753 people have been charges in the Capitol Hill Insurrection so far. The first indictments of sedition have now been leveled against members of the the Oath Keepers. This is a defining moment in the year long investigation by the Justice Department.
On January 6, 2021 members of the Oath Keepers, in their paramilitary gear, walked up the capitol steps single file with their hands on each others shoulders to work their way through the crowd. Many of these military wanna bees were already facing charges for storming the US Capitol building.
To deny they stormed the capitol will be hard to deny since this is the most photographed crime in history.
FBI investigators and DC federal prosecutors have worked diligently building the case, with the help of cooperators and the benefit of internal communications among the Oath Keepers. Federal prosecutors have been criticized by legal experts, Democratic lawmakers, Donald Trump critics, and media pundits for going easy on many of the the rioters.
These charges mute the the talking point from those downplaying the events of January 6, 2021, that the attack on the Capitol wasn’t an insurrection because nobody has been charged with sedition. The sedition case against the Oath Keepers highlights that there were hardened groups of alleged criminals within the mob that essentially planned for war. The Oath Keepers’ leader, who by the way shot his own eye out, is quoted as telling his supporters that they should prepare for a “bloody” operation and that they would need to “fight” in a “war.” Prosecutors added more details of how the Oath Keepers allegedly stockpiled weapons at a nearby hotel in Virginia, just in case they needed to deploy a “quick reaction force” into DC. Prosecutors say, that the Oath Keepers wanted to stop the transfer of presidential power from Trump to Joe Biden.
This band of miscreants lead by the sore looser of a former president. lost the battle on January 6, 2021 and will be tried for sedition.
Sedition is defined as follows… If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.