New in PJ Media:
The left has to have scapegoats to prop up its sagging Jan. 6 “insurrection” narrative, and so Joe Biggs of the Proud Boys has just been given seventeen years in prison for his actions on that fateful day, which involved nothing more than tearing down a fence. If one guy removing a single barrier can bring the government of a superpower perilously close to being overthrown, we’re in bigger trouble than we thought. Biggs would be the first to tell you that we are, but not in the way that the leftist elites want us to think.
The Post Millennial reported Wednesday that Biggs explained the objective behind his sentence, which Judge Timothy Kelly made harsher because of the circumstances: the fence he tore down “separated law enforcement personnel from the protesters … on Capitol grounds that day,” and so Kelly “ruled that Biggs was subject to heavier sentencing consequences for domestic terrorism.”
This is ridiculous on its face. 9/11 — that was terrorism. The Fort Hood jihad massacre — that was terrorism. The Boston Marathon bombing? Terrorism. Some people getting let into the Capitol and snapping some selfies? Not terrorism.
According to Biggs, the agenda behind the left’s fabricated Jan. 6 hysteria is not just to destroy Trump and sideline him for 2024, but something far more sweeping and insidious.
“They want you scared,” Biggs said, referring to ordinary law-abiding American citizens who oppose the Biden regime and everything it stands for. Biggs told Alex Jones “that the case against him and others involved in the Jan. 6 riot was politically motivated.” When he was convicted, Biggs said, “my heart hurt.” He explained, “They want to send a message to Americans that if you go to these events, if you are part of a political group, they’re going to throw you in prison for a long time.”
It makes sense. The Biden regime has given numerous indications of its taste for authoritarianism: its ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board, which would label some speech as “disinformation” (as was originally done with Hunter Biden’s laptop); its collaboration with Big Tech to silence and deplatform Americans who objected to its COVID propaganda; its determination to find something — anything — to hang on Trump to prevent him from running again in 2024, instead of just persuading enough Americans to vote for them; and more.
Authoritarian regimes use terror to remain in power. In the Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn explains that sometimes Stalin’s police would arrest and imprison people who were perfectly innocent, and it was no mistake: the Communist authorities wanted to terrorize the population into submission, making people think that they had to be extra careful to do everything that those authorities required, or else they might be the next ones to be arrested.
There is more. Read the rest here.
somehistory says
Bible readers may recall Proverbs 29:25 where it’s written “the fear of men lays a snare.”
Fear of what man can do, is a trap. Fear will not keep the ghouls, the fiends, the evil psychopaths, from doing what they want to do.
As the article makes clear, innocent people are targeted to cause others to fear stepping out of line. But, the “innocent” didn’t step out of line.
There is no guarantee that those people intent on absolute control will not target someone who is following all of their tyranny rules to the letter.
It’s so much better, and in fact, easier, to stand up for Truth and the right way of living and treating others.
If we ‘tremble at man,” we will sacrifice everything in the vain hope that all will be okay.
Walter Sieruk says
What else can a knowledgeable and rational person expect from a vicious rigged leftist Joe Biden court ? That malicious left-wing court is an affront to genuine justice.
That politically correct leftist Judge who headed that rigged court even had let it slip out by admitting that he gave Joe Biggs that long sentence as a message and warning to other Conservatives that they should not engage in their First Amendment rights by speaking out publicly of important subjects.
America under the Joe Biden regime is fast slipping towards tyranny.
As George Washington had, very wisely, declared, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.”
Walter Sieruk says
This Proud Boys leader. Joe Biggs,who have been sentenced to prison by the politically correct leftist corrupted Joe Biden rigged court is sign of a tyrannical government.
Such a PC court would never, ever, sentence any Marxist leaders of Antifa or Black Lives Matter to a long term in prison no matter what crimes they had committed.
As for this Proud Boys chief patriot who sentenced to prison, it should be remembered that the Bible reads “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrews 13:3. [K.K.J.V.]
Keith O says
This sorry episode reminds me of the actions of third world dictatorships.
OLD GUY says
How amazing. ANTIFA , BLM burn cities and destroy both public and private property and no one is charged.