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Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Monday, January 23rd, 2023.
It's about 3.40 in the afternoon here on the east coast of the United States. Before we get to some very interesting news on Ukraine, some breaking news, which just
came across the internet, four members of the Oath Keepers were just convicted of sedition.
This is the highest crime for which the government has charged anybody for January 6th. Ordinary sedition, ordinarily sedition, carries a sentence of five
years unless weapons were involved, then it can carry a sentence of 20 years. The government
apparently demonstrated to the satisfaction of a federal jury in Washington, D.C., that these four
members of the Oath Keepers were heavily armed. Therefore, their
sedition would be the maximum of 20 years. What is sedition? Sedition by nature always fails.
Sedition is a conspiracy, an agreement to overthrow the government by force. Obviously,
if the agreement succeeded, then these people would be running the government and they wouldn't be prosecuting themselves.
But since the agreement did not succeed, it failed, then they are prosec with a weapon Asian gentleman.
Hard to call him a gentleman.
If he is the murderer, we don't know.
But the person the police chased and cornered killed himself.
Okay.
Sergei Lavrov.
Who is he?
He's the foreign minister of Russia. So I'm going to talk to you a little bit
about Ukraine. And I got to tell you, I spent the weekend in Austin, Texas at the wedding
of a friend of mine. I had more people come up to me and talk to me about Ukraine
than about Fox News or libertarian attitudes about government. Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. A lot of you are
following what Judging Freedom is doing on Ukraine, especially with Scott Ritter and Colonel
Douglas McGregor, and it was great to have you come up to me. But at the same time you were
coming up to me, Foreign Minister Lavrov was in South Africa, in South Africa, where the Russian government has formed a bizarre alliance with the West and NATO is behind it. And NATO wants to destroy all things Russian
in what is currently Ukraine.
Now we're gonna play the tape for you.
Obviously says this in Russian,
but there are subtitles that are easy for you to follow.
Take a listen. что там происходит на Украине, мы говорим о том, что эта война, она уже почти не гибридная, а почти настоящая,
которую Запад долго готовил против России,
стремясь уничтожить все русское от языка до культуры,
что было на Украине столетиями,
и запрещая людям говорить на...
Это война, почти настоящая война. It's a war, almost a real war.
Now, the significance of this, and I'll ask Colonel McGregor about it when he's on this program at this hour tomorrow,
but the significance of this is this is the first time that a very high-ranking Russian official has said that. Remember, President Putin declined
to use the word war. He declined to use the word invasion. He believes he's repelling those who
have already invaded what is Russian-speaking and Russian-cultural and historically Russian territory.
But Sergei Lavrov is the right side of President Putin's brain.
It can't be a coincidence that he is publicly saying this is almost a war.
Colonel McGregor will be here on Judging Freedom at 3 p.m. Eastern tomorrow,
Tuesday, January 24. We have much to talk to him about, and this will certainly be on the list.
More as we get it.
Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.