A Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy who the government says “served as an instigator and leader” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could face decades in federal prison at his sentencing Thursday.
The government wants Joe Biggs, an Army veteran who sustained a head injury in Iraq and then served as a correspondent for the conspiracy website Infowars, to serve 33 years in federal prison. That’s 15 years longer than the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case to date: the 18-year sentence that went to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison.
Federal prosecutors say Biggs was a “vocal leader and influential proponent of the group’s shift toward political violence” and used his “outsized public profile” and his military experience as he “led a revolt against the government in an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of power.”
Dude went to war for his country. Got brain damage. Didn’t get help for the “crazy” when he got back. And tried to overthrow the government that did this to him. Now, he’s going to prison. American Pie
Hundreds of thousands of other veterans didn’t betray their country. Stop symping for traitors.
Your interpretation concerns me. I’m not simping for traitors. It is an indictment of America. Hence, American Pie. How did he get this way? America did this to him. It’s doing it to you and me. That’s why you’re antagonistic. I’m not your enemy, capitalism is.
Yeah, see now that’s where he done messed up.