Another example of our two-tier justice system: during a Minneapolis riot in 2020 a man burned down a pawn shop killing someone inside. He was sentenced to 10 yrs in prison instead of the recommended standard of 20 years. Evidently he was special.
"Yes, the guidelines call for 20 years, prosecutors admitted, but "this is an extraordinary case." Why is it an extraordinary case? Because "Mr. Lee's motive for setting the first is a foremost issue," the memo said. This is a key passage from the memo:
...There appear also to have been many people who felt angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised, and who were attempting, in many cases in an unacceptably reckless and dangerous manner, to give voice to those feelings. Mr. Lee appears to be squarely in this latter category. And even the great American advocate for non-violence and social justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in an interview with CBS's Mike Wallace in 1966 that "we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard." (bold emphasis mine)
'A RIOT IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNHEARD.' On Feb. 7, 2022, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a member of the Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. It was about the case of Montez Lee, a Rochester, Minnesota, man sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a fire that...
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How many of the Jan 6 protesters "felt angry, frustrated and disenfranchised"? This BLM rioter (and convicted criminal) killed somebody and only got 10 yrs in prison, 1/2 the time he should have received. Fast forward to 2023, and one of the accused riot organizers gets 22 years even though he wasn't even in DC for the protest. These Jan 6 "trials" are the most egregious examples of political persecution since the Civil War.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will spend more than two decades behind bars after he was found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
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Additional information has come to light today which makes the "language of the unheard" critique seem unfairly presented and cry-babyish. The additional information is that significantly lower sentences were offered to the Proud Boy defendants, and they were declined. Had he accepted the plea deal, Tarrio would have gotten 9-11 years. But he declined, got convicted by a jury, and got 22 years (DOJ asked for 33).
Here's the Plea Offer Document
For as long as I have been alive, it has been a perpetual complaint among convicts that their sentences are unfair. There is always someone who committed the same crime and got less time, or someone who committed a more serious crime and got less time than the convict who is complaining about their sentence.
In many cases, I am not unsympathetic to these complaints. When you hear only of the sentencing and nothing else, it can indeed be a head scratcher when you hear about a murderer who got five years and a rapist getting 20.
But with the plea offers now known, we have more information here. The claim that "These Jan 6 "trials" are the most egregious examples of political persecution since the Civil War" is simply off base. It can of course be made, but no person with a rational respect for the facts will accept it. Tarrio could have received a 9-11 year sentence for very serious crimes. He rolled the dice with the jury, got convicted and got 22 years.
