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Four Jan. 6 Defendants’ Suicides – Bloodlust of the Elites?
“Evil isn’t the word”: Julie Kelly
This is something of a sequel to my recent post about the wildly excessive sentences handed down to the members of the Proud Boys, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” and is prompted by Julie Kelly’s analysis, Blood Lust, in which she covers one of the most disquieting results of these Star Chamber proceedings – the suicides of some of those charged knowing what the bloodthirsty DOJ and the Federal Court in DC will do to them and their families.
While I wholeheartedly recommend a full and careful reading of Kelly’s excellent reporting, I do so with a caveat: it makes for uncomfortable reading as the examples she cites of some of the reactions of those on the left to the suicide she features but also the sentences handed down to many of the Jan. 6 defendants are, to put it mildly, disturbing and indicative of some very troubled minds.
This is the story of “Jord” Meacham who went to the Capitol on January 6 with his uncle and did something, in Kelly’s words, that deeply offended the ruling class — he demonstrated his support for Donald Trump. He was 19 years old at the time. The FBI agent’s report specifically noted that Jord was carrying a Trump flag, as if that had anything to do with whether or not he should be criminally charged. He was in the Capitol building for a total of ten minutes, assaulted no one, damaged no property. Here is Jord on that fateful day, surely not the picture of an alleged “criminal” as the ghouls of the U.S. Attorney’s office painted him:
For this, the horrible, dastardly, threat-to-“Our Democracy” crime of “parading” in what many of us were taught and believed, and just to be clear I still believe, is the People’s House, on August 28, Judge Reggie Walton in Washington scheduled Jord’s arraignment.
That very night Jord ended his life with a shot to the head.
As Kelly notes, Jord was “the sort of person the elites in Washington despise.”
He was one of 10 children, and lived in rural Utah near the Nevada border working on his family’s ranch. Here’s the Meacham family:
Here are the “crimes” with which Jord was to be arraigned for, surely serious and grave enough to have constituted a clear and present danger to “Our Democracy” and certainly could have, at least in the minds of some of the bottom feeders in Washington, led to the overthrow of the entire government:
Jord Meacham, age 22, was pronounced dead at 9:21 pm on August 28, 2023.
His is the fourth known suicide of a January 6 defendant; here is Julie Kelly’s summary of the others:
… Christopher Stanton Georgia, 53, shot himself in the chest a few days after January 6; he had been arrested and charged with unlawful entry and violating the city’s curfew. Mark Aungst, 47, killed himself in July 2022, a month after pleading guilty to the petty offense of “parading” in the Capitol.
She also sums up what Jord would have faced had he tried (key word considering there has only been one acquittal in the hundreds and hundreds of January 6 cases) to contest the charges; it makes for a grim outlook indeed:
Jord did have his life ahead of him. But in the short term, he and his family would’ve been subjected to ongoing torment inflicted by a cruel and ruthless DOJ. He would’ve been openly berated by a lunatic judge—[U.S. District Judge] Walton accused one man who pleaded guilty to a petty offense of “disgrac[ing] this country in the eyes of the world” and “attack[ing] the government”—in open court. He would’ve been branded a domestic terrorist despite the low-level charges filed against him. He would’ve been hounded by the news media, both local and national.
Such is the fate of every January 6 defendant. And Jord undoubtedly knew the nightmare in front of him.
All of this is ghoulish enough but one reason I decided to write this post was to point out the bizarrely unhinged comments made by some of our – as much as it deeply pains me to have to admit it – fellow American citizens. Here are just a few examples of the despicable things being said about Jord and the other Americans who have been caught up in this most disgraceful chapter in our history:
What kind of soulless monster cheers, for the world to see, a tragedy this horrific?
What kind of potentially dangerous person — “person”? — would openly call a young man like Jord “too cowardly to stand trial” and then proudly proclaim that he was “good with that”?
What rock do these animals live under and what do they signify is happening to the moral fiber of our nation?
If this is not evil, then the word no longer has any real meaning.
I want in the worst kind of way to believe that our country still has a vibrant and bright future and have written in the past about hopeful signs we see all around us, such as Ruby LaRocca, but if “people” like these elect our next President, we may never recover.
Here is a photo of the person who the scum we refer to as “elite” in Washington think was a threat to the continuing existence of the government of the United States of America; they are truly consumed by what Kelly termed “insatiable bloodlust”:
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Evil indeed
Many people in pursuit of power get that way.
That was painful to read. Prayers for him and his family.
The people involved in these prosecutions will have a lot to answer for some day. And the Judge on the bench won’t be using facial recognition software and wholly invented “charges.”
Interesting that you should use the word “blood lust.” I used those exact words repeatedly in responding to the most infamous post on Ricochet and the blood lust witnessed therein.
I hope that by now those who exhibited that blood lust in the heat of the moment have repented. But I doubt it.
Good luck with that.
Bryan, glad to see you used the “e” word so here’s a little story about my other Jan 6 post. When I had my Editor go over it – she also happens to be my Law Partner, Life Partner and My Lady – she strongly urged that I remove the many references I had put in the first draft to the word “evil.” Her reasoning was simple- she of course knows that I was one small step from getting on a plane on Jan 5 and going up to that now-infamous rally from which the actual continuing existence of the United States of America barely escaped and she made the point that as unhinged many of the players in these persecutions seem to be I might be taking a chance on having a large black helicopter land in our back yard, or a fully armed FBI SWAT team complete with battering ram and tank show up at our front door, as has happened several times in the last few weeks. Thus, knowing that she has supplied my well-known deficit in the area of common sense for the last 51+ years, I took her advice and made it a tad more palatable. I almost hate to relate that tale, not because she wasn’t absolutely correct (she always is) but because it shows the chilling effect these Gestapo-Stasi tactics have had on all of us. However, as you note, I did set as a sub-title Julie Kelly’s words which is exactly the way I was thinking after learning a lot more about Jord and the others who have taken their own lives because of these monsters.
Don’t ever forget: those MFers employed by Us in the People’s House were deeming American Citizens “essential” and “not essential” restricting one’s ability to provide for Themselves and Their Family.
How many suicides did that precipitate?
Burn the damn House down.
Sad, but it should surprise no one that mentally unbalanced or disturbed people are prone to irrational behavior. Sometimes this takes the form of rioting in public buildings, assaulting policemen, and threatening the lives of congressmen and vice presidents (all nominally in support of a “cause,” no matter how worthless), and sometimes it takes the form of self-harm and suicide.
It’s not as if the Ashamed Boys and others who rioted on January 6th were just average, regular citizens before that date. Going to Washington to wage war on your fellow citizens indicates something not quite right to begin with, and if this circumstance continues to obtain there may of course be additional consequences.
Wow, look who doesn’t know much about the Jan 6 protesters.
Not that anyone is surprised or anything.
We are filling up with low-information members, aren’t we.
He is a democrats troll.
Best thing is for everyone is to put she/him/it in the do not response mental Rolodex.
If everyone does that , it will get bored and fade away.
I will now proceed to identify myself as the oldest person on Ricochet ( a distinction I apparently share with Jim McConnell!) with the following story: in the days when I practiced law, before electricity or running water, we exchanged correspondence by letters typed on actual paper, as hard as that is to believe. Now and then one was required to deal with surly, discourteous, rude types who almost always hailed from the large city down Old Man River and the one thing they could not abide, having that kind of personality, was being ignored. So we had a rubber stamp made up which read simply:
This letter was ignored.
When they received their crude letter with that message on it, it – in admittedly rare cases – seemed to have some effect.
Maybe we should find some meme somewhere which sends that message to this member of the Trollery; might come in handy for at least one or two others I can think of right off the top of my head.
“Ignored”! The worst word in the English language for this kind of pest.
There does seem to be a sudden influx. I assume it’s because of the upcoming election, and a bunch of paid randos have been tasked with setting the Narrative on various conservative discussion forums.
My understanding of the events of January 6 is entirely conventional and captured nicely by Wikipedia’s introductory paragraph on the subject:
“On January 6, 2021, following the defeat of U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The mob sought to keep Trump in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.”
Imputing ignorance or bad faith on my part is not responsive to my assertion that believing you can overturn the results of a US election by staging a riot in response to false claims it was stolen indicates the kind of disordered thinking that might evidence itself in other ways.
Wikipedia. Very useful for some things, like learning about Gef, the Talking Mongoose.
I cannot recall a single instance of anyone quoting from Wikipedia as a serious source of content. Until now. Perhaps the above passage is a good example of why it is so disregarded by those who are interested in factual support for their/his/her/its statements. To quote Mary McCarthy’s opinion of the playwright Lillian Hellman, she had this to say and this is exactly what I think of the above uninformed quotation from @yarob — “I think every word she writes is false, including ‘and’ and ‘but.”
Giggle.
Perhaps belly laugh would describe it a little better.
Lest it be forgotten:
Yeah, that one in particular was particularly noxious. I suspect no repentance has occurred.
Wow
Instead of yet another appearance by Andy McCarthy on the flagship podcast, it would be nice for them to get Julie Kelly on to talk about the DC Gulag. At this point, getting the actor Andrew McCarthy would be preferable. They can even make it relevant by making a connection to this Weekend at Bernie’s administration.
I don’t know how many times we’ve recommended Julie Kelly as a guest. Gotta be well over two dozen times now. Has it ever happened?
I quoted exactly two sentences from the Wikipedia entry for January 6. It’s notable that you fail to object to either of them on the grounds of accuracy but choose instead to make sneering comments on their source. For the record, I find Wikipedia to be highly reliable, especially so in the areas in which I am expert (the lives and works of certain 20th-century authors). I often contribute as an editor, mostly to correct typos but occasionally to add substantive content. If you believe any part of an entry to be wrong or misleading, you’re welcome to submit a correction. Or you could just sit back and sneer; that’s always an option, naturally.
By the way, the entry for January 6 in Encyclopedia Brittanica opens in almost identical fashion to the one in Wikipedia:
“January 6 U.S. Capitol attack, storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, by a mob of supporters of Republican Pres. Donald J. Trump. The attack disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election of 2020, which Trump had lost to his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden. Because its object was to prevent a legitimate president-elect from assuming office, the attack was widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup d’état.”
Do you also have something disobliging to say about EB and the people who use it for research? Is there any online source you trust to provide an accurate summary of the events of January 6? If so, please let us know what it is.
Do you believe it was an “insurrection” or “coup d’état”?
I know that the new owner of Ricochet calls it a “coup.”
Can you explain how unarmed people are going to stage a coup?
I join in the call to have Julie Kelly as a guest on as many sources as possible. Quite simply, if you decide you want to start really learning about January 6, there’s only one place to start. She now has her own Substack, “Declassified”, which is a gold mine of information about that subject. (juliekelly@substack.com)
One might say it’s almost as reliable and content-rich as Wikipedia! Oops – there I go “sneering” again.
President Biden said it doesn’t matter if they had guns. He said they’d need F-16’s.
So who cares, right?
But for the record, you’re right, they found no weapons on the protestors.
Sneering.
You could not possibly have read the post and make a statement like this, tarring “all” with such a broad brush, including Jord who was in the building for 10 minutes walking around the Capitol (now the relatively new crime of “parading” according to the ghouls of the DOJ, who you apparently admire) and did not, under any definition of the word “riot” for or against anything.
According to reports I have seen, and I genuinely ask that you correct me if this statement is not factually accurate, there was literally minor damage done to any of the fixtures or windows or anything else in the Capitol. Of course, one poor gentleman from Alabama did put his boot up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk and he is paying a horrible price for that offense against the continuing functioning of the government of the United States of America.
You seem to throw personal characterizations around with complete abandon. Do you know anything about the subject of my post, Jord? Of course not as it is obvious you haven’t read the post before you started insulting his memory and the citizens who went there and followed the suggestion of their President (who I assume you must hate with a white hot hatred as do all your fellow Never Trumpers) to walk peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol and express their God-given right to their opinions about the way that most wretched election in American history was conducted. If it is not crystal clear already, I agree with them and had I been there I would almost certainly have been in the Jan 6 gulag suffering with all the other American citizens the cruel and unusual punishment handed down by the Judges of the United States District Court of the District of Columbia.
I don’t know you, and I am sure my life is irreparably lessened by that unfortunate negative, but the cause you refer to is the good faith belief formed by many American Citizens that the 2020 election was corrupt to the core. I remain in that number, now more than ever with the new books being published proving that that “worthless” opinion was well founded. See, e.g., Mollie Hemingway’s “Rigged”, although I am sure you will not be persuaded by any opinions other than the talking points you have been fed.
This statement is so divorced from reality it does not merit a response.
What additional consequences?
How about…
Well y’see, pallets of bricks had been delivered and pre-staged for them…
Oh wait, that’s BLM/Antifa.
Carry on.
The Speaker’s office was invaded this week, too. But those people will be excused because they’re Democrats’ footsoldiers.