I appreciate Ezra's empathy here. After all, we generally view the people who drank the Kool-Aid at Jonestown as victims, not perpetrators. But also? The adults at Jonestown who voluntarily gave poison to their own children KNEW THAT GIVING POISON TO CHILDREN WAS WRONG.
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https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1347241551412428807
(And yes, I know that many at Jonestown were forced at gunpoint to do so. I'm taking about the ones who weren't.)
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Every person who set foot in the Capitol yesterday knew they weren't supposed to be there. Regardless of their mistaken beliefs, they knew what they were doing at that moment was wrong.
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And in criminal law it's the intent at the moment the crime is committed, not the rationale behind it, that matters.
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Every single person who set foot in that building was guilty of sedition, 28 U.S.C. §2384. Every single one should be prosecuted for sedition. Their roles as ringleaders or followers can be taken into account at the sentencing phase, not before.
OR ELSE THEY'LL DO IT AGAIN.
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OR ELSE THEY'LL DO IT AGAIN.
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To beat Hitler, we had to kill or capture a lot of footsoldiers. That's war -- but we're AT war.
Or, as @DamoneWilliams_ more pithily put it:
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Or, as @DamoneWilliams_ more pithily put it:
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https://twitter.com/DamoneWilliams_/status/1347265256666656769
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