Your game.
Your rules.
You will hate it.
The fellows in question broke the law. For most of my life the Republicans have been the law and order party. Dukakis lost in 1988 because he was labeled Soft on Crime. Every time Democrats tried to get rid of the double standard in Mandatory Sentencing for Crack Cocaine they were labeled soft on crime.
So mandatory minimart the law. And the Judges have little leeway in sentencing the convicted.
This guy was like a General. In a hotel room coordinating the actions of his people at the Capital. Using cell phones to manage the actions. He had minions with weapons waiting to rush in.
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the literal definition of Conspiracy? Issuing instructions to subordinates that are illegal? Ordering subordinates to take illegal actions?
That’s the real problem with these RW lunatics. They believed they were untouchable. You like to compare and contrast with BLM. Ok, let’s do that.
BLM is smart enough to cover their faces, to wear anonymous clothing, instead of something distinctive or readily identifiable as theirs. The people who do have phones, are the ones recording or broadcasting, not participating. They claim to be citizen journalists. They don’t know who the masked people are. Maybe they are lying, but proving that means linking them to someone who is identifiable as one of the masked people.
The January Six folks thought this was the day that they took the country back. It was an all or nothing effort. They didn’t cover their faces. They carried their own cell phones and recorded themselves breaking the law, because they wanted credit for being there that day.
This made them identifiable. Prosecutors were able to show what the people did on that day because the morons didn’t cover their faces. They wore distinctive clothing, and worse, didn’t get rid of it later when the effort failed
They were stupid. First they were dumb enough to go charging into the Capital to try and capture the Congressmen and Senators. Second. They were dumb enough to carry their own phones which were reporting their exact location every fraction of a second. Third. They didn’t cover their faces or disguise their identity. Fourth, they went home after the failure instead of vanishing. Lastly, they failed in their all or nothing effort.
Now, those who were captured at the BLM protests were tried, and convicted, and sentenced to a short term. In jail. Why? Because it is difficult to prove they did anything other than what the cop saw when he grabbed them. And with a plea bargain they get a relative slap on the wrist. But so did the lower level morons who invaded the Capital on January Six. They plea bargained and got a slap on the wrist.
It’s not my fault your heroes were stupid. It’s not my fault they were idiots who didn’t believe their own propaganda. If they really believed the crap they spewed about the Deep State and all that they would have left their phones at home and traveled with nothing, or at most a Burner, but even a burner would be stupid.
If they were dumb enough to use their own phones, they should have walked away from their lives. Become just another homeless person living in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, or any other city. Just vanish into the anonymous background of the country and never use their old name again.
Instead they went home, and proudly announced on social media that they were there fighting for America. Fighting to save President Trump.
If there is a double standard between BLM and January Six. It is this. The January 6 morons are absolute idiots. I’m surprised they can tie their own shoes. They did everything possible to get themselves caught. They might as well have left their identification cards on Nancy Pelosi’s desk.