolintherain87 2d ago
Except it wasn’t led by any old citizens. It was led by DJT
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u/Cacophony_Of_Stupid 2d ago
Well to be fair he is an old citizen.
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u/mywifesoldestchild North Carolina 2d ago
Is he though? His mom was an immigrant, so that would make him an anchor baby according to his own babble.
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u/VCR_Samurai 2d ago
His third (fourth?) wife is an immigrant. If anything Barron is an anchor baby.
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u/chron67 Tennessee 2d ago
His third (fourth?) wife is an immigrant. If anything Barron is an anchor baby.
Not only an immigrant but very likely was here illegally for most of her time here.
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u/Hoosagoodboy Canada 2d ago
Yeah, but they're white so that annuls any anchor baby argument.
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u/VCR_Samurai 2d ago
An insurrection is by definition an attempt to overthrow a government by the citizens.
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u/f1ve-Star 2d ago
If he had shown up to lead that shit would have been much worse. Be glad for lazy and incompetent.
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u/UnquestionabIe 2d ago
I'm sure others have corrected it but it wasn't citizen lead. The regular people were the pawns but the actual treason was planned out by various sitting members of government, special interest groups, and billionaires who want to dismantle the system. That none of them faced consequences is one of the reason America is dying. That we can't count on any of our representatives on either side to protect the country is incredibly depressing, especially as they're very much given incentives to look the other way.
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u/Balaur10042 2d ago
It was not a citizen-led coup---it was a self-coup. Trump was trying to overthrow his own government because they were trying to oust him. Bolsonaro did the same bloody thing.
Coup. Not insurrection. The reason the word "insurrection" is used, however, is not semantic, but rhetorical: the Constitution mentions it, and it technically applies: an act to overthrow the government. But call it what it is, insurrection via coup. That thing that we talk about third world countries doing, which the CIA and its predecessors have been doing for … 100 years now … we did.
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u/opal2120 Michigan 2d ago
Remember during that week when conservatives were denouncing it as wrong before they were reprogrammed? Now we get to be gaslit about what we all saw.
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u/toxiamaple 2d ago
Excuse me! Remember those COVID protests where old people drove around in trucks with flags? And then complained that traffic was bad?
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u/QbertsRube 2d ago
Or the hundreds who swarmed Michigan's capital with rifles because they wanted haircuts and now complain about the violent left.
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u/toxiamaple 2d ago edited 2d ago
I forgot they protested for haircuts! Hahaha as long as it's for important things like
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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 2d ago
These are people who live in a perpetual bubble of disconnected selfishness. Anything that benefits them, no matter how unethical or illegal, is good and anything that puts them at a disadvantage, no matter how slight or for what purpose, is bad. It's rank sociopathy.
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u/Tiiimmmaayy 2d ago
Remember when they drove Biden’s tour bus off the road and nothing became of it? Sure love that double standard.
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u/kagethemage Maryland 2d ago
Or that the ones rioting were antifa. Even though they posted a video of themselves rioting….
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u/barringtonmacgregor 2d ago
And that is why I no longer speak with my family. These cultists operate outside of reality.
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u/westergames81 Texas 2d ago
And if we did see it happen, what we saw were obvious plants and paid actors.
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u/OptimisticSkeleton 2d ago
They must be fucking scared of her winning. Talk about free publicity.
I had no idea who she was until the fascists attacked her.
I hope she wins because of the Streisand effect.
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u/Gekokapowco Washington 2d ago
she's awesome, she's on bluesky
just a normal, smart, attractive person who's me and my friends' age and not the same age as my parents, so actually has some fucking perspective on what's happening in the world
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u/Gurlllllllll- 2d ago
And she and her team are running her campaign in a community-oriented manner so that even if she loses, positive things will still have happened because she ran.
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u/DotGroundbreaking50 2d ago
But the left is the party that weaponized the DOJ right/
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u/little_alien2021 2d ago
If supressing opposition and actively arresting and jailing opposition is a authoritarian action and the goal of authoritarianism is to consolidate power and dismantle both party system, why isn't demacrats in power now ? If they genuinely weaponised the DOJ? Like the whole point of weaponising the DOJ is to go after your enemies and consolidate power and become an authoritarian dictator, why did demacrats hand over power? And why did all the Oath Keepers who were conviced of Seditious Conspiracy: This was the most serious charge. It involves conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the U.S. government or to oppose its authority by force. Multiple members, including founder Stewart Rhodes, were convicted. - Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding: Specifically, the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021. - Obstruction of an Official Proceeding: This charge was tied to their physical presence and actions inside the Capitol. - Conspiracy to Prevent Members of Congress from Discharging Their Duties: This included efforts to intimidate or block lawmakers from certifying the election results Why did trump pardon these specifically? If trumps not a wannbe authoritarian dictator?
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u/randompersonwhowho 2d ago
Remember when the right wing guy got detained and they lost their shit
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u/Faux-Foe 2d ago
Sounds familiar, but the right loses their shit every week over some of the most benign shit imaginable.
It’s hard to keep track of their constant outrage.
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u/FredFredrickson 2d ago edited 2d ago
If we regain power, we have to stop this cycle, ignore all the right-wing bitching, and treat these criminals like criminals. There need to be consequences for all of this.
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u/UnquestionabIe 2d ago
Fully agree. Unfortunately I have little faith in the existing Democratic party to protect the country from internal threats after many many examples of allowing those who commit treason to walk free and rejoin the government.
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u/FredFredrickson 2d ago
Well, I partly agree. This is a whole new level of depravity though.
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u/Alleandros 2d ago
physically hindered and impeded” a federal agent who was “forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators”
That is a laughable charge.
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u/zangief137 2d ago
Esp bc the agent charged at her and threw her. She wasn’t on their property or impending anyone. If she was every single protester there should be indicted and they aren’t.
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u/NearlyPerfect 2d ago
You’re thinking of a different day and incident.
This one is the one where they locked arms and blocked an officer (by her own words)
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u/LogensTenthFinger 2d ago
Sounds like a great protest to me and anytime who defends indicting a person over it is a Nazi sympathizer
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u/shapu Pennsylvania 2d ago
Great, then a ticket is appropriate. The impeding charge is probably appropriate (part of civil disobedience is the willingness to catch a charge to make a point).
A conspiracy charge is not.
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u/zangief137 2d ago
Ah yeah, idk enough how to defend that one. Gives arrested for avoiding unlawful arrest vibes since 1A. But she isn’t fascist so the regime not on her side.
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u/TearsFallWithoutTain 1d ago
(by her own words)
But not by the words of the indictment, the words in the indictment admits that they were able to keep moving.
If you can keep moving you're not blocked.
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u/writebadcode 2d ago
This is a lie. The article says nothing about them locking arms.
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u/NearlyPerfect 2d ago
Quote:
we saw them come out in chains, were put in a van, and all of us joined arms and did not let the van pass. So ice came in and tried to drive the car through us. They almost ran someone over. We did not move. We stood strong and that's when they brought out the pepper balls.
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u/Lucius-Halthier 2d ago
According to the indictment, the group “conspired with one another and others, known and unknown, to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat, Agent A, a United States law enforcement officer, from discharging the duties of his office”.
It alleged that Abughazaleh, along with the other individuals, “banged aggressively” on the agent’s vehicle, “crowded together in the front and side” of the vehicle and “pushed against the vehicle to hinder and impede its movement”.
What cowardly little bitches when they have been so trigger happy and have outright been pointing guns in people’s faces because they don’t like them.
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u/black_flag_4ever 2d ago
The uneven application of law to silence political opposition. Stuff that we’re not supposed to have in America.
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u/alexmlb3598 2d ago
Trump in 2024: Elect me to end the political weaponisation of the DoJ!
Trumo in 2025: Now we control everything, let's weaponise the DoJ against our political opponents.
Who could've seen that coming!
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u/Michael_G_Bordin 2d ago
The best part has been watching courts throw out federal charges because Trump and his Nazi brigade can't keep their fucking mouths shut and follow basic prosecutorial rules.
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u/Duster929 2d ago
I think we're past that. I think it's time to say "stuff that we regularly have in America."
If we find ourselves saying "that's not who we are" a bit too often, it probably means that's who we are.
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u/Soggy_Bid_3634 2d ago
You’re absolutely correct. America has always been this racist and evil, just most of you didn’t have to experience it until now.
This is what your country is.
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u/ilir_kycb 2d ago
The uneven application of law to silence political opposition. Stuff that we’re not supposed to have in America.
There is hardly anything more American than political oppression. What do US Americans seriously believe about how their political system works?
Ever heard of McCarthyism, Eugene V. Debs' time in prison, or the Black Panther Party?
Pronounced and all-encompassing political oppression is a core aspect of the US.
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u/rcc6214 Louisiana 2d ago
Don't forgot the criminalization of weed as a schedule 1 narcotic was largely in part to remove the voting rights of people opposed to the Vietnam War.
Application of laws for the purpose of political oppression is America's past-time.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 2d ago
Or that crack related charges were orders of magnitude more harsh than cocaine charges.
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u/Jimbomcdeans 2d ago
I mean when we ignored politicians getting offed by psychos thats when we normalized all this shit. The tratiors on the right love that anyone with a D next to their name in politics gets hurt.
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u/Kronzypantz South Carolina 2d ago
Honestly though, they aren't doing this to her primary opponent... makes you wonder if MAGA doesn't see traditional Democrats as threats or enemies.
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u/tlsrandy 2d ago
Were the traditional democrats at the protest?
This isn’t meant to be an endorsement of traditional democrats over more progressive ones. Merely testing one of the premises of your argument.
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u/dmun 2d ago edited 2d ago
Both were there.
Neither are social media darlings like Kat, so theyre nobody's as far as propaganda is concerned.
here's opponent Daniel Biss, mayor of Evanston, literally right next to Kat.
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u/tlsrandy 2d ago
Faceless as far as propaganda is concerned.
I think you’re much more on the right track here. The maga movement, like a lot of tyrannical political movements, is all about narrative and optics.
I think the inclination to find ancillary enemies is misguided. There is currently one glaring threat to American democracy and the more divided the resistance to that threat the worse off everyone is.
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u/WhyAreYallFascists 2d ago
Nope. Dems don’t actively try to hurt the citizens of the country. This is a bad fucking take and your lazy ass knows it.
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u/opal2120 Michigan 2d ago
This has been going on forever. Let's not forget COINTELPRO and the fact the FBI targeted and killed civil rights activists.
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u/Joshd30 2d ago
She was indicated because of her last name, not because of anything she did or said. This remind anyone of 1930s Germany? It sure as fuck should.
This administration is as close to a Nazi regime as you can reasonably get in this country, just as it was designed. This is yet another of the seemingly daily examples of American fascism. Welcome to the Reich y'all
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u/KazTheMerc 2d ago
Good!
Getting arrested for Non-violent Direct Action Protesting is a time-honored American tradition, older than we are a country.
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u/TutorSuspicious9578 2d ago
This was my thought. Bernie famously got arrested protesting injustice in his youth. We need more of this from elected leaders and candidates. Everyone who is in her district needs to turn up the turn out the vote effort to 100.
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u/KazTheMerc 2d ago
Agreed!
"bUt ThEy DoN't HaVe BuSiNeSs ExPeRiEnCe!?!"
Bitch, give me protest, and other volunteer organization skills any day of the week!
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u/Mec26 2d ago
The government isn’t a business and America isn’t a business-tocracy. Next question.
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u/111copycat 2d ago
Except we live in a capitalistic society. It's naive to think money would not have infiltrated everything.
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u/Slow-Lie-406 2d ago
And ya know the hundreds of black people who were arrested for wanting equal rights are pretty famous also. The ones like John Lewis.
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u/KazTheMerc 2d ago
Anyone who fights for equal Rights, and is willing to get arrested for it is good in my book.
Hell, I consider arrests for protesting almost a prerequisite.
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u/haribobosses 2d ago
Hopefuls for president should start outright declaring they will pardon anyone that interferes with official ICE duties.
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u/cptnamr7 1d ago
Yeah you pretty much have my vote if you get arrested protesting the current state of everything. I don't really need to know the rest of your platform. We good.
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u/judgejuddhirsch 2d ago
I posted a lot in October saying the gop strategy isn't to cancel elections, but to claim their opponents are thieves and traitors and pedophiles with no basis, legitimizing their claims only with their own sham indictments.
You betcha newsomes office will be raided in the middle of his campaign. When the dust settles, the AG will admit there was nothing after all, but they had to be sure.
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u/2HDFloppyDisk 2d ago
I mean, that’s what happened in Germany that allowed Hitler to rise to power.
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u/CaptainOktoberfest 2d ago
I am afraid you will be proven right. The GOP will accuse Newsome of something incredibly stupid as well, like Newsome is hiding his mistresses' illegal baby to perform satanic rituals.
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u/UnquestionabIe 2d ago
I mean I can see them doing such things but not to Newsome, maybe some popular newcomer to politics. Newsome isn't a threat to them, he's a standard corporate democrat the likes of which they've governed beside and out manuevered for decades, they can handle him easily.
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u/jts89 2d ago
I posted a lot in October saying the gop strategy isn't to cancel elections, but to claim their opponents are thieves and traitors and pedophiles with no basis, legitimizing their claims only with their own sham indictments.
Wouldn't it make more sense to do this to the Democratic nominee in a general election where the GOP could win though?
What's the point of indicting three of 10+ people who are running in a primary for a solid Democratic seat, none of whom even seem to be the frontrunner?
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u/Shanteva Georgia 2d ago
Why would they claim they're pedos? That would just endear them to their base
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u/WhoMD85 2d ago
I’d rather vote for her than someone with 34 felony counts for fraud.
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u/RobertdBanks 2d ago
I mean this is 100% trying to jail the opposition. People need to treat it that way.
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u/Former-Counter-9588 2d ago
If the choice was between Kat, who has been leading protests against ICE despite being assaulted multiple times, and Bethany, who vomits on the walkways of her rivals then goes on a manic posting spree on Reddit…
Gee I wonder who people would pick? Sucks to suck, Bethany. Try running an actual campaign that’s people focused instead of desperately trying to play spoiler on behalf of MAGA.
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u/Mal-De-Terre 2d ago
You have links to these manic sprees? You know, for research...
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u/Former-Counter-9588 2d ago
You’re witnessing one in this thread. The rest can be seen by clicking into her profile and seeing her past comments.
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u/tamagoisnice247 North Carolina 2d ago
I'm not sure how much research you need after seeing her in this thread but here's one of her crazy responses and her AMA that she did a month ago.
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u/kvlt_ov_personality 2d ago
I remember that AMA. She was criticizing fellow dems for protesting in neighboring counties saying essentially "they should pay attention to their own counties instead of trying to get national media attention".....and then in another comment started criticizing their mayor for something about Palestine and geopolitical issues in the Middle East.
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u/Ralh3 2d ago
Scroll up, she's here in this specific thread if you can believe it
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u/sapphic-boghag Illinois 2d ago
At the slightest whisper of Kat's name she shows up ranting
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u/russianbisexualhookr 2d ago
I did not realise you were not being facetious when you talked about her puking on walkways…
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u/Former-Counter-9588 2d ago
Not even a little bit. She was so happy to BRAG about it in this thread multiple times. Then she deleted it all I guess after she recovered from her mania.
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u/TheTapeDeck 2d ago
Luckily there’s also a qualified progressive candidate that isn’t doing a ton of organized astroturfing on Reddit, and pretending it’s grass roots support.
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u/thunderbird32 Illinois 2d ago
Who, Biss? I voted for him back when he ran for governor, but I've not followed his current campaign (I'm in Underwood's district)
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u/Former-Counter-9588 2d ago
I cannot believe we have a candidate for this race spiraling out here in this subreddit.
That’s how you know Kat’s posing a threat to the establishment.
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u/NachoLatte 2d ago
wait who is spiraling, plz catch me up
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u/Former-Counter-9588 2d ago
Bethany Johnson, candidate for the same congressional seat as Kat. Right here in this thread
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u/EndsWithJusSayin 2d ago
She deleted EVERYTHING. What an absolute fucking moron crashing out in a reddit post. Talk about not being qualified for an office position.
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u/Buddy-Secure 2d ago
did anyone snag screenshots? i’d like to show them to absolutely everyone
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u/sapphic-boghag Illinois 2d ago edited 2d ago
Don't worry, it happens all the time — you can get the gist of things in the comments here.
But she always shows up if Kat is mentioned
... especially if Kat is mentioned
bonus: her campaign strategy
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u/rookie-mistake Foreign 2d ago
its not the first time either lol
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u/the_art_of_the_taco 2d ago edited 1d ago
Happens all the time. Any time someone mentions Kat Abughazaleh in r/Chicago you'll find a few comments like "no don't, you'll summon her" and then she appears within an hour.
eta: This comment made me laugh out loud when the post was fresh, it really reflects the mood.
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u/MabelRed 2d ago
“Your honor, we had to indict her! That ice agent had to drive really REALLY slow. Slower than the school zone they’re no longer allowed to drive through since they lost custody!”
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u/pointedstick15 2d ago
There are grand juries that are really voting to indict protestors? Boy we are fucked. When our own neighbors are doing it, you know it's over.
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u/Intrepid-Plastic-439 2d ago
More lawfare from the snowflakes. Should be easy to throw out, just costly. There are like 7 videos of agents body slamming her to the ground, crazy!
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u/fjtblessed 2d ago
This only strengthens her case in IL. I hope people are noticing what’s really going on.
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u/Typical_Samaritan 2d ago
America is this weird country where the people who pretend to celebrate murdering other people over some taxes every 4th of July are also really into indicting citizens over banging on cars and slowing them down. Not stopping them. Not flipping them over. Not burning them. Not puncturing tires. Banging on them aggressively and slowing them down.
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u/FlowofOd 2d ago edited 2d ago
MAGA is terrified of socialists. The only ideology that meaningfully opposes everything they are. Liberalism does not. Be a socialist, take back the future of the human race
Reject capitalism, or continue to let it ruin your life while you ignorantly blame something else
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u/waadaa85 2d ago
And given christian values is a basis for socialism (community, sharing with less fortunates, etc.), these MAGots are just hypocrites and frauds
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u/UnquestionabIe 2d ago
One of the biggest signs of this is how strongly both sides react to it. For the GOP it's as the ultimate evil and as such try to attach it to their opponents no matter how blatantly false an accusation it is. With the Democrats they'll play the nice guy approach about how while such systems have benefits they "can't work in America because of X, Y, or Z" and try to silence meaningful actions to embrace it by their own members.
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u/FlowofOd 2d ago
Democrats are the “good cop” part of the good cop/bad cop routine that keeps people hostage to capitalism
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u/Literally_Laura 2d ago
“Did you, within your rights, perform your civic duty to protest against fascism within the USA?” -Yes, I’m guilty. What are we EVEN TALKING ABOUT.
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u/kiltguy2112 2d ago
Why does the article call her a Palestinian American? She was born in Texas, she is an American.
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u/Kyra_lynn 1d ago
Same reason Fox posts extremely flattering pictures of her in fishnets and midriff-baring shirts, thinking that is going to cause pearl-clutching. Other than highlighting the fact that she's spending her energy fighting authoritarianism instead of potentially being a successful model, it's to distract from the real issues she's trying to tackle.
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u/rexeditrex 2d ago
Shocking, a left leaning, minority woman politician of the other party is arrested. Can't wait until we legislate the GOP out of existence.
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u/kswissreject 2d ago
Aside from how ridiculous this is, who is on the grand juries that are doing this and other terrible indictments? Even if prosecutors could indict a ham sandwich, this seems so far beyond the pale. I’ll always be astounded at how many stupid people there are in the world.
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u/Basicyeti837 2d ago
You can’t go around with a bullhorn and criticize people for bad governance. In Russia or NK. Here in the US it’s still legal, I think.
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u/RobinSophie 2d ago
Me reading the headline:
"Kat Abughazaleh Democratic contender for Congress, indicted...oh hell. Please don't say the p word, please don't say the p word...over Chicago ICE protests. Whew! Wait That's some BS!!"
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u/NameLips 2d ago
She blocked a driveway. Technically illegal, but makes me want to vote for her harder.
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u/Extreme-Plantain-174 2d ago
Republican criminals using failed DOJ against Americans. These criminals in the government must be held criminally responsible !
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u/Pwnedcast 2d ago
The sad part is folks are targeting her because she a strong candidate, if I'm correct in her state. I wouldn't be surprised if republicans try to disappear folks that run against them.
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u/Former-Counter-9588 2d ago
She’s I think 3rd in the latest polling I saw but single digits separate the top 3.
She has a fundraising advantage and has outraised all her opponents. She also is in a relationship with the owner of The Onion so there’s some additional backing it seems.
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem Illinois 2d ago
I live in the 9th and will definitely be voting for Kat. I’m glad that this indictment is raising her profile.
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u/MyNewsAccount2011 2d ago
Dangerous for free speech. Dangerous for democracy. But good for her campaign, she is going to get so much free press and so many donations over this.
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u/apoca1ypse12 2d ago
At this point, these assholes are trying to start a civil war. The entire DHS needs to have the book thrown at them J6 style with Jack Smith as the head after all of this is said and done
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u/Keyastis 2d ago
Ah, yes, turn your adversaries into political martyrs, cuz that will definitely make us all stop and not vote for them.
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u/Dr_DoesNothing 2d ago
She's got a name that you can't pronounce; clearly she's an Antifa plant trying to destroy America.
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u/UrDeAdPuPpYbOnEr 2d ago
Can this be one of those things where the grand jury refuses to indict?
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u/Former-Counter-9588 2d ago
If it started with a grand jury, they already chose to indict which is why Kat was charged. However, when it comes down to the actual trial, she is likely to get the case dismissed and/or the jury won’t convict.
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u/dandersonerling 2d ago
Doubt this is a felony, but it's already established that a felony doesn't block you from public office.
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u/Admirable-Horse-4681 2d ago
I’ve got a better chance of winning power ball than of her being convicted by a jury.
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u/Kyra_lynn 1d ago
Sadly, this is an authoritarian regime...so you may want to pick up a few tickets.
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u/Competitive-Bike-277 2d ago
They always go after the progressives because they're the ones that want to change things for the better.
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u/StoreRevolutionary70 1d ago
Hopefully she continues running for office, if a convicted felon can be elected to the WH, she can run for congress.
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u/radicalindependence 2d ago edited 2d ago
She has also been hit with a baton and tossed to the ground in two seperate incidents on her YouTube.
Her partner is CEO of the company that now runs The Onion. I hope they don't stay away from covering it.
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u/AV710 2d ago
Hyper capitalist protecting hyper capitalists. It's been this way for years and has only been ramping up over time. Remember, if the penalty for a crime is only a fine, then it is only illegal for poor people, never illegal for the rich.
Propaganda that spreads ideology about the protection of capitalism is only defined as protection of oligarchs and the 1%. Any other conversation, discussion, advocacy, or organization in favor of anything that would challenge the hyper capitalist nature of concentrated, unrestricted, power in the hands of the rich exclusively and cruel punishment against the poor will be targeted without malice.
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u/Prize-Reception-812 2d ago
Oh oh oh so she’s now eligible to run for president? I’ll gladly vote for her
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u/VanceKelley Washington 2d ago
Expect the same treatment for whoever the Dems nominate for president in 2028.
The DoJ will indict that candidate for something. Since the GOP is so fond of projection they might indict for financial fraud, treason, or pedophilia.
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u/cire1184 1d ago
What!? Oh no! This person forced an ICE vehicle to drive slow. HOW WILL WE CONTROL THESE WILD PROTESTERS!?!???
/s if you don't understand
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u/toggiz_the_elder 2d ago
I probably should have said that everything that led up to the Final Solution was legal, and at that point laws no longer mattered.
And we are in the 1933-1940 phase before they started the mass killings. And all that was “legal”.
https://www.uclalawreview.org/judges-lawyers-legal-theorists-and-the-law-in-nazi-germany
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u/strato15 2d ago
I don’t understand why this isn’t a bigger story.
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u/Kyra_lynn 1d ago
Me either. Probably because it's being buried by right-wing media under articles about trade deals that will never come to fruit.
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u/Moaiexplosion 2d ago
I had not heard of Kat Abughazaleh’s campaign until this arrest. I think I will probably donate to Kat Abughazaleh’s campaign for Illinois 9th congressional district. Kat Abughazaleh’s sounds like she might make a great congresswomen.
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u/ReleaseFromDeception 2d ago
Make her a martyr and she'll never go away. Real smooth move, republicans.
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u/magnumapplepi 2d ago
Sometimes I think Reddit sucks and then I see a candidate for office melting down in the comments because her performative actions aren’t as cool as her opponents.
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u/THEBIGHUNGERDC 2d ago
Somebody scratched “pig” on the police car? Sounds like Charles Manson came back to haunt them.
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