It’s a brilliant bit of photography. And on reflection, it’s not that amusing, and I was a jerk.
Similar to how the US government is currently trying to deport those from Afghanistan who were American allies during the more recent conflict there. Some were employed directly by the US military, State Department or other arm of the government and they were promised relocation to the United States as part of the deal.
Did we promise they could stay? Or was it more of a sightseeing trip?
Stay.
Kinda clear in the word relocation.
Meet South Carolina state representative RJ May (Republican, of course). He spent years beating the drum that drag queens and transgender people were “grooming” kids, and was named Moms For Liberty’s Legislator of the Year for 2023.
He’s just been sentenced to 175 years in prison for distributing child porn online under the name “joebidennnn69”.
Got my hopes up thinking he’d been sentenced to 175 years, which would have been almost enough.
Turns out youre missing the decimal point between the 7 and the 5. His sentence is 17.5 years, seventeen and one half years, woefully short for the innocent lives he destroyed. Including his own family’s.
And probably considerably less, if he gets parole. Apparently this is a federal conviction, so there is also always the chance of a pardon. We can only hope that he doesn’t have enough money behind him to buy one.
You know how they have hate crime enhancements for certain felonies in certain circumstances? This makes me think there should be a hypocrisy enhancement in cases like this, extending the sentence by a number based (somehow) on the amount of damage the hypocritical “moral” speeches caused.
I’m only half kidding.
May’s lawyers wanted a reduced sentence for him, saying it was unfair he was being treated as a serious sex offender, for while he possessed and distributed child porn, he didn’t produce it. 
Another supposed factor in his favor: he has plans when he’s released to live on his parents’ isolated farm in rural Virginia, described as being far away from schools and playgrounds and with no Internet access.
Aww.
IANAL, but my understanding is that federal prisoners get much less time reduction than state prisoners, about 15%.
That stuff should be among his conditions of parole, if he gets one.
Hope so.
I’m putting this in the evil thread because a story that starts like this…
A former Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus driver has been charged in a November crash that killed a 61-year-old pedestrian in Greenfield.
…shouldn’t go on to say this:
[The bus driver] had a blood alcohol content of 0.236
That’s just a hair shy of 3 times the legal limit.
Good lord, that blood is strong enough that you couldn’t buy it under 21.
Those poor farm animals.
The Red Cross said all eight units of the building were left unlivable, meaning an estimated 25 people would be without a home.
The woman, her daughter and her husband were forced to jump from a window to escape. The child suffered a broken pelvis, and the husband had scratches, bruises and cuts from the fall.
She [the arsonist’s mother] said she had to push out a window screen and “let herself down” from the second-floor apartment. She suffered scrapes and broken ankle.
They have him on camera moving his personal belongings out of the apartment before starting the fire.
And why did he do it?
He said he was “angry about his neighbors smoking marijuana,” poured gasoline in the hallway and ignited it with a lighter.
I would think that his smoking was a bit more disruptive to his neighbors.
It also seems to me that the guy is getting off light, as he had to have known there were people in the building that were likely to die, and they’re lucky to all live. It seems like attempted murder is warranted in this case.
It would be a whole lot harder to prove he intended to kill someone. Those additional “recklessness” felony charges are designed for situations like this, where someone willfully ignores a substantial risk of killing others.
~Max
I also wonder if this is one of those cases where they used ‘easier’ charges to get (arrest and search) warrants that, once they have him in custody and evidence collected, they can adjust the charges. For example, if they find a diary entry stating he intends to kill the pot smokers in Apt 300 the next time he smells pot smoke and his google history shows he recently searched for ‘how to set an apartment on fire and be sure it kills the pot smoking hippies in apartment 300’, they might be able to change it to attempted murder.
Also, with such an extreme reaction to someone smoking pot in an apartment building, I have to wonder if there’s going to be a mental health component to this.
Obersturmfuhrer Bovino says “stop calling us Nazis or we’ll kill you”.
I will kill your friends and family
To remind you of my love