Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic leader behind the state’s redistricting effort, was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme.

In a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lucas and six co-defendants were charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money, and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijuana under the auspices of her legal medical cannabis business.

Lucas, an 82-year-old great-grandmother, has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992. She faces five of the eight charges included in the indictment. These charges arrive five months after the FBI raided Lucas’s office in Portsmouth, Virginia, and the neighboring cannabis dispensary she co-owns.

More fascist BS.

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    Let’s break down what you’re saying there.

    Yeah, well everyone has to work tomorrow so they can’t do anything. Maybe a Saturday protest. Or Friday afterwork.

    This part is true and constructive.

    Good little Americans.

    This part is mocking and patronizing. That tone also implies that the first part was actually sarcastic.

    So presumably what you’re actually saying, is that you don’t think protesting to the extent of one’s abilities is enough? What do you propose instead?

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      They’re weak wimpy babies that don’t mind being led by a pedophile. Theyre okay with them taking away the rights of the women, and doing weird shit we won’t ever know the truth about to the brown people.

      You got my point correct. Americans are being limp dick weaklings.

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        It might befoove you to instead wonder how an entire society of people winds up in this position. It’s not like we’re a different species. What you’re witnessing has parallels throughout history, such as when people watched Hitler climb to power. Rather than calling everyone weak wimpy babies, it’s perhaps a bit more intellectually honoest to see this as a risk you face even in modern times. Ask yourself what kind of leadership, legislation, economics, or other influences can create these circumstances so that you hopefully don’t ever have to witness it happen in your home.

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            It’s funny to you that someone might suggest, a society of hundreds of millions of people are not collectively reducible to your name calling report in explaination for why they don’t react to fascism exactly how you’d think appropriate? Boy… you sure do put on a show of arrogance as a non-American. Yeesh.