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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot
The New York Post ^ | 05/25/2023 | Staff

Posted on 05/25/2023 12:24:35 PM PDT by thegagline

The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the US Capitol in a bid to keep President-elect Joe Biden out of the White House after the 2020 election.

Stewart Rhodes is the first person charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest that has been handed down so far in the hundreds of Capitol riot cases.

It’s another milestone for the Justice Department’s sprawling Jan. 6 investigation, which has led to seditious conspiracy convictions against the top leaders of two far-right extremist groups that authorities say came to Washington prepared to fight to keep President Donald Trump in power at all costs.

Before handing down the sentence, the judge told a defiant Rhodes that he is a continued threat to the US, saying it’s clear Rhodes “wants democracy in this country to devolve into violence.”

“The moment you are released, whenever that may be, you will be ready to take up arms against your government,” US District Judge Amit Mehta said.

*** Prosecutors had sought 25 years for Rhodes, who they say was the architect of a plot to forcibly disrupt the transfer of presidential power that included “quick reaction force” teams at a Virginia hotel to ferry weapons into DC if they were needed.

The weapons were never deployed.

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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: insurrection; jan6; law; oathkeepers; sedition; stewartrhodes; thegagline
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To: thegagline

Dems just arresting everyone they perceive to be their political opponents. We are nothing more than a third world banana republic at this point.


21 posted on 05/25/2023 12:54:22 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Kevin C
“supposedly"

Maybe I should have just said they have it. The report I read said they have it. I was just keeping with the legal jargon I was forced to use in my career in corrections. Any document you wrote regarding an incident, you always had to use the required terms approximate, alleged, etc., because they could be called into court as evidence at any given time.

22 posted on 05/25/2023 12:56:07 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: thegagline

18 years? The same DOJ that fought for no prison time for two Antifa-BLM rioters who threw a Molotov cocktail into a NYPD cruiser?https://t.co/LjHc7E8GYM— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) May 25, 2023


23 posted on 05/25/2023 12:56:22 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: thegagline

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/rhodes-elmer-stewart-iii

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1514876/download

Just glancing, I didn’t notice anything that would merit such a sentence.

The guns seem to have been left in Virginia.

He should have gotten a tranny legislature stormer level sentence.


24 posted on 05/25/2023 12:56:43 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline
Rhodes spoke before this unjust sentance was handed down. He concluded by saying by saying he will be an “American Solzhenitsyn” while in prison, spending his time exposing the corruption of the government and this process. So, now that we all can see that, at least in the blue cities that the law is now merely a weapon to be used against the regime's enemies, do we think that there's a political path out of this mess?
25 posted on 05/25/2023 12:59:49 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Vaquero

“They welcomed them in as if it were a Guided tour.”

Some of his group forced their way in from what I read.

I didn’t read as carefully as a lawyer would because I have other things to attend to.


26 posted on 05/25/2023 1:00:17 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline

and where is the GOP condemnation?

we’ll issue pardons!

Wall guy gets hard time, BLM is 1000 times the fraud-nothing.
Mackey gets hard time, Wong does the same exact thing and is elected to public office.
Houck gets the predawn raid-Jane’s Revenge posts their explicit criminal intentions online and nothing is done.

the list of obvious political persecution of ordinary citizens is endless.

the push back forget about substantive pushback from the GOP is non-existent beyond MAGA.


27 posted on 05/25/2023 1:01:19 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Dead Corpse

Kinda looks like judge amatwit just got he/she/its name on a curious list by making stuff up. I would expect there would be a heckuva appeal for Rhodes to start working on?


28 posted on 05/25/2023 1:06:49 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: thegagline

Most of the guns were bought after January 6th apparently.


29 posted on 05/25/2023 1:10:23 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline

My opinion is that they were a large bunch of gun-loving wackos probably misled by government provocateurs.


30 posted on 05/25/2023 1:12:44 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline

Now be aware that Pence has reason to believe that Biden won’t last a full term and that Commie-LA may not qualify as a natural born citizen as per the 1730 British law since her father wasn’t one and therefore Pence would be the Vice President that gets to replace a demented Biden.

If Biden was proven not to have won, Trump would be President and able to serve four years, leaving no real chance for Pence to become President.


31 posted on 05/25/2023 1:19:35 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: LouAvul

““The moment you are released, whenever that may be, you will be ready to take up arms against your government,” US District Judge Amit Mehta said.””

This judge is so good, he can even predict the future behavior of an accused. No doubt the reasoning for the sentence he handed out.


32 posted on 05/25/2023 1:20:19 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: thegagline

“...the architect of a plot to forcibly disrupt the transfer of presidential power...”

Isn’t that exactly what 0bama, Biden, Clinton, FBI, CIA, and hundreds and even thousands of others did to Trump?


33 posted on 05/25/2023 1:34:20 PM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: thegagline

“Judge Amit Mehta” A foreigner from India, judging an American.


34 posted on 05/25/2023 1:39:23 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: mass55th

Says who?


35 posted on 05/25/2023 1:48:49 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: thegagline

Get use to seeing a whole lot more of this as the enemy occupation of our government continues.


36 posted on 05/25/2023 1:52:24 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: thegagline

Nazi judge Roland Freisler. Died in a US bombing raid during one of his show trials. While his body was at a Berlin hospital someone said it was God's will. Nobody argued .

37 posted on 05/25/2023 1:55:25 PM PDT by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ Mad Moe definitely comes in as a Strong second..)
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To: Nateman

The actor who played him in “Sophie Scholl - The Final Days” really nailed the character.


38 posted on 05/25/2023 1:56:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Nateman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AccrRIx0j5g


39 posted on 05/25/2023 1:58:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NorthMountain

“I don’t see or hear ANY prominent politicians speaking out consistently in favor of him or any of the other January 6 Political Prisoners.”

Which should tell the rest of us that it’s best to lay low as friends, family, neighbors and coworkers will be very happy to turn you in to the FBI and then you are on your own, having to rely on a public defender.

The folks you went out and fought for will send a “Sucks to be you!” message or maybe some thoughts and prayers if you are lucky.


40 posted on 05/25/2023 2:03:16 PM PDT by Armscor38
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