They always sing a different tune in front of the judge after pleading guilty.
I guess you can’t blame scum like this for doing anything they can that might get them leniency they don’t deserve.
Acting like they deserve leniency is their standard tactic. The latest in this hit parade is one Imelda Acosta, aka “Mariposa Castro,” who urged her social media followers to join the Capitol riot while livestreaming it from inside the building.
According to prosecutors, CNN says (story here) “she decided to join rioters at the Capitol after watching news reports from her hotel room. After being told by other guests at her hotel that ‘Vice President Pence was a traitor,’ [she] decided, ‘I’m not taking this! NO,’ prosecutors wrote in a court filing.”
Let’s back up a little here. What she decided “not to take” is the right of 81 million of us, some of whom stood in cold and rain for hours to vote, to choose the president we wanted. And her and her friends’ way of “not taking it” was force and violence.
This piece of human excrement belongs in a cistern, but the judge gave her only 45 days in a standard jail, plus a $5,000 fine, for trying to incite a civil war and the overthrow of our democratically elected government. That seems very light to me. If she tried that in Putin’s Russia, she’d end up like this.
At her sentencing, Acosta told the judge “she was a peaceful person” (BS alert!!) and “I wish I could have yelled and screamed more about love,” adding, “There’s no need for war if we only just spread love.” Like she was doing on January 6th?
It didn’t go over well. “That day you seemed to be calling for war,” [Judge] Walton interjected. “Contrary to what you’re saying now … you seemed to be happy about what was going on. You did not seem to be a peace-loving person. You seemed to be someone who was seeking to inspire others” to insurrection.
Practice tip: If you’re going before a judge to be sentenced, or you’re a rookie lawyer representing someone who is, operate on the assumption that gullible fools don’t become judges. Instead, deal with the situation as it is, which among other things involves admitting you (or your client) is the gullible fool. You’ll get a more receptive hearing that way, and possibly even more leniency than you deserve.
That sure looks like inciting rioting, insurrection, civil war, and murder of public officials to me. She deserves years, not days, in jail.CNN noted, “Before handing down his sentence, [Judge Walton] said he had ‘been reading a couple books of how civil wars start,'” and asked, “What happens next time around? … If there’s no real consequence, then people will say ‘why not do it again.'”