Prosecutors on Monday revealed what they said was a suspected effort by Oath Keepers to stash weapons in Virginia ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.
These people are easy to dismiss as ridiculous cosplay commandos, but they see themselves as soldiers. It’s time to take them as seriously as they take themselves.
So they are rolling their weapons stashes thru Comfort Inn hallways on bellhop carts, and presumably thru airports and baggage checks? I expected black helicopters and frogmen smuggling stuff in watertight bags up slippery riverbanks and dead-drops etc. These guys are so crafty, so military, so non-civilian there is no way they would be reduced to schlepping this stuff down a hotel hallway in their sweatpants!
I’m wondering if or when anything will come of all this from 6 January. Sure, a lot of people have been rounded up and there’s a whole lot of evidence.
But when do the prosecutions begin? The Right has been highly successful, as we get farther away from the event, of painting it as a non-event, nothing to see here, move along.
It’s not. It really isn’t. But when there are no prosecutions in play, who’s going to tell anyone that the Right isn’t right?
Wow. Comfort Inn is basking in the glow of all this free publicity!
I am sure evidence for communication, coordination and conspiracy of the Quick Reaction Force with Coup and Capitol Invasion Command Headquarters in the Old Post Office Building private residence will soon emerge.
Individually they may be cosplay clowns but collectively in the company of a mob they came close to not simply interfering with the transfer of power, but assassinating at least some of those responsible for conducting that essential constitutional act.
Regardless of what happens at the state level, the federal prosecutions need to successively grind them down, all the way; no quarter.
cosplay clowns is an excellent description.
Come stay for the insurrection. Free DirectTV and Continental Breakfast.
"Give me your incels, your guns, your pretend-commandos.’
I’m not a lawyer, but I would think that A) they want to be very methodical about this (i.e. not blow it) and B) that takes time. Every piece of evidence they gather leads to more crumbs, more people, more surveillance tape, etc. Then they get these people into a room, talk about the evidence they have and the consequences that accompany the allegations, and ask if there is anything else they want to talk about. Or something like that.
Seems like a long time ago, but it’s only 3 months. That’s really not that long at all. There will be charges, trials, and (I believe) guilty verdicts. But the guilty verdict is the goal, not expediting the process. Hang in there.
Wouldn’t that be delightful!
“…the government has produced no evidence that Mr. Harrelson’s alleged conduct was calculated to influence the conduct of government…"
The guy was either trying to influence the conduct of government or he has the worst timing in the history of Capitol tourism.
They already have. Now if you mean when do the trials begin, it is generally upwards of a year, or sometimes even longer, between being charged and the start of trial. Roger Stone, for instance, was arrested in January 2019 and put to trial in November of the same year. That’s the same district where all the insurrection cases have been charged.
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Pretty poor planning. Would take a good 20-30 minutes to get the QRF to the Capitol, traffic depending, from there. That’s the sort of time gap that costs you battles, would think that smarter folks would have parked cars near the Capitol with all the toys so that they were properly ready to go.
They need to lock all these bastards up, forever. They were plotting to kill the VP, the Speaker and as many members of Congress as they could. The “QRF” was not a safety net for the rioters, it was a cache of deadly weaponry to use they if they encountered and apprehended our Congressional leaders. This was Sedition, plain and simple.
“Death to Traitors” was a motto of the American Revolution of 1776. It is still salient today.
The mouth-breather frogmen never showed up for some reason, and they can’t remember where they parked the helicopter.
@randome cosplay clowns is an excellent description.
Or perhaps: Kapital Kosplay Klowns.
Better than the Courtroom Marriot.