From www.theguardian.com/… - “The former leader of the Proud Boys, a violent far-right nationalist group whose members were prominent in the January 6 riot, was found in possession of comprehensive plans to “surveil and storm” government buildings, prosecutors said.
Enrique Tarrio, the group’s former chairman who was arrested last week and charged with conspiracy over the deadly attack, had a nine-page document entitled “1776 Returns”, named for the year of American independence, the New York Times reported.
The document, mentioned only in general terms in Tarrio’s indictment, contained details of a complex plan for supporters of Donald Trump to invade and occupy at least seven House and Senate office buildings on the afternoon Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, according to Times sources.”
The full document is here — storage.courtlistener.com/...
The “1776 Returns” document was mentioned in an indictment against Enrique Tarrio in March, but was filed today.
As reported by www.nbcnews.com/…, a lawyer for Proud Boy Zachary Rehl, who is seeking release from pretrial detention, included the document in a motion, which maintains that Rehl “had no knowledge of the document.”
Eric Garland has a well-written summary with snippets of the document — take a look -
Connect this with the tours given by republican lawmakers to the rioters on Jan 6 and it shows the extent to which this whole thing was planned and orchestrated -
Here are some chilling bits of conversation from Jan 6 in a court document — “everything we fucking trained for”, “start tearing out floors go from top to bottom”, “go through back house chamber doors facing N left down hallway down steps”, “seal them in, turn on gas.”
The connection between this plan and trump’s inner circle is not known.
Also, this plan, which focused on House and Senate buildings but not the Capitol building, was probably scuttled in favor of some other plan.
Perhaps, these topics will be covered in one of the sessions of the Jan 6 select committee hearings. There is a lot we do not know yet.
Here is tomorrow’s agenda -
Meanwhile, let’s do our part in educating the electorate about Jan 6 and the coterie of criminals the GOP has become. Let’s make sure that we implicate all the leaders of the republican party as co-conspirators in this insurrection.
Let’s keep writing and talking about the Jan 6 insurrection and the hearings day after day.
The November elections are coming and we have to win the House and Senate.