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Regarding the January 6th Invasion — “It Blows My Mind, Mr Garland”

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Florida Congressman Greg Steube Florida Congressman Greg Steube asking Attorney General Garland to explain difference between left-wing and right-wing domestic terrorism

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB  

I have a new angle to submit in the mystery of the January 6, 2021 event in Washington DC. It has to do only with the counting of electoral ballots in Congress that day. I think you will be surprised.

Let me say firmly that I am not here to exonerate Trump or to condemn him. I was not at the event and cannot report what happened. Just hear me out, as regards the little-known Twelfth Amendment.

But first, to Article I. It gives the nation a way to make sure, every fourth year, that the office of president does not go wanting. In the Philadelphia Convention at which the Constitution was written, the subject of how a president should be elected, or appointed, was left till late.

We know that the Framers in 1787 were not big on having a powerful president. One delegate suggested a triumvirate; another recommended a quickly revolving position, maybe for a year. Eventually, in part to please the smaller states, Article I called for — pay attention, this is relevant to January 6, 2021 — a state-based choice of president.

Each election year, the members of each state’s little Electoral College meets. The number of Electors is proportionate to the population:  Wyoming has 3 electors, California has 53. All up, there are 538 Electors.  Half of that, plus one vote, is 270, the magic number to obtain the presidency.

How does an Elector get to be an Elector? Each state is entitled to its own method.  I live in NH and did not see any names of electors on the ballot, but in some states you vote for the electors to go do the job for you.

Will all 538 electors have freedom to choose a candidate who was not a winner at the November 3rd polls?  Again, it’s up to each state to legislate on that matter. There are 22 “creative” states. Their electors could conjure up someone who had not even run for office (as long as he/she be native born and 35 or older). Rarely, though does any elector get creative.

In 28 states, the rule is “No creativity, please.”  The elector must copy what happened at the polls on November 3. For all 50 states, the rule is for the 50 electoral colleges to meet in December.  They mail their ballots to the US Senate so as to arrive before D-day, January 6, addressed to the president of the Senate who is always the Vice President of the US.

In this case it was Mike Pence. Both houses of Congress are to assemble together in one chamber while “tellers” open the ballots. “May I have the envelope please…”

The Twelfth Amendment

  1. Now we come to Amendment XII, dated 1804. It was ratified after Thomas Jefferson had a bit if an election issue. If you need to see the implementation of the Twelfth, it’s codified at 3 USC 15.

Once the January 6th ceremony begins, if any senator or representative wants to disagree, on any grounds, with the ballot count of any state, he can interrupt the count and announce his case.

Then (providing at least one member of the other house will sign that objection), the VP must ask the senators to skip back to their chamber so each chamber can debate it privately. They have a maximum of two hours to do so (per item).

On January 5, 2021, the day before the Electoral vote count, a whopping 139 members of the House of Representatives stated that they intended to challenge the ballots.

The opening of the envelopes from the states is done in alphabetical order.  On January 6, we heard Alabama and Alaska called. Those ballots passed muster. Then Arizona was called — this was the first state for which a challenge had been promised.

A majority vote of both the Senate and House of Reps is needed for the rejection of any Elector’s ballot. If the result is “Reject!,” that ballot must get dropped from the count.  And it’s not appealable.

Conceivably, this paring down of the ballots could mean that the candidate who had been considered as having won the required minimum of 270 votes to become president (Biden had 302), would find himself having less than that number.

So the January 6th procedure would presumably be quite exciting — six states’ electoral ballots were potentially at risk: AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, and WI.

The “Timely” Invasion

It was (I believe) exactly at the moment when Arizona was called — the first “at risk” state — that the “invaders” broke into the chamber. The Congresspersons scattered to their offices for safety, and it was not until 8pm that they resumed business.

That is a whole year ago and you may have forgotten the high tension about a stolen election. So, at 8pm, who challenged what?  Nobody challenged anything. The 139

Representatives went quiet. (I am not sure if any senators had promised to challenge: I think Senator Tommy Tuberville of AL gave some indication of it in the previous week.)

Most likely the invasion trauma had snuffed out the desire for controversy. It was after all a frightening day. So at 8pm the count went along smoothly. Joe Biden got his 302 votes.

Bottom line: the Invasion helped the Democrats. That is my interpretation of it from afar. I have not seen any acknowledgement of this oddity in the press.

Note: I don’t claim that a big raft of objections would have brought Biden’s number to under 270.  No one knows, since it did not happen.  A good guess is that Biden would still have got 302, thanks to the Party make-up of each chamber. The House was majority-Democrat, and the Senate had just become majority-Democrat also, with the new folks who arrived on January 3.

So the debate-and-vote technique may not have led to a Trump win.  But it was his only chance. I think he’d have been crazy to blow that chance by sending his followers to make mayhem.

Trump’s Guilt?

I have no idea whether Trump wished for a violent hit on the Capitol building. As I just said, it does not seem “strategic” that he would do that. Also, it’s just too yucky, isn’t it?

I don’t imagine Republican Party members were asked to come to Washington to make trouble.  I get lots of mail and emails from the RNC, but no such invitation came to me.

Republicans whom I know personally are definitely not the type to storm a building as a way of sorting an election crisis. Most likely it was a set-up by … whomever.

My guess is that the November election was stolen.  I think all elections have been tampered with. In 1992 Jim Collier published his excellent book Votescam. It blames AT&T for hacking into voting machines to achieve the desired result (for either side!) It also hints that the League if Women Voters played a part.

On January 2, 2022 — a year after the fracas, Rep Cheney was interviewed, saying that Trump watched the Invasion on TV from the oval office. She says she knows from firsthand sources. That means she is a second-hand source and I have no reason to trust second-hand sources.

I have no reason at all to trust Donald Trump. He had four years to prove himself and failed.  Joe Biden has had one year and failed. Perhaps all presidents get led by the nose. It’s a disgraceful sight. But that’s not the issue for this article.

The Non-Sorting of the January 6 Violence Issue

Anyone watching the January 6 invasion, live on TV, could see that the first three security guards inside the building let the invaders in without even a reprimand. From that point on, we did not have an all-seeing eye to explore who did what to whom, but the “iconic clues” such as the broken glass, and the wall-climers outside, looked “scripted” right away.

Undoubtedly there’s a way for our ultra-modern law enforcement to determine what happened. Surely both the DoJ and the courts can help us, and indeed could have got stuck into the “voter fraud” issue before the January 6.  And surely we don’t have to put up with the censoring or platforming by social media of government officials. Puh-leeze.

Again, I want to say that I am not being partisan here nor do I represent anyone but my dear old self. I am dyed-in-the-wool American and I know for sure that we have good laws that can be applied to egregious power grabs. Instead, we see law-work being done in a foolish way.

At this point it is known that many of the people who entered the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 have been arrested. But did the DoJ then use the opportunity to get to the bottom of it? Of course not. The DoJ is extremely corrupt. In many cases they saw to it that people who were not guilty came off as being guilty.

How so?  By an underhanded plea bargain. The DoJ put the person in jail without bail, in bad conditions, for more than six months.  Then it offered a deal.  “Sign here with a guilty plea and we’ll let you go home with ‘time served’ as your punishment.”  Most people would sign. (I think I would sign — who wants to sit in the Gulag indefinitely?)

Meanwhile the media shouts “So-and-So Has Pleaded Guilty of Capitol Hill Violence” and the average reader would assume that the truth had come out.

No, It Would Not Call for Civil War

I need to make another point, and please correct me if I’m wrong.  In the weeks after the Invasion, many people who considered Biden to have obtained office unlawfully were speaking of redressing it. Whether the rumor of a military takeover is true or not, I don’t know, but I claim such a move would be insupportable.

Why? Because the Twelfth Amendment was available and was not invoked.  I’d like to believe that the citizens of the swing states who complained, such as Michigan, would have roped their Congresspersons and senators, prior to January 6th, into rejecting the Electors’ ballots if appropriate.

Granted, January 6th was a terrible day, but the tool was there for debate and no one used it. I say “The law was followed.”  Thus Biden became the lawful president.  Congress, constitutionally, had the authority. No one else did or does.

Oops, I mean the Electors had had authority, up to the day of their December meeting. They need to take their responsibility seriously. A revolution is not a dinner party, as someone once said, and an Electoral College meeting is not a coffee klatch.

The courts had authority to render a judgment, upon request by states.  Texas filed for help before January 6th and its case was joined by many states. The US Supreme Court can take a case on an emergency basis.

Personally, I think SCOTUS was wrong to refuse Texas’s plea — as the people needed to SEE AND HEAR something lawful being done, to calm their fears of a coup, or of civil war, or of American society unraveling.   (By the way, SCOTUS did intervene in the 2000 election in Gore v Bush, in a shockingly partisan way.)

It was also possible, and still is, for any offending party to be prosecuted for harming the November 3, 2020 election. “From the dog catcher all the way down to president,” government officials are indictable for crime.

That said, it is also possible for Congress to impeach a president or vice-president, or any federal judge including SCOTUS judges. You may think judges are immune — yes, they’re immune from lawsuits for rulings they issue, but they sure as hell ain’t immune if they commit crime.

One more point: if Congress finds that a member of either of its chamber did not obtain his/her seat by proper means, it can, by majority vote, refuse to accept him/her. Per Article I, section 5 “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members….”

Mr Garland, Please Stop Evading the Question

What a pleasure it was to see the US Attorney General, Merrick Garland, getting grilled in Congress recently.  Rep Greg Steube of Florida held up a photo of left-wingers storming a federal building, over “woke” issues, and asked Garland to compare it to similar photo of January 6th. Garland said he did not know of the later incident.

Steube said “It blows my mind that you don’t know.” Anyway, the audience got the message — the DoJ is acting on party lines or ideological lines, besmirching the parchment as usual. You can watch it here:

 

Update: The introduction to the original of this article (Jan 2, 2002) was removed and a new section, “No, It Would Not Call for Civil War,” has been added.

Here is our new Congressional hero, Rep Greg Steube:

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    • It’s a great story but misses one critical thing, about mid-2019 or earlier Mein Trumpf said “I may have to disappear for a while” and there was an event on the steps of the White House, all the staff came out (there were many dozens) and symbolically waved bye-bye, we were thinking what the hell was that, since he went back to work again after a few days, but now we know, since he has disappeared for more than a while.
      Saving the US from the Globalists and Bank of International Settlements probably wouldn’t happen if the stoopids were more than a 2/3 majority, there has to be grass roots support for conservative values, Christian values, state sovereignty, individual sovereignty, etc etc for things to happen and people need to understand just how bad the corruption has become.
      Some people are just too fatalistic and yield to a “stuff you, I’ve got mine” attitude. Others are like Homer Simpson, they just collapse. People are lazy and want others to take care of them, they have to snap out of this mentality, as the writer (MM) knows, this will only lead to ever-increasing exploitation.

      • I think I should have said mid 2020 not 2019, I have been looking for half an hour and can’t find the clip on spewtube, brighteon, bitchute.

  2. Engendering a uncivil war is a dangerous thing and those who own USA must have lost their mind? Unless they have a really big war to reunite all the haters ….

  3. As the Waco massacre has never been officially acknowledged as such:

    I don’t think anyone could realistically expect the office of the A. G. to start emanating sweetness & light

    • persue all non lethal means,

      On January 5, 1998, Bono’s unusual journey was cut tragically short when he was killed in a skiing accident while on vacation with his family in South Lake Tahoe, California. … Police said Bono had skied into a wooded area and hit a tree; the cause of death was massive head injuries.

  4. “He’d have been crazy to blow that chance by sending his followers to make mayhem.” – I have been suspicious of the whole Jan 6 escapades from the first day. Why did Trump have that rally?? Why did he have them go to Congress to demonstrate? The FBI had their operatives waiting there, the media was there – Hell, it is like he was part of the plot…

      • They made a show of throwing Mike Pence under the bus, too right wing for a populist comeback perhaps, same with Steve Bannon. But if Biden and Kamala are torn down, presumably Pence will continue on as VP.
        MSM will not allow Trump on, even though he offers, and he is a ratings winner. They are turning so many ratings winners away these days, like the self-immolators in Melbourne, the MSM is no longer interested in revenues, only propaganda. The [DS], swamp, Globalists, cancel everything they can, and they now control history.com/net/org so the AI will be going through everything and cancelling what they don’t like.
        I had to buy a new laptop with Bill Gates’ Windows unfortunately,,, the best one cost $1666 and was called “omen”, when I turned it on it talked to me, it knew all my accounts, it tried to sell me software and link me up to everything, it wanted my credit card number, after all that the desktop graphic finally appeared, it was a sort of stylised devil inferno thing.
        I really think my days are numbered now, blood clots here we come.

  5. Under Governor Newsom anyone with a business or who is a fan of the “old normal” is leaving for Texas, Florida etc.
    From The Sacramento Bee:
    “A slate of new California laws set to go into effect on Jan. 1 …
    … Permanent Mail-in Ballots
    If you liked getting your ballot mailed to you in the last election, there’s some good news: Assembly Bill 37 makes statewide mail-in ballots a permanent feature of future elections.
    The new law requires that all county elections officials in the state mail a ballot to every active registered voter, regardless of whether that voter has requested it.”

    Don’t forget they have all but legalised stealing in California already.
    Oh well the whole place is on a fault line anyway.
    California has 53 congress seats out of the total 435, including Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.
    Let’s go Nancy !!!

    • GOOOO Toooekneee,
      Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia’s days were highly regulated and predictable
      Cumo’ you can not leave this “lay up” che

      ahhh, back in the day when they be honest, ahhh

  7. New Moon In Capricorn. Sunday- 2nd of January 2022 (2/1/2022) New Moon at 18:33. Series 33 Episode 11 of the Simpsons..

    • Actually Scotty has been straining his leash telling “it’s not a race” and “you aren’t overdue for your boosters” and such things, it’s the stoopids driving this. And I think the biggest reason the red / blue parties are in lockstep is because they are owned by the same crowd, not so much because of internal forces. They put diabolical legislations in place according to Globalist schemes an Globalist timetables, things they would have little concept of happening years in the future when they use of the legislation becomes more apparent.

  11. BULLETIN
    I just watched the last two episodes in this series (speed x2)

    • The Cold War as an Aberration of History [A Symposium in 5 Acts]

    https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/12/31/the-cold-war-as-an-aberration-of-history-a-symposium-in-5-acts/

    There were some serious flaws in a couple of the lectures (Sieff and Eckart) and I didn’t get a lot out of Dirk Pohlmann’s lecture – probably the worst of the five.

    But the talk by PD Lawton was the best of the series, with Ed Curtin a close second.

    PD shreds the integrity and credibility of the IMF, and Tony Blair and Samantha Power in particular.

    My comments on the youtube links have been consistently removed (I try and be supportive with perhaps the occasional point of order) but I do appreciate the series and RTF nevertheless. I suspect it is yewtube doing this – they don’t want any deviation from the narrative.

    So I repeat the essence of my comment here …

    PD mentions Robbie Barwick in passing as a better alternative [to Tony Blair] as a financial advisor to the African Union. I could not agree more.

    Robbie is a key figure of the Australian Citizens Party. Here he is talking to Jerry Grey on China and Xinjiang.

    • CITIZENS INSIGHT – Is China committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims? Interview with Jerry Grey

    (see more at that channel)

    And here is Robbie with Daniel Dumbrill on the same topic.

    • Australian Warmongering, Rex Patrick, ASPI & Xinjiang – A Discussion with Robbie Barwick
    Part 1

    Part 2

    [perfectly on narrative but removed from yewtube]

    On King Leopold II and the Congo Free state.

    I learnt so much from that (PD Lawton’s) video, and with reference to Jacob Zuma it reinforced that when certain characters are vilified by the ‘mainstream media’, quite the opposite is usually true. I recently listened to a podcast by Matthew Raphael Johnson who painted a much more favourable picture of King Leopold II of the Congo Free State. Any trusted sources for information on this topic would be appreciated.
    …
    Otherwise, I resonate 95+% with RTF and learn a heck of a lot.

    • ” it reinforced that when certain characters are vilified by the ‘mainstream media’, quite the opposite is usually true”, have you got your MAGA hat yet. The saying seems to be relatively true for Assad but not sure about the Congo, apparently it’s still a madhouse, but the current crowd in Belgium are presumably all owned, since the “European Commission” is in Brussels, and the delightful Senator Mathias Cormann was sent out here to be leader of the upper house just prior to implementation of Covid-19™. The smear on Leopold includes cutting off hands of everyone who didn’t get him enough rubber, but possibly Leopold was using some muslims for operations managers, who knows.

      • For the non-Australian reader, Cormann’s first day free of the Australian Parliament ( after many years as finance minister ) was Halloween 2020.

    • Lots of wishful thinking here
      Getting information from the intelligence agencies, as if
      Getting records from anyone, as if
      Will Ghizleine survive to rat on everyone, will Randy Andy escape like a slippery eel, who knows. MSM says the judge has asked him for proof of his non-sweating medical condition.
      But look what happens with “democratic” states, they have an election and throw everyone overboard, then the ship of state sails on. Royals will be engineering something similar though it’s not as easily done as with a modern democracy run by MSM mind-kontrol. So the old generation of Saxe-Coburg will disappear into the gloom and we will instead have the Will & Kate show featuring Grandpa Charles pottering about in the garden.
      We know that ww1 was organised with a bunch of cousins running Europe, the famous quote was “If QV1 was still around she would never have allowed this”, because of a type of lese majeste nothing is made of this and instead people focus on figureheads such as Hitler and Churchill, and official scapegoats such as tricky jews, stupid krauts, evil russkis and so forth.
      The royal timeframe puts the French Revolution amongst recent history. They like to tread carefully, their weapon the media can easily be used against them, and it is.
      They have already said they are going to downscale their operations, a bit like the Euro Royals, who all seemed to have signed on with Swissy Globalists who run everything better out of Geneva. Switzerland is private property and nobody’s business to enter.
      Unlike anywhere else, Switzerland has 7 heads of state, the “Federal Council”.
      “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.” (Revelation 13:1)

      • The 10 hereditary monarchies of Europe are UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Monaco.

  15. Rumble — The Vintage Apron Capalaba Central 29 December 2021. Police attend the coffee shop after being requested there by the centre management for the owner allegedly breaching chief health officers directions.

    Pierre the owner for the last few weeks has been hassled a lot by Centre Management for putting up signs saying that he doesn’t discriminate and doesn’t have the right to ask for vaccine passport etcetera. He has been threatened with non-renewal of his lease etc.

    You can call Capalaba Central on 3245 8888. That’s 07 Brisbane.

    https://rumble.com/vrkxko-the-vintage-apron-capalaba-central-29-december-2021.html

    Blacks Law Dictionary – Definition of MANDATE – It Is Not …

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    Blacks Law Dictionary – Definition of MANDATE – It is NOT a LAW! DON’T BE DECEIVED! The Law Dictionary Featuring Black’s Law Dictionary Free Online Legal Dictionary 2nd Ed. https://thelawdictionary.org/mandate/ What is MANDATE? In practice… MORE

    • Your offer to contract is hereby declined.

      What is MANDATE?

      In practice. A Judicial command or precept proceeding from a court or judicial officer, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment, sentence, or decree. Seaman v. Clarke, 60 App. Div. 416, 69 N. Y. Supp. 1002; Horton v. State, 63 Neb. 34, 88 N. W. 146. In the practice of the supreme court of the United States, the mandate is a precept or order issued upon the decision of an appeal or writ of error, directing the action to be taken, or disposition to be made of the case, by the inferior court In some of the state jurisdictions, the name “mandate” has been substituted for “mandamus” as the formal title of that writ In contracts. A bailment of property in regard to which the bailee engages to do some act without reward. Story, Bailm. jj 137. A mandate is a contract by which a lawful business is committed to the management of another, and by him undertaken to be performed GRATUITOUSLY. The mandatary is bound to the exercise of slight diligence, and is responsible for gross neglect. The fact that the mandator derives no benefit from the acts of the mandatary is not of itself evidence of gross negligence. Richardson v. Futrell, 42 Miss. 525; Williams v. Conger, 125 U. S. 397, 8 Sup. Ct. 933, 31 L Ed. 778. A mandate, procuration, or letter of attorney is an act by which one person gives power to another to transact for him and in his name one or several affairs. The mandate may take place in five different manners,
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      What is GRATUITOUS?

      https://thelawdictionary.org/gratuitous/

      Without valuable or legal consideration. A term applied to deeds ofconveyance and to bailments and other contracts.In old English law. Voluntary; without force, fear, or favor. Bract, fols. 11, 17.As to gratuitous “Bailment,” “Contract” and “Deposit,” see those titles.

      https://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-is-common-law/

      A contract is An agreement between two or more competent parties in which an offer is made and accepted and each party benefits. Agreements can either be formal or informal, written, oral, or implied for example, by a long-term business relationship. Examples of contracts include leases, promissory notes, rental agreements, etc. There are four necessary components to make a contractual agreement; an offer, acceptance of the offer, the intention to enter into a legally binding agreement, and consideration………………………….

    • Owned by a rich guy in Taiwan
      “Lin Chen-hai: New billionaire
      For nearly three decades the former construction manager has been quietly building modestly priced housing for the fast-growing ranks of the middle class through a bewildering tangle of subsidiaries loosely anchored by his privately held Pau Jar Group.”

      You can get a billion dollars in 30 years – if all your bets are winning bets.
      N.B.
      I suggest everyone go to the local council and force them to let you start home businesses.
      Bring back the old corner deli, hairdresser, fish & chip shop etc, so you can just walk there if you want something. Centralised control has to be stopped by people voting with their feet.

  19. Corrupt politicians and lying MSM are pushing as hard as they can now, this year the half-congress elections campaign started long ago and the Deep State doesn’t like the tipped Trump landslide.
    The rent-a-mob who stole the stage on Jan 6 are front and centre in the news cycle today and Biden is out there claiming he represents honest democracy, with his son collecting kickbacks as fast as he can. Kamala says Jan 6 was an event similar to 9-11 and Pearl Harbour. Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick, says she “me good Trump bad” and the MSM gives her all the airtime they can, despite the Republican party dumping her.

    https://nationalfile.com/liz-cheney-father-dick-two-republicans-pelosis-jan-6-speech/

    https://nationalfile.com/kamala-harris-compares-january-6-protests-pearl-harbor-9-11-anniversary-speech/

    In Australia, it’s all being driven by CBS ( Columbia Broadcasting Systems ) who bought Channel 9 & 10 immediately before the Covid-19™ project commenced. It appears James Packer was coerced out of Channel 9 or at least it was bad judgement because when he lost that he lost control over his major Barangaroo project which suddenly ran into masses of regulatory problems. Maybe just a whole crowd suddenly put their hands out for “their share”. Who can tell.
    ABC I’m guessing is owned through globalist control over entrenched individuals, we seem to have a few card carriers here, most frequently mentioned is Vic Corporate Health Officer Brett Sutton’s relative Jane Halton, working hard for our New World Order where useless eaters will own nothing because of an onslaught of compliance costs and shrinking wages. If Americans can’t get the show back on track then probably nobody can. At least in the US people can clearly see the enemy and have something to point at them. In Australia the ALP still has credibility and the Red / Blue / Green party will still pick up plenty of votes from clueless individuals.
    You can clearly see the “ruling elites” like to keep it in the family while the commoners are tabooed from marrying cousins and so forth. This means the commoners remember nothing, have little or no inheritance, no co-ordination. The ruling elites make generational plans, plans which run for decades and centuries, the commoners are blissfully unaware, even in denial.

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