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I believe the prosecution asked for 33, so..yeah.His sentence is the longest so far in a Jan. 6 case so far, surpassing the 18 years given to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was also convicted of seditious conspiracy.
The Rageful Mask is a clear winner! Well done, sir.malchior wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:17 pm I almost posted about this earlier but feared poking at the Rageful Mask! The judge early in the hearing made comments that indicated he'd depart downward. He agreed with a 'terrorism' enhancement that the prosecutors added but he also made a comment about how it wasn't like the Proud Boys wanted to blow up the capital. This judge has made similar comments before...guess who appointed him.
I don't understand The Rageful Mask.Kurth wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:24 pmThe Rageful Mask is a clear winner! Well done, sir.malchior wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:17 pm I almost posted about this earlier but feared poking at the Rageful Mask! The judge early in the hearing made comments that indicated he'd depart downward. He agreed with a 'terrorism' enhancement that the prosecutors added but he also made a comment about how it wasn't like the Proud Boys wanted to blow up the capital. This judge has made similar comments before...guess who appointed him.
For me, the downward departures and the multiple times this particular judge has downplayed the seriousness are what boggles me. "It's terrorism but it's not like they were Al'Queda!" Yeah...overthrowing a democracy is no big deal as long as people don't get immediately killed...
Indeed. A few deaths, some people were hurt. Overall the people there were just really aggressively using their 1st Amendment rights to try and disrupt a peaceful transition of power. We certainly don't want to suppress anything like that.
It was mostly peaceful by youse guys own standards.
This was the plan. Several advocates for American dictatorship like Roger stone where horrified when judges they helped got nominated to the bench and then to the Supreme Court started ruling based on the actual law and wouldn’t override precedent like they wanted. So they set up a project to get their acolytes onto the federal bench, people they knew could not be turned from the project.
Nor do I, and when I google it, the top result is this thread.
I assumed that was some inside joke, since I've never seen it spelled that way before.
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Seriously. The Rageful Mask would not have been that calm.
Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for not complying to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Navarro is the second ex-aide to former President Donald Trump to be prosecuted for his lack of cooperation with the committee. Steve Bannon was convicted last year on two contempt counts. Bannon’s case is currently on appeal.
I wonder if any have been whisked away in unmarked vans-
Because the J6 protestors were largely following the ideals of one man.Zarathud wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:34 pm I think it is a lie that the right wing conservatives who stormed the capitol were “necessitous” or left behind. They insist on privilege not given to others, especially those in BLM protests.
Yes, there are problems and inequities within rural areas and Red States. But Republican policy — and Trump MAGA in particular— just makes their situation worse.
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital—all undreamed of by the fathers—the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.
There was no place among this royalty for our many thousands of small business men and merchants who sought to make a worthy use of the American system of initiative and profit. They were no more free than the worker or the farmer. Even honest and progressive-minded men of wealth, aware of their obligation to their generation, could never know just where they fitted into this dynastic scheme of things.
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.
The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor—these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small business man, the investments set aside for old age—other people's money—these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in.
Those who tilled the soil no longer reaped the rewards which were their right. The small measure of their gains was decreed by men in distant cities.
Throughout the Nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.
An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men." Liberty requires opportunity to make a living—a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor—other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.
OOOoooooh! I bet he's TERRIFIED! All he has to do is look at what happened to Steve Bannon, who's been rotting in j....roaming around free, fomenting rebellion and eating sandwiches while dressed like an old timey hobo.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 4:34 pm Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress
Do you know how many times I've clicked that damned X to close the window?
Or just, for the love of god, stop hotlinking to SaudiStormfront and post screenshots instead?
