Posted on 12/10/2022 3:56:36 AM PST by Libloather
A married couple from Largo who admitted entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was sentenced to jail time Friday.
Marilyn Fassell, 59, a nursing assistant who gained notoriety through a selfie she took while smoking a cigarette inside the building, was sentenced to 30 days and three years probation.
Her husband Thomas Fassell, 68, a retired postal worker and Air Force veteran, was sentenced to seven days and two years probation.
“There are lawful means available in a democracy to challenge actions you disagree with which don’t include a violent insurrection,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said during the sentencing.
Prosecutors had requested 60 days of incarceration for Marilyn Fassell, stating in a recent filing that, “Fassell encouraged other rioters to proceed ... celebrated the fact that the rioters had overwhelmed police ... and showed no remorse when she spoke to the media following her arrest in September 2021.”
For Thomas Fassell, prosecutors requested 30 days incarceration, they said, because he went inside despite seeing overturned police barricades and smashed glass, breathing tear gas and hearing a blaring security alarm, and because he later tried to minimize his responsibility in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times.
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The only “violence” exercised in the entry into the Capitol building was on the part of Antifa and BLM thugs that were stirring among the crowd and trying to arouse the otherwise peaceful swarm through agitation, including the breaking of windows, slugging at the Capitol police, and firing a weapon into an unarmed crowd of people, killing Ashli Babbitt. I consider that Capitol policeman to be an ally of the BLM and Antifa thugs.
And Ray Epps is running free, nearly two years later.
Often these articles seem posted to make fun, but few words are as true as these:
“There are lawful means available in a democracy to challenge actions you disagree with which don’t include a violent insurrection,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said during the sentencing.
Let’s end the “victim card” histrionics already, and elect a winner in 2024, not a whiner.
What do you call a Republic with fake elections? A dictatorship. Our young dictatorship already has political prisoners and show trials now. Unless we end in mail in voting America will become the most evil empire the world has ever seen.
60 days. And after having already been jailed for two years?
“Fassell encouraged other rioters to proceed ...
Ray Epps unavailable for comment.
“gained notoriety through a selfie she took”
Each and every on of these people incriminated themselves. Observe and learn.
Anyone know if they get credit for time served?
What BS.
They weren't charged with "violent insurrection", you stupid hair lipped bit**.!
Will we ever know if they were both tortured and raped, as so many others have been?
Read this article, and the one directly preceding it posted by MtnClimber “A Foundation of Sand”, and you’ll get the picture.
China has that distinction.
Yowser--two fashionable Liberal terms in one sentence! "Democracy" and "Insurrection" are the trendy journo-liberal words to use at every opportunity. No doubt Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (with her hyphenated surnames) is a raving loony liberal.
“There are lawful means available in a democracy to challenge actions you disagree “
Yeah! If,say, someone steals an election you get it before a judge and…oh…wait…
These scumbags not only block all redress but they call Jan 6 an insurrection besides. They’re playing hard ball and we haven’t even put on our cleats. THEY WANT TO COVICT PEOPLE OF CAPITAL CRIMES for something that never got as violent as an average leftist “demonstration” perpetrated in the last fifty years.
Who is the winner you have in mind? DeSantis is not running.
So I guess you are ok with General warrants?
I don’t think they were held in DC.
Smoking a Marlberry is
Bad for you!
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No Soup for YOU- One Year!
She’s a Clinton appointee
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