So much for all the sedition bull hockey…of course, this is in light of Democrats and Maxine Waters calls for riots and “confrontation” in the streets.
While leftist rubes wailed about “insurrection” , Biden’s Justice Department seems to be prosecuting a temporary interruption of Congress instead of an armed insurrection to overthrow the U.S. government.
After January 6, Democrats, the news media, and lots of Republicans vowed to stop at nothing to hold accountable every “insurrectionist” involved in the protest. But here we are, and most defendants are accused of acting as “interruptionists”—Americans who may have acted recklessly but no more criminally, for the most part, than violent protests against Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 or Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation in 2018.
The Biden Justice Department did score its first plea deal related to the January 6 protest on Capitol Hill: Jon Ryan Schaffer pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and entering the Capitol with a dangerous or deadly weapon (bear spray that he did not use), and trespassing.
Due to some Pink Panther level sleuthing, Justice was able to determine that Schaffer came to DC “to protest the results of the presidential election, which he believed were fraudulent. Schaffer wore a tactical vest and carried bear spray, a dangerous weapon and chemical irritant used to ward off bears.” (Bear spray? Wut? For real??)
“On this 100th day since the horrific January 6 assault on the United States Capitol, Oath Keepers member Jon Schaffer has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, including for breaching the Capitol while wearing a tactical vest and armed with bear spray, with the intent to interfere with Congress’ certification of the Electoral College results,” Acting Deputy Attorney General John Carlin said in the statement. “The FBI has made an average of more than four arrests a day, seven days a week since January 6th.
Prosecutors, however, are loading up repetitive charges to build impressive-looking cases against nonviolent protesters.
200 people have been charged with both “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building” and “disruptive” conduct in either the Capitol or in a restricted building. Another common charge is “entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.” All three are misdemeanors punishable by a fine or up to six months in jail.
The whole thing is falling apart.
But…..Christopher Grider was arrested in January and indicted on seven counts including obstruction of an official proceeding. He has filed a motion to dismiss the charges, “No court has ever interpreted an ‘official proceeding’ as that term is used . . . to apply to a legislative or ceremonial function such as the certification of the electoral college vote,” his attorney T. Brent Mayr wrote. “Let there be no question that the Government is asking this Court to go well beyond the plain meaning of the term ‘proceeding.’”
Grider’s next court appearance is in June—the government is fighting the request, of course—but other defendants likely will challenge the obstruction charge in the interim.
Clowns.
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That FARCE on 6 January 2021 was exactly that – a FARCE!
A meaningless, empty ceremony, since everybody had already counted the votes long before 6 January 2021, and the governors had certified the elections, so end of story long before 6 January 2021 when the empty ceremony was conducted and then apparently disrupted, which disruption changed absolutely nothing.
The sun kept shining, the moon remained in its orbit, the grass stayed green and the birds did not stop singing.
But there is no news value or propaganda value in any of that, and speaking of propaganda, National Propaganda Radio (NPR) which is funded by FACEBOOK is still calling it an “insurrection.”
I guess they find the word fascinating like the word “pandemic” (SHUDDER SHUDDER BE VERY AFRAID)!
And it is not only National Propaganda Radio (NPR) funded by FACEBOOK that keeps calling it an “insurrection,” here is goofy old Joe Biden in his address to the Democrats of America and the world on 28 April 2021, to wit:
The insurrection was an existential crisis — a test of whether our democracy could survive.
It did.
But the struggle is far from over.
The question of whether our democracy will long endure is both ancient and urgent.
As old as our Republic.
Still vital today.
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That is the same tune Joe was singing in a Philadelphia Inquirer article entitled “Biden slams Capitol mob as ‘domestic terrorists’” on 8 January 2021, to wit:
President-elect Joe Biden called the participants in the mob “domestic terrorists.”
“Don’t dare call them protesters,” Biden said.
“They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists.”
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Actually, it sounds very much like Joe is describing the hooligans in the BLACK LIVES MATTER mobs and ANTI-FA there when he says don’t dare call them protesters because they are a riotous mob of insurrectionists and domestic terrorists if there ever were any.
As to what an “insurrectionist” is, it is defined as a person who rebels: insurgent, insurrectionary, mutineer, rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist.
And according to OUR laws which you would think someone like Joe Biden who is responsible for taking care that OUR laws are faithfully enforced, something I believe Joe Biden is incapable of, an INSURRECTION is defined as a rebellion of citizens or subjects of a country against its government.
The Constitution of the United States, which goofy old Joe swore to uphold, something again I do not think him capable of, in art. 1, s. 8. gives power to congress ” to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.”
By the act of Congress of the 28th of February, 1795, 1 Story’s L. U. S. 389, it is provided: Sec. 1. That whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion, from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the president of the United States to call forth such number, of the militia of the state, or states, most convenient to the place of danger, or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and to issue his orders, for that purpose, to such officer or officers of the militia as be shall think proper.
And in case of an insurrection in any state, against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the president of the United States, on application of the legislature of such state, or of the executive, (when the legislature cannot be convened,) to call forth such number of the militia of any other state or states, as may be applied for, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
That, whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act, it shall be lawful for the president of the United States to call forth the militia of such state, or of any other state or states, as may be necessary to suppress such combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed; and the use of militia so to be called forth may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the then next session of congress.
That whenever it may be necessary, in the judgment of the president, to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the president shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes, within a limited time.
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So was there an insurrection on 6 January 2021 because Joe Biden says there was one?
Does Joe get to change the meaning of the law to fit his narrative that there was an insurrection that was an existential crisis — a test of whether our democracy could survive?
Or is that just so much BULL**** from Joe who is making himself out as the SAVIOR of America, to wit:
I stand here tonight before you in a new and vital hour in the life of our democracy and our nation.
And I can say with absolute confidence: I have never been more confident or more optimistic about America.
We have stared into an abyss of insurrection and autocracy — of pandemic and pain — and “We the People” did not flinch.
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An abyss of insurrection and autocracy?
That’s horse****!
But hey, it’s Joe Biden we are talking about here, so what else could we expect?