They were patriots , not useful idiots. Their unjust treatment has already caused one of them to commit suicide.
Posted on 08/20/2022 1:17:33 PM PDT by thegagline
Documentarian Ford Fischer rediscovered some video from the riot on Jan. 6 that’s raising a lot of questions. It also puts a big crimp in the narrative of the Jan. 6 Committee.
He has a picture and video of Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Johnson leading Oathkeepers into the building, then wearing a MAGA hat and yelling into a bullhorn, leading more of them out.
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Now, this has been reported before, albeit not widely. But Johnson said he appealed to Oathkeepers who were outside to help get some of his fellow officers out who were trapped in the building.
Where he got the hat is not clear.
So if you take the video at face value, Johnson was appealing to the people the government has painted as terrorists and they without hesitation went to help him to help get the officers out. He didn’t fear appealing to those guys. That sort of blows up a lot of the narrative that has been pitched against the Oathkeepers. Now, I don’t know what the legal status is of the folks who helped him, but if they got charged for going in, that would seem a very significant defense. Plus, it seems to militate against the “insurrection” idea, if they’re trying to help get people out. And they don’t look like “armed terrorists” as the Jan. 6 Committee has tried to paint them when they’re trying to help the police.
Johnson was suspended after the incident for wearing the hat, but he claimed that he had been wearing it to help get the other officers out. ***
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One more thing, Trump won the 2020 election.
Yes, and yes. My wife wanted to go to that and I said no way. I won’t go to DC without a gun and you’re not allowed to have guns there so there’s no way I was going.
Ditto
The January 6th protestors didn't understand that they were in a hostile foreign country.
They were patriots , not useful idiots. Their unjust treatment has already caused one of them to commit suicide.
ditto
I considered going. I’ve never been to a Trump rally, and I wanted to hear Trump speak about campaign fraud. To leftists, my motivation for going would have been that I wanted to overthrow the United States government after I killed some Capitol Police officers.
“Militate”....learned a new word.
Where is Ray Epps? Is he still working for the FBI as an instigator? Has he been questioned by the J6 committee?
Hear, hear!
I had a knife, pepper spray and a stun gun. All legal in dc. I knew Antifa fags would be there causing trouble. If CP didn’t they are morons.
Actually they weren’t too impressive tossing teargas at the crowd into the wind.
Still on his ranch, I presume. You should forget that he exists. Also, remember those videos of him urging people at the rally to enter the Capitol building while conservatives yelled "Fed! Fed! Fed!" at him? You should forget that those videos exist, too.
Statuary Hall doesn’t appear to have rope lines as a matter of course. Pix I’ve seen show none. Who set the rope lines up, why, and when?
...”Fischer can explain that amazing coincidence. Perhaps Joe Rogan or Jimmy Dore could interview him to solve the mystery of how Fischer happened to be in exactly the right place at the right time for the Patriot Front appearance in a small city on the other side of the country from D.C..
A day before the Coer’D’Alene arrests, Fischer was on Twitter citing a couple of obscure periodicals published in May which mentioned the Coer d’Alene gay pride event. Is he really going to cite that as an excuse for flying all the way across the country to Idaho based on obscure articles published a month ago? Or did he get a very convenient “tip” from DEEP within the Beltway?”.../snip from another thread
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