Posted on 07/09/2021 3:40:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Other protesters, overwhelmed by a hostile, dishonest federal government, have yielded but Thomas Edward Caldwell is aiming for a new precedent.
Following January 6, we’ve been reading stories about people imprisoned for months in solitary confinement and meekly accepting grotesque plea bargains just to get out of the government’s toils. Thomas Edward Caldwell and his attorney, however, are made of sterner stuff. It’s to be hoped that their fight against the federal government will open a new chapter in fighting back against the calumnies and prosecutions emanating from a hyper-partisan “justice” department.
Briefly, on January 6, a combination of Trump supporters, provocateurs, and possible federal actors entered the United States Capitol, as so many leftists had before them. Footage indicates that many walked through open doors with Capitol Officers welcoming them. They wandered through the Capitol and a couple of people stole things. A Capitol Officer murdered an unarmed woman.
The entire leftist establishment announced that what happened was worse than the Civil War (650,000 dead), Pearl Harbor (2,335 dead), and 9/11 (2,996 dead) put together. Since then, the feds have pursued people in a way reminiscent of Inspector Javert pursuing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, with those arrested for non-violent crimes placed in solitary confinement for months. This is despite the fact that most of the charges boil down to trespassing and “parading.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
No crisis should go to waste, especially an orchestrated crisis.
Unfortunately this is another Andrea Widburg article where there is a subject and then the article wonders off and does not address the subject paragraph again. Something to watch though.
This treatment must be understood against the backdrop of 2020, which saw rioters burn down cities, loot to the tune of billions of dollars, brutally assault people and kill more than 20 people, including police officers. All this violence and destruction receive celebratory applause from the same Democrat crew now hyperventilating about January 6. In addition, throughout the year, Democrat-run cities have explicitly or effectively done away with bail and simply allowed known, highly violent criminals, to roam the streets, where they’ve committed terrible claims.
The handful of January 6 arrestees who have finally had their cases brought up have meekly yielded to stringent plea bargains. In April, Jon Schaffer, who confessed to being a member of the Oath Keepers (and I have to say I don’t believe any of these confessions at this point), pleaded guilty in exchange for squealing and then entering the government’s witness protection program. Bye-bye. old life; hello, new life, knowing you abandoned your principles.
Then, in June, Anna Morgan-Lloyd, a grandmother who trespassed and “paraded,” bypassed prison time in exchange for a struggle session confession after reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Just Mercy, and Schindler’s List. The judge was then satisfied that her deprogramming and re-education were complete. Morgan-Lloyd, who I hope clings in her heart to the concept of liberty, will see her grandchildren again.
Thomas Edward Caldwell, however, is charting a different path with his attorney, David W. Fischer. If they are successful, the DOJ will find itself on the receiving end of a different attitude from other arrestees who trespassed or “paraded”:
Attorney David W. Fischer filed a motion to move the trial to the Western District of Virginia where there are fewer people who “despise many things that traditional America stands for” and who have less “petulant intolerance for those with differing views.” He notes that only 5% of Washington, D.C., residents voted for Trump and they hold him in such contempt that they believed the fake news that he was Russian spy.Prosecutors have delivered four versions of their claims in four superseding indictments against Caldwell, each less histrionic and myth-making than the one before.
Caldwell is a 20-year U.S. Navy veteran who was apparently outside of the Capitol Building on January 6. He is charged with four felony counts: conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted area, and tampering with documents or proceedings.
Here is what he is not, according to his attorney. Caldwell is not a “white supremacist,” nor a “white nationalist.” He is not a would-be murderer or a member of a militia group. He did not suggest “gassing” and “executing” members of Congress. He did not lead Oath Keepers, since, presumably, one would have to be an Oath Keeper to lead Oath Keepers. Fischer says his client is not a member.
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The defense motion claims that prosecutors “knowingly disseminated false and incendiary claims” that Caldwell and others planned to sack the Capitol and “execute” people when they had no evidence for it – not even after conducting a “cyber colonoscopy” on cell phones and computers. There was no “plan,” Caldwell’s attorney claims. That allegation was based on “a rumor started by government bureaucrats attempting to cover up their incompetent leadership.”
You can read the whole motion here and I recommend that you do so because it systematically dismantles media hysteria and government lies. If I’m ever in the feds’ crosshairs, I want David W. Fischer on my side. By the way, I don’t blame the other defendants or their lawyers. When you don’t have a frenzy of taxpayer-funded government lawyers or a deep pocket (which none of the January 6 defendants have), your choices in lawyers are limited. Caldwell was either very smart or very lucky when he found Fischer.
The delusional hyperbole emanating from the left and big government GOP in regard to the events of 1/6/21 are a sure sign their hold on power is tenuous at best. I hope this, and many other cases, along with thousands of healthy audits, will begin to unravel the glutinous skein we have come to know as government overreach.
Bttt
DEFUND AND DISBAND THE FBI.
If they showed...JUST ONCE...that they care about the LAW,
I would be shocked.
These political prisoners should not be fighting the installed false government by themselves.
Do we not have lawyers on our side who sit as Congressmen and Senators and Justices? WHERE are these feckless wonders to uphold our laws and Constitution?
And now the c#€t Pelosi us opening branch offices of her own Gestspo far from their jurisdiction?
And under cover of vaccines China Joe is sending agents door to door?
We are on our own. Organize.
CWII is here.
Many good defense lawyers are reluctant to defend the 1/6 Patriots for fear of retribution from the corrupt feds. Look what they did to Rudy; suspending him from practicing law. This is what happens the communist USA.
Dozens of American citizens held in jail with no charges and no hearing...
Why has no one filed or even hinted at \asking\ about habeus corpus?
Has that writ been suspended?
Meanwhile, the two talk radio guys who are on at noon....Buck Sexton and Clay Travis....referred to last years “protests” by BLM and Antifa as “democrat riots.”
Then they went on to say, on the radio, that January 6th was a “republican riot.”
No mention by these two of the BLM and Antifa rioters and instigators in MAGA gear, or FBI plants stirring up the crazies on the left.
The true MAGA people were overwhelmingly peaceful, and had every right to protest a stolen election.
And what about the Capitol police who told the MAGA people, “Come on in, this is your house?”
I keep hearing this, but have no solid proof. Where are the families speaking out? I'm not saying it's out there, I just haven't seen anything solid.
Well, now we have a name to put a hashtag in front of:
#FreeThomasCaldwell
Those January 6th Patriots who leave the clutches of the pseudo-justice system may be well advised to raise stakes and settle in another part of the world. This is for their own peace of mind and to avoid vengeance driven mania from the embryonic single party state.
FAMILY OF POLITICAL PRISONER: Our son has been in solitary confinement allowed outside the cell for one hour each day since March of 2021, for the crime of appearing on video walking through the Capitol Building with an American flag. We believe this is an abortion of justice, and no American should be persecuted by their government in this fashion. Can you help us get this abuse of power exposed to the American people on your outlet and do a story about it?
CNN/NBC/ABC/PBS/NYT/WAPO/LAT REPRESENTATIVE: Your son broke the law and should be in prison for putting people's lives in danger and trying to overthrow the government, not to mention all the murders of law enforcement personnel that took place on January 6th. We don't advocate for leniency or release of criminals like that, and we certainly won't give them exposure on our platform. However, if your son wishes to make a full confession of his crimes on national television or in the press, laying bare his racist crimes and exposing his co-conspirators to sedition and trying to engineer a coup, we can have someone there with camera within the hour.
FAMILY OF POLITICAL PRISONER: What? You said you don't defend criminals, but your media outlet showed hours and hours of footage of real BLM and Antifa rioters trying to burn down a federal courthouse while there were actual living people inside, and then defended their arson and violence as "mostly peaceful" and said any of them arrested were political prisoners and lobbied to have them released with no charges, which was done in almost all cases! Those were real criminals!
CNN/NBC/ABC/PBS/NYT/WAPO/LAT REPRESENTATIVE: Not to us. Big difference.
Mark Levin had Julie Kelly on his Sunday night Fox show, because she had been talking to the families, and he said she was about the only one reporting on it.
If they can cause so much grief for everybody in NY, some people might be afraid, or cautious.
There has been some talk about how Trump didn’t get more done, but I think maybe even he couldn’t imagine how vast the swamp was:
all the democrats
half the pubs (at least)
almost all the intel agencies
most of the justice dept and courts
oceans of Chinese and other spies and infiltrators...
Since he had his own vast money and resources and seemingly boundless energy, he was able to survive what most people would have been overwhelmed by
He not only survived, he kept promises on the wall, tax cuts, the economy was booming!
We had middle east peace breaking out NK and others were friendly instead of threatening to nuke us...
There is no 'almost'.........................
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