Your Honor will go home and sleep safely after this ruling, and that is the core problem which must be fixed.

It took me a bit to figure out what the title was referring to because it's buried near the end of the article:

But the most outrageous enhancement was for “lying on the stand.” Among other things, the judge found Alberts lied on the stand by testifying he hadn’t seen any “restricted” signs, despite a Capitol police officer saying there were lots of signs around the Capitol on J6. Prosecutors produced no evidence that any signs were directly in Alberts’ path on J6.

And Judge Cooper held that Alberts’ testimony was false when he said his bungee cords in his backpack were left in his backpack at all times.

So, was he convicted of perjury? I'm going to say no because the article didn't mention it. So here's the rub: it would be 100% illegal and impossible for the government to imprison you for lying on the stand without a perjury conviction. However, they can apparently increase the sentence for another crime by just saying "I don't believe you."

I'm dismayed but not surprised at this. The government has all sorts of weasel ways to actually circumvent your rights to due process.

Don't take this as a defense of the brazen political persecution going on here, but this is one of the reasons that it's almost always a bad idea for a defendant in a criminal case to take the stand. There are so many dirty tricks prosecutors can pull, and in cases like this where the judge is determined to fry the defendant from the get go taking the stand opens the door for them to invent pretexts to do so.

Judges statements below, they are absurd.

January 6 defendant Chris Alberts, who conceal carried during the Capitol riot to “protect his life,” would have only served three years in a federal penitentiary if he would have pled guilty.

Instead, Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced Alberts to 7 years in prison on July 19 for possession of a gun on the Capitol grounds and allegedly assaulting police officers.

“In this country, you cannot make your voice heard with a gun. That’s not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution,” Judge Cooper admonished moments before he sentenced Alberts to nearly a decade in prison. “There is no Second Amendment right to bring a gun to the Capitol. You may think that constraint is unconstitutional but you can constitute that with the Supreme Court.”

Prosecutors manipulated Alberts’ sentencing range by adding almost a half dozen “terror enhancements.”

Cooper insisted there is no discrepancy between his adjudication of radical left-wing extremists who break the law during protests and Capitol rioters.

“There were Antifa and Black Lives Matters protests around the country following George Floyd. Most of them were peaceful,” the judge said. “There have been about 300 federal prosecutions of Antifa for arson, illegal gun possession, and civil disorder. If when Antifa, Black Lives Matter come before me, I’ll be sentencing the same.”

Cooper, whose wife is a federal prosecutor, sided with the government’s sentencing recommendations, adding two or three years to Alberts’ guideline range by piling on numerous enhancements.

Alberts, who served six years in the National Guard including a deployment to Iraq, maintains law enforcement officials’ overwhelming use of lethal force against peaceful demonstrators, particularly children and the elderly, during the January 6 protest warranted self-defense.

His lawyer makes the point clearly:

This ruling is very dangerous. This threatens to chill future defendants from taking the stand.

Alberts was convicted of assaulting a federal officer — a crime that is already drastically enhanced from a misdemeanor “simple” assault. But then prosecutors and probation officers and ultimately, Judge Cooper “enhanced” Alberts’ sentence by holding Alberts had an ‘official victim,'” Roots told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview. “And then Judge Coopers further enhanced Alberts’ sentence by holding Alberts’ assault was aggravated assault because it was committed with intent to commit another felony. The felony “resisting officers” are essentially the same exact crime.

But the most outrageous enhancement was for “lying on the stand.” Among other things, the judge found Alberts lied on the stand by testifying he hadn’t seen any “restricted” signs, despite a Capitol police officer saying there were lots of signs around the Capitol on J6. Prosecutors produced no evidence that any signs were directly in Alberts’ path on J6.

And Judge Cooper held that Alberts’ testimony was false when he said his bungee cords in his backpack were left in his backpack at all times.

The “enhancements” punished Alberts by doubling or even tripling his guideline range.

There's really nothing we can do for these guys until they get pardoned. Don't go fucking anywhere near DC. The juries are as bad as the worst of Jim Crow. The judges are better, and they pulled shit like this all the time.

would have only served three years in a federal penitentiary if he would have pled guilty.

Remember that the QAnon Shaman made a plea deal after going through weeks of mandatory Leftist reading programs, where he would plead guilty and serve 21 months in prison. He was required to also apologize for his actions that day, and publicly denounce Donald Trump to the judge.

The judge specifically said that he believed his apology and his condemnation of Trump, and that he understood there was a plea deal, but the guy had to be made an example of, so he accepted the guilty plea, and sentenced him to 45 months.

He was only released at all because Tucker Carlson showed some tapes.

I don't know anything about Chris Alberts. I don't have to know anything about Chris Alberts. If he had pled guilty, he'd be serving more than 3 years simply because the judge would change the sentence however they felt like changing it. Plea deals are not respected, even though the guilty pleas are. There is no law.

And again, the juries are worse. If these defendants were having jury trials, the juries would be demanding mass executions. The judges want you dead too, but they are smart enough to realize that mass executing 736 people, most of whom are incarcerated for misdemeanors, would be bad optics.

Loosely related Reason article: https://archive.li/KHLut

What is the Sixth Amendment?
You wouldn't be blamed for having to consult Google to answer that question. The Founders are rolling in their graves anyway.
It's the right to a trial by jury, and it's one that society has all but disposed of—despite the Framers' insistence that it be included in the Bill of Rights as one of the primary bulwarks against government tyranny.
[...] about 97 percent of trials are resolved without juries, devoid of the sacrosanct lifeblood that keeps human liberty from death by suffocation.
That tool has been supplanted by the plea bargain. In popular culture, that's widely seen as advantageous to defendants. In reality, it's been disastrous. It epitomizes government coercion. It epitomizes what the Founders warned against.

You guys still think you'll get a fair trial?

Such is life in communist shithole.

So glad president trump is working hard to get his supporters out of these political persecutions, makes me want to vote for Trump harder

Holy shit the USA need ps a second revolution.