Unlike Islamic Terrorists, Neo-Nazi Terrorists Don’t Get Life Sentences
Kevin Harpham, who attempted to bomb the MLK Day Parade in Spokane, WA, just reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. Prosecutors will recommend a 27-32 year prison term.
Kevin Harpham reached a deal with federal prosecutors for a recommended sentencing range of 27 to 32 years in prison just days before his trial was to begin in U.S. District Court.
Prosecutors say the pipe bomb was loaded with lead fishing weights coated in a chemical.
Now remember, Harpham did the same thing Faisal Shahzad did: attempt to bomb a public venue. Both men were charged with attempting to use a WMD. And while Shahzad was charged with more crimes, Harpham’s crime was also treated as a hate crime, and the bomb he built was more sophisticated than Shahzad’s.
So why does Harpham–who is 37–have the hope of being free one day, whereas Shahzad got sent away for life? Why does a citizen on one side of the continent get life for attempting to use a WMD to kill randoms passers by, whereas a citizen on the other side of the continent who attempts to use a WMD to kill victims selected by race get a lesser sentence?
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Because Harpham is “white”, and Shahzad is not?
Unfortunately, exactly.
Shahzad can use this as a lever to claim selective enforcement, to which the USG would point out that WA is in the so-called “liberal” 9th Circuit territory.
@Rhetorical Answer: I was thinking along similar lines. Such as:
1. One is white and the other isn’t.
2. One is a “natural” American and the other is somehow “naturalized” who was born somewhere else.
3. One has an “American” name and the other doesn’t.
4. One is probably a Christian and the other is definitely not.
5. One attempted to harm the center-of-the-universe New York City and the other merely some obscure socialistic commune on the Left Coast.
6. One must have been a “Patriot” defending Real Americans and the other was attacking Real Americans.
I could go on, but as one can clearly tell, Lady Justice was able to peek out from her blindfold to make sure the right people get Justice while the wrong people don’t. /s