• ZeroCool@feddit.chOP
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    1 year ago

    It’s good that he’s going away for 22 years. However, the sentencing guidelines called for between 324 to 405 months (27-33 years) so by the Judge’s own calculations this is a miscarriage of justice and yet another right wing domestic terrorist is being handled with kid gloves. Fucking disgraceful.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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      27 year minimum sentences are already insanity. If the justice system is supposed to be corrective rather than vengeful, there’s nothing to be gained from these overly long sentences. No one’s willingness to commit a crime is going to change with a 22 year sentence vs. a 33 year sentence, and the offender is no more likely to reform in years 23-33 than they were in years 12-22.

      22 years is A LONG TIME. So long that they’re almost certainly going to have fully adapted to prison life as “normal” long before it ends, and long enough that no one would ever consider it a reasonable cost for potential reward. Someone getting a two-decade sentence was entirely counting on not getting caught/charged.

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        The American system is built for punishment and profit. Most Americans don’t seem to be interested in justice or rehabilitation, they just want blood. Good example is the 50 or so prisoners who have died in Texas from the heat, most weren’t there for violent crimes or life imprisonment, yet the response to their death is mostly “whatever, they’re bad people” as people show no interest in fixing anything.

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        I’m all for keeping him in there for longer, simply for the purpose of keeping him out of circulation. Doesn’t hurt my feelings that he’s going to be in his 60’s before he gets out.

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          This. In ordinary cases, I might be for leniency / shorter sentences. However, these people are very dangerous. They are home-grown terrorists and a message has to be sent others who have similar ideas about civil war and/or insurrection in support of fascists like donnie. Keeping people like this out of civilization for a very long timeout is critical.

              • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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                When it a group I think it’s called reeducation, which is arguably needed.

                These people’s entire ideology is based on the lies of trickle down economics, rage culture, sexism, and racism. Whatever education they got, it wasn’t enough to make them realize how stupid and incorrect their ideas are.

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        It’s so neat seeing how sentences suddenly become too long when a rightwing bigoted piece of shit gets something approaching the guidelines.

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          I think most people who object to long sentences on here aren’t doing it out of sympathy for these guys’ political views.

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        Being arrested and being held a few weeks changed my perspective on just how long jail/prison time is vs time being free. Those weeks felt like an eternity.

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        22 years ago was 2001. So the equivalent time from 9/11 to now in prison.

        Doesn’t seem like enough to me. I mean I went from 30 something to 50 something, I still have life in front of me.

      • Hiuhokiguess@reddthat.com
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        What I don’t get is who does he click up with? Are the whites going to take him? Is he white? Do they and will they break rules because of who he is? I ask these questions but in the end don’t give a shit I guess. Good riddance to this loser but yeah our prison system is quite fucked.

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      If the reduced sentence allowed a swifter sentence, it may be a good thing overall, as this can now be used as precedent.