“You livestreamed your criminal conduct to thousands of followers hoping they would pay you for your actions,” District Judge Trevor McFadden told Gionet during the nearly two-hour sentencing hearing. “You were promoting and celebrating what was a national tragedy.”
I love all the irrelevant stuff they throw in there. Basically all January 6th accusations are circular; you were there, and we say what happened there is Bad, therefore you are guilty of Bad Thing. And then they throw in "intent" and other nonsense. You intended to be there, doing that thing we've predetermined is bad, despite not charging people directly with that thing, so we find you guilty of conspiring to do thing we're not charging you with. We're doubling your sentence.
I think there's an entirely different set of criminals from who they're accusing.
What about the "journalists" in there recording the whole thing, in some cases livestreaming to people online? Were they not hoping their followers (or company) would pay for their actions? I'm no fan of idiots like BakedAlaska but really what's the difference?
At this point I don't even care. They have to prove and convict of an actual crime before I care if anyone "promoted" or "celebrated" (the former not always being a crime itself, the latter...never?) said predetermined crime.
What, did he celebrate and encourage "unlawful protest?" Fuck these judges and juries, this is America.
I love all the irrelevant stuff they throw in there. Basically all January 6th accusations are circular; you were there, and we say what happened there is Bad, therefore you are guilty of Bad Thing. And then they throw in "intent" and other nonsense. You intended to be there, doing that thing we've predetermined is bad, despite not charging people directly with that thing, so we find you guilty of conspiring to do thing we're not charging you with. We're doubling your sentence.
I think there's an entirely different set of criminals from who they're accusing.
What about the "journalists" in there recording the whole thing, in some cases livestreaming to people online? Were they not hoping their followers (or company) would pay for their actions? I'm no fan of idiots like BakedAlaska but really what's the difference?
At this point I don't even care. They have to prove and convict of an actual crime before I care if anyone "promoted" or "celebrated" (the former not always being a crime itself, the latter...never?) said predetermined crime.
What, did he celebrate and encourage "unlawful protest?" Fuck these judges and juries, this is America.
Not entirely. They have some people on actually damaging things or hitting the cops.