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First Jan. 6 Protester to Enter US Capitol Is Sentenced to More Than 4 Years in Prison
The Epoch Times ^ | August 28, 2024 | Bill Pan

Posted on 08/29/2024 5:09:55 PM PDT by linMcHlp

A Kentucky man who was the first known person to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Michael Sparks, 47, was convicted in March by a federal jury in the District of Columbia on all six charges that he faced, including two felony offenses of obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder.

On Aug. 27, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Sparks to 53 months in prison and fined him $2,000.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2020; 20210106; 202101061413; arresttimothykelly; brokenwindow; capitol; capitolwindow; doxanddestroy; doxtimothyjkelly; election; enemieslist; enemyjudge; j6; jan6; jan6th; judicialsedition; michaelsparks; mikesparks; politicalprisoners; sparks; timothyjkelly; timothykelly
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To: thefactor

“”Peacefully walk into a public building”
There’s no way you think they entered that building peacefully. There’s just no way.”

Sure there’s a way. The way is having watched it in real time, live on national television. Police waved people into the building like they were tourists. I saw it with my own eyes. There is no ‘erasing or denying’ that truth.


21 posted on 08/29/2024 6:08:39 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: thefactor

J6 protesters were Boy Scouts compared to Antifa and BLM They thought they’d be treated by LEO similarly. Hearing this speech from KH set the tone

“They’re not going to stop,” Harris said at the time. “This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not.”
Why should J6 be any different? Unfortunately it became a great propaganda tool for the “Progressives “.


22 posted on 08/29/2024 6:09:31 PM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: TigersEye

No mention of him on FR so far.
If he was the first he for sure didn’t wander over from the Trump speech.

Was he let in or did he go in through a broken window?


23 posted on 08/29/2024 6:10:57 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Yardstick
I thought SCOTUS ruled the prosecutors were abusing this statute

SCOTUS SCHMOTUS.

24 posted on 08/29/2024 6:11:46 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: linMcHlp

Thank you


25 posted on 08/29/2024 6:13:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Danie_2023
So what you're saying is, no doors or windows were broken, no protestors used bear spray, and no police were assaulted? (None were killed, we know that.)

Is that what you're saying? People just opened up unlocked doors and walked into the Capitol that day? That's what happened?

26 posted on 08/29/2024 6:28:47 PM PDT by thefactor
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To: Danie_2023

This guy was not one of those who was WA ed in. He came in through a broken window, like a thief.

It may be he was a sucker waved in by the guy who broke the window, or he may have helped break it, but he wasn’t one of the peaceful, innocent crowd who went in on the other side of the building like tourists and wandered around between the velvet ropes.

It is the ones who entered first through the break in who are most likely to be organized by some anarchist group. Those who came later might have been stupid from all the excitement but the first ones in don’t really have an excuse, and there were people in the crowd warning not to break the windows, shouting fed,fed,fed, etc. Those who were involved in the vandalism were the ones who didn’t go to the Trump speech but were there from the beginning, like the Black Lives Matter videographer than CNN paid, etc. It would be interesting to know if this guy had any connection to Epps or had been in protests elsewhere in the country on either side.


27 posted on 08/29/2024 6:33:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Ok, it says he was the first known guy to enter, which means not necessarily the first.

I wonder if others preceded him who have not been identified, either because they simply haven’t been recognized or because they were agitators the feds don’t want identified, like the pipe bomber.


28 posted on 08/29/2024 6:38:34 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: linMcHlp

He’s already served nearly 4 years.If he’d had a speedy trial he’d be paroled by now.


29 posted on 08/29/2024 7:04:11 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: linMcHlp

Bottom line is what they really want. They agitate you. You rebel. You fight back, They want your/our guns.


30 posted on 08/29/2024 7:13:15 PM PDT by Bronzy (CNN Fake News )
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To: linMcHlp

And still nothing done to michael byrd, the BLACK cop who killed UNARMED WHITE GIRL ashli babbitt at J6. Not charged with anything and not even fired.

Anti-white Racism is everywhere.


31 posted on 08/29/2024 7:18:02 PM PDT by Diversity Is Our Weakness
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To: thefactor
There's no way you think they entered that building peacefully.

"They?" You might be more convincing if you limited your statement to people who were not peaceful.

32 posted on 08/29/2024 7:18:18 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: thefactor; Danie_2023

in several instances, yes.

the cops threw open doors and encouraged entry


33 posted on 08/29/2024 7:21:21 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: linMcHlp

avg rapist gets 6 months


34 posted on 08/29/2024 7:21:26 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: roadcat

“And installs better judges.”

Trump needs to clean house at the DOJ, FBI and the entirety of the DC bureaucracy.

Congress needs to then dissolve the DC circuit and establish a new circuit in a less partisan venue. The DC courts have demonstrated that you cannot convict a Democrat criminal, but you can convict throngs of innocent Republicans or your average patriot seeking redress peacefully.

This should be a top priority if we can do what must be done this election cycle.


35 posted on 08/29/2024 7:24:20 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Diversity Is Our Weakness

Lt. Byrd did not warn Ashli Babbitt.

On the other hand, what many people do not know, is that The White House, the Supreme Court Building, and the Capitol are all RESTRICTED AREAS and domains of their respective branches of the federal government.

Any work to break and enter, is going to get a person arrested, charged, and usually found guilty, and then punished. Same for almost every federal government facility.

Yet, at most of those other federal government facilities, there are WARNING SIGNS. While the WARNING around the three HQ’s of the respective federal branches, is expected to be VERY WELL UNDERSTOOD by all.

Pretty difficult for a person to claim, they did not know they were on the grounds of the Capitol, the USSC, or the White House. (Though, most out-of-towners are not likely to recognize the USSC Building.)

Unfortunately, there are enough out-of-towners who live with am impression that they can enter and wander around the Capitol at will.

I visited several decades ago and was surprised to find that Capitol visitors had to have a pass from either their Senator or Representative.


36 posted on 08/29/2024 7:46:09 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

..........and Lt. Michael Byrd, for committing a murder, got to live in a posh government house for many months, police protection, got no indictment, no trial and is still employed if not promoted.

And, Ashli is dead! That’s a Liberal/corrupt/marxist government for you. There was no justifiable reason to murder Ashli. Byrd should be in Florence and I hope Trump puts him there.


37 posted on 08/29/2024 7:53:23 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: linMcHlp

Where is the video? I want to see the video.


38 posted on 08/29/2024 7:55:10 PM PDT by euclid216
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To: thefactor

I saw the video and they walked in peacefully.


39 posted on 08/29/2024 8:22:08 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: linMcHlp

And the person who shattered the window was an Antifa person. I saw two of them break the window (on video from RSBN ). I heard several patriots shouting “It’s Antifa!” over and over while trying to pull the Antifa persons back out of the window. The Patriots were overcome by Antifa. Not a single Patriot broke anything that day. I also saw the cops inviting the Patriots in the front door.


40 posted on 08/29/2024 8:54:05 PM PDT by WVNan
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