gounion wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:32 pm
Or lots of zip ties.
Yes of that guy, what about the other 999.
Again out of over 1200 arrests I believe the number is 6 who have been convicted of any crime even close to sedition. I believe seditious conspiracy is the charge.
There is no doubt that some less than 5pct so far were there with the intention the left attributes to them as well as the other 95pct.
So far our DOJ has done a great job of ignoring those groups and elected democrats who are politically posturing and keeping politics out of the equation.
While prosecuting all the perps according to the law, not politically charged rhetoric.
Glennfs wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:08 pm
Yes of that guy, what about the other 999.
Again out of over 1200 arrests I believe the number is 6 who have been convicted of any crime even close to sedition. I believe seditious conspiracy is the charge.
There is no doubt that some less than 5pct so far were there with the intention the left attributes to them as well as the other 95pct.
So far our DOJ has done a great job of ignoring those groups and elected democrats who are politically posturing and keeping politics out of the equation.
While prosecuting all the perps according to the law, not politically charged rhetoric.
Those attacking the cops - and there were more than six doing it - and trying to enter the Senate and Congressional Chambers were trying to keep Joe Biden from becoming President, and to keep Donald Trump in office.
That's attempting the overthrow of the government. Full stop.
gounion wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:19 pm
Those attacking the cops - and there were more than six doing it - and trying to enter the Senate and Congressional Chambers were trying to keep Joe Biden from becoming President, and to keep Donald Trump in office.
That's attempting the overthrow of the government. Full stop.
You keep repeating the lie because you learned from your mentors that repeating it enough and eventually people will believe it.
OMG we almost lost our country that day. Especially when the insurrectionists shit on a desk.
Glennfs wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:22 pm
You keep repeating the lie because you learned from your mentors that repeating it enough and eventually people will believe it.
OMG we almost lost our country that day. Especially when the insurrectionists shit on a desk.
And spread shit all over the walls. And put many cops in the hospital. Tried to storm the room where Congressmen and Senators were huddled behind locked doors - requiring them to shoot a "protester" to keep them from breaking through.
Just a bunch of rowdy kids, right?
I wonder how you would feel had they been BLM protesters. But hey, just a bunch of white guys with bear spray, nothing to see here, right?
Since they were Donald Trump supporters, acting on orders FROM Donald Trump, you defend them.
A few power trippers who jerk off to pictures of US Marines in full battle mode are not sedition. The people who consciously planned to use them as soldiers to stop a constitutionally mandated procedure are sedition.
Some of the leaders are doing time. I never said everyone there deserved time, but the leaders were consciously and deliberately planning a coup d'etat and that's illegal in every country in the world. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
The foot soldiers thought they were doing the right thing. Guilt or innocence in their case is up to juries of their peers to decide in this system. Some people still support the rule of law, as opposed to the rule of whoever has the biggest mouth and best camera presence.
Too bad the Republican far right doesn't.
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
Man who attacked police with hockey stick during Capitol riot gets over 3 years in prison
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former military officer who assaulted police officers with a hockey stick and a sharp metal pole while he stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to more than three years in prison.
Michael Joseph Foy, 33, threw the pole at police and struck officers with the hockey stick as a mob of rioters fought for control of an entrance to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Then he climbed through a broken window and walked around the building.
Dozens of Capitol Rioters May Have to Be Resentenced
An appeals court ruling on Friday in the case of one of the Capitol rioters means that more than 100 defendants in the Jan. 6 violence may be resentenced, reports the Washington Post. In many of the cases, the sentence isn't expected to change at all. Some defendants, however, may see a reduction as a result of the ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
This case: The ruling involves Larry Brock, who entered the Capitol in combat gear while carrying zip ties. Last year, the retired Air Force officer was sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of charges including obstruction of an official proceeding. Brock engaged in no violence on that day.
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WASHINGTON — The former lead singer of a David Bowie tribute band who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, licensed his footage to media outlets, and now works as a writer for Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" website has been arrested on misdemeanor Capitol attack charges after turning himself into federal authorities in Texas.
Steve Baker, a musician and libertarian writer who was a frequent presence at the federal courthouse in Washington during the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial and other Jan. 6 cases, faces the same four standard misdemeanors as many lower-level Capitol riot defendants.
Man now living in Alaska charged with participating in Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol
Mar. 9—A man now living in Girdwood was arrested Thursday on federal charges that accuse him of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Eric Richard Staples, 33, appears to be one of four people with Alaska connections to be charged in the riot that has so far resulted in the arrests of more than 1,100.
Newly obtained video shows movement of group suspected of constructing Jan. 6 gallows hours before Capitol siege
The people who erected the infamous gallows and noose on the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, began their work in the predawn hours that day, according to newly released videos obtained by CBS News. A report by a GOP-led U.S. House subcommittee said the perpetrators remain unaccounted for by prosecutors.
Toonces wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:00 am
Video has been released of those who, apparently, spontaneously built the gallows, moving the material early in the morning
Newly obtained video shows movement of group suspected of constructing Jan. 6 gallows hours before Capitol siege
Of course it was a faux gallows but it does prove that the illegal march from rally to the capital was pre planned.
Also noticed that CBS News correctly refers to January 6th as a riot. Which of course it was.
Glennfs wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:34 am
Of course it was a faux gallows but it does prove that the illegal march from rally to the capital was pre planned.
Also noticed that CBS News correctly refers to January 6th as a riot. Which of course it was.
Jan. 6 rioter who beat, dragged police sees sentencing delayed again as footage emerges showing alleged separate attack
A former CrossFit instructor turned rioter who beat and dragged police while telling them they were “gonna die tonight” on Jan. 6 will not be sentenced this week as planned after new video emerged allegedly showing him assaulting a different police officer defending the U.S. Capitol from a mob of former President Donald Trump‘s supporters.
Jack Wade Whitton, of Georgia, pleaded guilty in September 2022 to attacking police at the Capitol, admitting he used a metal crutch to beat one officer before kicking another and then dragging the one he assaulted with the crutch down a flight of steps.
ap215 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:31 am
Jan. 6 rioter who beat, dragged police sees sentencing delayed again as footage emerges showing alleged separate attack
A former CrossFit instructor turned rioter who beat and dragged police while telling them they were “gonna die tonight” on Jan. 6 will not be sentenced this week as planned after new video emerged allegedly showing him assaulting a different police officer defending the U.S. Capitol from a mob of former President Donald Trump‘s supporters.
Jack Wade Whitton, of Georgia, pleaded guilty in September 2022 to attacking police at the Capitol, admitting he used a metal crutch to beat one officer before kicking another and then dragging the one he assaulted with the crutch down a flight of steps.
Jan. 6 Defendants Sue Police Officers for 'Millions'
A group of January 6 defendants has filed a class action lawsuit against 21 Capitol Police officers and officials for "millions of dollars in damages," inmate Edward Jacob (Jake) Lang told the conservative cable channel Real America's Voice on Friday.
Lang, who on his social media profile on X, formerly known as Twitter, describes himself as a "January 6 political prisoner," was arrested soon after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Lang was living in Newburgh, New York, and was 25 at the time of the riot.
Judge in Trump’s election interference case rejects ‘hostages’ label for jailed Jan. 6 defendants
WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are “hostages” — a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the Capitol riot defendants who remain jailed in Washington, D.C., don’t deserve to be called hostages or heroes for their actions during the mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
Democrats who investigated Trump say they expect to face arrest, retaliation if he wins presidency
Some members of Congress who led the investigation into former President Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot acknowledge they've talked to their families about their safety — and the risk of their arrest — if Trump wins a second term in November.
In a series of interviews with CBS News, House Democrats who helped lead the House Jan. 6 select committee and some of the police witnesses who testified before it predicted they'd be targeted for retribution by a future Trump administration.
Proud Boys group leader sentenced to over 5 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.
Scott Miller, who helped lead a Proud Boys chapter for Maryland and Washington, D.C., coordinated with other group members before they invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to federal prosecutors. Miller, 33, attacked police seven different times with weapons, including a bottle, a stick and poles.
