(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:58PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:58PM (#399288)
Nixon's "Plumbers", at a minimum, faced charges of Breaking and Entering (the locked doors at Ted Kennedy's campaign headquarters in the Watergate Complex). That's a felony, where trespassing is an infraction (not even a misdemeanor).
Had Nixon been impeached, the charge would have been conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation (a felony).
Spray painting a slogan on a piece of heavy equipment, which can be painted over by someone else with a minimum of effort/materials, sounds, at most, like a misdemeanor to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:58PM
Nixon's "Plumbers", at a minimum, faced charges of Breaking and Entering (the locked doors at Ted Kennedy's campaign headquarters in the Watergate Complex).
That's a felony, where trespassing is an infraction (not even a misdemeanor).
Had Nixon been impeached, the charge would have been conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation (a felony).
Spray painting a slogan on a piece of heavy equipment, which can be painted over by someone else with a minimum of effort/materials, sounds, at most, like a misdemeanor to me.
The events are not even remotely congruent.
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