Would it be possible to sentence these idiots and make them actually read the constitution and then pass a test?
Life imprisonment is probably a bit much.
I wonder if they could pass the test given to those seeking US citizenship
Could most Americans?
Probably not.
But then most Americans didn’t storm the capital on January 6.
I did, it was part of my 5th grade requirements. I like that idea, every HS should make that a requirement.
You stormed the Capitol in fifth grade?? Your teacher must have been a wild thing!
I know… you meant the citizenship test.
(Sorry, I just got up from a nap and couldn’t resist. Carry on.)
FWIW, I randomly chose this site to see if I could pass a citizenship test:
2008 Civics Test – Civics Test Quiz
There are a total of 99 questions, in 9 categories. I scored 100% (though there were two that were close).
Good point.
Do the National Guard and police get paid more while responding to a riot, something like hazard pay?
I used this one (PDF).
I’d probably fail it because I’d quibble with most of the answers.
Look, just say “slavery”.
Exactly.
Actually, I’m pretty sure that sedition is, in fact, a serious crime.
Nope. Not when you try to overthrow the government.
If you really believe that, DD, then you don’t understand democratic government. I suggest you read more history. Start with the Greeks and the Romans.
I suggest you read our Constitution, Federal and DC laws. The insurrectionists are being prosecuted to the full extent of the law- the laws which are currently on the books.
Are you suggesting they be prosecuted for laws not on the books? That is what is seems to me.
It would be wrong and illegal to make up new laws and penalties after the fact.
How many of the insurrectionists are being charged with that?
Here’s an interesting article on the dilemma some journalists face regarding the use of their material by law enforcement. The author of this piece talked to the FBI in general about their use of journalists’ photos and videos, and was later approached by them with a implicit request to provide his unpublished media from the Capitol riot.
This stuck out to me:
The FBI can read my work like anyone else—and, I would later learn, it did—but I was very reluctant to turn over my unpublished data to the government. Frankly, a lot of my work leading up to that day and afterward has been devoted to how law enforcement failed to prevent what happened, even as the rioters marauded around the Capitol and destroyed much of it. I was in D.C. as a journalist to show what these systemic failures, and many before them, had wrought. I was certainly not there to help the agencies that had failed in the first place.
Why the hell not?? What is the purpose of your work?
But behind the scenes, according to people familiar with the discussions, Garland has been among the top Justice Department officials who have counseled prosecutors to use legally comparable laws to make sure cases being brought against the attackers of the Capitol are on firm ground…Current and former Justice officials say there aren’t many prosecutors who have even brought sedition-related cases. Instead, they say, the FBI and prosecutors are better off building conspiracy cases, where the law is clearer, and using cooperators to build the complex prosecutions in order to have better chances of success.
Former District of Columbia acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin, who oversaw the Capitol riot cases until March, previously made clear he was pushing for seditious conspiracy charges.
“I believe the facts do support those charges,” he said in a March interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” “And I think that, as we go forward, more facts will support that.”
Sherwin’s comments drew a rebuke from top Justice officials because he hadn’t gotten approval to do the interview, but also because some of his superiors thought he was trying to box Garland into a position that was always going to be controversial.
Some Biden administration officials believe using the sedition charge could politicize the Justice Department’s prosecution of the Capitol attackers…