3
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2023
3 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13447 readers
845 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Vaush posts go in the_dunk_tank
Dunk posts in general go in the_dunk_tank, not here
Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from the_dunk_tank
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Yeah I was thinking the same before I watched the video too. The lawsuit did not charge some crimes they could have, and instead focused on visa fraud and what the government calls human trafficking -- which in this case essentially meant people got in without the right visas.
Getting people into your country is actually based, so I don't give much credibility to what the government considers to be trafficking in this instance.
However, from the video, it seems King and his cohorts used threats to keep the people working for them, and made them pay absurd amounts of money for the visas and such. I know US visas are expensive, but BadEmpenada looked it up and such a work visa costs around 200$ and not the 1500 they were charging the workers.
Yeah the US's definition of human trafficking is...not good. Like if this was on a much larger scale, it wouldn't even be illegal. JP Morgan Chase hiring thousands of visa workers and paying each one $10k/year less than comparable American-born employees? That's just the system working.
And that $10k reduction in pay is essentially the result of them holding deportation over your head. If the threats are made via boilerplate contracts then it's good and legal.
I think to most people human trafficking implies something like the slave trade. But in legal parlance it's literally as small as getting someone into the country with the wrong visa.
If you hire someone and request say a tourist visa for them instead of a work visa, you could be guilty of human trafficking and visa fraud. And I'm no fed or snitch, what do I care about visa types.
Marrying someone so they can get a passport for example, if both people consent to it, is based.
because they planned on using him as a fake activist snitch
This happened afterwards, e.g. they seized his properties and then gave them back to him for no reason while he was in prison, which happened after sentencing.
Possibly the prosecution was in on it but I think what's more likely is they wanted to stick to the charges they could easily prove in court. This is common in the US from what I understand, and when he was facing 60 years already and is white, they probably didn't care to try and add a smaller charge on top of that.
no. watch the video. when a convict has their confiscated properties given back to them, the court usually documents the reason for doing so. Not only is it unusual, but the court kept their reasons for doing so confidential. Making the whole thing far more suspicious than usual.
65 years dialed down to 3.4 years + confiscated property returned for deliberately classified reasons + immediately become a left wing "activist" with opinions suspiciously in line with US foreign policy immediately upon leaving prison = SUPER SUSPICIOUS