Capitol Rioter Wants His Sentencing Delayed So He Doesn't Miss Christmas

A convicted Capitol Rioter is begging the court to postpone the start of his prison sentence so that he doesn't miss Thanksgiving and Christmas. According to a court filing, the rioter's lawyers are saying that the prison he'll be sent to is a super long (just 7-hour) drive from where his family lives, so it is only fair for him to get to spend Christmas with his family. That's not how things work when you choose to break the law, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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A convicted capital Rioter has sent his lawyers back to court this week begging the judge to postpone their client's trip to prison so that he can spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with his family, right? Nobody wants to miss the massive holidays. Halloween is over now. We got Thanksgiving, we got Christmas. It's really kind of the Friday of the year, right? And this poor, poor capital writer by the name of Anthony Mazzio, Mr. Mazzio doesn't wanna miss Christmas. He wants to be able to wake up on Christmas morning and see that Santa Claus came, and it's just not fair to send him to jail before that. Here is what the lawyers actually argued in their court filing. Forst City, Arkansas is at least 478 miles from Dothan, Alabama and requires a car ride of seven hours and 25 minutes, or a bus ride of 16 hours and 15 minutes.

In addition, while all incarceration requires separation from family and poses a hardship, such distant incarceration will require Mr. Mazzio to be separated from his family on both Thanksgiving and Christmas of this year. Mr. Mazzio therefore requests the court to delay his surrender date until after January 1st, 2023, and to instruct the Bureau of Prisons to designate a facility close to Dothan, Alabama for his incarceration. So this guy is from Dothan, not too far, by the way, from where I am right now. It's actually a lovely little city, and he is gonna be incarcerated in Forest City, Arkansas, which as they pointed out, oh my goodness, it's a seven and a half hour drive e. Now, let me ask Mr. Mazzio a question here, and I hope the court asked him this. Cool. You don't want your family to have to drive seven and a half hours to visit you in prison.

How far did you have to drive to get to Washington DC to carry your Trump flag into the capital? I'm guessing it was longer than seven and a half hours, wasn't it? So clearly you don't have any problem with having to make a long distance travel for your personal, selfish, illegal needs. So why should I care if your family has to spend seven and a half hours to see you in prison on Christmas? Here's the kicker, folks. Mr. Mazzio is not going to jail for five years. It's not like he's gonna miss his family growing up. I don't know if he has kids or you know, a wife, a spouse, whatever. Uh, he's not gonna miss significant time with his family because his prison sentence is only 60 days. 60 days, which of course means if he were to go to jail right now, he would miss Thanksgiving and Christmas. And you know what Jack asked? You deserve it. I think the judge should say, You know what? No. In fact, I'm gonna be even more spiteful and I'm gonna send you to prison the day before Thanksgiving, right on that Wednesday, right before Thanksgiving. That's when you have to

Surrender yourself. That's what the judge should do. People spend prison in Christmas or spend Christmas in prison every year here in the United States. They don't get leniency. Some of them did a lot less than what this guy did, and they're serving much harsher sentences too. It's 60 days. Suck it up when you get out. Then you can have an A, a do over Christmas with your family. That's also not unheard of. How do you think soldiers in the United States military feel? Right? They're deployed overseas. They don't get to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with their families.

They don't get to go and beg their sergeants, Please just let me go home. It's not fair that I don't get to see my family.