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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: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m pretty sure that’s what I did.


41 posted on 01/15/2021 12:39:00 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: NoLongerTrappedInNY
...morphed from “riot” to “deadly siege”...

Where have you been? It's already morphed again, this time into "insurrection". You must have dozed off for at least 10 minutes to have missed this latest change.

Soon after Nanzi used "insurrection" in a sound bite, practically every MSM article I read which came out today had switched to using it too.

42 posted on 01/15/2021 12:58:54 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("May You Live in Interesting Times": Ancient Chinese Curse. The Wuhanic Plague: Modern Chinese Curse)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

They’re not a “local” band. Iced Earth has played the biggest metal festivals in the world, but are also called a poor man’s Iron Maiden.


43 posted on 01/15/2021 1:36:10 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: P-Marlowe
Sometimes there is a fine line between Patriot and Idiot. These people crossed the line.
… which is prima facia evidence that this was not coordinated by Maga protesters, it just happened (thanks to Capitol police and leftist agitators)

44 posted on 01/15/2021 1:47:40 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: conservative98

That’s the clown that runs twitter into the $hitter.


45 posted on 01/15/2021 1:57:43 PM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: nicollo
it just happened (thanks to Capitol police and leftist agitators)

Unfortunately a bunch of MAGA protesters decided to join in the fray. Bad mistake. It’s just what Pelosi ordered.

46 posted on 01/15/2021 2:57:43 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: the OlLine Rebel

Uhhh. Iced Earth is legendary band.


47 posted on 01/15/2021 3:01:17 PM PST by securityman
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To: CrimsonTidegirl
The name of the song is “Dystopia”. It was released in 2012, but the lyrics are eerily similar to today’s events. The song even includes the words” your vaccinated fate”.

Dystopia by
Iced Earth

Enter the nightmare, this future does implore,
Hijack your city state, a prison nothing more.
Rounded up like cattle, you're forced in to the trains,
Nothing that you've ever known will bring you so much pain.

If you try to resist me you'll find me inhumane,
But if you just submit you'll live your life a slave.
Your love, your servitude will medicate your pain,
With our technology, we'll always keep you safe.

Microchipped by darts, their thoughts are not their own,
All that's left of human kind is now in their control.
Planned out through centuries, patient and contrived,
Pray of man's naivety, gullible and blind.

If you try to resist me you'll find me inhumane,
But if you just submit you'll live your life a slave.
Your love, your servitude will medicate your pain,
With our technology, we'll always keep you safe.

The nightmare unfolds before my eyes
I will resist 'til the end of time
A spirit born free has to break these chains
We're lost, we must find our way.
We must find our way.
We'll find our way.

They say that you're a danger to everything that's pure,
There are too many of you, they're offering the cure.
Swift extermination if you refuse the game,
Arrested development, your vaccinated fate.

If you try to resist me you'll find me inhumane,
But if you just submit you'll live your life a slave.
Your love, your servitude will medicate your pain,
With our technology, we'll always keep you safe.

The nightmare unfolds before my eyes,
I will resist 'til the end of time.
A spirit born free has to break these chains,
We're lost, we must find our way.

We must find our way,
We'll find our way.

ICED EARTH - Dystopia (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

48 posted on 01/15/2021 3:11:25 PM PST by chud
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To: securityman

Not to normal average people not obsessed with metal.

Asked hubby also.

Sounds like a fringe thing again.

He looks it up and says an album hit 42 in US. Best single #42 in Germany. Yes, I’d say fringe. ;-)


49 posted on 01/15/2021 5:00:14 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: chud

I have been listening to that song a lot lately.


50 posted on 01/15/2021 8:13:40 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (“Starless and Bible Black”- King Crimson)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I chuckled at the “speak like a Pirate Day” bit the singer was doing, but when he went into falsetto it was literally a LOL moment.


51 posted on 01/16/2021 7:41:30 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
He looks it up and says an album hit 42 in US. Best single #42 in Germany. Yes, I’d say fringe. ;-)

It's only fringe if your focus is on top 40.
That's a pretty narrow focus.

52 posted on 01/16/2021 7:42:03 AM PST by chud
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To: chud

Fringe means it’s highlyspecialized and only a few people like it.

Do you know who Black Gold is?

I’m a horse-racing fan, and I love history. He even had a book about him by a very popular children’s author, but I don’t expect even most people to have a clue.

I could even ask the same about Wee Willie Keeler.

Even in racing or baseball (very popular) circles many will not know them.

So yes, I’m a fringe sort of person with that. I don’t expect most to know what I mean.


53 posted on 01/16/2021 7:55:05 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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