Assault on the Capitol (DC)

[Dr. Ken]

Oops... Proud boys are fucked.

[Gregg]

So we have both The Proud Boys and The Oath Keepers indicted for Sedition, is The Republican Party coming next?

[Kendra]

So we have both The Proud Boys and The Oath Keepers indicted for Sedition, is The Republican Party coming next?

[Gregg]

I'm not even joking. Explain to me why not because the fact is this, the ones that The Proud Boys and The Oath Keepers were conspiring with, to and for is The Republican Party and the Trump Campaign.

Give me one damn reason why they're not just as Seditious and anyone so far charged.


I
will
wait....

[Kendra]

JUST IN: Judge Nichols, the only federal judge in DC to reject obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants, has dismissed another charge, this time against Jake Lang, one of the first people charged and detained for assaulting officers that day.

[raison de arizona]

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/ ... 5205073921

JUST IN: Judge Nichols, the only federal judge in DC to reject obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants, has dismissed another charge, this time against Jake Lang, one of the first people charged and detained for assaulting officers that day.

You WILL remember that Jake Lang is on video beating police with a fucking baseball bat. Among other things.

Guess Judge Nichols determined that was typical touristy behavior.

Edit: Ah, missed that he was still facing a lot of charges, good!

[realist]

JUST IN: Judge Nichols, the only federal judge in DC to reject obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants, has dismissed another charge, this time against Jake Lang, one of the first people charged and detained for assaulting officers that day.

Perhaps there's a problem with the charging documents? Something along those lines, but otherwise, I don't get the dismissal of obstruction charges when that's the reason they were there.

[RTH10260]

Appeal by the DOJ?

[Kendra]

Jan. 6 defendant Mike Adams has been designated a "fugitive" according to new court filings. His case has been dormant for nearly a year.

[raison de arizona]

I am going to post a note here I received this morning from a January Sixther. I will post it without comment. Feel free to read it and then come to your own conclusions:

"I watched for 4 years as our government that I pay taxes for, try to impeach and even oust our president with sheer impunity. Hillary’s smearing stunt morphed into a coup that lasted Trumps entire term. Then I watched the election get stolen from the American people.

"So I went to DC to support the way I thought best. I wasn’t violent, I didn’t break anything, I didn’t steal anything and that doesn’t matter. I lost my 6 figure income, friends, and my family is a wreck. I had the FBI in my home, I was brought before a judge in shackles.

"And I am a lucky one. I got to remain free till sentencing. So this is the country that I now live in. Where the powerful few can attack an elected president attempting to removing him for 4 years and where elections no longer matter.

"We are no longer free. And this country WAS taken without firing a single shot. Guns are meaningless at this point. It was the First Amendment that people should have been fighting for the most.

"I am now barely making a living doing manual labor for just over minimum wage until my sentencing is over. I was threatened with 20 years in prison, something only murderers face. We couldn’t change the venue and none of the motions to dismiss were accepted.

"So, at the pleading of my wife, the extreme bias of DC and it’s “jury pool of my peers” and advice from my lawyer, I destroyed a part of me and signed a paper full of exaggerations, lies and more importantly a narrative that fits what they want.

"I am a Christian and somehow I feel damned. I lied to save my family. My pastor tells me about rehab but it doesn’t help. I don’t look at myself in the mirror anymore. A part of me is dead now. I now wake up longing for the Lord to take me.

"January 6th was a dark day. There was violence by some, that’s reprehensible. No one should have broken anything or stolen anything or hurt anyone. Having said that, January 6th should be remembered as the last outburst from people who were sick of the coups against Trump...

"The lies about Russia gate, the double standard of the Bidens and how they obtained their wealth compared to the treatment of Trump, the double standard of BLM rioters and everyone else...

"The forced LGBTQ pumped into our children minds at school while trying to shut out God at every corner, the endless wars, the celebrations of abortions, the government spending that has put children not even born into life long debt, the list goes on…

"This was the last cry out for the death of a nation. I don’t know what’s going to happen to my family while I’m gone for years. My wife has depended on me our whole marriage. She is the only woman I have ever been with, the only woman I have ever loved.

"I hope she and my kids can make it without me. I am a J6er and I am going to prison."

Wish they would name him, so we could see just what he didn't do...

[Kendra]

“Adam got a god-damned shield, stole it from the fucking popo!”

A newly unsealed case against Jan. 6 defendants Adam and Brian Jackson of Texas.

[Maybenaut]

JUST IN: Judge Nichols, the only federal judge in DC to reject obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants, has dismissed another charge, this time against Jake Lang, one of the first people charged and detained for assaulting officers that day.

Perhaps there's a problem with the charging documents? Something along those lines, but otherwise, I don't get the dismissal of obstruction charges when that's the reason they were there.

I could be wrong (I often am), but I thought this particular judge didn't think the certification of electors was an "official proceeding" because there was no exercise of discretion involved. Or something like that. So it wasn't so much that their behavior wasn't obstructionist as it was there was nothing to obstruct.

[Slim Cognito]

I am going to post a note here I received this morning from a January Sixther. I will post it without comment. Feel free to read it and then come to your own conclusions:

"
...

Here's my conclusion: Fuck him.

[realist]

Appeal by the DOJ?

No, won't bother.

[sugar magnolia]

Boo fucking hoo.

[Phoenix520]

Credulous fools will be fooled. If you believe some tidbit you see on FoxNewsmax and nowhere else on the planet…

[bob]

I could be wrong (I often am), but I thought this particular judge didn't think the certification of electors was an "official proceeding" because there was no exercise of discretion involved. Or something like that. So it wasn't so much that their behavior wasn't obstructionist as it was there was nothing to obstruct.

Nichols similarly had ruled (in the case against Garret Miller) there no obstruction because the statute "requires that the defendant have taken some action with respect to a document, record, or other object in order to corruptly obstruct, impede or influence an official proceeding."

In other words, according to Nichols, mere tourism isn't obstruction.

Lang, of course, still faces two felonies and a bunch of misdemeanors.

[Kendra]

JUST IN: DOJ indicates that Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is expected to testify at the trial of Jan. 6 defendants Kevin and Hunter Seefried. Kevin Seefried was famously pictured carrying a Confederate flag through the Capitol.

Edit:
https:// twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1534898265216454657

Walls-Kaufman pulled a FBI domestic terrorism specialist for his affidavit.

[Kendra]

SCOOP: A D.C. chiropractor who stormed the U.S. Capitol has been arrested for his role in the Jan. 6 attack.

The FBI was at his office this evening, just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

More at the link. Comments are

[Kendra]

The linked article is very brief so far, but this:

Kelly, who describes himself as a "Michigan First" candidate running for the GOP nomination, was at the Capitol in D.C. on Jan. 6. It is currently unclear what, if any, charges he will face.

[Kendra]

Ryan Kelley, the FBI says, was "using his hands to support another rioter who is pulling the metal barricade." https://documentcloud.org/documents/220 ... s_redacted

[Kendra]

I wonder if the FBI picked this day on purchase as an appetizer for tonight's hearing? Are there more to come today?

The Criminal Complaint against Ryan Kelley, currently the front-runner for the GOP nomination for MI Governor.

[Slim Cognito]

I would have preferred they arrest him after he won the nomination, but that's just me.

[Kendra]

I am so glad it's a slow work day

Sooner or later, Ukrainian Nazis had to get worked into the right-wing J6 conspiracies. That day has arrived!

[Kendra]

Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Ryan D. Kelley was arrested today for his conduct at the Capitol on #Jan6

I filmed Kelley on the stairs waving on the crowd behind them before they pushed through police lines & breached the Capitol.

More from me on #J6 soon
@theknowsnews

If I have it correctly, he's the one with the black baseball hat on backwards.