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September 4, 2023 Rob Taylor

The Persecution and Prosecution of the J6 Political Prisoners

The people arrested by the authorities for attending the January 06, 2021 Rally in DC are victims of a vindictive justice system aimed at making examples out of them. They are pawns in a legal battle to silence anyone who dissents against the current Biden Regime and the DC political establishment. They are political prisoners in the war against the American people by the communists and globalists who want total domination.

Judges in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia have handed down harsh and unjust sentences to a handful of defendants for more than a decade of incarceration over their actions during the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Justice Department (DOJ) announced earlier this month that approximately 597 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for their activity on Jan. 6. A judge has sentenced about 366 individuals to periods of incarceration.

The recent Jan. 6 sentences so far

Many of those with the longest sentences include members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.

Two members of the Proud Boys — Joe Biggs and Zachary Rehl — were sentenced last Thursday for actions they took on Jan. 6. Two more Proud Boys, Dominic Pezzola and Ethan Nordean, were sentenced Friday while Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced this week.

Stewart Rhodes

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison in May, after being found guilty on conspiracy charges for his role in the Capitol attack.

Rhodes currently has the longest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant. Judge Amit Mehta laid down the sentence at the time, telling the leader that he was “not a political prisoner” and that he was an “ongoing threat and a peril to this country.”

Rhodes’s sentence was also notable because he did not enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, but instead, he directed his team via a walkie-talkie app as they entered the building in a “stack” formation. The sentence was shorter than the DOJ’s ask for 25 years of imprisonment.

Joe Biggs

Proud Boy Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison Thursday, making it the second-longest sentence for those convicted on charges related to the Capitol riot.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly found Biggs guilty of sedition and other felonies this year after prosecutors accused him of leading Proud Boys members to the Capitol. Judge Timothy Kelly applied a terrorism enhancement to Biggs’s sentencing guidelines, which means that the defendant committed an offense that “was calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct.”

“I know I messed up that day, but I am not a terrorist,” Biggs said at the hearing Thursday.

However, Biggs’s 17-year sentence still falls short of what the government requested — 33 years in prison. This was the highest sentencing request for any defendant tried in connection with the Capitol attack.

Proud Boy Zachary Rehl, a former U.S. Marine, was handed a 15-year prison sentence Thursday afternoon after being convicted of leading a mob toward the Capitol on Jan. 6.

His sentence is now the third-longest sentence handed down to any Jan. 6 defendant.

As for Rhodes and Biggs, the sentence is also lower than what the government had requested, which was a 33-year sentence for Rehl.

Peter Schwartz — a Kentucky man with an existing criminal record — received a 14-year sentence for attacking police officers with pepper spray and a chair while he breached the Capitol that day.

Mehta sentenced Schwartz at the time, saying that he was a “soldier against democracy.”

“You are not a political prisoner,” the judge told him. “You’re not somebody who is standing up against injustice or fighting against an autocratic regime.”

Schwartz’s sentence was shorter than what prosecutors had recommended, which was 24 years and six months.

Oath Keepers Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs was sentenced in May to 12 years in prison.

The Justice Department announced in July that it would be challenging the length of both Rhodes’s and Meggs’s sentences, a rare move from the prosecutors.

US District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Dominic Pezzola, 46, to 10 years in prison this past Friday for assaulting police and obstructing an official proceeding.

Judge Kelley sentenced Ethan Nordean, 32, to 18 years for a more serious seditious conspiracy charge this past Friday. Nordean led the group's march on Congress on January 6, 2021.

Nejourde "Jord" Meachum

Another J6 defendant has committed suicide. Nejourde "Jord" Meachum, age 22, an entirely peaceful J6er killed himself two weeks after he was charged with four non-violent misdemeanors. Jord is the sixth known defendant who committed suicide.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on Z, the platform previously known as Twitter, "US Attorney Matthew Graves is now responsible for a 4th suicide by another J6'er because of extreme persecution of J6 defendants," She also wrote, "Jord Meachum [sic] was 19 yrs old when he nonviolently walked in the Capitol. 19. Biden's communists [sic] regime has destroyed justice and stolen hope."