No other president has pardoned anti government insurrectionists.
Out one hole, down another.
I guess I’ll send one to every gun owner I know, with a note as to the license it represents.
Most of the 1,500 or so J6ers were just that. Some attacked police, and those do deserve jail time.
I doubt it.
It is not my fault that that's the kind of violent extremists Dem presidents like to commute sentences for.
I am self-aware, but that is not relevant here. I am also aware that a disproportionate share of left-wing extremists, including violent ones, are non-white and female. It's hardly surprising that violent Puerto Rican separatists, or violent Amerindian extremists are non-white for example.
You really think that if Peltier was a white nationalist who murdered FBI agents instead of an Amerindian nationalist who murdered FBI agents that there would be a) clamoring from the Left to release him and b) a snowball's chance in hell for Biden to actually commute his sentence?
Only until the next #BLM riot. Than the Left will go back to chanting FTP and ACAB.
I am not fine with this. Those among J6ers who attacked police officers or otherwise committed violent crimes should have stayed in prison. But then again, so should Leonard Peltier. And Oscar López Rivera for that matter.
What is it endorsement of then?
Just because a lot of Millennials and Gen Z are woefully uninformed about anything they don't see on TikTok does not mean it was justifiable to let murderous WU terrorists free. Btw, unlike J6ers, WU and the allied BLA had an explicitly insurrectionist goal to overthrow the US government.
Again, I don't support these pardons. But neither do I support freeing people who set bombs as a political tactic or with people who murdered FBI agents in cold blood.
Why? Are any of the 1,500 J6ers hens?
How does that justify murder?
Activist? You mean terrorist.
He also admitted he did it to Anna Mae Aquash (a fellow AIMer), who then was executed by AIM members when they started suspecting taht she was an informant, with possible (probable?) involvement by Peltier.
The Truth About LeonardIn These Times said:
Would you feel the same if it was a white nationalist and not an Amerindian nationalist under similar circumstances, i.e. admits to shootout (and thus felony murder) but officially denies the execution style murder, but then again there is witness, a fellow white nationalist, who claims that he admitted to executing the agents even though one of them was "begging for his life"?
I say both were unjust acts.
Maybe they can fight the militias who were not even prosecuted for their insurrectionist occupations of sovereign US territory in places like Seattle and Atlanta in 2020.
Do you have any evidence for that?
I sure as hell hope so because I be wanting some cheaper eggs like Donald promised right about now!!
Peltier served nearly 5 decades in a prison. Rivera over three decades. These were long detainments.
Letting people out of prisons when they get really old.
The point it, it isn't sending a message, releasing people older than Trump from prison. No one knows about Peltier or Rivera or Weather Underground who is 40 or younger. Recidivism isn't a threat. They are old. You keep trying to make such actions seem like some grand gesture to an extinct cause.
Of course, the J6ers got riled into a frenzy and tried, en masse. Once the rush started dying off, it became more of a prank. But during their riot boner, they had seriously bad legal intent. Trump and his minions saw to it. So they shouldn't get a pass because security successfully managed to get Congress to safety.
Your whataboutisms on non-congruent cases really implies you think some portion of this is justified.
But this isn't the Hobby Horse thread. This is a thread about Trump's rioters, who he just let get off on trying to overthrow an election he knowingly falsely claimed was stolen from him.
Well Of course, silly. It was an empty threat just like “lock her up” and “build the wall”. Other things that never happened despite Trump getting his followers to chant it like mindless drones. It was a “day of love” after all.
You carefully selected your examples to include only people of color. You chose to bring up the lack of moral high ground of Democrats in a thread about the trials of the Capitol assaulters. You constantly trivialize the actions of the white nationalist insurrectionist rioters. You impute racist motivations onto others. Those are mot imaginings but facts.
You're not taking into account the purpose of their trespass and the potential for violence if they had actually caught a MOC.
According to standards upheld by many on this board, the cops had a right to open fire but surprisingly did not (except in one case).
