{"id":752060,"date":"2021-09-14T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=752060"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:51:08","slug":"emily-hari-makes-history-as-first-trans-woman-militia-leader-sent-to-prison-for-domestic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emily-hari-makes-history-as-first-trans-woman-militia-leader-sent-to-prison-for-domestic-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Hari Makes History as First Trans Woman Militia Leader Sent to Prison for Domestic Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femily-hari-makes-history-as-first-trans-woman-militia-leader-sent-to-prison-for-domestic-terrorism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=752060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.171428571429\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Judge ignored defendant&#8217;s &#8216;inner conflict&#8217; over identity in setback to LGBTQQIP2SAA+ rights movement<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hari-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/hari.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/hari-300x195.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tEmily Claire Hari\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 September 14, 2021 3:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"73.892534864643\">\n<p>Emily Claire Hari made history on Tuesday when a federal judge sentenced her to 53 years in prison for her role in the August 2017 bombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota. She will be the first trans woman militia leader to be incarcerated for an act of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was convicted in December 2020&nbsp;of the bombing. Only last month did she finally muster the courage to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/mosque-bomber-now-identifies-as-a-woman-says-right-wing-blogs-fueled-inner-conflict-leading-up-to-at\/600090371\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embrace<\/a> her identity as a trans woman. Prior to the sentencing, Hari&#8217;s attorney alleged that her &#8220;inner conflict&#8221; had forced her to live a&nbsp;&#8220;double life&#8221; as the leader of a right-wing militia and might have influenced her state of mind leading up to the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She strongly desired making a full transition but knew she would be ostracized from everyone and everything she knew,&#8221; Hari&#8217;s defense attorney, Shannon Elkins, wrote in court documents. &#8220;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 \u2018sex change,&#8217; \u2018transgender surgery,&#8217; and \u2018post-op transgender&#8217; on the Internet. As she purchased military fatigues for their \u2018missions&#8217; she also purchased dresses and female clothing for a planned trip to Bangkok, Thailand, for male-to-female surgery. She was living a double life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elkins went on to describe her client as a misunderstood &#8220;pacifist&#8221; who was radicalized by former president Donald Trump and various right-wing blogs and urged the judge to&nbsp;consider a more lenient sentence of 30 years.&nbsp;&#8220;Emily Hari is more than a one-note caricature,&#8221; the attorney said. &#8220;She is a complex human being who has been convicted by a jury of her peers. She will stand before this Court for sentencing, facing life in prison. She asks the Court to consider a sentence that is just and proportionate rather than vindictive or symbolic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In handing down the sentence, Judge Donovan Frank said he &#8220;respectfully&#8221; declined to consider Hari&#8217;s &#8220;inner conflict&#8221; over her gender identity, focusing instead on the &#8220;very violent act&#8221; of the bombing itself. The 53-year sentence was more than what Hari&#8217;s attorney had requested but also less than the prosecution&#8217;s demand for life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Elkins said she plans to appeal the &#8220;unreasonable&#8221; sentence. She also requested an amended prison placement based on Hari&#8217;s transgender identity, which the judge indicated he was prepared to accept.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Judge ignored defendant&#8217;s &#8216;inner conflict&#8217; over identity in setback to LGBTQQIP2SAA+ rights movement  Emily Claire Hari  Andrew Stiles \u2022 September 14, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}