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Prarieland ICE protesters sentenced to decades in prison in 'antifa' case

When the State Calls It Terror, the Sentence Becomes the MessageThe Power Behind the GavelThe central fact here is not the July 4 demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE detention center. It is the power of the court to convert that event into an object lesson. U.S. District Judges Mark Pittman and Reed O’Connor imposed extreme prison terms, including 100 years for Benjamin Song, after convictions tied to the shooting of an Alvarado police officer and what the article calls an “antifa” cell.That is where the real institutional force sits: not with the people at the protest, and not even…

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