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Offline Rick Plant

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #32 on: July 08, 2021, 12:43:49 AM »
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Yes, these right wing extremists are domestic terrorists.

FBI reportedly uncovered an extremist group that pursued 'bomb-building' in Jan. 6 case
https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-reportedly-uncovered-an-extremist-group-that-pursued-bomb-building-in-jan-6-case/

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #33 on: July 08, 2021, 10:51:55 PM »
Yes, these right wing extremists are domestic terrorists.
One person was shot and killed not even inside the Capitol on Jan 6. 
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More than 230 people fatally shot in shootings over the Fourth of July weekend
By Emma Tucker, Omar Jimenez and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN
 Wed July 7, 2021
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(CNN)At least 233 people were killed and 618 people were injured by gun violence in more than 500 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend, a 26% drop from last year's holiday weekend, according to the latest data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive.
According to data released Tuesday morning, which looks at shootings from 5 p.m. Friday through Monday, there were 314 fatal shootings with 751 injuries during the same period last year, the GVA said.
The significant drop in shootings and shooting victims comes as major cities nationwide confront a surge in violent crime.

Last year's holiday weekend came as the nation was starting to reopen after the pandemic's stay-at-home orders and amid mass protests related to the killing of George Floyd. CNN has requested 2019 data.
I don't know if that includes the 3 Trump supporters that were shot dead on their golf course in Georgia.
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100 people shot, 18 killed in Chicago
In Chicago, after Police Superintendent David Brown raised concerns before the "most challenging weekend of the year" for police, 100 people were shot and 18 people were killed from 6 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Monday, according to the Chicago Police Department. There were 69 shooting incidents during that period, police said.
There were the same amount of murders last year, but the number of shooting incidents and victims increased, according to data from Kellie Bartoli with the Chicago Police Department. There were 83 shooting victims and 18 murders in 47 shooting incidents from July 2-5, 2020, she told CNN in an email.
One of the 14 people killed was a member of the Illinois Army National Guard, CNN affiliate WLS reported. His family identified him on social media as Chrys Carvajal, though the Cook County medical examiner has not officially released his name.
More disgrace here---
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/05/us/us-shootings-july-fourth-weekend/index.html
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I will wager that some 99.8% of the shootings and deaths both this 4th weekend and last occurred in Democrat controlled American cities/counties. Where is the all outrage there?
Doesn't matter huh? Some people would lynch their own mother if they knew she voted for Trump.

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #34 on: July 09, 2021, 12:54:03 AM »
Which is exactly why the seditious GOP voted against a 1/6 investigation into the Capitol insurrection by right wing MAGA domestic terrorists because they knew about it or helped coordinate the entire thing. 


GOP Rep. reveals suspicions that other Republicans knew about plans for the Jan. 6 insurrection




Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., one of the few Republicans to vehemently deny Donald Trump's claims of widespread election fraud, said that he suspects some of his Republican colleagues could have predicted the Capitol riot and even supported it.

"I won't name names, but yes, I do have that suspicion," Kinzinger told the New York Times Magazine in an interview. "I will say, if you just looked at Twitter — the whole reason I brought my gun and kept my staff home and told my wife to stay in the apartment was looking at Twitter. I saw the threats."

Kinzinger specifically called out a Jan. 6 tweet posted by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., just prior to Trump's rally: "Today is 1776." Critics have speculated that Boebert was either aware of the rioters' plans to breach the U.S. Capitol building and/or calling for violent civilian protest.

"I don't know what that meant other than this is the time for revolution," Kinzinger said. "Maybe it was a dumb tweet that she didn't mean. Fine. I'll give her that credit for now. But if you have members of Congress who were involved in nurturing an insurrection, heck yeah we need to know."

During the insurrection, Boebert also publicized the exact location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., later claimed that Boebert "was told by the Sergeant of Arms in the chamber to not make any social media posts. It was said repeatedly. She defied it because she is more closely aligned with the terrorists than the patriots."

Late last month, Pelosi moved forward with her plan to assemble a select committee to investigate the Capitol riot after facing opposition from Senate GOP members. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the idea "purely" a "political exercise."

Kinzinger is just one of ten House Republicans who voted back in January to impeach the former president for inciting the violent insurrection that unfolded on the Capitol earlier this year. But perhaps with the exception of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. – who was ousted from her leadership position in May over her apparent lack fealty to Trump – Kinzinger has been the most outspoken in his condemnation of the former president's election fraud conspiracies.

In the Times Magazine interview, Kinzinger said he believes that "the vast majority" of Republicans "agree with my position; they just aren't speaking out."

"If you're scared to tell the truth to people, I understand, but you need to find a different line of work," he argued. "On something as existential as this, as threatening to the Constitution — my goodness."

Earlier this year, Kinzinger launched his Country First PAC, a never-Trump political action committee that set out to reform the Republican Party, which he described as being "in the middle of this slow sink," much like the Titanic.

"We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it's fine," he said. "And meanwhile, as I've said, you know, Donald Trump's running around trying to find women's clothing and get on the first lifeboat."

Though Kinzinger has expressed opposition to Trump, he has in the past politicked along staunchly conservative lines, voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act and repeal the Dodd–Frank Act. He also voted against the Equality Act and supports punishing sanctuary cities.

https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-knew-jan-6/

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #35 on: July 10, 2021, 12:55:38 AM »
Violent right wing hate groups and far right wing extremism is the biggest threat to Americs today.

Michigan braces for violence as Proud Boys plan to descend upon major city
https://www.rawstory.com/proud-boys-michigan/

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #36 on: July 10, 2021, 02:57:36 AM »
Violent right wing hate groups and far right wing extremism is the biggest threat to Americs today.

Michigan braces for violence as Proud Boys plan to descend upon major city
https://www.rawstory.com/proud-boys-michigan/

HA HA HA.  I would have guessed it was those who shot hundreds of Americans in the Dem run cities over the last weekend.  But I await this invasion of the "Proud Boys."  It must be coming any minute.  Right?

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #37 on: July 10, 2021, 04:08:34 AM »
Just more information on these MAGA scumbag domestic terrorists.


'You're going to die tonight': New video shows Capitol rioters brutally assaulting officers and dragging them down steps




A new body cam video released Friday shows Jan. 6 insurrectionists brutally assaulting Metropolitan Police Department officers who had set up a perimeter around the Capitol, before dragging them down a staircase into a mob of angry protesters.

One of the insurrectionists involved, Jack Whitton, allegedly told an officer, "You're going to die tonight," and later boasted in a text message that he had "fed him (an officer) to the people."

"Idk (I don't know) his status," Whitton wrote in the text message to a friend, referring to the officer. "And (I) don't care tbh (to be honest)."

According to court documents, the attack left one of the officers with head wounds that required staples to close. This was after rioters "ripped off his helmet, maced him, took his gas mask and MPD-issued cell phone, kicked him, struck him with poles, and stomped on him."

Whitton, a CrossFit instructor from Georgia who allegedly beat one of the officers with a metal crutch, was denied bond in April after a judge said he represents "a serious danger."

Another one of the defendants involved, Jeffrey Sabol of Colorado, also remains jailed after planning to flee to Switzerland and attempting suicide in the wake of the insurrection.

Watch the video below:

https://www.rawstory.com/new-capitol-riot-footage-2653731231/

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« Reply #38 on: July 15, 2021, 11:51:06 PM »
Here's the terrifying reason Republicans are lying about Ashli Babbitt -- according to a conservative




Republicans are going to great lengths to whitewash history as part of their efforts to seize further power, conservative Washington Post columnist Max Boot wrote on Thursday.

"All authoritarian movements know the power of historical myths. That's why they go to such great lengths to rewrite the past to justify their rule — and the atrocities they carry out against the minorities that they scapegoat for their country's ills. The Republican Party, as it becomes increasingly anti-democratic, is no different. It is busy reshaping both the distant past and the more recent past to its liking," he wrote.

He noted Republicans apprehension at discussing slavery, noting Kayleigh McEnany's false claim that "most" of America's founders were opposed to slavery.

Fox's Kayleigh McEnany amazingly claims that "all of our main founding fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it."

The majority of signers of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves, 41 of 56 according to one study. https://usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/03/july-4th-the-56-people-who-signed-the-declaration-of-independence/39636971/

"This is America's original sin, and it can't be erased. That doesn't mean America is irredeemably evil; the Constitution was eventually amended to abolish slavery. But it does mean that America has some serious demons to grapple with — and they were not vanquished in either 1865 or 1965. By airing White grievances, the GOP simply highlights the continuing impact of racism in the United States," Boot wrote.

Boot explained Republicans are now deploying similar lies to cover up the crimes committed during the insurrection by Trump supporters seeking to overturn the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden.

"Most alarming of all, Trump deified Ashli Babbitt — the Air Force veteran and QAnon follower who was shot to death by a police officer while attempting to break through a barricaded door into the House Speaker's Lobby — as a Trumpist martyr. He called her 'an innocent, wonderful, incredible woman' and suggested there was some deep, dark conspiracy surrounding her death. 'Who shot Ashli Babbitt?' he demanded to know. 'Why are they keeping that secret? ... People want to know, and why.' If Trump wants to know who's responsible for her death, he should look in the mirror," Boot explained.

"What's concerning and telling is that Trump has claimed as a martyr a woman who believed in the 'big lie' and died trying to overturn a democratic election by force," he wrote. "There is a chilling reason why Trump and his followers are whitewashing a domestic terrorist — and the enslavers and segregationists of the distant past. It is the same reason all authoritarian movements rewrite history: They are creating myths to justify their seizure of power. Don't be surprised if the next attack on our democracy — and there will be a next time — is accompanied by a stirring rendition of the (as yet unwritten) 'Ballad of Ashli Babbitt.'"

The GOP is reshaping both the distant past and the more recent past to its liking.

It seeks to deny that the US has a history of racism to atone for—and it seeks to deny that there was anything wrong with the Capitol riot.

Both lies serve its power grab.

https://www.rawstory.com/insurrectionist-ashli-babbitt/

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #39 on: July 15, 2021, 11:57:23 PM »
Good...Keep these seditious MAGA rioting scumbags locked up!


Judge loses patience with MAGA rioter: 'I can no longer give the defendant the benefit of the doubt'




A federal judge on Thursday lost patience with an accused Capitol rioter who expressed "no regrets" about his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Brandon Fellows, a former grocery store worker from Schenectady, New York, was ordered back to jail while awaiting trial after a federal judge ruled he had violated the terms of his pretrial release by calling his probation officer's mother.

Judge Trevor McFadden says Capitol defendant Brandon Fellows has shown “sustained contempt for the government.”

Pretrial release is revoked. He’ll be locked up.

“I can no longer give the defendant the benefit of the doubt,” he said. “I’ve tried, but we are where we are.”

Prosecutors said the 27-year-old Donald Trump supporter skipped a court-ordered mental health evaluation and then called and spoke to his supervising probation officer's mother, and he was arrested again for violating court orders.

Fellows, who traveled to Washington, D.C., to hear Trump speak and wound up inside the Capitol, where he smoked a joint with his feet propped on the desk of Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and heckled police officers while roaming the halls.

"I have no regrets," Fellows said shortly after the riot. "I didn't hurt anyone, I didn't break anything. I did trespass though, I guess."

He later amended his boast to say he did have one regret.

"I do regret potentially smoking what may have been weed," he said in February. "I think that discredits me and makes me look stupid to a lot of people, and also it's not something I want to be sharing with my future children."

Prosecutors asked Fellows to plead guilty to felony obstruction of Congress, which carries a 15- to 21-month prison term, but defense attorneys say the government insists on asking the sentencing judge for a terrorism enhancement.

"I've definitely been annoying and I see the frustration from you and all of the parties," Fellows said. "I wouldn't want to deal with me if I was on the opposing side."

https://www.rawstory.com/brandon-fellows/

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Re: Opposing a 1/6 Commission: The Disgrace of the Republicans
« Reply #39 on: July 15, 2021, 11:57:23 PM »