I KEPT CHECKING EVERY DAY for evidence that the riot in
Washington D.C. was the work of people like me, people left of center, the
“radical left,” as Trump calls everyone on our side. You know: The “America-hating”
types who stormed the voting booths on Election Day and sent Reject-President
Trump down to defeat.
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“If you have a weapon, you need to get your weapon. This is the second revolution right here folks! […] this is not a peaceful protest.”
Ryan Taylor Nichols
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During my search one day, I came across the story of Michael
Joseph Foy, a Michigan man arrested and accused of assaulting a police officer
during the January 6 riot. Choice of weapon: a hockey stick, with which he
allegedly hit a fallen officer several times. Foy is a veteran of the Marine
Corps, but a “patriot” horribly confused. According to the Detroit News,
in one video, Foy can be seen striking a “Metropolitan
Police Officer assisting in the protection of the U.S. Capitol who had been
knocked down and dragged in[to] the crowd of rioters.”
Like so many others, Foy had
bought into the “Stop the Steal” myth, while attending a rally in Lansing on
November 14.
The arrest list kept growing, day by day. Obviously, only a
great fool, such as the Reject-President himself could miss the truth.
These rioters were right-wing types, wrapping themselves in
the flag. Often, they had been acting in concerted fashion to steal an
election they erroneously believed had been stolen from them. Mathew Capsel
got the mug shot next. He had been filmed charging a line of National Guard troops and slamming into
a wall of shields. A neighbor turned him in after seeing several social media
posts. Capsel was described as “known to be violent,” in his arrest report.
Emanuel Jackson earned his mug shot, fair and right-wing square. He
was charged with repeatedly striking a police officer with his fist, and later
upgrading and using an aluminum baseball bat.
Asked why he was there, that day, wielding that metal bat, he
told a reporter he was, “Fighting for America. We’ve been taken
over by globalists, by the Chinese. Fighting for America. I’m not here for
Trump. I’m here for America.”
Vitali Gossjankowski, a student at Galludet University, was accused
of using a stun gun repeatedly on police defending the
Capitol. One officer, who reported being tased several times, Mike Fanzone,
said he suffered a mild heart attack as a result and had to be hospitalized.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel describes Gabriel Augustin Garcia: another one of the
alleged rioters this way:
Gabriel
Augustin Garcia, 40, of Miami, is charged with aiding in civil disorder,
illegal entry into the Capitol and disorderly conduct. Garcia, a former captain
in the United States Army, uploaded Facebook Live videos showing him at the
very center of a violent standoff between rioters and police inside the Capitol
Building. In the videos, he hurled insults at police and seemed to revel in the
chaos.
In one video from inside the
Capitol, Garcia allegedly turns the
camera onto himself and says, “We just went ahead and stormed the Capitol. It’s
about to get ugly.”
When police inside the building form
a line and try to hold the rioters back, a man tries to run through their line
and is seized. Garcia is heard to shout, “You f----- traitors!” He drops a
large American flag he is holding and tries to help free the other rioter from
police grasp. “You ain’t stopping a million,” he yells. “You ain’t gonna hold a
million back today.”
Later he yells, “USA! Storm this
s---!”
The Sun-Sentinel adds:
In another video Garcia roams
the Capitol and says, “Nancy, come out and play,” referring to Pelosi. Later he
turns the camera on himself and says, “Free Enrique,” which the FBI said is a
reference to Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Miami-based leader of the Proud Boys, who was arrested in Washington,
D.C., on Jan. 4.
(To his credit, Garcia did serve in Iraq and was apparently
awarded a Bronze Star. That service you can respect.)
Last August, Garcia ran as a Republican for a seat in the
Florida House of Representatives, but was defeated in the primary.
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YOU HAD RYAN TAYLOR NICHOLS and Alex Harkrider, two men from Texas. Nichols, for one, brought a
red bullhorn to the riot and is said to have attacked police officers with
pepper spray and a crowbar. Harkrider had a dangerous weapon, as well, a baton,
which he carried in a pocket of his bullet-proof vest. According to the F.B.I.,
a screenshot from a social media post by Harkrider makes it clear the pair had
come to Washington D.C. because they “were planning a civil war.”
According to the affidavit charging the two men, Nichols can
be seen yelling through his bullhorn, “‘If you have a weapon, you need to
get your weapon.’ As shown in another video, NICHOLS can be seen and heard
yelling, ‘This is the second revolution right here folks! […] this is not a
peaceful protest.’”
Evidence against Harkrider includes a photograph he
apparently shared on Snapchat, with the caption, “We’re in. 2 people killed
already. We need all the patriots of this country to rally the fuck up and
fight for our freedom or it’s gone forever. Give us liberty, or give us death.
We won’t stand for it.”
Later that day, Nichols posted on Facebook, “Ryan Nichols is …
feeling pissed off with Alex Harkrider at United States Capitol. Patriots stood
their ground today! We aren’t done yet, either! You want to steal our election,
and not hear us in court? Good! Now you’ll hear our civil unrest!”
Nichols is also said to have posted this picture and caption
on Facebook, on December 24, 2020.
We’re either going to do it the EASY
way or the HARD way..
It’ll get done either way
though!
Don’t Listen
To Ryan .. Listen to the American people!
Four days later, he posted again: “Pence better do the right
thing, or we’re going to MAKE you do the right thing!”
In fact, it can be almost funny, in a sad, sick, pathetic
way, to read what Nichols said in another post the day after the riot. He was apparently
upset that his right-wing side of the story wasn’t getting the credit they
deserved for battering police and smashing up the Capitol Building.
According to the affidavit, he posted,
Listen up: I hear so many
reports of “Antifa” was storming the capital [sic] building. Know that every
single person who believes that narrative have been DUPED AGAIN! Sure, there
may have been some “Antifa” in DC, but there wasn’t enough to storm the capital
[sic] themselves.
From the lips of a rioter to your Trump-loving ears – if you still hadn’t heard. These weren’t left-wing types at all.
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