Posted on 08/31/2023 9:54:19 AM PDT by Coronal
WASHINGTON — Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says "served as an instigator and leader" during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on Thursday.
It is among the longest sentences in Capitol riot cases. The record is the 18-year sentence given to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison in his case.
The government sought 33 years for Biggs, an Army veteran who sustained a head injury in Iraq and then served as a correspondent for the conspiracy website Infowars. Prosecutors argued that he was a “vocal leader and influential proponent of the group’s shift toward political violence” and used his “outsized public profile” and his military experience as he “led a revolt against the government in an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of power.”
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly handed down Biggs' sentence. He ruled earlier in Thursday's hearing that Biggs’ tearing down of a fence that stood between police and rioters qualified him for a terrorism sentencing enhancement sought by prosecutors. Destroying the fence was a “deliberate, meaningful step” that contributed to the disruption of the electoral vote count occurring in the Capitol, Kelly said.
Biggs was convicted in May of seditious conspiracy; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to use force, intimidation or threats to prevent officers of the U.S. from discharging their duties; interference with law enforcement during civil disorder; and destruction of government property.
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It is even worse when compared to the treatment of the BLM protestors!
BLM burned downtowns all over America, and were not only allowed to do so, but in some cases are now getting paid settlements because the police were a little to aggressive in not allowing them to burn as much as they really wanted!
Two different sets of justice depending on your political affiliation. It is wrong and unjust.
The FIRST priority of the next Republican president needs to be to pardon all jan 6 political prisoners and then pay them reparations for this injustice.
Trues words were never spoken.
Instead, they will spend the next year promoting the phony Horse Race for the White Hospice.
Molon the labia indeed! These are the people who are most boisterous about “When they come for my guns!”. Well, they came for a lot more, and these alleged militia types just went along with it. Just more evidence there will be no CWII. Even the so called “patriots” of today are nothing more than a bunch of mildy successful, middle aged men who think they are tacticool running about the woods with their airsoft gear. Lots of talk, zero action. See tagline.
Stewart Rhodes from the Oathkeepers was also not at the Capitol and he's serving 18 years.
Exactly, Einstein! "I President Trump hereby pardon all non-violent protestors involved in the protest on the capital on January 6, 2021." See how easy that was?
Oh, but there's a catch: it might have cost him an impeachment conviction in the senate if McConnell's threat was to be believed and thereby ended his political career, which was this ahole's real concern.
Well, no one now. He could have pardoned himself on the way out the door, and at least that would have protected him from Smith, at least on the DC charges and perhaps even the Florida charges. That would have been the smart thing to do. Naturally, Clueless Don didn't think the obvious thing to do would be necessary.
He’s now facing charges that go beyond the scope of 1/6/21, so a pardon wouldn’t have helped unless he was Carnac the Magnificent.
Issuing blanket pardons for certain individuals for unspecified crimes is a legal theory that hasn’t been tested in court. I think it probably would have been upheld. If Trump was going to get creative with legal theories in returning electors to the states, he at least could have tried one that would have maybe protected himself on his way out the door. He was dumb and reckless.
Trump is facing Lawfare with the purpose of layering made up charges as an impediment to campaigning. There is no way to pre-protect against the rogue legal system he’s fighting.
Before anyone is charged, Einstein? Reality doesn’t work that way.
Its just too bad the perfumed princes of the GOP establishment don’t share your dubious enthusiasm and act within their powers to block the miscarriage of injustice.
Hey, at least you have Liz Cheney on your side!
Oh... and I’m pretty sure Trump was already beyond feeling any concern over another BS impeachment. Regardless, in the impeachment series he won 3-0 against the Marxist DNC.
Actually, presidential pardons can work that way, and there is no recourse for the perfumed princes since Chump choked away the WH and didn’t pardon himself on the way out the door.
Ok, he’s been impeached twice, and the juries, such as they were, were at least a lot more bipartisan than a NY or DC jury is ever going to be and they have the power to send him in prison.
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At least the current office holder accurately represents you, your values and your cognitive capability.
I'm sure Kushner advised him not to, even as he urged Trump to pardon his sleazy dad and all his sleazy friends.
I'll still vote for Trump in November, but shame on him for not standing by his people.
If he does win in November, I hope he's man enough to pardon all the January 6th protestors on the FIRST DAY he's back in office.
Yep, internet search still works.
Chump and his mentally challenged supporters are blaming others for their helplessness to stop any of this when he himself could have stopped it with a simple pardon on his way out the door. He was too stupid to bail himself out when he had the chance, but now it’s our fault. Ok.
https://www.factcheck.org/2008/06/blanket-pardons/
Even so, Trump should have pardoned them.
Pardon them, then continue to fight whatever injustice they threw at him.
Here's how it works: Ford pardoned Nixon "for any crime he might have committed."
Nixon hadn't been convicted, or even charged. Yet he got a blanket pardon.
Trump could have done the same for his people.
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