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- cross-posted to:
- news@szmer.info
A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter.
Joe Biggs was convicted by a Washington, DC jury of several charges including seditious conspiracy for attempting to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
The government wanted Biggs to serve 33 years in federal prison. That’s 15 years longer than the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case to date: the 18-year sentence that went to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison.
Even if he serves all 17 years, it’s unlikely he rehabilitates and incredibly like he goes right back to it.
People get 30 years for having a couple hundred dollars of weed.
We wouldn’t be complaining about his sentence so much if the rest of our sentences were also lesser
Or if the US Prison System was focused on rehabilitation rather than mass incarceration. This guy will find and be welcomed by his own in prison, and his misguided and dangerous ideology will only be enforced, and not challenged.
Fanatical beliefs like the ones this man holds should be ostracized and mocked until they fade into obscurity and irrelevance. Instead, they live on through insidious means like indoctrination, cults/organized religions, and fascism.
And then we’ll get on our unicorns and ride off to gum drop mountain
That’s the problem, not a 17 year sentence being too light. What’s he going to learn in year 18 he didn’t learn in the previous 17?