Politics January 6th

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Prison isn't suppose to be fun. Maybe he should have thought of that before he listened to Trump and tried to take the Capitol.
 
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I feel a tear welling up in my left eye. Oh, wait a minute, it's only from the onions since I'm cooking dinner tonight.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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This is just spin to try to distance the Proud Boys from what they really are, white supremacists.

I mean, they're dorky, cos playing white supremacists, but they're still white supremacists.

But if this guy didn't want to suffer like this? Pro tip: Don't break into a government building.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/this-is-...-tearful-testimony-about-jan-6-151614985.html

In tearful testimony Tuesday, U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell described how he was nearly crushed while trying to prevent rioters from breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, ‘This is how I’m going to die, trampled defending this entrance,’” Gonell said, frequently wiping back tears as he spoke.

Gonell, an Iraq War veteran and naturalized U.S. citizen who immigrated from the Dominican Republic as a child, was one of four law enforcement officers who testified during the first public hearing of the House select committee to investigate the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. He described how he and his fellow officers were sprayed with chemicals and beaten with a variety of weapons including, most shockingly to Gonell, an American flag.

I did not recognize my fellow citizens, or the United States they claimed to represent," Gonell said, comparing the violence he and fellow law enforcement officers encountered that day to “something from a medieval battle.”

“The rioters were vicious and relentless,” he said.

Gonell said he heard members of the mob, who chanted “Trump sent us” as they breached the Capitol, making specific threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then-Vice President Mike Pence.

“Rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, shouted that I, an Army veteran and police officer, should be executed,” he recalled.

Gonell, who said he has been on medical and administrative leave for much of the past six months due to injuries he sustained on Jan. 6, questioned why those who “express outrage” over athletes kneeling in protest against police violence have not similarly condemned the “violent attack on our democracy” that left him and more than 140 other law enforcement officers injured.

“I’m still waiting for them,” he said.
 
Neither Kevin McCarthy nor Mitch McConnell could be troubled to watch.
And yes, a frequent Fox guest, one of those self proclaimed experts in nothing, said yesterday Officer Fanone is a crisis actor.
 
Tyrant of Ants said:
I'd like to know what movies/shows/plays these "crisis actors" were in because if they really are actors, they're quite good.
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There is a growing list of people who desperately want to be locked into a room filled with gravel with Trump under the following conditions - Two men enter, one man leaves.
 
The Republicans are once again blaming Pelosi for January 6th, saying she should have known of the coming danger and acted sooner to protect the Capitol.

So basically, it's Pelosi's fault because she should have forseen that Trump was going to invite his fanboys to DC and sick them on the Capitol building and thus should have acted sooner to call in the national guard and upscale security for the Capitol.

When in fact she is not responsible for the security for the Capitol building or the national guard. That responsibility lies with the Capitol Police Board. She does control the Capitol along with the senate majority leader who was then Republican, Mitch McConnell. I don't see Republicans blaming him.

Pelosi immediately called for the national guard when it became evident the mob Trump had sent had fought their way into the building and that her and others in the house and senate were in danger.
 
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The Republicans are once again blaming Pelosi for January 6th, saying she should have known of the coming danger and acted sooner to protect the Capitol.
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That's a very smart way for the Republicans to call on Pelosi to arrest Trump now - so history will not repeat itself.
 
Officer Fanone received a racist, homophobic, threatening voice mail from Trump supporter.

Right wing media are all out attacking the officers. Even though they admit not watching.
 
crandc said:
Officer Fanone received a racist, homophobic, threatening voice mail from Trump supporter.

Right wing media are all out attacking the officers. Even though they admit not watching.
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Support the blue, you hippy!
 
Thomas Robertson: Ex-cop who stormed US Capitol is jailed after buying 37 guns

Washington (CNN)A Virginia police officer who was fired after storming the US Capitol was jailed Wednesday by a federal judge because he ordered a large stockpile of guns and ammunition after his January arrest, and posted online in support of future political violence.

Thomas Robertson, a retired Army Reservist who later worked for the Rocky Mount Police Department, was one of the first rioters charged by the Justice Department.

He was released in January but re-arrested this month after investigators said they found a rifle and bomb-making material in his home, and also learned that he recently bought another 37 guns on the Internet. The decision from Judge Christopher Cooper means Robertson will stay behind bars until his case is resolved, which could take months or even drag into 2022.

His lawyer said Robertson is in solitary confinement, for his own safety, because he's a former police officer. He pleaded not guilty to four counts, including felony obstruction of congressional proceedings.

"There is probable cause to believe that Robertson committed a felony -- willfully shipping or transporting firearms and ammunition despite being under felony indictment," Cooper wrote in a ruling, concluding that there was no way to protect the public without keeping Robertson in jail.

"Robertson's procurement of these dangerous weapons under the surrounding circumstances heightens the risk to public safety," Cooper added.

The case highlights why prosecutors, federal judges and national security officials have warned of continued political violence from disillusioned supporters of former President Donald Trump.

Prosecutors say Robertson called for more violence after January 6. He allegedly posted online that "the only voice these people will now listen to is violence," so people should "buckle armor or just stay at home." After that, prosecutors said, Robertson started purchasing more weapons.

"I have learned that if you peacefully protest than you will be arrested, fired, be put on a no-fly list," he allegedly posted on an online gun forum last month. "I have learned very well that if you dip your toe into the Rubicon... cross it. Cross it hard and violent and play for all the marbles."

The judge took note of these and other postings, and pointed out that they occurred at the same time Robertson went on a "remarkable shopping spree for high-powered assault weapons." Prosecutors alleged that he spent about $16,000 on the guns in a two-month span.

"Both in the immediate aftermath of the riot and more recently, Robertson has expressed remorselessness and endorsed future political violence," Cooper wrote in the 14-page ruling.

Robertson's lawyers argued unsuccessfully for his release. They claimed he is an "antique gun lover" and that the rifle in his bedroom was from World War II. They also said the alleged pipe bomb was "inert" and meant for training, because Robertson was a law enforcement instructor. (The judge did not buy the antique gun argument, concluding that "the record shows otherwise.")

The case took a turn last week when Robertson's son took the stand and testified that anM4 rifle found in his father's bedroom belonged to him. The son, Hunter Robertson, claimed under oath that FBI agents "did not" ask him about the rifle when they interviewed him while searching the house. His father wasn't present when the FBI executed the search warrant.

Prosecutor Elizabeth Aloi disputed the son's claim about the FBI and said he "has now given inconsistent statements to law enforcement," raising the possibility that he broke the law by lying. The judge said, "His testimony may incriminate him," and told the son to hire an attorney.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/poli...Z71Fv-YmaQsCr1mNxW8NZZdBXLngkiCEDfeGSVCExEjtM
 
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