The rally being organizated is supposed to be on Saturday, Sept. 18….
The numbers mentioned are up to 500…..
The new ‘protestors’ think the arrested ones from the first protest that turned into an assault on the nation’s legislative body are ‘political prisoners‘……
Huh?
These groups want to overthrow the American Government and replace it with a NYC Real Estate guy turned Entertainer who lost his job pretenting to be an American President and having reality issues ….
The group organizing the rally, Look Ahead America, is led by Matt Braynard, who served as a campaign staffer for former President Trump. About 300 to 500 attendees are expected at the event, including members of far-right extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, according to multiple reports.
Several members of those two groups have been charged with criminal offenses related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, when hundreds of people invaded the Capitol, forced the evacuation of Congress and delayed the counting of the Electoral College vote. More than 140 police officers were injured in the riot, which led to five deaths.
It’s not yet clear if any members of Congress will be in attendance, but some prominent far-right House Republicans have offered support and sympathy to people facing charges for their actions on Jan. 6. Some have also cast Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she came close to breaching the House chamber, as a martyr.
GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Louie Gohmert(Texas) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) held a July 27 news conference outside the Justice Department to protest the treatment of people arrested in connection to Jan. 6. The event, which was interrupted by counterprotesters, took place the same day a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack heard testimony from officers on the physical and mental abuse they took that day.
Greene, Gaetz and Gohmert also tried to visit the D.C. Department of Corrections to personally view the Jan. 6 defendants’ conditions but were barred from entry.
Late last month, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) described the defendants currently in law enforcement custody as “political hostages” and “political prisoners” who are being detained to deter future protests….
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While the Sept. 18 rally is expected to be smaller than what occurred on Jan. 6, experts are encouraging security planners to take it seriously.
“This is coming eight months after” Jan. 6, said Brian Levin, a criminal justice professor and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
“It’s a different scenario, but we’re getting a much more isolated and also angry and conspiratorial sliver that is not only labeling an election as stolen but is also labeling violent criminal defendants as political prisoners, and that’s another marker of extremism.”
Congress is not scheduled to be in session on Sept. 18, which falls on a Saturday, but the Capitol Hill community has been on edge since Jan. 6….
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Messages on the Proud Boys’ Telegram account have discouraged members from going to the rally, with one stating that “we will not be attending this guaranteed disaster.”….
Note….
One CAN bet there will be a heavy media presence at the Capitol for this ‘rally’….
And…
A LOT of cops….
And some national Guardsmen on standby in the area….
Our host always has a hard time calling these “rallies” what they are…
A Republican get together.
Fund-raising gatherings of the Grand Old Party used to be called Lincoln Day (or Lincoln-Roosevelt [T.R.] Day) Dinners.
Will the Grand New Party have to move its dinners from February to June and start celebrating Jefferson Davis Day (not to be confused with Democratic Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, named for two slaveholding Democratic Presidents).