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Virginia Democrats frustrate law enforcement with bill axing prison time for violent crime, expert warns
FOX NEWS ^ | January 24, 2025 | Julia Bonavita

Posted on 01/24/2026 10:41:06 AM PST by artichokegrower

A new bill proposed by Democrats in the Virginia state legislature is raising concerns regarding the removal of minimum prison sentences for various violent felony crimes.

Within days of Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger being sworn in, members of her party introduced a flurry of amendments looking to end mandatory minimum sentences for various crimes within the state.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; crime; domesticenemies; dystopia; virginia

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According to Jason Miyares, the former Republican attorney general, House Bill 863 includes proposals to effectively eliminate minimum sentencing for manslaughter, rape, possession and distribution of child pornography, assaulting a law enforcement officer and other repeat violent felonies.


Pedophiles out in the streets of Virginia celebrating

1 posted on 01/24/2026 10:41:06 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Welcome to the pro crime party.


2 posted on 01/24/2026 10:42:09 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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Do the people of VA really want less law enforcement? I'm assuming that's the case since they voted these idiots into office.
3 posted on 01/24/2026 10:43:18 AM PST by econjack
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To: artichokegrower

This is what happens when you don’t think before voting and you elect a ditzy blonde, Skank Barbie for governor. Embrace the suck!


4 posted on 01/24/2026 10:44:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: DownInFlames

It seems all Democrats have a playbook once they gain power, increase taxes on everybody, kneecap law enforcement, enact laws that legalize election stealing, abortion on demand and force everyone else to pay for it, I can go on, but they are all the same.


5 posted on 01/24/2026 10:44:53 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: econjack

Spanberger ran as a common sense moderate and the a-holes actually believed her.


6 posted on 01/24/2026 10:45:34 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: econjack

What is the agenda here?

The answers:

https://rumble.com/v74nz9s-identity-politics-ep.-69-the-fall-of-old-dominion-w-karl-dahl.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_upp_a


7 posted on 01/24/2026 10:46:30 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: econjack

If they do away with all law enforcement, the crime statistics will start to look really good — for two reasons:

1) If no one ever gets arrested for murder, then the official murder rate will drop to zero. Which would be awesome.

2) If no one ever gets arrested for murder, Good Guy citizens will get busy taking out the trash, with no penalty. Which would be awesome.


8 posted on 01/24/2026 10:46:30 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("The system owns the path of least resistance... don't follow it." - ChatGPT)
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To: econjack

Only Washington DC — the city that is the state.


9 posted on 01/24/2026 10:47:05 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: artichokegrower

10 posted on 01/24/2026 10:48:05 AM PST by DFG
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It’s this kind of stuff that really depresses me. Let the GOP take control and they walk on glass trying not to anger the media with their policies. Let the communists take control and on day one, the Marxism train is rolling!

To make matters worse, the poor, mentally damaged voters seem ok with it.


11 posted on 01/24/2026 10:48:34 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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Then law enforcement should & must recommend that the citizens arm themselves.


12 posted on 01/24/2026 10:50:45 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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Virginia Is For Murderers


13 posted on 01/24/2026 10:52:22 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: econjack

I suspect voter fraud is rampant in Virginia. I still remember how in 2020, FOX, CNN, et all called Virginia for Biden with only 3% of the vote in. It’s almost like they knew for sure, you know?


14 posted on 01/24/2026 10:53:04 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: artichokegrower

They just need someone rich guy to buy Commercials in neighboring States advertising for Criminals to come to Virginia where their hard work is recognized and celebrated...


15 posted on 01/24/2026 11:02:12 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: srmanuel

They are just paying back their voters, the low life filth of society.


16 posted on 01/24/2026 11:03:13 AM PST by MachIV
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To: artichokegrower

SOCIALISTS’ aim is to destroy America.


17 posted on 01/24/2026 11:05:52 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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Oh, they be just getting started.

Virginia used to be for lovers. Now it's for lefty Beltway politics. Eff em all. I hope those lefties meandering the rolling hills of Virginia late at night and get flat tires or breakdowns, get some. Real good and hard, too.

18 posted on 01/24/2026 11:09:56 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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I suspect part of the driving force is so that the Virginia Attorney General can commit violence as he is prone to do, and have a much shorter sentence than he would likely get.


19 posted on 01/24/2026 11:10:25 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: brownsfan

Yup. The GOP typically does nothing — because, if we do anything, just think what the Democrats would do in return, when they get back into power.

Meanwhile, we watch the Democrats who are in power ride roughshod over every American tradition and value and ignore the Constitution entirely.

The GOP needs to wake up.


20 posted on 01/24/2026 11:10:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("The system owns the path of least resistance... don't follow it." - ChatGPT)
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