Not Our Crimes Act II
A Right Wing Militia Mosque Bomber Is Sentenced To 53 Years In What May End Up Being A Women's Prison
The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque was sentenced Monday to 53 years in prison for an attack that terrified the mosque's community.
In what is evidence that we again find ourselves in Clown World, Michael Hari makes the extraordinary claim that he is now Emily Claire Hari and that his crimes were fueled by severe gender dysphoria when he was convicted, that he shouldn’t get any more than 30 years in prison and that he be placed in a women’s prison consistent with his gender identification.
What is even more extraordinary is that he will likely be placed in a women’s facility because he identifies as transgender.
According the the Minnesota Department Of Corrections website, an inmate must be psychologically evaluated due to a claim of identifying as transgender but officials are not allowed to inspect the claimant’s genitals and any inmate who refuses to undergo psychological evaluation will not be placed in a facility consistent with their gender identity.
Well, I can’t see anything that could possibly go wrong with this.
Hari is no stranger to being in trouble with the law. Indeed, in 2006 he was convicted of and received 30 months of probation for abducting his 13 and 15 year old daughters, absconding to Mexico and Belize because he feared he would lose custody of them to his ex-wife. In 2017, he allegedly attacked his neighbor and held a gun to his head after his neighbor complained about his loose dogs.
Oh, and there was that one time he tried to bomb an abortion clinic.
Weeks before his sentencing for the mosque bombing, for which he expected to serve out a life sentence, Michael suddenly realized he was gender dysphoric even going so far as to convince his attorney Shannon Elkins who wrote:
“She strongly desired making a full transition but knew she would be ostracized from everyone and everything she knew. Thus, as she formed a ragtag group of freedom fighters or militia men and spoke of missions to Cuba and Venezuela, Ms. Hari secretly looked up ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the internet. Hari was living a double life.”
Michael Hari is a far right-wing terrorist with a history of violence and violent behavior and I’ll just go ahead and say the quiet part out loud: this is a shameful and desperate attempt to evade justice.
Indeed, Michael Hari has spent a great deal of his adult male life oppressing women as evidenced by his plan to bomb an abortion clinic and yet, somehow, within a few scant weeks before he was due to be sentenced to life in prison he’s all about women - so much so he wants to be one.
Was it gender dysphoria that made him want to bomb an abortion clinic? Was it gender dysphoria that compelled him to aim a gun at his neighbor’s head because the neighbor complained about Hari’s loose dogs?
And was it gender dysphoria that caused him to abduct his teenage daughters?
If gender dysphoria can lead to this sort of crime perhaps we should be treating it with therapy and possibly medication instead of affirmation.