{"id":23280,"date":"2026-10-27T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23280"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:17:46","slug":"they-protested-ice-now-theyve-been-convicted-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23280","title":{"rendered":"They Protested ICE. Now They\u2019ve Been Convicted of Terrorism."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Left wing activists did a July fourth noise protest outside an ICE detention center where they shot off fireworks. One of them went rogue and left the main group and vandalized the facility with spray paint. Police were called, and this man and the officer had a shootout. The officer was shot, but not killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration successfully charged the activist group with terrorism and gave them lengthy prison sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group&#8217;s ideology was used to claim that they were all terrorists, even though it looks like one guy got into a shootout and there wasn&#8217;t an actual plan to shoot anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the group is guilty of trespassing and illegally shooting off fireworks. Some harbored the shooter on the run. One guy was convicted of terrorism charges and he wasn&#8217;t even there; he was convicted of terrorism because he had left wing material in his vehicle. Lengthy terrorism convictions in response to these actions are acts of tyranny. I&#8217;ve advocated prosecuting protestors who regularly cross the line into illegal activity, but, they should be prosecuted for what they have actually done, not Trumped up terrorism charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecutors overcharged under directives from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They Protested ICE. 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The officer was shot, but not killed. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration successfully charged the activist group with terrorism and gave them lengthy prison sentences. <\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s ideology was used to claim that they were all terrorists, even though it looks like one guy got into a shootout and there wasn&#8217;t an actual plan to shoot anyone. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the group is guilty of trespassing and illegally shooting off fireworks. Some harbored the shooter on the run. One guy was convicted of terrorism charges and he wasn&#8217;t even there; he was convicted of terrorism because he had left wing material in his vehicle. Lengthy terrorism convictions in response to these actions are acts of tyranny. I&#8217;ve advocated prosecuting protestors who regularly cross the line into illegal activity, but, they should be prosecuted for what they have actually done, not Trumped up terrorism charges. <\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors overcharged under directives from the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwlN9g9a0cc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[387,1104,280,2108,838,660,221,875,848,844,772,1763,941,942,362,201,1584,108,115,170,661,847],"class_list":["post-23280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-activists","tag-authoritarianism","tag-criminal-justice","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-ice","tag-ideology","tag-left-wing","tag-protest","tag-protesting","tag-protests","tag-rule-of-law","tag-speech","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-trump","tag-tyranny","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23281,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280\/revisions\/23281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}