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2023-08-18 Government Corruption

US seeking 33-year sentence for ex-Proud Boys leader convicted of January 6 sedition

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-18 01:43|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#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|| 2023-08-18 06:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-08-18 10:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-08-18 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Our "representatives" frown on inconvenient / unfashionable "representees."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-18 11:56|| 2023-08-18 11:56|| Front Page Top

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