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2021-11-17 -Great Cultural Revolution
US Capitol rioter 'QAnon Shaman' faces four years in prison
[Jpost] Prosecutors have asked US District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley,
...the unsuccessful actor who mostly did his thing to acclaim at Antifa protests, and who was described by prosecutors back home as mentally unbalanced, possibly because of Asperger’s Syndrome...
who pleaded guilty in September.

The US Capitol rioter nicknamed the "QAnon Shaman" for his horned head-dress faces a judge on Wednesday who could sentence him to more than four years in prison for his role in the deadly January 6 attack by former President Donald Trump's followers.

Prosecutors have asked US District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley, who pleaded guilty in September to obstructing an official proceeding when he and thousands of others stormed the building in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election.

"Defendant Chansley's now-famous criminal acts have made him the public face of the Capitol riot," prosecutors said in asking for the 51-month sentence. That would be the stiffest imposed on any Capitol rioter, after a former mixed martial artist filmed punching a police officer during violence was sentenced last week to 41 months in prison.

Chansley's attorneys have asked the judge for a sentence of time served for their client, who has been detained since his January arrest.

While in detention, Chansley was diagnosed by prison officials with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety. When he entered his guilty plea, Chansley said he was disappointed Trump had not pardoned him.

Defense lawyer Albert Watkins said the US Navy in 2006 had found Chansley suffered from personality disorder but nonetheless declared him "fit for duty."
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-17 08:32|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 "Deadly attack", just like the "deadly coronavirus"

The big lie.
Posted by Bobby 2021-11-17 10:59||   2021-11-17 10:59|| Front Page Top

#2 "made him the public face of the Capitol riot"
No, actually, I think it was more the horns and body paint. Every circus loves a freak.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-17 11:27||   2021-11-17 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 What role? He got his picture taken wearing a ridiculous costume and he gets four years for it? C'mon. What's the maximum sentence for misdemeanor trespassing? And, as far as obstructing an official proceeding, doesn't Nancy bear some responsibility for her refusal to allow adequate security for that "official proceeding"?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-17 12:28||   2021-11-17 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I charge Nancy Pelosi with keeping an attractive nuisance. If said nuisance had not been there and been as attractive and easily accessible as it was due to lack of proper security, none of this would have happened.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-17 12:31||   2021-11-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 No doubt this sentence will be sharply criticized by the Soros DA's who oppose incarceration and want to abolish jails. Or maybe not.
Posted by Matt 2021-11-17 12:54||   2021-11-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 He'll get out on appeal.
Posted by ruprecht 2021-11-17 12:59||   2021-11-17 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Lot of cosplay going on, he just won first prize. Remember, just to his right was Devil Eyes and to his left Confederate Doughnut. Brokeback Duster is still my favorite.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-17 13:21||   2021-11-17 13:21|| Front Page Top

#8 obstructing an official proceeding

WTF is this? Essentially, getting in the way, being a boor, behaving badly?
Punishable by FOUR YEARS IN PRISON?!

Huh? So we're now living in Bourbon France?

Why are we tolerating this shit?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-17 13:33||   2021-11-17 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 "deadly attack" is an obscene insult, given that it was Capitol Officer Michael L. Boyd who attacked and killed a trespasser who posed no threat of injury or harm to any of the officers around her.

This shit is outrageous. What country are we living in?
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-17 13:36||   2021-11-17 13:36|| Front Page Top

#10 According to an old Daily Mail article I just came across, Jacob Angeli Chansley has been deteriorating for years. He has been jobless and living with his mother in Phoenix for several years, and refers to himself as an actor, and before being jailed spent his time roaming his mother’s neighbourhood in his shaman costume and going to all sorts of protests — he’s clearly not particular.

Several other articles mention that while in the Navy he was diagnosed as schizotypal.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-17 13:49||   2021-11-17 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Abu - please don't use the terms 'Nancy Pelosi' and 'Attractive' in the same sentence ever again. Yikes!
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-11-17 14:19||   2021-11-17 14:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Given Mr. Chansley’s deterioration, and that there are so few private long term mental asylums, the judge may be taking advantage of the situation as he considers sentencing. But he might also go for time served. Prosecutors often do not get what they ask for in terms of sentences.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-17 14:39||   2021-11-17 14:39|| Front Page Top

#13 41 months. Less than the prosecutors asked for, but still a jolt.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-17 15:11||   2021-11-17 15:11|| Front Page Top

#14 And yet a guy in New York I believe just got off with probation for 4 sexual assaults of young women.
Posted by Chris 2021-11-17 17:26||   2021-11-17 17:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Convicted and sentenced for breathing. Got it.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-11-17 18:04||   2021-11-17 18:04|| Front Page Top

#16 The Big Lesson From the Left: The Congressional Session of formalizing Joe Biden's Election Fraud into a Presidency that day is NOT to be interrupted by a rally by the guy who actually won. And if the protestors are lead into the capital by Pelosi's Capital Police (entrapment) then while Biden and Pelosi are in power opponents to dare to protest will go to prison.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-11-17 18:13||   2021-11-17 18:13|| Front Page Top

#17 And also a Democrat Congressman who while Chair of the Intelligence Committee slept with Fang Fang a Chinese spy and will NOT be prosecuted by Biden's Deep State or Pelosi's Capital Police.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-11-17 18:32||   2021-11-17 18:32|| Front Page Top

#18 'QAnon Shaman' thanked the judge at the sentencing for being allowed to have fully organic meals while in prison.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-11-17 21:33||   2021-11-17 21:33|| Front Page Top

#19 Only 4 years for being stupid? Priceless!
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-17 23:20||   2021-11-17 23:20|| Front Page Top

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