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Giberson’s mother said that for her son, the 2020 election was like watching his favorite baseball team on a World Series run.
Both of them are fucking morons.
Giberson, a political science major who specialized in "American ideas and institutions,” told FBI special agents he wanted to be at the Capitol to "support the parties that were making decisions regarding the certification of the electoral college, and that he was there to encourage what he believed to be the 'correct' certification."
Further evidence to bolster the point
Literally the problem with American politics. If you make a political party your identity, any attack on the politicians becomes a personal attack.
Well, at least with one particular party.
Does this guy really need the national fame with MAGA that comes with making it on NBC? I don't get it. We've already had 400 convictions. This is a random kid that pled guilty to civil disorder and got 2 months in prison.
If anything, an article should question how someone whose allocution contradicts the evidence got 2 months despite the prosecutor pushing for a year.
It feels like the same sort of encouragement mass shooters get from the media. "Want to have your name everywhere? Do something atrocious!"
Exactly. It should be anonymized in the media. "400 traitors, terrorists, and bigots have faced justice for their 1/6 actions, with more convictions coming in every day" <--that is the headline we should have. Few names, few faces, just facts.
I have mixed feelings. With mass shooters part of the reason for calls for anonymity is that they’re dead. For these people they’re alive and public knowledge of their crimes can give further consequences leading into my main mixed feelings: on one hand with some people like Brock (the rapist) Turner this can be a way of society providing the punishment that a pay to win justice system didn’t provide out of privilege, but on the other hand some people support these crimes and will celebrate them and also is it right to do and does it hinder rehabilitation?
Idk I think you’re probably right, but I do think that there’s more to it than just the name in the news thing
For these people they’re alive and public knowledge of their crimes can give further consequences leading into my main mixed feelings
When it's a politically-motivated crime, shame just doesn't work as a punishment or deterrent. Instead, it's a medal to put on their chest.
Brock (the rapist) Turner this can be a way of society providing the punishment that a pay to win justice system didn’t provide out of privilege
I think exile (or its equivalent) fall under Cruel and Unusual punishment. I think we shouldn't look for mobs or media to be the forces of justice; we should be demanding the justice system to clean its act up, and holding them accountable for these miscarriages.
but on the other hand some people support these crimes and will celebrate them and also is it right to do and does it hinder rehabilitation?
This here. We can't stop these criminals being treated like heroes for attempting to replace our democracy with tyranny. We can stop advertising that they did what they did.
Yeah, I want a wall of shame somewhere so that employers, social media, dating apps, etc....know where to look these people up.
specialized in "American ideas and institutions,”
He's a poly sci UNDERGRAD he didn't and doesn't specialize in shit.
I think he specializes in being a gullible fool.
Yeah, but he dId his owN rEsEarch
sucks brah. Next time don’t be a traitor.
So sad. Fuck around and find out. Love donnie so hard that you come out of Ivy league with a rap sheet.
You know that this will just be maga street cred for some employer
I hope every single one of those traitors gets prison time. Bunch of idiots.
I really want all of them to just get convicted of felonies so they can't own guns and vote anymore.
Shudders like Sideshow Bob.... Ergggh Princeton.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — A then-Princeton University student who yelled "drag them out" while he joined rioters trying to storm the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to two months in federal prison Wednesday, according to court records.
Giberson was a sophomore during the Jan. 6 attack, when he "participated in coordinated pushing and pulling against the police," according to a government sentencing memo, which said that at one point he even chanted “drag them out!” as rioters assaulted officers.
Giberson told the FBI that he "saw the fear" in former Officer Michael Fanone's eyes as he was dragged away by the mob.
His defense attorney said Giberson "studied the issues surrounding the 2020 [election] and concluded that state actors had interfered with the electoral process in unconstitutional ways."
Giberson's mother said that for her son, the 2020 election was like watching his favorite baseball team on a World Series run.
I feel Larry wanted to be a part of something that he was passionate about, I know he had no intent to be caught up with the wrong crowd," she wrote.
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He got a 2 month sentence I think the punishment fits the crime although it should be highered slightly considering he did assault a poilce officer prehaps 5 or 6 months would work prehaps maybe some compensation or a apology as well