Posted on 01/23/2023 11:52:31 AM PST by Coronal
A jury on Monday convicted four members of the extremist group the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy.
The jury started deliberations Thursday morning after a trial that spanned five weeks.
Prosecutors said the four defendants — Roberto Minuta, Joseph Hackett, David Moerschel and Edward Vallejo — used a “perverted version of American history” to justify their actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Attacking the Capitol was a means to an end,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis Manzo told jurors during closing arguments Wednesday. He said the group took advantage of the riot and seized the opportunity to fulfill their goal of preventing Congress from counting the electoral votes and confirming Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
“January 6 was just a battle. The full conspiracy was to stop the transfer of power,” Manzo said.
Prosecutors said Vallejo was staged at a Virginia hotel with a stockpile of rifles — which they have called a "Quick Reaction Force" — while Hackett, Moerschel and Minuta led groups to breach the Capitol building.
The trial, which started Dec. 12, included testimony from Brian Ulrich, a member of the Oath Keepers’ Georgia chapter who had pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding. Ulrich testified that he took part in the storming of the Capitol because he wanted to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes.
“There’s no other reason to go in that building at that point,” Ulrich said.
Manzo also pointed jurors to clips from a selfie-style video of Minuta, filmed in what appears to be his car. In the video, a furious Minuta yells about fake ballots, complains that Congress hasn’t done enough about the problem and said children would become "slaves" if people don't act.
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Is this yet another “jury” of retarded black Democrats?
Not really. Sometimes Republicans win the Executive Branch.
To take some pictures for ma and the kids?
Nah. They just want to make four twits into their pet boogeyman to scare others. They were going to take down the US without any F-15s or nuclear bombs? Wooooo!
“I know very little about Oath Keepers but it very clearly scares the deep state cartel.”
Their purpose is/was to stay true to their Oath of Enlistment:
“I, ____________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
So, yeah, that scares the hell out of the deep state. In fact, that makes them a “far right wing” organization to the media, which, by the way, calls them an “anti-government” group. Figure that one out.
What a crock. I am anxious to learn of any appeal.
Their emphasis when they started back in the Obama administration days was very simple: refusal to obey orders in violation of their oaths, particularly if doing so would infringe citizens' rights. It was a response to expansion of FEMA, concerns of martial law, etc.
Definitely not a message the deep state wants momentum on.
So, I haven't had time to keep up with all the charges of sedition/conspiracy and all that, but guess that framing or entrapment must be involved, or if not, then the organization was a fraud to begin with.
Oops, clarification: refusal to obey orders the following of which would entail violation of their oaths.
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