Defendants Ballenger & Price case update…

To David Siboli the MAGA-QANON troll’s rage rampage via the comment section. Did you really think it would be smart to come here & espouse your dangerous disinformation and defending the indefensible

August 2021 Case and Background

I am really tired of the MAGA-QANON trying to “both sides”arguments for Jan6th —let’s be clear there are no both sides. January 6, 2021 was a domestic terror attack and a byproduct of Trump & his echo chamber. Which radicalized thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Americans. Which lead to thousands of Domestic Terrorist attacking hundreds of Law Enforcement Officers, desecrated the hollow grounds of our Country’s US Capitol Building

Meet Cynthia Catherine Ballenger & Christopher John Price -newly unsealed complaint

There was absolutely nothing Patriotic about Jan6th. Our Country watched in abject horror as thousands of MAGA-QANON descended on our Capitol. These individuals engaged in numerous acts of Domestic Terrorism and attempted to overthrow a free and fair election. Until we reconcile and correctly say Jan6th was a Domestic Terror attack and hold those individuals accountable —there is no moving on or healing.

Fun Fact March 1, 1954 Shooting in the House Chamber… fifty year prison sentence of Defendant Lolita Lebrón

Several members of Congress were shot or shot at.

• Five Congressmen were wounded in the shooting, including Representatives Alvin Bentley of Michigan, Kenneth Roberts of Alabama, George Fallon of Maryland, Ben Jensen of Iowa, and Clifford Davis of Tennessee.

• Bentley, the most seriously injured remarked, “I next remember being hit with what felt like a terrific blow on the chest. I didn’t realize it was a bullet. It felt more as if somebody had taken a club and socked me on the chest and knocked the wind out of me.”

You can read more about the 1954 Shooting in the House Chamber

https://history.house.gov/Oral-History/Events/1954-Shooting/

After the shooting, four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party were charged; Lolita Lebron, Rafael Miranda, Irving Flores Rodriguez and Andres Figueroa Cordero. See 1954 New York Times article - Lolita Lebrón was sentenced to fifty years in prison. In 1955 the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Conviction

So when individuals try to defend Jan6th, lodge criticism of reporting and find offense to the rather light sentencing of the various Jan6th defendants —yes it bothers me because no one was killed in the 1954 US Capitol shooting rampage. Granted some members of Congress were injured but comparatively speaking what happened on Jan6th -left over 140 Law Enforcement badly injured and the subsequent deaths by suicide of US Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Officers who responded to Jan6th. Lest we forget the July 2021 compelling testimony of officers who put their bodies on the line to protect our Democracy

Dear David from Emmitsburg, the actual facts annihilate your regurgitation of Trump’s Big Lie

Based on a skip-trace background check you don’t live in Portland or Seattle so please explain how Antifa or BLM haven’t been prosecuted by the DOJ for the Summer of 2020 Nationwide Civil Unrest… below are dozens of examples where the DOJ filed criminal charges against hundreds of those who engaged in destruction of property and rioting activities. Unless otherwise specified all embedded links are straight from the DOJ.

Summer of 2020 Nationwide Civil Unrest

On Thursday, September 24, 2020 the Department of Justice issues this comprehensive Press Release. Which included hundreds of purported Antifa and BLM protesters being criminally charged for assaulting Law Enforcement, Burning of Businesses & Police Equipment. Again all of this is public information and you can read the relevant facts.

• Exhibit A: COLINFORD MATTIS & UROOJ RAHMAN reach a plea agreement. June 2020 Molotov Cocktail Attacks on NYPD Vehicles

• Exhibit B: September 2020 DOJ-OPA Over 300 People Facing Federal Charges For Crimes Committed During Nationwide Demonstrations

  • damages to the Portland Courthouse,

  • Nashville Courthouse,

  • Minneapolis Police Third Precinct,

  • Seattle Police East Precinct, and

  • local high school in Minnesota; and,

  • to replace police cruisers in South Carolina, Washington, Rhode Island, Georgia, Utah

• Exhibit C - The assaults have targeted local and federal law enforcement officers. 

  • In Portland, a man is alleged to have approached a U.S. Marshals Deputy from behind and struck the deputy in the upper back, neck, and shoulder with a wooden baseball bat;

  • another man, allegedly assaulted a Deputy U.S. Marshal with an explosive device. 

  • In Boston, a man allegedly shot at least 11 times toward officers, including a deputized federal officer.

• Exhibit D - outside of the U.S. Supreme Court - a man was engulfed in flames after he poured a liquid from a gas can onto three U.S. Supreme Court Police vehicles; he suffered severe burns.

• Exhibit F - In Virginia Beach, authorities identified a man who is alleged to have threatened to burn down an African American church

• Exhibit G - In Pittsburgh, two individuals allegedly attempted to burglarize a Dollar Bank.  In Louisville, two individuals were charged with conspiracy to commit burglary involving controlled substances at a local Walgreens. Another Louisville individual was charged with carjacking

…at the time of the carjacking, the individual was on a felony diversion as a result of a February 2020 conviction for charges that were initially filed as complicity to murder and complicity to robbery. 

• Exhibit H - Cleveland, two Pennsylvania men are charged with driving to the city with the intent to participate in a riot and commit acts of violence. 

In their possession, authorities found a black backpack containing a hammer, two containers of Sterno Firestarter Instant Flame Gel, a can of spray paint, a glass bottle of liquor with a bar-style pour top, a Glock semi-automatic firearm and two magazines loaded with ammunition. 

• Exhibit I - Knoxville, one individual allegedly instructed his social media followers to, “bring hammers bricks whatever you want.”

The same defendant allegedly used a trashcan lid filled with an unknown liquid to strike a law enforcement officer in the head while the officer was seated in a police vehicle.

To ban or not to ban

Also if you decide to come to my Substack and start verbally attacking my readers (see examples found here, here and here) I will put you in a 24 hour time out. If you come to this platform to regurgitate MAGA-QANON-sense propaganda —I’ll give you a few chances to right yourself before I ban you, but coming here and abusing my readers? David you created an account and then posted numerous inflammatory comments. Do you not understand that when you created your account you provided personal identifiable information? Did you think coming here to espouse Trump’s deadly big lie and then pivoting to Trump’s both sides counter argument isn’t exactly productive.

Your predicable pivot to “both sides” isn’t just intellectually dishonest it’s offensively uninformed. For example you equate the Jan6th Domestic Terror attack to BLM and Antifa. My readers know that when I publish an article I’ll likely dump a lot of original (factual) documents. For Example this August 2021 article where I provided my readers with the Metropolitan Police Department’s MPD Unrest-Related Arrest Data Set

Granted it’s his prerogative to defend the absolute indefensible- but coming to my Substack and not coming correct. Spoiler his comments actually opened the door for me to drop recent case updates.

And According to David - Defendants CYNTHIA BALLENGER, and CHRISTOPHER PRICE “did nothing wrong on January 6th” -so let’s just look at the Defendants docket, shall we?

…November 5, 2021 USAO-DC offered defendants a plea agreement…

For Example on November 10, 2021 a Joint MOTION to Continue November 12 Status Conference by USA as to CYNTHIA CATHERINE BALLENGER, CHRISTOPHER JOHN PRICE -see DDC-ECF via my Scribd Account

Well now that is rather note worthy and by David’s own logic the Defendants wouldn’t need a plea agreement, right? Because according to him the Defendants didn’t do anything criminal…

Wait hold on are you telling me that the parties jointly filed a motion for a 28 day continuance and to exclude that time under the Speedy Trial Act

…On November 5, 2021, the United States extended a plea offer to the Defendants. The requested continuance will allow the Defendants and their attorney to discuss and consider this plea offer, and counsel for all parties an opportunity to engage in discussions about potential pre-trial resolution of this matter.

ORDER granting 22 Motion to Continue Status Hearing as to CYNTHIA CATHERINE BALLENGER (1), CHRISTOPHER JOHN PRICE (2). Status Hearing continued to 12/9/2021 at 1:00 PM by Telephonic/VTC before Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui. Signed by Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather on 11/12/2021 - or you can pull down the Order from my Scribd Account

I don’t like banning individuals from this platform. I have only banned 2 individuals. Even before I use the Administrative console to put a reader on notice - my bans are temporary. I think only one other user earned a permanent ban. That was after they literally commented by posting numerous death threats “put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger” or “you are trash and someone with a Godgiven 2nd Amendment Right should take you out” or “I know you home address and I know where your children go to school, watch your back” so I can confidently say that I actually do tolerate a lot but abusing my long time readers -NOPE-…

As is the case with David I only gave him a 24 hour ban because sometimes people need a short time out to evaluate how and what they communicate..

Again I do try to be conservative in my banning or calling out a commenter. I’m in favor of having an intellectually honest debate with the underlying condition that it’s okay to disagree as long as it is respectful. Yet David coming to this platform and then attacking my readers. While regurgitating Trump’s Big Lie -thoughts and prayers. Insofar as to say my reporting is Fake News - yes that will trigger me to lay down additional facts/receipts. I mean after all Spicy is a way of life… -Filey