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Guess Which Insurrectionist Dummy Is To Take The Witness Stand? Hint: He Goes By "Bigo." [1]
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Date: 2023-01-17
My Dad Used To Tell Me Some People Are Dumber Than Owl Shit. Looks like we have a winner here.
I admit to not being a lawyer, and what little I know I get from “Law and Order” TV shows. However, when you have videotape and photographs of you busting into a place you shouldn’t be with a weapon, I do not think there is a good way to talk your way out of it on the witness stand in a trial. However, Richard “Bigo” Barnett is going to take the witness stand tomorrow or Thursday. And I am truly sorry there will not be cameras in his trial to see this blessed event unfold.
WASHINGTON — Richard “Bigo” Barnett will testify in his Capitol riot trial, his lawyer said Tuesday. Joseph D. McBride said Barnett’s testimony is expected to take half a day and will take place Wednesday or Thursday. Barnett is one of four witnesses the defense plans to call to the stand. The other three include two character witnesses — Barnett’s significant other and his cousin — and an expert witness… Barnett, 62, faces eight charges in connection with the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. He received worldwide attention after he posed for photos with his foot on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite. He faces enhanced charges alleging he entered the Capitol with a dangerous or deadly weapon — a Hike ’n Strike Hiking Staff that he bought at a Bass Pro Shop in Rogers a week before the riot. The stun gun/walking stick can deliver a 950,000-volt shock.
Emphasis is mine.
As a reminder about Bigo:
x Here’s Mr. Barnett, who goes by “Bigo,” telling the story in his own words pic.twitter.com/oSyKiCDXgy — Matthew Rosenberg (@AllMattNYT) January 6, 2021
And he also claimed he was just looking for the bathroom when he came across Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.
Now, I believe most lawyers tell their clients to STFU and let them do the talking. But Bigo has not been quiet since he was arrested. He has set up a website as part of a legal defense fund, and he claims to be political prisoner because he is fighting for America’s soul.
OUR AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE IS UNDER ATTACK The United States Government has a long history using media driven propaganda to scapegoat entire groups of people in order to increase the Federal Government’s reach and power while diminishing our constitutionally protected rights. For instance, the Federal Government’s decision to force “all persons of Japanese ancestry” into internment camps in the name of national security gained national support through media driven propaganda, and was subsequentially upheld by the Supreme Court in 1944 in Korematsu v. United States. Years later, after the events of September 11, 2001, the government reacted by passing the Patriot Act, unconstitutional expansions in its use and the mass surveillance of United States citizens by the National Security Agency. As part of the Russia Hoax, Carter Page, an advisor to the Trump Campaign, was illegally spied on based on an altered CIA email by an FBI attorney. His punishment? Probation!
Today, Trump Supporters are type casted as domestic extremists by a media propaganda machine that openly encourages the illegal pretrial detention of United States Citizens by the Federal Government. DC Central Detention Facility has become Guantanamo Bay for scores of January-sixers whose human rights are violated on a daily basis with the media’s blessing. While the United States Government has cloaked its thirst for censorship and lust for control in its corporate agents known as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, for the sole purpose of circumventing the Constitution. This is demonstrated by the fact that at this very moment we cannot meaningfully use our electronic devices absent forced privacy waivers which begets the warrantless government tracking of everything we do. Demonstrated further by the fact that our liberty interests are being unlawfully intruded upon by a government that demands its citizens produce approved papers before being allowed to travel, worship, or associate. And by the fact that our elected officials are forming an inquisition to stamp-out the rise of anti-President Biden sentiment.
Their message is clear: if you object to the November election results or stand against the Biden Administration in any way, not only will you be cancelled, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will put you on a Gestapo-like list, your employer will terminate your job, your freedom will be taken, and then you will be thrown into a gulag for an undetermined amount of time without ever having had a criminal trial.
Our response to the cancel- culture activists: The Spanish Inquisition was wrong, and so is yours. Stop putting people who disagree with you on enemy lists like how the Nazis and Soviets did. Communism always fails and socialism equals slavery. Prepare to lose the greater fight, because the Holy Bible states that the people of God will win. America is the greatest country in the history of the world. Richard Barnett’s picture at Speaker Pelosi’s desk has become the face of the new anti-federalist movement. We will not go gently into that good night. Click below to donate to the fight.
Makes your head spin. He’s comparing himself to interred Japanese Americans during WWII. And he continues to be an election denier, and he thinks that people have to have all these papers like in the former Soviet Union. Blah, blah, blah.
Bigo is an old white guy who hates that his guy lost an election, and Bigo was willing to engage in violence to overthrow the government.
Anyway, I’m sure the prosecutor will have a field day with all the evidence that Bigo has left out for EVERYONE to see. And given how Bigo has acted up to this point, does anyone think he will keep his cool on the witness stand? I sure as hell don’t. This will be his big chance to spread his message and grievances.
I’m just sad that I will not get to see and record this shitshow.
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