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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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I have not come across any moderation notes in this review of the comments yet. Just sayin’…
Did you do that on purpose? If so, well done. If not, then you’re running low on self-awareness. Whichever the case, you gave me a good laugh.
Illegalities? You mean the evidence-free claims that Trump and Trumpists brought to court, losing more than 60 times, often in front of Trump-appointed judges? Those illegalities? Please. Every analysis of the 2020 election, including those conducted by independent organizations, the government, and Republicans (!), has concluded that there was no evidence of fraud or criminality sufficient to have changed the result in any key state.
Take, for example, Trump’s lies about dead people voting (he claimed 20,000 had done so in PA, 17,000 in MI, and 5,000 in GA), or his claims that Detroit turnout was 139% of registered voters and that 200,000 more votes were counted in PA than there were voters. Each of these fabrications has been meticulously refuted by multiple sources, yet some people (including apparently not a few here on Ricochet), still believe them. Trump and the GOP lost the election fair and square, not only for president but also for the House and the Senate (quite the achievement!). The post-Trump conservative recovery will be easier and quicker if people just accepted the fact.
Congratulations! You’ve found (I’ll take you at your word) an inaccuracy in a Wikipedia article, one of approximately 6.5 million articles in English (there are tens of millions of additional articles in other languages).
On please, we already have discussed the “lack of standing ” rather than lack of evidence excuses judges made to not hear cases. Experts are finally getting their chance to testify in court and some interesting things are coming out I predict your talking points won’t age well.
Anyone want to tell him Wikipedia has been busted. I’m wondering if it is worth my time to go back a week or two to find the news.
Here we go again.
Right. Either “Yarob” knows this and is deliberately lying, or he doesn’t know this and is woefully misinformed by his sources, which appear to be CNN and MSNBC.
Don’t wade into this fight so poorly-armed, Yarob. The people at Ricochet are far better informed that you appear to be.
Total waste of time! Life’s too short (especially at my age)!
It’s so easy to argue when all you have to do is cut and paste a bunch of DNC talking points together- saves all that time having to do- well, actual work!
What is yarob spelled backwards?
Inquiring minds want to know!
So far, I’ve yet to find a leftist who can explain why the Capitol Police (plus all the other law enforcement personnel on hand) failed so completely to protect the Capitol against what really amounted to a run-of-the-mill riot. No molotov cocktails, no guns, no frozen water bottles, no bricks…all of which, by the way, they’re trained and equipped to handle. So why didn’t they?
Along the same lines: I’ve yet to find a leftist, or a Biden Corruption Denier, who can explain why the mainstream media from which they receive their talking points has no interest in investigating what would be, if true, a pretty darned scary situation.
Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that Hunter Biden’s laptop, abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware, was filled not with evidence of a depraved lifestyle AND political corruption at the highest levels, but was Russian Disinformation, just as the Fifty Nifty Experts declared before the election. (Note: It has been admitted to be authentic, so this is just a test case).
Surely inquiring minds, of the sort that are supposed to populate the nation’s legacy newsrooms, would want to know how this was done? I know I would, if I was a hot ticket reporter bent on becoming the next Woodward or Bernstein. This would be the spy story of the century, and also the technology and cyber-warfare story of the century. Heck, maybe it would Implicate Trump!!!
Where did they get the photos of the hookers and coke and of Hunter himself? Were those faked with CGI? The videos too? How did they manage to insert thousands of email exchanges not only into Hunter’s laptop but also into the computers of all those recipients?
Does the American government also have the ability to pull off so sophisticated and complex a dirty trick? Have we sprinkled Laptops From Hell around Moscow, or casually deposited a few onto the workbenches of computer repair shops in Bejing?
And: can Our Democracy ™ henceforth protect our pure and honorable Democratic politicians from such scurrilous high-tech shenanigans?
Strangely, none of our “journalists” seemed interested in pursuing these fascinating questions at the time. Why not?
Wiki has even been called out by its founder.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-is-now-propaganda-for-left-leaning-establishment/
Fascinating. That has been my sense of the situation too for the last three or four years.
It remains a good starting point for some things. It can give you some search terms that you wouldn’t know otherwise.
But I notice a lot of left-leaning editing in the pandemic articles. Some have been completely rewritten to spout the CDC’s official positions.
Glad to have my suspicions confirmed.
These over the top persecutions of unarmed trespassers has essentially ended the first amendment right to petition for redress without fear of punishment. The left loves to talk about ‘chilling effects’.
I’ve been following him for a while on the site I continue to call Twitter.
Wasn’t an accident.
No, I mean the ones I’ve analyzed myself . . . or, at least, they would make a good start. I suggest you read me, and find the mistakes if you can. But if you can’t, then I suggest you change your mind or at least have the wisdom to hold your tongue.
Here is a nice, easy first step into a larger world, and I think you’ll find that it was confirmed in court and did indeed apply to illegally counted votes well exceeding the Biden margin of victory in a swing state:
https://ricochet.com/1215648/teigen-v-wisconsin-elections-commission-2/
Bravo! If only your efforts were worth it. I only wish I could be more optimistic.
Phillip Roth, the New York Times’ best selling novelist, went ahead and corrected information someone had submitted to his wikipedia entry regarding his autobiographical information.
Roth was admonished by the Wiki staff that due to his not being an academic who had written on the subject of Phillip Roth, his entry would be deleted. Say what? (I mean, if a human being is not an expert on the details of their own life, then just who would be?)
Wikipedia has its place. I use it to assess the history of many different music groups when trying to remember what album a specific song appeared on, so i can then get the CD on Amazon or E Bay.
Wikipedia is also very good as far as noting the approximate population of cities and towns across the globe.
It is good for sports scores.
But for political matters it sucks and sucks big time. For discussions relating to conservative personalities, it sucks.
For subjects that are total inventions by the WEF/Leftie crowd, such as global crisis matters, it sucks. Also sucks in laying out the situation with COVID, with COVID vaccines and statistics relating to injuries and fatalities of the COV vax situation.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia
https://dailypresser.com/theoneadmin/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked-by-us-intelligence-for-info-warfare/
Are there any J6 defendants that ought not to be pardoned once I’m president? Just wondering…
Pardon the guy with the antlers. He showed us how easy it is to get lefties to pee their pants, eliminating the need to resort to violence to get their attention. I’m all for pardoning those who offer a peaceful way forward.
Oh, I’m inclined to pardon all of them. Antler guy, Proud Boys, the whole Gulag-full. I just wondered if there was anyone I should leave out. Once, y’know, I’m sitting in the Oval Office.
That is very correct. As I have elaborated in a previous post. The only person who killed in the events of Jan 6th was Ashli Babbitt. That is all. No one else.
Ashli Babbitt was murdered; I do not say that lightly but as one who decided to study the matter as thoroughly as I possibly could with documents then available and, based on that research, I published a post entitled “The Mindless, Heartless Execution of Ashli Babbitt And the death of her grief-stricken German Shepherd when she never returned” on August 6, 2021. For those who may wish to peruse the post it is accessible here. It received 37 likes and 108 comments but was never promoted to the main page for reasons I, and others, can only speculate about. However, while noting, as I must, that doing a lot of deep research into any topic does not in any way whatsoever guarantee the accuracy of one’s views, I believed strongly then and even more strongly now that she was murdered in both the legal sense of the word and the common sense understanding of the word. I will also note that Ashli is on my evening prayer list every single night, without fail. I feel very strongly that the free pass given to Lt. Byrd was one of the darkest stains on our system of justice in its history, only to be worsened by the absolutely cruel and unususal punishments meted out to the Jan 6 defendants about which I have also written not only here but here. As one who spent almost all of his adult life in the law, it is painful for me to see the carnage and destruction this administration and its rotten-to-the-core Department of Justice are doing to the American Rule of Law and with these posts I am doing one of the few things I have left I can do to try as best I can to let the world know the real facts behind some of these atrocities, not the narrative.
Merrick Garland. Liz Cheney. Adam Schiff. Adam Kinzinger. James Comey. James Clapper. Hillary Clinton. . . . I’ll come up with more, I’m sure.
Let them rot.
Add to that, the murders of Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland.
Roseanne Boyland. Beaten by cops, then trampled to death.
The Deep State initially claimed she died of a drug overdose, but that’s just a cover-up.
More rage-inducing facts at the link above.