If you were going to bet what punishment the DC court would hit Clinesmith with for political corruption, perjury and forging documents, what sentence would you guess?
Did you guess "Probation?"
If so, collect your winnings
In the memetime, one of the good guys on the internet was recently arrested and is being threatened with 10 years in the pokey.
What for?
For posting a meme on the internet
This is not a joke
He made a meme telling Hillary voters (i.e., low IQ folks) they could vote via text
Which, of course, was funny since that is impossible
But it has not stopped the same DOJ who let Clinesmith off with no sentence for misleading the FISA court in the Carter Page boondoggle which lead to the fake impeachment of a president.
We have right now in this country a two-tiered system of justice. Whether you get charged, tried and sentenced depends upon your personal beliefs. We are not much different right now than they were in the Middle Ages with witch dunking. This cannot stand.
" .... Mackey was arrested in Florida this week on charges that he violated 18 U.S.C. Section 241, a statute that makes it a federal offense carrying up to ten years in prison for, among other things, conspiring to “injure … any person … in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” As statutes go, it is not a model of clarity.
The facts supporting the claim are, according to the criminal complaint filed by the government, as follows: Mackey and others agreed to try to suppress voter turnout for Hillary Clinton in 2016 by creating social media posts that encouraged people to cast their ballots for Clinton by means of a text message. A person doing so would be wasting their effort. You cannot cast a ballot by text message. Presumably, a person who cast such a ballot would not then turn up at the polling place, and their vote would be lost.
As political trickery, the plot is sheer genius. As P.T. Barnum once noted, there’s a sucker born every minute. If there are people stupid enough to fall for this, well, I suppose they didn’t cast lawful ballots. One wonders whether a person gullible enough to fall for this scam ought to be voting in the first instance, but we lack, of course, any standards for determining who can and cannot vote.
But here’s a shocker. This “crime” took place four years ago. Why the delay in bringing the charges until after the 2020 election, and on the cusp of an impeachment trial in which claims of electoral fraud will be raised? It reeks of partisan misdirection.
More shocking is that this prosecution, a felony charge carrying a term of imprisonment of up to ten years, was not apparently presented to a grand jury. Under the federal constitution, a defendant has a right to grand jury consideration of charges before being dragged through the mud of a public scorn....."
What's Really At Stake In The 2016 "Meme" Prosecution of "Ricky Vaughn"Click to expand...