The entire case screams of the persecution of one type of person, while the government ignore the same sort of thing in a different place done by different people. There have been plenty of occasions where others could be said to have done the same. What worries me is the ability of a judge to become an activist and to sentence someone to consecutive sentences, unusual in these days, concurrent being the norm. The judgement was unnecessarily punitive, it was meant to send a message, so we are sending one back.”
No one in that crowd would disagree that he was sailing close to the wind. But he was sentenced to say ‘we don’t want coverage of this sort of trial.’”
