A couple in their seventies is each facing a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Their crime? They assembled in the Capitol rotunda and said the Pledge of Allegiance on the Capitol steps. If the powers that be keep pulling this kind of horseshit and there won’t be any Allegiance left. From Ben Bartee at armageddonprose.substack.com:
My good friend, a grandmother, true red-blooded American patriot, and totally decent person, Karen Jones, and her husband, Robert, are currently facing federal prison for daring to show up at the People’s House on January 6, 2021 in protest of the stolen 2020 election.
She even had the audacity to lead a Pledge of Allegiance in the building before a nonviolent casual strolling through it.
(Karen and I share a bit of notable historical lineage, in that we are both descendants of John Nicolay, right hand man of Abraham Lincoln, who after leaving public life bought farmland in Kansas from whence I sprang. But that’s a story for another day.)
This legal persecution saga for nonviolent political speech — at most she should have been prosecuted for misdemeanor trespassing — has been dragging on now for several years, at immense cost in terms of time and energy and money to the Joneses.
Related: Exclusive Interview With a (Yet) Unindicted Jan. 6th Protestor Under FBI Investigation
Related: My Good Friend Just Got Indicted on Bogus Jan 6 Charges (Three Years Later)
