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herb749

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Ray Epps Told FBI He Expected a Bomb Attack Near the Capitol on January 6, Documents Show



“Yeah, I thought there might be a problem. That’s why I was there,” Epps told an FBI agent and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force officer in a meeting at the Phoenix office of Epps’s attorney, John Blischak.

Blischak told The Epoch Times he would comment after reviewing the FBI interview summary, but had not done so by press time.

“I was afraid they were going to set off an explosion on one of the side streets,” Epps said, according to a recording of the interview obtained by The Epoch Times. “So we tried to stay in the middle, tried to get there early, tried to stay away from the sides. And if something like that happened, I had a first-aid kit. I could help out.”

Epps told the agents the possibility of violence weighed heavily on his mind and he originally did not plan to travel to Washington. It was only when learning that his son, James Epps Jr., was going to the Trump rally that the senior Epps decided to go and keep an eye on his son, he said.

“As time went on, I started getting a bad feeling like something’s gonna happen,” said Epps, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former Oath Keepers leader in Arizona. “There’s a lot of wackies out there. I thought something would happen in D.C. I thought there might be, what do they call them, EOD, something like that?”

Epps might have been referring to an improvised explosive device (IED), which is a homemade bomb that was a favorite weapon of insurgents in Afghanistan during the United States’ long war there. In military parlance, an EOD refers to an explosive ordnance disposal specialist—someone who defuses and destroys explosives.

An agent asked for clarification: “Oh, you mean like a terrorist act?”

“Right, like a terrorist act,” Epps said.


So he went to DC because of a bomb threat and was telling people to go inside to protect themselves. Of course the FBI bought it.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Oath Keepers attorney arrested, charged with conspiracy


Sorelle, who defended members of the Oath Keepers anti-government militia group over actions relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, has not been charged with sedition like some Oath Keeper members.

The first count accuses Sorelle of attempting to obstruct Congress' certification of the Electoral College vote, starting in December 2020 until January 2021. The second and third counts allege that Sorelle entered the Capitol and attempted to stop the vote on Jan. 6 while urging others to do the same.

The final count claims Sorelle destroyed evidence and persuaded and attempted to persuade others to withhold documents from the Grand Jury investigation into the Jan. 6 riot.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
NBC senior congressional correspondent Scott Wong asked Gingrich what he thinks about the Jan. 6 committee.

“I don’t,” Gingrich said.

“You have no thoughts about the committee itself?” Wong pressed.

“I think you have a learning disability,” Gingrich responded.

“Excuse me?” Wong responded.

“The fact is, I’ve said three or four times, I don’t talk about it,” Gingrich said, pointing to his own head. “Try the phrase: I don’t talk about it.”












 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
🔥 Probably due to Republicans’ increased pressure on the Justice Department for more information about fake protestor Ray Epps this week, the government psyops teams shifted into hyperdrive, spreading incredible fake rumors about Epps all over the internet, in an attempt to flood the information zone so nobody knows what’s true and what’s false.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of sketchy twitter accounts claiming “breaking news” that “public information requests” showed Nancy Pelosi had six phone calls with Ray Epps right before January 6th, and that Epps’ wife used to work for Dominion voting systems.

But it’s all fake news, government misinformation trying to deflect from the real news about Epps.





Out of curiousity, I audited one of the fake news tweets, and looked through its follower accounts. All bots. Here’s what a bot account looks like, if you want to see for yourself. https://twitter.com/TimNorfolk3. You’ll notice the inhuman number of meme posts and retweets, all posted on the same day (yesterday), an obvious AI-generated effort to make the account look real.

I wish I could say I think it’s Russians spreading all this misinformation. But unfortunately, I think the real information terrorists are closer to home. Please. Just. Stop.



 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

FBI had 5 informants with Oath Keepers, none provided evidence of guilt: Defense lawyer



"What the Government knew—but only recently disclosed to the Defendants—was that none of the CHSes provided evidence of guilt on the part of the Oath Keepers as an organization, or the individual Defendants in this case," he said in a recent court filing, according to the Epoch Times.

Fischer is representing Oath Keepers member Thomas Caldwell, one of several members of the group facing charges for his involvement in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol. A total of 11 Oath Keepers members face charges of seditious conspiracy, including founder Stewart Rhodes.

"At trial, the government or defense may call to testify certain CHSes who were either involved in the investigation that led to prosecution of the defendants, or who became CHSes subsequent to the initiation of the instant investigation," prosecutors wrote, per the Times, while seeking an order barring the defense from asking identifying questions that may expose their informants.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

34 US Political Prisoners in DC Gulag Demand Transfer to Guantanamo Bay to Escape Intolerable Conditions in Heartbreaking Letter



Thirty-four US political prisoners of the Biden regime penned a very sad letter this week requesting a transfer to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba facility where they would receive meals, sunlight, freedom of religion, exercise, entertainment, and be treated like human beings.

These thirty-four January 6 political prisoners have been held for over a year and a half without trial for misdemeanors and trumped-up felony charges.

This group of men have been isolated, beaten viciously, abused, threatened, tormented, and belittled by the guards based on their political and religious beliefs.

The men and women have been without medical assistance, medications, exercise, and most of these men have been held in isolation with little human contact for months at a time.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Oath Keepers trial: Opening day brings vastly different views in high-profile Jan. 6 case




The prosecution made extensive use of posters and screens to detail the activities of the group on that day, as well as displaying seized group messages and audio clips between each other. They made particular use of violent rhetoric used by the defendants, which they pointed to as proving intricate planning to overthrow the government.

The wife of one defendant, retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Harrelson, said this is a "repeat" of what has been said for nearly two years.

"It feels to me like a joke, a show. That’s all it feels like to me is a show. And a show to which you just want to fall to sleep to," she told the Washington Examiner.

Angel Harrelson and Sharon Caldwell, wife of Thomas Caldwell, both laughed off the arguments of prosecutors, calling them absurd. They particularly found humor in Nestler's argument that Caldwell aimed to use his experience in the Navy to "use boats to get across the Potomac" as part of a grand plan to seize the Capitol.

"Like George Washington crossing the Delaware," Sharon Caldwell joked.

The two dismissed the violent rhetoric seen in private messages as simple banter.

Sharon Caldwell told the Washington Examiner that she was with her husband the whole day on Jan. 6, outside the Capitol, and that the two of them never went inside. She maintained that the two of them hardly knew the Oath Keepers as an organization, only befriending a few members independent of their group affiliation previously. Several Oath Keepers had Caldwell in their contacts on their phones as "Commander Tom," not because he was their literal commander, but because it is customary for veterans to refer to each other by their former rank, she said, and the group didn't know his last name.

Sharon herself is going to take the stand at some point in the trial.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Selfish Voters Ignore the January 6 Committee



Low Octane Gas Lighting – MSNBC

  • We'll just say posting this a day before the latest inflation figures was just poor timing.
Chris Hayes took a look at the upcoming midterms and began speculating. He pondered what it might look like if the Republicans win control in Congress. Get this – he feels as if things might take a downturn economically.
- "They will do everything in their power to sabotage the economy to best themselves up to take the White House in 2024."

Oof, where to begin on this? First, he thinks the GOP will work to make the economy worse. Second, why he thinks that creating horrid economics will make people want to elect them is…a mystery. But lastly, for his little theorem to actually sound like it has merit, he first needs to sell the idea we are not currently in horrid economic conditions.




Legalized Press-titution – CNN

Today, the January 6 Committee got back to its grind of futility, but not that many noticed. CNN appears to have picked up on the general apathy, as the desperate plea by the committee and the press is to have this sway the intentions of voters. CNN's Stephen Collinson even put this previously unspoken goal into words.

- "Given the increasingly strident warnings from committee members about the danger that Trump-backed candidates pose to democracy, it's hard not to see Thursday's January 6 hearing as an intervention in the midterms. And since Trump is already a hot favorite for the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination, warnings of committee members from both parties that he must never hold office again are by definition highly political."

The real revelation, however, is that the press is beginning to sense that this yearlong effort to change people's minds has instead led to lowered interest, fewer people blaming Trump and/or the GOP for the riot, and the issue of the Capitol riot ranking near the bottom of issues on the minds of voters. Here CNN is bemoaning the fact that you actually care more about how you will afford to feed yourself over this partisan witch hunt. The temerity of you selfish people!

 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Calling January 6 a 'siege' is utterly absurd



Olivia Murray’s excellent blog on the latest buzzword in the left’s propaganda quiver, stochastic terrorism, had me scrambling to find an academic publication on the web that explained this term. After a few attempts, up came an article titled “Stochastic Terrorism” by Molly Amman and J. Reid Meloy, published in the October 2021 issue of Perspectives on Terrorism, available in PDF form here.

The end of the article contained impressive info on the authors:

Molly Amman, JD, is an attorney and retired FBI profiler specializing in behavioral threat assessment and management. She is engaged in private practice and currently serves as the national certification chair for the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. Ms. Amman most recently coauthored chapters on law and on public figure attacks in the International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd edition (Oxford: OUP, 2021).
J. Reid Meloy, PhD, is a board-certified forensic psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and has been a consultant to the FBI for the past two decades. His most recent coedited book is the International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd edition (Oxford: OUP, 2021). Dr Meloy derives income from the marketing and sales of the TRAP-18 through license to Multihealth Systems, Inc.

As is usual in academic journals, the article began with an abstract.

Stochastic terrorism has been bandied about in recent public discourse. However, it has received little scholarly attention, particularly in understanding its mechanics and the deeper psychological context in which it might flourish. The history and phenomenology of the term are elaborated upon, and its psychological meaning is explored through the application of linguistic pragmatics, the psychoanalysis of large group regression—what we term “poliregression”—and terrorism risk assessment. The January 6 Capitol siege and other historical events are used as illustrations.

I was all set to have a look at how the authors explain “stochastic terrorism,” “psychological context,” “history and phenomenology,” “linguistic pragmatics” and “poliregression” until, way at the end of the final sentence, I ran into the phrase “January 6 Capitol siege.”

Say what? When I get stuck on page one of an article, I usually assume the rest of it is of questionable value, no matter its credentials, and just stop reading. I decided instead to look up historical examples of sieges in Wikipedia to see if what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 compares by any stretch of the imagination with historical sieges.

First, however, I looked up “siege” in the dictionary:

Siege: A military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender.
 

herb749

Well-Known Member
Calling January 6 a 'siege' is utterly absurd



Olivia Murray’s excellent blog on the latest buzzword in the left’s propaganda quiver, stochastic terrorism, had me scrambling to find an academic publication on the web that explained this term. After a few attempts, up came an article titled “Stochastic Terrorism” by Molly Amman and J. Reid Meloy, published in the October 2021 issue of Perspectives on Terrorism, available in PDF form here.

The end of the article contained impressive info on the authors:



As is usual in academic journals, the article began with an abstract.



I was all set to have a look at how the authors explain “stochastic terrorism,” “psychological context,” “history and phenomenology,” “linguistic pragmatics” and “poliregression” until, way at the end of the final sentence, I ran into the phrase “January 6 Capitol siege.”

Say what? When I get stuck on page one of an article, I usually assume the rest of it is of questionable value, no matter its credentials, and just stop reading. I decided instead to look up historical examples of sieges in Wikipedia to see if what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 compares by any stretch of the imagination with historical sieges.

First, however, I looked up “siege” in the dictionary:


Oh look, a new definition for Siege . :rolleyes:
 

herb749

Well-Known Member

Selfish Voters Ignore the January 6 Committee



Low Octane Gas Lighting – MSNBC

  • We'll just say posting this a day before the latest inflation figures was just poor timing.
Chris Hayes took a look at the upcoming midterms and began speculating. He pondered what it might look like if the Republicans win control in Congress. Get this – he feels as if things might take a downturn economically.
- "They will do everything in their power to sabotage the economy to best themselves up to take the White House in 2024."

Oof, where to begin on this? First, he thinks the GOP will work to make the economy worse. Second, why he thinks that creating horrid economics will make people want to elect them is…a mystery. But lastly, for his little theorem to actually sound like it has merit, he first needs to sell the idea we are not currently in horrid economic conditions.




Legalized Press-titution – CNN

Today, the January 6 Committee got back to its grind of futility, but not that many noticed. CNN appears to have picked up on the general apathy, as the desperate plea by the committee and the press is to have this sway the intentions of voters. CNN's Stephen Collinson even put this previously unspoken goal into words.

- "Given the increasingly strident warnings from committee members about the danger that Trump-backed candidates pose to democracy, it's hard not to see Thursday's January 6 hearing as an intervention in the midterms. And since Trump is already a hot favorite for the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination, warnings of committee members from both parties that he must never hold office again are by definition highly political."

The real revelation, however, is that the press is beginning to sense that this yearlong effort to change people's minds has instead led to lowered interest, fewer people blaming Trump and/or the GOP for the riot, and the issue of the Capitol riot ranking near the bottom of issues on the minds of voters. Here CNN is bemoaning the fact that you actually care more about how you will afford to feed yourself over this partisan witch hunt. The temerity of you selfish people!




Abortion wasn't turning the tide, now its save our democracy because they can't talk about inflation.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Free-Speech Nonprofit Sues Former Jan. 6 Staffer For Defamation Over ‘Domestic Violent Extremists’ Smear



1st Amendment Praetorian, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting free speech rights, filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against a former staffer for the Jan. 6 Committee and publishers of his insider story of the investigation that labeled the group of former veterans as “domestic violent extremists” and a “militant group,” and portrayed the nonprofit as responsible for the violence that erupted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

News broke last month that a former senior adviser to the Jan. 6 Committee, Denver Riggleman, had penned a behind-the-scenes book purportedly detailing the inner workings of the Jan. 6 Committee. Riggleman’s book, “The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation Into January 6,” was released last month, with Esquire publishing an edited excerpt of it.

The book and the Esquire excerpt both spoke of “the militant groups that took part in the attack, namely the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and 1st Amendment Praetorian,” adding that the committee was looking at the storming of the building as a military operation. “The targets of our investigation were divided up into five major categories,” Riggleman wrote, with one group consisting of “domestic violent extremists,” which the former Jan. 6 staffer claimed, “included militant groups like Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and 1st Amendment Praetorian.”
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Former PJTV Filmmaker Investigated by FBI as Domestic Terrorist for J6 Documentary



“He said that they had a call in to the terrorist threat center that I was a terrorist because I had made the movie Capitol Punishment and they had orders from DC I needed to be investigated.”

In November 2021, acclaimed filmmaker and former PJTV contributor Chris Burgard released a documentary showing what he witnessed when he went to the rally at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He used footage he shot himself outside the building, along with cell video taken by those who went into the Capitol, to show a new perspective. This perspective seems to have been ignored by a weaponized Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland. The film included several deeply impactful interviews with folks who participated and subsequently found themselves targeted for pre-dawn raids by the FBI.

Despite never having entered the Capitol building himself, the FBI has now come to Burgard’s ranch in Texas to interrogate him. As one might imagine, after filming extensive interviews with victims of the FBI witch hunt, this left Burgard and his family shaken. Chris and his wife Lisa described the process in an interview with PJ Media.

On August 4, an FBI agent drove up the quarter-mile driveway at Burgard’s Texas ranch and left his card on the door. Lisa said she found the process deeply unsettling. “There was no note attached, so I wasn’t sure, like, was it for Chris, was it for me, was it for the whole family? Were we supposed to call them back? I really didn’t know what to make of it, but it was a warning. I mean, I’ve never had anything like that happen before.”
 
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