(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Jan. 6 defendant Chris Alberts, who said he brought carried a concealed firearm on U.S. Capitol grounds for self-defense, would have served three years in a federal penitentiary if he had pleaded guilty.
However, the military veteran, who allegedly assaulted Capitol Police officers during the 2021 uprising, was sentenced by Judge Christopher Cooper to seven years in prison for taking the stand, once again in self-defense, the Gateway Pundit reported.
As a result, the political dissident may have been denied both his Second Amendment right to bear arms and his 14th Amendment right to due process, among others.
However, Cooper, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, disagreed, insisting that the Founding Fathers never intended for citizens’ constitutional rights to extend to the very seat of the federal government itself.
“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,” the judge claimed.
“There is no Second Amendment right to bring a gun to the Capitol,” he continued. “You may think that constraint is unconstitutional, but you can constitute that with the Supreme Court.”
Cooper also held that Alberts’s testimony was false when he said his bungee cords in his backpack were left in his backpack at all times, the Gateway Pundit noted.
Federal prosecutors accused Alberts of lying with respect to claims that he did not see the abundance of “restricted” signs scattered throughout the Capitol grounds. But they lacked evidence that any signs were directly in Alberts’s path on Jan. 6.
In another twist, prosecutors extended Albert’s sentencing range by slyly introducing nearly half a dozen “terror enhancements.”
Cooper—who is, coincidently, married to notorious ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, the former mistress of corrupt agent Peter Strzok—supported the government’s recommendation to increase Alberts’s sentence by adding enhancements, extending the guideline range by two or three years.
Alberts’s lawyer, Roger Roots, warned him that federal judges were handing defendants longer sentences for taking the stand, in addition to subjecting J6ers unprecedented “terror enhancements,” the Gateway Pundit noted. Alberts’s July 19 sentence was the longest among hundreds of Jan. 6 riot cases.
The cuckold judge also claimed during the trial that there was no discrepancy between the treatment of Jan. 6 political dissidents and that of radical left-wing extremists during the George Floyd and the Antifa riots. Those events resulted in 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, RealClearInvestigations noted.
“There were Antifa and Black Lives Matters protests around the country following George Floyd. Most of them were peaceful,” Cooper falsely claimed.
Alberts hopes to settle his argument over the Second Amendment and intrastate conceal carry in the U.S. Supreme Court.
