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Gun control activists tangle with Capitol Police during House Judiciary hearing, prompting congressman to ask, 'Is this an insurrection?'
The Blaze ^ | 3/24/23 | Joeseph MacKinnon

Posted on 03/24/2023 8:04:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Gun control activists swarmed the Capitol on Thursday, disrupting a congressional hearing concerning possible efforts made by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to curb Americans' Second Amendment rights.

The Capitol Police indicated that they had given protesters who had been illegally blocking traffic outside the Capitol multiple warnings to clear the street. Seven individuals who failed to do so were charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.

Gun control activists also threw a fit inside the Capitol, shouting through a hearing entitled "ATF's Assault on the Second Amendment," held by a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, reported Reuters.

One of the activists yelled, "All of you are full of s***," reported the Washington Examiner.

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), who together with Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) called the joint hearing, instructed police to remove an unruly woman who had accused committee members of taking her son away.

Fallon then read a statement, saying, "The committee welcomes the public to this meeting. We have people on both sides of the aisle ... not only up here, but in the audience, that have differing opinions. While you are welcome here, I want to point out to the members and to the audience in attendance today, House Rule 11 provides that the chairman of the committee may punish breaches of order and decorum by censure and exclusion from the hearing."

Activists evidently chose to ignore the chairman's warning and continued to interfere with the hearing, prompting Fallon to wonder aloud, "Is this an insurrection? ... I don't want another January 6, do we?"

Fallon asked, "Does the Capitol Police not do their jobs? What in the hell is going on?" ahead of calling a recess.

Capitol Police indicated that one of the activists, Manuel Oliver, was arrested after he disrupted a hearing, refused to stop shouting, and then attempted to go back inside the hearing room.

Oliver's arrest was caught on camera

The Miami Herald reported that Oliver was not put in jail and his wife, Patricia — the other agitator who had disrupted the hearing with him — was not arrested.

The Olivers' son Joaquin was among the 17 killed in the Parkland mass shooting.

While Patricia Oliver blamed the subcommittee for her son's death during the Thursday hearing, Nikolas Cruz was found guilty of the boy's murder. In the way of displaced blame, the FBI had received a tip about Cruz's "desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting" prior to the shooting, but had failed to follow up, reported NBC News.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), on the subcommittee, who previously noted that he "felt so much anger" during the "January 6th insurrection," sided with those who were told to leave the Capitol.

Frost claimed on Twitter that Fallon "completely escalated the situation" and "should've given a warning."

It is unclear whether Frost misheard the Republican chair when he gave the activists a clear warning.

Police told the Washington Post, "Anyone who disrupts a congressional hearing and disregards a law enforcement officer’s orders to stop are going to be arrested."

Fallon and Biggs had called the hearing to examine the ATF actions "aimed at curtailing the ability of lawful gun owners to exercise their Second Amendment rights."

The congressmen said in a joint statement, "The Biden Administration is weaponizing the ATF to advance a left-wing gun control agenda without regard for fundamental fairness or constitutional rights."

"The ATF has engaged in a host of practices that seek to curtail the ability of lawful gun owners to exercise their Second Amendment rights," added Fallon and Biggs. "Because of the ATF’s final rule, millions of lawful gun owners will be required to obtain a special registration, surrender, or destroy their stabilizing brace by the compliance date or will face severe criminal penalties merely as a result of this regulatory change."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; bidenvoters; dramaqueens; parkland
Ttweets and videos at link. Are they really this detatched that they can't face up to the fact that their son's tragic killing was the result of a sick MFer who was known to the school admins and law enforcement as being a troublemaker? Or is this some ghoulish performance art being egged on by gun grabbers and some SoreASS funded front groups?
1 posted on 03/24/2023 8:04:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

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One of Biden’s old stories he liked to tell was when he got arrested at the Capitol.

He doesn’t tell it anymore.

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2 posted on 03/24/2023 8:11:22 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: Impala64ssa

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3 posted on 03/24/2023 8:11:55 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy thmkeorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Impala64ssa
"...charged with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding..." Really? Wouldn't they let you go to the toilet?
4 posted on 03/24/2023 8:21:25 PM PDT by budj
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To: Impala64ssa

Is this an insurrection? ... I don’t want another January 6, do we?”
Another? With friends like this who needs enemies?


5 posted on 03/24/2023 8:25:59 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Good point.

Biden may have played down how he served as an inspiration to the young Martin Luther King and Saint Theresa of Calcutta to build up their failing courage by using him as a model, leading them like a shining beacon toward making something of their minor lives someday. Both owed it all to Biden.🤪

Politifact:
• Biden may have participated in one of two flare-ups over racial discrimination in housing near his home in Delaware when he was a teenager.

• However, there is no evidence that Biden was actually arrested in either the legal sense or in how ordinary listeners would be likely to understand that term. At times, Biden himself has described the police’s actions as driving him home, rather than putting him under arrest.


6 posted on 03/24/2023 9:08:52 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: budj

RE: or incommoding...” Really? Wouldn’t they let you go to the toilet?

New meaning for the alleged conspiracy term “when the s-— hits the fan.”


7 posted on 03/24/2023 9:12:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger
B5500931-E398-4-A24-9-F9-F-4-E99-A2-CCDC21


Hey, Joe did it. Went right up and sat in what would be Nancy Pelosi’s seat


8 posted on 03/24/2023 9:36:35 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: AnthonySoprano

Joe is always so modest and restrained about his many significant experiences and achievements .....

Remember back in the '50s how Joe made Elvis Presley a big success when he taught Elvis his
unique dance style and "Rubber Legs" moves?

And how, thanks to Joe, Elvis adopted those moves as his signature style and went on to become
famous for the way he moved and danced while performing on national TV?


9 posted on 03/24/2023 11:22:33 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: Impala64ssa

Rep. Frost D-FL, is the latest black congressthing to prove how insane they are. That birdbrain woman representative from the Virgin Islands is another.

These kind of fools are harming the greater percentage of loyal, sane, hardworking black Americans who are often voiceless against the insane. This has got to be challenged, stopped and wiped out for the good of all Americans.


10 posted on 03/25/2023 3:11:22 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Impala64ssa

Oliver was not put in jail and his wife, Patricia — the other agitator who had disrupted the hearing with him — was not arrested.

Oliver was not put in jail and his wife, Patricia — the other agitator who had disrupted the hearing with him — was not arrested.

Oliver was not put in jail and his wife, Patricia — the other agitator who had disrupted the hearing with him — was not arrested.

Why not ?

Cuz.

2 tier justice = no justice.


11 posted on 03/25/2023 5:24:54 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: griswold3

I disagree. He was trolling the Dems.


12 posted on 03/25/2023 6:09:06 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: Impala64ssa

They sure are getting erections over calling everything an in sir reaction.


13 posted on 03/25/2023 7:49:05 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: Iron Munro

Joe is a real life Forrest Gump.


14 posted on 03/25/2023 7:50:31 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: Old Yeller

How so? Forrest was brave and kind.


15 posted on 03/25/2023 8:01:57 AM PDT by GAgal
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To: griswold3

I wonder if he was thumbing the eyes of the Democrats. I would have said the same thing.


16 posted on 03/25/2023 8:05:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Impala64ssa
"The Capitol Police indicated that they had given protesters who had been illegally blocking traffic outside the Capitol multiple warnings to clear the street."

Multiples warnings...sheesh. Give'em one warning and cart'em off.

It's like I tell.my daughter, exasperated after dealing with her two-year old. She says "Counting to three just doesn't work anymore!". So, I tell her "Count to five. That's what the Democrats would do".

17 posted on 03/25/2023 8:27:19 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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