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US men indicted for alleged coup plot to kill and rape people on Haitian island (www.theguardian.com)
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Texans planned to utilize unhoused US people to take over Gonâve and fulfill ‘rape fantasies’, justice department says

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

The two men, 21-year-old Gavin Rivers Weisenburg and 20-year-old Tanner Christopher Thomas, have been accused of plotting to take the island by force, utilizing the homeless population of Washington DC, then killing all the men on the island and “using the women and children as sex slaves”, according to an announcement by the US attorney’s office of the eastern district of Texas on Thursday.

There is no way these two Special Ed dropouts were ever going to pull off even step one of this plan. Can you really be charged for creating really bad erotic fiction?

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

They were already training for it, that's step one.

Also they were charged with producing child pornography.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

And they got caught at step one. What losers

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That's sort of my thought. Like should we prosecute someone for a thought.

If they had raised an army, or knocked over a national guard armory.

But ramblings from, I assume, drunks probably aren't national security level threats.

Not to say that family and friends shouldn't be concerned. It is concerning, but more in a those aren't healthy thoughts way.

I dunno

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Agreed it appears sounds like they didn't have all their ducks in a row. But the difference between fanfic and a plan is taking action.

If you write guro, that's on you. If you discuss a plan over text and go buy the tools, that's a crime.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's seems like mental health intervention might be more appropriate than law enforcement, but this is an authoritarian government, and when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Love it how the article states that it's unknown why they chose the island then go on to explain why in the last paragraph

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Texans should be exterminated, I think.

We'll lose a. Lot of cultural knowledge about blowing shit up in the desert¹ and pretending to be a cowboy, but the cost ot not is just too high.

¹i want to be clear that this would be a solemn loss, and I'm not just being sarcastic by including this.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

They'll be memorialized in all those western movies they left behind. That's a better reputation than they deserve.

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