Posted on 09/07/2023 11:37:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
A court document filed on Tuesday has revealed that Department of Justice prosecutors are seeking a 120-day sentence for InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, who did not enter the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
The Biden DOJ claimed that Shroyer "spread election disinformation paired with violent rhetoric" to viewers in the months leading up to January 6, and that on the day, "Shroyer took to a megaphone before leading a crowd to the Capitol" and said "The Democrats are posing as communists, but we know what they really are: they’re just tyrants, they’re tyrants. And so today, on January 6, we declare death to tyranny! Death to tyrants!"
"Shroyer did not stop at the sight of tear gas or sounds of explosions on the west side of the Capitol. He continued marching around to the top of the east steps chanting '1776!,' where rioters would eventually violently breach the Capitol and its police line and halt the transfer of presidential power," the court document states.
"Shroyer did not step foot inside the Capitol, he did not need to; many of those who listened to him did instead. In the aftermath, he has blamed 'Antifa' and told his followers: 'We should have been proud of what happened.'"
The DOJ claimed that Shroyer "helped create January 6," in that he "stoked the flames of a potential disruption of the certification vote by streaming disinformation about alleged voter fraud and a stolen election to thousands, perhaps millions, of viewers of his program on InfoWars."
Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 120 days, 12 months of supervised release, 60 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution.
Prosecutors say that Shroyer’s previous arrest after disrupting a House Judiciary Committee meeting in 2019, in which he agreed not to engage in disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, as well as commentary he gave leading up to January 6, factored into their recommended sentence.
On January 6, Prosecutors allege that Shroyer, "After hearing that people may have breached the Capitol, " began leading a crowd of people down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Ellipse where Trump was speaking to the Capitol building.
"En route, Shroyer continued shouting to the crowd walking behind and around him through his megaphone: 'The traitors and communists that have betrayed us know we’re coming. We’re coming for all you commie traitors and communists that have stabbed us in the back. You’ve stabbed us in the back one too many times!'"
Shroyer entered Capitol grounds just before 1 pm, and began leading chants of "USA" west of the Capitol building.
Prosecutors say that a security guard for "Person One" spoke with a uniformed police officer in an attempt to de-escalate the situation. "The police officer tried to get them to go back out through the area where other rioters had breached; the group did not do so."
Shroyer was seen making his way to the steps of the Capitol building, where he once again led chants from the crowd.
Following the day, "Shroyer continued to peddle January 6th conspiracy theories on his Internet streaming show," prosecutors allege.
In one May 17 broadcast, Shroyer said "yeah, January 6 got a little out of control, yeah, there was some violence against the police, there was a little bit of violence to the building too, property damage," adding that January 6 was "like a mouse that roared."
In June, Shroyer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering a restricted area, according to the Associated Press. Shroyer will be sentenced on September 12.
Owen Shroyer Sentencing Memorandum by Hannah Nightingale on Scribd AT LINK.....................
So they arec criminalizing free speech. It was only a matter of time
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So any conservative campaigning is now a terrorist ?
That’s the next step
in their “ logic “.
When people fear government there is tyranny. When government fears the people there is freedom.
Paging Joe Stalin. Mr Stalin, please pick up the house courtesy phone please......
Did his defense counsel show the videos of all the top dims, including kameltoe, inciting violence during the 2020 BLM riots?
He was right about the democrats but it’s now illegal to say
1a rights should receive 20 year sentences.
Better they receive 9 00s.
Get ready for Operation Snowball.
Sounds like the tyrants are getting scared of the peasants.
Maybe they should be.
I agree, this is the beginning of the USSR style attacks on people that have differing beliefs. Soon, they will come after people reading the Bible on J6....
George Orwell-—”In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Yankee justice.
Yet Sullivan and Epps still walk free.
In the meantime, Hunter is being charges with some minor gun problem and spitting on the sidewalk... Hunter and pedo Peter are the traitors... but the sh*ts at the DOJ know that and don’t give a damn...
I have a thousand times more respect and sympathy for those J6 defendants who refused to make a deal and went to trial.
This is getting WAY out of hand.
Speech Crime.
120 days for a ‘crime’ that is not on the books. Starting to sound a little Stalinesque at the Department of Just-us.
The government no longer fears anything, and most certainly not the people.
1776
Americans peacefully declared independence in writing.
A tyrant sent in armed forces.
This was his second offense.
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