I am going to try to keep this one short…I promise nothing. I was recently shown a bright, shining example of revisionist historical story telling. I will spare you the details, but I will say that it fools almost no one. If you say, for example, “all I did was report to the police I saw a man shoot up a school yard and they arrested me for punching a baby”, it just makes you look like an idiot. In the history of everything ever that was ever a thing, no one has ever reported a crime, having done nothing illegal themselves, and been given the penalty for the crime they never participated in and were simply reporting that someone else did. It is simply not a thing.
If you have a friend that tells you they have done absolutely nothing illegal, but then, received a penalty greater than the person would have received for the actual offense, they are lying. You should shun them and remove them from your life. Just saying.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.