{"id":7183,"date":"2022-02-07T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:59:03","slug":"how-seditious-conspiracy-charges-change-the-january-6-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7183","title":{"rendered":"How seditious conspiracy charges change the January 6 narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“the first seditious conspiracy charges in the investigation so far, and the first the Justice Department has brought in more than a decade. Seditious conspiracy<\/a> isn\u2019t the same as treason, but it\u2019s also not terribly far off; as former federal prosecutor Laurence Tribe wrote for NBC News on Saturday<\/a>, the \u201ccrime is, in effect, treason\u2019s sibling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, seditious conspiracy<\/a> occurs when two or more people work together to plan to overthrow the government or prevent the execution of its laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case against Rhodes<\/a> and his alleged co-conspirators, the government presented evidence in the charging documents that shortly after the November 3, 2020, election, Rhodes told his followers, \u201cPrepare your mind, body, and spirit\u201d because, \u201cWe aren\u2019t getting through this without a civil war.\u201d In December, Rhodes promised a \u201cbloody, massively bloody revolution\u201d should a peaceful transfer of power occur, and in the lead-up to the Capitol riot purchased thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of weapons, ammunition, and related tactical gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other defendants in the case are alleged to have set up paramilitary training groups and created private Signal groups to discuss their operations, including procuring weapons and establishing a quick reaction force<\/a> outside the DC area to bring in additional insurrectionists and weapons.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/1\/16\/22886516\/stewart-rhodes-seditious-conspiracy-january-6-oath-keepers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“the first seditious conspiracy charges in the investigation so far, and the first the Justice Department has brought in more than a decade. Seditious conspiracy isn\u2019t the same as treason, but it\u2019s also not terribly far off; as former federal prosecutor Laurence Tribe wrote for NBC News on Saturday, the \u201ccrime is, in effect, treason\u2019s sibling.\u201d
\nSpecifically, seditious conspiracy occurs when two or more people work together to plan to overthrow the government or prevent the execution of its laws.<\/p>\n

In the case against Rhodes and his alleged co-conspirators, the government presented evidence in the charging documents that shortly after the November 3, 2020, election, Rhodes told his followers, \u201cPrepare your mind, body, and spirit\u201d because, \u201cWe aren\u2019t getting through this without a civil war.\u201d In December, Rhodes promised a \u201cbloody, massively bloody revolution\u201d should a peaceful transfer of power occur, and in the lead-up to the Capitol riot purchased thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of weapons, ammunition, and related tactical gear.<\/p>\n

Other defendants in the case are alleged to have set up paramilitary training groups and created private Signal groups to discuss their operations, including procuring weapons and establishing a quick reaction force outside the DC area to bring in additional insurrectionists and weapons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1143,1138,1135,1134,1150,1538],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-building","tag-insurrection","tag-riot","tag-sedition","tag-seditious-conspiracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}