"Federal agents raiding the home of two alleged antifa “operatives” seized a telling piece of evidence, a defense attorney said during closing arguments in a landmark trial Wednesday.

"A printing press.

"That printing press was never presented to jurors. Still, the government has kept it locked away because it hated the pamphlets and zines it published, lawyer Blake Burns said."
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Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury - Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury

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Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury

The case is a major test of the Trump administration's push to label "antifa" protesters as terrorists.

a printing press?

You live in the era of home printers that can crank out hundreds of pages an hour. And these folks are worried about a printing press?

Are the federal agents comic book villains in disguise?

Archaic ones! Maybe from the 50's, their golden age?

Who, with at least two brain cells to rub together, uses a colour printer to produce a samizdat?
Part of the literature "house style" is to look like it was produced on a 1960s spirit duplicator, complete with onion-skin blotches.

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