#justice for January 6

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Congress

January 6 Insurrection

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Please support a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.

In my lifetime, I have never before been so aware of the date the electoral college votes were formally counted to validate a Presidential election.

The day is well-documented — video, photos, sworn testimony of witnesses and rioters, a noose was hung for then Vice President Pence, elected officials barricaded doors and vacated chambers, the Confederate flag was marched into the capitol, the list goes on — 5 people died, $30,000,000 of damage was done. Watching the events unfold that day, I was terrified for our elected officials, terrified for our democracy and horrified by the unhinged insurrectionists. What have we become?

Please do what is right for our democracy and support a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection.

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[martyr-mayhem]

The January 6th rioters were not good people, and these are just the ones who were either rearrested after their pardons or have a known criminal history that you can easily find...

David Daniel: Child Sex Abuser

Andrew Taake: Child Sex Abuser

Matthew Huttle: Abusive Alcoholic, Child Batterer & Violent Reoffender

Theodore Middendorf: Child Sex Abuser

Peter Schwartz: Domestic Abuser and Violent Reoffender

Daniel Ball: Violent Reoffender

[reasonsforhope]

Donald Trump charged in Georgia for efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Link here, because WaPo's security measures stop Tumblr previews. Non-paywall link here.

"Former president Donald Trump and 18 others were criminally charged in Georgia on Monday in connection with efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an indictment made public late Monday night [on August 14, 2023].

Trump was charged with 13 counts, including violating the state’s racketeering act, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiring to impersonate a public officer, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree and conspiring to file false documents.

The Recap

The historic indictment, the fourth to implicate the former president, follows a 2½-year investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D). The probe was launched after audio leaked from a January 2021 phone call during which Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to question the validity of thousands of ballots, especially in the heavily Democratic Atlanta area, and said he wanted to “find” the votes to erase his 2020 loss in the state.

Willis’s investigation quickly expanded to other alleged efforts by Trumpor his supporters, including trying to thwart the electoral college process, harassing election workers, spreading false information about the voting process in Georgia and compromising election equipment in a rural county. Trump has long decried the Georgia investigation as a “political witch hunt,” defending his calls to Raffensperger and others as “perfect.”

The Details

“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” the indictment states.

A total of 41 charges are brought against 19 defendants in the 98-page indictment. Not all face the same counts, but all have been charged with violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Willis said she has given those charged until Aug. 25 to surrender.

Among those charged are Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Trump’s personal attorney after the election; Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows; and several Trump advisers, including attorneys John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro...

Prosecutors brought charges around five subject areas: false statements by Trump allies, including Giuliani, to the Georgia legislature; the breach of voting data in Coffee County; calls Trump made to state officials, including Raffensperger, seeking to overturn Biden’s victory; the harassment of election workers; and the creation of a slate of alternate electors to undermine the legitimate vote. Those charged in the case were implicated in certain parts of what prosecutors presented as a larger enterprise to undermine the election."

-via The Washington Post, August 14, 2023

[galerymod]

The storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021 was an attack on the United States Congress by supporters of the then incumbent, but already voted out of office, President Donald Trump. The incident, unprecedented in US history, is being investigated by law enforcement agencies such as the FBI as an act of domestic terrorism and is seen by many political observers as an attempted coup d'état by Trump.

Trump's successful victim-perpetrator reversal

Many of those who stormed the Capitol in 2021 have been sentenced to long prison terms. However, Trump has successfully managed to stylise them from perpetrators to victims – at least in the eyes of his supporters.

From perpetrators to victims

Over the past four years, Donald Trump has successfully transformed the ‘J6ers’ from perpetrators to victims. Sometimes he called them martyrs, sometimes even hostages. Part of his election campaign appearances was the song ‘Justice for all’. A mobile phone recording of detainees singing the national anthem – interrupted by Trump quoting the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’.

In an NBC interview a few weeks ago, Trump promised to pardon the offenders of that time: ‘I'll act very quickly. On the very first day. They've been through hell.’

News and Wikipedia....

Twisting the facts will be the order of the day at the White House over the next four years.

The writing of history will become the reproduction of the liar's propaganda.

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In any other country, Trump would have been held responsible for the call to overthrow the government.

America: the land of impossible opportunities if you have money and influence.

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‘Now it is your duty to tell the truth and remember what happened. Don't let January 6 be rewritten or even erased.’

Joe Biden

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[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

SCOTUS just delivered a HUGE ruling for J6 prisoners!

They ruled that the DOJ's interpretation of the 1512(c)(2) obstruction of an official proceeding rules was incorrect!!!

So many cases will be overturned/thrown out due to this!!!

[jonostroveart]

Bad Official Actor

One of the more striking new details of evidence in the court filing unsealed this week, is the testimony of a White House staffer quoting Trump responding with nothing but a “So What?” when told that Mike Pence was under dire threat on Jan. 6th. I’m not a lawyer, but that doesn’t sound within the scope of presidential “official acts” as delineated by the Supreme Court. If it is, it’s a bad one.

[ravenroseglaive]

What Would Trump Say About the Boston Tea Party?

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Congress

IMPEACH TRUMP. AGAIN.

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Beginning Day 1 of Trump’s second administration, Congress must open an impeachment investigation based on the following grounds:

1. Violations of the Emoluments Clauses The Emoluments Clauses (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8; and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7) prohibit presidents from profiting from foreign or domestic governments. The Founders understood these clauses to provide a critical safeguard against corruption, particularly corruption of the executive by foreign powers. Trump has violated these clauses by refusing to divest from his business holdings. At least five foreign governments pay a combined $2 million per month in fees for their units in Trump World Tower; and because all five of these foreign governments are currently paying Trump these monthly fees, Trump is in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause from the moment he took the oath of office.

2. Corrupt and Unlawful Campaign Practices Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign included violations such as offering regulatory favors to oil and gas executives for donations, coordinating unlawfully with super PACs, and accepting prohibited contributions from Elon Musk via X (formerly known as Twitter) and via Musk’s million-dollar “lottery” scheme that paid out prizes only to individuals who would publicly support Trump. He also engaged in racist, xenophobic rhetoric by referring to immigrants in Aurora, Colorado as “blood thirty criminals” from whom voters have to be “rescued”, threatened physical violence, including murder, against political opponents, a U.S. military commander, journalists, and protesters, and spread dangerous disinformation about U.S. hurricane disaster response among other things.

3. Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Justice Trump’s pardons for January 6 insurrectionists—including seditious conspirators—constitute an abuse of the pardon power. Trump himself engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021, inciting hundreds of violent insurrectionists to storm the Capitol in order to try to overturn an election that he lost. His co-insurrectionists seized control of the Capitol, disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, assaulted law enforcement and journalists, vandalized the Capitol and individual congressional offices, and threatened the lives and safety of our elected officials and law enforcement. He has blocked investigations and accountability efforts, shielding himself and allies from the consequences of their actions in the insurrection. In the face of a president abusing his power, as he has done here, Congress has a responsibility to follow the mandate of Article II, Section 4 (the Impeachment Clause) of the US Constitution and initiate an impeachment inquiry.

Congress must act decisively: By initiating impeachment proceedings, Congress will uphold its constitutional duty to safeguard democracy and hold the president accountable. Failure to act risks setting a dangerous precedent and further eroding public trust. The time to act is now.

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[quirksmith-13]

FUCK YEAH

[justbeingnamaste]

As Jake Lang marks a harrowing 1,400 days imprisonment without trial, the case by the weaponized Biden Department of Justice is starting to fall apart.

Jake, the founder of J6Pardons.com, one of the 1561 January 6 political prisoners, still languishes in a cell in the DC Jail Gulag – denied his Constitutional right to a speedy trial, impartial jury, and humane treatment. This shocking milestone underscores a glaring abuse of power by the DOJ and a two-tiered justice system targeting conservative voices.

It’s very possible that Jake never sees his day in court. Yesterday, Federal Judge Carl Nichols issued a groundbreaking decision to PAUSE his trial indefinitely until President Trump’s administration takes over – claiming the high likelihood of pardons and dismissals. Federal Prosecutor Karen Rochlin couldn’t promise the Judge that there wouldn’t be waste of federal resources and a waste of time for jurors to hear a case that soon be pardoned....

The J6 Day One Freedom Petition has gained immense traction, with signatures from conservative luminaries like Jim Hoft, Laura Loomer, Diamond & Silk, Darren Beattie, Wayne Allyn Root, Grant Stinchfield, Doug Bilings, Behizy, Ann Vandersteel, and Emerald Robinson. These voices, along with grassroots activists, like Treniss Evans, Suzzanne Monk, Jake Lang and David Sumrall, are unified in their rallying cry: NO MAN LEFT BEHIND! All J6 Hostages have suffered enough – every last one of them needs to come home on Day One.

*** SIGN THE PETITION TO BRING THE J6 HOSTAGES HOME! ***

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[coulsonlives]

I was reading and came across these pages, and tbh I think some people need them stapled to their foreheads, because they refuse to stop othering conspiracy theorists and calling em all mentally ill by default.

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Picture 1: "If you've had a conversation with a conspiracy theorist, and almost all of us have, you've met people who do not display symptoms of delusional disorder far more often than those who do," he said. "The ordinary conspiracy theorist is an intelligent, sane, and generally rational person. They are, in fact, unsettlingly less different from you than you may have thought."

Picture 2: "Conspiracy theories resonate with some of our brain's built-in biases and shortcuts, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world and the people in it," writes author and psychologist Rob Brotherton in the introduction to his groundbreaking book Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories. "We are all natural-born conspiracy theorists."

Tldr, conspiracy theorists are people who've been manipulated and taken advantage of psychologically. Most of em know what they're doing. They're just doing it for the wrong reasons. And even if their ideologies are super overkill (I'm talking the insurrectionists and all that madness), they still think it's the right thing! Just like how you know what you do is right, they "know" what they do is right, too. And the more people dig their heels in and pretend these conspiracy theorists are just mentally ill across the board, and gun for that as the treatment to all this, it's not gonna help anyone! It'll help a handful of people who are in fact mentally ill, but that's the same with any other group.

Source: "The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything" by Mike Rothschild.

Okay I'm done. P.S. Read the dang book.

[ivygorgon]

📨 An open letter to the U.S. Congress

⚖️ IMPEACH TRUMP. AGAIN.

✍️ 94 so far! Help us get to 100 signers!

Beginning Day 1 of Trump’s second administration, Congress must open an impeachment investigation based on the following grounds:

1. Violations of the Emoluments Clauses

The Emoluments Clauses (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8; and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7) prohibit presidents from profiting from foreign or domestic governments. The Founders understood these clauses to provide a critical safeguard against corruption, particularly corruption of the executive by foreign powers. Trump has violated these clauses by refusing to divest from his business holdings. At least five foreign governments pay a combined $2 million per month in fees for their units in Trump World Tower; and because all five of these foreign governments are currently paying Trump these monthly fees, Trump is in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause from the moment he took the oath of office.

2. Corrupt and Unlawful Campaign Practices

Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign included violations such as offering regulatory favors to oil and gas executives for donations, coordinating unlawfully with super PACs, and accepting prohibited contributions from Elon Musk via X (formerly known as Twitter) and via Musk’s million-dollar “lottery” scheme that paid out prizes only to individuals who would publicly support Trump. He also engaged in racist, xenophobic rhetoric by referring to immigrants in Aurora, Colorado as “blood thirty criminals” from whom voters have to be “rescued”, threatened physical violence, including murder, against political opponents, a U.S. military commander, journalists, and protesters, and spread dangerous disinformation about U.S. hurricane disaster response among other things.

3. Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Justice

Trump’s pardons for January 6 insurrectionists—including seditious conspirators—constitute an abuse of the pardon power. Trump himself engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021, inciting hundreds of violent insurrectionists to storm the Capitol in order to try to overturn an election that he lost. His co-insurrectionists seized control of the Capitol, disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, assaulted law enforcement and journalists, vandalized the Capitol and individual congressional offices, and threatened the lives and safety of our elected officials and law enforcement. He has blocked investigations and accountability efforts, shielding himself and allies from the consequences of their actions in the insurrection. In the face of a president abusing his power, as he has done here, Congress has a responsibility to follow the mandate of Article II, Section 4 (the Impeachment Clause) of the US Constitution and initiate an impeachment inquiry.

Congress must act decisively:

By initiating impeachment proceedings, Congress will uphold its constitutional duty to safeguard democracy and hold the president accountable. Failure to act risks setting a dangerous precedent and further eroding public trust.

The time to act is now.

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