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Initech

(100,061 posts)
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:21 PM Sep 2022

1776 Movement Intentionally Clogs VA Suicide Prevention Line To "Free" Jan 6th Protestors

One of the things that the (mostly white) Jan. 6 defendants are experiencing for the first time is how slowly the justice system can move when you are considered too dangerous to release back into the public. The general angle that most insurrection apologists have taken is that the attempted coup d’etat at our nation’s Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, was a no harm, no foul violation of civility. Things got out of hand. While many of the people there were talking about hanging Vice President Mike Pence and stopping Congress from making the electoral votes of the 2020 presidential election official, things got broken because everyone was having a grand old party time.

The fact is, these MAGA folks broke a lot of laws. Most of the laws these folks broke—running the full gamut of trespassing and vandalism to outright sedition—are federal laws. As such, right-wing fascists have been crying about how they are being treated by the legal system. In the case of the Jan. 6 defendants, there is ample video and social media evidence placing them at these scenes of all the crimes they are being charged with.

On Monday, Daily Beast reporter Zachary Petrizzo reported that “members of the 1776 Restoration Movement were back in Washington, D.C., this morning, and part of their activities included trying to flood the Veterans Crisis Line with bogus calls urging the D.C. jail to release Jan 6th rioters.” This comes just two months after the Office of Veterans Affairs (VA) made their Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) even easier to remember and contact.

The group that purports to want to restore the United States back to 1776 decided the best way to protest the Jan. 6 participants who are still being detained and who are also veterans was to jam up the VA crisis line. The group stipulates that the many “political prisoners” in the Proud Boys, who happen to also be military veterans, are not receiving medical care in the prison. Besides the fact that there is no evidence that this is a thing that’s happening, there are some real questions as to whether or not the folks who may or may not be pleading guilty, or found guilty, of sedition against our government, should even have veteran benefits anymore.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/19/2123875/-Faketriots-stage-protest-of-Jan-6-veterans-by-trying-to-clog-up-VA-suicide-prevention-hotline


I honestly can't imagine what a fucking low life piece of utter dog shit you have to be to intentionally clog the suicide prevention hotline. All it does is make you look like a horse's ass and utterly pathetic. And it doesn't help your case at all. God these people truly suck.
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Ocelot II

(115,668 posts)
1. WTF is wrong with these people?
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:24 PM
Sep 2022

It's really disheartening to discover how many really shitty people walk among us.

RKP5637

(67,102 posts)
8. It's been a real eye opener. Of course we always knew this existed, but I
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:39 PM
Sep 2022

am truly amazed at the numbers.

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
3. If you had delt with these fuckers face to face in Portland you
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:26 PM
Sep 2022

Would understand just how fucked up wise ass violent bastards they are.

lpbk2713

(42,753 posts)
6. Another reason for the courts to not go light on insurrectionists.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:33 PM
Sep 2022


Even if they weren't involved in making phone calls, they're just not worthy of leniency.

RKP5637

(67,102 posts)
7. Many of the maggots are psychos ... paranoid, egocentric, delusional, psychotic, narcissistic,
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:38 PM
Sep 2022

sadistic and psychopathic ... often having a shared psychoses with Trump. And that's the short list. LOL
I would not put anything past them.

Earth-shine

(3,978 posts)
9. They have always been there. Trump gave them a place where they feel welcome.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 09:41 PM
Sep 2022

The internet gave them space to find each other and gather.

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