Almost everyone involved thought they were protesting an unfair electoral count in accordance with their constitutional rights to "Peaceably assemble" and "To petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Obviously, there was no way their protests would overthrow the government or change the election's outcome.
He was ultimately sentenced to 22 years, the longest sentence to date for a January 6 defendant.
His wife received 6 years for possession of child sexual abuse material.
Compare the sentencing of the January 6 offenders to the genuinely violent BLM rioters from the summer of 2020.
An Antifa protester attacked a U.S. Marshal with a hammer during a protest in Portland; he received a sentence of a little under four years.
Looking back, this is one reason I wrote that the January 6 protest was "Worse than a crime, it was a mistake." The overheated protest, which devolved into a low-key riot, involved sufficient force and symbolic violence to infuriate the regime and also fill it with paranoia, but it was not nearly focused or violent enough to leave the regime's leaders and functionaries in actual fear.
Such condemnation produces no good will, and it encourages a regime strategy of "Divide and conquer." We need to stand with the Proud Boys and January 6 defendants and all of the political prisoners who are now being punished chiefly for their beliefs.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/11/crime-and-punishment-january-6-edition/
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