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While most of the Capitol Rioters who have been convicted of criminal activity have avoided jail time (and received less time than what their convictions typically call for), some are getting longer sentences than others due to their social media posts. Prosecutors are pointing out either violent or boastful posts by the rioters and using that to call for longer sentences. These posts show that there is no remorse from the defendants, and now they are paying the price. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)STUPID ASSHOLES!
Cha
(297,238 posts)right into Prison.
TexasTowelie
(112,196 posts)I have no sympathy for stupid seditionists and traitors.
Rhiannon12866
(205,366 posts)After the Civil War. The punishment for treason back then was hanging, but Robert E Lee went on to become president of Washington College and its name was changed to Washington and Lee in his honor, even though he looked the other way when a KKK chapter was established there. His descendants were compensated for the loss of his land (much of which became Arlington National Cemetery) and in 1975, Gerald Ford (after a Senate Resolution) posthumously restored his citizenship even though Secretary of State William Seward had turned him down when he was alive.
Despite these precedents, we cannot allow these traitors to go unpunished this time.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)KS Toronado
(17,235 posts)"LOCK HER UP", karma strikes again.
Pas-de-Calais
(9,904 posts)Should have at least been given the identical punishment as a baseline.
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Plenty of the punishments have been laughable snd not worth my tax $$$ in the trial cost alone.
calimary
(81,267 posts)I hope they facing having to pay a price so big it takes them the rest of their miserable lives!
CONSEQUENCES!!!!! BIG ones!!!!!
Well, one can hope, anyway.
brer cat
(24,565 posts)about what they did. Throw away the key.