A Jersey guy became a domestic terrorist at the Capitol. He's paying for it!
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On that gray day in January when the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked and many wondered whether America was little more than a banana republic, Scott Fairlamb came off as one tough guy. He wore camo. He shouted expletives. He punched a cop.
Two weeks ago, Fairlamb was little more than a crying hunk of a man, begging a judge for mercy in a federal courthouse just down the hill from that beleaguered Capitol building.
"I truly regret my actions that day," Fairlamb said. "I have nothing but remorse."
The judge dispatched Fairlamb to a federal prison for more than three years — at the time, the longest sentence for any of the more than 600 supporters of former President Donald Trump who have been arrested in the Capitol attack.
But Fairlamb's saga is more that just a court case. The story of Fairlamb, 44, a mixed martial arts specialist who lived with his wife in the Sussex County community of Hardyston and ran a gym in Pompton Lakes, has become a totem of our times. Why did a guy who grew up in a family of cops — his dad was a New Jersey State Police veteran; his brother, a U.S. Secret Service agent who protected first lady Michelle Obama — take the law into his own hands in such an abusive way when he stormed the symbol of American democracy?
The answer: Fairlamb thought his self-righteousness gave him permission to break the law. He saw himself as a true patriot. But this false bravado masked another basic truth — that he was little more than just a garden variety domestic terrorist.