Posted on 07/14/2023 5:21:13 AM PDT by NetAddicted
And just like that, the January 6 insurrection is no more. And the deconstruction story is really something. At the center of this narrative switcheroo is non-other than Ray Epps.
Before we get to that, let’s remember how we got here. It took only moments for the Democrat media complex to anoint the January 6 breach and riot at the U.S. Capitol Building an “insurrection.” As if beckoned by an unseen force, narrative builders dutifully lined up to receive the official wafer on their tongues, and voilà! “Trump supporters” who had never committed an act of violence at years of peaceful and crowded rallies were eligible for a 20-year prison stretch.
Shortly thereafter, the insurrection became a deadly insurrection when the same media reported, wrongly, that police officers were killed by rioters on January 6.
The only ones who died on January 6 were killed by police.
Awful it was, but insurrection? No.
Now, however, insurrection is just passé.
And you can thank Ray Epps.
The story of Epps is one of the most curious from hundreds of stories about the January 6 event that we were assured was the deadliest insurrection ever, ever. The Capitol incursion, as some call it, was worse than the Civil War, worse than the Revolution, worse than any riot, and more destructive than the torching and looting of federal courthouses or police stations. Indeed, it was so much worse than spraying cops with CS gas at riots, aiming lasers in their eyes to blind them, or trying to trap cops inside a burning building. Much, much worse. ...
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Supreme Court Considering a Case That Might Upend Hundreds of January 6 Prosecutions
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“Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was originally intended to keep former Confederate officials from gaining power in the reconstructed government following the Civil War. Known as the “disqualification clause,” this section was fairly obscure until January 6, 2021, when supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol building.”
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
All by plan. Just ask the fey Wray.
Epps is dirty. He wouldn’t be getting support from the MSM otherwise.
The Epps thing is a very strange twist on everything. He may have been an agent, but I think the democrats and media are so corrupt they just used him whichever way they wanted the wind to be blowing on a given day.
The most bizarre was the J6 committee treating him like a great guy, even though he clearly did everything they were attacking about J6, and in spades.
Certainly all the demonstrators deserved the incredible benefits of the doubt that were granted to Ray Epps.
The guy was at the Capitol sending people in, and he texted his nephew that he had “organized the whole thing”
And they accepted his explanation that well, I hunt with my nephew and we joke around a lot!
Meanwhile they want to place President Trump in jail for 500 years for having his own records.
BTTT
Information warfare works on the useful idiots of the democrat party.
You post something that makes a mockery of the Catholic Faith.
I pity you.
PJM writing is awful. I can’t read their stories. Epps? I don’t care. Either he’ll be charged or won’t annd either way I can;t change it.
I’ll believe Epps will be charged when they tell us who left the cocaine at the White House…
Very poor things indeed.
Important to determine who paid Epps’ transport and expenses for him to organize his crew promoting protesters to storm the Capitol Building.
Indeed. There are many ways the writer could have made her point without taking a disparaging swipe at Holy Communion.
More than anything. The crackpot website that published such drivel does not even deserve the clicks.
“ As if beckoned by an unseen force, narrative builders dutifully lined up to receive the official wafer on their tongues, and voilà…”
Seriously? This sentence got your panties in a wad? Really! You 2 are a real pieces of work, freakin libs you are. Gotta look hard to be OFFENDED by that. 99% of the people reading this article will have no clue what that sentence means and the ones that do will not see it as a slam.
Want to get offended, look at your evil communist Pope who’s done more to damage to your religion than Victoria’s sentence. SMH!!!
newsweek.com
A new petition to the Supreme Court could upend hundreds of cases related to the January 6 Capitol riot if the Court’s conservative majority decides to hear an appeal from a New York man who is awaiting his sentencing for assaulting a police officer, among other charges.
Edward Lang, who was arrested and charged for his role in the riot after he posted photos and videos on social media placing him at the Capitol that day, filed a petition with the Court on Friday. He is asking the justices to hear his appeal of one of the 11 charges he was indicted on: obstruction of an official proceeding.
The charge in question has been deployed against hundreds of defendants involved in the January 6, 2021, riot, including Jacob Chansley (aka QAnon Shaman), Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Olympic swimmer Klete Keller. The charge was also cited by the House committee investigating the riot when the panel issued criminal referrals against Donald Trump. The official proceeding refers to Congress’ certification of the Electoral College votes that elected Joe Biden president.
Norman Pattis, Lang’s attorney, told Newsweek that he believes the use of the statute that the litigation is centered around could upend the cases of “hundreds of defendants.”
“The government misuse and abuse of the federal penal code in the [January 6] cases is shocking,” Pattis said.
The statute that Lang’s legal team is arguing has been too broadly applied in his case comes from a federal law that states an individual who “corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document” or “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” can be imprisoned for up to 20 years.
In the petition to the Supreme Court, Lang’s team argues that the defendant did not satisfy the “corrupt” element and that various interpretations in lower courts have led to a “cacophonous result that leaves unsettled significant issues.”
“The petitioner submits that the Justice Department’s overbroad application of the federal penal code to prosecute participants in the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol is the act of a behemoth unrecognized, unwarranted and unwelcome in American life,” the petition reads.
It went on: “Our political life for centuries has been fractious, with violence all too frequent. Seeking to punish and silence dissent in the name of democracy is the twisted dream of a slumbering tyrant.”
The petition urged the justices to hear the case “as the nation’s attention turns to the 2024 election.” It argued that there is “good reason” to suspect the Justice Department’s use of the statute will “serve to chill political speech and expression on the eve of one of the most consequential events in American life – the election of the next President of the United States.”
Pattis told Newsweek his client expects to hear in the fall if the Supreme Court will hear the case.
Let’s be perfectly CLEAR:
You don’t offend Catholics with such tripe. The Lord has taught us how to accept ridicule.
You offend the Lord, and that is why you have my pity.
Offenses against the Lord may be forgiven, but offenses against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven.
LOL. If anyone has their shorts in a wad it’s you. Why don’t you take your meds and go lie down before you harm yourself?
Funny how that works; isn’t it?
Could they have found a more maladroit clown?
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