FBI Sacramento Prepares for Potential Violence Related ‘to the Recent Unrest in Washington, D.C.
Press release from the FBI Sacramento Field Office:
The FBI Sacramento Field Office (FBI Sacramento) is working with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to prepare for any potential violence related to the recent unrest in Washington, D.C. To support intelligence sharing and coordination with our law enforcement partners, we are operating a command post. Our personnel, including special agents, bomb technicians, evidence response teams, tactical teams, intelligence teams, and others are ready to support investigations and respond to potential threats within the 34 counties FBI Sacramento serves, including the state capitol.We thank the communities we serve for continuing to submit tips regarding potential violence at upcoming events. The support of the public is essential for us to fulfill our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the U.S. Constitution. As we stated during the protests in 2020, we respect and preserve the rights of all Americans to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights. To ensure the safety of all, we remain in contact with our law enforcement partners and continue to share information about potential threats.Anyone with information about violence and criminal activity may call our office at (916) 746-7000. You may also dial 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) to verbally report tips and information. You may also submit information online at tips.fbi.gov. If an emergency exists, the public is urged to call 911 immediately.
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Nice of them to finally step up. Where were they when the entire Country was under siege by BLM? I guess it’s better late than never.
Go to the search bar in your browser and type in “FBI Black Lives Matter protests” and see what pops up. Try to read from a variety of sources to get an overall picture. You’ll see they were very active and a lot more aggressive than they were towards the white, right-wing crowd at the Capitol.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I never felt under siege by BLM protests. The overwhelming majority of them were completely peaceful and the ones where some sort of violence broke out was mostly because of the counter protesters and the conflicts that were instigated as a result (e.g. Kyle Larson shooting in Wisconsin, the “Trump Train” of trucks in Portland with pepper spray and paintball guns shooting at peaceful protesters).
Where there was violence and vandalism by the BLM protests there should be (and was to an extent) arrests and prosecutions. No one should be excused for violence in the name of protesting a cause.
Here’s an example of the disparity from Forbes — a Center-Right leaning publication.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/01/07/figures-show-stark-difference-between-arrests-at-dc-black-lives-matter-protest-and-arrests-at-capitol-hill/?sh=460fb50f5706
That could be a chapter in “How To Lie With Statistics.” The figure of 52 arrests on the day of the Capitol riot reflects only the capacity of the Capitol Police to arrest people, not the seriousness with which the government regards their offenses. At this point over 100 of the rioters have been arrested on federal charges after investigation and hundreds more are slated for arrest. There was no comparable effort to investigate, locate, and arrest Antifa/BLM rioters after the George Floyd rioting subsided. Of course the initial arrest figures were higher during the George Floyd rioting. Those incidents lasted multiple hours and even days, with police able to identify and target those who were most violent, in contrast with the Capitol Police who found themselves suddenly overwhelmed. And here’s the kicker – many of the George Floyd rioters faced no real consequences from the local system after their arrests. It is highly unlikely that among the Capitol Clown Crew either currently arrested or targeted for arrest, they will get the same kid-glove treatment that the George Floyd rioters got. The FBI shows every indication that they mean business.
The people repeating the false equivalence whataboutism are the same people who believed Trump’s lies about a stolen election.
Who made BLM scary?
T-R-U-M-P
Who made violent electoral Coup ok?
T-R-U-M-P
And then the same idiots will cite George Orwell for being kicked out of private property.
There is no reasonable way to get any intellectual honesty into or out of these depleted souls of people.
They are done growing in all ways.
With all due respect, the people in Portland and Seattle were actually scared of the terrorists. Trump didn’t cause that. The mayors and governors caused it.
Who caused the bridge by Target to be closed? The terrorists. How many do we know of who got arrested? As far as I know, just the person whose jeep was attacked in Eureka. There was basically no police attempt to stop the BS.
As far as I’m concerned, crimes against civilians is far worse than crimes against the quacks in Congress, although both are wrong. The difference is, most of the civilians were innocent. The members of Congress, not so much.
Calling the folks protesting in the traffic lanes in Eureka “terrorists” is a gross misuse of the term. They weren’t inflicting terror on anyone. Anger, yes. Amusement, disgust, annoyance, and impatience certainly. But terror? Not even a little bit.
You clearly are ignorant of the definition of terrorism. By FBI definition, yes they were involved in acts of terrorism.
Simply put, no they weren’t. The guy who blew up his RV in Nashville — that was an act of domestic terrorism. The Oklahoma city bombing — that was domestic terrorism.
Holding up signs and delaying traffic isn’t even in the same league, namely they aren’t violent criminal acts.
Terrorism does not have to involve physical harm, just force. If you tried to cross the bridge you were forced not to. That is indeed terrorism.
Its jaywalking.
Wow. So being forced to obey the Speed Limit is terrorism.
Who knew?
Alf, peaceful protest is American as it gets. Most BLM protests were just that; peaceful. People standing up for civil rights of black people.. it should be obvious to you that history remembers these things kindly. This coming three day weekend for example; Martin Luther King day!
I am pretty sure they’re will never be a Donald Trump Day.
There is no equivalence between BLM protests and what happened at the Capitol. Not even close.
You are clearly mistaken. More death, property damage, etc with BLM. And to be clear, crime against civilians is far more dangerous.
Alf,
In 6-8 months not 1 police officer was killed by BLM.
In 3 hours of the failed electoral coup riots 1 cop was killed, 1 almost killed after being dragged and beaten, dozens severely injured, one committed suicide…..
And by Trump’s own Justice Depts actions, the charges coming against the rioters will be far more serious than any BLM arrest.
I just think that you really don’t have much evidence to justify your position.
But, just so you hear it – I don’t condone any rioting.
And I don’t think the people you are debating with do either.
One of the very first BLM deaths was, I believe a retired black cop killed in cold blood. But, since he wasn’t a white cop, it doesn’t count?
The officers in Milwaukee and Las Vegas are the only officers that have been shot during protests around the country that I was able to find. During the time the protests have been going on several police officers have been murdered by gunmen in situations unrelated to the current protests. To insinuate that these murders are related to the protests is disingenuous and completely dishonors the fallen officers. Not a single officer has been shot and killed in relationship to the massive protests around the country.
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/not-under-siege-dispelling-the-myth-that-black-lives-matter-protesters-have-targeted-police/
In short, there isn’t evidence to back the numbers in the claim or to blame Black Lives Matter for each part of the claim.
Our rating is False.
https://amp.statesman.com/amp/113878088
If that didn’t bore you, this will:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34135267
…killed by people who had nothing to do with BLM.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/08/us/st-louis-man-arrested-shooting-retired-police-officer-david-dorn/index.html
Also, Alf, I just made this for ya:
Woops, BLM was coined in 2013.
New image:
Nice! Terrorism is not limited to BLM. There are many different organizations and even individuals who act alone. I have never singled out BLM as the only group. EARTH FIRST comes to mind among others.
Well, ok.
But the FBI doesn’t have them on their watch list is all.
The FBI has had too many people like Comey who are virtually terrorists themselves to care about adding people they support to the list. It will take a long time before I again trust them.
I’m sorry to hear that Alf.
I understand distrust and skepticism, but I also think they’ve done a lot of good.
In the end, nothing can be without fault followed by progress.
I would also urge you to consider that extreme doubt in our own institutions would be a high priority for any foreign power anti- US propaganda.
I think we should both thank ourselves for a healthy discussion.
Its ra re.
Thank you.
Alf, obstructing traffic is disorderly conduct. It doesn’t rise to the threshold of terrorism unless violence against the stopped traffic occurs.
Ironic that the defund the police crowd has a wall around the capitol
and 25,000 troops sleeping on the cold hard floor, instead of cots … just to protect the people that want to get rid of them.
Thank you Real Brian.
They have to maintain this narrative. It’s all they’ve got. There’s a whole lotta angry white folks that don’t like the changing demographics in America. Trump symbolized someone that would champion fighting the change.
All Trump voters aren’t racist but all racists voted for Trump. He knew that. That’s why he was going to save white suburbs from POC.
You misinterpret the narrative. People who voted for Trump aren’t offended by “changing demographics in America”, but rather we are offended by ‘demographics changing America’!
Thanks for revealing yourself once again. Not surprised.
Nothing lasts forever
White dominance is in peril.
Sorry bout that.
Demographics are supposed to change government policy in a democracy. That’s the point.
I want to make clear that I agree with much of your comment and the one below it. The response to BLM protests is different than the police response to last Wednesday.
But there is one thing that both you and Alf get wrong (and some other posters here): You both conflate the FBI with “law enforcement” broadly. The FBI is not a first response government agency.
The way the FBI operates, as both a federal law-enforcement *and* intelligence agency, distinguishes it from municipal or state law enforcement (like the Capitol police, Portland PD) and even other federal agencies like DHS (which, you remember was deployed in Portland over the summer for a time).
FBI agents and other staff are NOT deployed like police or DHS agents. They aren’t present at demonstrations, riots, or (in the case of last week) mass gatherings that become violent assaults. The FBI primarily assesses threats, investigates federal crimes, targets specific individuals for arrest, gathers intelligence, etc. The vast majority of their work is in offices, labs, and courtrooms; and behind the scenes.
The FBI pursued those engaging in violence and destruction at BLM (or anarchist) protests. The FBI is now pursuing those who engaged in violence on the Capitol.
The FBI is not a police force. FBI agents are not cops.
PS: I did google “FBI, blm protests.”
The first hit is a good example of someone’s attempt to make an apolitical agency like the FBI look like rogue law-enforcement. This article, by Michael German, “FBI targets etc.” is an op-ed, meant to promote his forthcoming book (I’ll add). It is not a peer-reviewed publication using actual vetted data.
It’s very telling that he needs to hark back 50-100 years (to the Hoover era) to find any FBI misdeeds that are corroborated by evidence. Yes, cointelpro happened. And, yes, it was also over 50 years ago…
The rest of his examples of FBI misbehavior are weak sauce. Especially the claim that FBI devotes excessive resources to so-called “black identity extremism:” whatever effort is put into investigating black extremism is completely dwarfed by the scale of investigation into white supremacy in this country. His sources – Salon, Intercept, and private
“The overwhelming majority of [BLM protests] were completely peaceful and the ones where some sort of violence broke out was mostly because of the counter protesters…”
That’s a bald-faced lie if I ever saw one. There was mass burning, looting, and assault long before counter-protesters came on the scene. CNN literally had chyron text stating “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” over shots of burning businesses in Kenosha, with nary a counter-protester in sight.
In seven months of protests involving tens of millions of people, 19 died. That’s a homicide rate that compares pretty favorably to the population at large (5.3 per 100,000.) Roughly half of homicides were caused by police or counter-protestors. Roughly a third were caused by oppritunistic looters.
Compare that to the Trump coup, consisting of a maybe a couple thousand people (?) which killed 5 people in the space of two hours, and CLEARLY intended to kill many more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/capitol-rioters-planned-capture-kill-officials-say-prosecutors
Sigh, this whole problem is rooted in certain people getting treated differently under the law. We should have one legal system, but we don’t. It ain’t even race, rich people get way less punishment than poor regardless of race!
The BLM rioters were criminals because rioting is a crime regardless of your own justification.
The capital breach was an attempted coup, they were calling for the deaths of congressional leaders and the Vice President.
I think a lot of our problems will go away when we hold everyone accountable equally under the law!
Remember the massive unrest when Obama won?
I member!
https://youtu.be/uYolU4sbeIM
That is a classic, can’t come up with a sqidbillies analogy.
Hopefully the local FBI has a bit more integrity than Comey and friends.
Protect politicians at all costs.
Maybe they could bring in Sandra Bullock. At least they would be both armed and fabulous!
It’s nice to see that their media relations team is getting lots of work. Lots of words and statements to the effect that “we are doing our job”. Yeah yeah- that’s why you get paid, remember? Yet somehow y’all totally missed that most obvious shitshow going down in the actual Capitol building full of senators and congress people!! Unbelievable
They didn’t miss it. Seems like an inside job at the Capitol.
How is this “a local story?” It is simply another excuse to opine by selective reporting. Too bad the FBI didn’t make such announcements to be repeated here when Antifa and BLM protesters-you know the ones that actually lead to rioting, arson and looting- were so busy this summer?
They are trying to get a word out to the KKK types that live in rural CA.
[edit]do you live under a rock? I’m sure you watched the news in 2020 showing BLM protesters burning down towns in Illinois and virginia, also saw antifa try to take over portland oregon.
If you ignore these truths you are the racist bigot.
Equality means everyone owns up to their actions regardless of your racist bias towards innocent white tax payers.
Stop supporting racism and coexist like your fu**in bumper sticker says.
Equating BLM to armed treason is known as “false equivalency”. Go rot.
Oh, you mean this guy????????????????
Black Lives Matter Activist Who Stormed Capitol on Jan. 6 Charged
By Zachary Stieber
January 14, 2021 Updated: January 15, 2021
The Black Lives Matter activist who was seen storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was charged with being on restricted grounds, civil disorder, and violent entry and disorderly conduct, the Department of Justice said Thursday.
A new court filing says John Earle Sullivan, 26, told FBI agents last week that he was at the Capitol when the breach happened. He said he entered through a window that had been broken out. He also said he was present when Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was shot dead by a U.S. Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb into the House Speaker’s Lobby through a window.
Sullivan showed agents some of the footage he captured inside the building, which he and others entered illegally.
Videos showed Sullivan and others breaking through a barricade, with the Utah man shouting: “There are so many people. Let’s go. This [Expletive] is ours! [Expletive] yeah. We accomplished this [expletive]. We did this together. [Expletive] yeah! We are all a part of this history. Let’s burn this [Expletive] down.”
He was later heard encouraging protesters to climb a wall to get to an entrance to the Capitol and was seen entering the building.
During one conversation with others while inside, Sullivan said, “We gotta get this [expletive] burned.” At other times, he said, among other things, “it’s our house [expletive]” and “we are getting this [expletive].”
Sullivan told U.S. Capitol Police officers to stand down so that they wouldn’t get hurt, according to the court filing. He joined the crowd trying to open doors to another part of the Capitol, telling people “Hey guys, I have a knife” and asking them to let him get to the front. He did not make it to the doors. He later tried to get the officers guarding the Speaker’s Lobby to go home, telling them: “Bro, I’ve seen people out there get hurt.”
Epoch Times Photo
A group of protesters enter the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Sullivan spoke to a slew of media outlets after the breach, including CNN and ABC. He told The Epoch Times that he took steps to blend in with the crowd so he didn’t “get beat up.” He said he’s known in the activist community as being a member of the far-left, anarcho-communist group Antifa. He denied being a member of the network.
He told The Epoch Times he knew of plans to storm the Capitol and that he saw them on “undergrounds chats and things like that.” He posted information about the plans on his social media, but didn’t inform the law enforcement. “I’m not a snitch,” he said.
Sullivan was charged with rioting and criminal mischief in Provo, Utah, based on his activities around a protest last year in which a person was shot and injured.
Sullivan has posted in support of Black Lives Matter, frequently using the hashtag #blm. He leads a group called Insurgence USA, which says it was founded in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man, in police custody in Minneapolis last year.
“The lack of care for the human life was unacceptable so we set out to end police brutality. We then set out to empower and uplifting [sic] black and indigenous voices,” the group’s website states.
It wasn’t clear whether Sullivan had hired a lawyer this week. The case was under seal in the federal filing system.
Sullivan faces jail time if convicted.
You’re right.
White supremacist Trump voters and Trump himself are absolutely stupid as fuck enough to be led into a trap by a 27 year old scrawny BLM impersonator.
It does make sense.
Sounds like he just likes to burn shit down, and isn’t real picky about the cause. So the right found one dickhead they can blame it on. Typical.
Clearly you are not paying attention if you are throwing around the word treason and only suggesting one side is guilty.
Don’t you people realize all 535 if them are soulless grifters? Okay, maybe a small handful are honest, but Pelosi, Schumer, and McConnell are definitely not. And then, somehow (bananas republic style, naturally) we’ve awarded the presidency to the nation’s MOST compromised grifters (Mz Harris is highly compromised, too) – and you’re applauding.
Enjoy your Bananas Foster(ed Upon You), it’ll be our country’s last dessert …
Please stick to the narrative : one side good, the other side bad.
It doesn’t matter which side you’re on just so we can jam you into the proper hole.
Sorry, Trump is the most “compromised Grifter” to inhabit the White House so far.
Life as he knows it is over. He’ll be lucky to escape jail. His empire is crumbling.
Don’t you know? “BLM” burned down entire cities!!! (No, they did not burn down entire cities, in fact it is much more complicated than that).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd
As for the state capitols, Oregon already experienced this.
https://deadline.com/2020/12/armed-protesters-enter-oregon-state-capitol-building-assault-police-chemical-agent-1234660385/
But the Oregon capitol incident had a little help from the inside.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/533894-oregon-state-lawmaker-who-opened-door-for-armed-protesters-kicked-off
Everything is more complicated than “that.” Unless the goal is to tear someone else down so that you can play king-of-the-hill on the rubble. Then just attack without pause.
You’re defending BLM terrorists? Street thugs who admit on camera they are Marxists? Liberalism is definitely a mental disorder.
Ummm:
Says the guy living in a fantasy world.
their fantasy has always been our reality. it takes a crazy person to make sense of bad people involved in a conspiracy against the truth tellers.
dont hate the player,
hate the game,
14,000 people were arrested incedent to the BLM protests. Don’t get butthurt because your side’s coup attempt failed. I’ll call it even when the cops arrest 14,000 Trumpettes.
For a fair comparison, google the shot of riot police guarding the Capital during the BLM march, and what transpired Jan.6.
But there was an Antifa guy there !!!
*stomps foot*
How did I know you were going to say this? So I went back and, oddly, yes, every single press release sent to me by the Sacramento FBI (I checked back til June)except two about applications to apply for their academy, I posted.
https://kymkemp.com/2020/10/18/fbi-sacramento-reminds-public-about-election-security-and-malign-foreign-influence-in-advance-of-2020-general-election/
https://kymkemp.com/2020/09/23/foreign-actors-and-cybercriminals-likely-to-spread-false-information-about-2020-election-results-says-fbi/
https://kymkemp.com/2020/09/03/fbi-san-francisco-issues-public-guidance-on-2020-election-security/
https://kymkemp.com/2020/06/29/fbi-warns-of-fraud-schemes-related-to-covid-19-antibody-tests/
Go after the FBI if you want to accuse them of wanting an “excuse to opine.”
But the FBI never lays claim to being a local interest only reporter when asked why only progressive news is news. For a list of Sacramento FBI press releases https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sacramento/news/press-releases
Which included such things as to report election fraud in November, M13 gang activity, Mexican National sentenced to a year in jail being an unlawful immigrant in possession of firearm, etc. Not covered. Even then, Sacramento is not our area’s FBI office.
Those might be their press releases but those aren’t the ones they send me. They only send me ones they believe are important for this area…so when the FBI sends me press releases they want published I tend to publish them.
Also the FBI office in Fortuna is a big secret (from no one). They don’t send out press releases, don’t you know that?
Wonder if that Fusion Center is monitoring the local White Supremacy enthusiasts.
You’re never going to complete anything if you always run away.
https://kymkemp.com/2021/01/14/humboldt-county-republicans-and-democrats-denounce-the-violence-in-washington-dc/#comment-1265809
one event at the capitol is all it took to get the attention from civic leaders ?
When that “event” is an attempted coup on the legislature to overturn a legal vote, sure.
Sigh. In every political protest of a magnitude of that one, there will be a few with seditious intent. Feminist protesters took over the Hart Senate Bldg in 201 (based on unproven conspiracy theories about Kavanaugh) , the Black Panther did an armed occupation of the California State Capitol, BLM protesters set fire to buildings in Washington DC this summer, Antifa took over blocks of Portland and Seattle and burned buildings, etc etc etc. It is an American tradition.
Yet the liberal factions are all outraged over this one case where -gasp- liberal politicians felt the threat! Wow. As far as I have read the only shots fired in this mob attack on the Capitol were not fired by protesters. It’s a piss poor coup that leaves the few guns they brought in their cars when they “take over” the government from the only people who actually had real guns. But apparently it’s enough to scare Congress into instantly throwing out the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, any number of laws they made and their own rules of order. How dare these right wing racist fascists not live up to the self fulfilling prophecies of pertpetually offended left? Best go ahead with full out suppressing of rights because they will certainly learn to match their actions to their rhetoric next time!
You are awarded the medal of most convincing attempt to minimize what happened at the Capitol.
Congratulations. Maybe Trump will award you a Medal of Honor of some sort .
150 peaceful women were arrested that day protesting the kavanaugh appointment. 150 totally peaceful women. No one “took over” a building.
” In a coup, it is the military, paramilitary, or opposing political faction that deposes the current government and assumes power; whereas, in the pronunciamiento, the military deposes the existing government and installs an ostensibly civilian government.”
Failed coup.
Only the first event that they didn’t watch happen just to someone else. Will it ever come to their attention that fires they set on someone else’s patch are uncontrollable? Hate generates hate, demands are a moving target and the future eventually arrives no matter how much has been pushed off until a later date.
It’s scared.
Hey, after the “revolution” can we stop and get a burrito from Chipotle, and a Starbucks? This “revolution” stuff really gets me hungry. I didn’t think it would be so hard. Who knew?
With all due respect, the people in Portland and Seattle were actually scared of the terrorists. Trump didn’t cause that. The mayors and governors caused it.
Who caused the bridge by Target to be closed? The terrorists. How many do we know of who got arrested? As far as I know, just the person whose jeep was attacked in Eureka. There was basically no police attempt to stop the BS.
As far as I’m concerned, crimes against civilians is far worse than crimes against the quacks in Congress, although both are wrong. The difference is, most of the civilians were innocent. The members of Congress, not so much.
The difference is that members of of the attempted Trump Coup were out to kill people, liquidate the legislature and install a dictator. These are more serious crimes than jaywalking.
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/1/13/22228675/amazon-parler-takedown-violent-threats-moderation-content-free-speech
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/4168195001
With all due respect, this was a crime against the entire inhabitants of this country–about half the nation watched in terror as insurrectionists tore up the Capitol and threatened the lives of people who were trying to keep democracy and our rights safe. They murdered one officer. You may not have been scared on January 6 but you are not representative of the majority of people watching.
They were not “insurrectionists,” you weed-choked Humboldt Hunny. YOU are the problem. Say you want a revolution? You got it. We will not surrender this republic without a fight.
Having deleted multiple comments calling for violence from the far right, I’m letting this one through just to make it clear what is happening behind the scenes here and elsewhere.
@ Kym
Can we sponsor a bus for them all to go DC for the inauguration?
No way Kym, far-right militia extremists are totally peaceful fascists.
It must be a BLM dude, maybe the same one that instigated the killing of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.
Not surprised and can guess who “Benjamin Martin” really is. Pretty sure some of these people are on Watch Lists. Hope they’re really being watched.
It’s not about surrendering the Republic, it’s about surrendering their White Supremacy. Poor babies, their White Pride Piper lost the election, now they’re mad.
I thank you every day in my head Kym. We do not always agree but I never ever think you are anything but rational & compassionate. And I believe you and I love our country.
I’m the sap weeping at the flag waving at sunset. I love this country fiercely but even more I love the ideals this country at its best stands for.
We as a country are going survive this dark winter, Dinah. I have to believe that.
But dang I wonder how many individuals–grampas and nanas, fathers and moms, brothers and sisters, aunts…uncles and children- are going to die before we straighten out this mess….
Sigh…
I wrote this in all sincerity…but even I have to admit it sounds like the chopped out bits from a bad screenplay.
Donald Trump is currently accepting applications for pardons! If you are, or know, a patriot who requires a pardon for their valiant efforts to overturn the 2020 election, please write a letter to your local FBI office with the following information:
Your Name
Contact Information
Social Security Number
The reason you feel a pardon is necessary
Be proactive! If you feel you will need a pardon for future actions, let the FBI know immediately and Bill Barr will make sure President Trump sees it!
lol
No current member of Congress gives a hoot in hell about your freedom, my freedom or anyone else’s freedom. They have all proved that by fighting with each other instead of even making any attempt to work together. Democrats spent 4 years doing nothing but try to get Trump out of office or throwing tantrums refusing to work with Republicans. Republicans spent all 4 years fighting against the Democrats. Not a single thing either side did was for the people. It was all for power. It’s actually embarrassing to call a single one of them legislators. As I have said before, it would be better to shut Congress down and send them all home than to keep a single one of them.
Kym, you keep up on this far more than most as you are actually a news reporter, so please tell me a single accomplishment of either side in the last 4 years legislatively that really matters to a simple country boy like me. Likely it won’t be easy.
For it or against it, The First Step Act passed with bipartisan support. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-sign-bipartisan-criminal-justice-bill-amid-partisan-rancor-over-stopgap-spending-measure/2018/12/21/234f9ffc-0510-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html “The new law…shortens sentences for some offenders and expands job training and other programs for prisoners.” In the long run I believe this will improve our criminal justice system and reduce criminality.
There was also the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act which will help deal with our opioid addiction crisis. Hopefully, that will also reduce crime and help families impacted.
Here’s a list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_116th_United_States_Congress
That said, this was not a productive year for Congress.
Mitch McConnell is mostly to blame for the halt in passing legislation because, Democrats…
He sure came to life when it came to hypocritically installing a conservative in the Supreme Court.
If I ever become an addict or end up in prison I might benefit from one or the other of these programs. Otherwise it’s just more government interference that will cost me more taxes and provide some bleeding heart a job.🤷♂️
I’m not an addict (well, not to drugs anyway) but I expect to benefit from a society that has safety nets to help those in need–thus not pushing them into or further into a life of crime. Prison is an expensive alternative for tax payers.
As long as there are people manufacturing drugs, brewing alcohol and growing pot there’s no amount of money that can be given to rehab clinics, rehab councilors, mental health workers, social workers or anyone else that will make a difference. The social acceptance of this garbage has a lot stronger pull on people than rehab, so nothing will change.
Putting this link here because I want to easily find it again. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/16/video-timeline-capitol-siege/?arc404=true&utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F2e9e702%2F60046be99d2fda0efbb41b8f%2F5972ad2c9bbc0f1cdce8ac3f%2F8%2F70%2F60046be99d2fda0efbb41b8f
I can tell you for a fact, “the people” of Portland weren’t terrified. Some were, I’m sure, but as my relatives that, you know, live in Portland, they weren’t terrified. They avoid that one small part of downtown (at night) and go on with their lives.
The businesses that were initially burned and looted, I do feel for them. And hope those responsible for burning down a business or looting are arrested. Note, the many who weren’t prosecuted were NOT those people. About a third are still in deep trouble.
But let me ask you a question, if the “burning” and “rioting” in down town Portland has been going on for months, how come downtown Portland (and Seattle for that matter) is still standing, and not a smoking ruin?
Because I can personally guarantee you (because we have been up there very recently) it is still standing and life is going on pretty much as usual, well “usual” in the time of Covid. I swear, people who go on and on about Portland, for the most part, do not have a clue about the city or the location of the events. I’ve actually been IN the Hatfield Courthouse. As a witness, not a defendant, just to be clear. 🙂
Life as usual for communists, that is correct. Portlandia is a cesspool of exhausted liberalism (and liberal tyranny). Somalia of the west. Enjoy your latte with extra arson.
Looks like it has low-to-average crime rates to me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
You had best stay out of the imaginary Portland in your head then.
Maybe the real one, too. The traffic is a nightmare.
It is kind of weird that I have lived long enough to be called a commie in two different eras. 🙂
But you’ll excuse me, I have to go do the payroll for our crew. On our boat, that we own. It even has an American flag flying off the boom (has for nearly 20 years). Won’t take it down, but your ilk have rendered it something sullied and boy, is there some “virtue signaling” going on there, literally wrapping yourselves in the flag, well some, others use the Trump flag. That and the word “patriot”.
Enjoy some ink in your tea.
For all the people thinking a BLM impersonator or activist is their key to electoral coup attempt redemption.
Sorry, 1 for 1, this white supremacist is known for kicking of the George Floyd riots:
Minneapolis police say ‘Umbrella Man’ was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting.
https://m.startribune.com/police-umbrella-man-was-a-white-supremacist-trying-to-incite-floyd-rioting/571932272/
Back to reality.
BLM- People marching against racial injustice .
Capitol “March”- White people brainwashed by the Trump propaganda machine fearing their White Supremacy is in jeopardy and their Supreme Leader won’t be there to champion it anymore.
You didn’t win the popular vote of the people, you were just more successful at stuffing the ballot box! Let that sink in. After the foam subsides.
*sigh*
Every single evaluation of the 2020 election by the folks in charge of election security — Republicans and Democrats — assert that this was the most secure election thus far. Including every review by Trump’s own appointees. No evidence of widespread voter fraud was found anywhere. None. Zilch. Zero. Zip. Nada.
There’s no getting thru.
Guest is sadly uninformed yet swans around here as if she’s the final voice of reason. It’s getting more and more ridiculous. The facepalm says it all.
I have struggled to find a phrase that is similar to “blood libel”. I do not want to use that term, because it lessens to impact of anti-Semitism.
But it is something like that. From the Qult beliefs in baby-eating pedo Democrats to the “stolen election”.
Pence said he’s committed to “an orderly transition and to a safe inauguration.”
Unlike President Trump, Pence has been very visible since last week’s storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters and far-right extremists, who were protesting the certification by Congress of Biden’s Electoral College victory over the president. Pence, in his role as vice president, was presiding over the joint session of Congress at the time the Capitol was breached by the rioting mob. Five people, including a Capitol Hill Police officer, died during the attack.
“We all lived through that day of January the 6th,” Pence said at the FEMA briefing. “We are committed to an orderly transition and to a safe inauguration. The American people deserve nothing less.”
And he emphasized, “We’re going to ensure that we have a safe inauguration. That President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are sworn in as the new president and vice president of the United States. In a manner consistent with our history, with our traditions, in a way that gives honor to the American people and the United States.”
And unlike the president — who has still refused to concede his election loss to Biden and continues to falsely claim that the election was “rigged” and that there was “massive voter fraud” – Pence will attend the inauguration.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-front-and-center-in-capitol-siege-aftermath
If only everyone could quit the sanctimonious bullshit you might actually be able to have an honest discussion, unfortunately all you’ll get here is a thread of whataboutisms . Have fun with that.
Trump deserves some credit for accomplishing in four years what took the Bush administration eight: sending the US economy into a nose dive.
ter·ror·ist
/ˈterərəst/
noun
plural noun: terrorists
a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims
Redefining jaywalking and vandalism as terrorism.
Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism
Wow, it’s really dark in here.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/antigovernment
Not really heading into a good swing here for 4 years….
its official. The January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capital was a Domestic Terrorist Attack. sorry but Antifa and BLM are still not on the list. its interesting how some of the proud boys use the same symbol as the Atomwaffen Division, which is on the list of violent domestic terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_terrorism_in_the_United_States