FBI tears innocent New Yorker’s life into shreds after Jan. 6: Devine

New York Post ^ | 23 Jun, 2021 | Miranda Devine

[MtnClimber]

Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers.

A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged.

Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet residential area.

But now his neighbors think he is a domestic terrorist.

Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.

Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.

“It’s destroyed my reputation,” he says. “I’m not a violent invader … I do not condone the criminality and violence on [Jan. 6] whatsoever.”

[MtnClimber]

All this after the FIB spent over four years lying to perpetuate the Russia hoax and try to pull off a coup against a sitting president. Now they do this to support an illegitimate election thief!

[ConservativeMind]

Posted an hour and a half ago:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3970672/posts

Please search before posting.

[Gen.Blather]

If you look back at the history of the FBI under Hoover, it has always been, first, last and always, a self-serving political organization.

[MtnClimber]

I did do a search. I searched again and just my post came up. It seems the NY Post modified the title and that caused it not to match.

[DannyTN]

If you look back at the history of the FBI under Hoover, it has always been, first, last and always, a self-serving political organization.

As are all bureaucracies. But this one has more power than most. It probably has stronger checks and balances than most too. But it obviously needs more.

[realcleanguy]

This is all so familiar from history. Nazi Germany did this to innocent citizens, Poles, Gypsies, Jews, taking everything away from them, ruining their lives and then arresting them and killing them. Indeed we have lost our country to Fascism, it is the very government that we voted into office. And ironically, Antifa supports this fascist government.