The Cheap Price of Treason
The first felony prison sentence is in for a January 6 traitor, and it's an extreme disappointment.
Paul Hodgkins of Florida is the first person to be convicted and sentenced on felony charges connected to the January 6 insurrection.
Eight months and $2,000 restitution.
He was sentenced to that paltry term even though the Department of Justice recommended an 17-month sentence.
The judge said that Hodgkins deserved leniency because he pled guilty “exceptionally early,” didn’t participate in the horrific violence, and offered a “sincere” apology.
He joins an Indiana woman convicted of a misdemeanor who received probation, and another Florida man who is a white supremacist who was sentenced to six months but credited with time served.
Once again, People of Color sit back and watch the hypocrisy of American jurisprudence. Not surprised, mind you, because we have long experienced the separate and unequal nature of this country’s undue legal process.
White people like the murders of Emmett Till, who were found innocent by an all-White jury, then bragged about their crime in Look Magazine.
White people, like the Batesburg, South Carolina policemen (including the Police Chief) who maimed Isaac Woodard, who was returning home from World War II. He was blinded in both eyes, but the Police Chief was (surprise) found not guilty by an all-White jury.
There isn’t an honest, intelligent person alive who thinks that a Black BLM or Antifa protester would receive a similar sentence from a White judge if they had stormed the Capitol building, fought and killed police, smeared feces inside the building, and attempted to assassinate members of Congress and the Vice President.
The same country that fears teaching schoolkids the truth about our country’s history has differing qualities of mercy when meting punishment - one for Whites, and one for everyone else.
If treason continues to be bought so cheaply, all our country’s lofty ideals and principles will soon be ready for purchase in any thrift store or flea market.