They wanted a 45 year minimum sentence for busting up an empty police car when Chauvin only got 22 for murdering someone on camera. Shit is insane.
I fucking hate how this article is worded to make this seem like "trump era" policies are new. Every three words it mentions trump. The Biden DOJ is doing this too. Even in a supposedly critical article of Biden it still tries and convince the readers that he some how better or different. It's dripping with constant allusions to Trump acting like he's something special, even though Biden's DOJ is doing the exact same thing that Trump's was. God damn.
Liberals have naivete as a virtue. They admit that everyone since Carter has been garbage by their own standards, but always act shocked when the latest Democrat turns out to be as bad as Reagan.
It's literally the mirror image of comments in 2020 protest streams saying "This is Biden's America" lol
They demand we live in their fucking delusion, in their psychosis. There is no option but to get in their faces and call them bastards no matter what they say or try to appeal to us with. If nothing else take solace in the fact that you are sane comrades, they cannot take that from us
Folks. Remember it will be easier to organize under a Biden presidency. :vote:
Lgbt issues aside he's far worse then I expected and it seems to be getting worse somehow.
It was a quote I saw in here just around the election time lol.
He isn't stopping states from passing anti LGBT laws. The only pro LGBT thing he did was to allow trans people into the US army.
And even that, is that a good thing? Oh yay now trans people can also go murder brown people. Yippee.
I despise Biden but I think at this point he's an empty vessel. I don't think he's making any major decisions, literally just a figurehead. These different agencies and departments are totally running their own show (which is very bad).
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman are two lawyers who were arrested in Brooklyn in May 2020 while protesting for racial justice. (I taught Mattis at NYU Law, but I am not on his defense team.) Mattis and Rahman allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD car during a night of mass protest after George Floyd’s murder.
Mattis and Rahman can hardly be called peaceful protesters; trying to destroy a police car, even if empty, crosses the line. So I am not questioning the decision to bring criminal charges. But the decision to bring federal rather than state charges is a different matter. No one was in the car, and no one was harmed. A case involving this kind of property damage would typically be pursued by a local district attorney, and first-time offenders like Mattis and Rahman would likely receive little if no jail time for their offense.
Instead, federal prosecutors under the Trump administration charged Mattis and Rahman with seven felony counts that collectively carried a 45-year mandatory minimum sentence. Theirs was one of at least 326 federal prosecutions initiated by the Trump DOJ over alleged conduct during the Black Lives Matter protests — but it was one of the earliest and most aggressive of those prosecutions.
45 years to two educated first time offender lawyers for allegedly throwing a molotov cocktail into an empty car :amerikkka-clap:
whats wild to me is that theyre both lawyers
This week, Mattis and Rahman will be taking a plea deal to resolve their case. The plea avoids the extreme and indefensible mandatory minimum sentence that attached to the original charges. But prosecutors, even under this new administration, have made clear that they will seek a terrorism enhancement at Mattis and Rahman’s sentencing — an extraordinarily rare and harsh tool that applies only when the offense was “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct” and that the government has historically sought in cases that did, or could have easily, resulted in mass death and destruction.
so theyre gonna just do the plea deal and then the government is gonna overrule the judge and fuck them over anyways lmao what a reasonable country
also the guy that wrote this article personally knew one of the people, as he was a law professor and one of them was his student
In communist China dissidents are thrown in labour camps for half a century.
Tbf educated people with radical ambitions are exactly the type you want to execute or throw in deep, deep solitary for many decades. These people are actually threats to a regime, halfway smart ones crush them.
Building back better
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I know it is beating a dead horse but, I can't help but think of how Bernie backed this fucker, told us during the protests, during the civil unrest, to vote for this monster who now locks us up as terrorists same as he was when he was young. No apology? You don't have to stop Trump anymore dude, come out and call Biden a sack of shit. It's just the audacity of how we were told we had a moral responsibility to fucking vote for our own prosecution
Bernie's a good guy at heart, but its clear he's been in DC way too long. If this Infrastructure Bill could have ever made its way out of committee, I could at least see him shrugging and taking the utilitarian view that the millions of Americans made better through this legislation makes putting up with this shit worth it in the end.
But we're at 273 days since Biden took office and what do we have to show for it? Nothing that would justify this shit. Its time for Bernie to retire. Even if jis heart was in the right place, he's just not doing anyone any favors if he's just getting played over and over again.
sometimes I wonder if they just told Bernie they were gonna kill his grandkids or something
Oh wow good thing that doesn't apply to me at all...
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This was the goal when they introduced conspiracy and terrorism as criminal charges. It's not a criminal legal system, it's a counter insurgency
Legality is just a fig leaf to get away with however a government wants to act. But yeah, shit is getting more and more blatant.
