Leaving aside the odious comparison to Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Howard caused severe economic damage, in the millions of dollars, in addition to the inconvenience he caused thousands of people. But I guess that’s alright because coloradan wasn’t inconvenienced, and it as all other people’s money.
I don’t think you got my point. I think Howard’s crimes are far greater than Swartz’s, and was comparing that he got a single felony, while Swartz got 13. I would be happy to charge Howard with thousands of felonies, one for each passenger whose flight was canceled by his actions, and another for each individual unit he disabled or destroyed, and furthermore attempted murder charges for each of the people then in the building he set alight. And I would seek damages from his personal wealth to all those people. For Pete’s sake, tampering with a smoke detector on a flight is a federal felony, wouldn’t you think that cutting cables to ATC radar while planes are in the air is a wee bit worse? Sheesh.
By the way I was inconvenienced, I think that was the same day I was supposed to fly through DFW, but it was canceled there because of thunderstorms - and the fact of all the extra flights displaced because Chicago was shut down.