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I still don't want to draw to conclusions, but that he's avoided any felony indictment, let alone conviction, is extremely bizarre considering the insane prosecution many other defendants have had to deal with. The only chance people will have until his case is resolved at definitively proving that he snitched would be, at this point, at his sentencing hearing; it is also possible that part of a hypothetical backroom agreement he made with the Government would include a guarantee that they never mention his cooperation, so that may never happen even if such a thing occurred.
The really intriguing thing about Baked's legal situation when compared to the other J6ers is that he had made physical contact with an officer, something which has universally been prosecuted as assault/obstruction in connection with J6, regardless of how minor it is. At ~42:15 in his J6 livestream (https://archive.org/details/baked-alaskas-dc-capitol-livestream), he yells at and flips off an officer as he's shoved out of the building and re-enters despite being told to leave - verbally abusive activity like this has been used to indict other J6ers on felony obstruction and/or civil disorder (see: Pauline Bauer: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1395396/download, Geoffrey Shough: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1479016/download, and many others).
The one single person I can think of that has avoided a civil discorder/assault/obstruction charge despite acting violently whatsoever was Brad Rukstales (https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Bradley Rukstales Government Sentencing Memorandum.pdf), a literal who boomer that was arrested the day of. The fact that he tossed a chair aside was brought up in his sentencing hearing, the judge asked the prosecutor why they didn't pursue felony charges for that, and the prosecutor basically told him that "it's too late, just consider it when calculating a fair sentence for his misdemeanor" - Rukstales was sentenced to 30 days in prison (the Government asked for 45). Considering he was, again, a nobody boomer with no criminal history whatsoever, it makes zero sense for the Government to ask the Court for barely more than that for Baked, who streams himself assaulting civilians and screaming about "kikes," marched at Cville, has at least two other criminal cases against him, is best friends with someone that the Government has repeatedly called a White supremacist (see: Chirstian Secor's sentencing memo... I can't find it at the moment, but I'll edit this if I can), celebrated his judge getting swatted, has publicly berated the FBI for its treatment of J6ers, and has a long history of participating in the online far-right, which the DOJ/DHS have been calling the #1 threat to the homeland for years now.
That being said, I'd like to play devil's advocate with regards to the deal that people seem to insinuate that he's reached behind the scenes: what is it that people think he's giving up in exchange for such a light treatment? It doesn't make sense that it would be "permitting the Government to use his livestream for other prosecutions," because they had already started doing that literally on January 7th. It doesn't make sense that it's a list of individuals' names that he knows were in the Capitol, because the only person directly connected to Baked in any sort of official capacity was Zykotik (https://www.justice.gov/opa/case-multi-defendant/file/1407626/download), who likewise livestreamed himself on the 6th. The only answer, to me, would be providing insight into Nick's organization's inner-workings, which, considering it's a retarded online pseudo-political movement operated by autistic teenagers, probably wouldn't be too interesting to federal law enforcement. I also don't buy that he's "turning in" these other loosely-AF-related nobodies that were arrested over the past 6 months; that would require him to have knowledge of who they are (beyond just usernames), how the Government could conceivably get them without mentioning cooperation in charging documents, and their specific activities on the 6th - all things that I have a hard time believing Baked is capable of knowing, but I could be wrong.
We don't have a definitive explanation for these inconsistencies yet; the only thing that I can imagine happened was that he had some sort of extremely juicy information on Nick that he was willing to give up, but I can't imagine what the information could possibly be (I sincerely doubt that Nick has actually broken the law). I don't think it's productive to hem and haw about how he "sold other J6ers out" without articulating how that would have actually occurred, because jumping to a conclusion like that detracts from the very real possibility that he's done some exceptionally slimy shit in order to get out of this unscathed, things that people he's close to should be seriously concerned about.
I still believe that he probably made a backroom agreement to provide information in exchange for leniency, and there's really no other way I can justify how the Government has decided to prosecute him. I hope that information regarding this may be made public one day, but I won't hold my breath. Slippery Tim!
The really intriguing thing about Baked's legal situation when compared to the other J6ers is that he had made physical contact with an officer, something which has universally been prosecuted as assault/obstruction in connection with J6, regardless of how minor it is. At ~42:15 in his J6 livestream (https://archive.org/details/baked-alaskas-dc-capitol-livestream), he yells at and flips off an officer as he's shoved out of the building and re-enters despite being told to leave - verbally abusive activity like this has been used to indict other J6ers on felony obstruction and/or civil disorder (see: Pauline Bauer: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1395396/download, Geoffrey Shough: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1479016/download, and many others).
The one single person I can think of that has avoided a civil discorder/assault/obstruction charge despite acting violently whatsoever was Brad Rukstales (https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Bradley Rukstales Government Sentencing Memorandum.pdf), a literal who boomer that was arrested the day of. The fact that he tossed a chair aside was brought up in his sentencing hearing, the judge asked the prosecutor why they didn't pursue felony charges for that, and the prosecutor basically told him that "it's too late, just consider it when calculating a fair sentence for his misdemeanor" - Rukstales was sentenced to 30 days in prison (the Government asked for 45). Considering he was, again, a nobody boomer with no criminal history whatsoever, it makes zero sense for the Government to ask the Court for barely more than that for Baked, who streams himself assaulting civilians and screaming about "kikes," marched at Cville, has at least two other criminal cases against him, is best friends with someone that the Government has repeatedly called a White supremacist (see: Chirstian Secor's sentencing memo... I can't find it at the moment, but I'll edit this if I can), celebrated his judge getting swatted, has publicly berated the FBI for its treatment of J6ers, and has a long history of participating in the online far-right, which the DOJ/DHS have been calling the #1 threat to the homeland for years now.
That being said, I'd like to play devil's advocate with regards to the deal that people seem to insinuate that he's reached behind the scenes: what is it that people think he's giving up in exchange for such a light treatment? It doesn't make sense that it would be "permitting the Government to use his livestream for other prosecutions," because they had already started doing that literally on January 7th. It doesn't make sense that it's a list of individuals' names that he knows were in the Capitol, because the only person directly connected to Baked in any sort of official capacity was Zykotik (https://www.justice.gov/opa/case-multi-defendant/file/1407626/download), who likewise livestreamed himself on the 6th. The only answer, to me, would be providing insight into Nick's organization's inner-workings, which, considering it's a retarded online pseudo-political movement operated by autistic teenagers, probably wouldn't be too interesting to federal law enforcement. I also don't buy that he's "turning in" these other loosely-AF-related nobodies that were arrested over the past 6 months; that would require him to have knowledge of who they are (beyond just usernames), how the Government could conceivably get them without mentioning cooperation in charging documents, and their specific activities on the 6th - all things that I have a hard time believing Baked is capable of knowing, but I could be wrong.
We don't have a definitive explanation for these inconsistencies yet; the only thing that I can imagine happened was that he had some sort of extremely juicy information on Nick that he was willing to give up, but I can't imagine what the information could possibly be (I sincerely doubt that Nick has actually broken the law). I don't think it's productive to hem and haw about how he "sold other J6ers out" without articulating how that would have actually occurred, because jumping to a conclusion like that detracts from the very real possibility that he's done some exceptionally slimy shit in order to get out of this unscathed, things that people he's close to should be seriously concerned about.
I still believe that he probably made a backroom agreement to provide information in exchange for leniency, and there's really no other way I can justify how the Government has decided to prosecute him. I hope that information regarding this may be made public one day, but I won't hold my breath. Slippery Tim!
