Posted on 07/18/2023 10:27:04 AM PDT by CFW
Last week Ray Epps filed a defamation suit against Fox News for coverage of Epps’ involvement in the January 6. The allegedly defamatory content in question concerned reporting from Tucker Carlson and Revolver News’ Darren Beattie that appeared on Fox News that suggested Ray Epps may directly or indirectly have been acting an asset of the U.S. government — in colloquial terms, that Ray Epps may be a “fed.”
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The U.S. Government has a long and storied history of using agents provocateur in similar contexts. Epps’ behavior on January 5 and 6th was considered so egregious that he was one of the first twenty people the FBI included on its January 6th Most Wanted list. Epps had formerly served as the head of the Arizona chapter of the Oath Keepers — the most demonized and heavily prosecuted militia group associated with January 6th (whose vice president was outed as an FBI informant). Epps is the only person caught on camera, as early as the 5th, in Trump hat and camo, repeatedly inciting the crowd around him to go “INTO” the Capitol, and prefacing each exhortation with the expectation that he would probably “go to jail” and “be arrested” for such incitement.
But Epps wasn’t arrested. The DOJ was frothing at the mouth for people to make an example of, and for whatever reason it declined to charge Epps with trespassing or conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, both easy charges given his conduct and the standards according to which the DOJ prosecuted other, less high profile cases. Even stranger, former Oath Keeper Epps became the only January 6th participant that the New York Times wrote a puff piece on, 60 Minutes did a sympathy segment on, and Adam Kinzinger would defend.
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Well he was “Ready to Die”
Legend? I thought a legend waa a story that isn’t true.
When he left Compton and went straight. Everyone knows that.
When did joesbucks read an article before posting to it?
Rhetorical question of course.
Very rhetorical.
Bkmk
That is why the odds were so astronomically high. No one thought Tupac could shoot down a defamation claim while dead. They thought it impossible.
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