Most Americans Want Harsher Punishments For Capitol Rioters - Ring of Fire
A new poll this week found that a slim majority of Americans believe that the Capitol Rioters are not being punished severely enough. This is actually a sentiment that first arose with many of the judges overseeing the trials who, months ago, said that prosecutors were being too lenient with the rioters and reducing the charges against them when there was no need to do that. But this could all change in this new year, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
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Yet even secessionist leaders, specifically Robert E Lee, General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States, faced no punishment after their Civil War defeat. He only suffered the loss of some of his land (now Arlington National Cemetery) and his family was compensated for it after his death. Not to mention that he became president of Washington College which was later named Washington and Lee in his honor, even though he looked the other way when a KKK chapter was established there. And in 1975, President Gerald Ford posthumously restored his citizenship even though Secretary of State William Seward had turned down his application in 1865.
I don't condone hanging, but we need to do better this time. We can't let this happen again. 
