Another of the Capitol kerfufflers has been sentenced, and Federal Judge Thomas Hogan said that he hoped the sentence would send a message:

Judge: Sentence in Capitol riot case should send message

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press | Friday, October 8, 2021

A federal judge said Friday he hopes a three-month sentence behind bars in a U.S. Capitol insurrection case will send a message to other defendants who don’t seem to be “truly accepting responsibility.”

U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan spoke as he sentenced Robert Reeder, a Maryland man who had originally described himself as an “accidental tourist” before video emerged of him grabbing a police officer.

“It’s become evident to me that many of the defendants pleading guilty do not truly accept responsibility. They seem, to me, to be trying to get this out of the way as quickly as possible, stating whatever they have to say … but not changing their attitude,” Hogan said.

He said he believed Reeder is sorry now and sentenced him to half of the six months prosecutors had wanted, but the judge said some of Reeder’s previous statements had been “disingenuous and self-serving.” Hogan said he hopes the sentence sends a signal that people convicted in the riot will face jail time.

“This was an attack on the operations of Congress and the Capitol of the United States, a really sacrosanct building,” he said.

There’s more at the original, but Mr Reeder’s sentence does send a message: it sends the message that what I have long called the Capitol kerfuffle was not nearly as serious as the left have made it out to be. President Biden called it “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” forgetting such things as the September 11^th attacks, Pearl Harbor, and the assassination of President Kennedy.

It was the functional equivalent of an out-of-control fraternity keg party, leaderless, directionless, shouldn’t have happened, but nowhere near as bad as a whole summer of urban rioting in 2020, with people killed, businesses looted, buildings burned, innocent lives disrupted and, on one case, several blocks of a major city seized and held as an ‘autonomous zone”.

It wasn’t as bad as President Biden, through his minion Attorney General Merrick Garland, trying to sic the FBI and United States Marshalls on sensible people protesting at school board meetings.

Apparently “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War” has drawn almost entirely single misdemeanor plea deals, because that’s all the Department of Injustice can muster up against the kerfufflers.