He might have had a better chance of being acquitted if he had worked harder to fool the infidel authorities, telling them that he now realized that ISIS was un-Islamic and all the other nonsense that we so often hear from jihadis in court. And those infidel authorities are so ignorant, and so very eager to be fooled. But Augustine was honest with them, and will have a few years in prison at least to think about that and work on his prison dawah.
“California man who tried to join ISIS sentenced to 20 years: feds,” by Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, April 7, 2022:
A California man who tried to join ISIS and wanted to encourage more English speakers to be part of the terror group was sentenced to 20 years behind bars, Brooklyn federal prosecutors announced.
Bernard Augustine, 25, represented himself during his one-week trial in August and told jurors that if he was acquitted, he’d try once again to join the terror group, prosecutors said after his Wednesday sentencing….
Around the time Augustine turned 18 while living in Keyes, a small rural community outside of Modesto, he made plans to travel in February 2016 to Tunisia from San Francisco with the goal of joining ISIS across the border in Libya.
In the months leading up to his trip, Augustine spent time watching ISIS propaganda videos that glorified the terror group’s violence and googling questions like “how to safely join ISIS,” prosecutors said.
The wannabe terrorist also visited websites on the ISIS recruitment process, including one titled: “How does a Westerner join ISIS? Is there a recruitment or application process?”
Augustine went through with his February 2016 trip to Tunisia, but before he could cross the border into Libya, he was detained for two years and then returned to the US in 2018.
During his trial, Augustine testified that he still wanted to join ISIS and described videos of the group beheading Syrian captives as “good” and “really cool.” He said he intended to help the group by providing English-language voiceovers for their propaganda videos.
Prosecutors asked him to confirm testimony he gave that he “would do it all again and would go back today” if given the chance and Augustine replied, “No, tomorrow, when they let me off.”…
Wellington says
I would prefer not 20 years but 200 years. I’m good with this. You bet I am. Muslim losers (but I repeat myself) deserve “the best.”
gravenimage says
This is actually a pretty good sentence for California, Wellington. Of course, he’ll no doubt be out earlier, good behavior or not…
Bruce Stanton says
It appears under the Federal Bureau of Prisons guidelines that the maximum ‘good time’ one can earn is 54 days per year of good behavior.
gravenimage says
Bruce, my main point was that often it does not even take good behavior to be let out early these days. At least good behavior in prison is based on something–and while good behavior in prison does not necessarily indicate the ability to be a good citizen when released, *bad* behavior in prison is almost always a very bad sign.
But these days even violent felons are often let out due to unrelated things like prison crowding, and letting prisoners out early during the Covid pandemic has been rife.
john smith says
Bye the way Wellington the other day I said that I felt ashamed of being white, it was sarcasm Wellington and it’s important to me that you know that.
James Lincoln says
We all know, john.
john smith says
Thanks James
gravenimage says
I know that, John.
john smith says
Thanks Gravenimage
bill says
Well quite psychotic then, loves violence and killing. I am surprised his lawyers did not introduce the insanity defence, I think he should be in a mental home as his violence will only be carried out on others in the prison. With ‘luck’ he may get it beaten out of him! I wonder how long he will last in general population?
Pray Hard says
Vermin.
VICTORMc. says
Yes, pure vermin.
They surely will sort out his sick mind in jail.
gravenimage says
I doubt it, unfortunately. This savagery fits in perfectly with prison “culture”.
gregbeetham says
A mental midget who thinks he’s playing war games and people being beheaded is ‘good’ and ‘really cool’ he doesn’t even know how to do tiqiyya properly; he’ll be out in 3 years but he’ll have time to perfect his inner ISIS in prison, he should improve in that amount of time surely?
VICTORMc. says
WHAT !!!! A 20 years sentence and he’ll be out in 3. Have read you right?
No wonder….we live in a sicko world.
Andrew Blackadder says
Why do the authorities not just let this loser move over to Syria as he may well get killed rather than giving the low life 20 years where the US taxpayer feeds him, houses him, and he gets free Dental… He hooks up with his muslim brotherhood inside the joint, he will be comfortable and protected as a good wee muslim fellow, plus he will be out in less than 10 years so he can continue his hate rage..
Am I missing something here….
Let him go over there and let him know this is an act of treason to fight WITH the enemy, and that he cannot get back home again, IF he even thought of America as his home… fuck him..
VICTORMc. says
Yessir…the more you repeat this it simply further proves that we in the ‘West’ live in a sick society.
Come back Donald/Nicki there is much work to be done.
OLD GUY says
One down how many more to go? Sadly we are importing them and won’t figure out the danger of the muslim/islamic migration invasion until many Americans have been killed needlessly.
gregbeetham says
The process could take a long time due to the media and the politician’s refusal to see the obvious, that the basic problem is Islam. These weasels are deliberately placing our respective citizenry at high risk with their whitewashing of the Islamic toxic death cult, how else can one evaluate it?