Another false narrative about January 6th
[NOTE: See UPDATE below.]
It seems the only truth in the original Democrat/MSM narrative about the deaths associated with the DC rally and the Capitol incursion on January 6th was that five people died, two of cardiovascular events, and that one – Ashli Babbitt – was shot by a Capitol Police officer. Early on it was reported that one woman, Roseanne Boyland, had been trampled to death by the crowd, but much later we learned that she had actually died from amphetamines.
And then of course Officer Sicknick was supposedly foully murdered by fire-extinguisher-wielding rioters who bashed him in the head and caused his death. Later we learned none of that was true, and that he had died from two strokes and had never been hit in the head at all, nor was bear spray a cause of his death.
The bear spray angle had been seized on by the Democrats/MSM after the fire extinguisher story fell through, as a way to continue to blame the pro-Trump crowd for Sicknick’s death. In line with the bear spray narrative, two men who had supposedly sprayed Sicknick and several other Capitol Police officers with bear spray were arrested and imprisoned, even though leftist rioters had often been allowed to get away with similar offenses against police. But now we’re learning something new about that incident [emphasis mine]:
Julian Elie Khater, 32, of State College, Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of Morgantown, West Virginia, are charged in spraying the chemical irritant at Capitol police officers Brian Sicknick and Caroline Edwards, as well as Metropolitan Police Department officer Damian Chapman.
However, during the hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Gilead Light acknowledged to Hogan that bear spray was never used, despite video clips presented earlier in the case.
“It does appear the bear spray that Mr. Khater was holding 10 minutes earlier was not used,” Light said, saying empty mace containers were recovered from Tanios and Khater’s homes.
However, Light maintained purchasing and carrying the bear spray showed intent: “Why else would you bring bear spray — it’s an uncontested fact there’s no bears in downtown D.C.”
Is carrying bear spray and not using it now considered a crime? What about defensive purposes, including defense against leftist demonstrators if encountered?
Counsel for the two men pointed out that the officers might even have been sprayed by irritating spray wielded by other officers, since there was a high wind at the time, and that defendants Khater and Tanios had been sprayed with pepper spray by officers just a few moments earlier.
Nevertheless, I doubt that Khater and Tanios will be released. If they’d been on the left they never would have been imprisoned in the first place, but if they had been, they would be released now. We have a two-tiered justice system. But at least some of these things are coming out now, because of the legal process – not that most people will ever follow the story. I predict that the vast majority will continue to believe the initial more incriminating reports – and that’s no accident. That’s what the MSM does best – plant a dramatic anti-Trump anti-right narrative, and assume it will stick in people’s minds even if facts later disprove it.
UPDATE: This article has made the situation a little more clear, although some confusion remains:
At Tanios’ detention hearing in West Virginia, the phrase “bear spray” was brought up 20 times, according to a transcript. An FBI agent who testified at that hearing danced around the question of whether it had been deployed, saying the investigation was “ongoing” and that the canisters hadn’t been submitted for forensic analysis. But prosecutors did say the cans “appeared to be intact.”
Khater’s attorney Joseph Tacopina needled prosecutors at Tuesday’s hearing by saying the bear spray “turned out not to be bear spray,” and argued that it was a “defensive” pepper spray.
The muddled narrative has played out while Khater and Tanios fight for their release from jail.
“Muddled” is an understatement for this “narrative.”
More [emphasis mine]:
Federal judges previously ruled that they’re too dangerous to let out, but they’re challenging those decisions. Holding a defendant in jail before trial is not meant to be a punishment, and defendants are presumed innocent of the charges. But pretrial detention is used when someone is deemed to be a potential danger to the public or might not show up for future court hearings.
Attorneys for Khater propose that he be released under a $15 million bond and put under house arrest because he has no history of violence, no engagement with extremist groups and didn’t go inside the Capitol. (He was still charged with entering restricted grounds because he was in an area that had been blocked off ahead of time and wasn’t open to the public on January 6.)
Fifteen million dollar bond – utterly astounding, with no criminal or extremist record and essentially no offense except perhaps defensive pepper spray and trespassing. And the trespassing was not even within the Capitol building; it was on some blocked-off grounds.
Julie Kelly (at AmericanGreatness) has done much superb reporting about the false narrative surrounding 1/6, and also about the grotesque detention of many trespassers currently being held without bail; according to an article posted several days ago at Politico, Elizabeth Warren, to her credit, has criticized the harsh detainment of dozens of so-called “insurrectionists” in solitary confinement.
I’m sure they will receive the same plea deal as the two attorneys who threw molotov cocktails into police cars during peaceful protests in New York: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9428503/NY-lawyers-threw-Molotov-cocktail-NYPD-car-given-90-days-accept-plea-deal.html
As always it doesn’t even matter that of course it’s all BS the narrative was set within hours and never shall it be changed.
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Can you link to that Elizabeth Warren statement? I’m curious what she actually said. Thanks.
The article was written by Kyle Cheney, posted at Politico on April 19th, and entitled “The January 6th Defendants Win Unlikely Dem Champions as They Face Harsh Detainment.”
“That’s what the MSM does best – plant a dramatic anti-Trump anti-right
narrativeLIE”Fixed it for you…
The lies will continue until they are too ‘expensive’ to use.
By expensive, I do not mean financial. Traitors are not ‘fined’.
Lies promoted as truthful, that present a mortal threat to constitutional governance… must carry proportional consequence.
The bear spray was not even used? And they are still being held without bail while (as Rufus T Firefly points out) two leftist lawyers who threw Molotov cocktails into police cars are out on bail and have been offered a plea deal?
Why hasn’t the judge already thrown this out? The fact that they are still being held at all, let alone without bail is more proof (as though we needed any) that the Department of Justice is corrupt.
“The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval armory, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming, but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.” ~ Wiki
Why hasn’t the judge already thrown this out?
Because the judge is as bad as the prosecutors. Recall the Democratic majority on the DC Circuit issued an order quashing the instruction from a 3 judge panel to Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the case against Gen. Flynn. Every Democrat appointed to that court is implicated in Sullivan’s behavior.
At least now its easy to understand how the wacky austrian ended up in power in germany… if the Dems could do this to the USA, what he did was easier for it not been done before him as an example… Gliecshaltung really works and you can bet that after winning time man of the year, the german people were in thrall with the ideas… until the real ideas were exposed… after all, not every speech was broadcast and the news didnt necessarily tell all he was up to either… until the end there were Germans who really didnt know what was going on in the camps any more than the dem voters know whats with the kids in the barracks and the spanish wops (without papers somehow is ok, but they forgot it led to the term wop)…
A real insurrection would have had more than a few members of Congress and the Senate hanging from lampposts. As it was, it amounted to a panty raid. Except for Ashli Babbit, of course.
“without papers” led to the term “wop”?
Wiki says no, it comes from “guappo”, meaning “dandy” or “dude”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wop
May this be a warning to any of you that are thinking of protesting the installation of Joe Biden and against anything else the Democrats want to do.
The Beijing Biden administration is truly a ruling junta. It’s sad that so few can see it. I have relatives who lived through the holocaust and they think what’s happening to the right is well deserved. This is how freedom falls.
Also, my Italian dad grew up in the 30s and 40s and “wop” always meant “without papers” to him and his family. Words can have more than one connotation.
The behavior of the U.S. Attorney and the Obamabot judges has been egregious enough to attract the attention of Elizabeth Warren. (But not, as Julie Kelly notes, Sumbitch McConnell).
Has Om changed his false narrative that “QAnon killed Ashley B” yet?
“Geoffrey Britain on April 27, 2021 at 5:30 pm said:”
Who is going to kill the traitors, when every part of your System is run by child pedo rapists and Satan cannibals?
Now the military is even getting in on the transgender Bhaalism.
Cabalism.
Hussein was infiltrating/purging the military in 2009. Were people here worried? I don’t remember anything like that.
Question: does the “solitary confinement” in which these political prisoners are being held prevent them from communicating publicly?
Yammer spreading the QAnon still? Believing that horse manure killed Ashli Babbit (RIP) assisted by a 9mm (?) from a Capitol Policeman. He also had the GA election “covered” IIRC. Oopsie. But Yammer’s hindsight is always 20/10.
Baggins,
I’ve always heard “with out papers” and that seems much more likely since it was always a derogatory term, like “dago.” Maybe it was sort of an insulting pun, based on the association with “guappo.”
Steve Walsh has the right of it. The unconstitutional treatment of the Jan. 6th protestors is a warning; this is what will happen to any who physically protest the left’s tyranny.
Ymar, If memory serves, you repeatedly claimed “to have this”…
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
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“Without papers” could be the same kind of pun as saying Fiat stands for “Fix it again, Tony.” When the insult “wop” first took hold, I don’t think people were so much in today’s habit of using bureaucratic acronyms, nor did the acronyms find such fertile ground in the general public’s slang. My impression is that it was more common for slang terms to be based on blurred hearings of foreign words, though which specific foreign word is often in controversy.
About Jan. 6, my disgust knows no bounds. Can you imagine a leftist journalist (BIRM) blaming a business owner’s heart attack on BLM on the ground that he suffered stress from his building’s being torched in a riot? They can barely bring themselves to accuse a rioter of murder when he chases a conservative protester yelling “There’s a Trump supporter! Get him!” before gunning him down in cold blood.
I assumed from the start that every single detail about this “Jan 6 riot” was complete bullshit.
And I have been proven correct.
This model works surprisingly well.
FIAT means Fix It Again, Tony?
Or Fixing It All the Time. ?
From Julie Kelly’s article:
““Everyone in our country knows what happened on January 6,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Aloi lectured during a March 22 detention hearing. “We also generally know . . . that they were supporting the president who would not accept that he was defeated in an election. And so we have created this culture, radicalized by hate, and just refusal to really accept the result of a democratic process.”
Aloi also suggested the bear spray killed Brian Sicknick—it was “surreal,” the judge said, to see a video of the “officer who no longer is with us”—and described what happened on January 6 “an assault on our nation’s home.”
He preached on: “I don’t think I have ever seen anything play out in a way that was more dangerous to our community.” Even though the judge admitted Tanios did not spray the chemical, Aloi nonetheless ordered Tanios, a business owner with no criminal record, to remain in jail indefinitely.”
Michael Aloi, a supposed impartial Magistrate Judge, reveals that he, too, is part of the swamp. “We also generally know…” is not supposed to be used as a basis for rulings, but it’s obvious that Georgetown cocktail party bullshit has replaced judicial restraint in his head.
These guys have no idea of how this kind of bad this appears to the rest of us. The fish doesn’t recognize the water.
When the justice system is used so blatantly to inflict pain against political enemies of the predominant politics of those embedded within the beltway, we’ve taken one more step toward the despotism that will unleash the whirlwind.