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On September 5, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced the
last of five members of the Proud Boys convicted by a D.C. jury of
various crimes, including seditious conspiracy, earlier this year.
Kelly imposed the longest sentence to date in any January 6 case by
ordering Enrique Tarrio, the group’s ex-leader, to serve 22 years in
prison even though Tarrio was not in the Washington, D.C. that day.

Similar to his decision on the fate of Tarrio’s co-defendants, Kelly
consented to the Department of Justice’s request to add a terror
enhancement to Tarrio’s sentence, which dramatically elevated the base
amount of prison time under federal sentencing guidelines. The crime?
Shaking a temporary metal fence on Capitol grounds. Admitting that
Tarrio “did not directly participate in the fence's destruction,” now officially a federal crime of terror as I explained here, Kelly
nonetheless claimed Tarrio somehow contributed to the destruction of
government property from a Baltimore hotel room.

I’ve heavily criticized Kelly’s conduct in court and will have more
to say after appeals are filed in each case. His failure to protect
the rights of the defendants from egregious government overreach,
refusal to move the trial out of D.C., and numerous rulings that
prevented the jury (and the public) to learn the full scope of FBI
involvement in the group are just a few areas ripe for appeal.

But the question before the public right now is—what exactly did these
men do on January 6?

One would be hard pressed to get a straight answer from either Judge
Kelly or any of the many prosecutors handling the case. Overthrow the government? Interrupt a session of Congress? Thwart the “peaceful
transfer” of power? Scare Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? All of the
above?

Hyperbole from the court and the government veered from the laughable
to the absurd. And by comparing a four-hour disturbance to 9/11, the prosecutors in this case insulted every victim and their loved ones.

So, what was the crime of sedition? To help us understand, here are
the instructions given to jurors for seditious conspiracy. The
government’s burden of proof in this trial was basically nonexistent—
not that a jury picked from a city of nearly all Democrats requires
much evidence before finding a Trump supporter guilty of any concocted
charge. In the indictment,

This essentially could apply to any protest in the future and certainly
could have applied to the 2017 inauguration riots and 2018 Kavanaugh demonstrations:

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BY FORCE. Sounds scary. (Keep in mind the Proud Boys were not armed
and none was charged with assaulting police. And the “transfer of
presidential power” happens on January 20, not January 6 but whatevs.)

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But oh by the way, force isn’t really necessary.

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And if you can make sense of this…congratulations! You are qualified
to be a government prosecutor, federal judge, or D.C. jurist! During
closing arguments in the trial, one prosecutor told the jury a “wink
and a nod” represented an agreement to join the conspiracy. What a
joke.

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Now what about the actions of defendants such as Joe Biggs, sentenced
to 17 years, and Ethan Nordean, sentenced to 18 years, on January 6?

Nordean is in all black wearing a baseball hat turned backwards. Biggs
is in a flannel shirt and neck gaiter.

One can disagree with their rowdy conduct and rough language. But that
doesn’t make them terrorists. And it certainly doesn’t make them
hardened criminals deserving of up to two decades in federal prison.

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Let's go Brandon!

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