Incarcerated on the Fourth
Even as I watched motor boats race down the intracoastal to play in the surf and meet up with friends for picnics, I woke up heavy-hearted. American flags, fully taunt from the speed of the boats, but who is waving a flag for those defendants of January 6 who remain incarcerated pending trial?
I’m talking about:
Kenneth Harrelson
Kelly Meggs
Jessica Watkins
I’m not suggesting that the events of January 6 were exemplary. What happened was an ill-advised decision, assuming that there even was a person who made a “decision.” The chaos helped no civil right, and it back-fired in favor of the cause of those who are near to success in manipulating “domestic terrorism” into a chargeable crime.
So, this morning, I did what I felt needed doing, which was to get down to work. This morning, instead of parades and potato chips, I created a brand new case tracker for the 16 persons accused of being “Oath Keepers,” basis events of January 6, 2021. And I uploaded it. And it’s free. Happy Fourth.
I have been creating what I call “scoresheets” for years. The last go-round was over cases against the NY SAFE Act and it’s CT and MD counterparts, along with multiple cases I had over the NICS-to-TSDB connection, the NY “assault weapons” registry, and false reporting by Cuomo to the FBI of persons voluntarily seeking medical treatment who were being classified as “involuntary commitments.”
It was time for me to do the new sheet and keep it updated. Now, it’s time for you to grab my new White Paper and grab this new scoresheet, and to pull out highlighters and make notes in the margin. It’s time to start - all of us - speaking at our local Patriot meetings with these updates. To put ourselves on agendas at our rod & gun clubs to brief the membership. And to run photocopies and hand them out, maybe even put them on windshields of cars, to get the word out on the crimps and the snags and the manipulation going on in these criminal prosecutions.
It’s time because it’s the Fourth. It’s time because places like George Washington University are running websites with titles like “extremism.gwu.edu” as if it’s “education” to use playground speak at an institution of higher learning. It’s time because not even the DOJ is adding all the defendants to their “public” website on prosecutions. It’s time because the media is having a field day covering arrests that are cut-and-paste from court documents without investigation or the benefit of the doubt…then failing to cover hearings and release rulings by the court.
We’re so close to where we do and don’t want to be. Someone like me can blog and out it goes. Publish and out it goes. I, too, am James Madison and this is the First Amendment elevating the Second Amendment, 24/7.
And yet: we are one piece of simple legislation away from “domestic terrorism” as a chargeable, federal offense, lighting up the Executive Branch and all of its intelligence agencies with all the Patriot Act has brought to bear for the past 20 years. With that? The whole thing becomes the firework that explodes in the tube.
This Fourth of July recommit to freedom by developing an executable, metric-driven plan to defeat “domestic terrorism” legislation.
That’s the only way I’m headed out to next year’s fireworks with you.
