Talking About...U.S. Conservatism: Why did James Alex Fields from the Charlottesville protests get recommended 419 years in prison for killing one person?
Why did James Alex Fields from the Charlottesville protests get recommended 419 years in prison for killing one person? If he were a liberal and rammed his car into Trump supporters and killed people, would he get the same harsh sentence? I really hate questions written by “conservative” zealots that seek to demonize fellow Americans who happen to hold different views on how the country should be governed. Not only are they insincere (not seeking real answers but, rather, making a political statement instead), but they are not well thought-out. Still, I’ll answer it, even though I seriously doubt it will enlighten the dude that wrote this, ahem, question. Firstly, James Allen Fields, Jr. deserves what he got for driving his car into a crowd of people who were counter-protesting a Neo-Nazi rally and killed a young woman, Heather Heyer. A life sentence in prison is far better than he deserves, actually, seeing as to how Ms. Heyer is dead and Mr. Neo-Na...