What's with Americans and jail time? Seven years for unlawful obstruction of traffic??? Honestly? How did they come up with that figure? It reminds me of sentences I hear of the convicted sentenced to 685 years. As if that's ever going to be served.

I'm reminded of the Sheriff in the movie PAUL who asks Simon Pegg's character if it's true British police officers don't carry guns. Pegg says, Yes. The Sheriff, stunned, asks how they expect to shoot anyone. Pegg replies they try not to.

Honestly, they are the people who dumped a ton of tea in Boston Harbour because of a sales tax! They were outraged because George III allowed the Quebeckers to keep their land, their language, and their religion. 

Trump thinks flag-burners should do serious jail time. And yet pro-Nazis like Henry Ford and Prescott Bush were ignored by the Democrats. Republicans, on the other hand, tried to brand every New Dealer as a Communist. America is a very strange country.