I’m looking for examples of persons convicted of plots to commit political violence.
22 years sounds excessive, but maybe not as much as some people think
Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, convicted of a plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush - 15 years
Michael Steven Sandford, convicted of attempting to kill Donald Trump, then a candidate for President, at a campaign rally in Las Vegas - 4 months (!)
https://apnews.com/article/df0f9ed735d244faa4cdcb2f4b4ae484
Rodolphe Jaar, convicted in the U.S. of a plot to kill the President of Haiti - life
The above three examples are way short of a statistically valid sample. But, I will say - having seen the attempt on Trump’s life in real time - I am aghast at the 4 month’s sentence. What was the judge in that case thinking?
I was originally going to stop at three examples, but the 4 months sentence for somebody who attempted to assassinate Trump so unnerved me, I thought to look for the protester who attacked Biden at a 2020 campaign rally in California. This was the case where Jill Biden intervened between her husband and the attacker.
It took some doing, the media avoided identifying the attacker. But, I eventually got the name. Priya Sawhney. An animal rights activist. She has been involved in numerous assaults on people, in the name of animal rights. I didn’t find her sentence in the Joe Biden attack, but I did in a subsequent attack on Jeff Bezos: 1 day.
No. 1 day. 4 months. These sentences are wrong. I’m withholding judgment on 22 years. But, there should be significant jail time for attempted assassination, and meaningful sentence for professional protestors who break the law.
Actually that is incorrect. There is this thing called the central limit theorem. take a few samples and take their mean. and look at the dispersion. The likelhood of the scatter from a million samples being much different is very small. Don't be fooled by the "that's not a valid" sample crowd. It's on them to go show how a much larger samlple differs much from that.