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Re: Ex-Virginia police officer sentenced to more than 7 years in jail for role in Jan. 6 riot

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 12 Aug 22 1:53 PM | 15 view(s)
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The underlying issue is right there. So many people think being cynical is a sign of being smart. Such folks are ripe for believing in conspiracy theories. They seem not to notice how naive they are in doing so.

Don't know about you, but many of the people I meet are not involved in vast plots. In fact, most seem reasonably benign. They are inspired more by virtue than vice. They try to do things that are lawful and to avoid exposure to prison. These sorts of curious behaviours.

Generally, this is what I see everywhere. A lot of ideallists. People with pragmatic interests, as well. Some bad apples. But their rot means they are soon discovered.

My solution is to force-feed the reading of sensible books for people who are stuck with conspiracies as their way of thinking. Good thinking is the only cure for idiocy that I know. Aside from anything else, conspiratorial explanations are incredibly lazy and boring.

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Ex-Virginia police officer sentenced to more than 7 years in jail for role in Jan. 6 riot
By: clo2 in ALEA
Fri, 12 Aug 22 11:12 AM 		Msg. 46611 of 54959

Ex-Virginia police officer sentenced to more than 7 years in jail for role in Jan. 6 riot

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Rocky Mount, Va., police officer to 87 months in jail for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, matching the longest prison term handed down for one of the convicted rioters to date and illustrating how former members of law enforcement and the military participated in the violent insurrection.

At a two-hour sentencing hearing for former Virginia police Sgt. Thomas Robertson in U.S. District Court in Washington, Judge Christopher Cooper told Robertson that as a member of law enforcement he took an oath to obey the law. But citing witness testimony and text messages, the judge said that Robertson had told a close friend that he was prepared to fight a “civil war.” Even after his arrest and initial release on bail, the judge said Robertson destroyed evidence and kept a sophisticated rifle and “explosive device” at his home in violation of the court’s order. Federal authorities ultimately re-arrested Robertson and learned that while on bail, he had arranged to buy more than 30 more guns in violation of the judge’s order.

“You were not some bystander who just got swept up in the crowd,” Cooper said Thursday. “It really seems as though you think of partisan politics as war and that you continue to believe these conspiracy theories.”

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