…about January 6 [More]
I’d add “How could the government prosecute and sentence Stewart Rhodes to 18 years when he didn’t enter the Capitol and didn’t bring firearms into Washington DC?”
The real reason seems to be putting a hard stop to the notion that LEOs have a right and a duty to disobey unlawful orders.
[Via bondmen]
For some people, limits are there to be pushed. Think Clinton and Biden family members doing some kind of sword dance demonstrating how they can nimbly prance back and forth across the line without ever being punished.
From those folks, we get exactly the kind of behavior that we will tolerate.
Politicians behaved a lot better when “tar and feathers” was a very real possibility.