WASHINGTON, D.C.:...Rioter Gets 17 years In Prison...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | Another malcontent got the big shaft. Proud Boy Joe Biggs, shown in photo above, will not be home for a while. He's been sentenced to prison for his part in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

This from dailybeast.com: [ Biggs was "an instigator and leader" of the riot, according to prosecutors. Now he’ll serve 17 years behind bars after being sentenced for seditious conspiracy on Thursday.

It’s a lengthy jail term compared to the other Capitol rioters - only a year shorter than the longest sentence given for Jan. 6-related crimes. That belongs to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who got an 18-year sentence for the same crime.

Biggs is a veteran of the U.S. Army and sustained a head injury during his service in Iraq. He later joined right-wing conspiracy website Infowars as a correspondent. When he stormed the Capitol with his fellow Proud Boys on Jan. 6, Biggs was a “vocal leader and influential proponent of the group’s shift toward political violence,” prosecutors argued.

But Biggs claimed that couldn’t be farther from the truth. He pleaded with the judge to go light during his sentencing, saying he wanted to be around for his daughter and ailing mother.

"I know that I have to be punished and I understand," he said, according to CNN, but added, "please give me the chance, I beg you, to take my daughter to school and pick her up."

"I’m not a terrorist," he said. "I’m one of the nicest people in the world." ]

Well, be nice behind bars.

That's our best advice for this guy - yet another insurrectionist who wishes to portray himself differently when in court. You went nuts. Now, you go to jail.

Crime still does not pay...

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