[IsraelTimes] Christian Secor sentenced to 3.5 years for storming US Capitol; had access to weapons and supported political violence, prosecutors say
A former UCLA student who stormed the US Capitol while waving a flag promoting a far-right bully boy movement was sentenced on Wednesday to three years and six months in prison for his role in the mob’s attack on the building.
US District Judge Trevor McFadden also sentenced Christian Secor, 24, of Costa Mesa, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, to three years of supervised release after his prison term, according to Justice Department front man William Miller.
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Secor was a follower of "America First" movement leader Nicholas Fuentes, "a public figure known for making racist statements, celebrating fascism
 ...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State, which is the alliance of big business and labor with the government in service to the all-powerful State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of oddballs who have no idea what they're talking about...
, and promoting white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
," a prosecutor wrote in a court filing. Fuentes spread false information about the 2020 presidential election and used Twitter to champion the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, the filing says.
Fuentes, a livestreaming internet personality whose supporters are known as "Groypers," was outside the Capitol on January 6 but hasn’t been accused of entering the building that day or been charged with any riot-related crimes. In 2017, Fuentes was a Boston University student when he attended the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that erupted in violence.
Secor entered the Capitol while carrying a blue flag with the white letters "AF" and wearing a hat bearing the same "AF" emblem. At UCLA, Secor was president of America First Bruins.
Secor had access to a privately manufactured "ghost gun" and other weapons, "all while supporting political violence," wrote Kimberly Paschall, an assistant US attorney.
The night before his arrest, Secor and an associate exchanged text messages regarding "ultra secret" "future operations," the prosecutor said.
"Secor’s history of adhering to bully boy ideology and easy access to weapons, including firearms, warrants serious consideration when fashioning an appropriate sentence," Paschall wrote.
After entering the Capitol through the Senate Wing door, Secor walked through the office suite of House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
, a California Democrat, and once in the Rotunda, Secor joined other rioters in pushing against doors and overpowering three coppers, according to a court filing that accompanied his guilty plea. Entering the Senate chamber, Secor sat in a chair that former US vice president Mike Pence had occupied about 30 minutes earlier.
After the riot, Secor tweeted a message that said, "It was Trump supporters you losers, and you should be proud. One day accomplished more for conservativism than the last 30 years."
Prosecutors recommended sentencing Secor to four years and nine months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Defense lawyer Brandi Harden said Secor, then 22, flew from Newport Beach, California, to Washington "upon the urging of" then-US president Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
because Secor wanted to protest the results of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...
won.
"Christian’s involvement in the January 6th protest was not pre-meditated," the lawyer wrote. "At the time of his trip to Washington DC, he had become disillusioned by the hysteria about a stolen election coming from social media and news channels."
Harden said Secor’s participation in the riot was "minimal, short lived, and included no violence."
"He joined the crowd without a plan and without any understanding of what was about to unfold," Harden wrote in a court filing.
Secor was arrested in February 2021. He pleaded guilty in May to a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying Biden’s victory.
The court’s probation department calculated a sentencing guideline range of 51 months to 63 months of imprisonment for Secor.
Harden asked the judge to sentence Secor to two years of supervised probation, 75 hours of community service and home detention instead of incarceration.
UCLA suspended Secor after the riot. He began working for a family-owned vacation rental business after his arrest, according to Harden.
The FBI
 ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
has linked other Capitol riot defendants to the "America First" movement, including California resident Brandon Scott Cavanaugh.
"Groypers believe they are defending against the demographic and cultural changes that are destroying the ’true America,’ a white, Christian nation," an FBI wrote in a court filing for Cavanaugh’s case.
Approximately 900 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the January 6 attack. More than 400 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses, and nearly 300 have been sentenced. 
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