Judge, don’t cancel me!
That was the essence of the 31-page sentencing memorandum from Capitol rioter Paul Hodgkins, 38, of Tampa, who pleaded guilty to obstructing an official proceeding last month and likely faces one or two years in prison.
“We now live in a county that seeks to cancel one another,” Hodgkins’ attorney Patrick N. Leduc wrote in the memo. “It is the end state and the result of becoming a post-Christian society.”
Aren’t our prisons full of people "…who for just one hour on one day, lost his bearings and his way.”?
Asks Court Not To ‘Cancel’ Him With Prison Time
Just like you weren’t calling for the canceling of Pence’ neck.
“Law-abiding, hardworking, honest, caring, kind, thoughtful, generous, and the kind of person you would love to have for a neighbor. It is the story of man who for just one hour on one day, lost his bearings and his way.”
Lots of murders take far less than one full hour and they’re in prison for life.
And, yes, how this shithead is treated does send a message to the rest of the country. Lock his ass up!
So it went: Hodgkins had a momentary lapse of judgement, Leduc argued
A momentary lapse of judgement that somehow transported him from Tampa, FL, to DC, then had him walking more than a mile from the white house to the capitol, and ignoring cops’ orders to stay out.
LeDuc: “Up is down, and east is west, dammit!!”
And here I thought I was good at fanciful bullshit…
(Is Paul the cheerful “Florida Man” who was pictured hauling away the top of the Speaker’s lectern as a souvenir?)
hhhhmmmm…I seem to remember that the historical Christianity that Lawyer Leduc misses is full of state-sponsored consequences for sinning that include banishment, torture, prison or execution. Why is this lawyer so stupid?? Is it because his client is stupid for having become Trump’s Sucker, something that took far longer than one hour of indiscretion? Sorry, but if you f•ck one sheep, you are now a sheep-f•cker.
Judge Randolph Moss, appointed by Obama.
Huh? You break the law but you shouldn’t pay the penalty because it ‘cancels’ you? And the attorney parroted this before a judge? Really???
Not to worry Paul. You are not going to be cancelled. You are going to corrections. It’s for your own good. Take some classes. See the shrink.
He tried to cancel the election and, by extension, tried to cancel democracy in the US.
Two years in prison is a mighty small price to pay. And his sentencing will be a message to the country - don’t try to overthrow the government just because your guy lost fair and square.
One or two years in prison is not a cancellation.
It’s more like being put on pause.
Hodgkins should have is ass in jail. He didn’t give a shit about being cancelled when he raided the Capitol, now he wants mercy. Bull shit on that.
Poor judge. He is supposed to read 31 pages of this tripe?
He’s right about the part where he concedes that his client’s actions were most like those of Confederate soldiers. (I’m not suggesting that he knows he conceded that. But assuming the judge is paying attention to the written words, the client will soon realize his kinship with the traitors of yore.)
If he were canceled, wouldn’t that make him a non-Hodgkins?
“This case is the story of a man who represents all that we would want in our fellow Americans,” Leduc said near the beginning of the sentencing memo. “Law-abiding, hardworking, honest, caring, kind, thoughtful, generous, and the kind of person you would love to have for a neighbor. It is the story of man who for just one hour on one day, lost his bearings and his way.”
His neighbors are really going to miss him.
He definitely has a lymph something.
