Lockdown at the US Capitol

[rareboy]

Sorry he didn't get the full 25 years with the ability to bargain after the fact at parole board hearings every 5 years.

But maybe he has offered just enough to knock a few years off his sentence.

And maybe he will offer more.

This should be the fucking end of the Oath Keepers. But the Koch and likely the Mercers will keep funding it.

 

[KaraBulut]

...This should be the fucking end of the Oath Keepers. But the Koch and likely the Mercers will keep funding it.

The Oath Keepers were a top-down centralized organization. Since they were decapitated and their leadership is headed to prison, the followers have dispersed. That's the good news.

The bad news is that other groups like The Proud Boys are decentralized and are going to be much harder to get rid of.

Just a reminder of what a fucking loser this guy is.

It's sad when your kids provide evidence against you. It really is the quintessence of what it is to be a loser.

Exclusive: Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes' Children Speak

Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the antigovernment Oath Keepers organization, was, at the time of publication, in federal custody awaiting trial for his alleged role in orchestrating events at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.

www.splcenter.org

 

[rareboy]

I think about the children of these extremists and shudder.

Last autumn, we had 40 military cadets come to spend a day on our farm planting trees and learning how to build shelters in the bush.

There was one kid...whose father rolled in ...with a 'Fuck Trudeau' sticker and a rrrZZZn 'Z' emblem on his back windshield and I just wanted to prevent him from being picked up and taken away by his knuckle dragging dad....I stuck as close by him all day long and just reinforced that love of nature was the most important thing....and that when I was a kid, I never saw this as my future, but it was a wonderful thing...hoping that he would be steeled against his father's hate.

 

[KaraBulut]

Rhodes' co-defendant who was the leader of the Florida Oath Keepers group got 12 years. Unlike Rhodes, Meggs did not continue his megalomania and narcissistic victim hood. Meggs apologized to his family for the price his family has had to pay for Meggs' actions. Unfortunately, the judge seemed to go lighter on Meggs, suggesting that Rhodes was the leader who led the group to sedition.

Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs sentenced to 12 years

Kelly Meggs, the Florida leader of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 12 years in prison Thursday for his part in the Jan.6 Capitol insurrection.The sentencing came just hours after the group's national leader, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, was sent to jail for 18 years. Roger Parloff from Lawfare...

www.rawstory.com

"It is because of Mr. Rhodes that Mr. Meggs is, in part, sitting here today," Mehta said. "I'm not suggesting I'm absolving him of responsibility or he didn't act of his own free will. But Rhodes' influence on Meggs and dozens of other people who came to Washington that day."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/oath-keepers-sentencing-stewart-rhodes-kelly-meggs/index.html

Prosecutors had asked for Meggs to be sentenced to 21 years in prison, saying that “with the possible exception of Stewart Rhodes, Meggs was the intellectual and moral center of this conspiracy.”

Mehta addressed Meggs and the larger issue of how the Capitol attack happened.

“You don’t take to the streets with rifles,” Mehta said. “You don’t hope that the president invokes the Insurrection Act so you can start a war in the streets … you don’t rush into the US Capitol with the hope to stop the electoral vote count.” If we do, he added, “we will slowly but surely descend into chaos.”...

He added: “For reasons that are unclear to me, planning and scheming to bring rifles to Washington, DC, became more important than maybe even your own family.”

 

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[KaraBulut]

Another Oath Keeper fellow-traveler and seditionist sentenced to prison:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/politics/edward-vallejo-january-6-oath-keepers-affiliate/index.html

An Army veteran was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Oath Keepers’ sprawling plot to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, which culminated in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.

Edward Vallejo, who was affiliated with the Oath Keepers but not a member of the far-right militia, was one of the alleged leaders of the armed, so-called quick reaction force staged just outside of Washington, DC, on January 6.

 

[KaraBulut]

Another winner goes to prison. The judge called him out for fund-raising off his conviction but claiming poverty to use a court-appointed attorney to represent him.

International underwear model and insurrectionist was just sentenced to 32 months in prison

Judge tells John Strand his sentence would have been shorter if he'd taken responsibility for his actions.

www.motherjones.com

International underwear model, security guard, and insurrectionist John Strand was finally sentenced to prison today, after being convicted in September on all five criminal counts related to storming the Capitol on January 6. DC District Court Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced Strand to 32 months in prison, plus a $10,000 fine. The fine took into account the fact that Strand had been fundraising off his conviction for legal defense purposes, even though he was being represented by court-appointed counsel paid for by the taxpayers.

During the sentencing, Cooper lectured Strand about trying to cash in on his “49 minutes of infamy,” referring to the time he spent in the Capitol. “I think you want to cultivate and profit from that.” He chastised him for failing to take any responsibility for his actions. The lack of remorse, Cooper noted, is one reason his sentence was longer than it otherwise might have been.

Jan 6 has been turned into a big grift by multiple people. Note the comments about how Strand lives with Dr Simone Gold, one of those doctors peddling horse paste during the pandemic. They're living together in a $3.6 million house purchased by Dr Gold's "non profit".

Strand was indicted along with Simone Gold, a Stanford-educated lawyer, and an emergency room physician, who founded the Covid misinformation organization America’s Frontline Doctors. With Strand by her side, she had pushed her way past a fallen police officer into the Capitol on January 6 and stood outside the House chamber doors while the angry mob tried to break in. In March last year, Gold pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of unlawfully entering and remaining in a restricted area of the US Capitol. She was sentenced in June last year to 60 days in prison...

He lives rent-free with Gold in a $3.6 million house that Gold purchased with donor money given to her nonprofit group, and which is now at the center of a major legal fight over the group’s future. Cooper ended up fining Strand $10,000.

John Strand:

Simone Gold:

 

[rareboy]

International underwear model....and security guard.

He and Gold deserve one another.

 

[TX-Beau]

International underwear model....and security guard.

He and Gold deserve one another.

I'm getting a serious closet vibe off that one.

 

[KaraBulut]

I'm sure that these poses will earn him new fans in the showers at the Federal Prison for the next couple of years.

 

[TX-Beau]

I suspect he'd enjoy that.

 

[KaraBulut]

Another one.

Daniel "Danny" Rodriguez was sentenced to 12-1/2 years in prison. Rodriguez was ID'd by internet sleuths from video captures.

Rodriguez is the guy who tasered officer Michael Fanone. While the riot was still happening, Rodriguez wrote on his group message, “Tazzzzed the f**k out of the blue,”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/politics/michael-fanone-daniel-rodriguez-january-6-sentenced/index.html

Daniel Rodriguez, the man who attacked then-Washington, DC, police officer Michael Fanone with an electroshock weapon in the neck during the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 and a half years in prison.

Rodriguez, 40, had pleaded guilty to four counts in February, including conspiracy, assault with a dangerous weapon and obstruction of an official proceeding.

As Rodriguez exited the courtroom Wednesday, he defiantly shouted that “Trump won!” repeating the same lie that ultimately culminated in the Capitol attack.

 

[rareboy]

This makes me so fucking happy.

Fanone's life is essentially shattered from the attack and I have teared up several times as he has given testimony and recounted the impact of the assault.

Trump's goons are and were just that...right wing anarchists who gladly would have spilled the blood of others to keep their crime boss in charge.

I hope Fanone has some closure with this. Armed insurrection as the result of an attempted coup isn't what these people signed up for.

 

[KaraBulut]

I wish the media were lauding the hard work of citizen investigators who have tracked down these guys one-by-one. It's crowd sourcing at its best. The FBI would still be trying to ID the rioters if not for the work of the public to call these guys (and a few women) to account.

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[rareboy]

I'm just waiting for the right wing to try to outlaw this citizen action.

 

[joesman]

I think all of them would have faced a firing squad if it were the early America. Too bad they're not facing that.

Am I awful for feeling like that? The day will buzz around in my head forever.

 

[TX-Beau]

"Early America" was full of traitors and rebels.

Makes you think.

Before the screeching, all rebels think they have good reasons.

 

[smokeshadow]

Michael Fanone testified at Rodriguez's sentencing hearing after his plea for mercy. One can easily guess how that went over

Michael Fanone Says He Doesn't 'Give a S***' About Jan. 6 Rioter Who Tased Him

Daniel Rodriguez tased Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone during the January 6 riots. He was just sentenced to 12.5 years.

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

 

[rareboy]

From the above:

At Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, Rodriguez asked for mercy, saying that “Life has always seemed unfair to me,” according to NBC News. He said he wanted to return to “driving a forklift with my GED and living with my mom.”

This seems to sum up so many of Trump's followers.

 

[Kulindahr]

The Oath Keepers were a top-down centralized organization. Since they were decapitated and their leadership is headed to prison, the followers have dispersed. That's the good news.

The bad news is that other groups like The Proud Boys are decentralized and are going to be much harder to get rid of.


It's sad when your kids provide evidence against you. It really is the quintessence of what it is to be a loser.

Exclusive: Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes' Children Speak

Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the antigovernment Oath Keepers organization, was, at the time of publication, in federal custody awaiting trial for his alleged role in orchestrating events at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.

www.splcenter.org

The weird thing about Oath Keepers is that half of the "Orders We Will Not Obey" are just common sense, but the other half are evidence of a troubled mind. That many of the Oath Keepers considered that the idea of using violence to keep Trump in office given the supposed dedication to the Constitution is evidence of a bunch of troubled minds.