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Pro-Trump heavy metal guitarist reportedly identified as Capitol rioter
NY Post ^ | January 15, 2021 | 12:53pm | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 01/15/2021 11:08:53 AM PST by conservative98

A pro-President Trump heavy metal guitarist has been identified as one of the US Capitol rioters, according to a report.

Multiple sources told the Indianapolis Star Wednesday that one of the suspects in the deadly Jan. 6 siege is Jon Schaffer, a founding member of a Florida-based heavy metal band called Iced Earth who is originally from central Indiana.

Schaffer has not been charged with a federal crime as of early Friday, an FBI source confirmed to The Post.

But several people have identified him as the man seen with his mouth agape in an FBI poster seeking out the rioters who “made unlawful entry” into the Capitol

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: capitol; capitolprotest; hangmikepence; icedearth; jonschaffer; mostlypeaceful; mouthagape; music; rally
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To: Kickass Conservative

“So, is he getting a Citation for Trespassing?”

He’s Lucky he wasn’t shot dead for criminal Trespass like Ashli Babbitt.

I keep hearing that the F.B.I. is investigating this and that and yet there has been nothing about the Murder of Ashli Babbitt. The F.B.I. a department with one mission.Too protect the deep state criminals.


21 posted on 01/15/2021 11:26:01 AM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

They’re just outing him to try to get him barred from gigs etc.


22 posted on 01/15/2021 11:26:14 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: conservative98

Hat has “Oath Keepers” on it.


23 posted on 01/15/2021 11:28:00 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I’ve heard of iced earth. They have been around for years.


24 posted on 01/15/2021 11:28:44 AM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: Olog-hai

They are not Judas Priest big. But they are not just local. I heard about them years ago from Eddie Trunk.


25 posted on 01/15/2021 11:29:09 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Gotta love how it’s now morphed from “riot” to “deadly siege”. Wondering what they’ll be calling it by next Wednesday.


26 posted on 01/15/2021 11:33:54 AM PST by NoLongerTrappedInNY
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To: conservative98

These guys just made it worse for all of us.

They were egged on by the left and fell into a political ambush.

The protest ended when the battle with the cops began.

Unfortunately all of us are going to pay a steep price for their stupidity.


27 posted on 01/15/2021 11:50:35 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

AWESOME VID


28 posted on 01/15/2021 11:54:43 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: P-Marlowe

Blame is on the Democrats.

You cannot allow Democrats to riot, burn, loot and murder for 6 months.

Then do nothing about it.

Then expect the other side to just sit back and not protest/riot.

Blame the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress, the media and the corporations who egged BLM on.


29 posted on 01/15/2021 11:55:16 AM PST by conservative98
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I played the entire thing. It was good.


30 posted on 01/15/2021 11:55:20 AM PST by myerson (Viva Trump!)
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To: conservative98

A warrior should know when he is being sent into an ambush. These clowns were just plain stupid.

Breaking into the halls of Congress was just about the stupidest move anyone could make. The Dems were counting on it. The leftists led the charge and pissed off Trump supporters followed like lambs to the slaughter.

Sometimes there is a fine line between Patriot and Idiot. These people crossed the line.


31 posted on 01/15/2021 12:00:55 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yes; The Ripper was on their second album.
32 posted on 01/15/2021 12:03:11 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: billorites

Heh, bassoon.

There’s one band I recall from the 70s called “Lucifer’s Friend” that included (briefly) a French horn, on a song called “Ride The Sky”; the horn line was evocative of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”. LF’s singer, John Lawton, replaced David Byron in Uriah Heep.


33 posted on 01/15/2021 12:06:38 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Thanks.


34 posted on 01/15/2021 12:11:39 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: conservative98; P-Marlowe; Travis McGee

How ‘bout we blame both?


35 posted on 01/15/2021 12:12:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Olog-hai

I still remember the AC-DC song from their first album, “It’s a Long Way to the Top if you Wanna Rock and Roll.” That one featured bagpipes. I suppose a young Bill Barr could’ve cameoed with them.


36 posted on 01/15/2021 12:14:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Can’t blame them the same. Because if the media, Congress, states and corporations weren’t supporting the BLM riots, none of this probably would have happened.


37 posted on 01/15/2021 12:26:36 PM PST by conservative98
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To: Skooz; waterhill; mitch5501; OrioleFan; jdsteel; Mama Shawna; Ignatz; Bullish; wastedyears; ...

Heavy Metal Guitar Ping


38 posted on 01/15/2021 12:28:31 PM PST by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

Dystopia is a great song. I liked Jon’s Don’t Tread on Me guitar.


39 posted on 01/15/2021 12:30:23 PM PST by nonliberal (Caput gerat lupinum)
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To: null and void

Yes. Also a Ron/Rand Paul guy.


40 posted on 01/15/2021 12:34:28 PM PST by nonliberal (Caput gerat lupinum)
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