Posted on 03/04/2022 5:20:02 PM PST by Coronal
A San Diego County man pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal misdemeanor for taking part in the breach of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
Philip James Weisbecker, who lived in Ocean Beach at the time, is set to be sentenced in June for joining the mob that entered the Capitol building. While in the Capitol, Weisbecker entered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and took selfies amid the throng of rioters, according to court documents.
An arrest warrant declaration states anonymous tipsters contacted authorities saying they knew Weisbecker and provided photographic evidence of him being present inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Weisbecker also posted a screenshot on his Facebook page from a Fox News TV program that showed him inside the U.S. Capitol, according to the declaration.
Court documents state that he later told a law enforcement officer that he traveled from San Diego to Washington D.C. on Jan. 5 to take part in the "Stop the Steal Protest" as a "citizen journalist." He said that he entered the Capitol building after seeing D.C. police remove barricades to the Capitol and admitted to entering Pelosi's office once inside.
He claimed in separate interviews with police that he did not believe Joe Biden to be the "legitimate president," that any damage to the building had been caused by "Antifa," and that Ashli Babbitt, the Ocean Beach woman fatally shot by a U.S. Capitol police officer on Jan. 6, did not exist.
The plea comes one week after former Coronado resident Jeffrey Alexander Smith was sentenced to a tentative three-month prison term for taking part in the breach.
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Guilty of what? Tourism?
Are they still dragging this thing out?
The real crime is several Americans are locked up and possibly without legal representation.
Time to pick up arms.
And do what? Throw them into an incinerator? That's pretty much what nearly all Americans would do these days.
5 March: Daily Mail: Two undercover FBI agents pretending to be far-right militia members who ‘plotted to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’ will have to use their REAL names when testifying at trial, judge rules
by Ronny Reyes and Harriet Alexander
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10578617/FBI-agents-pretending-far-right-group-testify-using-real-names.html
What can they do when they’re up against Pelosi and all the other thuggery in Washington?
They certainly don’t have US citizens mounting protests on their behalf.....as is often the case when injustice appears.
What angers me most is that they even went into the building at all....any of them. When tensions were already so high outside the building.
The ones who went in were Antifans, except for this Ocean Beach man.
Guilty of what? Tourism? >> guilty of trespassing and raiding the Capitol...why don’t you go and try the same thing Monday morning?
Draconian prosecution for minor offense used as political punishment is totalitarianism.
Don’t be distracted by skirmishes in European backwaters.
3% of Americans approved of the revolution.
“Ashli Babbitt, the Ocean Beach woman fatally shot by a U.S. Capitol police officer on Jan. 6, did not exist.”
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Sound like a nutter or an idiot or maybe both.
They have declared war against us. Just listen to their words. If you’re white you’re bad, if you’re conservative you’re bad, if you’re a patriot, you are the enemy. They’re holding Americans in gulags without representation as we speak. What more do you need?
Oh I think there were others caught up in it as well.
He should get a $10 fine and be on probation for 2 days.
A federal misdemeanor.
{.snort.}
There is often a big difference between knowing your rights vs knowing your enemy. Yes, would have been better not to even enter the building at that point in time.
One has to recognize a potential trap when you see it.
If I lived in Ocean Beach, I would maybe take up surfing, not Antifa.
Didn’t Code Pink invade Congress? What happened to them?
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