A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.”
Christopher Joseph Quaglin argued with and insulted U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden before and after the judge handed him one of the longest prison sentences among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
“You’re Trump’s worst mistake of 2016,” Quaglin told McFadden, who was nominated to the court by then-President Donald Trump in 2017.
“What an outrage. What a disgrace,” the judge said.
Quaglin complained about his jail conditions and pushed conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 siege during his rambling remarks in the courtroom. He also took issue with labeling the Jan. 6 attack as an insurrection.
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8
4 U.S. Code § 8 - Respect for flag
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
I mean, there’s no punishment for it, but…
Honestly I’d be happy if there was punishment for it. Assholes running around screaming about the flag should be called to the table on defacing it.
I’m pretty sure that only counts for remaking a literal flag into one of those things, not clothes, bedding, or drapery designed to look like one.
Silly distinction, I know, but that’s how it usually goes in that FUBAR “justice” system…
People burn the flag, and I think most of us feel we should have the right to burn it even if we personally find it distasteful. (I think I’ve said that exact same thing before to people on the right about folks on the left.) These people are assholes and criminals, but let’s apply the law equally to all. I wouldn’t endorse punishing someone on the left for disrespecting the flag, so I wouldn’t endorse it for someone on the right. We’ve caught them committing actual crimes, and that’s sufficient for me.
Just like the Second Amendment, there was no possible way for our ancestors to foresee the multitudinous manners of future flag disrespect.
That’s not true. Abraham Lincoln designed the flag specifically to prevent it from being disrespected. The color choices make it physically impossible to defecate on.
