H/T Scissorhead Skinny-D

And as long as we are talking about the insurrection, what’s up with the Proud Boys:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with plotting to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election…

…Tarrio, a Miami resident who served as national chairman of the Proud Boys, and the other Proud Boys could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy…

Also on trial with Tarrio are Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter leader. Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. Pezzola was a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.

I have not been following this story very closely, but my understanding is that the Proud Boys were military-style combatants:

Prosecutors have employed an unusual theory that Proud Boys leaders mobilized a handpicked group of foot soldiers — or “tools” — to supply the force necessary to carry out their plot by overwhelming police and breaching barricades. Defense attorneys have dismissed the government’s “tools” theory as a novel, flawed concept with no legal foundation.

Which does sound like a conspiracy to me, but I’m not a lawyer. If the goal is to say that Tarrio was in a command HQ elsewhere so that he was not, you know, storming the Capitol himself, I’m not sure that makes much of a difference for a seditious conspiracy.

I think the defense will have their work cut out for them.