Biden should pardon him. Like Trump pardoned Stone and Bannon.
Littljohn. Big balls.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The man who stole and leaked former President Donald Trump and thousands of others’ tax records has been sentenced to five years in prison.
In October, Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosures of income tax returns.
Judge Ana Reyes highlighted the gravity of the crime, saying multiple times that it amounted to an attack against the US and its legal foundation.
Prosecutors said Littlejohn went through great lengths to steal the tax records undetected, exploiting system loopholes, downloading data to an Apple iPod and uploading the information on a private website he later deleted.
“A free press and public engagement with the media are critical to any healthy democracy, but stealing and leaking private, personal tax information strips individuals of the legal protection of their most sensitive data,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing recommending Littlejohn be sentenced to the maximum of five years in prison.
“I acted out of a sincere misguided belief,” Littlejohn said in court Monday, adding that he was serving the country and that people had a right to the tax information.
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More time than half the J6 douche bags.
Don’t do anything to our rich overlords, you can leak millions of records of the middle and lower class and be fine. But how fucking dare you leak info on the rich
I still don’t understand how the judge connected this to January 6th and said it is as dangerous. Was that trump assigned judge or something?
Edit: it wasn’t, I still don’t understand how placing equality sign between this and January 6th. Also if they are equal, he is still getting a harsher sentence than most.
It’s not like Jan 6th. The people saying it is are trying to both-sides their insurrection. Notice they’re calling Biden’s management of the border “traitorous” as well. They’ll be calling everything they can treason or insurrection until November, or they find something that resonates at which point they’ll start opening BS congressional inqueries or impeachment cases about. Because once congress says they’re investigating something, it must be real, right?
The only person to pay for the Panama Papers and the global oligarch’s financial tax schemes they revealed was the lead journalist who broke it, and She paid with her life in a violent, sending a message to others who would cross the global oligarchs way.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist
We have no power unless we rebel as entire economic classes, and there’s too many self hating, true believer, “love me senpai oligarch” class traitors for that to ever happen.
That said, collapse is inevitable, entropy is absolute, and Rome always falls under the weight of its own corruption in the end. The snake of capitalism is choking on its own tail with no new room to grow/metastasize, which is the crux of their entire rigged con-game, and my only hope is that something better is made out of the ruins. Even that is a faint hope though. For every kind, empathetic person, there seems to be a sociopath opportunist that wants to manipulate and enslave them out of material selfishness.
I think you’re dead right about the situation we’re in, but it’s frustrating to see this kind of framing. It feels like a self fulfilling prophecy when everyone is already so sure that we have no chance…
I primaried and phone banked for Sanders twice, to nothing but ridicule from regular Americans for calling him too extreme and unrealistic. I supported Occupy Wall Street which was also met by little more than ridicule by those that should have joined.
It’s not their fault, we’ve all been propagandized from birth through the curriculum the oligarchs inform from K-Colleges of economics, and the media they own to claim “the free (unregulated, rigged) market is self-correcting and virtuous, and anyone who doesn’t thrive under it deserves their suffering.” But the fact remains, the victims of this system are also its most numerous blind defenders.
I’m not sure how reframing would change this reality. In my experience, the more informed about the situation, the more hopeless one recognizes it is. But as I said, Rome always falls in the end, and even the 3,000 billionaires on Earth can’t prevent entropy with their propaganda.
It’s a tragedy, and it’s sad to watch though.
It still comes down to acceptance vs rejection, though, doesn’t it?
I know it’s not that simple and I probably come off as an idealist, but I can’t accept it.
I don’t know what the answers are yet, but rejecting their narrative is where it has to start.
Im all for fighting if you still have some. I hope I’m wrong and I’ll be there in the streets supporting your movement and glad for it if I am.
The narrative of power is that there isn’t a problem at all/there isn’t a problem caused by the current rigged market capitalist system that said system isn’t the best candidate to solve. And it’s defended by victims of it so far into the sunk cost fallacy of it they’ll fight to defend that false narrative. That’s where we’re at.
My “movement” is in minds, not streets. Like you said, there are so many defenders of a broken system. Change has to happen in the mind before it will happen in the world.
The more people see and hear “no hope” the more they accept it. The more accepted it is, the harder it will be to change, the harder we fall.
I’m not trying to change your mind… I understand your position. It makes emotional sense, and I can absolutely empathize with being out of “fight.” I just can’t logically rationalize acceptance of it all.
(I re-read it… hopefully the quotes don’t come off as sarcasm. They aren’t, I promise!)
We taking your car, or mine?
The question I ask myself is this:
Is the world shit, because people are shit?
Or are people shit, because the world is shit, and the only way to survive it is to become shit?
I’ve certainly noticed myself giving up on caring about a lot of things as I grow older. It grinds you down.
you can leak millions of records of the middle and lower class and be fine
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This act was very much illegal. Why shouldn’t he be found guilty of it?
