Posted on 05/10/2022 10:30:41 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
In a letter obtained by American Greatness, the U.S. Department of Justice is threatening defendants charged with seditious conspiracy in the sprawling Oath Keepers case to accept plea deals or face life in prison.
Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia handling every prosecution related to the events of January 6, 2021, imposed a May 6 deadline for the remaining defendants to accept plea deals. Three men have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy; nine others, including Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes, have rejected government attempts to reach a plea.
“We write to advise you of applicable penalties that could apply upon conviction at trial,” Graves’ chief prosecutor in the case, Kathyrn Rakoczy, wrote to defense attorneys in a letter dated May 2. (Every January 6 defendant who has faced a jury trial in Washington, D.C. has been found guilty on all charges by jurors following brief deliberations.)
After detailing the hefty prison sentences and fines associated with other offenses charged in the case, Rakoczy turned to the potential sentence for seditious conspiracy, a crime so rare that federal sentencing guidelines don’t cover it. “The United States takes the position that the most analogous offense to seditious conspiracy is ‘Treason,’” Rakoczy wrote. If a jury concludes the conspiracy involved conduct “that is tantamount to waging war against the United States,” Rakoczy explained, the government could seek a life sentence upon conviction.
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Takeaway: if they're going to charge you this way for a redress of grievance or trespassing, might as well make it worth your while the next time.
This is the action of an authoritarian regime, not a free people.
Take note of the silence on this, with the exception of a few. Silence in this case implies consent, imho.
Meanwhile, **crickets** on massive vote fraud in the 2020 "election"...
Should rouse the rest of the Oath Keepers to action otherwise who are they?
Extreme left wingers least effected.
It is so evil. God help those patriots and bring swift justice upon those who are doing this to them. MARANATHA, Jesus!
FBI informants and or operatives for the Republican Party there to direct people towards politics and maybe even spies sent in the Democrats to disrupt.
I also accept the notion that just plain crazy people show up in stuff like Oath Keepers.
These poor souls have been given to the rats for playthings.
Your consent line also applies to what is being done to military people. Even Romans says if we do not oppose wrong we are as guilty as those who commit the act.
I cringe to say, WE ARE NOT A FREE PEOPLE. We live the illusion of that in our relative comfort of the many at the expense of these few.
Comfort is the enemy of courage. We are spineless sluggards. All of us that allow this to happen.
Appeals and our vote are nothing but to placate our shame and assuage our guilt and we know it.
Every one should be pardoned. Period.
If you can’t support that as a candidate, I can not support you.
Take note of the silence on this, with the exception of a few.
***And Trump is among the silent ones. All these Jan 6ers were following his lead to go to the capitol and redress their grievances. He could have pardoned all of them while he was still prez. I’m disappointed.
The Justus department should be rounded up and sentenced to 50 years of hard labor for what they’ve done to this beautiful country of ours.
hitler technique ….. Take care of opposition one group at a time. Soon the Christians will be a group this government will be seeking to “take care of”
HAHAHAHAHAHA...you might have a future in comedy...
Yes indeed. They should spend the rest of their lives swinging a 10 pound sledge hammer, turning big rocks into little ones.
“Authoritarian” is being generous.
Did the DOJ ever go after ANY of the participants in Seattle’s CHAZ fiasco of 2020, when leftists declared themselves independent of established authority and set up what they regarded as virtually an independent nation, an “autonomous zone,” and occupied several square blocks of a major city for several weeks? Isn’t that an “insurrection,” by definition?
When Trump is elected he will pardon them all.
>> a jury trial in Washington, D.C. has been found guilty on all charges by jurors following brief deliberations
Transcripts available?
They used to be a loose organization of active military, reservists, veterans, and LEOs who reaffirmed their original Oaths to protect the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I don't know what they are about lately.
The fascists threw people in solitary for being in Washington. They got away with their crime. Now they’re going after people for their associations.
What next? Arresting people for their magazine subscriptions?
It’s coming, compliments of big sister.
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