left-wing media companies now want access to those tapes. Where have they been for the last two years?



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"Mostly peaceful chaos" is how Tucker Carlson is describing the Jan. 6 riot. He's not wrong. it was hardly the "deadly insurrection" as others have portrayed it.

Too long to post here, read the whole thing at the link.



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The Chair of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, says he never had access to, and never reviewed, the Tucker tapes.



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A Jan. 6 apology, from Naomi Wolf.



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A ‘Spill’ of FBI Secrets

Americans will hold accountable those responsible for the accelerating degradation of the U.S. justice system as the government's J6 narrative collapses and their wrongdoing becomes apparent.
By Julie Kelly
March 13, 2023

The FBI agent squirmed on the hot seat.

Confronted with messages the Justice Department attempted to conceal, Nicole Miller, one of the lead FBI investigators assigned to the Proud Boys case, was on the verge of admitting that the FBI monitored privileged communications between one defendant and his attorney in 2021.

“It appears so,” Miller responded when asked by defense attorney Nicholas Smith on March 8 to confirm she and another agent discussed the content of emails exchanged between Zachary Rehl, one of five Proud Boys currently on trial for seditious conspiracy, and his former lawyer.

Smith read aloud one of Miller’s texts: “I need to find other emails, but this one email definitely indicates that they want to go to trial, But don’t freak out, Jason and Luke.”

Smith turned to Miller. “Now, ‘Jason,’ you understand to be referring to the prosecutor in this case, Jason McCullough. Correct?”

But jurors never heard an answer. After prosecutors loudly objected, Judge Timothy Kelly abruptly dismissed the jury. He informed jurors that he wanted “to press pause, as we sometimes do when an objection hits,” and reconvene the morning of March 9.

But that didn’t happen either.

Instead, Kelly, outside the eyes and ears of the jury, held a hearing with both sides on March 9 to determine how to proceed after the defense team uncovered messages indicating FBI agents doctored internal reports, destroyed evidence, and tipped off prosecutors about defense strategy on the government’s highest-profile January 6 case.

Prior to her testimony, Miller had compiled a spreadsheet of so-called “Jencks” material that cataloged internal messages related to her work on the case. The spreadsheet contained 25 rows of messages—but roughly 12,000 rows were hidden behind a tab and found by the defense.

One message referenced editing a report on a confidential human source, commonly known as an informant: “You need to go into that report you just put and edit out that I was present,” one agent texted Miller. She complied.

Another agent told Miller an FBI supervisor instructed the unidentified agent to destroy “338 items of evidence.” To which Miller reacted, “OMG INSANE.”

In perhaps the most shocking revelations, Miller and another agent discussed emails between Rehl, who has been imprisoned under pretrial detention orders since March 2021, and his then-attorney, Jonathan Moseley. “Found an email thread with Rehl and his attorney, Moseley. The attorney raised some interesting points.”

“Hopefully all related to him pleading out,” Miller replied.

Another defense attorney later noted that “there appear to be missing FBI messages” in the same exchange.

Rather than express outrage at the fact that the FBI was spying on what is commonly considered privileged communications protected by the Constitution, Kelly instead gave prosecutors time to concoct a face-saving strategy—and that they did.

“It appears that the Jencks production to defense counsel may involve a spill of classified information,” assistant U.S. Attorney Joyelyn Ballatine told Judge Kelly. She added that the government needed to “claw back” the entire spreadsheet to review all the messages for allegedly “classified” material.

“[We] would ask them to return to us and confirm that they have deleted all copies of that spreadsheet from any electronic device or any hard drive that they have and then we would reproduce it to them,” Ballatine said. She further claimed that one agent in communications with Miller “works on a squad that does covert activity that is classified.”

Ballantine claimed the 338 items of destroyed evidence might “impact a classified equity,” Whatever that means.

Naturally, defense attorneys immediately objected to the government’s demand that incriminating materials be returned to the original source and, without any oversight or accountability, unilaterally decide which messages were classified and which were not.

“Everything has been a secret order where we can’t share any information,” Sabino Jauregui, the lawyer representing Enrique Tarrio, complained to Kelly. “Everything has been done under cover. And now, they come in here; they use this word ‘classified’ to try and delay the case. I think we should continue. I think Mr. Smith’s ‘gotcha’ moment yesterday was ruined, and he had every right to get that agent and destroy her on cross and, all of a sudden, the trial was stopped.”

Kelly, a longtime Justice Department employee who worked for years at the U.S. attorney’s D.C. office—the same office prosecuting every January 6 case—was unpersuaded by the defense argument and the totality of the evidence before him. “I think it makes sense for me to order the defense to do what the government’s asked,” Kelly concluded. The spreadsheet, which Ballantine later in the hearing described as a “classified document,” could not be reviewed, copied, or shared until further notice.

A flurry of motions followed. Defense attorneys filed motions to dismiss the case based on Sixth Amendment violations. The Justice Department informed the court on March 12 that 80 rows in the original spreadsheet had been removed after prosecutors determined the messages were “either classified or sensitive.” And the reference to a doctored FBI report? The government claimed the agent requesting the edit simply wanted to be removed from an email chain because he had been promoted and was no longer handling the informant. “The exchange concerns a routine clerical matter and does not suggest any wrongdoing on the part of the FBI generally or of Agent Miller personally,” prosecutors wrote.

Sure.

Oh, and the 338 items of destroyed evidence? Prosecutors insisted, without providing a scintilla of proof, that message referred to the routine “disposal” of evidence in a 20-year old case that had been closed. Always indignant, the Justice Department condemned the “potential for confusion and unfair prejudice here is obvious, given the inflammatory use defense counsel have already made of the ‘destroy evidence’ remark.”

But the government’s explanation as to why FBI agents were spying on email correspondence between a defendant and his attorney then apparently sharing that intelligence with prosecutors handling the case should alarm all Americans.

According to the Justice Department, individuals incarcerated at federal prisons—including defendants not convicted of any crime, as is the case with the Proud Boys, including Rehl, now on trial—are not entitled to protected communications with their lawyers. All emails and phone calls, the government explained, are conducted on a computer system operated by the Justice Department. Those in custody must agree to terms of use, including an acknowledgement that attorney-client discussions would be monitored. “Rehl waived any privilege by knowingly using [the Federal Detention Center]-Philadelphia’s monitored email system to communicate with his attorney.”

Prosecutors demanded that cross-examination of Agent Miller, which Kelly interrupted right before the line of questioning got juicy, be limited to “video, photographic, and message evidence from January 6, 2021, from midnight to shortly before 5:00 p.m.” Translation: Anything Miller discussed after January 6 should be off the table.

As expected, Kelly folded to nearly every government demand. He accepted at face value the explanation that the destroyed evidence pertained to an old criminal case and was not relevant to the Proud Boys’ trial. He also refused to take up arguments about violations of the defendants’ Sixth Amendment rights, declaring those discussions were not within the jury’s purview. And Kelly strictly limited cross examination about the edited report on the informant. If the government’s version of what happened related to the report is true, Kelly sniffed, the defense objections are “much ado about nothing.”

What Kelly must not realize is that the public does not view the dirty secrets accidentally “spilled” by an untrustworthy FBI and Justice Department as “nothing.” Kelly, and the Justice Department, can wave off due process rights, transparency, and the basic tenets of a fair trial. But as the American people come to terms with the phony narrative of January 6, they ultimately will hold shameless judges like Kelly and rogue federal officials, like Ballantine and Miller, responsible for the accelerating degradation of the U.S. justice system.


Julie Kelly is a political commentator and senior contributor to American Greatness. She is the author of January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right and Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried―And Failed―To Take Down the President. Her past work can be found at The Federalist and National Review. She also has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and Genetic Literacy Project. She is the co-host of the “Happy Hour Podcast with Julie and Liz.” She is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University and lives in suburban Chicago with her husband and two daughters.


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What REALLY Happened ON J6: Conspiracy Truths
Corrupt Congress members and their paid shills in the media blew up J6 to be an “attack on democracy” to run cover for themselves, and demonize anyone who dare question the establishment.

By AmericanAFMindy | MadMaxWorld.TV Saturday, March 25, 2023

As someone who was at J6, what was portrayed on TV couldn’t have been more vastly different then what happened in real life.

The rally was peaceful until Capitol Police started shooting flash bang grenades indiscriminately into the crowd, causing mayhem, injury and death.

The biased two-tier justice system between patriots upset about a questionable election, and BLM rioters who set fire to the city just months earlier, has not gone unnoticed.

Corrupt Congress members and their paid shills in the media blew up J6 to be an “attack on democracy” to run cover for themselves, and demonize anyone who dare question these criminals in DC, the unconstitutional Covid tyranny they rolled out, government censorship of citizens and journalists, and the highly questionable 2020 election for which we still haven’t gotten answers.

Now that Elon has freed Twitter, and given political discourse a new life…we have a chance to expose what really happened that day, and why the powers that be lied about it.

‘Go, Go, Go! Help Them Up! Push Them Up’: New Leaked J6 Footage ‘Shows DC Metro Cop Encouraging People to Go Towards The Capitol’

By Chris Menahan | Information Liberation Sunday, March 26, 2023

Newly leaked footage from January 6th shows undercover DC Metropolitan Police officers pushing protesters to move towards the US Capitol and helping them climb the scaffolding outside the Capitol building.

The full video was leaked Saturday on Rumble by an anonymous account named OverwatchJ6:



Newly leaked footage from January 6th shows undercover DC Metropolitan Police officers pushing protesters to move towards the US Capitol and helping them climb the scaffolding outside the Capitol building.

The full video was leaked Saturday on Rumble by an anonymous account named OverwatchJ6:

From The Epoch Times, “Prosecutor Admits DC Police Officers Acted as Provocateurs at US Capitol on Jan. 6”:

A federal prosecutor admitted in court papers that three D.C. Metropolitan Police Department undercover officers acted as provocateurs at the northwest steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The admission came in a March 24 filing before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that seeks to keep video footage shot by the officers under court seal.

Prosecutors accused the case defendant—William Pope of Topeka, Kansas—of an “illegitimate” attempt to unmask the video as part of his alleged strategy to try the case in the news media. Pope filed a motion to remove the court seal on Feb. 21.

“The defendant is not entitled to ‘undesignate’ these videos to share them with unlimited third parties,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Moran. “His desire to try his case in the media rather than in a court of law is illegitimate, and the government has met its burden to show the necessity of the protective order.”

The feds worked together with the media to smear everyone involved in this protest for two years straight and bias the already biased DC juries against them but their victims are not allowed to share this footage to defend themselves?

The fact these cases are even being tried in DC is an absolute disgrace. J6 protesters are blatantly being denied their right to a fair trial on top of being held indefinitely in pre-trial detention and tortured in prison.

Videos long hidden under court seal have become a major topic, especially with prosecutors disclosing in a number of high-profile Jan. 6 cases the involvement of multiple FBI informants.

Pope is seeking to lift the court seal on the undercover video as part of his drive to obtain full access to video evidence held by the government. Pope is representing himself in the criminal case being prosecuted against him. At a hearing on March 3, Judge Contreras seemed sympathetic to Pope’s motion to unmask the videos.

“The officer clearly incited that area, and we still don’t have video from all other undercover MPD,” Pope told The Epoch Times. “And as the numerous informants in the Proud Boys trial demonstrates, we are only just beginning to scratch the surface on FBI involvement.”

[…] “This video clearly evidences undercover law enforcement officers urging the crowds to advance up the stairs and scaffolding towards the Capitol on January 6,” Pope wrote in an earlier case filing. “The government may claim that incidents like this did not happen, but the facts show they did.”

Prosecutor Moran acknowledges such in a motion filed on March 24.

“The specific footage, GoPro video recorded by an MPD police officer who was stationed at the Capitol in an evidence-gathering capacity, captures the officer shouting words to the effect of, “Go! Go! Go!” Moran wrote.



“At other times in these videos, the officer and the two other plainclothes officers with him appear to join the crowd around them in various chants, including “drain the swamp,” “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”, and “Whose house? Our house!”

Moran also argued against unsealing large amounts of closed-circuit television (CCTV) security video, which she said could put officers at risk.

“There are very specific and highly worrisome risks associated with the specific videos the defendant seeks to share en masse,” she wrote.

“Given the highly volatile nature of the discourse surrounding these cases, releasing the identities of the officers depicted in these videos—officers the defendant now claims to have instigated the entire attack on the U.S. Capitol—would surely put the lives of those officers at risk.”

Pope told The Epoch Times that he never made such a claim. He has not yet filed a response to the government’s memorandum.





Another video Pope discovered in his research shows Officer 2 and Officer 3 walking behind the late Ashli Babbitt on the northwest steps. About an hour later, Babbitt was shot at the entry of the Speaker’s Lobby by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. She died a half-hour later.

The only “risk” involved in releasing this footage and more from J6 is the police and feds being caught helping provocateur the event.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson need to get on with it already and release the 40,000 hours of footage they have to the public.

Federal prosecutors have now revealed a Proud Boys defense witness was actually a government informant for two years after the Jan. 6 incident.



At this point, I'm pretty sure the FBI had more people in the Proud Boys than the Proud Boys did.

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Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman" (or "the horns guy"), has been released from prison and sent to a halfway house.



Well, good. He should never have been in prison in the first place.

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Why Is Everyone Protecting Ray Epps?

Original article here.

Over the past month, speculation has swirled around why Fox News honchos ousted the nation’s most popular cable news host just hours before he was set to begin his nightly monologue. Tucker Carlson reportedly was stunned by the news, which was announced in a terse statement released by the network on April 24: “FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”

Subsequent reports suggested any number of reasons why Carlson was yanked off the air, including the company’s settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, a separate lawsuit filed by a one-time producer for “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” political differences with the sons of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, and his questioning of the war in Ukraine.

But the timing of his removal—less than 24 hours after “60 Minutes” aired a puff piece on Ray Epps, the infamous January 6 instigator frequently covered by Carlson’s show—fueled rumors that Fox News wanted to silence Carlson before he could respond to several accusations made in the interview.

Carlson is “obsessed with me,” Epps told reporter Bill Whitaker, who repeatedly used the term “conspiracy theory” to describe claims Epps’ acted as a federal agent during the Capitol protest. “He’s going to any means possible to destroy me.”

Now it appears Carlson was, in fact, prepared to address Epps’ interview in his April 24 monologue. Chadwick Moore, author of an upcoming biography on Carlson, revealed in a video message posted on Twitter on Monday that Carlson’s scheduled monologue that night “dealt with, among other things, investigations around January 6 and particularly Ray Epps, the only person captured on video inciting people to violence at the Capitol that day and allegedly an FBI informant who still has not been arrested or charged.”

Carlson quote-tweeted Moore’s video with a wide-eye emoji to confirm Moore’s report.

If true, Fox News executives join a long list of Ray Epps’ sympathizers both in the news media and in Congress. For example, former Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was vice chairman of the January 6 select committee, publicly condemned “conspiracy theories about the role that [Epps] was playing that day.” Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), also formerly a member of the committee, routinely covered for Epps, even insisting Epps “broke no laws,” when he clearly did.

In the same “60 Minutes” interview that gave Epps the warm and fuzzy treatment, Tom Joscelyn, an investigator on the January 6 select committee, also came to Epps’ defense. Calling Epps a “pebble” in a “mountain range of evidence” about the breach of the Capitol, Joscelyn mocked the notion Epps acted on behalf of a government agency. The conspiracists, Joscelyn said, have to “come up with some connective tissue between Ray Epps and the FBI and they’ve got none.”

But Joscelyn didn’t explain why Epps has so far evaded criminal charges when others involved in similar or even lesser behavior have not. Not only does Epps remain uncharged, he also has not been called as a government witness even though he was a key figure at the first exterior breach point on the west side of the Capitol grounds and whispered in the ear of Ryan Samsel, the first Capitol protester to knock down metal racks near Peace Circle right before 1 p.m.

Several defendants who participated in that first breach face various conspiracy counts. But not Ray Epps.

Ironically, on the same day Carlson planned to once again raise questions about Epps’ suspicious involvement in the events of January 6, a prosecutor had to confront the Epps issue during closing arguments in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial. (Proud Boys were at the breach point with Epps and Samsel that afternoon.)

Assistant U.S. Attorney Conor Mulroe told the jury on April 24 that any intimation Epps acted on behalf of the government was a “fantasy.” Epps made several cameo appearances throughout the nearly four-month trial in the Justice Department’s most important January 6 case to date, appearing in a video disclosed by the government in a last-minute dirty trick to smear Zachary Rehl, one of four men convicted of seditious conspiracy.

One defense attorney attempted to subpoena Epps to testify during the trial. “It is significant that the government appears to be protecting Epps,” attorney Roger Roots, representing Dominic Pezzola, wrote in a motion in March. “Epps has never been indicted or arrested for his activities on January 5 and 6. This is despite the fact that Epps is the only Jan. 6 demonstrator who publicly (multiple times, actually) urged protestors on video to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6. Epps played a direct role in instigating the first breach on the west side. Ray Epps is seen on video recordings all over the West plaza and grounds of the U.S. Capitol and often within a short distance from Dominic Pezzola on Jan. 6.”

But Judge Tim Kelly refused to compel Epps’ testimony in the trial. And now more than a year into January 6 jury trials, Epps, one of the most prolific Capitol protesters, has not taken the stand to answer questions from prosecutors and defense attorneys about his role in the events of January 6.

And now it appears that Fox News, which has a brick on nearly all January 6 reporting, also is running cover for Epps and, potentially, the government.

One can only hope Tucker gets to finally read that monologue soon.

Ray Eps is an damn FBI informant and agent provocateur. The DC Kangaroo court sentenced Steward Rhodes to 18 years in prison but if we can have an honest election then Trump will win and he will pardon Stewart Rhodes.

Yep, but I'm not so sure about him pardoning Rhodes. It's my impression that Trump doesn't really care about anyone but himself. (And yes, I hope I'm wrong about this.)

Now, if we could elect a Libertarian...

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Stewart Rhodes was found not guilty of "conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding." He got 18 years anyway. How is this possible?



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Ray Epps To Be Criminally Charged For Role In January 6th, Blames Tucker

Via ZeroHedge

Ray Epps, a man who was seen goading Trump supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, will be criminally charged, according to Epps’ attorney.

The impending charges were revealed in a Wednesday lawsuit filed by Epps against Fox News, which accuses former host Tucker Carlson of defaming him.

“…in May 2023, the Department of Justice notified Epps that it would seek to charge him criminally for events on January 6, 2021—two-and-a-half years later,” reads the filing. “The relentless attacks by Fox and Mr. Carlson and the resulting political pressure likely resulted in the criminal charges.”

In March, Epps hired attorney Michael Teter – formerly of Perkins Coie, the firm notorious for helping the Clinton campaign hatch the Steele dossier and collaborating with the FBI to push the Trump-Russia hoax. Teter immediately sent a letter to Carlson demanding that the former Fox News host retract “false and defamatory statements” that Epps was a J6 government plant.

Epps, 62, was identified as a key instigator of the riot who has long been suspected of being a fed (or a fed asset), told his nephew in a text message: “I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it.”

Last year he told Congressional investigators: “At that point, I didn’t know that they were breaking into the Capitol,” adding “I didn’t know anybody was in the Capitol. … I was on my way back to the hotel room.”

In two interviews with the FBI in 2021, Epps explained his actions on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6. He admitted he was guilty of trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds and confessed to urging protesters to go to—and into—the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Epps also told members of the Committee that he found himself playing peacekeeper between Trump supporter “Baked Alaska” and the police – who called Epps a Fed.

“I was trying to find some common ground,” said Epps. “This guy was trying to turn people against me…he was calling me ‘boomer,’ and it’s his generation’s fault that we’re in the position we’re in.”

Despite the admissions, the FBI never arrested Epps and he was not charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with any Jan. 6 crimes. The non-action has fueled a crop of theories that he might have been working for the FBI or another agency.

Epps has repeatedly denied those suggestions through his attorney.

Speculation that Epps was a ‘fed’ intensified after a Revolver News reported with the headline: “Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol”

Revolver also determined, and will prove below, that the the FBI stealthily removed Ray Epps from its Capitol Violence Most Wanted List on July 1, just one day after Revolver exposed the inexplicable and puzzlesome FBI protection of known Epps associate and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. July 1 was also just one day after separate New York Times report amplified a glaring, falsifiable lie about Epps’s role in the events of January 6.

Lastly, Ray Epps appears to have worked alongside several individuals — many of them suspiciously unindicted — to carry out a breach of the police barricades that induced a subsequent flood of unsuspecting MAGA protesters to unwittingly trespass on Capitol restricted grounds and place themselves in legal jeopardy. -Revolver News

And so, according to Epps’ legal team, Tucker Carlson is the reason the Biden DOJ is about to charge him.

Good. Maybe now we'll find out if he was a fed asset. (I suspect the charges will be minor, and will be quietly dropped or expunged in the unlikely event he's convicted.)

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Of course Ray Epps was a paid informant. It came out in court how many at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff were paid informants.

"In the newly released transcript of January 6th provocateur Ray Epps being questioned by the House Select Committee, the suspected undercover government operative confessed that he “orchestrated” the riot."--- https://www.infowars.com/posts/ray-...mittee-he-orchestrated-attack-on-capitol

The militia/patriot movement is full of paid informants, snitches trying to get criminal charges reduced or dismissed, and Soros/leftists backed agent provocateurs. It's like the old joke who are the only ones at KKK meetings who are not FBI - answer DEA, Homeland Insecurity, and BATFaggots. They have tried to set up our militia several times with offers of drop in autosears, Sten gun parts kits, and they tried to get us to agree with crazy specific plans so we kicked them out immediately. If you as much as laugh at their idiotic specific plans like you take them seriously instead of voicing disagreement with their plans and kicking them out then you can be arrested and charged with conspiracy.

Don't forget the un-dead dead guy snitch besides the FBI agent who infiltrated and brought down the Hutaree Militia in Michigan in an attempt to get to also get Mark Koernke.

A NATIONAL DISGRACE: Photos Leaked of Horrific January 6 Prisoner Abuse

Original article here.

https://i0.wp.com/www.americanpartisan.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ryan-samsel-cell-1024x576-1.webp?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1

January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel has been held in prison without trial now since January 2021.

During his two-and-a-half years without trial Ryan has been moved around to 17 different facilities. Ryan has been beaten, abused, tortured, and neglected since his arrest in January 2021.

Earlier this week The Gateway Pundit received exclusive photos from Ryan Samsel’s prison cell at the FDC in Philadelphia. The cell was a size of a closet with a light on all of the time. The cell had a thin blue mattress, no sheets or blankets, no clothing, and he was kept here for five months straight.

The photos are just shocking. This is taking place in America today. This is who we are.

Ryan told The Gateway Pundit in a conversation this week, “I was kept in … a hard cell. And in that particular cell about five, six months. I even told you what was happening is the judge was actually calling, trying to get in contact with me because I wasn’t in a named cell. They were missing me and they were saying I wasn’t showing up to court. They were saying I wasn’t showing up to medical. But they were pretty much keeping me in there… Like I said, it was cold, the light was on, there’s zero window. And that followed me from Virginia. When I was in Virginia, it was the same exact conditions.”

** Please donate to help raise money for Ryan to pay his attorney here.

Ryan described the same situation in Virginia, “It was Central Regional Virginia Jail (CVRJ). I was kept in and they called it booking hard cell, which is you get zero phone, zero commissary, zero clothing because they think that you’re going to hang yourself and you’re on constant surveillance. You’re under surveillance constantly. The light has to be on 24/7. You’re locked in a cell. There is no getting out. The windows in Virginia were covered by a black mat, so you weren’t able to see. And it’s constant nothing. It’s deprivation of everything.”

Ryan told The Gateway Pundit that there are no books allowed, no letters, no photos. Nothing. The yellow bucket was his toilet.

yan believes the government tortured him for months so he would rat out the Proud Boys. They even beat Ryan numerous times and kept him locked down so he couldn’t communicate with anyone.

This torture is taking place in America today.

Where is the Republican Party?

Where is the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch?

Please contact these organizations here:

** Contact ACLU

** Contact Amnesty International

** Contact Human Rights Watch

Ryan is not alone. Numerous January 6 prisoners have been held for months in torturous conditions, dozens have been sentenced to extreme sentences for non-violent crimes. This is a horrible chapter in American history. It must be confronted.

Appeals Court Strikes Down Jan. 6 Sentence in Ruling That Could Affect Hundreds of Cases

Original article here. https://resistthemainstream.com/app...ing-that-could-affect-hundreds-of-cases/

A federal appeals court Friday ruled that prison, followed by probation, is not appropriate for January 6 defendants charged with minor offenses.

James Little of North Carolina committed a petty offense, the appeals court opined. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced him to 60 days in prison, followed by three years of probation.

Little admitted, he “took over the Capital [sic]” because “[s]tealing elections is treason.” He later pleaded guilty to: Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building, which is a petty offense.

The defendant appealed the lengthy probation following his brief prison sentence, asking the appeals court to decide if imposing both prison and probation for a minor offense is legal.

“It is not,” ruled a three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington District. “Probation and imprisonment are alternative sentences that cannot generally be combined. So the district court could not impose both for Little’s petty offense.”

This decision might have implications for several other cases, according to a report from TrendingPolitics.

This recent ruling could potentially nullify the sentences of numerous Jan. 6 defendants, raising questions about U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves’ aggressive prosecution approach.

Graves has been actively pursuing individuals involved in the Jan. 6 events, even as time has passed since the incident, which briefly escalated into a minor riot.

Many Jan. 6 defendants have either been found guilty or have admitted guilt to minor trespassing offenses, such as picketing or parading. The sentences they’ve received can be considered stringent for their alleged offenses.

The recent court decision might influence the outcomes for approximately 80 defendants who were given “split sentences,” meaning they were sentenced to both jail time and probation for minor offenses.

Even though many of these individuals have already served their prison sentences, future sentencing might be adjusted based on this ruling.

“The Court must not only punish Little for his conduct but also ensure that he will not engage in similar conduct again during the next election,” Lamberth explained in his ruling.

“Some term of imprisonment may serve sentencing’s retributive goals,” he continued. “But only a longer-term period of probation is adequate to ensure that Little will not become an active participant in another riot.”

The Department of Justice has the option to appeal this decision.

A representative from the U.S. attorney’s office commented, “We are reviewing the Court’s ruling and will determine our next steps in accordance with the law.”

A pretty small step, but at least it's in the right direction.

Onward and upward,
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The Proud Boys leader, Joe Biggs, gets 17 years in prison. The prosecution wanted 33 years.



Read the whole thing at the link.

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Joe Biggs is a political prisoner who caused no damage but was sentenced to the gulag while the leftists got away with burning down buildings, blinding police with lasers, attacking people with improvised explosives, fire bombing police cars, and stealing the presidential election. I hope Joe Biggs does not bow down to the leftists and tells the court he is an innocent political prisoner. He needs to tell the judge and prosecutor that they are tyrants who are making a mockery of the constitution. If patriots don't wake up they will steal the next election too. Damn their crooked election.

Tex, I hear the antifa crowd plans to start active operations again this coming Oct. Their stated goal is to harass MAGA/Trump supporters and disrupt the election. But, I guess that's ok when they do it.

If you think of Antifa as the third arm of the Democratic Party (along with the mainstream media), you wouldn't be too far wrong.

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Here's an interesting question from my friend D. Frank Robinson, one of the founders of the LIbertarian Party (and one of an increasingly few number of people older than me).



It's an interesting theory, but I haven't heard of any of the protesters claiming to be on duty law enforcement officers, so I really, really doubt it would fly.

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Joe Biggs wimped out in court and cried for them like a little bitch. This is what he said, "I apologize for my rhetoric," said a tearful Biggs. "I'm so sorry." "I was seduced by the crowd, and I just moved forward. I was curious. I wanted to see what would happen. My curiosity got the best of me, and I'm going to have to live with that for the rest of my life," he added. "[But] I'm not a terrorist. I don't have hate in my heart."
Source: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-01-proud-boys-joe-biggs-sentenced-17-years-prison.html

I blame law enforcement taking orders from the big city leftists for the theft of the 2020 Presidential Election from Trump. They allowed seditious felony arson and assault to continue in several large cities. They would not even have the fire departments hose the rioters down.

To the leftists and rioters Jason Aldean says, "Try That In A Small Town" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

Matt Bracken knew how to stop the leftist's fire bomb riots and Antifia's attacks on police.
https://www.americanpartisan.org/20...-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence

Injustice, American Style: BLM Rioters Walk — J6 Defendants Get Almost 20 Years

by Selwyn Duke September 3, 2023

Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

It’s certainly not unprecedented. Leftist Maximilien Robespierre, the French Revolution’s main author, was a passionate capital punishment opponent who called the death penalty a “cowardly assassination” — he then went on to execute thousands during his Reign of Terror. Likewise did the liberals of decades ago frown upon punishment, sometimes saying it “doesn’t work” and is “morally wrong.” Boy, has that ever changed.

Now, Frenchie Max style, punishment’s effectiveness is not only a self-evident truth to leftists, but it can’t be harsh enough.

That is, when it’s the “right people” being punished.

A good example is the recent sentencing of “Proud Boy” January 6 defendants, one of the latest of whom got 17 years for an incident in which no “one was killed, no property was significantly damaged, nothing was set on fire, nobody whipped out a gun, nobody got taken hostage, [and] no mass casualties were strewn through the streets,” as commentator Monica Showalter put it Friday.

In contrast, Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters routinely get off with minor or no charges.

The Hill reports on the aforementioned J6er who had the book — and a few addenda — thrown at him, writing that Florida Army veteran and “Proud Boy Joe Biggs on Thursday was sentenced to 17 years in prison, the second-highest sentence handed down to anyone convicted in connection with the Capitol attack.”

“Biggs was convicted of sedition and other serious felonies earlier this year after being accused of leading members of the right-wing extremist group to the Capitol and talking with the first rioter to breach police barricades just minutes before he acted,” the site continues.

Also sentenced Thursday was Proud Boy Zachary Rehl, an ex-U.S. Marine; he got 15 years after a conviction for leading a mob toward the Capitol on J6.

This was followed Friday by the draconian sentencing of two other Proud Boys figures: One-time leader Ethan Nordean received 18 years’ incarceration for “seditious conspiracy.” And Dominic Pezzola was convicted for breaking a Capitol window, ushering rioters into the structure (much as some cops had done), and grabbing a shield from a policeman. He did “get off” relatively easy, however.

He’ll serve 10 years.

Also receiving 18 years, this past May, was Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. He was joined that month by Oath Keepers Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs, who got 12 years for “conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging duties and tampering with documents or proceedings,” as The Hill puts it.

Well, okay, they didn’t get 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread like Jean Valjean did. But suffice it to say that Nancy Pelosi’s line, “People will do what they do” — uttered to dismiss the actions of violent mobs tearing down statues — is not universally applicable. When leftists do what they do, they get a hand.

When conservatives do what they don’t usually do (aka, what liberals oft do), they get done.

Speaking of which, Showalter analyzes the Biggs’ case’s particulars. She first quotes The Hill again:

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ultimately applied a terrorism enhancement to Biggs’s sentencing guidelines, wherein a defendant must have committed an offense that “was calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion, or to retaliate against government conduct.”

Kelly cited Biggs’s efforts to tear down a fence separating rioters from the Capitol and bringing them “one step closer” to their objective of halting the 2020 election certification as reason for applying the enhancement.

“I really don’t think this is a close call,” he said of the decision.

Of course not — not when the accused opposes the regime.

Bit it’s really quite “laughable,” opines Showalter. “All the rioters, aided by a nest of still opaquely known FBI informants, did was manage to disrupt and delay the electoral certification of 2020. Was there any congressional Democrat at the Capitol that day who was so intimidated by the January 6 rioters that he planned to change his vote to Republican?”

What’s more, The New York Times “indicated that Kelly actually seemed to know that he was off base, but it didn’t matter to him,” Showalter adds. As the paper wrote, “While Judge Kelly said the provision was technically applicable, he was less certain — given what Mr. Biggs had actually done — that it fit in a more colloquial sense.”

“He noted that he had reviewed several cases involving terrorism, most concerning situations where defendants ‘were training to fight American troops or planning an act like blowing up a large building,’” the Times continued. “And he expressed skepticism that the Proud Boys had engaged in that kind of behavior on Jan. 6.”

In fact, “Whatever the disruption was,” Showalter emphasizes, “it was not an insurrection or coup attempt — we are watching real insurrections and coups these days in places like Niger and Gabon — with guns, blood, dead bodies, flights out, and flung suitcases of stolen cash. Those are the real thing.”

It also was just a glimmer of what the Left does continually. There were 2020’s 600-plus left-wing riots, which tore the country apart in an effort to oust President Trump from power; the May/June 2020 leftist attack on the White House, which injured 50 Secret Service agents and forced Trump to retreat to a “terror bunker”; and the June 2020 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) insurrection, in which rebels established their own jurisdiction and their “warlord,” Raz Simone, was seen giving a supporter an AR-15. To this day, Simone has never been charged.

Then there was the longest continuous occupation of a government building in American history: The multi-week, 2011 left-wing occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol (tweet below). (This occupation was allowed by the authorities, do note. But would they have been so accommodating had the protesters been conservatives?)

Oh, and Nancy Pelosi called the above an “impressive show of democracy in action.”

Note, too, that this normalizing of political violence has an effect: People (including conservatives) become conditioned to accept it as the status quo — or at least as a heating up of a political cold war — and then will respond in kind, perhaps considering their action a reaction and a necessary sort of proportionate force.

Except that they then get government force.

Might that not be the idea, too? To wit:

Give your mobs free rein so you can destabilize the existing order and increase your power.
When your opponents, not surprisingly, react likewise, portray them as being Threats to Democracy™, aided and abetted by a complicit media that will do your bidding.
Then use your opponents’ reaction as a pretext to quash their opposition — and that of their peaceful co-ideologists.

Hey, tyrants will do what they do.

Enrique Tarrio refused to cop to a plea agreement, and insisted on going to trial. He got 22 years for his trouble. (And did I mention he wasn't even there?)



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Breaking! DOJ Looking To Jail Infowars’ Owen Shroyer For 120 Days In Jan. 6th Trial


By Kelen McBreen | INFOWARS.COM Wednesday, September 06, 2023

The host of Infowars’ War Room program, Owen Shroyer, is facing up to 120 days in prison after a recommendation was issued by DOJ prosecutors Tuesday.

Shroyer was first charged in relation to Jan 6th on August 2021, eventually pleading guilty to one count of “knowingly entering or remaining in or on any restricted building or grounds.”

Now, the weaponized American judicial system is being sent after Shroyer to set an example for other outspoken citizens.

“Shroyer did not step foot inside the Capitol, he did not need to; many of those who listened to him did instead,” the court document claims.

Of course, there is no evidence Shroyer ever encouraged people to “step foot inside the Capitol.”

Instead, there is actually footage of Shroyer standing by Infowars founder Alex Jones, who grabbed a megaphone and tried to warn the crowd they were being set up and to turn around.

Bodycam footage from Jones’ security detail shows the moment they tried to get Capitol Police officers to allow Jones on a speaker so he could make an attempt at de-escalating the situation.

The court document even admits an Infowars security member said on camera, “Let’s take a break right here. Let me talk to this cop and see if I can get [Person One] up there and deescalate the situation,” with “person one” being Jones.

The DOJ prosecutors are also upset Shroyer “has blamed ‘Antifa’” for its role in Jan. 6th despite evidence showing Antifa members were in the crowd.

At one point, the feds told the judge presiding over Shroyer’s case “the absence of violent or destructive acts is not a mitigating factor.”

Basically, the government is asking that the judge not go easy on the political commentator just because he never committed any violence or destroyed any property.

Towards the end of the prosecution’s document, the Biden administration claimed Shroyer “has yet to sincerely demonstrate genuine remorse for his conduct” on Jan. 6th because he still believes the 2020 election was stolen.

The DOJ even alleged Shroyer has “a lack of respect for law enforcement” but in reality, he’s vocally pro-police, especially compared to the “defund the police” leftists who burned down American cities during the 2020 BLM riots.

Revealing the true reason they’re throwing the book at peaceful demonstrators, the feds said it’s important for the judge to jail defendants in order to “deter” American citizens from marching on the Capitol in the future, writing, “general deterrence may be the most compelling reason to impose a sentence of incarceration.”

This development comes just one day after Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison despite the fact he was in jail as the events of Jan. 6th took place.

Last week, former Infowars employee and Proud Boys member Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years for his non-violent role in January 6th.

Speaker Johnson is releasing 44,000 hours (!) of J6 footage. And it pretty much destroys the Democrat's and the media's narrative of what happened.



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Cheney, Kinzinger, And “Sham” J6 Committee Under Fire After Friday Footage Dump; GOP Senator Calls For Investigation

Original article here.

Ever since Friday’s release of more than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 Capitol Police security video, dozens of clips debunking the Jan. 6 committee’s ‘violent insurrection’ narrative have been floating around X.

Mike Lee raises questions

In response to the exculpatory footage that the Jan. 6 committee never showed the American public, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has raised significant questions about the handling of security footage.

Lee’s statements directly challenge the integrity of the now-disbanded committee, particularly addressing the roles of its former Republican members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. He also accuses the committee – particularly those two, of selectively sharing information.

After Cheney attempted to hit back with her ‘best hits’ Jan. 6 footage, Lee replied: “Liz, we’ve seen footage like that a million times. You made sure we saw that—and nothing else.”

Lee also called for an investigation into the committee itself, labeling it a “sham” and questioning the use of taxpayer dollars in its operations. He insinuates that crucial information about the committee’s work could have been “deliberately lost or destroyed,” casting doubts on the committee’s transparency and objectivity.

The argument continued throughout the day, with Lee linking to a NY Post article with the headline “FBI lost count of how many paid informants were at Capitol on Jan. 6, and later performed audit to figure out exact number.”

Kinzinger swings and misses all day

In response to the backlash, Kinzinger made a stupid joke comparing Jan. 6 protesters to US army helicopters providing fire for South Vietnamese ground troops attacking the Vietcong in 1965.

Twice.

He also retweeted about a dozen similarly stupid jokes (check out his timeline).

The House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was disbanded in January 2023, after releasing its final report in December 2022. The committee, comprising seven Democrats and two Republicans, faced criticism for its composition and the perceived partisanship in its approach.

Kinzinger did not seek reelection, and Cheney lost her primary, marking a significant shift in the Republican landscape. The release of the security tapes by Johnson is seen as a step towards transparency, allowing the public to form their own opinions about the events of January 6, away from the committee’s narrative.

Not a moment too soon.



Good, on both counts. Maybe we'll finally get some justice out of this.

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