World Affairs Brief, May 26, 2023 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.

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BIGGEST INJUSTICE YET IN THE JAN 6TH RIGGED TRIALS

A federal judge sentenced Oath Keeper’s founder Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison Thursday on the charge of sedition even though he wasn’t at the Capitol protest. The Deep State judge who has presided at many of these rigged trials also accepted the government’s recommendation of an enhancement for terrorism for his role leading a “seditious conspiracy to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory that culminated in the ‘violent assault’ on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.” As ABC News relishes,

Rhodes’ sentence is now the longest to date handed down to a defendant charged in connection with the Capitol assault.

For the first time in a Jan. 6 case, D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta accepted the government’s recommendation to apply an enhancement for terrorism in Rhodes’ sentencing. Mehta agreed with prosecutors that Rhodes “inspired the use of violence” in his followers to disrupt the certification and that his conduct met the legal definition of terrorism intended to influence the actions of government.

They couldn’t prove by the extensive surveillance recordings any actual verbal incitement to violence, so they use the term “inspired” to violence, which isn’t in the law.

Mehta cited the stockpile of weapons the Oath Keepers had amassed just outside of Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, as well as Rhodes’ orders for members to delete incriminating messages after the Capitol assault.

There was zero evidence that the presence of those weapons was going to be used in an attempt to do anything with the use of force—though it was clearly unwise to bring them into Washington DC with its radical gun laws, even if they were just preparing for violent attacks on Trump protestors by the disguised BLM and Antifa people infiltrating the Trump rally. It is also not a crime to erase unwise communications Oath Keepers made between each other, especially when infiltrated by government agents bent on provoking incriminating conversation.