The Trump Riot Aftermath (Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Proud Boys join the club)

[balki1867]

1 hour ago, Llevron said:

Its depressing knowing that the dems cant bring themselves to do anything with the support they get knowing whats going to happen on the other side. Why does evil always have to be so much better at getting things done? 

 

 

Edited June 8, 2021 by balki1867

[Ball Security]

2 hours ago, mistertim said:

Are you ****ing kidding me?

 

Senate report reveals new details about security failures ahead of January 6 attack but omits Trump's role

 

 

Republicans: "We're going to scream and yell and call you dumbface smelly socialists unless you do what we say!!!"

 

Democrats:

 

 

Is this a case of the media getting the story wrong? 

[Simmsy]

19 hours ago, clietas said:

My neighbor asked me if Jan 6th was an insurrection. I said yes. He then told me to **** off. 😆 Dude waltzed in my warehouse thinking he could spew his conservative bs. It was hysterical. All the typical Trump bull**** right down to calling me a libtard and dismissing facts as fake news. 

 

Basically in his view Jan 6th wasn't an insurrection because there were no "tanks or planes" involved. 🤪

 

 

Some idiot GOPer on tv said that it wasn't an "armed" attack because "armed" means "firearms" and they didn't have guns. Case closed!

[visionary]

 

 

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[China]

He brought a sawed-off rifle to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Then he plotted to bomb Amazon data centers.

 

For weeks this spring, 28-year-old Seth Aaron Pendley had plotted an attack on Amazon data centers in Virginia. He had already taken a sawed-off rifle to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Now, he hoped to cripple much of the Internet and take down government networks.

 

Last April, he finally arranged a meeting with a man promising to provide the C-4 explosive devices. When they met in Fort Worth, Tex., the man showed Pendley how to arm and detonate the powerful bombs.

 

But just as Pendley placed the devices into his Pontiac, federal agents swarmed in and arrested him. The bomb seller was actually an FBI plant who had helped unravel a plan Pendley believed could “kill off about 70 percent of the internet.”

 

On Wednesday, Pendley pleaded guilty to planning to bomb Amazon facilities in an attempt to undermine the U.S. government and to spark a rebellion against the “oligarchy” he believed to be running the country.

 

The case underscores the dramatic rise in domestic terrorism driven by right-wing extremists and raises concerns about those who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection plotting new attacks. Domestic attacks peaked in 2020, mostly driven by white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists. Those far-right attacks have killed 91 people since 2015, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

 

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Capitol Police Officer Recounts Facing Jan. 6 Mob: Like ‘A Horde Of Zombies’

 

U.S. Capitol Police officer James Blassingame spoke to PBS this week about his harrowing experience during the Jan. 6 insurrection and his disappointment in its wake as conservative lawmakers try to change the narrative about what took place.

 

The interview aired Wednesday, a day after a Senate report revealed broad security missteps before the attack, including failures by top intelligence agencies to adequately warn law enforcement officials. It came two weeks after Republicans blocked a bipartisan commission that would have more broadly investigated the deadly assault by Donald Trump supporters.

 

Blassingame, a 17-year veteran of the U.S. Capitol Police, told PBS he is still processing what happened that day and how it happened.

 

“It was an insurrection. It was a significant amount of people that felt aggrieved and felt that invading the Capitol to impose their will was an appropriate action,” he said.

 

He said that the mob looked “like a sort of — a horde of zombies, just people as far as you could see just salivating and ... ”

 

Blassingame and a colleague, Sidney Hemby, filed a lawsuit against former President Trump in March over physical and emotional injuries they say they suffered during the attack. They accuse Trump of inspiring and inflaming the rioters with baseless election fraud claims that eventually led to the insurrection.

 

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[visionary]

 

 

Edited June 10, 2021 by visionary

[China]

Man Armed With Mace And Boot Knife Arrested For Assaulting Capitol Officers

 

Kevin Creek, a Georgia man whom officials say was captured on camera kicking and striking police officers on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, was arrested Wednesday and charged with several crimes, including disorderly conduct and assaulting and impeding officers.

 

Creek was part of a thousands-strong mob of insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol that day, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Justice Department. Creek admitted during an interview with the FBI that he had driven to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5 and had been on the grounds of the Capitol during the riot. He also confessed to having been armed “with mace and a boot knife” at the time. 

 

It does not appear that Creek entered the Capitol building itself. He said he’d attempted to get in but had been deterred by tear gas, according to the complaint. 

 

Outside the building, Creek was captured in body camera footage striking one federal officer and kicking another.

 

The complaint said that while Creek admitted “the videos looked like him,” he said he “did not remember assaulting any officer.” 

 

 

 

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Fox News staff leaked to CNN how 'distraught' they are network keeps covering up the Jan. 6 attack

 

CNN host Brian Stelter told Jake Tapper on Tuesday that he had to nearly rewrite his book Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth for the paperback version because so much has happened since it was first published in hardback.

 

He explained that about a dozen Fox News staffers came to him privately to say that they were "distraught" over the network's downplaying of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. More recently, the liberal group Midas Touch gave Fox News just under $200,000 to run an ad with statements from Capitol and D.C. police officers about what they experienced on that day. Fox refused to run the ad, effectively canceling the police officers they purport to support.

 

The Fox staffers told Stelter that their network has "looked the other way and made excuses for the rioters." However, he explained, those staffers leaking aren't in the majority. "Riot denial has won out at Fox and today, the network has barely covered this new Senate report and they have stuffed this down the rabbit hole."

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

Guessing the 1 vote is him.

[China]

Next step:  arrest him.

[Larry]

7 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

Guessing the 1 vote is him.

 

6 hours ago, China said:

Next step:  arrest him.

 

 

[Bang]

Oh please with the Fox employees constantly moaning after the fact.

Quit your ****ing jobs, cowards. Better yet, don't take the ****ing job in the first place. The fact you DID leaves no excuses for you, "distraught" or not. 

If a person works for Fox News, they are an ACTIVE member of the ongoing plot to foster revolt and Civil war. 

There can be no excuses of ignorance, no pretending it's just a job. No reasonable person can be in the dark as to what they do, especially from the inside.

 

~Bang

Edited June 11, 2021 by Bang

[LD0506]

1 hour ago, Bang said:

Oh please with the Fox employees constantly moaning after the fact.

Quit your ****ing jobs, cowards. Better yet, don't take the ****ing job in the first place. The fact you DID leaves no excuses for you, "distraught" or not. 

If a person works for Fox News, they are an ACTIVE member of the ongoing plot to foster revolt and Civil war. 

There can be no excuses of ignorance, no pretending it's just a job. No reasonable person can be in the dark as to what they do, especially from the inside.

 

~Bang

 

THIS^^

 

I am sick to death of all the puling excuses and whiny rationalizations ..."I only broke a few windows on Jewish shops"..."I didn't gas anyone, I just drove the truck to the camp"..... 

 

This sickness is running rampant, millions of people are boppin around, indifferent to the damage they've caused and pointing fingers at anyone they can. I have never heard so much evil bull**** spouted on a daily, hourly basis and I lived thru Nixon and Vietnam. 

 

Forty years of unchecked Republican indoctrination and media distortion, forty years of the bottom of the food chain gobbling up their own **** and calling it prime rib, forty years of oppressive policing and now, overt, unapologetic calls to eliminate voting and just declare themselves the owners of all, this is what we have to show for it.

 

We are on the cusp, racing towards a singularity wherein this country and the people living here choose between hard work and humility to build a better future or a nightmare that none of us will live to see the end of.

 

Pick a side, pick a side or your side will get picked for you.

 

 

[China]

Holy hell this guy is a mess...

 

Who is Representing the Most Proud Boys in Capitol Hill Cases? Meet Pierce Bainbridge Attorney John Pierce.

 

New York Times columnist Alan Feuer says attorney John Pierce of Pierce Bainbridge is representing “more proud boys than any other single lawyer in the Capitol Hill cases”. In addition to representing the most proud boys, what do we know about John Pierce? The Harvard Law School Class of 2000 graduate has a multitude of issues; the timeline below is illuminating.

 

Pierce reportedly agrees to a $2.5 million a year salary to be a partner at K&L Gates LLP. In around four months, Pierce loses his job after physically assaulting a co-worker at a firm retreat.

 

Pierce winds up in a UCLA Psychiatric Facility. His ex-wife allegedly receives a warning that Pierce expressed an intense to desire to kill her, the mother of his three children.

 

Let’s fast forward to 2019, additional interim information is available in this Pierce Bainbridge “Financial Dossier.”

 

2019
In early November, Rudy Giuliani announces that he hired Pierce Bainbridge. One week later a litigation funder named Virage Capital Management makes a $21 million loan commitment to the law firm. Virage has funded other troubled lawyers, as covered in “The Company You Keep.“

 

Yet, notwithstanding this massive commitment, over the next several months, Pierce and Pierce Bainbridge take out several cash advances totaling in the millions. The chart below provides an overview of borrowing activity which involves Pierce Bainbridge, John Mark Pierce Enterprises and/or John Pierce, as well as additional related entities.

 

One day after Giuliani announced hiring Pierce Bainbridge, Pierce signs an income and expense declaration. Another lawyer summarized the filing.

 

 

In March, Pierce’s former wife says he breached child support obligations. She threatens to report the matter to child services.

 

 

In June, Law360 reports that Pierce’s firm defaulted on its debt to Virage Capital. The amount owed is reported to be approximately $65 million.

 

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17 hours ago, visionary said:

 

 

 

‘Traitors Need to Be Executed’: Several Three Percenters Charged in U.S. Capitol Riot Indictment Filled with Weapons and ‘Insurrection’ Chatter

 

Six members of the militia group known as the Three Percenters have been charged with the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, in an indictment filled with chilling fantasies of executions and chatter about weapons and “insurrection.”

 

Two of the men charged—Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor—were reportedly seen with Donald Trump’s friend and advisor Roger Stone the day before the riot. Their accused conspirators are Eric Scott Warner, 45; Felipe Antonio “Tony” Martinez, 47; Derek Kinnison, 39; and Ronald Mele, 51. Hostetter is a former police chief in California, a yoga instructor, and a “Stop the Steal” organizer. Stone, a self-described dirty trickster who has been tied to multiple accused rioters, has not been charged with wrongdoing.

 

According to prosecutors, the California men were drawn to the Capitol in response Donald Trump’s widely criticized tweet on Dec. 19th. The then-lame duck president urged his backers to descend upon the Capitol the following month: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”

 

The sextet of Three Percenters—the name of a militia group taking its name from the erroneous belief that only 3% of American colonists opposed the British during the Revolutionary War—have their chilling alleged communications preparing for the event quoted throughout a 20-page federal indictment.

 

At the center of that document is Stone associate Hostetter, who created another organization said to have been involved in the planning.

 

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[China]

'Back pain' didn't stop Proud Boy from threatening police with axe handle during Capitol riot, DOJ says

 

A Kansas Proud Boy charged in the Capitol riot has asked a judge to release him from jail due to chronic back pain – a condition, prosecutors say, which didn’t prevent him from allegedly wielding an axe handle against police outside the Capitol.

 

William Chrestman, 47, was arrested in February along with four others connected to the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys. Photos from the Capitol riot appear to show Chrestman in tactical gear and a respirator and carrying a wooden axe handle. He faces multiple charges, including conspiracy, civil disorder and threatening to assault a federal law enforcement officer.

A magistrate judge initially approved Chrestman’s pretrial release – but that decision was overturned by D.C. District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell on February 23. Since then, the U.S. Army veteran has remained in custody in the D.C. Jail.

 

Chrestman’s attorneys have tried a number of strategies to explain his alleged actions and secure his release, including blaming former President Donald Trump. In a filing in February, Chrestman’s lawyers said he believed he had an “official endorsement” from Trump to participate in the storming of the Capitol.

 

Late last month, one of Chrestman’s attorneys, Peter Cooper, filed a new motion asking another judge, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, to reconsider Chrestman’s detention status. In the motion, Cooper says Chrestman was injured in 2010 while employed as a sheet metal worker after his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. That injury resulted in “long-term chronic back pain,” Cooper said, which he says has gone untreated while in the D.C. Jail.

 

“Mr. Chrestman was receiving disability and [being] treated by the Veterans’ Administration,” Cooper wrote. “His current detention status places him in danger of losing those significant benefits.”

 

Lawyers for the Department of Justice, which opposes Chrestman’s release, pushed back on those arguments in a filing of their own this week – saying Chrestman was healthy enough on January 6 to participate in the Capitol riot.

 

“Interestingly, the defendant’s back pain did not prevent him from storming the United States Capitol while armed with an axe handle, threatening law enforcement officers, and attempting to prevent Congressional proceedings, among other conduct,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.

 

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[PokerPacker]

5 hours ago, China said:

 

That sounds like a threat.  Let's send him back to prison.

[China]

This Militia-Fighting GOP Sheriff Thinks Jan. 6 Was Just the Start

 

Ozzie Knezovich seems to revel in pissing people off.

 

“The fact that the extreme left and extreme right hate my guts, I’m good with that,” he told The Daily Beast. “Because I don’t much like them either.”

 

As sheriff of Spokane County in eastern Washington for the past 15 years, Knezovich certainly knows about extremism. He oversees law enforcement in the heart of militia country, just a short drive over the Idaho border from what used to be the headquarters for the neo-Nazi group The Aryan Nations.

 

As the GOP continues its lurch off the deep end, with even some elected officials participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and state party leaders making common cause with militias, Knezovich, a Republican, is an outspoken voice against far-right extremism.

 

But he’s no friend to their enemies, either.

 

Knezovich is tall and soft-spoken, but blunt. He’s got a bit of a country twang that betrays his small-town Wyoming upbringing, and lends an understated tone to wild stories of armed groups, death threats, and violence.

 

He’s put skinheads in prison, called for a militia-friendly state legislator to be arrested for domestic terrorism, and been attacked on air by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. He walked in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade that a white supremacist tried to bomb.

 

Knezovich thinks America will be grappling with extremism for many years to come.

 

And he thinks there’s plenty to be worried about, even after the federal crackdown on rioters and some of the extremist groups who organized on Jan 6.

 

Knezovich has been especially critical of these movements, which have flourished in Washington and Idaho for decades, and which he accuses of trying to spark a civil war.

 

“These are tyrants, these are true dictators that want to pull our country apart,” he said of paramilitary groups and their supporters. “And they want to hide behind, ‘Well, America was born out of revolution.’”

 

The feeling is mutual. In a scathing text message declining an interview, the leader of the Washington Three Percent militia, Matt Marshall, told The Daily Beast that Knezovich is a liar and unfairly lumps disparate right-wing groups together.

 

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[China]

Yes, these people are so patriotic.

 

 

[Cooked Crack]