It’s not terrosim if your white.

"Conspiracy to riot" is what the Yippies were charged with in Chicago '68, by the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven

Often these disappointing charges have nothing to do with what makes sense. Prosecutors aim as high as they think they go. If they're not aiming high enough, it's because they don't think they can win.

Also, when you dig past the headlines, and really see what came out in court, it's often a FAR different story. One famous case, which escapes me, was a cop getting off for seemingly executing a black man on a traffic stop. Once the evidence and testimony were heard in court, well, it wasn't what we all thought. Cop wasn't justified BTW, but I can see why the jury voted not guilty.

Maybe this is such a case? They needed $X to hang them with terrorism, but $X wasn't present or provable? And conspiracy to riot was a slam dunk?

So yeah, I'll take a win against these dirt bags vs. a loss on a terrorism charge.

OTOH, there have been plenty of Americans convicted of terrorism on, seemingly, the thinnest of evidence. Prosecutors LOVE getting that terrorism conviction, looks good, so what's up here?

I suspect it's that American jurors won't see "white" as "terrorist", and that's on us Americans, not the prosecutors. Pretty funny as, when I was a kid, it was the European terrorist factions that were prevalent. Baader-Meinhof Gang, Red Army Faction, IRA, all that.

Stick with potatoes, Idaho. At least those are delicious after you poke holes in them and put them in the microwave for eight minutes.

"someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like 'a little army' at a hotel parking lot in Coeur d’Alene"

That's all you need to know to see how safe these guys felt in their actions. It literally didn't occur to them to maybe hide all that, just a bit? FFS, when I'm loading up to go shoot at my camp, I keep it on the downlow. And this is a hyper conservative area.

FTFY ~~AMERICA~~ the WORLD has a huge white nationalism problem.