Posted on 03/25/2021 5:14:29 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Interesting that Reuters would outline the walk-backs. Even more interesting that the details of the walk-backs seem to prove the DOJ never actually intended to win any of these cases, but rather wanted to advance a political narrative about extremists through their earlier statements.The process of the charges then becomes the punishment by design. The targets are drained financially, sometimes physically detained under false pretense, and then the DOJ walks backwards when the judges finally ask for proof.
The process is the punishment for political affiliation. The DOJ is fully weaponized. The majority of Americans can clearly see this taking place.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prosecutors made some serious claims after the deadly U.S. Capitol attack, saying they had evidence rioters planned to kill elected officials, suggesting a Virginia man at the building received directives to gas lawmakers, and accusing another suspect of directing mayhem on Jan. 6 with encrypted messages.
But the Justice Department has since acknowledged in court hearings that some of its evidence concerning the riot – carried out by a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump to try to overturn his election loss – is less damning than it initially indicated.
[…] On Jan. 19, prosecutors said they believed Thomas Caldwell, a retired U.S. Navy officer from Virginia, had a “leadership role” within the Oath Keepers. The FBI, in a criminal complaint, described Facebook messages Caldwell allegedly sent and received “while at the Capitol,” including one urging him to turn on the gas and tear up the floorboards.
“‘All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in. Turn on gas,’” it read.
A prosecutor in Florida read those words aloud in February in a bid to convince a judge to detain two of Caldwell’s co-defendants. Prosecutors now acknowledge..
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Should this surprise anyone?
The rule of law is being destroyed. (for long time)
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Hard to prove insurrection when there wasn’t any.
... walk-backs ...... walks-back ...
Fair, but how does one respond to people about protestors marching the capital, entering and looting? How do we say what this was if not an insurrection?
The process is the punishment.
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If the Cap Police let them in, the prosecutors don’t have a case. Democrats did the same thing in North Carolina many years ago and nothing happened to them
Down goes the Republic.!! Now the rise of the communist...
The United States surrenders, without even a fight.... :(
Doesn't really matter. If someone vanadalized they need to be prosecuted. If they stole something they need to be prosecuted. If they attacked officers in way they especially need to be prosecuted.
Pointing out people who were let in and just walked around is a red herring.
Can we get names for this prosecutor and judge?
The damage has been done. Mission Accomplished.
Agreed. Now apply the law equally.
Yes, the difference is this is feds, the minions elsewhere were/are city/state level.
“Fair, but how does one respond to people about protestors marching the capital, entering and looting? How do we say what this was if not an insurrection?”
Just ask the following question: When has there been in insurrection in the past 500 years without ANY firearms, or even any weapons to speak of? How credible was that unarmed rag-tag group of people in taking over the government when 100,000 military and civilian well-armed US troops/police were within 10 miles?
Leftists, in the 1970s, set off bombs in the Capitol - that was far closer to an insurrection than this non-event (all we managed to do was hang a picture of some black guy sitting on a bed in the Capitol Rotunda). Why wasn’t the bombing called an ‘insurrection’?
Anyway, if that’s not enough, the MEDIA is now backing away from the term ‘insurrection’ and has quietly replaced it with ‘riot’ now. They can’t even say ‘insurrection’ with a straight face anymore.
Maybe, but many were.
Should they be prosecuted?
Called "insurrectionist"?
Lose their jobs?
I agree to prosecute, convict and jail ANYONE who used any violence that day, but how does one sort the wheat from the chaff?
Certainly not by the DNCMedia or social media.
But anyone who was there that day for the purpose of supporting Trump has been branded all of those things.
bump
Holder 2.0
Yes, but the people who were let in and just walked around, should not be prosecuted.
And creates the narrative for the LEFTIST media
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