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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.
https://news.antiwar.com/2019/04/26/...russian-agent/
 
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 May 7th, 2019 #7
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You all say American jewdicial system is biased and corrupt and simultaneously quote the same system about alleged Butina's innocence after she agreed to deal with investigation. Logic is not your strongest feauture to say it mildly, especially when you quote doubtful American pacifist site antiwar.com

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The site was founded in December 1995, as a response to the Bosnian war.

The site’s first objective “was to fight against intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton presidency.
The site features many writers from across the political spectrum, including conservatives such as Noam Chomsky and Juan Cole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiwar.com
"Let those balkanians kill each other, don't intervene and don't stop them" - their formula of pacifism

P.S. still have no explanation why Butina suddenly moved from prospering Russia to decaing USA?
 
Old May 8th, 2019 #8
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She is arrested because of being: 1) White 2) Russian 3) Straight girl

 
Old May 23rd, 2019 #9
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Old August 2nd, 2019 #10
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Old October 26th, 2019 #11
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Default Gun activist Maria Butina leaves prison in Tallahassee, Fl and heads to Russia

At last Maria is free and on the way home to Russia



Russian gun activist Maria Butina, who has spent over a year behind bars in the US, is on a plane heading to Russia.

Once on board, Butina took her seat in the economy class in the rear of the aircraft. Shortly after the plane took off, however, the Russian airline crew offered Maria – visibly exhausted by her transfer from Tallahassee to Miami, and then to the airport – a seat in the plane's business class.

Butina’s case has become a glaring example of anti-Russian hysteria; she was quickly labeled as a “spy” by American media and wrongfully accused of trading sex for political favors.

The American media immediately snatched the opportunity to label her a spy and also reported that she allegedly traded sex for political favors. Both allegations later proved false. Now, her lawyer, Robert Driscoll, says she was in fact innocent but became a victim of anti-Russian hysteria and had to live in “totally inappropriate” conditions for some nine months.

“The government admitted in the end of the case that nothing she did independently was illegal. It was just a lack of registration that allowed them to prosecute the case,” Driscoll told RT, adding that the whole case is nothing but a “complete prosecutorial overreach.”

https://www.rt.com/news/471846-butin...rison-florida/
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Old October 27th, 2019 #12
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Good to see her back home.
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Old October 28th, 2019 #13
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Butina to help Russians ‘in difficult situations’ abroad as part of new job at ombudsman’s office


23 Nov, 2019 02:31 / Updated 2 days ago

Less than a month after her return to Russia from the US, where she spent over a year behind bars, Maria Butina has joined the Russian ombudsman's office and will focus on helping compatriots who run into trouble abroad.

The Russian gun activist, whose case whipped up anti-Russian hysteria in the US and saw mainstream media telling juicy stories about her trading sex for political favors that later proved to be false, will now help those who find themselves similarly at fault outside Russia.

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said Butina had accepted an offer to join her team. Speaking at the State Duma Committee on International Affairs on Friday, Moskalkova said that she wants to set up a committee that would protect the rights of Russian citizens who find themselves in “difficult circumstances in life” when abroad, and Butina will be one of its members.
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Butina, who returned to Russia in late October, went public about her ordeal, describing the time she spent in solitary confinement as “the most terrifying experience of her life.” She vowed to fight for the rights of other inmates. In an extensive interview with RT shortly after her arrival home, the gun activist said when she came to the US on a student visa back in June 2016, she hoped to “do something for the sake of friendship between the two countries” by engaging in civic diplomacy, hence her contacts with the National Rifle Association (NRA). Instead of building bridges, however, she was smeared in the American media and made a scapegoat of sorts amid the rampant Russophobic sentiment in the US.
https://www.rt.com/russia/474143-but...ts-protection/
 
Old November 26th, 2019 #16
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Despite her horrific experience with the u.s "justice" system, government and media, hopefully Maria still realizes there are people in this country such as us who do not hate Russians and want friendly, good relations with them. There is a clear difference between common American people and the powers-that-be.
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Old December 16th, 2019 #17
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Here's an excerpt from an RT article in which Butina talks about how horribly she was treated when she was thrown in prison in the Jewnited States:

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'Guard said he’d ‘f**k each and every one of us’ – released gun activist Butina recalls humiliation in US prison


26 Oct, 2019 21:32

The US penal system takes lives away from female inmates and turns them into constantly humiliated slaves, Maria Butina, who returned to Russia after spending more than a year in an American prison, said.

Butina, who was charged with failing to properly register as a foreign agent, spent a month in solitary confinement before pleading guilty to the charges. The Russian said she only did it because she knew that her persecution was politically motivated and a fair trial was impossible.

“The worst thing is the US Marshals Services where they humiliate you; forbid you from going to the toilet for 16 hours; deny you water or food,” Butina said as she talked to RT and Sputnik news agency on a plane that was taking her from the US back to Moscow. After that a low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida seemed like “paradise” for her as she was allowed to go for walks and got a lot better rations.

“I was just a stack of bones,” she recalled, but daily jogging and other exercises helped a lot. “I had problems with my memory, but it returned to me. My eyesight also improved.”

However, it’s still a very tough environment where humiliation of inmates is widespread as some officers treat prisoners “absolutely terribly.”

Butina recalled that just one day before she was to be released, a guard, who became unhappy with how the prisoners were executing their duties in the kitchen, warned them: "If you will do that again I will f**k each and every one of you."
https://www.rt.com/news/471947-butina-us-prison-russia/
 
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Maria Butina - Prison Diary





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"Russian student Maria Butina was arrested in Washington in July 2018 on charges of working as a foreign agent in the United States without registration. A year and a half in prison, four months of solitary confinement and torture, more than 50 hours of interrogation in a concrete bunker, 1,200 pages of encrypted prison diaries that were taken to Russia after their release. The media around the world wrote about this story, but no one was able to answer the question of who Maria Butina really is - a criminal or a victim?

In her autobiography, Maria finally told the whole truth. Before you is absolutely unique material - a restored prison diary and the most incredible story of a Russian prisoner in the United States, written by herself.

How to survive in the extreme conditions of a prison, and even while in a foreign country? What saved Mary in solitary confinement? How did she see the US prisoners and how did she manage to win their trust and even get support? And finally, who is Maria Butina really?"
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Old March 16th, 2021 #19
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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 #20
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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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