Posted on 09/02/2023 5:52:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
U.S District Court Judge Amit Mehta admitted he continues to “struggle with” what happened on January 6.
The Obama appointee made that public confession Wednesday afternoon during the sentencing hearing for Florida resident Connie Meggs. A D.C. jury convicted Meggs, 61, of numerous offenses including obstruction of an official proceeding and interfering with law enforcement related to her conduct on January 6. Meggs traveled to the nation’s capital with her husband, Kelly, a member of the Oath Keepers who is currently serving 12 years in prison for his role in January 6. (Mehta imposed that sentence in May.) She spent less than 20 minutes inside the Capitol, brought no weapon, and assaulted no one.
Nonetheless, Mehta condemned January 6 as a “crime committed against the citizens of the United States.” The four-hour disturbance “altered the social fabric in a way a normal crime does not,” Mehta claimed—which is true just not in the way he thinks. He further insisted the country would have been “far better off if no one had come to Washington” that day.
Despite Meggs losing everything after January 6—including both her parents—and spending 45 days in a Florida jail denied release after her February 2021 arrest followed by 2 1/2 years on home detention wearing an ankle monitor, Judge Mehta was not finished inflicting pain on the grandmother of three. Meggs, often uncontrollably sobbing, read a lengthy letter of apology to the court while angrily blaming her husband for choosing the Oath Keepers over their family. “I’m a good person,” Meggs told Mehta as her son and grandchildren broke down in the gallery. “Please don’t take their mother and grandmother away from them.”
But Mehta, while criticizing the Department of Justice for seeking an “overly punitive” prison sentence of up to ten years, will take Meggs away from her already broken family. Acknowledging her lack of criminal history, devotion to her family, and work in her community, Mehta still insisted she still must pay a further price for not understanding the ‘broader context” of her involvement in the events of January 6. “We don’t have January 6, it does not happen, without people like you,” Mehta scolded.
Not only did Mehta order Meggs to serve 15 months in prison, but he also agreed to DOJ’s request to add a “terror” enhancement to her sentence. “[Meggs] committed offenses that were calculated to influence or affect the conduct of the government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct,” assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Rakoczy wrote in the government’s 62-page sentencing recommendation for Meggs and her co-defendants, which included a 72-year-old man from Ohio and an autistic young man also from Florida.....
Kind of lame compared to what ANTIFA and BLM did.
So protest, if you are a conservative, is terrorism. John Roberts, this is your cowardice. This is on you.
The entire US court system remains stone cold silent at the destruction of the bill of rights and the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
Impossible to resist their wiles.
A state of war exists between patriotic Americans and government socialist unsexed lunatic pig liberals.
this judge seems to have only one eye open while the other closed to atrocities Dems have done in last decades. Truth of who really instigated what about Jan 6th is still not spoken of freely. Yet this tyrant judge thinks as he chooses to disregard the numerous lives killed by dem rampages of BLM Antifa etc not to mention just on a whim in various places like Chicago weekly, the border crisis created by dems and numerous harmed and killed by them. Instead sentences people allowed into the capitol building by authority persons there to be sentenced and lives destroyed.
Yup we are at war, just not the standard kind. I suppose we have all had our lives shattered at times in various ways.
I appreciate those who went to DC in good faith and unfortunately got caught up in the sting Pelosi etc set for their fellow Americans, and now have had lives ruined or worse could not take the unjust happenings by Dems to them, and took their own life.
God will be the final judge of all.
Sure is.
The Lawyers are at war with America and its Constitution...
Imagine that all the J6 protestors were black… The memorial would already be built.
Well, if you’re going to any political rallies or protests in the future, suggest you tuck a Black Lives Matter banner or sign under your shirt….just in case you’re detained. Then claim brutality.
“she still must pay a further price for not understanding”
Guess ‘not understanding’ is a crime. I think the judge failed to consider what it was she didn’t understand.
Hopefully our next president will pardon them all.
States with Republican ESA’s and DA’ should be inflicting the same kind of pain on pro aborts, climate terrorists and corrupt Democrats. Nothing outside of their constitutional authority but enough to cause fear and distress to the Marxists. We are in the midst of a little red book revolution and the opposition party refuses to oppose those who want to destroy them. When our side begins to exercise the power they already have we may see some changes
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This judge is absolute evil. In one way or another, he will pay for
his crimes.
Scumball libtards love to love up granny for expressing herself
The J6 political trials and imprisonments are just a warmup.
Wait until the rats start war w/Russia or assassinate Trump or otherwise steal 2024.
We can’t imagine what will come down upon our patriot heads.
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