Kulturkampf

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Reading the Guardian article about the guilty verdict for the Texas "antifa."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/texas-terrorism-trial

The case centered around a protest on the Fourth of July last year at the Prairieland detention center just outside of Fort Worth. A group of demonstrators dressed in dark clothing arrived at the facility just after 10:30pm and had planned to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with the protesters inside. Shortly after arriving at the facility, two or three of the protesters broke away from the larger group and began spray painting cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van, and broke a security camera.

Okay, so vandalism, the paragraph continues...

Two ICE detention guards came out and told the protesters to stop. A police officer arrived on the scene shortly after and drew his weapon at one of the people allegedly doing vandalism. One of the protesters was standing in the woods with an AR-15 and hit him in the shoulder. The officer would survive.

Bringing an AR-15 to a "protest"? "Hitting" an officer in the shoulder with it? AR-15s must be longer than ten-foot poles, I'd have thought you'd shoot someone with one.

Some of the defendants did not know each other before the protests, while others met through self-defense classes, the Socialist Rifle Association, and a leftwing book club.

Up in Canada our Antihate Network is foaming at the mouth at right-wing clubs with self-defence and fitness classes. I guess it's okay when the left does it.

The paragraph continues:

The demonstrators brought a cache of weapons, including rifles and bulletproof vests, to Prairieland, but left all but one in a van they used to carpool there.

Just carpooling to a protest in a van filled with weapons with people I don't know. Totally not a FAFO situation.

Let's not leave the prosecutors out of this.

Prosecutors also pointed to the way that the protesters used Signal, a widely-used messaging application, as evidence of their coordination and conspiracy. The protesters used pseudonyms on the app and had messages autodelete, an increasingly common practice among protesters and journalists who are concerned about government surveillance.

That's fucking stupid.