hex m. hell

There's ultimately no possible outcome for the trial that is of any positive value. Two years is too late to make us safe. We have made ourselves safe. Two years is too long for justice, we have gotten our own closure and our own justice.

When they tried to silence us, to terrorize us, to murder us in to submission, we became louder. Their violence grew our platform. We have shown we can be compassionate in the face of terror, but that we are not weak. We will not be silenced.

Over the last two years leftists have begun to recognize the value of being armed. When they threaten us with guns, we keep ourselves safe with our own guns. I was shot in front of hundreds of police after they watched Mark assault dozens of people. We protect ourselves now.

We have everything we could have asked for from the legal system. They have nothing to offer us now.

After the trial is over, the Hokoanas will be in prison or they won't. It doesn't matter which. They are not a threat anymore. Acts of violence like theirs only work once, only when they are unexpected.

If the Hokoanas go to prison, the state will send a message that my attempts at deescalation were legitimate and will give us more opportunities to deescalate. It will also traumatize and make more dangerous people who were already willing to murder someone.

If the Hokoanas don't go to prison, it adds to the mountain of evidence that fascists instigate then murder. The Hokoanas not going to prison sends a clear signal to the victims of fascist violence: shoot first.

And, to some degree, we benefit the most if they win the case. In prison they'll be connected to people like them, but out of prison they'll be abandoned like the right always abandons it's people.

If they win the case, they can't be retried. They can finally admit to what they did and face it. They can lie all they want, but the court believing their lies doesn't change anything. They still have to face what they did. They can't run away from that.