We previously discussed the case of two New York attorneys (Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman) who joined in violent protests in New York, including firebombing a police vehicle. The Biden Justice Department later gave the two lawyers an astonishingly generous plea deal that avoided long prison sentences. Now Rahman has been sentenced to 15 months after asking for no jail time for throwing the Molotov cocktail.
Mattis was a member of the Corporate Group at Pryor Cashman when he was arrested. Mattis graduated from New York University School of Law in 2016 and received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. He was also previously employed as an associate at Holland & Knight.
Rahman had just been admitted to the New York bar in June 2019 after graduating from Fordham University School of Law.
The police also had a picture of Rahman with the explosive. The FBI statement included the following description:
“Officers pursued the minivan and arrested Rahman and Mattis, who was the vehicle’s driver. The NYPD recovered several precursor items used to build Molotov Cocktails, including a lighter, a bottle filled with toilet paper and a liquid suspected to be gasoline in the vicinity of the passenger seat and a gasoline tank in the rear of the vehicle.”
Mattis and Rahman were facing domestic terrorism charges and the possibility of 30 years in jail. The Biden Administration later agreed to a massive reduction of the charges in a plea agreement that would likely result only in a couple years of jail time. What is particularly bizarre is that the plea agreement reduced an earlier plea agreement for a more serious offense. They had agreed to the more serious offense but the Justice Department cut it down further.
The now-disbarred attorney sought no jail time and told the court that “I completely lost my way in the emotion of the night.”
U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan praised Rahman for her commitment to fighting social injustices: “You’re a remarkable person who did a terrible thing on one night.” Cogan, however, also criticized her “arrogance” displayed in such conduct. Firebombing seems a tad more than arrogance when you throw Molotov cocktails at police cars.
Even with the greatly reduced charges, Cogan still elected not to give Rahman the maximum sentence of two years. While Rahman claimed to have been caught up in the moment, her texts and emails established a difficult story. In one message hours before the protest, she told Mattis “I hope they burn everything down. Need to burn all the police stations down… probably all the courts too.”
Mattis is expected to be sentenced in December.
What these Democratic arsonist did was all the Republicans fault. If the Republicans would have just listened to Joe Biden and helped him to eliminate all fossil fuels these freedom fighters wouldn’t have been able to buy the gasoline to make their Molotov Cocktails. I once knew a man who had been in jail for two years because he was an arsonist. After he sniffed his glue he would light the plastic bag on fire and stare with a locked gaze as it burned. When he was in prison he would light his she polish on fire to watch it burn. They took his shoe polish away after he threw the hot wax on a guard. He too wanted to “Burn it all down.” Until you witness a man with a fascination for fire it is hard to comprehend his danger to society. It will be interesting to see if these two lovers of the inferno will be repeat offenders. The man I knew was a repeat offender because he just couldn’t help himself.
Dear Prof Turley,
It is not so much the leniency of this bleeding-heart liberal Judge’s ruling that bothers me as it is the harshness of the sentences handed down to the poor Jan 6 bleeding crowd. Especially, the buffalo horned shaman ~ he never hurt no nobody – serving a 4 yr. sentence. For what? (note. his short stint as Senate president pro tem was a welcome relief from the usual ideolog pig wrestling, for me.)
Update. It would appear the GOP has found the Laptop!
*still no word on if the Laptop is classic “Russian disinformation”? (h/t 50 Intelligence officials)
I have to go off subject to write about an article from CNN. You know, the protectors of the poor and the elderly. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/success/home-heating-prices/index.html. I’ll give you a short test. What kills more people, cold weather or Covid? There is a well known fact. If you produce less of something that is high in demand the price will go up. Did you consider this when you cast your vote? Duh!
Thinkitthrough: Thank you for noting that article. Here is another OT one, published yesterday by CNN’s sister flagship in that flotilla of Truth, -MSN-, slamming and maligning Professor Turley. Tsk. Tsk.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-happened-to-jonathan-turley-really/ar-AA14gzQZ
Lin, thanks for your response. The article you provided was based on the premise that Professor Turley only criticizes Democrats. Trump got his share of criticism from the Professor. I can’t seem to recall a Republican who has advocated for the elimination of the constitution. Sadly the writer of this article writes from the same echo chamber occupied by the leftist on this blog. Alas I am sad. If I would have known how easy it would have been to write something that misstates the facts I too might have found a lucrative career at the Atlantic Magazine. I just didn’t think about doing it just for the money.
It was a 13 degree low last night.
With both wood stoves going, it was a pleasant 64 in the house this morning.
I know, for some that would be unimaginable.
Upstate Farmer: Actually, I was thinking of you this a.m. Glad to know you’re “up and at ’em,” (as my mom used to say when waking us up on cold school mornings). We tried packing snow down the front of our pajamas one morning, hoping it would give us “croup” and we could stay home. All it did was melt on our chests and make the sheets wet, which my mother made us change, adding insult to injury.
Lin,
Well, thank you! I feel honored to have been in your thoughts even if it was a fleeting thought.
That morning, had to break out the long johns.
Last Wednesday we got just over 2 feet of snow. Typical Upstate winter.
UpstateFarmer, don’t you know that a tree is a living creature too. I can’t understand how you woodn’t know.
Thinkitthrough: Ha ha ha. You and Darren can keep us going on cold days like this! (assuming it is cold where you are)
TiT,
That was terrible.
I like it!
In today’s forecast, 10-12 inches with winds in the upper teens, gusts as high as 30mph. That wind thing is where things get dangerous.
Those on the left do not care about anything but the direct immediately visible effects of their acts.
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Economics is hard – not because the rules of economics are hard – most are really simple.
But because the world itself is incredibly complex.
The law of supply and demand is immutable.
But it is not always possible to determine before hand what the cascading effects of a two week shutdown of the port of Shanghai will be.
Or what the effects of a fire in on semiconductor Fab will be.
On their own free markets are resiliant and quite adept at correcting for normal imbalances.
As an example the two week shutdown in Shanghai is what ultimately lead to the backup at the port of LA that has really never cleared.
At Shanghai when they reopened they rushed to quickly ship out the backlog created by the shutdown – the port of Shanghai was not over burderned by Government and other rules.
When this surge hit Port of LA they were never able to adapt, union work rules and the NLRB precluded hiring more people, New CA rules precluded increasing the volume of trucks to transport more containers.
The actual maximum capactiy of the ports was never even close to reached. But the capacity of artificially limited components was.
Current problems with energy are easily solveable, but they are not quickly solveable. We can produce more oil, we can produce more natural gas, We can refine more gasoline. There is much more oil available from Canada, Alaska, the Dakota’s Texas. There is much more natural gas available from those as well as most of the Appalachian mountain plains. We need more pipelines to move what can be easily produced,
more permits to drill and pump more oil, more refineries to convert oil to gas. We need more LNG terminals on the east coast – if we are going to export more to the EU where it is desparately needed.
Some of this takes as much as a decade. ALl of it was moving forward under Trump. All of it was stalled under Biden.
Biden rants that oil companies are not using the drilling permits they have – that is true. All leases are not productive, Further some leases are merely to secure the rights to oil and gas that is extracted elsewhere. Further pipelines are at capacity – more drilling right now, means more oil that can not be cost effectively transported. In the US it costs about $9/barrel to transport Crude oil by train – that is almost the most dangerous and expensive way to do so. The cost to transport by pipeline is a tiny fraction of that. Further over decades the US built infrastructure for crude oil coming in mostly along the Gulf of Mexico to refineries along the coast and transported by truck or pipeline from there through the country.
US crude production is not near those refineries, and even if new refineries were built – new pipelines would have to connect to the existing distribution system to get that gasoline to market. The original Keystone XL was completed under Trump and that has vastly improved the US energy positon – and it has also massively stabalized the world. Under Trump the US did not need fossil fuels from the Mideast or Russia or South America. This reduced the leverage of energy producing countries globally. The new Keystone XL was quickly maxed out with crude from Canada and from the Dakotas and Texas, and an additional pipeline was approved and started that would approximately double the capacity of the original.
It is not absolutely necessary for the US to produce large quantities of fossil fuels. But national and global security is negatively impacted if the US can not produce that oil and gas.
And that is what we have seen over the past 2 years. Had US oil and gas infrastructure project been allowed to go through – Russia would have had little leverage over Europe.
It does nto matter if europe buys oil and gas from Russia or the mideast. What matters is whether it must do so or can chose to go elsewhere.
Biden’s energy policies meant that Europe’s only source for the quanties of oil and gas needed were Russia and the mideast.
And that is a major factor leading Putin to beleive he could succeed in invading Ukraine.
So a collection of bad decisions made by the Bidenistas 2 years ago, have resulted in a war that has driven energy prices up globally and impacted food supplies in multiple ways.
Absolutely the war drove gas prices up. But the bad policies were one of several mistakes by Biden that made the war much more likely.
And the entire world will see high oil and gas prices – higher electric prices, higher heating bills, more deaths from cold, reduced fertilizer and higher fertilizer costs, and reduced food for years to come.
With all this happening to a very fragile post covid economy that has been weakened by massive covid releif spending.
When most people in the country think we are headed int he wrong direction – they are absolutely right.
But people are aparently not voting like they understand the cost of bad policies.
so Actual Terrorism is now 15months? But walking into Capital on Jan 6th…is a lifetime sentence!
Of course. One was just a two bit arson, the other was a Sacrilege against the Holy Basilica of their God of Government.
The difference is that the defendants in Washington, D.C. are conservatives in a jurisdiction that is very liberal to the point of jury nullification where a clearly innocent conservative defendant was convicted vs two liberal defendants in a very liberal jurisdiction with the heavy hand of the DoJ pushing down the charges.
Maybe those juries in DC are hostages to the Anti-American Tyrants?
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Emotion of the night is the now the new justification by the defense. I expect that this new defense will soon be used by the people shooting up the streets of Chicago. The emotion that they are explaining is the emotion known as anger. So now if a person is angry when any crime is committed said person should get a lighter sentence. But judge, I was angry when I beat my girlfriend’s face to a pulp so give me a break. It was just the emotion of the night when I broke my kids arm so give me a break. It was the emotion of the night when the arsonist decided to “Burn it all Down”. Give me a brake!
I need a “hero”, a Democrat “hero”, he has to shoot first, she has to kick until…
If they were white and firebombed police cars at Jan 6th… they’d be sentenced to life in prison.
Yep ! It ain’t rightto be white !
Is wanting to burn down “all of the police stations and the courts too” an insurrection? Huh Svelaz? Hun Anonymous? Come on Svelaz, are you going to condemn these two or are you going to complain about Turley and Fox News?
I am willing to bet anyone that within 5 years these two will have their licenses back and will either be working at a firm or teaching at a university. Any takers?
We were all waiting for the light sentence, all it took was some time to try to let people forget about the case.
This is life in DOUBLESTANDARDSTAN. “I pledge allegiance to the party, the Democratic party of the United States of Doublestandardstan….” The double standard that is happening under this DOJ is the biggest threat to democracy I have ever seen, and I have been following politics since the 60s.
More “structural stupidity” (as Jon Haidt might say) from the denizens of Woke World. In a sane world, we’d jail that judge and free that bomber. The former does much more societal damage in the quest for feminine niceness than the molotov tosser could ever do.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
~C. S. Lewis
Very decent chance these two end up on the payroll of a so called “prestigious academic institution” in less than five years.
The shocking thing will be if they do NOT end up on the payroll of Columbia, NYU, Yale, or Princeton.
Just curious, didn’t a host of folks get 3X that amount for trespassing at the Capitol?
All terrorist are created equal, only some are more equal than others.
Apparently, some “domestic terrorists” are more likeable than others. Bomb a police car and you’re just following your heart — and the current Democratic cop-hating agenda. But take a 4-hour selfie at the Capitol after being stirred up by the FBI plants, and you get dumped down a dark hole for years.
They will be out before the pre trial detainees from the “January 6 insurrection” ever see the inside of a courtroom. We are ruled by tyrants.
“I completely lost my way in the emotion of the night.”
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Molotov Crocodile Tears
(Darren Smith, don’t know how to “like” comments but this is one of your really good ones,Thanks on a Saturday morn’!
That’s kind of like the way Dante’s Inferno begins.
Wow!! G K Chesterton was quoted recently on here by Olly, then I repeated another Chesterton quote, Mespo quoted CS Lewis above, and now Dante by you! I knew I’d make Catholics out of all of you eventually.
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Salve Regina
Starts at about 42:40 on for a short bit.
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Well, they’re freaking Democrats. What should we expect? Maybe a few years in the DC gulag with the rest of the “domestic terrorists”? No, no, no. They will be treated well and get out in plenty of time to vote for Biden in 2024. Is there any wonder why many citizens detest the ‘new’ Justice Department at every level?
“U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan praised Rahman for her commitment to fighting social injustices . . .”
In other words: Wear a t-shirt with the right slogans, and you’ll receive a get out of jail free card.
Being disbarred is it’s own reward….having read Law and trudged through bar exams, that is a HUGE SPANK…ALMOST 4 years of drudgery when you include the LSAT…THAT SHMUCK GOT WHAT SHE DESERVED.
Josh Stern: Until it is reversed, and they are given a ticker tape parade in their honor. Check it out in a couple of years.
All the more reason he should have gotten 20 years. And an enhancement for such a stupid “caught up in the emotion” comment.
He should be in Biden’s Gitmo cooling his heels while waiting a few years for his trial.
judge to J6 prisoner. “You are a remarkable person. You care for honest elections. You served our country as a Marine and put your own life at risk in Iraq and Afghanistan. One day you did something stupid. You trespassed Ito the Capitol unarmed. In edition to the 2 years you have in in pretrial detention, asa domestic terorist, I give you 6 more years.”
Yes if you hate the country you get a light sentence if you love the country your are a risk to the globalists and must be punished.
The partisan bias shown in this case is astonishing but, unfortunately, not surprising. Justice no longer exists at the Justice Department. And partisan judges are readily available.