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I'll remind you about 1972:

https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.)

Current times aren't even that spicy.

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I think there's a reasonable chance that the judge and prosecutors in this case are familiar with _Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence_ by Bryan Burrough; and consider the failure of the criminal justice system of the time to impose extremely severe prison sentences on the domestic bombers of the 1970s to be a mistake that they do not intend to repeat.

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