RNC Bus Bomber Charged with Multiple Felonies Gets...56 Days?!

During the 2008 presidential campaign, a harmless little anarchist lamb joined up with some of his buddies and proceeded to drop 50 pound bags of sand and cement onto buses which were transporting delegates to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, MN. This is domestic terrorism and attempted murder, plain and simple. People who drop heavy objects from overpasses and kill or maim someone would normally face serious consequences.

Now, as a criminal lawyer, I am not opposed to plea deals for suspects charged with a crime, especially when there is clear videotape evidence of the crime (as was the case here). But never in my experience nor in my wildest professional wet dreams would any of my clients have ever gotten a deal like the one that was given to domestic terrorist Dave Mahoney today. Mr. Mahoney was facing up multiple felonies that could have landed him up to 20 years in prison, but instead, he will serve 56 days in jail and then be allowed to return to England. No, that is not a typo, no matter how much it should be one.

First off, if this were a Republican operative bombing a bus full of Democrat delegates, the mainstream media would be howling at the ridiculousness of such a plea bargain. Second, the press would have kept such a story on the front page from September of last year until the end of the world as proof that Republicans are inherently evil and violent. Third, not only has the mainstream media not uttered a peep about this story, none of the local outlets that cover it would even identify the now convicted felon as a Democrat, which he certainly is. Fourth, and finally, shouldn't this guy be forced to stay in the States for some kind of professional help, forced medication, therapy, or at least minimal supervision?

This plea deal smells to high heaven, and just like most other smelly pleas to which I have been a witness, this guy a.) has the best legal team since the pastor's wife who murdered her husband in Tennessee got her 7 months for cutting her husband in half with a shotgun as he slept; b.) is well connected politically with friends in high places in the judicial system or political arena, or, most likely, c.) some combination of both. Shame on the prosecutors who offered this deal, the judge who accepted, and on this felon scum who will ultimately face true justice, be it in this world or the next.