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Leftist activist arrested for inciting riot at Capitol

A leftist activist who is very anti-Trump and heads an organization founded in support of Black Lives Matter causes has been arrested by the FBI for participating and inciting the riot that occurred at the Capitol Building on January 6th.

[John] Sullivan, the founder of “an activist group formed after the killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020” entitled Insurgence USA which “calls itself anti-fascist and protests police brutality,” insisted he was only inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th to “record.”

…The 18-page affidavit reveals that Sullivan allegedly incited violence by exclaiming “we gotta get this [expletive] burned” and “it’s our house mother[expletive].” … During one of his interactions with others, Sullivan can be heard in the video saying, “We gotta get this [expletive] burned.” At other times as he is walking through the Capitol, Sullivan can be heard saying, among other things, “it’s our house mother[expletive]” and “we are getting this [expletive].”

At this link you can see a video of Sullivan speaking at what appears to be a DC rally, threatening violence and insurrection against Trump.

He is not the only one arrested, and his leftist agenda only illustrates that the politics of the individuals who attacked the Capitol Building were not all the same. It also adds weight to the possibility that many who were there were not there in support of Trump, as has now become the accepted but very unproven wisdom, but might actually have been there to help slander those Trump supporters.

And I still want to know more about that woman in the pink hat.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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8 comments

  • pzatchok

    Didn’t the FBI say there was no evidence of anyone from the left inside the building?

  • Observer

    The video you posted the other day with the bullhorn woman is odd. Firstly they all look young, several are organized which should be easy for FBI assessment of videos to determine, the number with gas masks, that they are clearly moving with knowledge of the building and intent to destroy or harm (zipties?), i see one guy hooking up or taking hard drives (from Pelosi’s office? 3rd in line to POTUS are you kidding me?). Then the story that people started breaking into the building BEFORE Trump started his speech. Something is fishy wit the whole thing.

    I wont be surprised when in a few months we learn that:
    1) the lead troublemakers were a combination of Antifa and Qanon anarchists in a common cause
    2) a foreign money trail to Antifa for plane tickets and hotel rooms
    3) Clear evidence that Antifa purposely seized the BLM moment and actively agitated it. There are videos of “BLM protests” were there isnt a single person of color in sight. More like Occupy started to call itself Antifa

  • Observer: In a free society with a legitimate legal system and law enforcement focused on enforcing the law, your predictions I think would have a strong chance of coming true.

    We no longer have that. The federal government, with all its vast power, is now being weaponized aggressively to prevent such revelations. If anything, expect many arrests of innocent protesters who were simply there that day, but were never involved in breaking in or damaging anything.

    Expect also that any politician that dares raise questions will be slapped down very quickly. No opposition is going to be allowed.

    Edward likes to call this Obama’s America, no longer free. I personally consider it Bill Clinton’s America, as it was then this long journey to dictatorship and oppression began. It would have been very easy to have removed Clinton for perjury, signaling to all that the law supersedes policy and politics. The Democrats choose otherwise, favoring power and control over enforcing the law. They were not punished for doing so, and have been pushing that margin hard for twenty-plus years. And they have found continually that no one would stand up to them, and that the voters would not vote against them for doing it.

    They now have carte blanche. Be very afraid.

  • Gary

    If they took hard drives, then at least a part of the invasion force were state actors.

  • Dean Hurt

    The truth of this blight on our history is slowly and painfully trickling out despite the concerted efforts of the Totalitarian News Media n our nation. More and more evidence that anarchist, ANTIFA and BLM plants were behind the ruckus and assault in the nation’s capitol. The Leftist politicians are skating on thin ice. They believe that they have control of these animals, but they may find that anarchy can bite them on their collective asses!

  • Max

    “Anarchy can bite them on their collective butt”

    A lot has happened in the last few days, here’s a detailed analysis of the news papers walking back what the Democrats have been promoting.
    http://www.stateoftoday.com/lisa-haven/
    Even the excuses Twitter and Facebook were using to pull down parlor don’t hold up because most of the arrested criminals, infiltrators were using Facebook and Twitter.
    Oh No!

  • Gary

    Here is a scary thought:

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/01/16/311193-n311193

    A machiavellian (remote) possibility in comment section and one that none of us want to see:

    I ran into a video on GAB a couple days ago, and was able to copy it and post it on MeWe, was a Senator or Congressman, can’t remember which, forget the guy’s name offhand, but he was speaking briefly, and said flat out that he believed that they planned to assassinate Biden during the inauguration. He said that the reason he believed this was that Biden was in bad health, and it would accomplish several goals for them in one shot.

    Harris would be able to take office, no one would be able to do any investigations into the Biden crime family or Hunter Biden from that point on, they would be shamed right out of it, and that’s most like very true. Also, they would be able to blame it on MAGA ‘White Nationalists’ and say that they coordinated on certain social media sites, and from there have all they needed to shut those down as well. It would also give them all they needed to go after the guns.

    Guy was saying that right now was when we ‘Needed boot’s on the ground, people with phones to record what was going on to disprove the narrative’. But we would not be allowed that. Clearly.

    Thing that scares the crap out of me is that he might actually be right, and if so, and Harris is next in line, who does she pick for VP? Pelosi? Just that thought alone….

  • Max

    Gary,
    Reported this morning that an assassination attempt have officials worried as well. They’re quickly doing “background checks” on 25,000 troops they have fenced in (7 feet high with razor wire) around the capital.
    An armored vehicle was stolen in California and they are worried that others might be used in an insurrection.

    Although parlor has found a new hosting site, they still are not allowing Trump media access. His half hour video, which I have not seen yet, has already been pulled off the Internet that he just got up recently.

    If you have an hour, this friend of trumps, who is a well-known lawyer, has talked to him recently and has a pretty good idea of what Pres. Trump’s plans are in the future. Lots of information, fast paced, had to watch it twice.
    Trump is not going away.
    https://youtu.be/s8uf2aOqvtE

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