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Myrna Sislen, the owner of the popular Middle C music store in Washington, D.C.s Tenleytown, learned that one of her teachers, a talented musician named Stephen Baker, was part of the riot at the Capitol when a sales associate alerted her to watch his livestream, under the name Stephen Ignoramus, from inside the Rotunda. She watched for two hours as he said again and again how much fun he was having as he recorded the mayhem around him.
The next day Sislen confronted Baker, telling him that he had put her in a terrible position, reflecting badly on her business. You broke into the Capitol, she says she told him.
I didnt break into anything. I walked in, she says he replied.
Baker, who didnt respond to emailed questions for this story, was not apologetic or remorseful, Sislen says. Her staff demanded she fire himor they would walk and accuse her of harboring a person who it turns out had been posting homophobic rants and racist and anti-Semitic jokes for a year under his Stephen Ignoramus persona, which Sislen was not aware of until Jan. 6.
"Even if you were a Martian coming down you can see that there is anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-straight shit going on, regardless of who you are, Ignoramus said in a YouTube post well before the riot. I just happen to be a straight white Christian male. Straight, white, Christian American male. Nationalist. All of those things are under attack. [Facebook] is allowing those attacks to happen.
A sales associate at Middle C, Dave Nuttycombe, saw those comments at the time because hed been monitoring Ignoramus podcasts and videos, but Sislen says he didnt bring them to her attention until after the riot because the teacher had so few followers, under a hundred.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret-life-of-the-beloved-kids-music-store-teacher-who-stormed-the-capitol?ref=home
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)terrorists that day. His name is Jon Schaffer. He turns out to be a III Percenter, or Oath Keeper, or whatever. He must have given the Feds a lot of info. He got his sentence cut, and he got placed in the Witness Protection Program.
msfiddlestix
(7,278 posts)Howz he gonna be a music star in the WPP?
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,278 posts)maybe I should write my own wiki page as well.
the little blurb of his life of crime related to Jan 6, and forgive me for feeling a bit churlish with his stay in an Indiana prison before he was transferred to Washington DC prison, because inmates were mean to him and through feces at him according to wiki.
Somehow the big with his "sponsorship with the Federal Witness" program is likely to be a joke considering his career and family life.
I just don't see that bit working out as it should.
But I guess we'll see. thanks for the link. still stunned that he destroyed his career for Trump.
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)are often terms that dont overlap.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)If by that, you mean someone teaching music in school.
But, talented musician & guitar player have gone together for a couple hundred years.
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)And then you got Ted Nugent. I guess Nugent couldve gone to the January 6 thing.
babylonsister
(171,056 posts)Stand and Deliver
Song by Eric Clapton
Lyrics
Stand and deliver
You let 'em put the fear on you
Stand and deliver
But not a word you heard was true
But if there's nothing you can say
There may be nothing you can do
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna wear these chains
Until you're lying in the grave?
I don't wanna be a pauper
And I don't wanna be a prince
I don't wanna be a pauper
And I don't wanna be a prince
I just wanna do my job
Playing the blues for my friends
Magna Carta, Bill of Rights
The constitution, what's it worth?
You know they're gonna grind us down, ah
Until it really hurts
Is this a sovereign nation
Or just a police state?
You better look out, people
Before it gets too late
You wanna be your own driver
Or keep on flogging a dead horse?
You wanna be your own driver
Or keep on flogging a dead horse?
Do you wanna make it better
Or do you wanna make it worse?
Stand and deliver
You let 'em put the fear on you
Slow down the river
But not a word of it was true
If there's nothing you can say
There may be nothing you can do
Stand and deliver
Stand and deliver
Dick Turpin wore a mask, too
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Response to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)
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Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,278 posts)gonna go through all the trouble of posting a story, it would be useful to readers to include the bottom line.
and no, I shouldn't have to click on link. for the answer....
orleans
(34,049 posts)to tell them he wouldn't be teaching at her store anymore but they were welcome to stick with him if they wanted to do that
she must have told the parents what he had done because one kid wrote a song that began: "why did you storm the capitol? you're not the teacher i knew"
msfiddlestix
(7,278 posts)Solomon
(12,310 posts)her store and my brother, a professional musician, was also a teacher there years ago.
She's good people.
orleans
(34,049 posts)tenderfoot
(8,426 posts)At least he's acknowledging that he's a moron.