"Like moths to a flame, many of the Proud Boys sentenced to prison last week for their roles in the seditious conspiracy to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021, appear unwilling or unable to disabuse themselves of the delusions that have led them to exactly where they are today: inside cells, donning jumpsuits or shackles and ordered kept away from the free world and their families for no less than a decade apiece.
"Dominic Pezzola, a New York Proud Boy and former Marine who busted open a Senate wing window allowing some of the first rioters to stream inside the Capitol, and forcibly stole a riot shield from a police officer knocked to the ground who believed he would die at the hands of the mob, strode out of a federal courtroom last week shouting 'Trump won!' as he pumped his fist in the air.
"Remarkably, less than an hour before receiving his 10-year sentence – the government wanted 20–, Pezzola had begged the court for mercy through tears and vowed he was done with politics.
"Joseph Biggs, a former Marine now disgraced with the conviction of seditious conspiracy and a multitude of other felonies, called into a vigil
held outside a jail heavily populated by Jan. 6 defendants in D.C. just
a few days after he was sentenced to 17 years in prison. The government
wanted 33..." -- Brandi Buchman, at Emptywheel, describing the "finding out part" that the Proud Boys coup conspirators are going through now. Clearly, these unreconstructed, violent fascist meatheads should have received the maximum sentences requested by the government, to better ensure their remaining out of sight and mind for most of the rest of their lives. But they didn't, perhaps because their blubbering influenced the judge into believing they were remorseful. That leaves us with the remaining hope that they serve their complete sentences and that they're put in the general prison population where they can test their macho pretensions against hard core violent criminals every day.
