Posted on 07/26/2021 5:51:45 PM PDT by RandFan
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should be terrified of a court system so beholden to politics instead of justice.
We’ve seen this movie before and it does not end well.
Worse than this miscarriage of justice is the despicable attempt by the prosecutor in the case to label Hodgkins – who has no criminal record and was accused of no violent crime – a “terrorist.”
As journalist Michael Tracey recently wrote, Special Assistant US Attorney Mona Sedky declared Hodgkins a “terrorist” in the court proceedings not for committing any terrorist act, not for any act of violence, not even for imagining a terrorist act.
Sedky wrote in her sentencing memo, “The Government … recognizes that Hodgkins did not personally engage in or espouse violence or property destruction.” She added, “we concede that Mr. Hodgkins is not under the legal definition a domestic terrorist.”
Yet Hodgkins should be considered a terrorist because the actions he took – entering the Senate to take a photo of himself – occurred during an event that the court is “framing…in the context of terrorism.”
That goes beyond a slippery slope. He is not a terrorist because he committed a terrorist act, but because somehow the “context” of his actions was, in her words, “imperiling democracy.”
In other words, Hodgkins deserved enhanced punishment because he committed a thought crime. The judge on the case, Randolph D. Moss, admitted as much. In carrying a Trump flag into the Senate, he said, Hodgkins was, “declaring his loyalty to a single individual over the nation.”
As Tracey pointed out, while eight months in prison is a ridiculously long sentence for standing on the floor of the “People’s House” and taking a photograph, it is also a ridiculously short sentence for a terrorist. If Hodgkins is really a terrorist, shouldn’t he be sent away for longer than eight months?
The purpose of the Soviet show trials was to create an enemy that the public could collectively join in hating and blaming for all the failures of the system. The purpose was to turn one part of the population against the other part of the population and demand they be “cancelled.” And it worked very well…for awhile.
In a recent article, libertarian author Jim Bovard quoted from Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago about how average people turned out to demand "justice" for the state's designated “political” enemies: “There were universal meetings and demonstrations (including even school-children). It was the newspaper march of millions, and the roar rose outside the windows of the courtroom: ‘Death! Death! Death!’”
While we are not quite there yet, we are moving in that direction. Americans being sent to prison not for what they did, but for what they believe? Does that sound like the kind of America we really want to live in?
While many Biden backers are enjoying seeing the hammer come down on pro-Trump, non-violent protesters, they should take note: the kind of totalitarian “justice” system they are cheering on will soon be coming for them. It always does.
Absolutely...
“judge” Randy “Roland Freisler” Moss also made sure that the victim said that the Senile PuppetClown was truly elected to the presidency...
randy moss is an Odiousbama “judge”.
No kidding captain obvious.
According to her own definition, Mona Sedky is a terrorist.
(The actions she took as attorney occurred during an event that the court framed in the context of terrorism.)
Meanwhile scores of Antifa and Burning Looting Mob criminals walk free.
Very interesting! Great legal reasoning.
Closing argument for the prosecution: “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is time to shoot these rabid dogs. Death to this gang who hide their ferocious teeth, their eagle claws, from the people! Down with that vulture Trump, from whose mouth a bloody venom drips, putrefying the great ideals of democracy!... Down with these abject animals! Let’s put an end once and for all to these miserable hybrids of foxes and pigs, these stinking corpses! Let’s exterminate the mad dogs of capitalism, who want to tear to pieces the flower of our new progressive nation! Let’s push the bestial hatred they bear our leaders back down their own throats! Citizens, the heart of socialism cries out for justice! These criminals all deserve the highest measure of social defense! I demand that these mad dogs be shot, every last one!”
The purpose of the Federal government is not to preserve “our democracy”. The Constitution is in many ways an antidemocratic instrument.
The purposes of this government are written down:
1. To form a more perfect Union,
2. To establish Justice,
3. To insure domestic Tranquility,
4. To provide for the common defence,
5. To promote the general Welfare,
6. To secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
The same people who wrote that down also endorsed the following:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”
No American owes a shred of loyalty, or bears a duty to preserve, “our democracy”, since it is that “democracy” which is busy destroying all the foundational principles of the nation.
I don’t agree with Rand Paul about much - but he is on the right side of this issue.
It worked very well for 70-years...
We, the new Lishenets & Muzhiks, are going to find out that it will work for many hundreds of years...
Just wait & see, the Soviets were pikers compared to those who now rule us...
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
In carrying a Trump flag into the Senate, he said, Hodgkins was, “declaring his loyalty to a single individual over the nation.”
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With that logic
Every Christian in America is a terrorist.
Wonder if it’s the same for muslims,,,, nah.
Yes. The Founders endorsed secession. I’m all for it. But you had a Civil War over this.
The fed gov simply won’t allow it.
Something is going to snap.
Has this judge read the constitution? Individuals are superior to the collective.
read ltr
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