Wow the US is going soft on terrorists. 18years is nothing.
I wonder how many years an Arab man would get for the same crime.
He wouldn’t get anything, officially. He’d be off the books in some offshore military prison.
It wasn’t always this way. Eric Rudolph got 4 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Timothy McVeigh got the death penalty. Ted Kaczynski got 8 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Unfortunately after 9/11 we seem to have decided only brown people can be terrorists despite the fact that the FBI’s own data suggests right wing domestic terrorism has always posed a greater threat than foreign terrorism.
Idk. The KKK blew up an awful lot of churches.
And most of the perps got off scott free. :/
He threw two Molotov cocktails at a an empty church. Causing “damage” with no injuries. He got a plea deal, admitting to two felonies:
committing a church arson hate crime and using fire and explosives to commit a felony.
So this was elevated because of the bigoted and terroristic nature of the crime. 18 years is a significant and appropriate sentence.
What a fucking imbecile. 18 years is WAAAAYYY too lenient for attempted mass murder. He should be locked away from other people for the rest of his miserable life.
It’s very true that people who target LGBTQ are secretly sexually frustrated and unhappy. They hate the fact that there are other people in the world who have found themselves, have a place to belong, and have happy lives. So they target them as if somehow hurting those people will change their own fate.
And it only ever makes thing worse for every person on earth. For the LGBTQ community, it makes us more afraid and forced to arm ourselves, for the rest of the world it means nobody is safe from some deranged idiot’s mental problems and self-hatred turning into violence.
Everyone who is afraid of LGBT shit, is secretly really worried that if they ever felt safe enough to try it, they’d love it. The internal shame they carry causes them to lash out wildly at anything even remotely entwined with the idea that LGBT is normal. Because then that means they could be sucking all the dick they want, but aren’t because they’re too cowardly and intimidated to follow through. So, instead, they firebomb churches.
Let history remark about all the ugliness thrown our way, boy, they really coulda used a cock to suck. At least in prison he’ll be able to suck away to his hearts content.
While that may be true in many cases, it is important to remember that straight people are perfectly capable of being hateful, homophobic monsters. Placing all the blame of LGBT hate on LGBT people, openly or not, isn’t nearly the whole story.
