Thursday, April 4, 2024

It never ends.........

 BUT it's still a good thing, that even after 3 years, they are still sentencing these clowns. 

‘What the British did to DC will be nothing’: Megaphone-toting Jan. 6 rioter who led attack on Capitol police gets years in federal prison


A megaphone-toting Jan. 6 rioter who boasted on social media, ‘What the British did to DC will be nothing,” a day before leading an attack on U.S. Capitol police on Jan. 6 was sentenced to seven years in federal prison.

Taylor James Johnatakis, 40, of Kingston, Washington, was ordered to spend 87 months in prison and pay $2,000 in restitution. He was convicted in November of misdemeanor offenses, including trespassing, disorderly conduct offenses and engaging in an act of physical violence. He was also convicted of felonies, including obstruction, civil disorder, and assaulting and resisting officers. NBC News reported he had represented himself during trial and the judge didn’t buy his “bulls—” and “gobbledygook.”

In his sentencing notes, Senior U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, highlighted the more than 20 letters from Johnatakis’ friends and family praising his “good works, good nature, and good character.” But, in explaining his sentence, the judge said what Johnatakis did that day was neither First Amendment-protected activity nor civil disobedience.

“A society in which everyone does what is right by his own lights, where adherence to the law is optional, would be a society of vigilantism, lawlessness, and anarchy,” he wrote. “A person dissatisfied with the government or the law has various non-violent ways to express his or her views.”

“As the Court has said before, ‘the First Amendment does not give anyone the right to enter a restricted area or to engage in riotous activity in the Capitol,” he said. “It obviously does not give anyone the right to assault the police. Nor was the January 6 riot an act of civil disobedience, because it was violent, not peaceful; opportunistic, not principled; coercive, not persuasive; and selfish, not patriotic.”

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/what-the-british-did-to-dc-will-be-nothing-megaphone-toting-jan-6-rioter-who-led-attack-on-capitol-police-gets-years-in-federal-prison/

Did this judge really use the word “gobbledygook”  ?

Must be a new legal term. 




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