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Scott MacFarlane
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Jul 20, 2021
Accused OathKeeper Caleb Berry has pleaded guilty in US Capitol riot case to conspiracy and obstruction of official proceeding
Berry is 20. He's the 4th OathKeeper to plead guilty (3rd to conspiracy) And he's agreeing to help the feds
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
Judge is talking about sentencing guidelines that'd range roughly between 4 to 5 years in prison
12:19 PM · Jul 20, 2021
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Seeing a sheet of paper headed United States of America versus (your name here).
It may be the first time these mopes have ever experienced a sense of proportion in their lives.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What oath are these guys keeping when they turn on their sworn comrades? "Me first and fuck you"?
Nevilledog
(51,094 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)The oath to their families that they wouldn't get their dumbasses thrown into the slammer for years!
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Assumes loving family attachments not in evidence.
A number of these people have been turned in by relatives, who I expect are quite glad to be shut of them a few years....
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)...they didn't take that oath.
Just means the family wasn't going to help them keep the pledge!
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)People keep shtum for three reasons: love, fear, or money.
I can't see how any of these apply among this gaggle of larping revolutionists. They've no real love for one another, there's no one they must fear more than the government, and for damned sure there's no one is going to pay them to sit out a prison term in silence.