On Friday, the top federal prosecutor in Washington DC said there is no direct evidence that pro-Trump demonstrators who stormed the Capitol on January 6th had formed “kill capture teams” to target US officials.
The comments by acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin were an effort to walk back allegations made by federal prosecutors in Arizona. In court filings on Thursday, the prosecutors claimed that the people who entered the Capitol planned “to capture and assassinate elected officials.”
Sherwin said there might be a “disconnect” between his office and other federal prosecutors over the evidence that has been obtained so far.
The claim about the kill teams was made in filings against Jacob Chansley, an Arizona man who entered the Capitol building wearing horns on his head.
A note to Vice President Mike Pence allegedly left by Chansley was cited as evidence for the accusation that demonstrators were planning to assassinate officials. The note said: “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”
The Arizona federal prosecutors filing read: “Strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government.
A spokeswoman for the US Attorney’s Office in Arizona told Reuters that the office plans to amend the filing made against Chansley.
I don’t know about kill, but capture was on the agenda. They had those zip ties for a reason.
The US was founded by armed rebellion against tyrannical govt, and the second amendment was created to assure armed protection against the rise of tyrannical govt in the new republic. Political violence is clearly in the DNA of the US, as its application across the face of the planet clearly demonstrates.
The condemnation of the attempted occupation and sit in, and its characterization as some kind of criminal violence against our “sacred democracy” is therefor as laughable as it is hysterical and hypocritical.
Had the Reps and Senators stayed in place instead of running off to cower in safety — fleeing because they are fully aware of their corruption and criminality — they would most certainly have been subject to a world-class dressing down and some serious personal humiliation. They might have been zip-tied and marched through the streets with signs around their necks describing their degenerate betrayal of the republic.
But we will never know what ***would*** have happened. And all the predictions of violence are simply propaganda by the forces of tyranny to justify what they now plan to do against “those people”, the deplorables they so hate and fear.
Zip ties are not lethal weapons … but ar-15s are. Be careful what you wish for.
Personally, I think the shot that killed Ashely Babbit was the first shot in the paroxysm of violence that will end the American experiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olBU619Dlsc&ab_channel=TheJimmyDoreShow
“Sow the wind …”
Doesn’t mean some individuals didn’t have their own plans. But it’s hard to take a guy serious when he walking around in tactical gear, including zip ties, with his mother by his side. I guess he was going to bring Nancy Pelosi back to the hotel where him and mom were staying. Can’t wait for the revolution. Hopefully there will be enough hotel space where they all can stay and change into their badass cloths before descending on the capitol to MAGA.
Well, that one guy, sure. The more we learn about this event, the more we see it is a massive machine with a lot of moving parts. Early footage did not give the sense of how many participated in the siege (and I think that’s an accurate word for people using ropes and grappling hooks they just happened to have with them) breaking through windows and doors, etc. (It’s a wonder more of them weren’t shot dead, as they certainly would be in many other countries–or in the US if they had not all been white.) It may well be that most were along for the ride, not knowing what “the plan” was. But a plan there definitely was and it was dangerous at best. And there appear to have been allies on the inside, else why would some offices’ panic buttons have disappeared already. We won’t know the full story for some time. Moreover the story’s nowhere near over. As the server of the Consort said in Churchill, Manitoba, during the Queen’s Canadian Visitation, as Phillip put his cutlery on his plate to be taken away, “Keep your fork, Duke, there’s pie to come!”
When you have a empire & an unaudited, illegitimate incoming government, its (fear &) overcharging dissent. (The War on Terror Comes Home by Ron Paul, Medical Doctor ( https://thenewAmerican.com/the-war-on-terror-comes-home/ )
” ….is also an attempt to silence any criticism of the emerging political consensus in the coming Biden era that may come from progressive or antiwar circles.”
What a crock!
When you watch FOX all the time you get the idea that the January 6th insurrection was akin to Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show with Jacob Chansley, aka Q Shaman, playing Sitting Bull. But when you watch the footage of the riot where five people died on CNN it looks entirely different. A smart person looks at it all including the speeches and tweets of Trump, his lawyers, and his “Digital Patriots” to get the full picture.