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Author: ptheland ✭✹🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Jan 6 pardons
Date: 01/21/25 2:00 AM
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Here's the official link:
whitehouse.gov - Granting pardons and commutation of sentences for certain offenses relating to the events at or near the unite

There are three groups of people getting some kind of relief for their "activities" on Jan 6.

1. Fourteen are getting commutations of their sentences, including notables like Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs.
2. A wide blanket pardon to "all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021".
3. Instructions to the AG to "pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021."

It's basically for everyone. Heck, my layman's reading is that its a broad enough pardon to include everything from pickpockets on the Capitol grounds to auto theft for any cars parked near the Capitol on that day. Everyone who committed a crime in DC on that day should be pressing to be included in this pardon.

The real winners here are those who somehow managed to delay their cases this long, who are going to be free from the stigma of a conviction.

The fiction of Trump being for law and order is now completely and totally open for all to see. Commit a crime for Trump and you can get your pardon or even avoid prosecution.

The entire Capitol police force and DC police force would be completely justified in resigning en masse in protest of this outrageous action. Why should they put themselves at any risk at all if these lawbreakers do not experience the consequences of their crimes? I'm sure most of them could easily get hired by their choice of police forces anywhere in the country.

--Peter
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