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FakeNoose

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14. Some are snitching to get a lighter sentence

Reply to Roisin Ni Fiachra (Original post)

Tue Mar 30, 2021, 09:00 AM

Mar 2021

... that is, if they know anyone to snitch on higher up the food chain.

I've read that the FBI is only going after the ones who actually went inside the Capitol building. Most of them were technically felons when they entered the building. The people who hung around outside were also breaking the law, but the Feds probably won't bother with them.

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Looks like most of the fascist insurrectionists are getting off with a little slap on the wrist. [View all] Roisin Ni Fiachra Mar 2021 OP

One bit of good news snowybirdie Mar 2021 #1

Nah. Never heard of public defenders? 3Hotdogs Mar 2021 #7

Public defenders paid by ... those evil 'gubment tax dollars. Oh the irony. n/t Pobeka Mar 2021 #16

--- dumbass lib'ril spelt gub'mint worng. 3Hotdogs Mar 2021 #18

:-) Pobeka Mar 2021 #19

The private prisons would be built with all deliberate speed SallyHemmings Mar 2021 #2

Too true uponit7771 Mar 2021 #4

Unnn, 25% of the CURRENT 230 are misdemeanors the rest are felonies. Now some of them were in uponit7771 Mar 2021 #3

I think the whole "innocent tourist' idea goes out the window after Roisin Ni Fiachra Mar 2021 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2021 #12

True, If these people were mostly black everyone would be a felony uponit7771 Mar 2021 #15

Why spend so much money tracking them down, after the fact? Kid Berwyn Mar 2021 #5

This will guarantee that it will happen again, only worse. History rhymes. Think Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2021 #13

Before leaping to conclusions... brooklynite Mar 2021 #9

Hope you are correct. The Politico article reads like a pre-emptive whitewash. nt Roisin Ni Fiachra Mar 2021 #11

Politico is always preemptive white wash! PortTack Mar 2021 #17

White privilege. roamer65 Mar 2021 #10

Some are snitching to get a lighter sentence FakeNoose Mar 2021 #14