A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter.
Joe Biggs was convicted by a Washington, DC jury of several charges including seditious conspiracy for attempting to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
The government wanted Biggs 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.
This guy used violence and terrorism because he didn’t want my vote to count simply because he didn’t like the way I voted. Fuck this asshole. I hope he commits more felonies in prison and gets more time tacked on. 17 years isn’t enough for this fascist asshole.
He has a young daughter. Poor daughter having such a shit father.
Honestly, she’s probably better off without this failure of a human being in her life.
I agree with the rage, but I personally – snowball in hell it may be – hope he and the others that participated in this come to realize why what they did is wrong and come to eventually speak against it.
He claims, " I’m not a terrorist, I don’t have hate in my heart.". Unfortunately, I don’t believe him, and I don’t think the judge did either.
I’m skeptical as well, but I believe in redemption
He either has hate, or he’s happy to exploit the hate of his followers for personal gain.
Either way he is in fact, a terrorist.
I look forward to seeing if he takes this approach 17 years from now.
That would just be further “proof” of the deep state they think runs the country
It’s not do that he thought that he did not like your vote, but because he thought your vote does not matter. A tiny but important difference, I think.
Now that the seditionists are getting prison terms, VOTE VOTE VOTE. The next Republican president will pardon all of these assholes instantly.
Pardon is the least of our concerns.
The next Republican president will pardon all of these assholes instantly.
Only if they can afford to pay for it. You shouldn’t let them get their hopes up on false promises.
Imagine throwing away your life because a different party is rightfully elected. Your wife is gone. She’s not staying around, because in 17 years you will both be different people. Your kid is gone. You will never know your kid, even when you get out.
It’s stupid, because presidents promise so much, but do so little. You threw away your life for pretty much nothing.
Fucking idiots lol.
They don’t think they did anything wrong.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking people like this can be reasoned with. They can not.
We are better off executing people like this. Prison for life is a close second.
Keeping them alive only emboldens others to follow in their footsteps until they succeed.
No I am not ‘stooping to their level’ in suggesting that traitors are executed.
There’s a reason treason carries the death penalty.
17 years for OrangeLeader, who likely doesn’t even know who Joe Biggs is. He’ll be 55 years old when released (assuming full term).
And hopefully never allowed to own a gun, vote or have internet access
never allowed to own a gun
Somehow I doubt the guys convicted for trying to overthrow the government are real big on following laws.
Who knows, maybe 17 years in the slammer will change that?
Or just give them more racist connections.
Did Joe Biggs ever regret listening to Trump’s lies? Has he said anything?
Biggs grew emotional as he talked about his daughter, swearing on her life that he intended Jan. 6 to be his last event with the Proud Boys.
“I’m done with it. I’m sick and tired of left versus right,” Biggs said. The only group he wants to be affiliated with, he said, is his daughter’s PTA.
He’s an asshole. And he is sorry; sorry that he got caught. He’s sick of it now, but wasn’t then. He makes no statement about the victims of his violence. He makes no statements about the millions of nameless victims whose votes he wanted overturned.
Even if he had said he regretted acting on Trump’s lies, it wouldn’t mean a thing. He is just upset he got caught and punished. He’s an asshole.
“I’m sick and tired of left versus right”
He hasn’t learned a thing. This is not a “left versus right” thing.
He’s in effect saying: “In the fight between democracy and justice versus fascism and tyranny, I simply want to say both sides are bad and go to my daughter’s PTA meetings to force my backwards views on children.”
Here’s hoping he can be reformed but if not, rot in prison dickhead.
It’s how entitled people deal with consequences when consequences finally hit them.
He’d turn that PTA into a racist shithole given the chance.
Fun fact: some of these dinks are going back on their regret statements, claiming they were a strategy to avoid heavy fines or jail or some such. What they don’t know is that this claim then opens them to re-prosecution for the same offenses they may have been acquitted of 😏
“…the last event with the Proud Boys” Joe B.
This statement seems odd to me. Like he was doing something bad and so far hasn’t got caught. Anyone know what he ment by that?
I hope once or if, Trump is in jail Trump loses his influence over his cult. Trump has used and discarded so many people. In Trump’s world only Trump matters.
Right? It’s like the career criminal doing one more robbery. They tell themselves it’ll be the last time they do it because they know it’s wrong. Except it’s not the last time. They’ll do another later on and call that one the last time. And again and again.
Idk what he meant by it, but he ended up being right… he’s certainly not doing anything with them from prison :)
Being one of the leaders of the group of people who attempted to overthrow your government and peaceful democratic systems is only 17 years in prison?
Wow just wow
If I were a traitor, I would see this sentence and think, “yeah, it kinda looks worth it, honestly.”
Conservatives get light sentences. It’s just a thing we do here, unfortunately.
So many people get longer sentences for smaller crimes. :(
33 years would have been better. A firing squad even betterer.
But nearly 20 years is better than the slap on the wrists that other traitors were getting.
Just FYI, Thomas Webster got 10 years and Stewart Rhodes got 18 years. (So as to say this isn’t the first that’s actually gotten some significant time behind bars)
Light sentence. 30+ would be better for these treasonous scumbags
People fucking died, should be 20 minimum for every asshole present that day
100%
Especially for someone who took an oath. We shouldn’t go easier because of his service, but harder, particularly regarding insurrection and invasion of Congress. He was tip of the spear in this, and led conspiracy with as many people as he could influence.
Now he’ll get to get out of prison and be denied the right to vote lol
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Death by hanging is the most appropriate.
Man is lucky he wasn’t executed.
Has to be war time for that, right?
The Rosenbergs were executed in peacetimes.
Edit:
Currently, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 14 offenses are punishable by death. Under the following sections of the UCMJ, the death penalty can be imposed in both times of war and peace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_military
SSG Biggs isn’t eligible for UCMJ under current precedent. He has not served enough time, was medically discharged, and is not eligible for retirement benefits to my knowledge.
https://www.tullylegal.com/resources/articles/can-you-be-charged-under-the-ucmj-after-discharge/
I had thought the person I replied to was referencing treason in the constitution but I may be wrong about war/peace about that.
Could he not be executed as a civilian like the Rosenbergs?
They were tried for espionage. I haven’t been closely following Biggs, but I don’t believe he has this charge
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He doesn’t fit element A, so this whole discussion is moot. Please stop spreading misinformation. Also, if you’re gonna cite the UCMJ, cite the corresponding statute number (Article 94). Also, it helps if you spell UCMJ correctly
it helps if you spell UCMJ correctly
JCUM
Why does he not fit element A? Is it 1 or 2 or 3 or 4; or do you have to fulfill 1-4 to qualify? I don’t know the context behind the excerpt they posted
I don’t know the context behind the excerpt they posted
That’s the problem; they didn’t post the context that would demonstrate he is not subject to the UCMJ as a veteran. Some retirees may be subject to the UCMJ, but in general, the UCMJ applies to active duty military. I’m a veteran with legal experience, not a lawyer, so I’m willing to be corrected with facts from someone who knows and isn’t just repeating bullshit they heard on social media.
The elements of this crime have several different acts which qualify; you don’t have to do all of them to be guilty. The preface (which was cut off) denotes which people are subject to punishment under this law, which would almost certainly NOT include Biggs.
I think I found context:
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SSG Biggs served from 2007-2012: https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/2023/04/19/joe-biggs-volusia-proud-boys-leader-will-not-testify-at-his-trial/70126430007/
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UCMJ is for (active) service members: https://www.bileckilawgroup.com/court-martial-defense/articles-of-the-ucmj/article-94-mutiny-and-sedition/#:~:text=Sedition under Article 94 of the UCMJ occurs when a,of that lawful civil authority.
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SSG Biggs does not meet the general retired conditions for UCMJ punishment: https://www.tullylegal.com/resources/articles/can-you-be-charged-under-the-ucmj-after-discharge/
The only piece to this puzzle I didn’t have is in your first link.
Biggs received a medical discharge from the Army when he was 28
Cool, so he didn’t have 20 years AND he isn’t retired; he was medically discharged. These two factors absolutely remove him from consideration of punishment under the UCMJ. Nice detective work there!
You should take the “(Ret.)” out behind his name so as not to mislead though.
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Bye bye! Have fun in general pop, fuck-head!
Joe Biggs: Fucked around. Found out.
Joyous news, thank you!
Where’s your pumpkin spice daddy now Joe?!
With any luck maybe you’ll share a cell
Fuck all these people, every last one of them. Keep the convictions rolling. They each deserve it tenfold.
Not so proud anymore, eh?
