Wednesday, January 18, 2023

How Republics Die-The Marked and The Martyred. Part IV




Ashli Babbit


    ".... Perhaps that will be the lasting legacy of January 6th — the persecuted people that found each other and came together from all corners of the United States, that in many ways have become a large family....."

Cara Castronuova, Gateway Pundit 10/9/22


                                                                           


Rosanne Boyland                                                                                                                                                                   

      There are over 978 people who are either in prison or are facing charges related to January 6th 2021. Insider has published an extensive listing along with the related charges.

https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1

    But it is difficult to narrow down and pinpoint just who it was who planned the event of that day. Trump is blamed for inciting the riot and was subjected to a second impeachment attempt but it failed to pass with the 67 vote majority required. Definitely members of Proud Boys, Super Happy Fun America and III Percenters organized their own groups and busses but neither of those groups were "in charge" of the speeches at the Ellipse. Nor, did they spearhead any of the march.

    But then there is this one organizer:

  "..Ali Alexander, a right-wing political activist who took part in organizing the rally and expressed support for the storming as "completely peaceful", was reported as saying in December that Representatives Paul Gosar (RAZ), Andy Biggs (R–AZ), and Mo Brooks (R–AL) were involved in the planning of "something big".[101] "We're the four guys who came up with a January 6 event", he said.." Wikipedia. Washington Post.



    In April 0f 2022 he agreed to cooperate with Federal Investigators. The Star Chamber would summon him in October. Alexander is supposedly a longtime associate to Roger Stone and apparently spilled the beans about how these two (along with the aforementioned Congressmen) went over logistics about the various groups attending the rally that day. 

    In 2020 Ali created 'Stop The Steal'. The actual protest rally to be staged at the Capitol was to be named 'Wild Protest' after the Trump tweet where he claimed the day was, "..going to be wild!" In December Ali goes on a livestream with Periscope where he drags in the three Congressmen and says, ".. "We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting..."

    Ali kept on posting all through December ginning up the crowd. The news outlet ProPublica uncovered a Parler post where Ali is quoted,  "If DC escalates? So do we.."

    But then came the day and everything went downhill fast. Within 24 hours Ali was deleting sites and cleaning out his inboxes across 100 different places. The three Congressmen rightfully distanced themselves from Ali with Brooks and Biggs claiming they never met the guy. Biggs would later be subpoenaed by the Star Chamber but refused to testify.

Then there is Enrique Tarrio Chairman of The Proud Boys. 



    His group along with Oath Keepers and Latinos for Trump allegedly met in a parking garage at the Phoenix Park Hotel on Jan 5th to "form an alliance" (whatever that means) according to FBI documents. There they circulated a 9 page document title '1776 Returns'. It is believed to be authored ( though not proven) by a Samuel Armes and Erika Flores who both run a crypto Ponzi Scheme in Florida and are acquainted with Tarrio. The war manifesto outlines how to occupy various government buildings strategically on a massive scale. 

That worked out well, didnt it?

Tarrio is currently behind bars.

    The first person to plead guilty was Jon Schaffer, Oath Keeper member and metal guitarist for the band Iced Earth. He has flipped for the prosecution in return for a reduced sentence.

 

       Then, there is the mysterious Ray Epps. Nobody seems to know where he is or who he is. Information on him is sketchy at best. Wikipedia lists a Ray Epps basketball player. Other online outlets mistake him for James Ray Epps who is listed as President Oath Keepers. But even that is a mistake. Elmer Stewart Rhodes is founder and leader of Oath Keepers. He was convicted in Nov. 2022 of old fashion Sedition.  

Why is this important?
    
      Because no one was searching for this guy.  Congressman Jim Jordan grilled FBI people in separate hearings trying to find this guy to no avail.

Until The Star Chamber requested to speak to him.


                                           Ray Epps
    
    RevolverNews' Darren Beatties and Substack writer Raheem Kassam spent months looking for the elusive Epps. Beatties posts the video interview with Rep. Massie and AG Merrick Garland. Garland dodges the questions in standard DOJ fashion.
They do not comment on ongoing investigations.


    Which answers the question without actually answering it. If you cannot comment on some one or something that supposedly doesn't exist because it/they may or may not be under investigation then obviously it/they exist and obviously it/they are under investigation.

From the Revolver article:

    "...Ray Epps appears to be among the primary orchestrators of the very first breach of the Capitol’s police barricades at 12:50pm on January 6. Epps appears to have led the “breach team” that committed the very first illegal acts on that fateful day. What’s more, Epps and his “breach team” did all their dirty work with 20 minutes still remaining in President Trump’s National Mall speech, and with the vast majority of Trump supporters still 30 minutes away from the Capitol...."

       This is a very important statement. In the previous segments of this expose' I have questioned the timeline surrounding the breach, the lockdown of officials and the immediate finger pointing by Cheney, Shummer, Pelosi that Jan 6th was instigated by President Trump.
      I was there. Despite everything being closed that day my GF and I decided to leave the rally crowd at the Washington Monument early. We were getting cold, we needed to pee and the place was getting too congested anyway.
     We heard rumors of a Starbucks that was opened on a side street 
(I forget where). Others had the same idea and we joined the somewhat short line outside the coffee shop.
     What I remember most about that moment was that we were directly across the street from Trump Hotel. From the hotel we could hear loudspeakers broadcasting his speech. We finished our business, bought coffee and joined the flow of people passing by the hotel heading towards the Capitol. 
     Trump was STILL speaking. He hadn't even gotten to those ill fated words of  "march peacefully and patriotically" and "fight like hell".

But Ray Epps was already leading the first wave up the back side of the Capitol.

     Here is a video montage of him being exposed as a FED:


    Here is where the mystery of Ray Epps gets wonky.
    On January 8th Epps appears on FBI most wanted posters as subject #16. However, there is no effort to arrest this guy despite his home address, phone#, Facebook page, blood type and favorite TV show pop up everywhere thanks to the public's response.
    Nope, instead over 978 OTHER J6 suspects are rounded up in a SWAT like manner that would make the Gestapo and FSB take notice. 
But Ray-Ray?

    "...Then, on July 1, between the hours of 3:37 a.m. and 5:55 p.m., the FBI finally took action on Ray Epps. But not to prosecute him, or to announce a sweeping investigation or FBI SWAT raid on Epps’s house for all of his phones and electronics. Instead, someone at the FBI quietly and stealthily purged every trace of Ray Epps from the Capitol Riots Most Wanted database...."

    
    In Kassam's Substack article about the actual J6 interview with Ray-Ray (Suspect #16) the Star Chamber members are quick to dance around the association Epps seemed to have with Oath Keepers. They are simply NOT interested. Here is a guy who might have the inside scoop on OK's but Kinzinger couldn't give a rat's ass.


It gets more bizarre.

    On Jan 5th Epps keeps getting a phone call from a Paul Carver. Epps testifies he doesn't really know the guy but for some Bizarro-World reason decides to have dinner with him later that evening. What is even more bizarre is that Kinzinger has ZERO interest in what he and Carver talked about at dinner.

Kassam writes it far better than I could:

    "..Epps: “I hadn’t talked to him before — before that. I mean, I — I don’t know how he would know [that we were in DC], but he kept trying to call me, so — When he talked to me, he found out I was in D.C… He may have known. I — I don’t know how he would have found out because I — I had not talked to him before that, since I met him the first time. In fact, I didn’t know who he was, but he was from Arizona, he was calling me, and we met up.”

Q: Okay. Thank you.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘OKAY THANK YOU’?!

This random dude from Arizona is calling Epps all day. Epps claims he has no idea who the guy is, decides to have dinner with this stranger anyway (despite claiming to be such a cautious person that he travels with first aid supplies), and the trail of questions on that matter ends there? Um…


Frikken hysterical..


                                  
     His testimony is all over the place. He claims to be in DC to protect his son but keeps getting separated from him. Has dinner with some stranger who kept blowing up his phone.
(Note: Nothing on this Carver guy has come to light).
    He gets exposed in BLM Plaza as a FED then wanders around for two hours supposedly lost because he cannot find his hotel. Shows up the next day at the Rally to 'calm people down' even though more video surfaces of him giving advice to people  about how important it is to "..get inside the building..". Jumps into a stranger's car because he 'heard' that Trump supporters are being shot. The stranger drives him to his hotel (which he could not find earlier that evening). Text's his son about how he is up in front of the crowd 'orchestrating things' but cannot recognize a series of phone numbers and texts that the J6 Interrogation Squad subpoenaed
   It is very odd that as the events are beginning to boil Epps takes a powder and bums a ride from a stranger who happens to show up at just the right time. I don't remember there being a lot of traffic that day. There certainly were not any cars driving past the Capitol.
And where was his son that he went to DC to "protect"?

    By this time the breaching was well under way. Embattled police were in panicked retreat. Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland would be dead before the day was out.

    I'm not going to spend a lot of time on Ashli. Her story is easy to find and the previous segment of this expose' has links to the shooting. This, in no way, is to disregard her tragic death. The DC officer murdered her. Plain and simple. Her mother was just recently arrested while holding an anniversary vigil in DC.
The injustice continues for that family.

    But the story of Rosanne Boyland has not captured the public attention as Ashli has. I had not heard of her until I began the research on this blog series.

This from the website https://www.wearegoodmen.com

"...Rosanne Boyland, 34, died just outside of the Lower West Terrace tunnel after police pushed protesters out of the tunnel and caused them to pile on top of one another. Boyland was also beaten with a wooden stick by Metropolitan Police officer Lila Morris...."
    

    The video is rather graphic. The coroner's report says that her death was caused by drug overdose but her mother insisted that she never took drugs. The only medication she took was for her anxiety. How is it the DC Medical Examiner missed the contusions on her head? A separate forensic exam ordered by the family concluded that Boyland died of a crushing asphyxiation due to the police throwing people on top of her and bear spraying the crowd.

    According to an expert on the use of deadly force, Stanley Kephart, the three blows administered by DC officer Morris (one body and two head blows) constitute a felony. Boyland had already fallen on the ground and could not get up. Officer Morris still beat her anyway. Forensic video Analyst Gary McBride said that "..the blows were so powerful that the stick breaks..."

    In addition, Victoria White was struck in the head over 35 times while facing away from police and sandwiched in between police shields and surging protestors. 

    The Lower West Tunnel of the Capitol building can best be described as a (sort of) Thermopylae. Narrow in size, strategically located, easy to bottle up. No one gets in. No one gets out. It was here that the immovable object met the irresistible force.

    As the crowd surged people inevitably got squeezed. Boyland lost her footing at some point. Protestors were pushed back on top of each other tumbling down the granite steps. Boyland fell and people fell on and over her. One protestor noticed she was not moving and implored the police to help. Morris beat Boyland. The protestor cried out that Boyland is dying. At one point protestors managed to drag her outside more to administer CPR. DC Police bear sprayed the people trying to save her. Cops throw more people on top of Boyland in an attempt to clear the tunnel. Boyland continues to gasp for air. A protestor attempting to help gets struck by batons. 

At 4:28 Boyland is dragged back inside the tunnel by DC Police. EMT's show up to administer CPR but Rosanne Boyland is unresponsive. She was pronounced dead later at a DC Hospital.

       Officer Morris would be honored by DC Mayor Bowser for her 'heroism'. She, and a few other officers who beat protestors were awarded box seats at the LV SuperBowl. 

     Not one of the Star Chamber panel members asked any questions about Ashli Babbitt or Rosanne Boyland. Both of those Officers have never been charged.


....And That Is The Diatribe....


    


Friday, January 13, 2023

How Republics Die-Tyrants, Patriots And The Faithless. Part III

 



    

                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXrWGJ96B14


    If you can stand more than a minute of this video without breaking something you are a better person than I am. "...peddling lies and misinformation..." says the laughing hyena. You can literally see her trying very hard NOT to break out into her signature cackle as she shovels the shit to the camera. But never let a crisis go to waste. She ends the video with her call to pass new Federal Voting Laws to ensure Democrat hegemony.

    In a subsequent interview with Hakeem Jeffries on PBS he checks off all the boxes from the J6 report. "The Big Lie". "Violent Attack". "Incited by.. President Trump". He claims the J6 Select Committee report is to find out the truth but in reality all it did was point fingers. Around the 3:50 mark of the video link below Judy Woodruff states in her interview with Jeffries how Liz Cheney approached him as the event was unfolding and spoke to him about how to hold President Trump accountable. Jeffries had stated this in a previous interview.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GVsrZOcKu0

    So, don't blow smoke up my ass about how this entire Star Chamber was about telling the truth. It was Cheney's intention to place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the former President.

    As the stories trickled out across the media numbers fluctuated wildly about the deaths and injuries both of police and protestors. It is important to flood the media with speculation. This helps to solidify public opinion. Subsequent facts that bear out later will lose their impact because the propaganda has already taken hold in the minds of Americans.

    Dozens of police were killed or injured were the tearful testimonies of officers live on the made for television hearings. The body cam footage is very graphic. Footage and computer imagery outline in detail how the security of the Capitol was sorely lacking. Calls for reinforcements went unanswered. National Guard were no where to be found until much, much later.

    One can only imagine the carnage if armed National Guard opened fire on the crowd.

           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsQTY9083r8

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibWJO02nNsY

(NOTE: Around the 12:30-35 mark of the second video the murder of Ashli Babbit can be seen.)

    Between 3:00-3:30 pm Pelosi and Schummer were on the phone with acting AG Jeffery Rosen and Gov. Northam of VA while holed up in a conference room. In both conversations she explicitly places blame on President Trump.

How did she know this? What evidence did she have?

           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B8x8ZbFmtc


    At 1:20 pm Republican Representative Paul Gozar from Arizona rose to speak on the floor of his objection to the electoral count from his state. At 11pm it had failed to pass. At 12 am 70 House Republicans contested the Electoral votes from Georgia. It too failed to pass. Members objected to Michigan and Nevada. The seconding of the Michigan objection was "in writing". Pence gaveled it away. At 12:15 am Senator Hawley signed on to an objection from Pennsylvania to no avail. At 3:30 am multiple Senators objected to Wisconsin but it failed as well.

    On multiple occasions the vote was contested. The mail in ballots, questionable certifications and the denial of a separate slate of Electors were summarily ignored. Despite the debate over the VP role in this proceeding Pence abdicated his responsibility to ensure that a proper investigation take place and that the will of the voters be heard.  Regardless of the fact that the 12th Amendment places the VP in a ceremonial role he sure had no problem with the gavel. His refusal to hold off the voting until investigations were completed sheds doubt on the entire fiasco.

    According to the J6 report the President was "crazy". However if  State Legislators from contested states were willing to sign on to an investigation, other Electors and House/Senate members were objecting on the Capitol floor; How was this a legitimate election?

   No one in charge wanted to do anything. The pleas from Trump and his legal team were shot down time after time by Judges, Governors and even members of his own Cabinet.

The fix was in.

    The Electoral process is, well...Ummm... Messy.

    The Constitution leaves it up to the states so there is not a lot of guidance there. Each party selects electoral members. There are 29 states, including DC, that require electors vote for their party nominee. Fines, penalties and ouster from the party can be imposed if an elector votes OUTSIDE the party line. The remaining states do not hold members to such restrictions however consequences do exist.

And, this has happened more times than you realize.

    However there is a catch.

   "....each state legislature has the ability to determine how its constitutionally-mandated electoral votes (equal to its total Congressional representation) are assigned to specific candidates.....In 48 states, the state legislature currently mandates that the winner of the majority of citizen votes (known as the popular vote) receives all of the state’s electoral votes..."

This is known as a winner-take-all or unit rule procedure.

                        https://electoralvotemap.com/

    So, how is it that the rules apply along party lines to vote for the nominee while state legislatures impose laws based on 'winner take all' popular votes? Electors are working under three sets of rules.

1. 29 state parties demand electors vote party lines.

2. 21 state parties don't.

3. State Law demands electors vote according to who ends up with the most popular votes.

    Maine and Nebraska are two outliers that can split their electoral votes. 

Then, there are what is known as Faithless Electors. 

I told you this was messy.

    There have been 167 Faithless Electors throughout US history. These people literally vote their conscience and exist primarily in the 21 states I mention above. It is perfectly legal and Article 2, Section 1, Clause 3 of the Constitution codifies this. Our Founders were very clear to allow such dissent to keep check on unbridled (d)emocracy.

    According to Georgetown student and intern to (D-NY) to Eliot Engel, Raffi Piliero writes about Faithless Electors. 

".. This is unfortunate, as this concept, one very rarely written about, discussed, or debated, has the potential to create a range of undesirable effects on our elections....A constitutional oddity at best and a design with the potential to nullify millions of votes at worst, the system of faithless electors is a ticking time bomb waiting to go off at the least inopportune time; to hand the election to someone who got a minority of the vote..."

    These were the Electors the Trump team, Reps and Senators as well as various State Legislators were talking about. There were plenty of dissenters in the 2020 election. But, as Piliero states there was probably very little knowledge out there about such an anomaly that has historical precedent.

"...The 2016 presidential election represented the largest number of faithless electors against living candidates since 1836. A total of 10 faithless electors went against their party’s wishes with eight Democratic and two Republican faithless electors... A trio of electors expressed their displeasure with Republican nominee Richard Nixon across three elections. Oklahoma elector Henry Irwin opposed Nixon and Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy in 1960, opting for a ticket of Harry Byrd and Barry Goldwater. In 1968, Lloyd Bailey from North Carolina went against Nixon’s campaign to vote for independent candidate George Wallace. Virginia Republican elector Roger McBridge opposed Nixon’s re-election campaign by casting his vote for Libertarian Party candidate John Hospers... Following the 1832 presidential election, Vice President Martin Van Buren’s lack of popularity in Pennsylvania led 30 state electors to cast ballots for William Wilkins....

     Throughout the J6 report the phrase appears multiple times stating that Trump's concerns were "baseless". That there was "no evidence" lending credence to his claim that there could exist a separate slate of Electors. In fact the report claims over and over his demand to have those Electors added to the count was illegal. And those who stood by their convictions were summoned to The Star Chamber.

    Instead of the lawsuits and Congressional objections being allowed to sift out the details and give voice to those dissenters the system kept chugging along under the ruse of a "peaceful transition of power". There simply was not enough time and not enough support amongst those in power.

 And those in power knew this.


....And That Is The Diatribe....



Tuesday, January 10, 2023

How Republics Die-Conspiracy Theories / Election Disputes Part II

     


      "Law is the common force organized to act as an obstacle to injustice. In short, law IS justice."  Bastiat.


     Most Grand Juries investigate crimes attached to people. The only time they investigate people is when there is enough evidence gathered by Investigators tasked with investigating a crime and finding those individuals responsible for it. However, today our surveillance state gathers data on people in order to find a crime.

 Several years ago I wrote a piece 'How to Prosecute a Ham Sandwich' (4/6/2015)

    "..In a University of Tennessee Law School paper written in 2012, author Glenn Harlan Reynolds writes about one Southern District of New York where the Prosecutors would play a game naming a famous person and then searching the law books for any crime that could be attached to that person..."

    In Dan Cannon's book 'Pleading Out' (Hachette Book Group Inc. 3/22) he writes of the lack of oversight concerning probes, Prosecutors, police officers and the ability of the criminal justice system to grind down an alleged offender into simply giving up and accepting a guilty plea over a lesser charge (regardless of actual guilt) or face a criminal trial and possible, serious prison time. This is known as 'Process Crime'. The ordeal of General Flynn is a stunning example of Process Crime. The three year long Russia-gate investigation against President Trump  can be put into that pile as well. It doesn't matter that the case was finally disposed of with no conviction the damage is done to the accused. Bankrupt, broken family, the shroud of suspicion, the physical and emotional scars will carry on well into the future.

   In a November 2014 National Review article by Conrad Black;

    "..Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the federal district court in New York..... laments the breakdown in American criminal justice caused by abuse of the plea-bargain system. He writes, correctly, that “the criminal-justice system in the United States today bears little relationship to what the Founding Fathers contemplated..."

    But those obsessed with finding guilt are just that. Obsessed. The drug addiction like fervor of the Democrats to get President Trump for.. Anything.. will be a sad chapter in American history. The pallor of animus over the man is symptomatic of our decay as a Republic where the rights of the individual's innocence are circumvented by the mob dissemination and digestion of garbage information and media complicity.

    But why a Senate Select Committee? Why the Star Chamber?

    According to a simple Google search  Star Chambers were set up centuries ago. One notably by Henry VIII.

    "...Star chambers, named after the room in which the court met in Westminster Palace, had their origins in England where they were used to try people too powerful to be brought before ordinary common law courts. Their jurisdiction included forgery, perjury, riots, libel and conspiracy. Parliament abolished them in 1641..."

    The Star Chamber was a political weapon to bring action against political opponents of the King. So, this Committee as well was devised to bring action against political opponents.

     "...by the time of Charles I it had become a byword for misuse and abuse of power by the king and his circle. James I and his son Charles used the court to examine cases of sedition, which, in practice, meant that the court could be used to suppress opposition to royal policies. It became used to try nobles too powerful to be brought to trial in the lower courts. Court sessions were held in secret, with no right of appeal..."

    http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/the_court_of_star_chamber.htm

    Conrad Black quotes Jefferson's expression of faith of jury trials in his article, “....the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.”

    But we no longer have jury trials. We have plea deals and Star Chambers. We also have a tail wagging the dog media hungry for the next scandal and witches to burn at the stake of higher ratings. So, if they couldn't get the President then they will get someone. And there were plenty of people that day of January 6th to gather up in the net.

    The President WAS obsessed with voter fraud. He had every reason to be. Despite the fact that many on his team, William Barr and other legal minds were in disagreement there were many others who supported the President's suspicions. However, the Star Chamber report only wants the public to view the opposition to Trump as the voices of reason while those who held a different point of view were complicit in a criminal conspiracy to thwart the ".. peaceful transition of power.."

From the report:

    "On November 8th, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich met President Trump at the White House. Two days later, he sent a follow-up note to the President’s executive assistant titled “please give to POTUS[,] newt.” It suggested that “[t]he only way Trump loses is rigged system” and added that President Trump could encourage “GOP legislatures elect not to send in electors,” forcing a House vote by State delegations on January 6th that Gingrich expected President Trump would win.37 Meadows replied: “Thanks Speaker..."

   "... Representative (Scott)Perry was one of President Trump’s key congressional allies in the effort to overturn the election’s results. Representative Perry was an early supporter of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and, as noted above, addressed the crowd at one such event outside the Pennsylvania State capitol in Harrisburg on November 5, 2020.166 Representative Perry was also one of 27 Republican Congressmen who signed a letter requesting that President Trump “direct Attorney General Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election.... Representative Perry attended the December 21st Oval Office meeting along with at least 10 other congressional Republicans to discuss the strategy for objecting to the electoral college votes on January 6th. Along with 125 other Republican Members of Congress..."

    None of this is illegal. In fact there is historical precedent for this electoral dispute. In the 1876 election between Republican Hayes and Democrat Tilden there were 19 electoral votes in question from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. A special investigative commission was drawn up to settle the dispute. This commission was a true bi-partisan board ( much like the original plan to investigate the 2020 dispute). 

    "..On January 29, 1877, Congress created an Electoral Commission to break the deadlock. The commission was to have five members from the House of Representatives, five from the Senate, and five from the Supreme Court. As originally conceived, the commission was to comprise seven Democrats, seven Republicans, and one independent..."

www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1876/The-disputed-election




    But while the commission deliberated Hayes sent people to negotiate with Southern Democrats to sway their votes. One of Hayes' concessions to the Dems was to pull out the occupying forces of the North, end carpet bagging and return sovereignty to Southern States.

     It worked. At 4am on March 2nd the impasse had been crossed and Hayes was elected with a narrow 185-184 Electoral win.

    What we need to be cognizant of is that if you have a gut feeling about something it is wise to pursue it (or avoid it whatever the case may be). The history of Democrat fraud in elections transcends over a century. Hillary wrote about her participation during Kennedy's election. Johnson rigged Texas. FDR strong armed his opponents during campaigns, Brenda Calhoun Snipes of Broward County openly admitted she played footsie with ballots until Governor Ron DeSantis fired her ass!

    If it walks like a duck..?

    In the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 President Trump pleaded with AG William Barr to investigate every allegation. From Pennsylvania to Georgia and Arizona there was concern over Dominion machines and vote tallies exceeding actual ballots that were sent out. Again, the reply from Barr and many officials in those states came back with the term that appears dozens of times in the J6 Report:

".. no significant fraud to affect the outcome of the election.."

 From the report:

    "..White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arranged a meeting with the President at 6:15 p.m. that evening (Jan.3rd)... During the meeting, (Jeff) Clark attempted to defend the last-minute move to make him Acting Attorney General. Clark said he would “conduct real investigations that would, in his view, uncover widespread fraud... “last opportunity to sort of set things straight with this defective election,” and he had the “intelligence,” the “will,” and “desire” to “pursue these matters in the way that the President thought most appropriate...."

    "...Some of the participants in the meeting argued that Clark was the wrong person for the job of Attorney General. Clark attempted to defend his credentials, arguing that he had been involved in complicated civil and environmental litigation. “That’s right. You’re an environmental lawyer,” (Richard) Donoghue fired back. “How about you go back to your office, and we’ll call you when there’s an oil spill..."

    The President then decided NOT to appoint Clark. To do so would result in mass resignation from the DOJ. The President thanked Clark but eventually decided NOT to appoint him. The Bureaucracy would, ".. eat you alive.." 

    The clock was running down. By this time the electoral votes had already been confirmed, the slates of alternate electors had been refused, held up or just ignored. All that was left was the ceremonial on Jan 6th where VP Pence would preside over the counting. Despite this there were still dozens of Senators who wanted to take to the floor and demand an investigation. They were all summarily denied.

    As stated above concerning the Hayes/Tilden election of 1876, problems arising from the Electoral College and the details of how it plays out are nothing new. The Electoral College Act of 1887 has a few gaps itself. Although the law clearly states a timeline for all this to be done the law is ambiguous as to what sort of exceptions could allow states to choose their Electoral College members. It also allows Congress to contest the vote counts and have them tossed. States can resolve their own disputes but there are no legal guidelines. And there is no official process to resolve a Congressional dispute should one arise.

campaignlegal.org

This according to a Wikipedia search:

    "..The Act thus relegated Congress to resolving only a narrow class of disputes, such as if a governor had certified two different slates of electors or if a state failed to certify its results under the Act's procedures...Since the Constitution gives Congress the power to set its own procedural rules, it is possible that simple majorities of the House and Senate could set new rules for the joint session convened to count electoral votes.. Both houses could overrule the vice president's decision to include or exclude votes, and under the Act even if the chambers disagree, the governor's certification..."

    So there were avenues (however narrow) that the President and Congress could have gone down but nobody was willing to step up to the plate except a very few. Instead, advisors to the President balked. Too afraid for their own necks should this go belly up. Everyone screaming about a Constitutional crisis!

Well, we've got one now.

    And to make sure NONE of this ever happens again the Democrat controlled Congress pushed through a last minute Bill to "fix" the problem. In late last December the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 was shoved into the Consolidate Appropriations Act of 2023 and signed into law by President Joe Biden.

    "..It was sponsored by Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. After about a year of negotiations, it became Division P of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which passed 68–29 in the Senate on December 22, 2022, and 225–201 in the House the following day.[1][2] On December 29, 2022, it was signed into law by President Joe Biden...."

    It was the final Democrat Party and RINO middle finger to the will of the people by the outgoing 117th Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022


....And That Is The Diatribe....


      

   

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

How Republics Die-The Star Chamber-Part I




    We all arrived by chartered bus early dawn at Union Station in DC. One friend and my immigrant GF.
    Everything was closed. You couldn't even get a coffee at Dunkins in the station mall.  Out of pure hatred for DJT45 and the MAGA crowd the Democrat Mayor had ordered businesses to close and in the wake of the Planned-demic it was unlikely anyone was going to get anything to eat, let alone find a place to warm up. The temperature was well below freezing. It was horrific. Even the homeless suffered the wrath of a Democrat Mayor who simply hated Americans. 
The National Guard were sleeping in a parking garage.

    Thanks Democrats for caring so much about the little people.

    We made our way towards the Capitol building passing the city's plethora of homeless camped outside the station doors. Did they get a place to get a cup of coffee?
    Unlike the Independence Day event held by Trump earlier in 2020 there were not even any food trucks.

    We were not the first to arrive so early. Many had come from across the country booking rooms well in advance. We followed the moving flow of people down Constitution Ave through the open mall to Washington's Monument. My friends and I stopped along the way to take pictures at various public buildings, saying thanks to the growing police detachments that were assembling. My experience with ANTIFA at other rallies was getting my nerves up. Was there going to be a confrontation?

    Well, a confrontation would occur before the day was over.

    There must have easily been over half a million people at the monument. Various speakers were broadcasting over jumbo tron screens lending their opinions on an obviously stolen election. Some of them were named in the so called January 6th Committee. However, besides the President (who had NOTHING to do with it) many patriotic Americans were spied on, hand picked by the FBI, arrested and indicted for practicing the very fundamental right to speak out, protest and (yes) occupy the halls of our nation's Capitol for a redress of their grievances.

    My attempts to upload Facebook Live videos were constantly jammed or just so slow the page would "Time out". The proximity of so many people uploading all at once was the accepted excuse even by the users. However, more than a few of us knew our postings were purposely being throttled downward. But the crowd was not deterred. We ran into so many hopeful and happy people who were there to support our President. But none of us were under the illusion our presence or our voices would alter the outcome. The Deep State had accomplished it's goal and was going to see it through. And, like many other stand-offs with the Federal Government throughout our history the blood (and blame) would fall upon Patriots.

    Many of those Patriots would later be arrested and charged with crimes related to the protest. Many, to this day, have yet to be arraigned and/or have their day in court. They sit in Federal prison without due process being expedited on their behalf. 

Justice delayed is justice denied.
 
    While the January 6th Star Chamber Committee invokes Rule of Law and Constitutional transitions of power in it's report it ignores the basic human rights of American citizens. It's sole purpose is to send a clear message to Americans.

 Sit down! Shut up, or else.

    Entire lives have been ruined. The Right always suffers while the Left is justified in it's anger. Billions of dollars of damage during the BLM riots and the perpetrators were sprung from jail as soon as they arrived thanks to funds set up by Soros, DNC operatives and even the Vice President herself. I personally witnessed the damage in DC during the July 4th event in 2020. BLM marched all that day and later into the crowd of families relaxing on the lawn to watch the fireworks. The Co-founder of BLM, Patrice Collars, embezzled millions and has yet to even see a second look from Biden's DOJ.

    No one was charged when the the Capitol building in Wisconsin was over-run. No one was charged during the Kavanaugh Hearings. Senators were accosted in elevators and screamed at by FemiNazi groups. People showed up at the homes of Justices in direct violation of Law. Where is the Select Committee on these events? This is a rhetorical question because the very first response is Freedom of Speech, Right to Assemble (and I would concur on that point alone) but there are laws.  However, we now live in a two tiered State where one political group is allowed to foment actual violence while another group is to remain silent lest their protests be deemed criminal.

    Anyone under a Leftist Government NOW, who is on the Right, IS CRIMINAL.. Show me the person and I will show you the crime said Joseph Stalin. He also stated that voting doesn't count but rather who counts the votes. When we have drop off boxes where anyone and everyone drops multiple ballots and these trucks show up late at night to ballot places to count them: When we have same day registration, no ID, no accountability or chain of custody the possibility of fraud is extensive.

    The J6 report contains testimony from witnesses that profess there was no..
    "...widespread voter fraud in a scale sufficient to change the outcome..." 
    In fact this comment appears dozens of times through out the report. Lawyers, Deputies, judges decisions, Other Legal Counsel all make this same statement almost verbatim. The wording is very carefully chosen. But what none of them say is the silent part out loud.

    That voter fraud DID exist.

         There are over 3,500 counties in America. Let's say you have an average of voter fraud at 1%. per county. Not much to significantly affect an election, right? But then you get to populated counties. That 1% grows across an entire state. The entire election was rigged from the bottom up. Truethevote.com and Dinesh D'Souza proved that very point in 2000 Mules. 

    The J6 Committee is designed perfectly. It is the culmination of Orwellian Propaganda to design a Star Chamber to designate American Patriots as Subversives. The report is worded to paint the President as 'desperate', 'crazy' and making threats.  

    The Federal Government has a long history of oppressing it's citizens. From the violent Union busters at the turn of the twentieth century, Japanese internment, the 1968 DNC riot in Chicago, Kent State, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Bundy Ranch, Lavoy Finicum and now the intelligence gathering and warrantless searches of Patriots. The Twitter files, COVID lies and the Hunter Biden scandal are all examples of Deep State oppression.

Keep Americans stupid.

    According to psychologist Stanley Milgram only 20% of Americans possess critical thinking. The rest blindly follow edicts, mandates, orders even when they know they are detrimental to themselves. In fact, a rather significant segment of our society thinks all this is perfectly fine. And they vote for more of it!

    It is no wonder the rhetoric espoused  by  Congressman Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney rolls easily off their tongues. The Forward in the report written by these two clowns is rife with all the appropriate catch phrases.  Language specifically used to elicit outrage among the readers. Then again, we must remind ourselves these people are above the rest of us. They have served in public office for so long that they cannot survive in the real working world. Government has passed laws to protect themselves at the expense of our own Liberty. They pick and choose who they wish to prosecute. Steve Bannon is a perfect example.

    And just what was his crime exactly? Refusing to testify to a sham court. A court that has no authority to exist under our Constitution. Our system of jurist prudence is how crimes are settled, not by Star Chambers. These people are not judges, prosecutors or law enforcement they are elected representatives whose sole job is to answer to their constituents not charge them with fake crimes. 

    Other defendants invoked their 5th Amendment Rights during testimony. These people were charged with contempt and obstruction of justice. It is not the job of the accused to hand you the rope for which to hang him with. It is the job of the state to prove their case.  What mental gymnastics must one's mind go through to equate the use of Constitutional Rights as obstruction? For Government this is easy. It just depends on what side you are on. Eric Holder was never charged for his involvement with Fast and Furious. He blatantly refused the Select Committee's order. Lois Lerner violated the civil rights of private non profit organizations and weaponized the IRS. While she was quietly shown the back exit by her party she and Holder never received a conviction.

    The Select Committee wrote in it's report, " Even if it were true that President Trump genuinely believed the election was stolen, this is no defense. No President can ignore the courts and purposely violate the law no matter what supposed “justification” he or she presents."

    I disagree. Once you have exhausted all legal remedies and justice is thrown back at you your only option is to sit down and shut up? Despite the events of Jan 6th OUTSIDE  the Capitol many Republican officials DID take to the Chamber floor to express their misgivings about the election. They were summarily denied the chance to filibuster or have any recourse granted to them. This idea that we have a 'system' in place is a farce. Legislators, judges, prosecutors and even cops do whatever they want and in too many cases get away with it. This leaves little recourse for the citizen but to respond with violence. We wax romantically of the Patriots of 1775 yet distance ourselves from the Patriots of today. If you remember the Patriots then were a scourge. They were wanted criminals of the Crown. Today they are lionized as icons of our history. Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorhn were complicit in bombings that killed people and destroyed property yet today hold prestigious positions at universities. They are teaching our kids! I wonder if any of the members of the Proud Boys will have that luxury twenty years from now.

    In dragnet style the Select Committee went trawling for anyone they could ensnare as complicit in the events of January 6th.

From the report: 
    "Representative Jordan also responded to the Select Committee’s subpoena just before his scheduled deposition in a letter on May 25, 2022, containing a variety of objections. Representative Jordan also requested material from the Select Committee, including all materials referencing him in the Select Committee’s possession and all internal legal analysis related to the constitutionality of Member subpoenas. Although the Select Committee did not release Representative Jordan from his subpoena obligations, Representative Jordan failed to appear for his scheduled deposition on May 27, 2022. On May 31, 2022, the Select Committee responded to the substance of Representative Jordan’s May 25th letter and indicated that Representative Jordan should appear for deposition testimony no later than June 11, 2022. On June 9, 2022, Representative Jordan again wrote to reiterate the points from his May 25th letter.... Representative Jordan did not appear before the Select Committee on or before the June 11, 2022, deadline..."

    So Jordan wanted to see the evidence against him. Naturally.
 
    The rest is rather vague. The Committee ".. responded to the substance.." What does this mean? Did they actually provide the evidence Jordan requested, or did they just pat him on the head patronizingly? Apparently he had to ask for evidence again in a subsequent letter so I assume the answer was no. Congressman Jordan refused to appear.

    ".. Representative Biggs issued a press release on the day the Select Committee issued its subpoena, calling the subpoena “illegitimate” and “pure political theater.”.."
Biggs was correct!

    Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano also supported the President in his plan to create a second slate of Electors. He was able to garner the support of 20 more State Senators from PA before Jan.6th.

    "... On January 5th.... Senator Mastriano sent two more emails for the President. One was a letter addressed to Vice President Pence on behalf of nearly 100 legislators from various States; the other was a letter directed to McConnell and McCarthy from Pennsylvania lawmakers, this time asking Congress to postpone acting on the 6th..."

Mastriano also refused to testify to The Star Chamber.

    A Senate Select Committee is only tasked to investigate in relation to legislation. Again, these people are elected representatives. They are not Judge and Jury. The fact that they are able to get actual judges to concur with their findings and issue warrants is more conspiratorial than anything Trump or his Counsel John Eastman could have cooked up that day in January. These types of reports are not
 designed to get to the bottom of things.

 They are designed to implicate some one.. Anyone!

    Despite the fained outrage at press conferences all this Star Chamber was able to do was refer Jordan, Biggs and others to the Ethics side of Congress.  In an ironic example of bluster the report states, "...A House Member’s willful failure to comply with a congressional subpoena also reflects discredit on Congress. If left unpunished, such behavior undermines Congress’s longstanding power to investigate in support of its lawmaking authority and suggests that Members of Congress may disregard legal obligations that apply to ordinary citizens...."

Oh really? You don't say!

    "...House rule XXIII, clause 1, which requires House Members to conduct themselves “at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.”..."

Shocked I tell ya'...Shocked!

    Regardless of what the President said or tried to do by delaying the vote count, inserting a different slate of electors, trying to convince Pence to NOT count certain votes, even calling up various State Legislators to select a different set of electors. None of it happened. Everyone refused to partake in doing anything. The crimes Trump is accused of never took place.

    "...  Certain Republican members of Congress who were working with Trump and the Giuliani team may have had insight on this particular risk.."

   There were over half a million people there that day. These people came already charged up. It would not have mattered one iota if the President spoke or not. The people who breached the Capitol doors wanted it so. 

    And lets not forget that it was an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbit who was shot by a Capitol guard who had a long history of the misuse of his firearm. Is he under investigation? Of course not. Cops get away with murdering people every day. If you can find the video she is seen stepped back off to the side of the glass entry door she is accused of breaking. The video clearly shows an arm appear from the left side holding a hand gun and pointed directly at her.

    Originally several members of Congress wanted an independent investigation. McCarthy, Katko and Jordan were three of the Republicans who initiated the idea.

    "... an independent, 9/11-style review is critical for removing the politics around January 6 and focusing solely on the facts and circumstances of the security breach at the Capitol...this is about facts. It’s not partisan politics...
"
    While the measure passed in the House the Senate rejected the idea and the bill died on the floor. This is where NaNa Pelosi picks up the mantle and pushes for the Star Chamber we have now. Democrat Bennie Thompson was one of the original supporters of the independent investigation. 

Ya know to keep the politics out?

     But somehow he had no problem serving as Chairman for the Star Chamber because this tribunal from a Twilight Zone episode was never going to be about finding out the "cirumstance of the security breach". 
 
I was there! I can tell you the circumstance. 

    There was ZERO security to breach! We all walked right up the hill side of the Capitol totally unimpeded. Thousands of us!

    The cops didn't show up until people started climbing the scafolding and the walls. In fact, two people who were supposed to be interviewed for Part II of this expose'(but backed out) were on the other side of the Capitol and were literally escorted into the building.

 When the Capitol Police told them to leave... They left.

    This entire Kafka-esque kabooki theatre was specifically designed to find any reason to implicate President Trump. Who-ever else got caught up in the fishing net? Well, tough shit for them. To imply that the Trump campaign team and the subsequent post election team was complicit in trying to thwart the peaceful transition of power is absurd because obviously the transition happened. The bit players in the actual protest were to be made examples of. Members of The Proud Boys, Super Happy Fun America, Oath Keepers and the III Percenters have either pleaded out their cases or are still under going trial. Many languish in prison with little or no legal representation. The charges are serious although contrived because many of these groups had protested before, occupied various government buildings and never once received any form of legal backfire. 

Until now. 

    Unlike ANTIFA or BLM which are responsible for billions in damages across the country, countless injuries, assaults, rapes and intimidation Conservative protestors get Federal prison. Who can forget the Kyle Rittenhouse episode or the neighborhoods and places of business engulfed in flames? Just like the terrorists we exchanged for Bo Bergdahl (who returned to kill US Soldiers) many of these so called 'peaceful protestors' received Get Out of Jail Free cards financed by Soros and the DNC only to commit more acts of violence.

    In the weeks, months and years ahead we would soon discover there actually WAS substantial voter fraud enough to effect the outcome of the election. The Hunter Biden laptop, the 400,000 fake and deleted votes from Maricopa County Arizona, the sudden packing up of Dominion offices, video surveillance of drop off boxes purchased by Truethevote.org and documentarian Dinesh D'Souza.

    But by then the fraud candidate had already secured his fraudulently elected seat and another sad chapter in Democrat election fraud was playing out.

    At the end of the day we went back to Union Station to board our busses. We discovered upon arrival that the Mayor and DC Police would not allow the busses to remain parked where they dropped us off. It was quite a panicked scramble to contact the drivers who were ordered to drive and park outside the city limits in direct violation of their Driving Log Rules. I lost physical contact with one of my friends I came down with. My GF (who barely spoke English) was visibly shaken by what she witnessed. She wanted to go. I told her of the danger. But she was amazed at how many diverse Americans (and immigrants) were there at the Washington Monument in support of the President. She came to America for a chance at work, peace and freedom only to witness the will of the people ignored and the usurpation of a Republic, much like her own, which she escaped.

....And That Is The Diatribe....