He never entered.

I was gobsmacked when I read about it here:

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley to 60 days in prison for his role in the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia also sentenced Kelley to one year probation after his prison term and ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine. Kelley also is to pay $500 restitution toward the $2.9 million in damage done to the Capitol building during the riot.

When they say "for his role," remember that he was outside the Capitol the whole time.

Kelley, 42, of Allendale was initially charged in June 2022 with four misdemeanors but after a deal with prosecutors, pleaded guilty over the summer to one federal misdemeanor crime of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.

In a Washington, D.C. courtroom on Tuesday, Kelley stood in a tan suit and full beard and addressed the judge, saying he “owned” his "wrong" actions at the Capitol that day, and he apologized for them. 

However, Judge Cooper still gave him 60 days after saying this.

But Cooper in handing down the sentence said he had “some serious concerns” about whether Kelley was genuinely remorseful, pointing to his social media and other posts including one from December claiming that the Jan. 6 riot was an FBI setup.

“You misused your platform as a candidate to minimize and frankly lie about what happened,” Cooper said. “It is important for us to send a message.” 

Cooper said he took into consideration that Kelley had no prior criminal history, was not an organizer of the riot, never entered the Capitol building and that he engaged in no violence.

“You are certainly not the most culpable of the defendants I’ve seen,” said Cooper, noting he’s handled 70-80 Jan. 6 cases.

Now I fully understand there's culpability for people who are standing outside a crime scene and have the opportunity to do something to thwart it but instead do nothing. And I fully know that if I had been there, there's no way I would have gone anywhere near the doors because of what was happening inside, and I would have gauged that the crowd might have been a little bit amped up.

Yet Kelley possibly waved some people up the stairs, and his Facebook post afterward doesn't sit well with the judge? 

That is now worth 60 days of jail time and a $5,000 fine?

Why didn't the public school that I went to offer language courses in Russian or Mandarin so that I could easily adapt to our new masters from the former Soviet Socialist Republic or the Chinese Communist Party? For the love of the Lord in Heaven above.

Another famous person who was around the Capital that day was a gent by the name of Ray Epps. He also had one charge filed against him but it feels a little different for some reason, as my colleague Neil McCabe covered right here: DOJ Files Single Charge Against J6 Notable Ray Epps 

From that article...

My RedState colleague Bonchie reported in July that the Epps legal team expected these charges.

Capitol Hill conservatives have pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray about why Epps was still at liberty when there were so many witnesses and so many videos of the Queen Creek, Arizona, wedding host at and around the Capitol grounds directing people to bring their anger to the Capitol itself.

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie posted the video he showed Garland:

I just played this video for AG Merrick Garland. He refused to comment on how many agents or assets of the federal government were present in the crowd on Jan 5th and 6th and how many entered the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/lvd9n4mMHK

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 21, 2021

I have never been to Denmark but damn does something smell rotten there.

A clear indication to me that society is breaking down is when the system of justice in the courts no longer pretends to be unbiased. Every group in the United States of America has at one time or another been victimized by society at large and by the government generally in smaller ways. However, the courts would at least put on an act of trying to be a fair arbiter, and in terms of J6, they've thrown off that facade.

Ryan Kelley did not enter the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. He did not encourage others to do so and he stayed outside the doors and had an opinion that something was crooked after the event because of the way the Department of Justice was handling it.

That should not be a crime in the United States of America.

After the event, he clearly stated his opinion, which is (or should be, anyway) protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.

That Ray Epps, who admits in text messages to doing more than what Ryan Kelley did and is skating away with less, makes me wonder.

Something definitely doesn't smell right in Denmark, and it smells absolutely putrid in Washington DC.

HEY

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