Posted on 03/04/2021 11:43:19 AM PST by RandFan
Richard Barnett, the Arkansas man charged with breaking into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and stealing her mail during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, threw a tantrum during a virtual court hearing on Thursday, yelling at the judge and his own lawyers that it wasn’t “fair” that he was still in jail weeks after his arrest.
One of the most recognizable figures from the Capitol assault, Mr. Barnett, 60, was photographed on Jan. 6 with his feet up on a desk in Ms. Pelosi’s office and a cattle-prod-like stun gun dangling from his belt.
From the moment he was taken into custody, he has waged an ongoing — and so far unsuccessful — effort to be freed on bond, and he loudly lost his patience with the process at an otherwise routine hearing in front of Judge Christopher Cooper of Federal District Court in Washington.
Appearing by video from jail, Mr. Barnett erupted into anger after Judge Cooper set the next court date in his case for a day in May, shouting that he did not want to remain behind bars for “another month.”
“They’re dragging this out!” he hollered. “They’re letting everybody else out!”
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Get used to the two-tiered justice system. This is only the beginning. Sullivan was working for the FBI. You don’t expect him to go to jail, do you? Pelosi and McConnell knew what was going to happen. It was all planned. It reenforced the violent white supremacist propaganda.
He did have that stun gun, so he is considered to have been armed with a dangerous weapon.
They were inside too, at least in the gallery.
I prefer to respond to the topic of the thread, not to wander off on tangential posts which have nothing to do with which is being discussed.......
That's called Thread Hijacking
“I prefer to respond to the topic of the thread”
Yes the PTB have us chasing our tails on secondary and tertiary issues, while the fundamental primary issue goes unresolved.
We’re better than that. We have to see the forest for the trees. We’re avoiding the elephant in the room. If we cannot see the bigger picture, we’re toast as a Republic.
Yes the detention is unfair. And? What do we expect? The enemy sees this as a chance to crush anything not progressive and globalist. Having hundreds of thousands of MAGA Patriots go into DC without a plan and without organized leadership was foolish.
I cannot imagine doing what this idiot did. What was he thinking?
Maybe he should have said he was with John Sullivan, Antifa.
“The Hills Have Eyes”
“Wrong Turn”
It’s not a political issue. It’s a cultural issue. Let him go back to Awkinsaw.
“Boy, whoever promised you fair?”
The Constitution, moron.
Yet some of those people who trashed our cities were there disguised as Trump supporters and were egging the others on.
The guy with the huge Confederate flag was a phony, it turns out.
Hi Hot Tabasco! Not being a dork, but BOTH Richard Barnett’s from Arkansas with the same age of 59ish 60ish are registered as the Optional Party. Basically, not affiliated. I would humbly argue then he is NOT a GOPer, just another Democrat plant.
- Miss Scarlet: “A plant? I thought men like you were usually called a fruit.”
https://voterrecords.com/voter/68863520/richard-barnett
https://voterrecords.com/voter/69045469/richard-barnett
Guess what?
The word ‘fair’ doesn’t show up anywhere in the US Constitution. Not even once.
Not that our political class gives a damn about the Constitution, anyway.
I’d suggest you look it up and see what he has said about it himself.
You’re a moron.
The constitution is all about fairness.
Fairness doesn’t mean what you probably think it does.
The dems executed a coup d’état. Generations of future Africans and South Americans will be studying The Steal for years to come.
And as America was become a Banana Republic (see tagline) it is only natural that we have Political Prisoners.
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