Posted on 06/24/2021 5:17:07 AM PDT by karpov
Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers.
A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged.
Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet residential area.
But now his neighbors think he is a domestic terrorist.
Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.
Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.
“It’s destroyed my reputation,” he says. “I’m not a violent invader . . . I do not condone the criminality and violence on [Jan. 6] whatsoever.”
The FBI told Bolanos he was raided because of a tip to the Jan. 6 hotline from a neighbor who said he had overheard him “boasting” about being at the Capitol.
An FBI agent phoned Bolanos the Sunday after the riot and left a message. He returned the call the next day, but never heard back.
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Yes, I remember. It was called “The Game.” It is all part of the plan. That said, I do believe many TRUE Republican/Conservative politicians know what is happening but they are at a loss right now as to what the the best course of action is needed to right the ship. All so disturbing. I just hope and pray that it is not too late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29
Bump
Ann Frank wouldn't have survived in New York City, either.
-PJ
“The neighbors he had helped all those years have turned their backs on him. One woman who cooked him a nice dinner last Thanksgiving wrote him a nasty note: “I hope Antifa gets you.”
Wow.
It could never happen here is happening here.
It’s okay to hate your Government as much as they hate you.
However, there is an exception to this Rule depending on who is currently running the Government.
Again, it can’t happen here is happening here and none of our Elected Representatives have the balls to say it.
He should sue the bejeezus out of them.
BTTT
NO, and HELL NO.
Any FReeper who thinks the 2022 midterm elections are going to be any different than the THEFT OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AWAY FROM THE AMERICAN VOTER is KIDDING THEMSELVES.
We must NOT allow our HOPE AND WISHFUL THINKING to blind us from the HARSH REALITY that a DEEPLY ENTRENCHED EVIL has stolen America away from us.
Extraterrestrials? Blackmailed politicians? China? Hell, I don't what it is but WE ARE LOSING, BIG TIME
McAfee said it best:
Yes, you are right.
The sheeple accept that the former Constitution clearly stated that citizens only have the right to:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
I almost went. I had a flight and hotel reservations the day it was announced, but I didn’t pull the trigger.
Knowing how corrupt the FBI is, they might come after me just for thinking about being there.
The FBI's on the wrong side of history - just like they were during the civil rights movement of the early 1960's. Once again, history will not be kind ... Hint: don't always stand with the corrupt powerful insiders of your time.
Ratted out by his neighbor? How thoroughly Reichsdeutsche!
Matt Bracken (Travis McGee) used the term “buffalo jump” to describe this. It was a setup.
Matt Bracken (Travis McGee) used the term “buffalo jump” to describe this. It was a setup.
“The FBI probably had a search warrant.”
I wouldn’t even bet $1 on that.
“They asked if he was a member of BLM, Antifa or the Proud Boys.”
Most FBI field agents are members of all three.
“He should sue the bejeezus out of them.”
And a Federal judge will throw the case out with the expected claim of ‘sovereign immunity’.
“The left is ruthless.”
There is a reason. Their numbers are relatively small and like the terrorists they are they seek to intimidate. The goal of the scumbags is to strike fear into anyone who even thinks of disagreeing with them.
I live in SC, moved from MA 2.5 yrs ago (lived in NJ as well). In the past 10 days there have been 2 incidents within 10 miles of my home involving the police and rioting blacks. I’m an old man and when you get old you have less to lose and I don’t intend to go without a fight.
I spoke to a local gun store and it seems I can walk in and buy a gun and walk out within 30 minutes if I have a SC Driver License and an Honorable Discharge if I have a military service back round.
Tomorrow I will be added to the list of legal gun owners.
Any suggestions for what I should buy? I want a handgun with a magazine holding as many rounds as possible.
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