Justice is done!
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release Thursday after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. It’s the first sentence passed down to a person found guilty of the rare, Civil War-era charge linked to the riot.
Sporting an orange jumpsuit and his signature eyepatch under wire frame glasses, Rhodes brazenly addressed the court before the sentence was handed down, calling himself a “political prisoner” with “preordained guilt from Day One.”
“However long I spend in prison, my goal will be to be an American Solzhenitsyn to expose the criminality of this regime,” Rhodes said, comparing himself to prominent Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and referencing the Biden administration.
Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the case, strongly rebuked Rhodes’ characterization of his conviction.
“We can have disagreement about who is the better leader…but what we cannot have — what we absolutely cannot have — is a group of citizens who because they did not like the outcome of the election…were then prepared to take up arms in order to foment a revolution,” Mehta said. “That’s what you did.
“You are not a political prisoner, Mr. Rhodes,” he added. “You are here for that conduct.”
This report from USA Today.
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