Jacob Chansley Could Face Two Years in the Federal Pen, and Some Say That’s Not Nearly Enough –

Q Takes the Capitol, a New American Journal graphic by artist Walter Simon, depicts this golden calf of the Shaman of Qanon in his bison horn headdress, flying a flag with the slogan, “Quo unus nostrum it, eo universi imus.” The saying is inspired by the coming of age at sea saga “White Squall” using a lame slogan from the Albatross ship’s bell, “Where we go one, we go all.”

By Glynn Wilson –

The QAnon Shaman of Capitol insurrection fame pleaded guilty to one felony count on Friday and could face two years in the federal penitentiary.

Jacob Chansley, a former Navy sailor and alleged actor widely known as the QAnon Shaman who stormed the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 in red, white and blue face paint and a buffalo-horned hat right out of the Flintstones, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Washington on Friday to a single felony count of obstructing an official proceeding before Congress, according to on-the-ground breaking news reporting by The New York Times.

The press release from the U.S. Department of Justice should be out soon.

Jacob Chansley, 34, pleads guilty: Alexandria, Virginia Sheriff’S Office

Under the terms of his plea deal with federal prosecutors, Chansley agreed to accept a recommended sentence of 41 to 51 months in prison, something in the neighborhood of two years, although that will probably include time already served. He’s been in jail in Alexandria, Virginia since his arrest in January. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 17.

Chansley, 34, became one of the best-known figures in the breach of the Capitol when images of him standing shirtless in the United States Senate brandishing a spear made from a flagpole were shared around the world on social media.

The Qanon conspiracy nut holds an American flag in the Senate gallery on Jan. 6, 2021: Twitter

The cultish conspiracy theory embraced by some backers of former President Donald J. Trump was on wide display that day, and still has adherents on social media, in spite of reams and reams of factual reporting contradicting the idiotic idea behind it.

Chansley has already disavowed Donald Trump for abandoning his followers on that day, at least through his attorney, Albert Watkins.

“Does our president bear responsibility?” Watkins said after Chansley’s arrest. “Hell, yes, he does.”

To the uproarious laughter of Democrats on social media, Watkins persuaded a federal judge to order the jail where Chansley was being detained to provide him with a strict diet of organic meals. Talk about a “snow flake.”

Then Chansley gave a widely viewed interview to CBS’s “60 Minutes,” saying that his actions on Jan. 6 were not an attack on the nation, but rather a way to “bring God back into the Senate.”

How did that work out for him, now that he’s a convicted felon?

Among the first domestic terrorists and insurrectionists to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, escorted into a door on the East side by a Capitol Police officer and members of the Proud Boys, Chansley was arrested three days later and charged with civil disorder, obstruction, disorderly conduct in a restricted building and demonstrating in a Capitol building. Prosecutors say that while he was in the Senate chamber, he left a note on the desk of Vice President Mike Pence saying, “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”

Chansley had appeared in his shaman costume at several pro-Trump rallies before Jan. 6, and was one of the first defendants to blame Trump for his own behavior for inciting the riot. A few weeks after Chansley’s arrest, Watkins said that Trump was culpable of inciting his followers to attack the Capitol, adding that he planned to ask the White House for a pardon for his client, a pardon that never came.

More recently Watkins has said that Chansley — like other rioters including members of the Proud Boys — felt betrayed by Trump. He also said that Chansley has repudiated the QAnon cult and would like to be known merely as a shaman, not the QAnon shaman, although it is not clear the shaman of what cult.

“The path charted by Mr. Chansley since Jan. 6 has been a process, one which has involved pain, depression, solitary confinement, introspection, recognition of mental health vulnerabilities and a coming to grips with the need for more self-work,” Watkins said in a statement issued Thursday.

With Chansley’s plea, 51 of the roughly 600 people who have been charged in connection with the riot have entered guilty pleas, most for minor misdemeanor offenses like disorderly conduct.

At least another 11 defendants are scheduled to plead guilty by the end of October, even though many people on social media are critical of the Justice Department and the court for the light sentences and demanding that the traitors guilty of sedition against the U.S. government should face harsher penalties.

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