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Proud boys, Antifa, KKK, QAnon... They're all your people that are used to build a narrative.
The moose out front should a told ya.
January 6th Committee live on prime time tv
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The moose out front should a told ya.
you're back for another *** kicking?
yes, I was just coming here to post this. kinda funny how a "Member" who cannot be a "Contributor" can and often does post links for articles behind pay walls, but ...
Four Proud Boys, including Joe Biggs of unincorporated Volusia County, were found guilty Thursday by a federal jury of seditious conspiracy for their roles in leading hordes of Donald Trump supporters into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The riot delayed the certification of the 2020 election declaring Joe Biden the winner and led to the deaths of several people, including a police officer who died by suicide the next day and a "Stop the Steal" protester who was shot during the fracas.
In addition to Biggs, Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio of Miami, Ethan Nordean of Washington state, and Zachary Rehl, president of the Philadelphia chapter. were found by a jury to be guilty of the uncommon seditious conspiracy charge. The case was deliberated by a jury for seven days after a more-than three-month trial.
The four were also found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
They face a maximum of 20 years in prison on the seditious conspiracy charge, defined by law as being two or more people who “conspire to overthrow, put down or destroy by force the Government of the United States.”
A fifth Proud Boy, Dominic Pezzola of upstate New York, was found guilty of stealing a police shield during the riot. The jury was split on whether he was guilty of seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly ordered the jury to continue deliberating on the counts for which they had not yet rendered a verdict.
Biggs lived near Ormond Beach, was an Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and a former contributor to Alex Jones' Infowars. He and the other Proud Boys appeared to be gearing up for something big following the election.
On Nov. 5, Biggs posted on social media: “It’s time for (expletive) War if they steal this (expletive).”
The government painted Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman, as the leader of the conspiracy despite the fact that he was not there on Jan. 6. He had been arrested on Jan. 4 on charges of destruction of property stemming from the burning of a stolen Black Lives Matter banner during a Washington, D.C., protest the previous month.
Tarrio exchanged text messages with Biggs on Dec. 19, 2020, during which Biggs suggested the Proud Boys stop recruiting losers. “Let’s get radical and get real men,” Biggs wrote.
That month Tarrio established a national Proud Boys chapter he called the Ministry of Self Defense, according to the charging documents. Tarrio and the others began planning for a national rally.
The Proud Boys’ defense pointed to then-President Trump as the catalyst for the events on Jan. 6.
“It was Donald Trump’s words. It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what happened on Jan. 6,” Tarrio attorney Nayib Hassan said in his closing remarks. “They want to use Enrique Tarrio as a scapegoat for Donald Trump and those in power.”
Norm Pattis, Biggs' attorney, did not return a call Thursday afternoon seeking comment on the verdict.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Proud Boys trial: Biggs, Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy
I don't believe that anyone here thought that all of those present at the Capitol, whether inside or out, were just innocent bystanders.
Subjective justice is a whole other issue.
Trump is going to pardon them in 2 years. You know that. Right?
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What, when they brush up against him in the shower? I doubt they’ll end up in the same prison, but you never know.
Because that worked so well the last 7 times. Right?
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I doubt he gets a jury full of compromised politicians, but you never know.
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