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 to us than that of foreign actors.
Edit: Attention apologists, I have zero interest in your attempts to downplay this person’s act of terrorism. You’re just going to be blocked.
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.
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 to us than that of foreign actors.
Edit: Attention apologists, I have zero interest in your attempts to downplay this person’s act of terrorism. You’re just going to be blocked.
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:
So this was elevated because of the bigoted and terroristic nature of the crime. 18 years is a significant and appropriate sentence.