On the same day Oath Keeper honchos Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs were sentenced to 18 and 12 years in prison (see stories here and here), Jacob Chansley, the s0-called “QAnon Shaman,” was released from a halfway house (see story here). Chansley (photo, left), a full-time protester befo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
May 18th, 2023 - 3:18 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Ashli Babbitt’s mother is a nutcase
Losing a child is heartbreaking, and grieving parents don’t hurt less if their child was a criminal. Ashli Babbitt was committing a felony when she attacked the final thin line of police defending members of Congress sheltering a few feet away. Subsequent investigations exonerated the cop who [...]
May 5th, 2023 - 11:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Kentucky man sets record for longest Jan. 6 sentence
Peter Schwartz (photo, left), 49, a welder from Owensburg, Kentucky, drew the longest prison sentence yet given to a Jan. 6 rioter. He deserves it. Schwartz has 38 prior convictions, 11 involving crimes of violence, some against police officers, which the judge factored that into his sentence. AOL N[...]
April 28th, 2023 - 12:41 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Montana GOPers struggle with American vocabulary
Republicans usually can handle the meanings one-syllable English words, although spelling can be a challenge (e.g. “too” versus “to”); but asking them to comprehend a 4-syllable word is a bridge too far. For example, insurrection ĭn″sə-rĕk′shən noun The act or an inst[...]
April 25th, 2023 - 7:43 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
“Trump made me do it”
“A lawyer for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio of Florida said Donald Trump is to blame for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and federal authorities are using Tarrio as a scapegoat for the former president’s actions,” the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, Ap[...]
Jan. 6 rioter gets 52 months for fire extinguisher attack
Robert Sanford (photo, left), 57, a retired fireman from Boothwyn, Pennyslvania, was sentenced to 52 months in prison for injuring two police officers with a fire extinguisher during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot (see video below, and read story here). That’s longer than most people need to complete [...]
March 23rd, 2023 - 5:19 pm § in Law and Courts
Little waif blowing in the wind
It’s not the defense attorney’s fault. Making excuses for his client’s criminal behavior is his job. Riley Williams (photo, left), 24, is a high-profile Capitol rioter described by prosecutors as “an ‘accelerant’ of the mob” who “‘gleefully direc[...]
Zip-tie rioter gets measly 2 years
Larry Brock, 55, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from Texas, is one of two Capitol rioters seen with zip-tie handcuffs in the Senate chamber during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. (See photo at left.) He entered the Capitol Building decked out in combat gear. On Friday, March 17, 2023, a fede[...]
Pence didn’t suddenly find religion
Ex-vice president Mike Pence is finally criticizing Trump. You know, Trump, the guy who incited a mob to chant “hang Mike Pence!” On Saturday, March 11, 2023, Pence declaimed, ““President Trump was wrong, I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered [...]
Trump election lawyer censured
Colorado lawyer Jenna Ellis was a member of the “elite strike force team” of lawyers led by Rudy Giuliani (details here) that tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss with dodgy legal tactics. In her home state, Ellis was accused of violating professional ethics by participatin[...]