• SCB@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No, I don’t think it’s a good thing that traitors got less than they deserved

    The vast majority of people on J6 were idiots in a mob situation, not traitors.

    As OP said, fuck all of them, but aggressive prosecution here is not the way you want the law to work, the same way there’s no gain for imprisoning everyone who acted out of pocket during the Floyd protests.

    You throw the book at the worst offenders, and you let people caught up in mob mentality off with a lesser sentence. That is justice working.

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      11 months ago

      They were armed traitors looking to take control of the capitol in an organized way, cause the disruption of government, with the aim to capture and harm government officials. That’s literally the definition of a revolt against authority. It was done in their own stupid way but they tried it and failed because they were stupid. Aggressive prosecution is the precisely how you don’t let it happen again.

      during the Floyd protests

      Are you for real.