The U.S. Attorney in Washington DC has filed conspiracy charges against two members of the Proud Boys for conspiring to obstruct law enforcement related to the January 6th events on Capitol Hill. [DOJ Press Release Here]
WASHINGTON— Two members of the Proud Boys, a nationalist organization, were indicted today in federal court in the District of Columbia for conspiring to obstruct law enforcement, among other charges.
Dominic Pezzola, 43, of Rochester, New York, and William Pepe, 31, of Beacon, New York, were indicted today in federal court in the District of Columbia on charges of conspiracy; civil disorder; unlawfully entering restricted buildings or grounds; and disorderly and disruptive conduct in restricted buildings or grounds. Pezzola was also charged with obstruction of an official proceeding; additional counts of civil disorder and aiding and abetting civil disorder; robbery of personal property of the United States; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; destruction of government property; and engaging in physical violence in a restricted buildings or grounds.
Pepe and Pezzola were originally charged by criminal complaint and arrested on Jan. 12 and 15, respectively.
According to the charging documents, Pezzola and Pepe are members of the Proud Boys, a group self-described as a “pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world; aka Western Chauvinists.” Proud Boys members often wear the colors yellow and black, as well as other apparel adorned with Proud Boys-related logos and emblems. It is alleged that both Pepe and Pezzola possess tactical vests branded with the Proud Boys logo, and have attended various Proud Boys gatherings and protests.
According to the indictment, Pezzola and Pepe engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct, influence, impede, and interfere with law enforcement officers engaged in their official duties in protecting the U.S. Capitol and its grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. It is alleged that Pezzola and Pepe took actions to evade and render ineffective the protective equipment deployed by Capitol Police in active riot control measures, including actions to remove temporary metal barricades erected by the Capitol Police for the purpose of controlling access to the Capitol Grounds, and the stealing and purloining of property belonging to Capitol Police.
[…] The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Western and Southern Districts of New York. The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office, with assistance by the FBI’s Buffalo Field Office and the FBI’s New York Field Office. (read more)
When the DOJ and FBI want to find a conspiracy they can. When they do not want to find a conspiracy, they don’t… That reality is just part of accepting the two-tiered system of justice that is now in place all across America.
Even if there is no conspiracy they are perfectly willing and able to fabricate one…
… they have a grood track record for this.
Just wondering when they are going to do that to antifa or blm. The answer to that is NEVER, they are on OUR SIDE “they” say.
Quite a laundry list of charges there. Imagine if that creativity were applied to DOj/FBI executives and staffers who perpetrated frauds upon the FISA court and lied their a**es off every which way in official pleadings…and who, by the way, ramrodded civilians through trumped up criminal indictments.
How many charges could be generated out of the acts of that special DOJ attorney?
Could the special counsel removal of incriminating evidence from the FISA leaker’s case file be conspiracy to obstruct justice? I think quite.
Maybe i shouldn’t have sent judge boasberg that strongly worded email yesterday. Nah. Felt good!
The DOJ routinely overcharges and then tries to get someone to plead to one or more of the lesser charges, after the defendant has spent money on a defense lawyer.
And sometimes the DOJ can’t find any evidence of a crime when it pertains to Antifa, BLM or most importantly, one of their own.
Rule 1 of the DOJ manual. If you work for china in any capacity you are not chargeable. If you are an American – gas chamber.
Precisely ! 100% correct!
Especially when they are conservatives. We don’t have a department of justice, and the fbi is NOT for the U.S.A. They all belong in another country. This is totally a 2 tiered system….one law for the “higher” another for you (and me) peons. Oh I forgot, that is a “racist word…not sorry either.
They always hit you with a bunch of charges so they guarantee you’ll plead to some – any defendant facing the DOJ knows they have a 98% conviction rate because they have limitless budgets, no ethics or morals, and judges in their pocket.
Exactly right. That’s what they did to someone I care about.
Overcharge and bankrupt with legal costs.
Welcome to,…..
THE MACHINE!
Again, who had even heard of the “Proud Boys” before Biden pulled that out of his rear-end at the debate…….that’s the REAL conspriracy: who orchestrated identifying the “Proud Boys” and then put them front and center?
They’ve been around a while. A few years that I know of. Long enough to have been infiltrated by our IC.
Created and infiltrated by the FBI and IC (who did not know they were an FBI creation).
not a teeny bit surprised
Here I thought it was just an idea or Jerry Nadler’s conspiracy theory. Learn something new every day.
I think Biden did that in an coordinated way to deflect from BLM/Antifa.
Also, did they investigate as zealously and arrest anyone from the summer riots when they tried to storm the white house and damage federal property last summer.
The justice system is broken and they’re out to suppress/ scare anybody related to the MAGA movement. .
Music videos belong on the OPEN…..
Lol
… what’s the country going to look like in 4 years?! I don’t think we’ll be in any position to talk about it in an open forum…
No open forms will be allowed . . . .very soon they will be banned.
Antifa thugs who planned the attack with the help of the Capital Police and CIA get their cases dismissed while the Proud Boys have the book thrown at them.
System is rigged everywhere.
Indeed they are. Lawyer fees and Judges’ fees need to be much more transparent. (e.g., how much does a judge charge to dismiss a case versus probabtion versus jail time.) Just asking for a friend.
Waiting for the Justice Department to charge the Justice Department with conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement.
Criminal prosecution ought not be the province of only the state. Just as civil cases can be brought one against another before a judge, so should criminal prosecution by civilians of DOJ entities be legal. In this way, the DOJ is finally answerable to someone other than itself (no one).
The States need to do it. A structure will need to be created to deal with the lawlessness. Once the rampant lawlessness is corrected that structure must dissolve. Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary solutions. The alternative is descent to chaos.
I think it’s more than a two-tiered justice system.Two tiered selective Justice system.
Antifa is more than an Idea. What Antifa has done in Washington State is so much more than what these two guys did. Yet, they get bailed out by Hollywood, and Charges dropped by the DA.
Actually, I don’t think there is Justice anymore, just Selective Punishment by the Oligarchy.
The office of revenge.
They also get bailed out by the fund set up by the vice president !!!!!
What a disgrace the DOJ and FBI have become. They were always shady, but now totally, totally out of control.
^^Good post, Sir.
EXCELLENT post.
No Max, it’s always been that way.
But once we see the strings we cannot go back to a time when we never saw the strings on the marionettes
They don’t even play pretend anymore.
Jury nullification.
In D.C.???
You think that’s good?
Try this one…
CNBC reports, “The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating SpaceX over whether the company discriminates against non-U.S. citizens in its hiring practices and said Elon Musk’s company is stonewalling a subpoena for information, court documents revealed Thursday.”
No link. Sat Cong.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations is a United States regulatory regime to restrict and control the export of defense and military related technologies to safeguard U.S. national security and further U.S. foreign policy objectives.
For practical purposes, ITAR regulations dictate that information and material pertaining to defense and military related technologies (items listed on the U.S. Munitions List) may only be shared with U.S. Persons unless authorization from the Department of State is received or a special exemption is used.
U.S. Persons (including organizations; see legal personality) can face heavy fines if they have, without authorization or the use of an exemption, provided foreign persons with access to ITAR-protected defense articles, services or technical data.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations
The DOJ is likely to drop their investigations into SpaceX before embarrassing themselves over the fact that SpaceX is required to be compliant with our country’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
Doesn’t sound as serious as what clinesmith did – maybe these folks need to hire the Clinesmith attorneys and their connected judges.
They didnt commit treason against a sitting president.
DOJ and FIB are so bizarrely corrupt. Don’t know how those people sleep at night.
I don’t know, maybe they sleep during the day? In a dark closed space…
like a baby just as Germany’s nazis did.
Very well and it goes all the way down to staff (who are partisan hacks) and individual agents who feel morally superior to the rest of us. Spend time with rank and file agents – they are self-righteous A-holes.
PROUD BOYS!!
It’s a .gov operation, inside and out.
When I first heard that the FBI took over I figured they were providing a cover for the murderer of Ashli Babbit and the Congresswoman that murderer was working for and I was right. We do not know his name and he has not been charged.
However, it looks like the FBI is now attempting to create fear by manufacturing charges against people on the right who did very little but enter a building. Just as they did to Flynn then told Flynn that unless he pleads guilty they would create crimes for his kids.
The FBI is not creating fear, they are creating contempt.
This is a classical demo-commie “smear wrap”.
I followed the tickers on the CNN, NBC, Fox and ABC screens at the Gym.
There are between 125-150 people being charged with with crimes ranging from Federal Misdemeanors to more serious Felonies. 10 or more have been identified as “Proud Boys”, who actually committed the felonies. They are spreading the Proud Boy dirt to the actual MAGA followers.
Most of the lemmings are too stupid to comprehend this is 10+ loons out of 150 from a throng of 1 million people and the 10 second video clip covering “all the violence” committed by million people over 2-3 days is ALL they have to show.
And remember-they opened the doors and let people come in! I am sure they are charging the people who were led in by law enforcement, too.
I’d like to see one of those go to a jury trial.
“And here is the video of the capitol police moving aside the barricade and waving my client in, he thought he was being offered a tour of the ‘People’s House.’ “
The thing the fbi won’t tell you is they are representatives of the SWAMP, not the United States.
Still no word on the real instigators – Antifa / BLM.
“I can get an indictment of a ham sandwich if I want to.” ~ DOJ warlord.
I have eaten a lot of ham sandwiches, but darn, I’ve never seen one indicted! Anyone have evidence of said ham sandwich? Why is it always ham and never peanut butter & jelly?
… it is government types that had Jesus ”executed”!
Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.
Pontius Pilate
We all know what happened…
Their defense: Your honor, my clients mistook the Capitol for a Federal Courthouse.
Or a museum.
Why do I care about an organization created by the FBI to entrap people and then infiltrated by IC who did not know they were an FBI creation?? Leftists are infamous for sacrificing their own as well as allies to; eliminate rivals, discredit enemies and send a message to their Storm Troops to clarify who is in charge.
Yep.
if it weren’t for our IC, we probably wouldn’t need them. ?
Most of the lemmings are too stupid to comprehend that this is 10+ Proud Boy loons out of 150 arrested from a throng of 1 million people and the 10 second video clip covering “all the violence” committed by million people over 2-3 days is ALL they have to show.
imo, most events are to create a need, to fit a plan wagging the dog
Movie videos belong on the OPEN….
What was that???
First they went after……
It has begun…
Watch your six
MAGA
Very creative conspiracy charges, and was completed in a remarkably efficient time frame.
As the DOJ had possession of Hunters’ laptop for over a year, which allegedly has smoking gun evidence of money laundering of federal foreign aid funds, and a former business associate has been on TV confirming the skimming racket, the variety of charges that can be leveled on Biden family would make excellent light evening reading.
For all good statists, a course in creative writing is a must have so that, if in the practice of law, you can whip up a fine series of charges based on almost anything (or nothing) that can be tied together with innuendo and other suggestive hints.
Is it time for the tree of liberty to be watered?
Democrat supported BLM and Antifa can create havoc for months but Trump supporters can’t step out of line for a day. Like the world came to an end.
Proud Boys Leader Turned FBI Informant Following 2013 Arrest | NBC News …
2 days ago — NBC News’ Tom Winter reports on the growing fallout from the Capitol Hill riot including the latest information about the leader of the far-right .
NBC News caught lying again.
The “Proud Boys” didn’t exist in 2013.
It was founded as a guys drinking group in 2016.
Mr. Tarrio’s criminal history reaches back to at least 2004 when he was convicted of stealing a $50,000 motorcycle. In 2012, he was charged with fraud in Miami in connection with a scheme to sell loads of diabetes test kits that co-defendants had stolen from a truck in Kentucky and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Just the facts jack ,
no one was making the connection that his arrest was related to proud Boys
And who believes NBC? Unfortunately, some maroons still watch
Nice punt but it came off citizen Free press , poor guy can’t stick to the facts so he’s bunting bullsht
From what I have read elsewhere, The Proud Boy leader was informing on human traffickers…which is a good thing
Wrong again he’s just a common pos and FBLies rat
his actual name was pepe?
go fckyour self fake fbi (dont think for a second the DIA isnt about to round you all up)
Thought same. Cmon man.
These people are stupid.
I may look crazy… but i honestly beleive President Trump is still President and this whole insanity is an operation to trick China before the strike.
If the DIA was going to act, they would have acted by now.
Holding your breath, that there will be any Worldly intervention, at this point is an act of “denial” of reality.
The MILITARY will NOT act, sorry but its the truth.
then we are living in absolute insanity.
How does Biden expect to pull this off in the land of guns
That I am afraid is the plan.. China wants a civil war in the US as a distraction to take over Taiwan as DC watches..
If it goes like I think.. the establishment will call in the UN for help. There is a reason for razor wire in DC
MAGA
The Pentagon is with Biden Inc.
If the military acts, it will be against us.
When a government wishes to deprive its citizens of freedom, and reduce them to slavery, it generally makes use of a standing army.
– Luther Martin, Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen. Without standing armies liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe
-James Madison
There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation, and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors, that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot, but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.
– Thomas Jefferson
In the days following the American Revolution, Jefferson became increasingly concerned about two tendencies he believed were intrinsically connected: the concentration of power in a centralized government, and the establishment of a [career class ]standing army.
i cant think of anything else but to start calling our boys to come home.
Especially if they follow orders like they are ‘supposed’ to. The big wiggs will NOT allow it.
So the DOJ has gone full Gestapo.
… no! I’ll be mercifull… full Stasi…
This is brian Dugan’s office (WFO) … i guess he bent over.
Oh look how fast the Justice Department can move and with no leaking or obstruction from lower level bureaucrats. Just have to align the objectives with the political preferences of the employees. You can’t reform this. It is an internalized culture that arises when everyone has the same political views and thinks they are on a mission to destroy their enemies.
The only solution is to abolish the department and fire all the employees. In the spirit of outsourcing, the actual work could be bid out to private contractors who are: 1) temporary, and 2) easily fired for any transgression. The remainder would be done by political appointees that come and go with the administration.
WOULD that there were simple answer.
There isn’t.
When a building gets a leaky roof, you fixed the leak.
If you don’t fix it, you get water damage, at first largely cosmetic.
If you still don’t fix it, it gets into structural members; roof joists and wall framing.
So, more extensive repairs are required, but the building can still be saved.
Eventually, the rot gets to floor joists, and the FOUNDATION, and it reaches the point where the rot is so extensive, it is more work to try to repair the old structure, than to just tear it down and start over.
The tear down is in progress, and proceeding apace. The main question, yet to be resolved, is WHAT will be built in its place?
Do you really think there is a question about “WHAT” is being built?
The Capitol building is the people’s building. it can and should not be “restricted” to those who built it. It is not a place where politicians can hide while they cast illegal votes. It is the people’s house! We let politicians use it to have meetings. They have now encircled it with barbed wire and troops to continue their illegal activities. At what point do we cancel their lease?
On the origin of “The Proud Boys” from the founder Gavin McInnes:
“There’s a war on masculinity going on in the west and it starts in kindergarden.”
when he quit – marked the date they were infiltrated and the people arrested for that fight, were overcharged.
however in prison, they said the gangs respected them more than the anitifa
I have no doubt we’ll see every individual or organization opposing antifa, BLM, or any other variant of marxist perversion targeted & persecuted by weaponized govt agencies who’ve been given the green light to defame them as ‘white supremacist’ violent threats, and treated like the equivalent of ISIS over at least the next 4 years.
After witnessing no repercussions over govt abuses like “spygate”, they have no reason to fear their abuse of power.
… they moved against Tea Party with the IRS… now, it’s full state apparatus!
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctive native American criminal class … … except for Congress … … … … [and the DOJ and FBI].
More False charges from the BullschIffers?
I must be more jaded than I thought. I am not surprised by this and for right now we can’t do a damn thing about this. HOWEVER, as Abraham Lincoln once said:
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”—Abraham Lincoln
We begin by focusing on our local communities, counties, state legislatures and administrations. Let your voices be heard by you local officials that you will no longer tolerate rigged elections. They need your financial support to get elected or re-elected. You make it perfectly clear to them that they will not get a penny or a vote until they succeed in making real election reform happen. Real election reform means: voter ID, paper ballots, no mail-in voting or registration, highly controlled and limited absentee voting, and no electronic voting machines, full transparency at the tabulation centers with observers from both sides able to clearly see what is happening. They have now a bit less than two years in which to get that done. Let them know on a regular basis that the clock is ticking. That is just the beginning….
With $oro$, and the BLM Corporate extortion machine funnelling $ thru act blue, the threat of withholding funds from local and State politicians has no impact, I fear.
Perpetuating the vote fraud means that threats to withhold our votes are equally meaningless.
Not sure there IS an answer,..to establishing America as a Constitutional Republic, as intially intended.
Sorry,feeling kind of “downer” today,…
I get it..
I really had the idea that Treasury which has its own investigators would sweep in a charge the corrupt individuals. Rico on and on..
I believe with all the information out there this would have happened already..
So I will have to have a plan when they try to take my 2nd Amendment rights..
MAGA
The big problem is that there are too many lazy people who don’t want to get out and vote; it’s easier to mail it in they say.
Expect this to become the norm. I expect to happen to the reddit people in regards to Gamestop.
Here’s the thing I hold onto. They can kill us outright, or they can kill our spirit. If they kill the American spirit we’re all dead anyway. Don’t let them kill your spirit/soul. No matter what happens, do not let them kill your spirit.
The real criminals are pictured at the bottom.
Probation and 400 hrs community service seems like the go to fine. For democrats. Best defence would be to say your BLM proud boy.
When there isn’t even any attempt to keep up an appearance of Justice, there is NO Defence.
The Fbi has seen mobs of people dressed in all black, carring batons, spears, shields, and various other weapons that have been employed against the faces of tea party grandmothers..
during this assault tea party grandmothers were knocked out, blinded, or scared for eternity to be reminded its okay for Antifa to hit women.
the FBI to this day has submitted to Antifa and has not stopped this violent on elderly women.
the proud boys who were created to stand between the beatings and Antifa are now the target of the FBI through creating FRAUD NAMES LIKE PEPE as the capitol perp.
meanwhile ashli babbitt is dead and 1 more name to add to the list of FBI COULD CARE LESS About
Wait wait wait..
The SDNY has helped in this investigation.. those fine upstanding individuals ..
In the memory of Robert “I will not use false information” Mueller .
It’s enough to make you physically sick. This country is becoming the laughingstock for the rest of the world.
I haven’t met anybody yet who voted for Biden, but when I do I may just beat the living 0bama out of them.
Certainly less of an offense than Clinesmith committed.
As it turn out, the leader of the Proud Boys was fortunate to have been denied entry to DC. But that may be because he was an FBI informant in the past, so I have read. Or, maybe, he still is?
i dont get it…
how was he denied entry? got caught at a checkpoint? flagged at the gas station? airport?
They found a gun clip on him area traffic stop.
He is an informer . They gave him an excuse to be absent and not charged…imo
That actually sounds plausible at this point…why select him out and prevent him from a more serious arrest….to protect him is the most logical answer.
And he now complains about harassment at air port by tsa…further cover…wow…he is FBI and his members are in jail…shame on him…such a horrible person.
Yes he was arrested on way to DC for burning an BLM sign and something else stupid and told he could not got to DC and let out on bond on the basis he agreed.
My wish is for Bill Barr.
May Bill Barr spend the time to review the Proud Boy charges and the actual activity of the day AND juxtapose this with the FBI .CIA and DOJ gang that practiced brazen criminal activity for 4 years. May Bill Barr feel just a pang of regret for not once indicting a single coup criminal.
… so what’s Joe diGenova saying about all of this these days?! I need some hope! You know… along the lines of ”Götterdämmerung” is looming!
For decades there have been organizations that give free legal defense to leftists who got charged with anything. Kindred organizations would provide public agitation to free and exonerate those arrested. The slightest allegation that justice was being applied unequally would result in howls of outrage.
I’m waiting to see if any right-wing legal defense organization will defend the Proud Boys. American Center for Law and Justice? I hope so, but won’t hold my breath. The Republican party? Forget it. Others? I don’t think there are any.
Just like President Trump had no infrastructure he could count on, neither do we, and neither do the Proud Boys.
In contrast to our lack of infrastructure, the left grew its infrastructure over time and increasingly influenced — then took over — our institutions. This happened because leftists were willing to band together and act in unison on things they agreed were important. The consequence: BLM and Antifa are exempt from the law, whereas a few rag-tag right-wing protesters are up on federal charges and are about to be smeared by the media.
The MAGA movement could evolve into the infrastructure we need. Or it could easily fizzle out to nothing.
Like it or not, a political movement needs to build an infrastructure. It needs leaders, organizers, and followers. We’re in the strange position of having a large number of potential followers, but no apparent leaders or organizers to channel the efforts of the followers. And after four years, we have no infrastructure.
We are also in the unenviable position of being sitting ducks for the regime, should any infrastrure, leaders, or organizers start to emerge, or any followers get too noisy.
former spy (nsa database theft via national security divsion under Yates) for Obama is now the DNI of the United States of America.
https://www.cnas.org/people/avril-haines
The hallmark of western civilization, after our faith in God, was our justice system, our belief in Lady Liberty, in blind justice.
Once that is gone, the stitches holding the fabric of our society have been ripped out, the threads remaining are unraveling ever more quickly. I really wonder whether these corrupt and bizarrely partisan DOJ and FIB realize the gravity of their Injustice on the nation.
Trust me … like it is said so often.. there are no coincidences in politics..
The takedown is going on.. the only real question when will the fourth box be checked and opened..
”Your country lies desolate,
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
aliens devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.”
Isaiah 1, 7
They only care about their carreers, promotions and pensions. In the USSR, they were refered to as: ”Apparatchiks”.
It’s not a two tier justice system.
“It’s not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again.”
David Plouffe, Obama’s ace campaign strategist, June 13, 2016
One justice system to destroy Conservatives so their vote aka our KIND will never rise again.
In four years, three branches and levels of government out maneuver and impose their will on 80 million. And other than feinting protest our elected representatives have done NOTHING.
The DOJ has become the Gestapo. I read somewhere, don’t remember where or by who, that the judicial branch and the DOJ can be destroyed by jury nullification.
Badge of honor. The DOJ only prosecutes (persecutes) patriots and other decent people. Unfortunately, they’ll be tried in DC so will probably be put in a federal prison for 20 years or be forced to plead guilty to worse charges after being bankrupted and their families threatened.
The only real crime committed on January 6 was the government approved (planned?) murder of Ashli.
This is a shot across the bow to anyone who “plans” a group of 2nd Amendment supporters. Never. Ever. Plan. Anything. Online.
The Powers That Be want to take your guns and want to take away the right to self-defense. They started with the Proud Boys, but they are coming after every organized “militia” they can find.
It matters not that there is a bonafide criminal (with dementia, no less) sitting in the White House signing Executive Orders to aid and abet The Swamp so they can get back to the business of their Cozy Relationships with other world leaders, namely China. The Powers That Be care not one whit for you.