Funny, I haven't seen this before...
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@Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
We're not talking Person A vs. Person B.
We're talking multiple people.
Same thing. I can rewrite as:
Group A breaks into a local 7-11, goes into the back office and takes personal items from the office desk.
Group B breaks into the White House, goes into the oval office and takes personal items from the office desk
100% guarantee that Group B will get a harder sentence.
But again, I agree with Jon. I dont think that the people who broke into the Capital got too hard a sentence, I think that the people who did the damage to the federal buildings got too light a sentence.
@taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
@Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
We're not talking Person A vs. Person B.
We're talking multiple people.
Same thing. I can rewrite as:
Group A breaks into a local 7-11, goes into the back office and takes personal items from the office desk.
Group B breaks into the White House, goes into the oval office and takes personal items from the office desk
100% guarantee that Group B will get a harder sentence.
But again, I agree with Jon. I dont think that the people who broke into the Capital got too hard a sentence, I think that the people who did the damage to the federal buildings got too light a sentence.
Rewrite this sugar...
- 700 police injured.
- At least 11 people killed.
- $1.2B damage
Vs.
- 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it).
- 1 person killed (unarmed, on the other side of a wall)
- $1.5M damage
Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal..
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@taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
@Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
We're not talking Person A vs. Person B.
We're talking multiple people.
Same thing. I can rewrite as:
Group A breaks into a local 7-11, goes into the back office and takes personal items from the office desk.
Group B breaks into the White House, goes into the oval office and takes personal items from the office desk
100% guarantee that Group B will get a harder sentence.
But again, I agree with Jon. I dont think that the people who broke into the Capital got too hard a sentence, I think that the people who did the damage to the federal buildings got too light a sentence.
Rewrite this sugar...
- 700 police injured.
- At least 11 people killed.
- $1.2B damage
Vs.
- 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it).
- 1 person killed (unarmed, on the other side of a wall)
- $1.5M damage
Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal..
@Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
@taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
- 700 police injured.
- At least 11 people killed.
- $1.2B damage
Vs.
- 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it).
- 1 person killed (unarmed, violently breaking through a door towards where the congressmen were)
- $1.5M damage
Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal..
NNTTM.
But keep in mind the macro picture doesn't really matter for any one individual's criminal proceeding, it's about what they themselves did.
And the fact that they did this at the Capitol threatening elected officials actually does matter to individual criminal proceedings.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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It's a shame you chaps don't play more soccer. That tends to be a good place where yobs can congregate and fight one another. Political thuggery is so gauche.
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@Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
@taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
- 700 police injured.
- At least 11 people killed.
- $1.2B damage
Vs.
- 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it).
- 1 person killed (unarmed, violently breaking through a door towards where the congressmen were)
- $1.5M damage
Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal..
NNTTM.
But keep in mind the macro picture doesn't really matter for any one individual's criminal proceeding, it's about what they themselves did.
And the fact that they did this at the Capitol threatening elected officials actually does matter to individual criminal proceedings.
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@Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
@taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
- 700 police injured.
- At least 11 people killed.
- $1.2B damage
Vs.
- 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it).
- 1 person killed (unarmed, violently breaking through a door towards where the congressmen were)
- $1.5M damage
Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal..
NNTTM.
But keep in mind the macro picture doesn't really matter for any one individual's criminal proceeding, it's about what they themselves did.
And the fact that they did this at the Capitol threatening elected officials actually does matter to individual criminal proceedings.
@jon-nyc said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
@Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
@taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...:
- 700 police injured.
- At least 11 people killed.
- $1.2B damage
Vs.
- 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it).
- 1 person killed (unarmed, violently breaking through a door towards where the congressmen were)
- $1.5M damage
Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal..
NNTTM.
But keep in mind the macro picture doesn't really matter for any one individual's criminal proceeding, it's about what they themselves did.
And the fact that they did this at the Capitol threatening elected officials actually does matter to individual criminal proceedings.
English Common Law vs. Napoleonic Code. If we were under NC, that argument would work. English Common Law, not so much.
