Proud Boys leader arrested for allegedly burning Black Lives Matter banner at DC church

According to DC Metro Police PIO Officer Sean Hickman:

In the past, Proud Boys have been enthusiastically supportive of the police in cities where they rallied and engaged in street violence.

In recent weeks, that has changed.

This was entirely predictable, and it's been frustrating that police have been so slow to realize that these extremists are not their friends.

Earlier this week in Oregon.

Police clash with Trump-supporting Proud Boys in Salem, Oregon, arrests made

Quite a few people have asked why someone who acknowledges being male would want a legal document that says female.

The simple answer is I dont. This was not the reason I obtained a GRC.

I was not even aware that the document stated that until I received it.

1/?

I have been attacked by every direction for obtaining one including "trans" people who don't qualify.

As flawed as the GRC is it is the only system we have. I am not responsible for the fact it needs reform.

2/?

Of course I am biologically male. That will never change. That doesn't mean that in the eyes of society I am not perceived as having a GENDER of female. It doesn't mean I am not treated differently (often negatively) for rejecting masculinity.

3/?

Just because I acknowledge my biological sex doesn't mean I should be forced into a box that defines how a male should act.

I use male spaces not because I want to but because I know women can't tell the difference between a TS and an opportunist.

4/?

I do not want to be male. I desperately wish I wasn't every day but I dont deny biological reality. That doesn't mean I am no different to any other male. I cannot deny or reject my transsexualism.

It is in being transsexual that I gained understanding of womens issues.

5/?

I witnessed a really powerful moment today in court. A judge read the harrowing words of a junior doctor to a man who had been on a mass protest against lockdown.

The truly brilliant District Judge Lynne Matthews was addressing a 53-year-old man who had marched against lockdown with 400 other Covid sceptics in Bristol.

Judge Matthews started the hearing by reading out an article she’d seen in the Times during her lunch break. It was written by a doctor on a high dependency ward. Here is some of what the judge read:

“The patients don’t ask many questions, mostly because they need to spend all of their energy breathing.

“I try to work out if one of my patients isn’t answering my questions because she is delirious, because she doesn’t speak English, or because she is depressed. I work out that it is probably the latter; her notes say that her husband died just before new year, from Covid.

Judge enters and proceedings commence.
#Assange

Now waiting for Julian Assange to be brought into court

Assange enters, gives his name and date of birth

Clair Dobbin, representing the US government rises to object to bail

Says Assange has previously "gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid extradition."

Outside Westminster Magistrates' Court for Julian Assange's latest bail hearing.

Craig Murray, ex-diplomat & whistleblower, says he's "very optimistic" Assange will be granted bail because no one who has had their extradition blocked on medical grounds has had the decision reversed upon appeal, so there's no incentive to abscond.

via @SputnikInt

Assange's fiancée @StellaMoris1 & @khrafnsson & @SwaziJAF of WikiLeaks are being temporarily prevented from entering court building. It's unclear why. It could simply be because they've temporarily blocked people from entering for the Assange case and are allowing others through.

Press still not being allowed in. Poorly managed situation. I can't risk not being allowed into the video link room while I wait to get into the building. I've had to go around the corner and sit on some steps outside and follow via video link. Luckily I've got my WIFI broadcast.

Hearing hasn't started yet. Hands freezing cold. Can hear lawyers speaking to each other.

It had to be this way. There is a reason SecDef was replaced with Miller. Why Ezra moved and gave a speech publicly for first time. A reason DOD pulled all support for CIA operation...

The videos I shot last night got more attention that I expected. I’ll post more from earlier in the day now, and in chronological order

1:27pm: crowd is leaving the Washington Monument following the president’s address. They’re all headed towards the Capitol. Lots of street preachers and buskers, like this guy, among them

2:02pm: I passed by these on Constitution Ave. Someone went to the trouble of printing actual fake news and left bundles on the street free for people to read

2:09pm: lots to see on Constitution Ave. someone pushing a shopping cart full of flags, including a Confederate battle flag, followed by someone cosplaying as Beetlejuice

2:20pm: these were just some of the many, many people flying South Vietnamese flags on the way to the Capitol. Led by a Trump impersonator

1)When did it become a crime for The People to enter The People’s House?

The next question is: Who was it that actually broke laws?

2)Seems to me that the Elitists calling yesterday’s protestors “law breakers” had no problem calling those who burned and looted cities (including DC) in 2020 “peaceful” and “justified”... and protected them from prosecution.

3)
As it was with all those mayors and politicians in 2020, it’s only when they are directly confronted by the People they pissed off that they call for “law and order” and start making arrests.

4) We are now being told that the “why” doesn’t matter (though it did in Portland and elsewhere to excuse that violence).

5) An Election was rigged and the Vote, the actual, tangible thing that enshrines and documents the Consent of the Governed, which is the foundation of all laws and permissions to govern, has been nullified.

All civilizations are based on a thin veil of trust. Law is based on the certainty of trust that underlies the application of justice. Once that veil is pierced, things go to hell very quickly.

Once upon a time, a fast food outlet had an owner who said something that was 1) legal 2) within his rights to say 3) controversial

There were some who felt so offended by this outrage that they decided that the company should be punished, if not entirely extinguished

Politicians across the country then worked to ensure that zoning laws were changed to ensure that this company was specifically targeted. Several large municipalities took action to ensure that this company could not even set up shop.

In the end, this company has ( so far) prevailed. But it didnt end there. But we see a new model of business being applied - Get woke, or go broke.

Parler is being removed from AWS because it is a place where the "unwoke" go to talk to each other. AWS has decided to act as a vigilante to the cause of wokeness and has decided that this business is worthy of being destroyed.

Oh boy. A fed. judge in DC denies motion from Trump followers to enjoin VP Pence from counting votes tomorrow.

"It would be risible were its target not so grave: the undermining of a democratic election." https://t.co/GGHubkBqkn

Also, they never provided proof of service.

(This is the one where they never would have been able to provide such proof anyway at least as to their claim to have sued "the Electoral College" which is not a concrete entity that can be sued.)

Guys, it's a short order, and you HAVE to go read it. It is dripping with scorn.

"It is not a stretch to find a serious lack of good faith here."

"...difficult to believe that this suit is meant seriously."

Ends with a warning that the judge is considering issuing an order to show cause.

This is the one filed by counsel from the Thomas More Society, a special interest law firm that at one time was more known for its religious freedom litigation than, well, whatever it's been doing lately.

Sowore Appears in Court.

A Thread!

#FreeSowore #FreeSoworeNow

The Judge is on seat now and The case is been called now. According to the court, the case is between them and the Commissioner of Police. JCA Idachaba is the lawyer heading the FCT command prosecution team with Adama Musa and DJ Emenike.

Good morning. Today a court will decide whether Julian Assange should be released on bail from Belmarsh Prison, following the decision by Westminster Magistrate's court not to extradite him to the US on espionage charges. #Assange #Assangetrail

I am joining the hearing through remove video link and will report updates here #Assange #Assangetrial #WikiLeaks

The hearing is due to begin at 10 am, and I believe two hours have been allocated. Assange's defence team will apply for costs. #Assange #Assangetrial

On Monday the court ruled that Assange should not be extradited on the grounds that extradition, and the conditions he would face in US prisons, would be oppressive, because of Assange's health conditions. #Assange #Assangetrial

The judge, Vanessa Baraitser dismissed all other defence arguments. #Assange #Assangetrial

In the Old Bailey in Court 4 awaiting the judge to enter Court 3 where she will deliver her decision in the extradition case of Julian Assange.

Judge Baraitser is expected to start at 10am GMT

via @SputnikInt

Outside there is a gaggle of press along with supporters of Julian Assange and third party observers who were attempting to get in such as @rebecca_vincent and @deepa_driver.

I don't know if they got in.

Photos from outside the court via @EfPress

Assange has stood up and identified himself. Judge has entered the court.

Judge has started by saying that the protection against extradition for a "political offence" was removed from the Extradition Act 2003 so it doesn't apply even though it is in the Treaty, that is not the constitutionally relevant document she says.

So here’s a theory about what’s behind the ongoing lockdown violations by the very people pushing lockdowns. It might explain why all of the officials who keep getting caught doing this seem to come from the same political slant.

Last year, there was talk about /1

The idea of “luxury beliefs”. The idea behind this theory is that as the differentiation between the working and upper-middle class blurs in terms of lifestyle and material status symbols, people will find other avenues of demarcation.

One of those avenues is to inflate extreme-niche issues to gigantic importance and/or to profess belief in absurdities while denigrating those who aren’t part of your in-group (and elevating oneself by implication).

For those who are trying to come up in life, /3

operating in a rational manner is probably very important. But what better way to show that you are of a superior class than to not have to worry about whether or not your professed beliefs make any sense...and you get to shit on everyone else in the process! Win/win. So, /4

what does this have to do with COVID and lockdowns? To relate to the luxury beliefs theory, the point is that it is inherently desirable to do things which those below you in status may not do. And so Gavin Newsom and London Breed dine at the French Laundry. Bill /5