J6 independent journalist convicted
The DC jurors also convicted a ham sandwich along with Steven Horn:
Stephen Horn was found guilty of entering or remaining in a restricted area, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted area, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building.
In a post to X, Horn wrote, “I told the same truth to the jury that I posted along with my video on January 7th: ‘I did not enter the capitol building as part of the protest, or for cheap thrills, but to accurately document and record a significant event which was taking place.'”
It doesn’t appear that anyone thought he was there for any other reason. I’m surprised they didn’t try to charge him with spying for his attempt at reporting.
The J6 convictions are a travesty; that’s the reason for my “ham sandwich” remark in the first sentence of this post. It is probably good advice to anyone on the right wishing to demonstrate – even peacefully – against anything to avoid doing it in DC, because if the federal government wishes to get you they will get you by using the DC “justice” system to do it.
There’s also this:
Meanwhile today–as Epps gets a slap on the pinkie, Judge Mehta declined to drop convictions for Thomas Caldwell, 68, for obstruction of official proceeding.
He never went into the building, either. In fact, he was on restricted grounds after Ray Epps.
Sentencing next month: pic.twitter.com/YOJMmLtidx
— Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) September 19, 2023
And we should not forget Ray Epps, a curious case of DOJ leniency – almost as curious as Hunter Biden’s initial plea deal, and probably motivated by similar factors:
Like so many efforts to cover up the Ray Epps questions, this phony charge, years after, will only make things worse for the Fed narrative
The people know the truth already. It's too late. https://t.co/7Ob0BsG3Ya
— Darren J. Beattie ? (@DarrenJBeattie) September 19, 2023
It always ends the same: money, power, suppression or execution of the opposition. The question in my mind is: we have the show trials, how far will this go and what will the pushback, if any, look like?
Ray Epps is now immune from double jeoprody in the event that the Brandon junta or another Democrat caudillo is not installed in January 2025?
Stephen Horn is from Raleigh, active around here as an independent conservative journalist. There’s another one who is threatened by the feds but so far not charged; he’s got a stronger lawyer and some publicity. They’ll get around to him. It’s a disgrace.
Who would have thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 movie “The Running Man” would hit so close to home? It was, after all, a sci-fi spoof of what a dysfunctional 2017 America would be like, complete with state run media and its associated gaslighting, widespread spying, food riots, murder of regime enemies, etc. etc. Just about the only thing the script did not anticipate was social media and the role of private companies in carrying out the spying.
om, it is also want to do for Hunter and everyone else. Don’t seek a pardon, just a light sentence from a plea bargain. It protects from future prosecution and allows you to prosecute the other guy as hard as you like. They made a mistake not prosecuting Hillary as it left her open to being prosecuted later. It didn’t happen, but they’ll close these vulnerabilities next time.
The Epps reporting of Tom Jackman in the WAPO today was oh-so-slick, concentrating on how he was claimed to be a Fed plant by right-wingers, but was now being charged. However, there was no comparison of his actions and resultant charges to those of others. In fact the false impression that he was treated the same as hundreds of others was delivered, by omission.
Millions have probably see the video of Epps encouraging protesters to “Go into the Capitol tomorrow” the previous night, while others nearby yelled “FED, FED!!” accusingly.
But the article neatly buries this with “The initial lack of charges against him led conspiracy theorists to repeatedly argue that he was encouraging rioters to attack police and overrun the Capitol”. Jackman makes no reference to the video where Epps DID encourage them to enter the Capitol. And no reference to him NOT being charged with incitement, while others, not caught on video doing so, WERE so charged!
Ps. Note how cleverly Jackman overstate the claims of the right (“attack police”, “overrun the Capitol”) so he can avoid mention of Epps’ actual, literal, incitement, thereby encouraging the reader to assume that there was no incitement at all!
Finally the reporter assures us that “Epps was charged with disorderly conduct on restricted grounds, a misdemeanor offense that hundreds of Capitol rioters have faced.” But unmentioned is that, UNLIKE the hundreds of others, this was his ONLY charge, in contrast to the piling-on of multiple charges against so many others!
It pays to have friends in the media, and pretty obviously, elsewhere!
My opinion is when they started to round up conservatives starting with DJT they would work down the ladder.
Commenter at Ace wondered if the Feds are working of the likes of Julie Kelly. To get their line in order everyone has to be under their iron boot or it doesn’t work for long.
I don’t remember for certain the actual sources from that day, but did the various mainstream news organizations have their photojournalists follow the protestors into the Capitol after the doors were open? I seem to remember all of them posting video from inside the Capitol that day, but I don’t remember if it was NYTimes/CNN/MSNBC camerapeople taking it.
Simulation Commander theorized that Epps was working for a lefty NGO sent by the Democrats to stir things up, and that is why the FBI didn’t arrest him, and why the DoJ didn’t go after him until he became too big a thumb sticking out. So he gets lick on the wrist and all the talking heads get to say Ray Epps wasn’t treated differently except for, you know, the not going to jail or paying a fine.
the real outrage was what they did to thomas caldwell disabled decorated vet, he was kept in solitary for about a months because reasons,
Ray Epps, the only man to ever bring an eight foot step ladder to a demonstration.
one of many outrages, I should add,
“The J6 convictions are a travesty”
They have made a travesty of justice across the land, sending a clear message that the rule of law is gone. A message that just opposition to their narrative will result in the ruination of those who protest. They have and continue to subject patriotic Americans to the obscenity of imprisonment within an American gulag. Daily they ramp up their depraved oppression ever further. They justify great evil and are sealing their fate before God and man. Providing an object lesson in the truism that, “as we sow, so shall we reap”.
Vivek would pardon the non-violent J6 people.
I remember the early nineties walking around and throughout the Capitol, no one gave a care. You could walk right up to the side entrance of the Senate chamber, one lonely velvet rope encouraging you to not step any further because protocol or some such, and no one did. Now those clowns have bought into their own self-importance, what a waste.
For years I looked forward to the opportunity to revisit Washington DC as I did as a boy, to see the Air & Space Museum that did not even exist then, to show my foreign-born wife the monuments of the greatest nation in the world.
Not anymore.
If Wray Epps was not employed by the government, he must be an insurrectionist.
If Wray Epps was employed by the government, he must be an insurrectionist.
Related:
“FBI Had So Many Paid Informants In J6 Riot They Lost Track And Had To Perform Audit: Ex-Official”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fedsurrection-fbi-had-so-many-paid-informants-j6-riot-they-lost-track-and-had-perform
Key graf (RTWT—not that anyone should be surprised…):
‘…Steven D’Antuono, formerly in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, told the House Judiciary Committee in closed-door testimony that while his field office knew some of their informants would be at Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally across town, informants from other field offices were present at the Capitol that day, as well as other informants who had participated on their own accord….’
So the FBI lost track of the greatest frame-up in the history of the US, eh?
Sounds like just another FIB.
File under: Once you make lying your SOP, it’s not only difficult to stop lying: it becomes POLICY…and then it TRANSFORMS into being ETHICAL (IOW it MUST BE DONE to preserve and save the country…even as it helps preserve—and magnify—the incomes of certain politicians an delites…)
Speaking about “Biden”‘s intentional and meticulously-planned policy of “lying” and deception (Part ~ to the power of ~)…
“Ignore The Hawkish Fed: Not Only Is GDP About To Tumble, Next Week It Will Be Revised Sharply Lower”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ignore-hawkish-fed-not-only-gdp-about-tumble-next-week-it-will-be-revised-sharply-lower
To be sure, the real question ought to be: Why would anyone believe anything that emanates from the Bidenesca Politburo?
(One should, in fact, believe the precise opposite—or worse—of any claim or so-called fact, projection or estimate…. And no, the policy of prevarication and deceit is not—in the “inspiring” words of the Wise Latina—“TRANSITORY”…)
Oops. “Wise Latina” should be “Wise Owlita”…
Related:
“Ignorant, pathetic Merrick Garland wilts on the hot seat before Congress”—
https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/ignorant-pathetic-merrick-garland-wilts-on-the-hot-seat/
Except that Garland cannot possibly be “ignorant” of his own malfeasance, corruption and criminal VIOLATION of oath of office…and I find Miranda Devine’s conclusions/assumptions here flabbergasting.
Occam’s razor? The head of DOJ—like the entire “Biden” “administration” and its utterly corrupt media lackeys—is gaslighting the American People and the world.
And GETTING A HUGE KICK OUT OF DOING SO.
File under: But who, ultimately, pardons the pardoners?
Does anyone happen to remember what ultimately happened to “journalist” John Sullivan, who gleefully filmed the Ashli Babbitt murder? If I recall correctly, he got off pretty much scot free.
I think he was thrown in jail in some other jurisdiction—Chicago? Portland?—for acting to character (and doing something illegal).
Not certain about the details.
Jordan Rivers I would use Fedsurrectionist
Poor epps, he will have to keep watching his back, and worrying about the safety of his family and property until the day he dies. And he can thank his democrat masters for that.
Viva Frei interviewed Stephen Horn yesterday
https://rumble.com/v3ja094-live-with-stephen-horn-convicted-of-journalism-viva-frei.html