There was little chance that he was going to be charged with insurrection as no one has been yet.---I wonder why not?---In any event, he'll be sent straight to solitary confinement. His crime?---Being a bonehead.
Because it is much easier to prove and convict on the other charges. Under 18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection charges require proof of lengthy planning -- much easier to put the insurrectionists in prison on other charges that are easily provable by their own videos and social media posts.
A Judge Questioned If Capitol Rioters Are Getting Off Too Easy For “Terrorizing Members Of Congress” Chief Judge Beryl Howell questioned whether allowing defendants to plead guilty to low-level offenses would deter people from storming the Capitol again. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-jan-6-defendants-plea-deals-too-lenient
Once again, if the best day of your life includes participating in the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th best keep that to yourself. N.J. man bragged at work about storming the Capitol, feds say. His coworkers called the FBI. https://www.nj.com/camden/2021/08/n...ol-feds-say-his-coworkers-called-the-fbi.html A Camden County man has been charged with four federal crimes accusing him of participating in the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after several coworkers reported him to the FBI, authorities said. Two coworkers of Donald Smith at UPS hub in Lawnside submitted tips to the FBI that Smith showed them videos from inside the Capitol, bragging about it being “the best day of his life,” charging documents say. Smith is charged with entering a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, violent entry on Capitol grounds, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. The first tip was placed on Jan. 9, three days after the riot. A second and third tip came in on Jan. 12 and 13, charging documents say. “I work with a man who showed up with pictures and video of him and others storming the white house (sic). He says he was in Nancy Pelosis office and that it was the best day of his life,” the second tip read. A third tipster sent the FBI a photo of their television which what appears to be a video of Smith inside the building, charging documents say. Coworkers told FBI agents during interviews that Smith was not at work on Jan. 6, and told coworkers on Jan. 7 that he “had a great time” sitting inside Pelosi’s office, the criminal case against Smith alleges. Smith’s exact residence was not in the court papers, but the FBI tracked his cell phone and was in Lindenwold early in the morning of Jan. 6, then late at night the same day. It was also in the nation’s capital during the day. The FBI said the phone traveled traveled south from Lindenwold at 6:53 a.m., hitting cell stations in Carneys Point, New Jersey, Newark, Delaware, then Aberdeen, Maryland and Baltimore to Silver Spring, Maryland an arrived in Washington at about 10:08 a.m. At approximately 6:24 p.m., Smith’s phone started the journey north, hitting the same spots in reverse, and arrived in Lindenwold at 9:08 p.m., the criminal complaint says. Smith was arrested on Thursday in Lindenwold, arrest documents show. No lawyer is listed for him in court records.
Judge to January 6 insurrectionist: "You called yourself and everyone else patriots, but that's not patriotism. Patriotism is loyalty to country, loyalty to the Constitution, not loyalty to a head of state. That is the tyranny we rejected on July 4". Judge to Capitol riot defendant: 'Patriotism is loyalty to country, loyalty to the Constitution' https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/politics/amy-berman-jackson-capitol-riot-defendant-patriotism/
Feds Arrest ‘George Washington’ In Jan. 6 Case Using Phone Tracking, Facial Recognition The FBI arrested Missouri’s Isaac Yoder, who admitted to entering the U.S. Capitol during the deadly insurrection while wearing colonial attire. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/feds...6-fbi-insurrection_n_610af372e4b0cc1278b71c02 Federal agents arrested a man on Wednesday who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a George Washington costume during the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. The FBI said in an affidavit that it had received an anonymous online tip on Feb. 26 from someone who claimed that an employee of Yoder Lock and Key in Nevada, Missouri, was involved in the Capitol riot. The tipster said they were unsure of the man’s first name but knew “he was inside the Capitol and was dressed as George Washington” on Jan. 6, according to the affidavit. The “About Us” section of Yoder Lock and Key’s website displays a photo of its owners, Isaac and Kelly Yoder, with Isaac Yoder clearly posing in colonial-era clothes: On March 16, Yoder agreed to be interviewed by the FBI in Joplin, Missouri. He told agents he had entered and exited the Capitol on Jan. 6 through a “west facing door,” according to the affidavit. He said the situation had “appeared somewhat under control,” and that he was “sure that he was captured in multiple images” at the Capitol. Just days later, Newsweek published an interview with Yoder, who told the publication that if the Capitol rioters had wanted to cause trouble, there would have been “piles of bodies.” He again admitted to entering the Capitol that day after hearing then-President Donald Trump speak, and that wearing a George Washington costume was his way of paying tribute to the founding of America. “Most of us out there are on the side of the aisle who are the gun owners,” Yoder told Newsweek. “If we had collectively gone there to cause trouble there would have been piles of bodies. We could have leveled things.” With that admission from Yoder in hand, the feds employed the same kind of digital dragnet they have used in other Jan. 6 prosecutions to seal up the case against “George Washington.” The FBI affidavit in the Yoder case alludes to facial recognition, which the feds and online sleuths have used to identify participants in the Capitol attack. The affidavit said a “comparative analysis” of Yoder’s Missouri driver’s license photo and “social media photographic data” identified “an image of a white male dressed in colonial attire standing beside a woman inside the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.” Surveillance footage from the U.S. Capitol, the FBI affidavit stated, also showed Yoder “stopping so people could take his picture” inside of the crypt at the U.S. Capitol. (There was a plan to entomb the body of the real George Washington below the Capitol Crypt and rotunda despite his desire to be buried at Mount Vernon, but it never came about.) According to the FBI, the Yoder Lock & Key website photo and Yoder’s driver’s license photo show he was the “George Washington” photographed at the Capitol. AT&T records federal agents obtained through a search warrant revealed that Yoder’s phone had “utilized a cell site consistent with providing service to a geographic area that includes the interior of the United States Capitol building.” When the FBI interviewed Yoder in March, the affidavit said, he brought along both his cell phone and “the colonial attire he wore on January 6.” The FBI has made more than 550 arrests in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Many of the defendants, like Yoder, face misdemeanor charges with a maximum sentence of six months in prison, and many will not serve any time. Six defendants have been sentenced so far. The longest sentence went to a felony defendant, who was given eight months in prison. Two misdemeanor defendants sentenced earlier on Wednesday ― Joshua Bustle and Jessica Bustle ― received probation as well as one and two months of home detention, respectively. (Read the FBI’s affidavit for Isaac Yoder at above url)
Regretful Anti-Vaxxer Rioters Sentenced to Home Detention During the Jan. 6 riot, Jessica Bustle held a sign that read “VACCINE INJURY is the REAL PANDEMIC” while her husband followed behind and filmed. https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-...and-joshua-bustle-sentenced-to-home-detention
Time to greatly up the fines of the insurrectionists... Judge asks why Capitol riot damage restitution is $1.5 million when cost to taxpayers is $500M https://www.axios.com/judge-15-mill...000-d8681cc3-d1fc-416a-9a33-3be63c68f3be.html
Domestic terrorist, domestic violence. Covington man accused in U.S. Capitol riot arrested on new, unrelated charges https://roanoke.com/news/local/crim...cle_fdc933f8-f6eb-11eb-917e-db78a87bc769.html