I’m sorry, there really just wasn’t any headline other than this that says what normal people feel about this, me included.
From Fox News:
The Department of Justice on Friday announced that Donald Zepeda of Maryland and Jackson Green of Utah have been charged with felony destruction of government property following a climate change stunt that involved dumping red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution in the National Archives Rotunda.
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The climate activist group Declare Emergency was behind the act.
In its press release, the Department of Justice said that Zepeda and Green’s stunt had caused more than $50,000 in damage.
They also say in the release:
Green previously was charged in a separate act of vandalism at the National Gallery of Art that occurred on November 14, 2023. Green was charged with one count of destruction of National Gallery of Art property for that offense. As a result of that offense, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson had ordered Green to stay away from the District of Columbia and stay away from all museums or public monuments. On February 22, Judge Berman Jackson ordered that Green be held in the D.C. jail for violating the conditions of his release.
I hope they both rot in jail.
But they meant well!
I could drive into into one those intersections the crazies block and open up with my (yet to obtained) minigun and just say “I meant well”, but I don’t think that would fly in any court.
(Unless they blocked the intersection in support of shutting down illegal immigration or Trump or opposition to voter fraud or guys in women’s sports or …).
Let’s punish, but not over-punish.Maybe 6 months in jail, max, a pretty stiff fine, and major public service. The last thing you want to do is turn these silly kids into martyrs.
How could they be “over-punished”?
They did what they did and deserve to be punished to the full extent of the the law. (And punish their backers also.) Just deal out HONEST justice. (Might need to move it out of a DC court.)
Afraid of making them “martyrs”?
They were and are idiots.
In the US, they are free to be idiots until they cross the line infringing on the freedom of others.
They crossed the line BIG TIME.
Or maybe the same time in jail the 1/6 “insurrections” have suffered without due process?
Climate Activist Darwin Award:
Story idea – idea? Why not award a climate activism Darwin Award for the most dumb assed stupid act by these vacuous nothings.You could get people to submit their favourites and have a committee vote on the finalists if it works.