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Assaulting a police officer in an attempt to overthrow the current government: 5 years
Having weed: 5 years
👍 k.
Not to mention the fact of how different the experience in jail is, for these two cases.
Hell, the whole ordeal is...
The way the system treats you. Starting from the police taking you in, until you get to sit in a cell, you will know exactly how much the system values you as a human being.
The terrorist will feel like doing a very long detention in high school. Like, the grown ups are angry at you, but obviously don't hate you. The guards may even congratulate him, when he'll get out.
On the other hand, the weed guy is more likely to lose the last drop of faith he had in the system, if he ever gets out of prison again. A big if, nowadays...
It's all in all pretty rotten
I'm typing this while in bed, but nevertheless i feel like the only logical thing, when you really think about it, would be to really fight the fucking system!
drag a cop into a mob during an attempt to overthrow the government.
five years.
Amazing how lenient we are with people staging a coup.
We were lenient with the Confederates too.
Always leniency when it's white people...
Unless they are hippies. Basically the "in" vs. "outside" of group dynamics - like fellow authoritarian vs. liberal.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
-- former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman
So many things to come out of that administration... including admirers like Roger Stone who then turned it into a blueprint for Trump to follow to make authoritarianism great again! :-(
Roger Stone goes beyond "admirer." When you get Nixon's face tattooed on your back, it's because you're also jerking off to him every night.
Bold of us here to presume that he could ever get it up but yeah, it's definitely some kind of infatuation - "when I grow up, I wanna be just like daddy Nixon!":-P
Sabol, 54, told U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that he knows he is “100%” guilty and would have apologized directly to the officers whom he attacked if they had attended the hearing.
“I accept whatever it is you hand me,” Sabol said. “I’ll be honest: I deserve it.”
Well at least he didn’t go down kicking and screaming like a dope.
The problem is that they keep acting contrite in court and then go back to their old ways when they get out.
Look, these fuckers gave me PTSD. I don't mean, "Someone hassled me on FB!", PTSD. I mean the real deal. My hatred and anger and fear are still with me, making me act irrationally all this time later. So...
This worthless article doesn't state what the man was charged with, and I'd bet that makes the difference. I find the charge is what's causing many of these light sentences. OTOH, the judges have been far more lenient than the prosecutors, so there's that.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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