THEY GOT NOTHING

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THEY GOT NOTHING

News item from late last week about how the FBI found a "completely constructed" LEGO model of the Capitol in the house of some Jan Sixer they busted, one of those nefarious Oathkeepers.

That's it. That's their evidence.

Reading the charging documents put out by the DOJ, they sound like some kid padding out his resume with impressive-sounding job titles. Like he pumped gas for a summer and claims experience as a "petroleum transfer engineer."

What's notable is what is not being charged. Nobody is being charged with 'sedition', 'insurrection', or 'treason' or anything like that. It's mostly trespassing, vandalism and some federal statute about "interfering with a government function", which I doubt anyone has ever been charged with ever before. I think the fed prosecutors had their clerks put in an all-nighter going page by page through the federal registry looking for some, *any* statute to charge them with.

For example, according to the graphic in this piece, one of the trespassers was charged with "Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building." Seriously. Is there actually a federal statute about this or are they just making it up?    

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1. So who are the Oath Keepers you ask 

    

   

   Oath Keepers

   US far-right anti-government militia organization

   Oath Keepers is an American far-right anti-government militia organization composed of current and former military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath that all military and police take in order to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic". It encourages its members to disobey orders which they believe would violate the U.S. Constitution. en.wikipedia.org

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anti-government

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an·ti-gov·ern·ment | \ ˌan-tē-ˈgə-vər(n)-mənt, -və-mənt; -ˈgə-bᵊm-ənt, -vᵊm-; ˌan-tī-  \

variants: or antigovernment

Definition of anti-government

 

: opposed to or hostile toward governments or a particular government : opposing or resisting governmental policies and poweranti-government attitudesan antigovernment demonstration

First Known Use of anti-government

1772, in the meaning defined above

 

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“Anti-government.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-government. Accessed 12 Jul. 2021.

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