DOJ Attorneys: Trump’s Mob Intended To ‘Capture And Assassinate’ Elected Officials | Talking Points Memo

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#218

Nope. That’s a misdemeanor.

Nope. Felony murder is predicated on a short list of other crimes, and unlawful entry or rioting are not among them. Murder and kidnapping do qualify, but you have to prove that the person either did the murder (of the cop), or intended to murder or kidnap someone within the capitol.

THOSE are not federal charges, murder can be a city of DC ‘charge’ and every one of these people should have a fun visit to CITY lock-up in DC for the duration of their court cases.

Felonies in DC are effectively federal charges, and are prosecuted by the feds. Where they get locked up doesn’t matter much, but they can be pardoned by the president.

#219

And why might YOU think he meant you?

#220

The Daily Beast: Texas Real Estate Agent Who Took Private Jet to Capitol Riot Is Arrested.

She can write off the trip because she was shooting ad video.

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#221

Acting DC US Attorney Michael Sherwin says otherwise, “no direct evidence of kill or capture teams”. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/15/capitol-rioters-accused-aim-capture-and-assassinate-officials/4174807001/

Nobody tell the magistrate judge in Phoenix.

#222

Next time, Good Guys, just shoot the demented, evil motherfuckers where they stand, mmm-kay?

#223

Never again. Next time, meet them immediately using deadly force with extreme prejudice.

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#224

That man SURE had a way with words! I was alive in the '60s (and politically cognizant) and I remember the unbelievable shock of his death.

God Bless the MOST Reverend Martin Luther King.

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#225

The Metropolitan PD officer who was discussing how he was beaten when HE got on the scene: he feared if he drew his gun and shot he would start a bloodbath because there were more of ‘them’ than there were of ‘us.’

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#226

I took APPRECIATION OF OPERA in my Freshman year (my only elective); got to see Don Giovanni at the Chicago Metropolitan Opera.

These little things that in most senses are not USEFUL are actually what makes us as people.
Smelling the posies as it were.

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#227

Maybe twice, I’ve had students ask me what I found most useful in the work world. I told them to know how to write and write persuasively and with facts. The model they teach in high school is OK for a start, but it does not make you a good writer. Then, be able to talk to groups in a way that will be persuasive and lucid. It may not make you CEO, but will make you noticed.

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#228

They have regular courts in DC for murder cases. For attacking the cops. The feds don’t get to just say we’ll let the murder of Officer Sicknick go. Oh, ‘never mind.’

#229

He tried to make us a banana republic. He’s lucky he failed. In a real banana republic a deposed ‘strongman’ faces a bleak, though short, future.

#230

Yes, they do. But the prosecution is done by federal prosecutors. I didn’t say they would let Sicknick’s killers go, far from it. But they are eligible for a presidential pardon (I don’t think it will happen, but the possibility is there).

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#231

Organic hornhead in AZ (chansley) denied bail: https://www.businessinsider.com/prosecutors-qanon-shaman-capitol-rioters-meant-to-capture-assassinate-pence-2021-1

#232

And then run out of bullets because you’re only carrying 2 extra magazines and get torn apart by the thousands of angry rioters who now feel justified in killing you!

#233

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#234

An interesting thread (mechanical engineer, here), esp. since I was going to post that when I was going to college in the early 1980s, “double Es (electrical engineers)” were strange weird different enough that even other engineers thought they were unusual. :nerd_face: :thinking: :man_shrugging: :mask:

As a bonus (I hope), here’s one of my favorite engineering jokes.

Q: What’s the difference between a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer?
A: Mechanical engineers build weapons; civil engineers build targets.

(Part of why I like it so much, is that I’m an ME who builds targets!)

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#235

I recall some students like that from my time in engineering school* and while they were good–even great–technically, as you and others have already commented, there’s often very little of our my work that’s strictly technical and much more that’s related to communication (reading, writing, speaking, presenting, and persuading) and working in teams (often, if not usually, across functions and disciplines).

*Working part-time (20 hours/week) as I did throughout my college years, I honestly appreciated my humanities courses, if nothing else, as a break (and higher grade!) from the sometimes mind-numbing and tunnel vision-encouraging technical coursework.

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#236

I’ve always said that the single most important course I ever took while working on my Maths & CompSci ugrad degree was the Cultural Anthropology course. It focused on how individual fraternities and sororities illustrated the issues associated with cultural groups. I loved it, most of the frats and sorority types just couldn’t grok it, and of course most of the geeks I’ve managed ever since didn’t get it either.

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#237

And his diet! What about his diet!?!?! (hint: I don’t really care, do you?)

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