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Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years for Capitol riot
bbc.com ^ | August 31, 2023 | Bernd Debusmann Jr

Posted on 08/31/2023 11:25:57 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

A leader of the far-right Proud Boys has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, one of the longest sentences yet handed out over the US Capitol riot.

Prosecutors said US Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38, was an "instigator" of the storming of Congress on 6 January 2021.

The former Infowars correspondent was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges in May.

In court, Biggs pleaded for leniency and expressed remorse for his actions.

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


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1 posted on 08/31/2023 11:25:57 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

meanwhile BLM rioters who burned downtowns all over America are actually getting PAID because the police were to ruff with them!

Our justice system is rigged


2 posted on 08/31/2023 11:28:22 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He should have killed a few folks. His sentence would have been half that.


3 posted on 08/31/2023 11:30:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Chumpkin and Garland must recuse themselves from any legal actions against President Trump.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Jeez.... I wonder what Ray Epps will receive


4 posted on 08/31/2023 11:32:19 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Good Jesus, these sentences are absolutely insane.

They're sending a message.

5 posted on 08/31/2023 11:33:58 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The damn Democrats, including the Official Pedophile of the United States of America were the real INSTIGATORS of the Operation Juliet Victor India U.S. Government field exercise.


6 posted on 08/31/2023 11:38:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Chumpkin and Garland must recuse themselves from any legal actions against President Trump.)
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To: Drew68

They sure are. Member of Antifa or street gang? No bail needed, and no charges.

Member of Proud Boys? 17 years starting on day 1.


7 posted on 08/31/2023 11:41:44 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Only a matter of time until we conservatives are just lined up against a wall and shot by the feds.


8 posted on 08/31/2023 11:43:42 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Drew68

Trump judge


9 posted on 08/31/2023 11:45:14 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Organic Panic

No kidding, and the time to prepare for that is now. But how?


10 posted on 08/31/2023 11:47:55 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

CW II is coming. Pick a side.


11 posted on 08/31/2023 11:48:05 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Jyotishi

Start focusing on the beginning of the film V for Vendetta


12 posted on 08/31/2023 11:55:16 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

From day one this was all set-up/by design and partially staged.

He’s just a victim in a political purge.

1. Him and two others could have been a pain in Biden’s ass but our Stasi/gestapo DOJ made sure he and the leaders of two other grass roots organizations are removed.

2. By calling this “sedition” they are trying to set the stage to disqualify Trump as a candidate - something folks are begining to realize now. That was the plan from day one and why folks like Pelosi, Shumer, HRC, etc. kept using that term repeatedly almost immediately after J6.

In the bigger picture:

They also de-legitimized those who question the elections and intimidate thousands who form the most fervent base when having law enforcement interview them, even those who never entered the capital (unprecedented). It’s intimidating to have law enforcement come knocking.

Was J6 in any way extraordinary? No. We have far bigger protests; more violent ones, more destructive protests that involve entering federal buildings, and where they actually declare an autonomous zone (closer to the idea of sedition), example: Portland, Seattle...

***The use of certain terms and making this into sedition is a political maneuver to get to Trump, and that means this guy needs to be sacrificed on the political alter.***


13 posted on 08/31/2023 12:03:49 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Remind me again how much jail time Ray Epps was given?


14 posted on 08/31/2023 12:05:08 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Even more analogous, the protestors occupied the Capitol to stop a Supreme Court appointment. The Supreme Court Judicial Branch of government is co-equal to the Executive Branch. These actions in 2018 were just as seditious as anything they claim for 2021.

Yet no prison at all for the Kavanaugh protestors trying to overturn a Supreme Court appointment.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/brett-kavanaugh-protesters-ignore-police-194043428.html


15 posted on 08/31/2023 12:06:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Drew68
Good Jesus, these sentences are absolutely insane.

They're sending a message.

Yep. "The next time it will be YOU."

16 posted on 08/31/2023 12:07:35 PM PDT by fwdude (.)
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To: circlecity

Coming? It’s here. It’s been a Cold Civil war for a long time.


17 posted on 08/31/2023 12:09:29 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Chickensoup

Good movie.


18 posted on 08/31/2023 12:13:38 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They will all be getting out soon.


19 posted on 08/31/2023 12:15:05 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Wikipedia: "Gavin McInnes co-founded Vice magazine in 1994, but was pushed out in 2008 due to "creative differences". After leaving, he began "doggedly hacking a jagged but unrelenting path to the far-right fringes of American culture", according to a 2017 profile in the Canadian Globe and Mail. The Proud Boys organization was launched in September 2016, on the website of Taki's Magazine, a far-right publication for which white nationalist Richard B. Spencer had once served as executive editor. It existed informally before then as a group centered around McInnes, and the first gathering of the Brooklyn chapter in July 2016 resulted in a brawl in the bar where they met."

There's much wrong here. Gavin McInnes. Vice magazine. Richard Spencer.

I said it before. Spencer is a government asset. Everything he was in involved with from Charlottesville to the "Roman Salute" to the fight in New York to Jan 6 has gone south and he walked away.

20 posted on 08/31/2023 12:19:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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