It should be uniformly enforced.So, you don't think justice needs to be uniformly enforced to be justice ?
You think the prohibition on arbitrary and capricious punishment should be abolished ?
Would be be OK for them to require a license for greenhouse gas emissions, then just ignore it for their friends and fine all their enemies for breathing ?
There are a few big differences though. Assuming we are talking about Kenosha type riots vs. J6. Here is a short list of how they differ:
- Jurisdiction. One is federal, another state. This matters a lot, it's not the same people that would do the prosecuting in both locations.
- The crimes committed. One is trying to take over the capitol building, the other vandalism / arson.
- Motive: j6 was intended to interrupt the governmental process of transfer of power from an election. The other was rioting, some of it from protest, others just because they could.
I'm not saying crimes should go unpunished. They should be punished. I'm saying that just because a completely unrelated crime in a different jurusdiction with different availability of evidence and investigative resources wasn't prosecuted that doesn't and shouldn't give anyone a free pass.
I'll never feel sorry for someone going to prison after committing crimes under their own will.