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Tennessee Jan. 6 man gets four years in prison for "scaling a wall": Twice as long as the two NYC attorneys who handed out Molotov cocktails during one of the BLM riots and literally firebombed a police squad car
Hotair ^ | 10/22/2022 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 10/22/2022 8:22:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The latest contestant on our hit parade of January 6 riot participants being sent to prison comes to us from Tennessee. 38-year-old Matthew Bledsoe of Mississippi was found guilty this summer of one felony charge and four misdemeanors. This week he was sentenced to four years in prison. The felony charge dropped on Bledsoe was the same that prosecutors in many other cases have defaulted to: “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding.” The misdemeanors were also typical of these show trials. Of course, the only actual actions that prosecutors could pin on Bledsoe involved scaling a wall and being inside the building for approximately 22 minutes. (Associated Press)

A Tennessee business owner who scaled a wall outside the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Friday to four years in prison after he was convicted of five charges connected to the federal prosecutors said.

Matthew Bledsoe, 38, of Olive Branch, Mississippi, was found guilty in July of one felony — obstruction of an official proceeding — and four misdemeanors related to the Capitol breach, the Department of Justice said in a statement.

Federal prosecutors said Bledsoe was one of scores of people who forced their way into the Capitol as Congress met to certify President Joe Biden’s victory. Bledsoe illegally entered the Capitol grounds and scaled a wall to reach a fire door on the Senate side of the building.

For the record, Matthew Bledsoe has received a sentence more than twice as long as the two New York City attorneys who handed out Molotov cocktails during one of the BLM riots in New York in 2020 and literally firebombed a police squad car. Let that sink in for a bit.

So let’s get back to the full list of charges Mr. Bledsoe was hit with and what is known about what he really did. He was definitely guilty of “scaling a wall” on the outside of the Capitol complex. He was further guilty of entering a fire door that was intended to be used as an emergency exit. According to the full report from the Justice Department, a video shows that he also briefly “climbed a statue.” He walked around (I’m sorry… “paraded”) inside of the Capitol Building, including the corridor to the House Chamber and hallways. After approximately 22 minutes, he left.

That’s it. That’s the full extent of Matthew Bledsoe’s participation. The prosecution didn’t even suggest that he caused any property damage or participated in assaults on law enforcement. Bledsoe wasn’t even accused of stealing any souvenirs from his trip. He went inside, yelled a couple of protest slogans and he went home.

For this, he was charged with the aforementioned felony of “obstruction of an official proceeding.” He also took misdemeanor charges of:

Matthew Bledsoe is only the latest among hundreds of people who have been convicted of what amounted to nothing more than trespassing after being left in jail awaiting trial with no chance of bail and have now been given sentences longer than those handed down to people convicted of attempted murder in many states today. If this sounds like equal treatment under the law to you, I would dearly love to see the color of the sky in the world where you live. It must be phenomenal.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; january6; prison; sentence

1 posted on 10/22/2022 8:22:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And how long are you going to tolerate it?


2 posted on 10/22/2022 8:25:37 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: SeekAndFind
”In your face” is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...

No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

The Aamerican people now understand that the First Amendment calls for them to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...

3 posted on 10/22/2022 8:49:41 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: SeekAndFind

Buzzard Garland will feast on corpse after corpse to keep propping up J6 in the public mind to show the public what happens when you defy the permanent State.

I pray for an epic blowback by a pissed off public in the Midterm.


4 posted on 10/22/2022 8:56:38 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: SeekAndFind

If a Republican wins in 2024, first order should be an immediate pardon.

Second should be an executive order stripping any legal immunity from all the government officials involved.

Third would be termination of those government officials who can be fired, with full forfeiture of all pay and benefits.

Everyone in government tied to this (J6 committee members, pelosi, schumer, etc, etc, etc) should be anally reamed in court by getting sued into poverty with nothing more than a soiled pair of underwear and a cardboard box left to their and their families names.


5 posted on 10/22/2022 9:15:29 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It weird how the FIBBies have it in for Caucasians these days and let the minorities run rampant over everybody.


6 posted on 10/22/2022 9:18:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Veto Beto, FJB.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like Ashli Babbitt and Buffalo Hat Guy (aka “The Qanon Shaman”, he was a Q follower:

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2021/02/12/accused-capitol-rioter-matthew-bledsoe-believes-qanon-conspiracy/6726837002/


7 posted on 10/22/2022 9:49:51 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The "prosecutors" are on Team Antifa.

Plan accordingly.

8 posted on 10/22/2022 10:27:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unreal


9 posted on 10/23/2022 12:38:44 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: SeekAndFind

November is the beginning of the fight back get out and vote in mass. Our first fight is with the GOP when in control, we dont want words and contracts we want clear and decisive strikes against this evil


10 posted on 10/23/2022 4:24:12 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

Justice is blind. /massive eyeroll


11 posted on 10/23/2022 4:46:58 AM PDT by sauropod (The New York Times' 1619 Project's Nikole Hannah-Jones: "all journalism is activism.")
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