Editor’s note: Owen Shroyer, a reporter for the outlet InfoWars, received a 60 day sentence in prison from his charges. NBC News reports:
Owen Shroyer is one of only a handful of Jan. 6 participants charged with a crime despite neither entering the Capitol building nor being accused of committing violence or destruction on Capitol grounds. Prosecutors charged Shroyer because he had previously signed a deferred prosecution agreement after interrupting a congressional hearing in 2019 and had agreed as part of that case not to utter “loud, threatening, or abusive language, or to engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place upon the United States Capitol Grounds.”
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Federal prosecutors are seeking a four-month prison sentence for Infowars host Owen Shroyer over his actions on January 6th, even though the radio host never entered the Capitol that day.
Shroyer instead was in an area near the top of the building’s steps and led rioters in chants about Democrats and “tyranny.”
He pled guilty in June to a misdemeanor charge of illegally entering a restricted area. For that, the Department of Justice would like to see him sent to prison for 120 days.
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In addition, they are seeking “12 months of supervised release, 60 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution.”
A government sentencing memorandum posted by Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, despite the guilty plea, shockingly focuses heavily on Shroyer’s words over his alleged actions.
JUST IN: Prosecutors are seeking 120 days in jail for Alex Jones sidekick Owen SHROYER, saying his rhetoric prior to — and on — Jan. 6 bear significant responsibility for the chaos that unfolded. https://t.co/NLB16NxsNs pic.twitter.com/bzXOCVANAv
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 6, 2023
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DOJ Wants Infowars Host Jailed Even Though He Never Entered The Capitol
Four months of prison time for entering a restricted area is just the pinnacle of evidence of a two-tiered justice system here in America under the Biden regime.
How many Black Lives Matter protesters entered restricted areas during the race riots of 2020? How many Antifa slugs entered restricted areas over the past few years, particularly in Portland, Oregon, where they tried to burn down a federal courthouse?
And how many of those people served jail time for their actions? Not many at all, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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You’ll also notice that the previous president didn’t launch a full-on attack by the Department of Justice on protesters who violently rioted on inauguration day in 2017. In fact, their charges were all dropped.
Additionally, the government sentencing memorandum is a hostile attack on Shroyer’s free speech rights.
It’s all speech. Whatever he was convicted of, they are undermining it by focusing on what he was saying.
— Patricia (@Patrici95236510) September 6, 2023
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In the court filing, prosecutors focused on the claim that “Shroyer spread election disinformation paired with violent rhetoric to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of viewers.”
It’s now criminal to voice your opinion on a radio show.
“Shroyer did not step foot inside the Capitol,” prosecutors admit but, “he did not need to; many of those who listened to him did instead.”
Shroyer, they state, “helped create January 6.”
Absolutely disgusting
— Chase Geiser (@realchasegeiser) September 6, 2023
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Criminalizing Free Speech?
Even Raw Story seems surprised that the DOJ is seeking jail time in this case “despite low-level convictions.”
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While Infowars host Owen Shroyer will be sentenced for the crime to which he pled guilty, the DOJ’s focus on his speech that day is a chilling attempt to criminalize normally mundane words and opinions from President Joe Biden’s political opponents.
If you’re not shocked and angered by this, if you haven’t been all along since January 6th, you should be.
Federal prosecutors, at the behest of President Biden, are jailing supporters of his opponents at such an alarming rate it might make Vladimir Putin blush.
DC prosecutors are trying to put Owen Shroyer in jail for 120 days because he stood outside of the Capitol building on J6th and chanted “1776” and called Democrats “tyrants”.
…he never set foot inside and even warned people not to go into the building.
Political persecution. https://t.co/XVUnIeDrcO
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) September 6, 2023
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Shroyer stated in a sworn affidavit that he tried to help de-escalate the situation.
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He “stood near (conspiracy theorist Alex Jones) as he addressed the crowd from a bullhorn urging them to leave the area and behave peacefully,” the affidavit reads.
“They’re asking for prison time for a man that did nothing and was there with me trying to stop people going to the Capitol because he still says he thinks the election was stolen. Well, that’s his right,” Jones said Wednesday.
Vice President Kamala Harris recently demanded “accountability” for January 6th protesters, along with former President Donald Trump who was indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith on charges related to 2020 election interference and the Capitol riot.
They only want accountability for people of a certain voting persuasion. That’s what dictators do.
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There is very little doubt that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump got 75 million votes and Biden supposedly got 81 million, totaling 156 million votes. The only problem with those numbers is that in 2020 there were ONLY 132 million registered voters leaving a discrepancy of 24 million manufactured, fraudulent votes. I am sure that those fraudulent votes were not for Trump. Biden is not legally the president. FJB!
Just keep all the evidence.
The people who protested on Jan6, were set up by the radical liberal left who had been trying since before the election of 2016 to take President Donald Trump down because of their hatred towards him. They will use any means necessary to stop him and the Republican Party from taking control over Congress. Pelosi is the one who is responsible for what happened on Jan6, and she sure as hell knows what she did or should I say didn’t do. She’s a conniving evil witch who has the blood of Satan in her veins and she will reap what she sows.
sure smells like tyranny.
so how was it “proven” that this election was not stolen? all the people that were in charge did nothing more than produce their own weak evidence that Maybe the election was legit, yet we all know how the various cheats and questionable protocols combined to make this look like Crap.
and then there was the usual telltale admission of corruption: “there was not enough fraud found to indicate it would have changed the outcome of the election”. what total BS. so tired of hearing this ridiculous excuse, esp fm the folks whose JOB it was to produce an undeniable result, which OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T HAPPEN HERE
The Democrats and the DOJ will be remembered for their over-reach of power and the illegal tatics used to jail innocent protesters on Jan. 6th. These people have spent too much time in court and/or jail and it isn’t fair when BLM and Antifa burn buildings and kill people during their protests. My government leadership infuriates and embarrasses me and it needs to get back to the Democratic ways and not Democratic Socialism.