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Well, it looks the DOJ is working up the conspiracy ‘food chain’, as reported earlier by KeithDB:
The FBI today arrested OathKeepers leader Stewart Rhodes, charging him and ten other Oath Keepers with sedition conspiracy in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2384. You can read the charging document HERE. The charge carries with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
I heard a legal pundit say today ‘you really should go read that charging document — it’s chilling’ …
Thought to myself, yes somebody should do that.
So here is some of the eye-opening evidence of the Seditious Conspiracy plot that was carried out, and now being charged, against 11 members of the OathKeepers, including their leader Stewart Rhodes:
[ pg 8 ]
Purpose of the Conspiracy
16. The purpose of the conspiracy was to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force, by preventing, hindering, or delaying by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of power, including the Twelfth and Twentieth Amendments to the Constitution and Title 3, Section 15 of the United States Code.
[ pg 9 ]
Means and Methods
17. The conspirators carried out the conspiracy through the following manner and means, among others:
a. Preparing for and coordinating travel to Washington, D.C., to use force to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power;
b. Organizing into teams that were prepared and willing to use force and to transport firearms and ammunition into Washington, D.C;
c. Recruiting members and affiliates to participate in the conspiracy;
d. Organizing trainings to teach and learn paramilitary combat tactics;
e. Bringing and contributing firearms, ammunition, and related equipment to the QRF [hotel] staging areas outside Washington, D.C.;
f. Bringing and contributing paramilitary gear, weapons, and supplies—including knives, batons, camouflaged combat uniforms, tactical vests with plates, helmets, eye protection, and radio equipment—to the Capitol grounds;
g. Breaching and attempting to take control of the Capitol grounds and building on January 6, 2021, in an effort to prevent, hinder, and delay the Certification of the Electoral College vote;
h. Using force against law enforcement officers while inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021;
i. Continuing to plot, after January 6, 2021, to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power; and
j. Using websites, social media, text messaging, and encrypted messaging applications to communicate with co-conspirators and others.
[ pg 10-11 ]
18. [...]
b. On November 7, 2020—the date that President Trump was projected to have lost the Presidential Election—RHODES wrote to the Leadership Intel Chat: “[WJe must now do what the people of Serbia did when Milosevic stole their election. — Refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol.” He then sent a link to a Bitchute.com video titled “STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE, HOW WE WON WHEN MILOSEVIC STOLE OUR ELECTIONS.”
RHODES continued:
I am in direct context [sic] with the Serbian author of that video. His
videos arc excellent. Here s his written advice to us:
“- Peaceful protests, good, well played round 1
- A complete civil disobedience, they are not your representatives. They are FOREIGN puppet government.
- Connect with the local police and start organize by neighborhoods to stay safe (we didn’t need this step)
- We swarmed the streets and started confronting the opponents. I
Know, not nice, but it must be done if the institutions stop to exist
- Millions gathered in our capital. There were no barricades strong enough to stop them,nor the police determined enough to stop them
- Police and Military aligned with the people after few hours of fist-fight
- We stormed the Parliament
- And burned down fake state Television!
WE WON!”
Later, on November 10, 2020, RHODES publicly published this plan of action under the headline “WHAT WE THE PEOPLE MUST DO” on the Oath Keepers website in a “Call to Action!”
And to show that they weren’t just “play acting” as ‘wantabee soldiers’, I searched the charging document for “ammo” and “ammunit” — and LOTS so instances of those tools/weapons of sedition, were referenced in the DOJ evidence trove. Here are a view examples of that:
[ pg 19 ]
Acts in the Furtherance of the Conspiracy
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62. Between January 1 and 5, 2021, RHODES, MEGGS, HARRELSON, WATKINS, JAMES, HACKETT, MOERSCHEL, ULRICH, VALLEJO, and other co-conspirators transported firearms, ammunition, and related items to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
[ … pg 20 ]
68. On January 5, 2021, JAMES dropped off firearms and ammunition that he, ULRICH, and other co-conspirators had transported to the Hilton Garden Inn in Vienna, Virginia, where RHODES, JAMES, MINUTA, and others were staying.
69. On January 5, 2021, MEGGS, HARRELSON, HACKETT, MOERSCHEL, CALDWELL, and others provided the QRF [hotel], including VALLEJO, with firearms, ammunition, and related items.
And one last chilling bit of evidence that was live-streamed, the day of …
[ pg 27 ]
110. Between 2:30 p.m. and 2:33 p.m., JAMES, MINUTA, ULRICH, and others rode in golf carts toward the Capitol, at times swerving around law enforcement vehicles, with MINUTA live-streaming their conduct over Facebook and stating:
Patriots are storming the Capitol building; there’s violence against patriots by the D.C. Police; so we're en route in a grand theft auto golf cart to the Capitol building right now . . . it's going down, guys; its literally going down right now Patriots storming the Capitol building . . . fucking war in the streets right now. . . word is they got in the building . .. let's go.
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It’s good to see the DOJ stepping up their charges, working up that chain of evidence. I heard somewhere else earlier today, that by squeezing these ‘Insurrection Lieutenants’, they are now started to get “encrypted communications” with those higher up in the conspiracy plot.
Here’s to hoping the DOJ continues to finds all the hard evidence they need to bring the charges that stick, and to prevent these kind of Government take-over plots from ever happening again, anytime in the immediate future.
The countdown clock is still ticking methodically down to the next take-over attempt … if their are no consequences, commensurate with their seditious actions.
With great power, comes even greater responsibility.
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[Technical note: Apologies in advance for any typos or malformed paragraphs in the excerpts above. The copy and pasted text was apparently a poor OCR translation, with lots of typos and stray characters. I tried to clean it up the best I could, but may have missed a few errant “scans”.]
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