Subject: Re: Jan 6 picnicker gets 5 years
Jan 5 ABC News

In the three years since the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,265 defendants across nearly all 50 states and D.C. and secured sentences of incarceration for more than 460 people, according to newly released numbers from the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C.

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Do you have an actual case to prove your point? The data say differently:

"The Intercept’s analysis sharply contradicts that right-wing narrative. In many cases, judges have rejected prosecutors’ requests for prison time, often reducing defendants’ sentences to home detention or probation. Defendants have been sentenced to standard prison terms in only 429 out of 719 cases.." = CO

No I don't have a specific case. But, aha, there are over 500 cases not accounted for in your stats.

And I will add if you are a sixty year old retired school teacher from Poughkeepsie, who uses a cane to get around, and were just trundling through the halls in the crowd not particularly doing anything, and you get tracked down by the FBI and arrested, the harsh treatment starts right there while you stress out for six months before charges are dropped. These may be the missing 500 cases.

Anyway, as long as we agree that Jan 6 would be the weakest insurrection in the history of mankind if we allow it to be treated as such.