“What Fluke-Ekren took overseas to our adversaries - to those who would wish us to be wiped from the face of this planet - she took the fight for equality for Islamic women for them to die by suicide. She literally was training girls and women to become not “mujahadeen,” which is the male fighter, but “mujahidat,” the female fighter. Her curriculum as a teacher was to prepare them to use things like suicide belt, improvised vehicle explosive devices, and to be prepared to die. And the American media wants to have sympathy that she spoke with a soft voice in a courtroom in Virginia.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock ‘N Load Radio” 06.14.2022

A 20-minute segment with the top line on the newly-released US DOJ documents against international terrorist Allison Fluke-Ekren, and a top-line comparison between her plea deal and those being signed by January 6 defendants. You’ll find the documents referenced in the interview on the “Publications” page of this website.

“We, The People, need to take this matter into our hands, under the First Amendment, under Freedom of Speech and we need to be saying, “This is not acceptable. There’s a secret police guarding the doors to The People’s House and our elected representatives are in there and they’re not safe.” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Second Amendment Radio Show” (recorded 05.09.2022)

“Ashli Babbitt is a singular injustice of epic proportion.  She’s the canary in the coal mine.  She’s the how far from The People has Congress become.  She’s the so far removed that one of their secret police officers was able to shoot and kill her in front of witnesses and on video.  I’m saying will you sign one piece of paper with a one sentence ask in it and put one postage stamp on it – so the whole thing less than $1 – and send it off to USCP...  What have I got to do to get people to care about Ashli Babbitt enough to get people to sign one letter?” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock ‘N Load Radio” 05.05.2022

“The question is how to protect the constitutional rights of Mr. Meggs? There’s a propensity – not just of the Left, not just of the media, but even by people who say I am the righteous defender of the Second Amendment – they are just willing to throw people under the bus who were at the Capitol on January 6. The last time I checked, the Constitution still has the burden of proof on the government, and still has the presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by either a jury of peers or, in the event of a waiver of a jury, by a bench trial. The righteous are tossing around “I’m on the Left and I’m the proper defender of the Constitution and civil rights.” Or, “I’m on the right and I’m the proper defender of the Constitution.” Okay, well, then: SHOW UP! Show up for Mr. Meggs.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock ‘N Load Radio” 04.22.2022

“What we – the American people. What we – Second Amendment supporters. What we’re really able to prove at this minute above anything else we can prove since January 6 is that if we didn’t fear the USCP before January 6, we sure as hell should now. You got a $500 million agency running the U.S. Capitol building – and they’re the secret police of Speaker Pelosi? If DOJ can’t get USCP records in federal prosecutions, we’ve got a bigger problem than if Paloma Capanna, citizen, attorney, cannot get those records. A much bigger problem.” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock ‘N Load Radio”

“Judge Nichols’ ruling calls into question that portion of the Reffitt verdict [conviction on “obstruction of Congress” charge]. It calls into question anyone who has taken a plea using that charge as the basis of the plea deal. And it calls into question the 275 people (at least according to the Washington Post reporting) with that charge pending. Judge Nichols’ decision throws a touch of drama into the Department of Justice grand scheme to skewer as many people as possible under that charge.” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock ‘N Load Radio”

Who were the people, like Evan Newmann, who is photographed and is on video as physically pushing against those barricades, physically pushing them into officers, lifting them up off the ground, using them as an actual weapon, when, in point of fact, all you had to do was walk around them. There wasn’t a solid perimeter around the U.S. Capitol. In a couple different locations you have this display of force that goes on from a few selected people who, at a particular minute on the clock, take action. The key question has always been: who got there first? And Evan Newmann is one of those who got there first – and look at the questions we have to ask on who is “Evan Newmann?” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Assorted Calibers Podcast” (aired 04.20.2022)

“You have to ask yourself the logical question: how many people at the Capitol were hoping that things would be nothing more than a smear on President Trump? Not realizing people would get in. Or not realizing there might be some nefarious characters in the mob. Not realizing somebody might break a window. I’m not quite sure what the logic was, or whether they were simply in fantasy land, thinking oh wouldn’t it be great if people showed up at the Capitol after the Trump rally at the Ellipse and then we can just blame it all on Trump. If that was the scenario that people like Speaker Nancy Pelosi were hoping would occur, you’ve got to be careful what you wish for when you start putting that kind of a situation together.” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock ‘N Load Radio” 03.08.2022

“The plea deal that Joshua James has taken is the pinnacle of the DOJ finally accomplishing what they’ve wanted from the beginning which is to say that the Oath Keepers are responsible for the downfall of America.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock N Load”

“Reffitt’s case is now happening in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and every U.S. media outlet - both left and right - is talking about nothing but militias and showing it as a positive. I don’t know whether by the luck of circumstance he just caught the luckiest jury break I could never have forecasted even two weeks ago.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock N Load”

“If that is to be the standard for product advertising – that it might appeal to a person [Adam Lanza] that even the State of Connecticut in its own findings said was so rare a combination of things that it would not have been able to predict a causal connection between any of these [enumerated] factors and what he did – then we need to shut down the advertising industry 100%.” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “Lock ‘N Load Radio”

“If we’re talking about a band of eleven men [including Rhodes] going to the U.S. Capitol - and the U.S. DOJ has been winding us up that they were taking over the country - the other thing we’ve got to put on the table is that they went to the Capitol unarmed. What the U.S. DOJ lays out very clearly in this Indictment is that there were long guns that came with these men from a couple different states to Virginia, where they checked into a hotel, one of these guys is designated as the guy to hang out with the guns, while they go off to the Capitol unarmed.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst on “The Second Amendment Radio Show”

“DOJ kept winding up the story, winding up the suspense, adding additional people to the defendant list and the page length kept growing. Here, yesterday, we now have the separate Indictment against Stewart Rhodes, Edward Vallejo (that’s a new defendant to this story), and nine of the pre-existing defendants in the Oath Keepers saga. … It’s United States of America versus Rhodes, et al., which is what they’ve been salivating to do for a year. They finally put on the table as Count One, “Seditious Conspiracy.” No “Insurrection” charge. But they got those two words out - “seditious conspiracy.” The media has been going crazy since yesterday afternoon when the Indictment was unsealed.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst, guest for the hour-long live radio show.

“What we have been missing since January 6 is the other side of what happened on January 6. As I say this, please understand, that isn’t necessarily bringing us any closer to why or who. A year from the events, we’re still trying to define ‘the event’ and it isn’t going to fit under the neat, little word that the Democrats want it to fit under, which is “insurrection.” That is just a complete over-simplification and a distortion of the events that happened on that day.” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst

“You can’t in America arrest someone, put them in jail, leave them there, and then be doing an investigation. No. You have to investigate before you charge someone. You have to actually have both an ethical (as an attorney) basis and then a legal (as to the elements of the crime) reason to arrest an American. And nobody’s even talking about this. I can’t understand it.” – Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst

“[Liz] Cheney is running a much more sinister agenda - it simply runs in her bloodline. She’s using Pelosi and the Democrats and even her position on the January 6 Select Committee for whatever she thinks she can gain from that positioning to make little daggers to stick in between the ribs of her Republican colleagues as she walks down the hall and technically still has access to those meetings at the same time. I would watch out where Cheney goes from here. And I would watch out, in terms of Cheney and the legacy of Blackwater, of who is really behind her and where she really is trying to drive things.”

“We tend to think of the FBI as belonging to the President, but the FBI belongs more closely to the Department of Justice as their investigatory arm. The DOJ is not going to prosecute the FBI for crossing the line. The DOJ is allowing FBI agents to engage in outright entrapment and activities that go beyond entrapment into actually designing a plot, offering the materials, working through the specific executables to try to pull people across the line from words into action. It’s almost as if the FBI is a bunch of kindergarteners who are impatient.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst

“From one courtroom to the next, one set of affidavits of the DOJ, one affidavit of the FBI to the next: it remains to this day a mish-mash of what their story even is concerning the status of the Capitol on January 6 when the first person arrived, whether a perimeter was established, where that perimeter was, and who set up that perimeter.”

“Permits to set up at the Capitol on all four sides were still being issued by the United States Capitol Police as recently as Monday, January 4, 2021 and those permits were not signed off by some low-level clerk. They were counter-signed by Chief of USCP Steven Sund and second-in-command Yogananda Pittman who became Acting Chief of USCP when Sund resigned after January 6.”

“The role of the Mayor of Washington, D.C. has been overlooked in all of this.”

“If the Mayor was asserting sufficient jurisdiction that the Department of Defense was actually deferring to her authority, for a plan even on what streets to use, what timing, and what optics – in other words, how the officers from the National Guard would be dressed to roll in to the Capitol, while the events were unfolding at the Capitol that we were all watching on TV, then the Capitol definitely wasn’t closed. Because if it was closed, there would have already been an established perimeter with the Mayor, with MPD, and clearly there wasn’t.”

“In terms of collateral damage, the DOJ might as well be dropping soft bombs out of a plane like we did in Afghanistan. It would be more transparent. There is no question that what is going on here is the single largest bullying campaign by a prosecutorial office in the history of this country. You’re talking about more than 9,500 attorneys with countless resources in terms of support staff, budgeting, computer systems, interconnection with all of the intelligence agencies of the alphabet soup of the executive branch, against solo practitioners in some cases.” - Paloma A. Capanna, Attorney & Policy Analyst

“The defendants who are tagged as having anything to do with the Oath Keepers are really nothing more than pieces of a game to the FBI and the DOJ and Mr. Brown has become a case study in FBI retribution.”

“If we walk in a parade, are we going to find ourselves arrested at the end of the street? These are some of the issues we have to think about going forward. How do we strategically use the First Amendment to protect the Second? And, how did people get entrapped on January 6?”

“I just love people who want to use the Second Amendment to scissor out the Due Process Clause. It’s not enough that they want to trample the Second Amendment. They want to take away other rights, as well.”

“The FBI - going all the way back to its origins to fight the Socialist scourge going into World War I - The FBI has always been paranoid of Americans and has managed every fifty or so years to just make a mess out of things. This may be the biggest mess they’ve ever made.”

“We’ve got to do some defense of the First Amendment, in order for it to defend the Second Amendment, is the play call I’m making.”

“I’m asking everyone to call US AG Assistant Attorney in charge of Civil Rights to ask her to conduct a thorough and unbiased investigation into the January 6 detainees in Washington D.C. jails as per the Order of Judge Lamberth issued October 13, 2021. We need to help the system get back on the track.”

“DOJ has not finished arresting people. The FBI has not finished investigating people. That was the number one misconception I heard from people this weekend [at “Freedom Festival”]. This is still on-going.”

“It’s hard to say: is Cuomo whispering in her ear? We all know how much Cuomo loved the NRA. We all know how much he loved NRA members.” “Cuomo was the master of manipulation. He might now technically be out of the Governor’s role, but that doesn’t mean he’s not pulling strings behind the scenes - and now he has a full-time opportunity to really exact vengeance.”