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[Regulus Tera]

At this point I'm more scared of Trump's cabinet than of Trump himself. The latter has shown to be incompetent in governance, the former are malicious and know how to take advantage of the system from decades of being in it.

 

[Lkr]

There's a fun bit of history from the UK about Rupert Allason, then an MP, and the satirical quiz show, Have I Got News For You:

LOL everything about this article is UK as fuck.

 

[Got]

Where are all those staunch "freedom of speech" folks from the Ann Coulter thread? Funny how they're silent all of a sudden...

Sorry, they're at there local KKK meeting or young Nazi rally. They missed this thread.

 

[rjinaz]

Can anybody defend this? I was ok with that judge holding that laughing Mother at that one case for contempt of court. But this is a whole different level. A trial? Sad times we live in. You kick her out. The end. Ban her from attending things like this in the future.

 

[Lkr]

Can anybody defend this? I was ok with that judge holding that laughing Mother at that one case for contempt of court. But this is a whole different level. A trial? Sad times we live in. You kick her out. The end. Ban her from attending things like this in the future.

Where's the trial for the jackass congressman that shouted you lie at Obama. Oh wait Obama isn't a little baby snowflake like conservatives.

 

[ruxtpin]

Sessions can go fuck himself. This entire administration is a fucking shit show. That is all.

 

[Bronx-Man]

No one laughs at the supreme leader!

 

[bionic77]

I think from now on when someone is singing the Star Spangled Banner when they get to the land of the free part, we should use air quotes for free.

 

[Trojita]

North Korea?

 

[Clefargle]

Maybe she can do it again when he is in court next

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

How is this even a thing.......

 

[Henry Jones Jr]

Yeah this is crazy. I hope the jury laughs at the prosecutor.

 

[Akuun]

Taking a page from Trump's behavior and just going out to sue everything.

This administration is truly every bad American stereotype rolled together.

Oh no, you ridiculed me for being a dickhead! Time to sue/bomb/shoot/deport you.

 

[Spiritwalker]

Sexists can't handle women laughing at them. It's like their worst nightmare or something.

 

[Slayven]

Where are all those staunch "freedom of speech" folks from the Ann Coulter thread? Funny how they're silent all of a sudden…

Funny how that happens

 

[PillarEN]

Boo. Freedom of speech c'mon now. This is un-American.

 

[Toxi]

How the fuck is this a thing.

 

[Trojita]

Fairooz laughed after Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who was introducing Sessions, said the then-junior senator from Alabama's history of "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented

I would have laughed at that quote too.

 

[Kurdel]

Chilling

 

[Mahonay]

Fuck this fascist administration and anyone who supports it. This is insane.

 

[Extra Sauce]

Did Colbert comment on this last night?

 

[jmdajr]

Tim Duncan ejected by Joey Crawford for laughing

 

[necrosis]

shit is scary

 

[CopperPuppy]

Where are all those staunch "freedom of speech" folks from the Ann Coulter thread? Funny how they're silent all of a sudden…

This can't be quoted enough.

Where ya'll at?

 

[shandy706]

Huh?!

There has to be more to this than laughing?!

 

[Boke1879]

Can't charge a cop for murdeing an unarmed man, but hey! Laughing at Jeff Sessions is totally is truly dispicable huh?

 

[old manatee]

Fairooz declined to accept a plea bargain from prosecutors

Good for her for not giving an inch to these swine.

 

[shandy706]

Good for her for not giving an inch to these swine.

That moment when you need a plea bargain for laughing.

Wow

Edit* After watching the video, the actual arrest of her was a MUCH bigger interference with proceedings. Time to arrest all the police that took her out of the court room.

 

[LegendofJoe]

How was this case not thrown out of court?

I was charged with disorderly conduct for throwing snowballs in college. The judge threw it out thankfully. Glad I wasn't throwing snowballs at Jeff Sessions, although maybe it would have been worth it.

 

[Cagey]

I hope someone is covering her legal defense. Having to spend money to defend against this lunacy is a hidden damage.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Remember when that GOP Representative stood up during an Obama address to Congress and screamed "YOU LIE!"? Remember how Obama put him on trial? Oh wait, no he didn't. Because Obama is a decent human being and the GOP are laughably evil chucklefucks. Apparently that guy who screamed "You lie" also got millions in campaign contributions immediately following the incident. How many of those donors do you suppose support punishing this woman for laughing at Sessions? It's got to be a solid 80%, yeah? Hypocritical fucks.

 

[jstripes]

The whole Trump administration is so utterly humourless. It's why Trump didn't attend the Correspondent's Dinner.

 

[cameron]

Guilty.

NYT: "Code Pink Protesters at Sessions Hearing Could Face Year in Prison"

A jury on Wednesday convicted three Code Pink protesters on charges that they disrupted the confirmation hearing of Jeff Sessions for attorney general — including a Virginia woman who said all she did was break out in laughter. Each could face up to 12 months in prison.

The Virginia woman, Desiree A. Fairooz, was found guilty of the two charges she faced: disorderly conduct and parading or demonstrating on Capitol grounds.

The jury also convicted two other activists in the group she was with, Tighe Barry and Lenny Bianchi, who were dressed as Ku Klux Klan members with white hoods and robes and stood up before the Jan. 10 hearing started.

They were acquitted on a count of disorderly conduct but were convicted on two separate charges of parading or demonstrating, Mr. Barry said.

 

[ahoyhoy]

This is so incredibly fucked up.

 

[Hollycat]

What was the plea bargain supposed to be?

20 years with no parole

 

[ezekial45]

Jeff Sessions is an insecure little shit. He's a vile individual, so I'm not surprised he's going this far.

 

[Lord Frieza]

Guilty.

NYT: "Code Pink Protesters at Sessions Hearing Could Face Year in Prison"

What the fuck!? This needs to get appealed, this is total bullshit

 

[Squirrel Killer]

Where are all those staunch "freedom of speech" folks from the Ann Coulter thread? Funny how they're silent all of a sudden…

I don't think I was in the Ann Coulter thread, but since I'm usually one of the more strident defenders of free speech, I'll pipe up and say prosecuting this woman for laughing is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[RustyNails]

This reads like some North Korea shit. On trial for laughter, what a world.

Well I do say Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III will not stand for breach in decorum and unladylike conduct!

 

[MCN]

America, you need to force these cunts out of power. Revolt if you must. Take the fight to them, and make sure their type are never able to show their faces in public ever again.

 

[zeemumu]

There was a trial not too long ago where the mother of a drunk driver who killed someone laughed during her kid's sentencing or something and the judge threw her in jail for a day because she gave her a written apology

 

[Gordon Shumway]

lol..Pathetic.

 

[How About No]

This is fucked

 

[RustyNails]

America, you need to force these cunts out of power. Revolt if you must. Take the fight to them, and make sure their type are never able to show their faces in public ever again.

Well, 43 million people who voted for Trump are racists or support racism and xenophobia. Garbage in garbage out.

 

[Dyle]

It was early in the hearing when Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, said that Mr. Sessions’s record of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented,” Ariel Gold, the campaign director of Code Pink, said on Wednesday. Ms. Fairooz said that, on hearing that, she let out a giggle.

I would have laughed at that too. Stuff like this makes it seem risky to even attend government events in case you end up getting arrested for some kind of absurd charge like this, which of course is exactly the intent of pursuing cases like these.

 

[mAcOdIn]

https://books.google.com/books?id=N...Second Words: Selected Critical Prose&f=false

"'Why do men feel threatened by women?' I asked a male friend of mine. [...] 'I mean,' I said, 'men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them,' he said.' 'Undercut their world view.' Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?" 'They're afraid of being killed,' they said."

????

 

[Journeywalker]

Guilty.

NYT: "Code Pink Protesters at Sessions Hearing Could Face Year in Prison"

This is despicable. I hope the libertarians and snowflake projectionists revolt over this ridiculous breach of the First Ammendment. There's gotta be a video of the laughing woman, right? C-Span maybe?

Edit: Found the footage. I'm making inferences, but it sounds like the woman was asked to leave because she laughed, and only started to "demonstrate" when she was being physically dragged out of the room.

Footage via New York Magazine

 

[epmode]

Guilty.

NYT: "Code Pink Protesters at Sessions Hearing Could Face Year in Prison"

Convicted by a jury. How on earth did they get a unanimous decision?

 

[2Smashed4U]

????

Reads like that's what the woman was saying to this guy.

 

[Lambtron]

Fuck Jeff "KKKeebler Klansman" Sessions.