Re: Job Offer

On 3/22/2025 3:01 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:45:13 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 "Military veteran who stormed Capitol with loaded pistol is sentenced
to 7 years in prison"
<https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-christopher-albert-sentencing-loaded-gun-86bcab41aee19c0dc30cb4060052d16c>
"...isn’t accused of brandishing his concealed gun during the riot on
Jan. 6, 2021. But he used a wooden pallet as a makeshift battering ram
against police officers who were guarding a stairwell outside the
Capitol, according to federal prosecutors."

Oh well, that's OK, then!

 

There are many more instances of malicious prosecution:
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/71-year-old-grandma-convicted-on-all-charges-by-dc-jury-after-praying-in-capitol-on-jan-6/ar-BB1l9il6
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https://www.westernjournal.com/video-grandmother-69-cancer-reports-prison-jan-6-charges-message-americans/
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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2021/06/23/capitol-riot-sees-1st-sentence-given-indianas-anna-morgan-lloyd/5309991001/
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https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-siege/oldest-known-jan-6-defendant-81-said-he-had-a-right-as-taxpayer-to-enter-the-capitol-he-was-just-sentenced-following-a-guilty-plea/

Lots of bullshit in that pile. At minimum, those people were in a restricted government area, and no, they did _not_ have the right "as citizens" to enter, any more than some punk would have a right "as citizen" to enter a bike store when the owner said "No."
Most of those people confessed and apologized. Are you now saying they confessed by mistake? And are you saying these convicts, unlike the ones you usually complain about, should _not_ have been locked up? Does your "law and order" attitude depend on the political affiliation of the convicts?
Overall, January 6 was no peaceful demonstration, even though some participants probably thought it would be peaceful at the start. It was an attempted insurrection, and as soon as that became obvious - that is, as soon as punks started storming the building and bypassing police lines - anyone with any sense should have left.
I'd say exactly the same about any other participants in any other riot, and I probably have said so in this forum.
Related to that: The son of one of my university colleagues, as a student at a different school, was hanging around some celebratory rioting after a big football win (a practice that baffles me). Someone else had set a dumpster and a couch on fire, and he was part of the party going on around the blaze. Well, he was arrested as part of that group, he was fined and he lost his scholarship. Neither his father nor me nor any of our colleagues defended his idiocy.
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- Frank Krygowski