Posted on 01/13/2022 12:55:37 PM PST by Ennis85
Eleven people including Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers, have been indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy, marking an escalation of the Justice Department’s investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 last year.
An indictment unsealed Thursday accused Mr. Rhodes, 56 years old, of organizing an armed plot to storm the Capitol and stop the certification of President Biden’s election victory.
The case marks the first time the Justice Department has filed charges of sedition in connection with the attack and comes days after Attorney General Merrick Garland promised that prosecutors would charge anyone responsible for the Capitol riot “at any level,” not just those who breached the building. Mr. Rhodes didn’t enter the building that day, but prosecutors said he directed his followers there, setting in motion the violence.
His lawyer, Jonathon Moseley, said he was on the phone with Mr. Rhodes Thursday afternoon when agents showed up at his client’s home in Granbury, Texas.
Prosecutors described the 10 other people indicted on seditious conspiracy and other charges as affiliated with the Oath Keepers. Counting Thursday’s indictment, more than three dozen members or affiliates of the Oath Keepers and another far-right group, the Proud Boys, have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Capitol. The Justice Department has charged more than 725 people in the attack to date.
Prosecutors say Mr. Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers used encrypted communications apps to coordinate a series of actions leading up to their actions on Jan. 6, including organizing into teams and amassing weapons in the Washington area.
Once protesters had breached the Capitol perimeter, prosecutors say, members of the Oath Keepers marched into the Capitol as a team in “stack formation,” a single-file militarytactic.
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Lol. AKA single file line. Oh the humanity.
Right.
They only needed one body [Ashli Babbitt] to turn January 6th into "a deadly insurrection".
Now, they have one seditious conspiracy charge, and the Swill Street Journal and their newspuppets have turned it into "Stewart Rhodes, 10 Others Charged With Seditious Conspiracy".
The Brandon Media makes Insurrection Stone Soup. This is for their howling Blue Check mob on the Twittsewer.
Has Ray Epps been arrested?
Apparently, antifa’s well documented military tactics are not a federal crime. But walking in single file is? Something doesn’t add up here.
You need to lighten up.
AOC had to place a wreath on her own grave just last week. It was TRAUMATIC, I tell you.
[[a single-file militarytactic.…]]
WITHOUT Weapons? What kind of military walks single file down roped corridors without weapons? The clowns o n the left are still making crap up-
So everyone who walks single file from now on is a seditious conspirator? The left are a bunch of mental cases-
When 35-40% of the country believes whatever the TeeVee spews, the Brandon Media can make up whatever it wants to.
[[Apparently, antifa’s well documented military tactics are not a federal crime. But walking in single file is?]]
The left are redefining everything- blm and antifa are violent domestic terrorists- the left claim that they are nothing but peaceful protestors- the right are peaceful protestors- the left claim they are violent insurrectionists
The left are aggressively controlling the narrative through power and through gaslighting the public- They have the power- they have the msm- they have the courts and judges and lawyers-
That is a very logical answer for them waiting more than a year to charge anyone with sedition-related charges.
They finally figured out that they can’t have an insurrection without charging someone with the crime.
Who would have known that people lining up single file were actually engaging in a military tactic. We better watch out for those kindergarteners, the kids in line at Disney World, and all those people lined up at the DMV, TSA checkpoints, and Chick-Fil-A.
It reads more like LARPing than sedition, but close enough. Play stupid games... No sympathy for these guys.
There were media statements well before Jan 6 that internet traffic had been picked up saying that one of these groups was planning to cause havoc on Jan 6. That is probably why law enforcement was asking for reinforcement (and being denied) The intercepts made it clear the group planning the attack was well prepared, with a plan.
There was something publicized last week that the Norfolk FBI office had sent information to WDC a report with details of the attack days before Jan 6. It sounds like that is the office that infiltrated the group. But WDC didn’t prepare.
My nickel says this is nothing but a smokeshow to hide Rhodes’ involvement as an FBI informant and Rhodes walks.
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I’ll call your nickle on rhodes & raise you a dime on Ray Epps
“Attack on the Capitol charges” - 725
Charges against hundreds of anarchist attackers in 2020 - 0
“Who would have known that people lining up single file were actually engaging in a military tactic.”
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Yeah, nothing like presenting your people to the enemy in enfilade formation.
The next R president better go in there with guns blazing. On his/her FIRST MINUTE in office I want all these people pardoned. That will be a start.
One year later. This is absolute rubbish.
“prosecutors say, members of the Oath Keepers marched into the Capitol as a team in “stack formation,” a single-file military tactic” This struck me as funny because now walking in a certain style will get you arrested.
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