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Are we finally going to have a day of reckoning for those who plotted insurrection against the United States? Are those upline — Trump, members of his administration, Republican members of Congress, and loudmouth operatives like Bannon finally going to have their wings clipped? If we let them skate it will be at our peril.

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Fox "News" announced today it won't air the hearings, one of the most momentous events in the country's history. It's not surprising but points out the power of an organization devoted to deluding its audience with propaganda. Fox News viewers need to hear the truth and come to grips with the fact they have supported an attempt to overthrow the federal government based on arguably the most devious, destructive lie ever told in the U.S. Instead, Hannity and Carlson will continue the lie and, as well, lie about the J6 committee's work during Thursday's kickoff hearing.

One would hope some Fox viewers might ask themselves why can't they see the hearings and get a clue. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is about to be astounded by the committee's findings. The professor has set the stage perfectly for the drama that's about to unfold.

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My mind is going in strange but understandable directions tonight. For the "...not the imposition of the will of a tyrannical minority on the rest of us" my mind saw the Supreme Court as the tyrannical minority imposing their will on half of us. When Eisenhower "reminded the men that they were fighting for the right of individuals to determine their own futures" again felt anger that "the right of individuals to determine their own futures" would no longer include all women. I had just read this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/opinion/democrats-midterms-abortion-roe.html on how the overturning of Roe could be the issue that would determine the midterm elections. If my anger on this is any indicator, you're darn right it will. Let's all channel our anger into something constructive like bending the arch of justice for women in the midterm elections. We, the People, all of us including Women this time.

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And we can take comfort now in the fact that Merrick Garland is so conservative in his use of the powers of DOJ. He's not one to leave anything to chance in these kinds of indictments. These guys have the Sword of Damocles hanging over their necks, the guillotine is just down the hall. You can bet they're going to name Names. And all those "individuals known to the grand jury" should be quaking in their Florsheims.

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I'm already planning to stay up crazy late hours, push everything else aside. I've waited for more than 18 months to learn the truth about what happened, and I don't want to miss even a minute of it. I cannot believe that I'm alive at a time when democracy is under direct assault in the United States of America by a whole cast of unsavory, unethical, unprincipled men and women. I hope I live long enough to see them get the punishments they've earned.

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It seems to be easier when the Nazis are in a different country.

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Thank you, as always. Having just watched Rachel Maddie on MSNBC, seeing twice just how precarious our state is. After a lifetime of watching American politics (I am 88) tonight am totally convinced that Republicans will destroy democracy if they (with the aid of the Koch web and oligarchs) can. Time to write more GOTV postcards and hope voting will survive the GOP onslaught.

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The Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys are not members of the Boy Scouts, kids that join a group for camaraderie, fun and learning. What is the reason for these men to band together in a gun toting violent group? Against isolation and loneliness? Their loyalty to each other and to what they perceive as fighting for Trump and Country is as misguided and dangerously naive as adolescents, to believe their ragtag group could fight against the United States of America in 2021. And win. Did they think of consequences? Some have blamed TFG and his ilk and said they were “used.” Easily recruited and taking the fall for TFG and his followers? Too late.

In her 1951 classic The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt paints loneliness as “the common ground for terror” and explores its function as both the chief weapon and the chief damage of oppressive political regimes.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/20/hannah-arendt-origins-of-totalitarianism-loneliness-isolation/

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Jun 7, 2022·edited Jun 7, 2022

NBC News reports that fewer people are blaming the Jan. 6 insurrection on TFG. That the DOJ has announced these charges against the Proud Boys can hopefully awaken understanding that the event was a treasonous uprising,, and the conspiracy directing it came from members at the top of the administration, most likely including TFG. As we begin the voting processes that will culminate with the midterms in Nov. I pray a revolution will happen, one in which the voice of the majority of citizens is heard and respected, one in which the efforts to limit, subvert, and suppress the vote fails. Get to the polling places, and choose the candidates that will dedicate themselves to us, to the people.

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"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a tweet Saturday declaring that “today and everyday is 1776” only hours after denying under oath that she knew the term was sometimes used as far-right shorthand for violent uprising." April 23, 2022

She has been taunting the DOJ for way too long.

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While I find it encouraging that these bottom feeders are getting what they deserve, it will be for naught if those higher up the food chain aren’t held accountable as well.

I fear that we will see a replay of the 2008 financial crisis, where not a single Wall Street executive was charged with a crime. I desperately hope that I am wrong.

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DOJ follows suit.

Robert B. Hubbell - June 6, 2022.

"The DOJ filed an amended (“superseding”) indictment against the leaders of the Proud Boys alleging “seditious conspiracy.” The superseding indictment is here:

US v. Nordean, et al.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1510791/download

Read pages 8 through 23 to see the minute-by-minute description of the “acts in furtherance of a conspiracy” to interfere with the count of electoral ballots on January 6, 2021. Seditious conspiracy cases are notoriously difficult to prove, but the detail in the superseding indictment suggests that the DOJ has the evidence necessary to convict the defendants.

"The timing of the superseding indictment indicates that the January 6th Committee is putting pressure on the DOJ to pick up the pace of its own efforts to prosecute those involved in the insurrection on January 6th. Good! The upcoming hearing on Thursday of this week will likely increase the pressure on the DOJ exponentially. The Brookings Institution has published a guide to the January 6th hearings titled, Trump on Trial: A Guide to the January 6 Hearings and the Question of Criminality:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/trump-on-trial/

Per the report, it considers the following questions (among others):

 "[W]hether Trump as a matter of law conspired with his outside counsel John Eastman, administration lawyer Jeffrey Clark, and others to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 by scheming to block the electoral count on January 6, 2021 and to subvert the Department of Justice’s election enforcement work."

Read on ...:

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/doj-follows-suit?s=r

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The frst episode of Seditious Conspiracy 2020 through 2022 starts Thursday in primetime hosted by Rachel & Lawrence on MSNBC among others. Earlier tonite, Rachel demonstrated lawyer-like knowledge of the elements of the Fed seditious conspiracy statute. Lawrence O'Donnell is a former Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee & writer and producer of the NBC series, The West Wing. Several Oath 'Violators' have agreed to testify for the Fed prosecution. Devastating footage of Pizzola will likely be shown along with decoded encrypted admissions. Not entertainment. June 7 Update: AP NEWS is now reporting that British filmmaker & Proud Boys documentarian, NICK QUESTED, will be a Select Commitee witness at the first January 9, Thursday, primetime Hearing along with his powerful footage of "Enrique" Tarrio & "Stewart" Rhodes infamous meeting in a underground garage in DC before the Jan 6 'overt acts.' Aside: Personally, I am very interested in how QUESTED uses his camera, documentary style,

which has great impact on his content.

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We are three-plus days out before most all of us will be totally immersed in J6, not likely to be focused on anything else. So in that light and confident that we can walk and chew gum at the same time, I wanted to slide in this non-J6 piece of news regarding gun control.

"Rep. Don Beyer Proposes Filibuster-Proof 1,000% Tax on AR-15s.

"We think that a 1,000% fee on assault weapons is just the kind of restrictive measure that creates enough fiscal impact to qualify for reconciliation."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/06/beyer-proposes-filibuster-proof-1000-tax-ar-15s?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter_text

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Jun 7, 2022·edited Jun 7, 2022

How appropriate for D-Day, for landing on the beach. The war was not over then, but after months of planning, the full force was committed to the battle. I appreciate supporting the importance of these indictments with the symbolism of this date. Thank you for conveying this bit of hope and resolution.

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The Justice Department has indicted the feet -- the foot soldiers. Where there is seditious conspiracy, it is of course the head that counts.

Only when that falls...

So now is the D-Day moment. But the world cannot wait until April for that ending in the Fuehrerbunker.

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