More on the persecution of the January 6th protestors
While in the Capitol, Gold stayed within the velvet ropes and delivered her speech against government vaccine mandates and lockdowns. She told the CPAC audience that she “had never seen a more respectful crowd.” In her mind, they were not seditious rioters, but patriots and guests of the Capitol. If not, who opened the Columbus Doors for them and why was no one getting arrested? Gold was in the Capitol for about 45 minutes, 25 of which she was waiting for an opportunity to exit as more people poured into the building. Having enjoyed the experience and not knowing there was any wrongdoing, she posted a clip of peaceful footage on social media, which was subsequently banned. Social media outlets were removing peaceful footage, in favor of the clips quite familiar to us now.
Despite the extensive video footage supporting her claims, Gold was charged with obstructing a proceeding of Congress, a felony punishable by up to 24 years in prison. Like many other J-6ers facing the same charges, she accepted a plea deal. The U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, Christopher Cooper, sentenced Gold to 60 days in prison, followed by 12 months of supervised release and a $9,500 fine.
John Strand, Gold’s bodyguard and co-defendant, rejected the plea deal. He was found guilty on all charges and faces sentencing of more than 20 years in prison. During the CPAC panel, Strand criticized the court’s verdict, “I am an individual. I should be answering for my actions, not the crowd’s.”
It’s no accident that the two posts I’ve written so far today deal with “lawfare” – the left’s practice of using the law for purely political purposes. They do this for three reasons: they reliably control the legal system in certain venues, it intimidates many of their opponents, and they have the support of the propagandist MSM.
Lawfare is, without question, an abomination contributing mightily to the decline and fall of our republic. Of all the grotesque (and unbearably melancholy) tales of the persecuted and prosecuted political prisoners of J6 and of our very own American Gulag, perhaps the saddest is that of Matthew Perna, turned over to our Stasi by some unethical acquaintances and subsequently driven to suicide before his sentencing.
There are various generic search terms for J6 defendants at GiveSendGo, including simply ‘J6’. Virtually any you use get multiple results.
USA Today’s list is also (accidentally) helpful. Add the words “legal defense” to find fundraisers for any of those patriots at GSG or elsewhere.
I attended the J6 panel at CPAC and it was hard to believe that this is happening in America. It’s one thing to read about these stories but listening to John Strand tell his story and realizing he could be spending the next 20 years in jail made my blood boil. With a very few exceptions (notably the oft ridiculed Marjorie Taylor Green) nobody in a position of power is paying attention to these people or the unconstitutional treatment they are receiving from our Department of “Justice”. This is a national disgrace.
Comparing this to the Reichstag Fire is a disservice to the Nazis, as much as I hate to say. The Reichstag Fire was an actual arson committed by a deranged Dutch Communist pyromaniac, Marinius van Der Lubbe, rather than a false flag (at least if you actually look at the evidence rather than the Soviet propaganda). Meanwhile, the German judiciary actually conducted the trial with decent amounts of professionalism and honor, which is one reason why only van Der Lubbe was convicted and why Hitler was so angry at the judiciary.
The sham that has been occurring in DC would be fitting for the so-called People’s’ Court.
I disagree with Marjorie Taylor Green on a lot. A LOT. But her advocacy for the victims of this nightmare has ensured she will have my gratitude.
This whole J6 s show reminds me of the Star Chamber. Add the fact Rep leaders are scared to say anything about the lake justice makes me so very angry.
It is a fundamental axiom of justice and liberty that individuals be held accountable for their own actions and not for what is feared, projected or observed coincident to those actions.
The US legal system under the influence of Democratic political fever is a mockery of justice and liberty.
@ Julia on March 18, 2023 at 6:53 pm said: I am making over $20 k a month working part time.
We seen to be learning a bit about The Life of Julia (TM) today.
Even at The Good Place.
Julia on March 18, 2023 at 6:53 pm said:
And the Trump indictment.
Julia on March 18, 2023 at 6:55 pm said:
But not the Netanyahu thread – Anti-Semite?, or just not in her working zone?
The time-stamps scream “scam troll”.
AesopFan:
I was busy much of today and somehow Julia snuck by the spam filter.
I will off her now. Poor Julia.
@ Invisible Sun > “The US legal system under the influence of Democratic political fever is a mockery of justice and liberty.”
While following the American Thinker’s side-bar, I read this post, then clicked through some of the links.
They make a good riff on “liberty” — as having the same etymological root as “liberal” — both of them being in short supply in America these days.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/stop_conflating_leftists_with_liberals.html
By D. Parker
Parker quotes several parts of this post, RTWT:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/13/they-are-intolerant-divisive-and-anti-liberty-call-them-leftists-not-liberals/
“On a simple level, “liberal” sounds like the related word “liberty.” It shouldn’t be used to describe those who are against basic rights.”
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/how-i-knew-the-democrats-and-the#details
“How I Knew The Democrats and The Media Were Lying About January 6th
Because I used to do it too.”
Bonus quote from Kundera:
Redrawing the political ideology spectrum as it should be, rather than as the Left claims. Instead of communism-socialism-capitalism-fascism, (and generally putting Hitler and Mussolini on the Right, rather than where they belong on the Left), Lawrence W. Reed proposes:
communism-socialism-fascism-mixed_economy-capitalism
https://elamerican.com/the-only-spectrum-that-makes-sense/
A large study to reveal the underlying political ideologies that aren’t captured by the bivalent pairs “Democrat-Republican” or “liberal-conservative” — especially the latter. When the project was undertaken in 2018, the leftmost “tribe” was labeled Progressive Activists, which obscured their true nature as Leftists aka Marxists (whether communist, socialist, or nascent fascist).
https://web.archive.org/web/20190102193747/https://hiddentribes.us/
The Hidden Tribes of America chart does appear to accurately describe the different tribes based on their answers to a battery of preference questions; I just object to the label.
This is what Parker said in the first post:
Also cue the balance board MEME that Elon Musk highlighted.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144
Scroll on down to this reply:
Mark Hemingway @Heminator Apr 28, 2022
Replying to @elonmusk
The data show this chart is largely accurate:
(my textual summary)
In 1994, the medians of the Democrats and Republicans were separated by one “unit,” centered at 5.5 on the arbitrary 1-10 scale from consistently liberal (using the now-incorrect label) to consistently conservative (5 and 6 respectively).
In 2004, both parties had actually shifted one unit to the left. In 2014, the GOP had moved to the right one-half unit past its 1994 median, to 6.5; the Dem median had moved 3 units to the left from its starting point, to 2.
I have no doubt that if the same scale was used today, the Democrats as a party would be at the far left end, just as Musk’s meme illustrated.
The original post that Hemingway is referencing.
Remember to substitute “leftist” for every use of “liberal,” which Democrats have moved away from for over 20 years (if the leaders ever really were liberals, which I sorta doubt now that their undercover history is being exposed; I’ll grant that individual Democrats probably are, even today — but the informed ones are mostly moving out of the Party onto Substack):
https://jabberwocking.com/if-you-hate-the-culture-wars-blame-liberals/
Kevin Drum Published on July 3, 2021
Lots of details; the analysis is bluntly honest; one commenter correctly notes that the Independents apparently weren’t counted, so the “median voter” may not actually be in the same place as the half-way point between D and R; however, it’s pretty clear the IV isn’t as far to the left as the D median.
Kind of blinkered there, but the Democrats were only starting to get overtly outrageous in 2017 (what they were doing by subterfuge truly was outrageous), and even the Republicans mostly thought Trump & MAGA was outrageous, until he started making some policy wins.
Everything Frum complained about has only gotten worse.
And instead of moderating their positions, the Democrats decided to buy and invent votes.
Note that Biden is trying, not altogether successfully, to tack to the center on some positions, but is undercutting those moves by running further left on others.
FOOTNOTE
And all this was before the CRT and DIE/DEI backfires started hitting “the vast middle part of the country, which progressive activists seem completely uninterested in talking to” — and are now labeling as Domestic Violent Terrorists for going to school board meetings.
@ Neo > “I will off her now. Poor Julia.”
The only legitimate application of cancellation.
I’m still livid about the San Jose Trump Rally riot and the aftermath. And how it was allowed to happen in other areas. I’m afraid to any Ca Trump Rally. Yes, I’m intimidated.
And it shows the corruption of the uniparty system where the San Jose victims got an apology, where blm rioters get a payout.
Shipwrecked article on Chaneys defense is interesting. He has another post on donating to Jan 6 defense. Seems lots of scammers are out there.
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-factual-and-procedural
Julie Kelly recently called out the silence of the gop establishment on the Jan 6 prisoners, including at a state level (ie DeSantis).
AesopFan: thanks for the Parker link. When it comes to political taxonomies, I think Robert A. Heinlein got it right:
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
Other relevant quotes at https://fee.org/articles/33-of-the-best-robert-heinlein-quotes-on-liberty-politics-and-culture/
Bet GOP not fighting for Jan6 Ralliers goes hand in hand not fighting footing fraud.
@ Hubert > ” I think Robert A. Heinlein got it right:”
RAH got a LOT of things right (not everything, but still…).
His books were my earliest remembered reading material in elementary school.
“The juveniles,” the publishers called them, but it seems to me they introduced a lot of sophisticated thought in easily understood stories.
Readable by adults and children, then and now.
Books have always been used to “brainwash” children, but the style, plots, and principles were better back then.
@ RaySoCal > “Shipwrecked article on Chaneys defense is interesting. … Seems lots of scammers are out there.”
I’m reading something FAR more nefarious into Chansley’s first lawyer’s behavior.
Given the totality of the context, as described by Mr. Shipley, is it possible that Watkins was a DOJ stooge?
AesopFan: “Books have always been used to “brainwash” children, but the style, plots, and principles were better back then.” They sure were.
One of my favorite YA authors was Robb White, father of NPR (alas) commentator Bailey White. “The Lion’s Paw”, “Secret Sea”, “Up Periscope”, “Torpedo Run”, “The Survivor”, “Silent Ship, Silent Sea” (inspired by the case of the USS Jarvis). Well-written and accessible to young readers without being patronizing. All available for $.35 or $.50 apiece through Scholastic Book Services. Prices for used copies have been driven way up by Boomer nostalgia.
Big Brother is evil. No one can read 1984 and conclude otherwise.
The Democrats are Big Brother.
Hubert,
“Up Periscope” was my second favorite Scholastic paperback as a ten-year-old. “The Mad Scientists Club” was #1.
Stan: my favorite as a ten-year-old was “The Lion’s Paw”. One thing Robb did very well was write about budding boy-girl awareness and attraction without being creepy. It certainly worked for me.
I didn’t read “The Mad Scientists’ Club” but I did read all the Danny Dunn “scientific mysteries”. Good stuff.
Other childhood favorites: the “We Were There” series of YA historical novels, Rosemary Sutcliff’s “Warrior Scarlet”, Lloyd Alexander’s “Chronicles of Prydain” series, Esther Forbes’ “Johnny Tremain”, and, eventually, Tolkien. I spent the entire summer of 1969 reading “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” in sequence.
And yes to your comment on the treatment of the January 6th protesters. The Left are masters of lawfare. We need to catch up. For an example of somebody doing what needs to be done, see Bill Jacobson’s Equal Protection Project at https://equalprotect.org/.
If you are a lawyer supporting MAGA Types, you may get targeted through lawfare.
An example:
https://thomasresurgence.substack.com/p/the-craven-surrender-of-jenna-ellis
From what I read, the previous lawyer was self agrandizing, and did not due to duty to his client. Some would characterize it as betraying his client’s interests. His reputation in his home town is great.
This is a challenge. Not all lawyers are equally good. Some are incompetent, self centered, and lack time and resources and will sell you down the river. Others are amazing. The OJ Dream Team showed me that money makes a huge difference in the court. It’s often about who has the more resources, and better lawyer. Not about justice.
AesopFan on March 20, 2023 at 2:47 am said:
“I’m reading something FAR more nefarious into Chansley’s first lawyer’s behavior.
Given the totality of the context, as described by Mr. Shipley, is it possible that Watkins was a DOJ stooge?”