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Old May 4th, 2019 #1
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Old May 4th, 2019 #2
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Why is Maria Butina in Prison?


by Ron Paul
April 30, 2019

Russian gun rights activist and graduate exchange student Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for “conspiracy to act as a foreign agent without registering.” Her “crime” was to work to make connections among American gun rights activists in hopes of building up her organization, the Right to Bear Arms, when she returned to Russia.

She was not employed by the Russian government nor was she a lobbyist on Putin’s behalf. In fact the Putin Administration is hostile to Russian gun rights groups. Nevertheless the US mainstream media and Trump’s Justice Department are treating her as public enemy number one in a case that will no doubt set the dangerous precedent of criminalizing person-to-person diplomacy in the United States.

The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) was passed in 1938 under pressure from the FDR Administration partly to silence opposition to the US entry into World War II. While a handful of cases were prosecuted during the war, between 1966 and 2015 the Justice Department only brought seven FARA cases for prosecution.

Though very few cases have been brought on FARA violations, one of them was against Samir Vincent, who was paid millions of dollars by Saddam Hussein to lobby for sanctions relief without registering. He got off with a fine and “community service.”

Millions of dollars in unregistered payments from Saddam Hussein gets no jail time, while Butina gets 18 months in prison for privately promoting a cause most Americans support! How is this justice?

The US Justice Department is not even as tough on illegals who commit capital crimes in the US!

Unfortunately Maria Butina was in the wrong place at the wrong time. With the rise of the “Russiagate” hysteria, Butina’s case was seen as a useful tool by Democrats to push the idea that President Trump was put into office by the Russians. Plus, many of them are also hostile to our Second Amendment and to the National Rifle Association. So it was a perfect storm for Butina.

Sadly, conservatives are mostly silent on this miscarriage of justice. They are also caught up in the idea that America can only be great if it goes abroad seeking monsters to destroy.
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Old May 5th, 2019 #3
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If she's a Russian gun activist, what the heck was she doing in USA?

Right. Sucking cocks of American politicians in exchange for information.

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(Newser) – A Russian woman accused of being a secret agent admitted Thursday that she conspired to infiltrate the American gun-rights movement to gather intelligence on conservative political groups as Donald

https://www.newser.com/story/268556/...trate-nra.html
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Paul Erickson, boyfriend of alleged Russian spy Maria Butina, indicted on fraud charges

WASHINGTON – Paul Erickson, a Republican operative who dated a woman accused of spying on the U.S. on behalf of Russia, was indicted on federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering.

Erickson was indicted on Tuesday in South Dakota in what prosecutors described as a two-decades-long scheme to attract investors then use the cash to enrich himself.

He pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 11 counts and was released on bond.
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In court papers, prosecutors said her only tie to the U.S. is a "personal relationship" with an unidentified man whose description matches that of Republican operative Paul Erickson, according to the Washington Post.

Although Butina lived with the man, the relationship was "duplicitous," prosecutors said, suggesting that she had no real interest in him and was using him to further her goals.

"Butina appears to treat it [the relationship] as simply a necessary aspect of her activities," the prosecutors' memo said.

"For example, on at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than U.S. Person 1 sex in exchange for a position within a special interest organization. Further, in papers seized by the FBI, Butina complained about living with U.S. Person 1 and expressed disdain for continuing to cohabitate with U.S. Person 1."

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Old May 6th, 2019 #4
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Prosecutors Admit ‘Mistakes’ in Maria Butina Charges, Judge Still Refuses Bail

Judge says no possible situation where Butina can be released pending trial

Jason Ditz / September 10, 2018 / News / Russia

(...) What is clear is that some of the biggest charges against her were simply false. Prosecutors filed a document Friday admitting that they were “mistaken” about the allegations that she had offered sex in return for access to Republican circles.
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With that allegation having crumbled, Butina’s charges center on the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), and whether she was obliged to register as an agent of a foreign government based on her political activism. Violations of FARA in this regard are routine, and criminal prosecutions are exceedingly rare. Successful prosecutions under FARA are all but unheard of. FARA has long been criticized for its selective enforcement, and the US has historically chosen to ignore, for instance, lobbyists working for the Israeli government while aggressively going after people perceived as working for countries like Cuba, with whom the US is less friendly.
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The judge conceded that she didn’t see how prosecutors could’ve made the mistakes about the joking text messages either, saying she said that the joke was “apparent on their face.” Yet the hype resulting from those bogus charges are clearly informing the judge’s refusal to consider bail, imagining Butina to have high-level Russian government connections that can simply spirit her out of the country at a moment’s notice. This is certainly not the sort of treatment a typical FARA registration matter would justify.
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/09/10/...-refuses-bail/

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Prison for Not Registering as a Russian Agent

Butina apologizes for the 'discord' she created

Jason Ditz / April 26, 2019 / News / Butina, NRA, Russia

Russian graduate student Maria Butina, who found herself at the center of a preposterously complicated and entirely fictional spying case, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison on the only charge prosecutors were able to make stick, failing to register as a foreign agent for Russia.

Prosecutors must see this as a clear failure, originally starting with elaborate allegations about Butina being a spy who used sex to infiltrate Republican circles, before ultimately having to back away from almost everything they originally claimed.

Even the charge that stuck, violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was an incredibly flimsy charge, built around her having seemingly unofficial contact with some Russian officials and an interest in gun rights that had her active in the NRA.

Somehow this was spun into “infiltrating” the NRA to some vague end for the sake of the trial. It should be noted, however, that even in the case of overt violations of FARA, which this clearly was not, a prison sentence is extremely rare. Indeed, many thousands of people in the DC area would be argued to be violating FARA under the interpretation of this case, but it has never been suggested that they be arrested, let alone imprisoned.

Generally FARA is a law used by prosecutors to try to get leverage on someone for the sake of coercing testimony. In Butina’s case, all the other allegations were on even shakier ground, and it turned into a consolation prize for prosecutors desperate to make something stick.
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Old May 7th, 2019 #5
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Old May 7th, 2019 #6
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The u.s. jewdicial system is going to make examples out of Miss Butina and Julian Assange.
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Old March 16th, 2021 #7
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The text was taken from Maria Butina's Telegram channel (https://t.me/mariabutina) for March 4, 2021:





The Freedom House has published another annual review of the level of freedom in the world. Spoiler: Russia is a totalitarian bloody regime, and we have only demons who fry sinners in fire pans. This conclusion is standard and not surprising, because the organization was created for this purpose, just look at the track record of the activities of these "honorable", funded by the American authorities, gentlemen (who do not believe, here is their financial report for 2019. In the column "Receipts" there are one and a half million greenbacks from the authorities and a bold dash in the column "non-state receipts"):

- denial of the legitimacy of the Russian elections, and, accordingly, the representatives of the authorities elected at them;

- Creation of tools for illegal bypassing blocked Internet resources;

- preparation and participation in numerous coups and "color revolutions" aimed at geopolitical aggression against Russia: in Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and especially in Ukraine in 2004.

- cooperation with the terrorist group "Hizb-ut-Tahrir" in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan;

- distribution in the post-Soviet space of Gene Sharp's books "From Dictatorship to Democracy" - textbooks on overthrowing governments;

- support for separatism in Chechnya and the Caucasus through the "American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus";

- smuggling of unregistered cash funds into Russia for unknown purposes.

The list is endless.

However, something else is more interesting. In a 2020 report on the level of democracy in the United States itself, Freedom House said that the level of freedom in America fell by a record 11 points in 15 years of observation. Why would an organization funded by the US government scold its own authorities, who are giving them money? Maybe you thought it was objectivity and courage. But this is not the case. We look at what is written in the text about who is to blame for the democratic decline in America?



"The parlous state of US democracy was conspicuous in the early days of 2021 as an insurrectionist mob, egged on by the words of outgoing president Donald Trump and his refusal to admit defeat in the November election, stormed the Capitol building and temporarily disrupted Congress’s final certification of the vote. This capped a year in which the administration attempted to undermine accountability for malfeasance, including by dismissing inspectors general responsible for rooting out financial and other misconduct in government; amplified false allegations of electoral fraud that fed mistrust among much of the US population; and condoned disproportionate violence by police in response to massive protests calling for an end to systemic racial injustice. But the outburst of political violence at the symbolic heart of US democracy, incited by the president himself, threw the country into even greater crisis. Notwithstanding the inauguration of a new president in keeping with the law and the constitution, the United States will need to work vigorously to strengthen its institutional safeguards, restore its civic norms, and uphold the promise of its core principles for all segments of society if it is to protect its venerable democracy and regain global credibility."



Now, briefly about the meaning of all this:

- we welcome Trump among the “demons” and universal villains - “Welcome to the club, budy!”;

- we see that the use of violence by American police against protesters at BLM rallies is bad, and for those who opposed fraud in the US presidential election, it is ok.

- The Biden administration rolled up its sleeves and armed itself with a mace with iron spikes to hunt domestic terrorists, and also gathered on a crusade in order to restore its lost authority around the world.
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Old March 17th, 2021 #8
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The Freedom House has published another annual review of the level of freedom in the world. Spoiler: Russia is a totalitarian bloody regime,
"Freedom House" is a despicable, anti-white, warmongering, jew-run NGO that will attack any person or country that it considers a threat to the nefarious globalist jewish agenda. In my thread about the jew-backed rapeugee invasion of Europe, I wrote about how these "Freedom" crooks agitate against Hungary because the Hungarian people don't want to be overrun by third-world rapists and murderers.

Just the fact that "Freedom House" is run by people named Jeffrey Hirschberg and Michael J. Abramowitz should be enough to set off alarm bells.
 
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"Freedom House" is a despicable, anti-white, warmongering, jew-run NGO that will attack any person or country that it considers a threat to the nefarious globalist jewish agenda. In my thread about the jew-backed rapeugee invasion of Europe, I wrote about how these "Freedom" crooks agitate against Hungary because the Hungarian people don't want to be overrun by third-world rapists and murderers.

Just the fact that "Freedom House" is run by people named Jeffrey Hirschberg and Michael J. Abramowitz should be enough to set off alarm bells.
u.s. prisons are some of the worst in the world, considering what Maria Butina was put through in one of them. The shining beacon of freedom America incarcerates the highest percentage of its own population, more than any other country in the world. I suppose "Freedom House" has little to say about that?
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Maria Butina presented a fund "We do not abandon our people"



18.03.2021







The member of the Commission for Security and Cooperation with the Public Monitoring Commission for the Protection of Human Rights in Places of Forced Detention of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the member of the Expert Council under the Presidential Ombudsman for the President of the Russian Federation Maria Butina presented her foundation "We do not abandon our people", the purpose of which is to return to the homeland of Russians who were imprisoned abroad, as well as the struggle for the rights of compatriots, journalists, media workers who find themselves in a difficult life situation in other countries.

"The main task of the fund is to fight for the rights of our fellow citizens on the sites of international law, such as the ECHR, UN, PACE, OSCE.

On March 10, 2021, we received a notification of the official registration of the Maria Butina fund "We do not abandon our people" from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, - told Butina at the presentation of the Fund, which took place in the press center of the International Information Agency "Russia Today".



The source of information - https://mariabutina.ru/entry/mariya-...oih-ne-brosaem






Butina spoke about the first project of the fund "We do not abandon our people"



18.03.2021







Helping Latvian journalists who have come under persecution by the local authorities due to cooperation with the Russian media will be the first large project of the Foundation "We do not abandon our people", said Maria Butina.

“I ask everyone not to remain indifferent, you can help: someone with a word, someone with a deed, someone with a ruble. I believe that it is our duty to help our fellow citizens, our compatriots who find themselves in a difficult life situation in Latvia. The first project of the foundation is to help seven Latvian journalists who found themselves in a situation of Latvian persecution," - Butina said at the presentation of the Fund, which took place in the press center of the International Information Agency "Russia Today".




The source of information - https://mariabutina.ru/entry/butina-...oih-ne-brosaem
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