Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter – Authored by Jon Hall
In June, 23-year-old Corey Long was convicted of disorderly conduct and sentenced to 20 days in jail with 100 hours of community service after being photographed using a makeshift flamethrower against white nationalists at the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.
An assault charge against Long was ultimately dismissed. Long’s legal adviser, Malik Shabazz said of the sentencing:
I disagree that it was a violent act. It was clear that Mr. Long was trying to ward off a group of persons that have been committing violent acts all day.
Without a doubt, neither side was in the right in Charlottesville, but it’s asinine to claim Long’s actions weren’t as violent as anyone on the side he didn’t agree with and decided to attack.
Miraculously, Long avoided any lengthy stay in jail after wielding such a dangerous weapon. Even his sentencing of 100 days community service was exceedingly lenient.
Compare Corey Long with Eric Clanton, a former California professor and Antifa protester, who stood accused of bashing up to seven Trump supporters in the head with a bike lock.
Originally, Clanton faced 11 years in prison. One of the victims he hit with his bike lock caused a wound that needed five staples to close. Another, who was wearing a helmet when Clanton attacked him, had piece of his headgear blown off from the impact.
After entering a “no contest” plea for misdemeanor battery, three felony assault charges, a felony for inflicting serious bodily harm, and a misdemeanor for wearing a face-mask were dismissed against Clanton.
Instead of any serious consequences for such heinous actions, Clanton merely received three years of probation.
Eric Clanton, Antifa member who assaulted 7 #Trump supporters w/ a bike lock, had the charges against him dropped and was given 3 years probation…
Assault with a deadly weapon and the punishment is probation! America has 2-tiered justice system – DISGRACEFUL. #WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/3l3LdAVHyU
— Jon Hall (@WriterJonHall) August 9, 2018
Much like Corey Long, Clanton’s sentencing was light, despite his deadly and reckless behavior that overwhelmingly dwarfed Long’s actions at the Unite The Right rally. And still, Clanton only spent four days in jail.
With Long and Clanton in mind, let’s take a look at the sentencing of two men who merely removed the tarps from Confederate statues in Charlottesville after the city had covered them in mourning in regards to the events that transpired on August 12 with Heather Heyer.
Brian Lambert, convicted of two counts of trespassing and destruction of property, received eight months in jail after damaging the tarp on a Stonewall Jackson statue and an orange fence around a Robert E. Lee statue.
Christopher Wayne was convicted of two counts trespassing and destruction of property, attempting to remove tarps from the same statues. Wayne was sentenced to five months behind bars.
The precedent is clear as day – two men who removed tarps from statues received the most significant time in jail in relation to two men who placed other’s lives in danger. Wayne and Lambert were likely railroaded for their political beliefs and made an example of to pacify the lynch mob mentality of the left.
Leftists like Clanton are given a free pass after using deadly weapons against people they don’t agree with politically – even his punishment of a few years probation isn’t enough for Clanton’s use of deadly force.
In contrast, Wayne and Lambert were sentenced more severely because they held the wrong political opinions – their crimes ultimately didn’t matter, but their beliefs certainly did.
good article but it didn’t go far enough–
in charlottesville people from our side are still facing charges that if convicted may bring 20+ year sentences–
remember all the violence from trump’s inauguration?all the violence that was caught on tape?all those lefties are getting off–
if we had protested a hillary or jeb inauguration in that manner,would we have gotten off?
Looks like the commies had their time and somebody’s money wasted on a big nothing. Taxpayers take it up the keister to protect 40 shitheads from hundreds or more shitheads of another stripe. But the fuqueing media will cast one of the shithead groups as heroes and the other as Trump supporters.
Couple things, Lambert & Wayne rolled the dice on a trial and lost. Eric Clanton pled out. Corey Long went to trial but he never faced the more serious assault charge, “An assault charge against Long was nolle prossed due to the prosecution being unable to get in contact with the alleged victim, Harold Crews.”. http://www.nbc29.com/story/38380177/corey-long-court-06-08-2018
There is a reason the left is being protected at these events. They need to be emboldened to get things stirred up to a fever pitch but they are cowards. If they don’t think the govt. has their backs they won’t take chances with getting hurt. Look at how shocked they were when the Proud Boys broke bad on them. They are good at spitting on the back of a servicmans uniform at the airport but only when they have the numbers and laws on their side. I bet you can find a Soros surrogate behind this.
Selective enforcement of the law in the lawless nation and banana republic otherwise known as the U.S. of Bullshit “A”.
Actually this may be good news. If these sort of events continue, eventually the lawyers and judges who practice this version of selective justice will all be known and will not be able to safely walk down the street. Their law enforcement will be considered a deadly enemy, and that’s when citizens will form militias to counteract them. I believe that it was in Wise, VA, where they once had a selective justice problem. Everyone was terrified by it, until one day an accused one’s family commandeered the courtroom, and promptly executed by gun shot the county sheriff, the county prosecutor, and the county judge. After those people were no more, there were no more problems. You know, history shows that there is nothing more effective than a summary Appalachian vendetta. It even lead to the assassination of one of Kentucky’s governors, who intervened in a feud in favor of his supporters, who were also Democrats.
there was another riot last night in charlottesville in which antifites attacked the press–
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/12/nbc-reporter-charlottesville-protests/?utm_medium=email
With all due respect to the author, this shit just distracts us from ILLEGAL TURD WORLDERS crashing into and killing vets and American families.
RIP Kevin Quinn. The perp was free on $1,000 bail.
https://www.capenews.net/mashpee/obituaries/kevin-p-quinn/article_1a184e04-92d8-5611-b784-c66268ca7cef.html