Subject: Re: Jan 6 picnicker gets 5 years
Losing our democracy??? Not so much.

Your opinion is a manifestation of your bias; that there what happened inside the Capital Building is all that matters.

Again, your perception is that of a person who was not there and ignores the peripheral activity of Trump's right wing militant supporters.

You choose to pretend there were no militias with weapons stashes nearby, that that was part of a failed threat to the peaceful transfer of office that day.

https://apnews.com/article/cap...

Taking the stand in the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates, Terry Cummings showed jurors an AR-15 firearm and an orange box for ammunition that he contributed to the so-called quick reaction force the Oath Keepers had staged at the hotel outside of Washington in case they needed weapons.

“I had not seen that many weapons in one location since I was in the military,” said Cummings, a veteran who joined the Oath Keepers in Florida in 2020.

... Oath Keeper, John Zimmerman, told jurors that the Oath Keepers stashed at least a dozen rifles and several handguns in his van parked at Arlington National Cemetery to serve as the quick reaction force on that occasion.

.....Meggs and the Florida Oath Keepers on Jan. 5 brought gun boxes, rifle cases and suitcases filled with ammunition to the Virginia hotel that served as the home for the quick reaction force. Another team from Arizona brought weapons, ammunition, and supplies to last 30 days, according to court papers. A team from North Carolina had rifles in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot"

https://apnews.com/article/cap...