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| US seeking 33-year sentence for ex-Proud Boys leader convicted of January 6 sedition |
| 2023-08-18 |
| [IsraelTimes] Prosecutors argue for so-called terrorism enhancement to extend Enrique Tarrio’s prison term, asking for almost double longest punishment handed down over Capitol riot so far Given that Mr. Tarrio was on the FBI payroll at the time, and was not present in Washington, DC, this seems an odd outcome. The Justice Department is seeking 33 years in prison for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according to court documents filed Thursday. The sentence, if imposed, would be by far the longest punishment that has been handed down in the massive January 6 prosecution. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in a separate case, has received the longest sentence to date — 18 years.Tarrio, who once served as national chairman of the far-right bully boy group, and three lieutenants were convicted by a Washington jury in May of conspiring to block the transfer of presidential power in the hopes of keeping Republican Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Our "representatives" frown on inconvenient / unfashionable "representees." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-18 11:56 |
| #3 This is about intimidation on an industrial scale. Like the Chavin conviction and over-sentencing, this is about blatantly displaying power and threat. "The essayist N.S. Lyons (a pseudonym) put it well in a piece last August, describing the futile efforts of Team B to call out the hypocrisy of Team A: You see, it’s possible you are under the misapprehension that you are not supposed to notice what you described as the “double-standard” in acceptable behavior between Team A and Team B. And that you think if you point out this double-standard, you are foiling the other team’s plot and holding them accountable. This might be because, in your mind, you are still in high school debate club, where if you finger your opponent for having violated the evenly-applied rules a neutral arbiter of acceptable behavior will recognize this unfairness and penalize them with demerits. Except in reality you are not holding Team A accountable, and in fact are notably never able to hold them accountable for anything at all. Even though Team A gets to hold you accountable for everything and anything whenever they want. This is because unfortunately there is no neutral arbiter listening to your whining. In fact, currently the only arbiter is Team A, because Team A has consolidated all the power to decide the rules, and to enforce or not enforce those rules as they see fit." https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/16/the-purpose-of-the-trump-indictments-is-to-demonstrate-the-lefts-power/ |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-08-18 11:53 |
| #2 And they'll probably get it. The law is pretty much whatever the Dems want it to be at any given moment. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-08-18 10:45 |
| #1 When I see US versus anyone anymore, my mind substitutes various other truer entities for US. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-18 06:58 |