While the United States Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the Luzerne County, pennsylvania court of common pleas hands down commonwealth v. Turkos: judge Michael T. Vough sentences David Turkos, a former Dupont Borough statute enforcement officer, to between 9 and 23 months of work release for the repeated raping  of two pre-school boys.

       Question: Would Turkos have received as lenient a sentence had he not been an SEO?

       [added 3/15/2023] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.