Riots in the streets?
Really?
You mean like the BLM riots we suffered through for over a year?
You really think so?
Or is it just more propaganda spew like this?

 

Former top DOJ official: Graham warning of ‘riots’ if Trump is prosecuted ‘incredibly irresponsible’
by Julia Mueller - 08/29/22 11:05 AM ET

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Mary McCord, a former top official at the Department of Justice, knocked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday for comments warning there would be “riots in the streets” if former President Trump is prosecuted for his handling of classified materials found when the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home.

“I think it’s incredibly irresponsible for an elected official to basically make veiled threats of violence, just if law enforcement and the Department of Justice and a grand jury does their job,” McCord said on CNN’s “New Day.”


McCord, who was acting assistant attorney general for national security at the DOJ and is now executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, said Graham’s comments were in line with former President Trump’s wink-and-nod “game plan” of indirectly encouraging supporters toward violence.

“‘People are angry, they may be violent,’ and then what [Trump] knows and what Lindsey Graham also knows … is that people listen to that and people actually mobilize and do things. Jan. 6 was the result of this same kind of tactic by President Trump and his allies,” McCord said.

Both the DOJ and a House select committee are investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S Capitol and wider efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

A Georgia special grand jury is also investigating attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state, and Graham is fighting a subpoena to appear in that case.

Earlier this month, the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and found classified documents kept past the end of his presidential term.

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Appearing on Fox News’s “Sunday Night in America,” Graham said Trump was being treated with “a double standard” compared to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her private email server, and warned that “if there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information … there’ll be riots in the streets.”


The recently unsealed warrant indicates Trump is under investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act and other laws in relation to the documents and classified materials.

“It’s irresponsible, it’s dangerous. It’s a threat to our democracy, and I think he should be ashamed of himself,” McCord said of Graham.


https://thehill.com/policy/national...trump-is-prosecuted-incredibly-irresponsible/

 

How a series of online threats against the FBI led to a Pennsylvania man's arrest

Caitlin Dickson
·Reporter
Mon, August 29, 2022 at 1:42 PM·13 min read



Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a Pennsylvania man charged with threatening to kill FBI personnel after federal agents executed a search warrant at the Florida home of former President Donald Trump.

The suspect, Adam Bies, had allegedly posted a series of threats on the far-right social media platform Gab, in which he compared the FBI to Nazi- and Soviet-era secret police, discussed wanting to “slaughter” agents and wrote, among other things, “I sincerely believe that if you work at the FBI you deserve to die.” He’s been charged with interstate threats and influencing or retaliating against a federal officer.


The FBI has come under intense criticism on the right for executing a search warrant on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. For some extremists, the criticism is leading to physical threats. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Bies’s alleged posts were part of a deluge of violent and vulgar content that spread quickly across pro-Trump segments of social media in response to the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, which stemmed from an investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents that were taken from the White House after Trump’s term in office.

Outraged Trump supporters called for civil war and circulated personal information about the federal judge who approved the warrant authorizing the search, along with antisemitic threats. But the bulk of the vitriol was directed at the FBI.

On Aug. 11, one day before Bies was arrested at his home in Mercer, Pa., a man in Ohio was killed by police after he allegedly attempted to attack an FBI field office in Cincinnati with a nail gun and an AR-15. He appears to have posted a call to arms against the FBI on Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, prior to the attempted attack.

For extremism experts and federal law enforcement alike, the Cincinnati incident highlighted how this kind of rhetoric can inspire real-world violence. But intercepting such threats can be complicated.

The Bies case offers a glimpse of how law enforcement identifies legitimate threats of violence online, and what the difference is between criminal threats and the rest of the hateful, vile and often violent — yet protected — speech that has become commonplace across social media.


Adam Bies, who allegedly threatened to kill FBI personnel in the wake of the raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. (FBI)
“There’s always this fine line between free speech and actual threat,” said Michael Tabman, a retired FBI special agent in charge.

The criminal statute under which Bies was charged, Section 115(a)(1)(B) of Title 18 of the United States Code, makes it a crime to threaten someone simply because they are a federal agent or because they are performing their official duties. But even so, Tabman told Yahoo News, most threats are considered protected speech.

“The key question whenever you have a threats case is: Is this a true threat to harm a specific target? Or is this just free speech expressing disapproval with the performance of someone’s official duties?” said Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor.

McQuade told Yahoo News that, because “courts are reluctant to criminalize speech,” the law is “a little murky” when it comes to determining what constitutes a true threat.

“The way I had always internalized it is, it needed to be a specific threat to injure, harm or kill a particular individual or group of individuals,” she said. Simply disapproving of the way the FBI operates, or even generally wishing death on the agency’s employees, would not be enough to constitute a prosecutorial offense.

“When I was in the U.S. attorney's office, we’d have a few of these every year where somebody posted something online about killing cops,” McQuade said. “And it’s hard because we would get these things from social media where people said really awful, ugly things. But even [something] like ‘All cops should die’ or ‘I wish they would die’ would not amount to what is known as a true threat.”


A police officer outside Trump's estate on Aug. 9, the day after the FBI searched the premises. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
As of the end of June, 33 defendants had been charged with threatening a federal officer under 115(a)(1)(B) in fiscal year 2022, according to caseload data extracted from the United States Attorneys’ Case Management System and provided by the Justice Department. During fiscal years 2019, 2020 and 2021, federal prosecutors brought charges under the same statute against an average of 54.3 defendants, compared with the 37 who were charged during fiscal year 2018 and the 34 charged the year before that.

But before a prosecutor can decide whether to bring charges for a particular threat, it must first be identified and investigated by law enforcement.

As social media becomes increasingly integral to everyday life, it has naturally emerged as a key source of information for U.S. law enforcement agencies. But law enforcement’s ability to monitor social media activity has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Federal agencies, including the FBI, have been accused of employing opaque and indiscriminate surveillance tactics that raise concerns for civil liberties advocates while at the same time drawing criticism for failing to prevent acts of violence whose perpetrators left behind a trail of red flags online.

While the agency doesn’t typically share the details of its investigative methods with the public, court documents filed in the Bies case reveal part of the process in this instance.


Pro-Trump protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
According to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed against Bies in Pittsburgh federal court and unsealed after his arrest, the FBI first learned about his alleged Gab posts on Aug. 11, thanks to a tip from the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.

MEMRI is a Washington-based nonprofit that was founded in the late 1990s as a media monitoring group that produced English-language translations of Middle Eastern news reports. Since then it has expanded into tracking the activities of violent extremist groups, first with its Jihadi Terrorism Threat Monitor project and, since 2018, with the Domestic Terrorist Threat Monitor.

A spokesperson for MEMRI declined to provide specific details on the organization’s relationship with the FBI, and directed Yahoo News to a statement on its website that says, “Every single day, MEMRI receives requests for its research from U.S. government, military, and legislature, and from governments worldwide,” and that “MEMRI also assists law enforcement on research about anti-government extremists in the U.S. and Western governments.”

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment on this story, including specific questions about the agency’s work with MEMRI.

The Domestic Terrorist Threat Monitor’s director, Simon Purdue, told Yahoo News that his team of researchers manually scrapes a wide variety of social media — from mainstream sites to more fringe platforms — in search of violent threats, calls to action and other types of incitement by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and antigovernment extremists both in the United States and around the world.

The DTTM team produces reports on its findings and, when appropriate, notifies relevant authorities of threats deemed credible or “actionable.” Like McQuade, Purdue said most of the violent content his team encounters online doesn’t meet that criterion.


Pages from the redacted version of the FBI search warrant affidavit for Mar-a-Lago. (Photo illustration: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
For example, he said, comments like “Fauci should be hanged” are “something that we see on an almost daily basis,” but that is not considered “a credible threat of violence” because it lacks intent.

However, Purdue said that “if somebody posts a picture of a gun and says they’re going to shoot [a specific] politician, that would be considered a credible threat of violence because they have the means to do it, they have a target in mind and, at the end of the day, the only step missing is their decision to act.”

While Purdue said his team is “very, very conscious of the issue of free speech,” he insisted that the kinds of threats they end up reporting on are “clearly outside of the purview [of] the First Amendment.”

“Whenever someone is posting a credible threat of violence online, it should be considered the same as standing in a public square and shouting it,” he said.

Purdue said that “on a broad scale,” his team’s work has certainly prompted law enforcement investigations and, less often, arrests. In the wake of Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, Purdue said his team provided authorities with “hundreds of reports” on individuals suspected of participating in the riot, contributing to what has become the biggest criminal investigation in U.S. history. More than a year and a half later, over 800 people have been charged so far in connection with the insurrection.

After Jan. 6, Purdue said his team had noticed a shift toward anti-police and antigovernment rhetoric on many of the pro-Trump social media platforms they monitor. But, he said, “it's really ramped up since the Mar-a-Lago raid, and it hasn’t slowed down.”

Since then, he said, the DTTM team has seen “dozens and dozens” of threats every day targeting federal agents. Among those that immediately attracted attention were a series of posts on Gab from a user with the handle “BlankFocus.”

According to Purdue, this wasn’t the first time his team had encountered BlankFocus, who went by the name Adam Kenneth Campbell on Gab. (Prosecutors have alleged that Campbell is an alias used by Bies.)

“He was somebody that we had previously monitored, and had been monitoring for some months, just because of his interaction with other known extremists on the platform,” Purdue told Yahoo News, adding: “It’s no secret that Gab is home to quite a lot of neo-Nazis and white supremacists.” The platform launched in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election as a conservative-run, free-speech-focused alternative to the more progressive-leaning social media giants like Twitter and Facebook, and quickly attracted many far-right extremist users who’d been kicked off those more mainstream sites.

The DTTM team compiled screenshots of Campbell’s (allegedly Bies’s) Gab activity into a report that it provided to the FBI. The report, which has been shared with Yahoo News, includes some earlier posts, written prior to the Mar-a-Lago raid, in which Campbell said he had been fired from his software and marketing job for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, made references to “war” and expressed a desire to see Democrats “drop dead.”

On Aug. 9, one day after FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago, Campbell wrote that he’d just returned from a weekend of hiking with his 12-year-old son, who, he said, “is the regional archery champ, has his own rifle, shotgun, and handgun (under supervision).”

“We had seen on his profile that he had access to weapons,” Purdue said. From there, the threats became more explicit.

"Every single piece of shit who works for the FBI in any capacity, from the director down to the janitor who cleans their f***ing toilets deserves to die,” read one of several threatening comments posted by BlankFocus on Gab on Aug. 9, 10 and 11. Others include discussions of “civil war” and various weapons that could be used to inflict harm on federal agents, from rifles to “compound bows and razor tips.”

One particularly concerning post on Aug. 11 seemed to indicate that the author was willing to risk his life to accomplish his goal of killing law enforcement officers.

“I’m ready for the inevitable,” it read. “I already know I'm going to die at the hands of these piece of shit child molesting law enforcement scumbags. My only goal is to kill more of them before I drop. I will not spend one second of my life in their custody.”

McQuade, the former prosecutor, described this particular post as “one of the aggravating factors” that likely compelled the FBI to take action in this case.

That theory is bolstered by the FBI’s affidavit to support a criminal complaint against Bies, which includes screenshots provided by the DTTM of a number of posts, including the Aug. 11 one.

“Based on my training and experience, an individual that makes statements accepting the end of life is a danger to himself and society,” Special Agent Gregg Frankhouser wrote under a screenshot of the post in the affidavit. “Based on the post described herein, I believe BIES is making his intentions known that he is willing to commit violence towards law enforcement in support of his beliefs, even if that costs him his own life.”

According to court documents, after being alerted to the threatening posts by the DTTM, the FBI issued an emergency disclosure request to Gab, which promptly handed over information regarding the BlankFocus account, including the user’s email address and recent IP logs, which ultimately led the bureau to Bies.

After Bies’s arrest, Gab CEO Andrew Torba issued a warning to other users: “Let me spell this out for you in plain terms: do not post threats of violence on Gab or anywhere else on the internet. Threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment and therefore are not protected by Gab’s Terms of Service.”

Gab also confirmed its cooperation with the FBI in a statement days later, after receiving a letter from top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee requesting information on how social media companies are responding to the spike in online threats against law enforcement officers since the search at Mar-a-Lago.

Following his initial court appearance, a grand jury indicted Bies on a total of 14 counts — seven for interstate threats and seven for influencing or retaliating against a federal officer — related to seven of his alleged posts targeting FBI officers following the Mar-a-Lago raid. If found guilty, he faces a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.

Bies has pleaded not guilty. Sarah Levin, the federal public defender representing him, did not respond to a request for comment.

At a detention hearing on Aug. 19, Frankhouser reportedly testified that when agents arrived to arrest Bies at his home, he emerged from the house carrying an AR-style assault rifle before complying with commands to drop the weapon. Prosecutors said 12 other guns were found in a search of the house, including shotguns, rifles and pistols, as well as a compound bow.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan ordered Bies detained pending trial, saying, “Threatening to shoot the FBI is a threat to the community.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pennsylv...-threats-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-194252945.html

 

Exactly like that although I do not remember any US senator giving notice of impending riots.......do you?



Thinskin

 

No, but Shooter recalls a string of Congresspeople urging violence on anyone connected to Trump and doing so with absolute impunity.
And later, Trump called on his supporters to "march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol" and when they didn't Nancy Antoinette cranked up her despicable star chamber to see could they hang an insurrection tag on the President for inciting a riot on January 6.

And so far, the old biddy and her gang have failed so miserably that they've taken their circus to prime time hoping idiots, some of them tourists who stick their noses where they don't belong, will swallow the swill and proclaim Trump an insurrectionist.
And all it takes is ignoring the facts and reality.
You have a wonderful day, tourist.

 

Wink at a buttercup and they consider it a terrorist threat. Society was a much better place when one's own peers would kick your ass for being stupid. It's not bullying it's keeping you in check with reality. They knew right where to start with the transformation of society in the colleges then moved them into our public education centers.

I suppose saying, Time to take it back is a terrorist threat.

Stumbles will set me straight I'm sure on what one is allowed to say.

 

QAnon forums 'ecstatic and bloodthirsty' after Trump promotes their memes on Truth Social: reporter

Brad Reed
August 30, 2022



QAnon supporters (Shutterstock)


Former President Donald Trump spent much of his Tuesday morning promoted conspiracy theory memes on his Truth Social platform -- including some that directly reference the QAnon conspiracy theory.

NBC News reporter Ben Collins, who specializes in covering conspiracy theories and disinformation, notes on Twitter that Trump's sharing of QAnon memes has led to a frenzied reaction from some QAnon believers.

"QAnon forums are obviously ecstatic and bloodthirsty after Trump's Q-endorsing tweetstorm this morning," he writes. "They had been relatively dead in the last few months, with users headed over to general Trump forums and militia/Q influencer Telegrams. Not anymore."

Collins then posted a screen shot from a QAnon forum that giddily revealed that Trump promoted a meme that referenced "The Storm," which in QAnon mythology refers to the time when Trump conducts mass arrests of his political foes and exposes them as part of a global pedophile cabal.

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"Wipe them out, sir," read the top-rated reply in the thread.

"Plenty of people will be surprised, but we are all ready," read the second-highest rated reply. "'Which storm Mr. President? You'll find out...'"

Of course, Trump had multiple opportunities during his presidency to bring down this supposed cabal, but never got around to doing so even though he had ample time to doctor hurricane maps and accuse MSNBC's Joe Scarborough of murdering congressional staffers.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-qanon-2657966360/

 

That didn't work out too well. Either Trump didn't get his message across, or "peacefully and patriotically" have a different meaning in the MAGA dictionary....

 

Masked Antifa protesters show up brandishing weapons at Texas 'drag brunch' with kids
Approximately 20 children and multiple self-proclaimed teachers reportedly attended the event.

 

Lets start with the full quote from Shooters post shall we genius?

Now, no one said there wasn't a riot that day, right?
The question has always been what role Trump had in it, right?
And since Nancy Antoinettes star chamber hasn't been able to provide the "smoking gun" we were promised but there sure has been enough leaked "bombshells" from the secret star chamber proceedings to convince meat heads who don't think for themselves that Trump led the riot himself, eh?

Oh, and given the new despicable trend of redefining words to fit their agenda, your crack about different meaning is pretty funny, isn't it?

 

You are like the petulant little child that refuses to take no for an answer! Nothing anyone says will satisfy you.

 

Well for damn sure not the bullshit a meat head like you spews.
Some of it lies, most of it bullshit.
All of it proof that our public school system failed you.

 

LOL, nothing of substance, not even grizzle!

 

Oh and your response is a dictionary.
You get what you deserve. And you haven't managed to figure that out yet.

 

Now you want to beat your kids!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/31/us-corporal-punishment-missouri-highlights-practice

Thinskin

 

The race card and propaganda.
Like two peas in a pod.

 

Michigan man 'snapped' after Trump's loss and shot his family after going down 'Q rabbit hole': daughter

Matthew Chapman
September 12, 2022



A person wears a QAnon sweatshirt during a pro- Donald Trump rally on Oct. 3, 2020, in the borough of Staten Island in New York City. - Stephanie Keith/Getty Images North America/TNS


On Monday, The Daily Beast reported that a woman from southern Michigan came forward to claim her father had been driven insane by QAnon and shot her family, after two years of spiraling from former President Donald Trump's defeat.

"Details of Igor Lanis’ descent into violent extremism were posted on Reddit on Sunday by his 21-year-old daughter, Rebecca Lanis, under the title 'My Qdad snapped and killed my family this morning,'" reported Philippe Naughton. "Some Reddit users initially questioned the veracity of the post, which was published under the username 'qanonruinsfamilies' only hours after the shootings. But then Oakland County police confirmed the drama in Walled Lake, in the suburbs of Detroit, in the early hours of Sept. 11, when Lanis, 53, shot wife Tina, 56, and daughter Rachel."

"Tina died after being shot four times with a handgun. Rachel, 25, was hit in the back and legs by blasts from a shotgun, but managed to raise the alarm and is now in a stable condition in a hospital. Lanis also killed the family dog, shooting it multiple times," said the report. "Lanis was himself shot dead after opening fire with a shotgun on police who responded to the scene."

According to Rebecca's post, her parents used to be an “extremely loving and happy people” — but Igor's life was "ruined" by internet conspiracy theories: “In 2020 after Trump lost, my dad started going down the Q rabbit hole. He kept reading conspiracy theories about the stolen election, Trump, vaccines, etc. He always said he wanted to keep us safe and healthy. It kept getting worse and he verbally snapped at us a few times. Nothing physical though. He never got physical with anybody." That all changed over the weekend, when he decided to grab his guns after an argument with his wife.


"I’m shocked and I don’t even know what to say," wrote Rebecca, who confirmed she was the author of the post to The Detroit News. “F*ck you, Qanon. I hope the FBI tightens its grip on you and that your lackies [sic] rot in prison (and hell) for poisoning so many people.”

This is not the first time the QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits Trump was secretly masterminding the resistance to a cabal of Satanic cannibal child traffickers who rule America, has led to violence. One QAnon believer shot and killed a Gambino crime boss in Staten Island. Another in California murdered his children with a spearfishing gun because he believed they had reptilian DNA.



https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-2658197633/

 

Armed man wearing rainbow wig said he'd restore Trump as 'president king' and 'kill Democrats': police

Brad Reed
September 13, 2022



Police officer holding gun (Shuttershock)


A Pennsylvania Trump supporter has been arrested after he barged into a local Dairy Queen and informed patrons he was working to restore Trump as "president king" while also vowing to "kill Democrats."

TribLive reports that 61-year-old Jan Stawovy of Hempfield, Pennsylvania this week walked into a local Dairy Queen carrying a loaded handgun and started raving about his "undercover" work to "to restore Trump to President King of the United States."

Police say that he also said he would "kill Democrats and liberals," while also claiming that he needed to be in possession of guns to protect himself from drug traffickers.

Local police officers were alerted to Stawovy's presence after a tipster called 911 and told them they'd just seen a man wearing a rainbow clown wig and a yellow safety vest walking into the Dairy Queen with a gun.

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Police Chief T.J. Klobucar told TribLive that his officers "where there within seconds to take control before anything happened."

After taking Stawovy into custody, police subsequently found two more loaded guns in his vehicle.

He has since been charged with carrying firearms without a license, disorderly conduct, and making terroristic threats.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporter-arrested-2658204989/

 

Go for it. Do your worst treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans. The nation is stronger you are and your Chosen One is not above the law.

Trump threatens DOJ against indictments: 'You'd have problems the likes of which you have ever seen before'

Matthew Chapman
September 15, 2022



Trump gestures as he addresses a press conference at the Lotte Palace Hotel. (Shutterstock.com)


On Thursday, in an interview with right-wing talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, former President Donald Trump appeared to issue a vague threat to the Justice Department against indicting him.

Trump said that "I would have no prohibition against running," when he asked whether he would still run for office with an indictment.

"I think, if it happened, you'd have problems in this country the likes of which, perhaps, you have ever seen before," said Trump. "I don't think the people of the United States would stand for it."

When Hewitt asked Trump to elaborate, he said, "Big problems."

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"I just don't think they'd stand for it," he added. "They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes."

Additionally, Trump defended some aspects of his allies' plot to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, one of the key issues under investigation by the Justice Department, by claiming that it is "very common" for states to have a competing slate of "alternate" electors claiming the other candidate won. This is not true.

In addition to the election investigation, which centers on the fake electors, the planning behind the January 6 attack, the financing structures tied to Trump that helped support the plotting, and his phone calls trying to demand "extra" votes from election officials, among other things, the FBI is also investigating boxes of classified documents hoarded at the former President's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

That investigation has been temporarily put on hold by a judge Trump appointed, pending a review of the documents by a special master.

It remains unclear whether Trump himself will ever face criminal charges as a result of either investigation, but the efforts could be further complicated by longstanding Justice Department conventions about avoiding investigations of political officials immediately ahead of elections.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-indictment-2658216153/

 

So deluded