Posted on 01/21/2022 11:03:40 AM PST by RandFan
Federal prosecutors moved to deny bond for Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers who was charged last week with seditious conspiracy for his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, telling a judge that he poses a flight risk and is a danger to the community.
In a brief filed in Texas federal district court Thursday night, prosecutors asked a judge to order Rhodes be kept in jail while he awaits trial.
"There is overwhelming evidence that Rhodes organized a plot to oppose by force the execution of the laws of the United States and that he possesses the willingness and capacity to continue to engage in criminal conduct," Justice Department lawyers wrote. "Under these circumstances, only pretrial detention can protect the community from the danger Rhodes poses."
Jonathon Moseley, a lawyer representing Rhodes, called the detention motion claims "fiction."
Prosecutors say Rhodes, a 56-year-old Yale Law graduate, rallied members of his group to use violence to deny President Biden the White House in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election.
"We aren't getting through this without a civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit," Rhodes allegedly said in one encrypted message to other Oath Keepers in November 2020.
The militia leader also allegedly spent nearly $40,000 on firearms and weapons equipment in the weeks before and after the Capitol riot.
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They are too dangerous because apparently they were right.
Dangerous how, exactly?
When have Oath Keepers looted a store? Or firebombed a police station? Or murdered people who made the mistake of driving throught their cordon?
Antifa/BLM has done all three of those things.
Translation = FBI asset who is not in full cooperation.
They’re trying to turn the Jan 6th Picnic into the Rape of Nanking
I was thinking the same thing about Christopher Wray.
Lying POS scum... if he’s so unbelievably dangerous, why did you wait several months to arrest him? This government is corrupt from top to bottom...
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Jail without trial. The FBI way. The corrupt FBI way.
Think about that basic strategy? Then ask why they would do so? Then you will get your situational awareness booster.
Ray Epps was leader of the Arizona Oath Keepers...........
what’s up with him lately?
Never thought of that, but there's a logic to it. Its proven again and again throughout history - who do dictators, tyrants and secret police-types fear, mistreat and despise the most? Its people from the inside of their own group.
Yep. Loose ends that risk getting tugged on.
Eff Eye Bee wants this dude silenced
Meanwhile, all around the country, murderers and other violent criminals with prior records are being released on bond.
I think Epps is supposed to be interviewed by the January 6th committee today.
Or they can let you live like a scared dog waiting for a new jab and a citizen quality review next summer. Do the right things. Say the right things. Support the right people. Turn in the problem people, and grandma gets her hip replacement.
This is not a joke people. They are doing this right now in Beta testing.
After the steel, you have to seal the deal. Any dissenters MUST be destroyed.
Those are this summertime social justice warriors of the Democrat party. Like the Zanu, PF in Zimbabwe.
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