BREAKING: A MAGA insurrectionist who interned for Senator Marco Rubio is arrested and charged for her despicable actions on January 6th — proving that these traitors are spread throughout the entire Republican Party.
This woman definitely belongs behind bars...
Barbara "Barby" Balmaseda, a 23-year-old who previously worked in the Florida Republican's office, has been officially charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building, and engaging in disorderly conduct in a Capitol building with the intent to impede a session of Congress.
Balmaseda worked for Rubio between 2018 and 2019 and was also an organizer for MAGA Governo turned failed presidential candidate Ron DeSantis.
"When Balmaseda entered the building, broken glass was scattered on the ground, and an alarm blared near the doorway," the Justice Department stated in its complaint. "After entering the Capitol, Balmaseda made her way toward the Crypt and pushed her way to the front of a crowd of rioters who were confronting a police line."
Like every other insurrectionist, this woman needs to be locked up to protect democracy.
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I find it hard to believe that the Capital tourist entrance requires scaling a wall ???
it took some of those tourists more than 15 minutes to get over the wall!
@Libisamendis @thejackhopkins I was among millions of people who watched LIVE real-time video ON THAT DAY. It went on for hours and was utterly terrifying.
The 2nd Amendment does not read as many would have you think...in fact only with the rise of the NRA has it become what it is today...for 200 years it was never as those on the right claim it to be...Let's break it down
The Founders never intended to create an unregulated right for people to own guns, yet somehow we live in a society where more than half the population believes it did. So how could this be?
In 1990 former Chief Justice Burger relayed the words of a longterm "consensus of historians and judges alike." A fraud on the American public" he called it. We now live in a society where states are competing to see which one will have the most absurd gun rights possible.
It wasn't until 2008 that the SC ruled in favour of gun ownership when it said the DC law banning guns in the home was unconstitutional. Never before was this question answered, which suggests it was never really in the Constitution, but there was never a reason to answer it until Heller. So why would they answer it in Heller? I think it was because it was unreasonable to state that no one could have the right to protect themselves in the home, but they also stated that the 2nd amendment was not unlimited. All amendments have limits on them. For example, you cannot yell fire in the movie theatre as a 1A right because it might cause a stampede and kill people. I will come back to this for reference.
The National Rifle Association has spent decades beating down the courts attempting to shove their version of the Constitution down the throats of the American people and the American Justice system. It basically brainwashed the American people into believing it was so until they got the court that was ripe to make it so...they spent a ton of money influencing politicians with cash while also influencing them to find SC Justices who would agree and add them to the bench.
For 2 centuries "a well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" has been completely ignored because no one believed what the Far Right would have you believe today.
When the Constitution was created there was worry that a federal standing army would disarm the the militias of each state. When Madison wrote the 2A it was not what we think today as evidence by his notes from the Convention, because there is no mention of such rights in those notes...the overwhelming use of "bear arms" in those days referred to military activities and most of these gun nuts have never served in the military, although a good number have that's true, but none of them serve an active role in the military now.
"When the House of Representatives marked up the first draft of the Bill of Rights, it was never discussed because there were no notes on the markup."
State militias were eventually dissolved and over time each state had their own National Guard which is the legal professional militia in each state.
As a SC Justice said in 1840 "A man in pursuit of a deer, elk, and buffaloes might carry his rifle every day for 40 years and it would never be said that he bore arms."
A hunting rifle or a pistol would never be misconstrued as bearing arms as these are accepted as common practice as far back as the 1600's. Even in the Wild West with all their lawlessness it was pistols, rifles, shotguns, and knives. These were not weapons for military activities but weapons for protection and in some cases to commit crimes. There weapons of the military then, but these weapons in the hands of civilians were not used for military activities.
In 1994 Bill Clinton lost the House and the NRA was a big reason why as they managed to succeed in filibustering a background check bill in the House, but the NRA was just beginning.
The NRA was created because union officers wanted to create clubs to teach their officers to shoot better, so even the NRA in its inception was for military activities.
"In 1977 the NRA was retreating from politics when activists from the 2A Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the right to bear arms revolted at the Convention ("Revolt at Cincinnati") and pushed their way into power."
This new organisation was ideologically focused on one idea and that was that 2A was sacred and the gun movement exploded into the political conversation. That was the beginning of language like insurrection and tax revolt and the beginning of a Libertarian movement. Reagan was elected partly because he saw the gun activists as a potential ally and even wrote in Guns and Ammo Magazine.
In their Headquarters in Langley on the wall you see "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." What's missing is the part of the well regulated militia. I find this an interesting omission. The idea of a well regulated missing and it has been replaced with a mind set that they are now domestic terrorists if need be. That is just my opinion and it is supported by their use of the words, insurrection and tax revolt. As someone said to me today "you are missing the point, we are at war with the government." In any other country they would be labeled as domestic terrorists, but here we don't dare give them that label.
From 1888-1959 every single article on 2A concluded that 2A did not guarantee the right to bear arms. It wasn't until a student from William and Mary stated that 2A enforced the right to revolution. By the seventies the NRA had hired attorneys and professors to write law review submissions and they single handedly worked to re interpret the Constitution. They abused the Justice system into believing that all this time that the historians and Justices had been wrong and two hundred years of consensus was wrong...the NRA used their funds to buy a new interpretation of the Constitution and it is one that I think will face a day of reckoning and not in the favour of the NRA or any other gun activists... these decisions were born out of corrupt intent and corrupt Justices as we see now with Alito, Thomas and the late Anthony Scalia.
All amendments have limits and if the first amendment has limits on speech for the safety of lives then it seems the 2A will also be qualified for limitations to save lives.
The Constitution was not written for the likes of the weapons we have today. it was written for personal protection, hunting, and military activities. The laws we have today regarding weapons of war, lawful carry without a license, refusals for background checks have made America a dangerous place to live and it has made a subset of the population very dangerous to our Democracy. They exist to introduce Fascism.
Fascism is what David Koch the Libertarian has sought for 50 years. Him and his brother have always felt that the government was intrusive to their needs and it was something to be feared. He was responsible for legitimizing anti government ideology. The Koch believe the government was a detriment to the free market. What that means is they did not want to be taxed, regulated, or told they could not own a monopoly. They hated campaign finance laws because they could not simply pay for a candidate they wanted. The thought that the Bureau of Land Management was in the way of them acquiring government land on the cheap. They were not a fan of OSHA, so if you got hurt at work it wasn't their problem. Finally, they wanted to do away with all social safety nets and privatize all public schools. This your Deep state. The massive amounts of money and the massive amounts of guns may very well be gearing up for war and if Trump wins we might see it and if he doesn't the odds are even higher. To the Far Right the next election is their Armageddon if Trump doesn't win, and the media is playing into their hands.
This idea that Trump is beating Biden is an absolute media narrative. They show manipulated polls showing Biden is performing poorly and allowing Trump and his supporters to think they are winning and when he loses the media will get to broadcast the fallout and if you think that J6 was bad, wait until we kick Trumps a** next election we may see violence we have never seen in this country in 160 years. That is their play what is ours?
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