Jan. 6 rioter seeking asylum in Canada after skipping prison time for storming Capitol with mom
Summary
Antony Vo, convicted for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots alongside his mother, has fled to Canada and applied for asylum instead of reporting to prison to serve a nine-month sentence.
Vo claims his conviction was “political persecution” and part of a government conspiracy.
Currently living in Canada with his mother, who also faces federal charges, Vo believes Trump will pardon Jan. 6 rioters.
U.S. authorities have been actively searching for him, while his asylum application remains under review by Canadian officials.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/kangaroo-court-jan-6-rioter-applies-for-asylum-in-canada-after-refusing-to-report-to-prison-for-storming-capitol-with-his-mom/Open linkView original on lemmy.world288
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Seeks asylum in another country while probably having a problem with people seeking asylum in the US
Well his situation is different. Did you ever stop to consider that?
Thats right I forgot he is one of Trump’s “warriors”
As a Canadian I feel like I just saw a rat scurry under my bed while I'm snuggled under the covers.
Yeah, now We got to root the bastards out.
Keep Alberta rat-free
Do the time, assholes
He's too busy snowboarding in Whistler atm.
What a whiney bitch that doesn't take responsibility for being an easy dupe that went on to violate the law in several ways. How is any of this political persecution?! It's collective mental disorder, that we may all end up paying for.
9 month sentence? Just go do it you pussy. I've served longer for possession of fucking WEED.
Get him the fuck outta here.
He's just waiting out the clock, Trump is almost certainly going to pardon his insurrection accomplices.
Why would he do that?
What do they have to offer him now?
Adoration from his base.
It's a mistake to assume because he's been voted in his base has nothing left to offer.
For him to fully seize permanent autocratic power or even implement the most horrific parts of his agenda, he needs Congress to stay under his thumb. The pardon will cost him nothing, and keep his base rabid, which will keep Congress in line.
Edit: A few important additional reasons:
It's doubtful he consciously thought any of this through. If probably just "feels right" to him. But in typical Trump fashion, by pardoning those involved, he'd be doing something deeply nefarious for coincidentally shallow narcissistic and instinctive reasons.
Someone else on Lemmy referred to him as an instinctual fascist, and I really thought that was a succinct way of framing the "just feels right" aspect you laid out here
I wonder if he has to physically sign each pardon. That alone could keep him from getting everyone off.
I doubt he's ever gotten anyone off.
Hopefully they catch another charge for resisting, which isn't pardoned.
Sounds like a something a piece of shit traitor would do. Fuck that guy and his mother.
Well he only has a few more weeks until he's pardoned.
This is why trebuchets were invented. Load them up and yeet them back to the USA.
Make sure you secure a rope around his neck that will reach over the boarder.
No need to bring another character into this
(It's spelled 'border' when talking about the line between countries; a boarder is a person renting a place to sleep)
Send him back. We don’t need no seditionists.
Just shoot him and save us both some tax money. He's Asian so the people that should care, won't.
Ain’t you about to be da fiddy first state doe?
this headline needs some work. I can see a few different meanings...
dude is seeking asylum in Canada with his mom
they're both seeking asylum because they skipped prison
dude skipped his prison time (for some other offense) to go storm the Capitol with his mom (awww...)
one or both of them stormed the capitol, got prison time, skipped it, and have fled to Canada to ask for asylum.
...
probably some others...
They probably did that deliberately, to draw you into reading the article to solve the conundrum
This is one of donvict's patriotic heroes. He should come on home since donvict will likely pardon all these pillars of humanity.
"Political persecution", LOL.
on one hand, this is so dumb that i have a very hard time believing anyone would actually think this. on the other hand, he is a trump supporter, and he did walk into the capital with his mom and then take pictures of it. i’m really at a loss here.
Some 4d chess there. When Canada becomes the 51st state, they’ll have to extradite him. But when Canada becomes the 51st state, all Jan 6ers will be pardoned.
Hypothetically, if Canada and the US merged, wouldn't they add like 10 states?
They know so little about Canada that they think it's just one continuous state.
Technically there are zero states in Canada
True, was just using it loosely kinda like we call our states states in the US, but it could also refer to a nation state, or separate providences, etc
How did a convicted criminal get into Canada while skipping out on his sentence?
Deport this fucker, unless he runs into an accident on the slopes.