Proud Boys Leaders All Sentenced for January 6 “Seditious Conspiracy”

There is no evidence for this theory, by the way.

The idea the Proud Boys were planning to overthrow the government is totally retarded and everyone knows it.

However, in these bizarre show trials we are witnessing in America, “there is no evidence and the theory is retarded” is not a defense.

They just do whatever they want to you.

They have the power. You don’t. And that is the way the physical world works: people with power have the ability to force their will on people who do not have power.

This is one of the reasons it has generally been considered a bad idea to put criminals in charge of governments.

RT:

Four leaders of the right-wing organization Proud Boys have been convicted of seditious conspiracy for their alleged role in masterminding the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.  

Chairman Enrique Tarrio, Philadelphia chapter leader Zachary Rehl, Joe Biggs, and Ethan Nordean each face up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty by a Washington, DC federal jury on Thursday of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

Jurors failed to reach a decision on conspiracy charges regarding a fifth defendant, Proud Boys neophyte Dominic Pezzola. All five were found guilty of obstructing Congress, felony civil disorder, and destroying government property.  

But were they convicted of sedition…?

A sixth Proud Boy, Jeremy Bertino, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and testified that his comrades wanted a “revolution” and were working to stop then-president-elect Joe Biden from assuming the role of commander-in-chief.

Tarrio, whom prosecutors described as the “leader of the conspiracy to stop the certification” of Biden as president, was not actually present at the Capitol on January 6, having been arrested just days before for possession of high-capacity rifle magazines and subsequently ordered to stay out of Washington until his trial date. However, the message he sent from his Baltimore hotel room the night of the riot – “make no mistake, we did this” – along with a plan to amass a crowd in Washington and storm government buildings found in his email inbox were presented as evidence of his guilt.  

lol these people with their emails.

How many times does this have to happen before right-wing extremist groups stop leaving extensive paper trails?

The five defendants had talked of keeping Trump in power “by any means necessary including force” in messages obtained by the FBI. Defense lawyers dismissed this – and their post-riot boasts – as mere “locker room talk.”

The FBI has claimed that Tarrio was arrested in order to prevent the events of January 6, and the Proud Boys leader has a lengthy history as a federal informant, lending credibility to persistent rumors that federal agents-provocateurs had agitated the riot.

The court system is 100% political.

It’s still possible to get a fair hearing, but fair hearings are becoming rarer and rarer. Furthermore: if they want to get you, and you end up with a fair hearing, they will just charge you with something else.

The Proud Boys have been charged with various things over and over again.

It will be interesting to see what happens with Tarrio, given that he was serving as an FBI informant.

Hilariously, serving as an FBI informant does not keep you out of prison.

Hal Turner, a neo-Nazi radio host from the 1990s and early 2000s, was able to prove in court that the FBI told him to say the things he was being charged with saying, and he was still sentenced to years in prison.

Aside from the obvious moral implications, being an FBI informant is not good work.

It’s funny how Gavin McInnes, who founded the group and openly referred to it as a criminal gang, was able to slip out the back like a rapist.

Funny character, that McInnes.

Except for his jokes. Those aren’t funny at all.