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-Great Cultural Revolution
US Capitol rioter 'QAnon Shaman' faces four years in prison
[Jpost] Prosecutors have asked US District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley,
...the unsuccessful actor who mostly did his thing to acclaim at Antifa protests, and who was described by prosecutors back home as mentally unbalanced, possibly because of Asperger’s Syndrome...
who pleaded guilty in September.

The US Capitol rioter nicknamed the "QAnon Shaman" for his horned head-dress faces a judge on Wednesday who could sentence him to more than four years in prison for his role in the deadly January 6 attack by former President Donald Trump's followers.

Prosecutors have asked US District Judge Royce Lamberth to impose a 51-month sentence on Jacob Chansley, who pleaded guilty in September to obstructing an official proceeding when he and thousands of others stormed the building in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election.

"Defendant Chansley's now-famous criminal acts have made him the public face of the Capitol riot," prosecutors said in asking for the 51-month sentence. That would be the stiffest imposed on any Capitol rioter, after a former mixed martial artist filmed punching a police officer during violence was sentenced last week to 41 months in prison.

Chansley's attorneys have asked the judge for a sentence of time served for their client, who has been detained since his January arrest.

While in detention, Chansley was diagnosed by prison officials with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety. When he entered his guilty plea, Chansley said he was disappointed Trump had not pardoned him.

Defense lawyer Albert Watkins said the US Navy in 2006 had found Chansley suffered from personality disorder but nonetheless declared him "fit for duty."
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/17/2021 08:32 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  "Deadly attack", just like the "deadly coronavirus"

The big lie.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/17/2021 10:59 Comments || Top||

#2  "made him the public face of the Capitol riot"
No, actually, I think it was more the horns and body paint. Every circus loves a freak.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/17/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  What role? He got his picture taken wearing a ridiculous costume and he gets four years for it? C'mon. What's the maximum sentence for misdemeanor trespassing? And, as far as obstructing an official proceeding, doesn't Nancy bear some responsibility for her refusal to allow adequate security for that "official proceeding"?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/17/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I charge Nancy Pelosi with keeping an attractive nuisance. If said nuisance had not been there and been as attractive and easily accessible as it was due to lack of proper security, none of this would have happened.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/17/2021 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  No doubt this sentence will be sharply criticized by the Soros DA's who oppose incarceration and want to abolish jails. Or maybe not.
Posted by: Matt || 11/17/2021 12:54 Comments || Top||

#6  He'll get out on appeal.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/17/2021 12:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Lot of cosplay going on, he just won first prize. Remember, just to his right was Devil Eyes and to his left Confederate Doughnut. Brokeback Duster is still my favorite.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/17/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#8  obstructing an official proceeding

WTF is this? Essentially, getting in the way, being a boor, behaving badly?
Punishable by FOUR YEARS IN PRISON?!

Huh? So we're now living in Bourbon France?

Why are we tolerating this shit?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/17/2021 13:33 Comments || Top||

#9  "deadly attack" is an obscene insult, given that it was Capitol Officer Michael L. Boyd who attacked and killed a trespasser who posed no threat of injury or harm to any of the officers around her.

This shit is outrageous. What country are we living in?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/17/2021 13:36 Comments || Top||

#10  According to an old Daily Mail article I just came across, Jacob Angeli Chansley has been deteriorating for years. He has been jobless and living with his mother in Phoenix for several years, and refers to himself as an actor, and before being jailed spent his time roaming his mother’s neighbourhood in his shaman costume and going to all sorts of protests — he’s clearly not particular.

Several other articles mention that while in the Navy he was diagnosed as schizotypal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2021 13:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Abu - please don't use the terms 'Nancy Pelosi' and 'Attractive' in the same sentence ever again. Yikes!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/17/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#12  Given Mr. Chansley’s deterioration, and that there are so few private long term mental asylums, the judge may be taking advantage of the situation as he considers sentencing. But he might also go for time served. Prosecutors often do not get what they ask for in terms of sentences.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/17/2021 14:39 Comments || Top||

#13  41 months. Less than the prosecutors asked for, but still a jolt.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/17/2021 15:11 Comments || Top||

#14  And yet a guy in New York I believe just got off with probation for 4 sexual assaults of young women.
Posted by: Chris || 11/17/2021 17:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Convicted and sentenced for breathing. Got it.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/17/2021 18:04 Comments || Top||

#16  The Big Lesson From the Left: The Congressional Session of formalizing Joe Biden's Election Fraud into a Presidency that day is NOT to be interrupted by a rally by the guy who actually won. And if the protestors are lead into the capital by Pelosi's Capital Police (entrapment) then while Biden and Pelosi are in power opponents to dare to protest will go to prison.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/17/2021 18:13 Comments || Top||

#17  And also a Democrat Congressman who while Chair of the Intelligence Committee slept with Fang Fang a Chinese spy and will NOT be prosecuted by Biden's Deep State or Pelosi's Capital Police.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/17/2021 18:32 Comments || Top||

#18  'QAnon Shaman' thanked the judge at the sentencing for being allowed to have fully organic meals while in prison.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/17/2021 21:33 Comments || Top||

#19  Only 4 years for being stupid? Priceless!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/17/2021 23:20 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
FBI Whistleblower Reveals Biden DOJ Activated Counterterrorism Division Against Protesting Parents
Published from a comment yesterday from our own M. Murcek
[ZERO] House Republicans in the Judiciary Committee have sent a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland after an FBI whistleblower provided 'a protected disclosure' revealing that "the FBI's Counterterrorism Division is compiling and categorizing threat assessments related to parents, including a document directing FBI personnel to use a specific "threat tag" to track potential investigations."

The evidence - an email sent the day before Garland testified on October 21 - "referenced your October 4 directive to the FBI to address school board threats and notified FBI personnel about a new "threat tag" created by the Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions."

"This disclosure provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special interest group against concerned parents," the letter continues.

Courtesy of Chuckles Thereter7870, the Conservative Treehouse take on the story:
Despite the obvious instructions to the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland previously gave testimony before congress denying that parents who attended school board meetings were being targeted by an FBI Counterterrorism task force. However, today the House Judiciary Committee has received a ’whistleblower complaint’ showing the FBI is indeed using the Counterterrorism Division as the tool to target parents. [Document Source]

The day before AG Merrick Garland testified to congress, the FBI instructed all national heads of the Counterterrorism Division to begin using internal tags to create a notification list containing the names of parents they considered to be domestic extremists.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Until a few years ago you could call the local FBI office directly. When the Dems decided to destroy our country, all calls then forwarded to the same main number. When that happens the Dems are isolating a government agency away from the people in order to gain full control as an enforcment arm of the DNC.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/17/2021 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2 

Look we all know by now, Biden is a zoned-out talking head, sporadic awareness and a blame face for this Junta.

It is clear he isn't running a darn thing and others in the background are actually in charge.

So when will someone leak/out the real White House Mgt. / Junta ?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/17/2021 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  One need look no further than the pedigree of all the WH staff hired by Brandon.

Bath-house Barry is the most dangerous constitutional terrorist there is.
Posted by: Warthog || 11/17/2021 9:42 Comments || Top||

#4  agreed
Posted by: 746 || 11/17/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama and his buddy Brennan. 2 muslim POS
Posted by: Chris || 11/17/2021 17:30 Comments || Top||

#6  When the Republicans as may happen, with luck, fairly soon, they can rename the DEpartme4nt to the Department of Injustice.
The Dems are creating some wonderful precedents.
If they take over the house, for example, they really should censure Madame Pelosi for her recent behavior.
Or censure all those who recently censured a Republican. That would save a lot of time in Committees.
Posted by: Goober Choluque6459! || 11/17/2021 21:12 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden Admin hopes to reduce inflation by vaccinating 5 year olds
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Simpler to just sacrifice the kids to Baal.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/17/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#2  The one has zero, zilch, nada to do with the other. Even an economist or epidemiologist can see that...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/17/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  I guess, if the shot is dangerous, you decrease demand? Fewer magic money child stimulants?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/17/2021 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, say what you will about Baal, they at least had the courtesy to acknowledge and celebrate the sacrifice.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/17/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
REVEALED: Department of Homeland Security inspector general NEVER took up the investigation into the 'whipping' horseback border patrol agents smeared by the White House - despite Biden promising he would 'make them pay'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Unexpectedly.
  • DHS said in a statement that Customs and Border Protection would handle the incident since the Office of Inspector General had declined to take action

  • CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) will now investigate the Sept. 19 incident and determine whether disciplinary action is necessary

  • Mayorkas said in September the investigation would be completed in 'days, not weeks,' but requests for updates went unreturned until today

  • Mayorkas is set to testify before the Senate, where he's likely to face questions about the record number of migrants at the southern border
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/17/2021 00:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  They never needed an investigation before they punished the agents. They only needed one if they wanted to be fair, and that's not what they were going for.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/17/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Memo: Democrats may rue pursuit of Bannon
Mr. Bannon has been saying much the same.
[TheHill] Democrats and other critics of former President Trump celebrated when criminal charges were leveled against Stephen Bannon late last week.

But the political downside of the pursuit of Bannon is becoming clearer by the day.

There’s no guarantee that the underlying purpose of the prosecution — to compel Bannon to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection — will work.

Bannon may ultimately prefer the risk of a fairly short jail sentence, and the martyrdom it would confer on him from Trump supporters, over testifying.

Even if he were to cooperate, the question then becomes whether the public will learn anything more damning than it already knows about Bannon and his former boss.

After all, Bannon said on his podcast the day before the riot that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow." And Trump’s central role in inciting the insurrection was so blatant that he became the first president in American history to be impeached twice.
^ That is a blatant lie and an injection of hack partisan opinion, typical of The Hill
Above all, the criminal case has given Bannon the biggest platform he has enjoyed in years.

The news that he had been indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday was the lead story on the websites of The New York Times and other leading news organizations.

Bannon’s initial court appearance on Monday was another media circus, with network newscasts running footage of Trump’s former chief White House strategist lambasting the prosecution and President Biden. Bannon live streamed his comments outside the court on the social network Gettr, a favorite among pro-Trump conservatives.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 11/17/2021 07:20 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only thing that will stop the massive corruption on the left is the use of force. Men with guns (FBI) are already applying the use of force in raids against associates of major figures on the right almost daily.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/17/2021 18:51 Comments || Top||


Rep. Jackie Speier latest high-profile Dem retirement ahead of midterms
[NYPOST] Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she will not seek reelection in 2022, becoming the latest high-profile Democrat to retire from politics as the party seeks to hold on to narrow majorities in the House and Senate next year.

"It’s time for me to come home," said Speier in a Twitter video announcing her decision.

Speier, who has been a member of Congress since 2008, recalled the 1978 liquidation of Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.) by followers of cult leader Jim Jones shortly before the infamous mass murder-suicide of Jones’ followers. Speier, then a Ryan staffer, was shot five times but survived.

"Forty-three years ago this week, I was lying on an airstrip in the jungles of Guyana with five bullet holes in my body," Speier said. "I vowed that if I survived, I would dedicate my life to public service."

"It has been a remarkable journey that has surpassed my wildest dreams," she added. "Today, I’m announcing that I will not be a candidate for reelection to Congress in 2022."

The 71-year-old Speier, who represents a safe Democratic seat in the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
Bay area, said that it was time for her to "be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend."
Posted by: Fred || 11/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Hazy Morono level ditz. Unfortunately, some of these retiring dems come from dem lock districts and some of them will be replaced by someone even worse.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/17/2021 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Sat in some meetings with her when she was a San Mateo County Supervisor. She did not impress.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/17/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the Seattle area have produced some of the most retarded and ridiculous congressmen of the past 25 years.

Gee, I wonder how that could have happened?

Couldn't possibly be related to the rise of near-trillionaire oligarchs during this same period, could it?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/17/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Making room for the fringe left.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/17/2021 9:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Go on home. You'll find that the old neighborhood has changed.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/17/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2021-11-17
  Gendarmes attacked in northern Burkina Faso, 32 dead
Tue 2021-11-16
  Kampala blasts: Explosions hit Ugandan capital
Mon 2021-11-15
  Liverpool explosion: Three arrested under Terrorism Act after car blast at hospital
Sun 2021-11-14
  Explosion in Kabul killed and injured civilians
Sat 2021-11-13
  United States imposes sanctions on Eritrea’s military and other individuals
Fri 2021-11-12
  Iran-backed Houthis holding US Embassy staff in Yemen
Thu 2021-11-11
  Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen
Wed 2021-11-10
  Half-Naked Knifeman Reportedly Shouting 'Allakhu Akbar' Injures Police Officer in Oslo, Gets Shot
Tue 2021-11-09
  Fugitive ISIS operative hunted by the Russian government is arrested at airport in Bogota
Mon 2021-11-08
  Afghans facing 'hell on earth' as winter looms
Sun 2021-11-07
  Assassination attempt on Iraqi PM
Sat 2021-11-06
  Minneapolis leftists threaten to burn down
another police station after election defeat
Fri 2021-11-05
  Miqati Urges Kordahi to Resign, Hits Out at Hizbullah and Its Allies
Thu 2021-11-04
  Turkey probes 30 social media users for sharing tweets suggesting Erdogan died
Wed 2021-11-03
  March 8 Forces Want 'Price' for Kordahi Resignation


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