Here they come folks. Now, I know full well there are always two, sometimes many, sides to every story and in an attempt for full disclosure, I’ve not been able to find any of the other sides to this one. But this one sure sounds somewhat fishy to me. Of course, the headliner goes a bit overboard with the use of words like “turret.” Of course armored cars has turrets. But I think the FBI needs to be looked at a lot closer by conservative minded folks.
FBI Sends in Armored Vehicle with Turret, 2 Vans, 6 FBI Vehicles, 3 Local Police Vehicles to Arrest Young Father Who Attended Jan. 6 Rally – UNBELIEVABLE INTERVIEW!
From the Gateway Pundit
By Jim Hoft
Published March 12, 2021 at 10:51am
Joshua James was arrested this week and is being charged in connection to the violent events of January 6th in Washington D.C.
Joshua James is an Iraq War veteran. He was wounded in a bomb blast in Iraq. And Joshua is being held by the FBI without bail.
Joshua is the breadwinner in his family. He receives retirement pay from the military. He has three young children including a 3-year-old.
His wife is a commission-based part-time realtor. She tells us she brings in little income.
The FBI lured him out of his home in Alabama by pretending to be a customer needing a pressure washing.
Then an Army armored vehicle with a turret on top, 2 FBI vans, 6 FBI vehicles, 3 local police and sheriff’s vehicles pulled up and ransacked their home.
Audrey James, his wife, was forced to sit outside for 8 hours with her 3-year-old while the FBI searched their home and broke a light fixture.
Joshua James is a war hero, a veteran, a Godly man, a provider, and a business owner. Joshua James DID NOT commit any violent crime. He attended the January 6th speech by President Trump at the Ellipse along with a million other Americans. He volunteered to work security with other members of the Oath Keepers.
The FBI is holding him until trial because he was seen speaking with two other members of the Oath Keepers that day.
How is this legal?
On Friday The Gateway Pundit spoke with Audrey James and she is understandably distraught.
The FBI is going to move Joshua James to Washington DC.
Audrey said they set up a fundraising page.
** You can make a donation here: https://givesendgo.com/G22YA.
Here is our testimony from Audrey James.
Joshua, was arrested this week and is being charged in connection to the events of January 6th in D.C.
Bail WAS recommended by the probation office & we were told prosecution would not argue against bail. But, somehow at the last minute prosecution decided to argue against it. My husband was in D.C. that day providing security detail for speakers of the rally that morning. FBI said under oath they do not believe my husband was part of any violence and they have NO proof that he was involved in violence. The main topic of their testimony was the Oath Keepers logo on his hat, the organization who asked him to provide security to the speakers that day. They kept referencing two other individuals who had the same logos on their clothing that day and their aggressive behavior. The public defender asked “Was Mr. James seen with these people exhibiting aggressive behavior?” FBI Response “No he was not.” Public Defender “Well then let’s talk about Mr. James actions instead.”
They said they have cell phone data that places Joshua pinging off a tower that provides service in the area that includes the Capitol. (That doesn’t prove anything other than he was in the radius of that tower which is about a 6 mile range).
Here is the judges reasons for denying bail: While Joshua doesn’t have a criminal background and has strong ties to the community and is not believed to be a flight risk and may not have been violent that day, he continued to have communication with members of Oath Keeps after the 6th which “proves” he has no remorse for the events of that day. And due to the fact he has PTSD from being blown up in Iraq serving his country and doesn’t take medication for his PTSD and owns fire arms, they feel that’s a volatile combination and see no reasonable scenario for granting bail.
We said we would get rid of any weapons and even agree to a medical evaluation to prove he doesn’t need medication. Are those not reasonable scenarios? Especially for a combat veteran, Purple Heart recipient, small business owner who is the sole provider for his wife and 3 kids, who has strong ties to the community and isn’t thought to be a flight risk? He should be able to be home protecting his family while helping prepare for his legal battles. He is unable to work from jail and we have lost over half our income if he can’t work.
My husband has also used his personal time to repeatedly respond to and assist natural disasters rendering help to victims of tragedy, injury and the destructive forces of nature. Even in his own community.
They called our office line pretending to be a customer needing pressure washing to draw him from the house. They arrested him away from the house but then showed up at our home with SWAT and a tank rolled up to my front door. My 3-year-old and I were drawn outside so they could clear the house and raid it. We had to sit outside for almost 8 hours in the public eye while they tore our house apart and broke a light fixture. The only items they confiscated were oath keepers t-shirts, stickers and pamphlets and a can of some type of pepper spray. LOL, Really? That’s all
They did come back two days later with a warrant for a random cell phone. Since, we are getting harassing and threatening calls to the business line, email and Facebook.
With bail being denied they will transfer him to DC to await trial.
Who knows when that will be! We have no funds for an attorney of this magnitude and are trying to fundraise. We are hoping to gain enough support and get our story out there to raise funds to help get an attorney to help bring our veteran home on bail.
Their focus on oath keepers and other oath keepers actions (not my husband’s) proves their agenda. I asked the public defender why they changed their mind and argued bail he replied “there is pressure coming down to detain them.” This is a political witch hunt. If you need me to send you the affidavit I can. I have also requested a copy of the transcript of the hearing.
** Again, you can donate to the James family here.
I think the current flock of FBI field agents are afraid of their own shadow, or maybe they have had so many resignations they are having to use FBI desk clerks for field ops? I mean they needed all that to go to a guys house who they had already arrested him? Certainly they had staked the house out and knew only the wife and 3 year old were there. WOW? Go get em’ guys.
Originally posted 2021-03-15 09:59:41.
Please read this article that was written before the arrest of Joshua James was ever made..
Link posted here:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/09/choose-your-ground/ I advocate the position…So did the heroes of our own revolution at Lexington and Concorde.. When you still have peaceful options, you exercise those options.. My option is to contribute to this kid’s legal defense fund…
The power of the US government is being turned on it’s own citizens for exercising freedom of association. The FBI wants to paint patriotic groups like Oath Keepers and Three Percenters as a Bogey Man…. Read the FBIs criminal complaint and look at the pictures.. James is not committing any acts of violence at any time….
Wearing body armor is not a crime. Moving through a crowd in body armor is not a crime either…Especially when you are certain the crowd has been infiltrated by Leftist groups as well…That is called FORCE-PRO.
No weapons charges anywhere during what they call “an insurrection”.. The only thing that they might have is a weak trespass case, if they can prove it was James inside the capital building… His defense attorney will pick this apart and hopefully plea it down to misdemeanor…
And finally..
Associating or standing near someone who is a person of interest is also not a crime. If it were the leaders of Antifa and BLM would be in Federal Prison awaiting their trials… Instead they are out there shaking down corporate America and Co-Opting over-paid professional celebrities.
Semper Fi
This action by the FBI remains a national embarrassment! I would be interested to know if similar actions have been taken by our Justice Department on members of Antifa or BLM during or after the riots that continue to plagued our Nation…(mostly Democrat cities)!
What an outrage!
Lambo
The cowards wearing FBI insignia should be FORCED on combat patrol in Afghanistan, each having to lead point for one month. I have “no respect” for that agency anymore!
Back in 2016, former A-6 pilot/lawyer/author Stephen Coonts wrote a book titled “Liberty’s Last Stand.” It’s a fanciful novel about retired Admiral Jake Grafton who, serving as Director CIA falls out of favor with the president, whose name is Barry Soetoro. Toward the end of his presidency, Barry declares martial law, suspends the constitution, and begins rounding up conservatives and placing them in FEMA camps. Texas, in refusing to roll over for this and secedes from the Union. Well, it is a fiction, after all and somewhat dated. Still, entertaining and in places, thought provoking.
Now, in real life, with the election of Basement Joe and his entourage, the leftist campaign to destroy the Republic continues where it left off in 2016. The difference, apparently, between reality and fiction is that in fiction, Americans (through their sovereign state governments) actually did something. The reality of our country today is an abundance of talk with no apparent willingness among fed-up citizens to place themselves in harm’s way to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
In Coonts’ book, the FBI is active in rounding people up and taking them into custody. Your post today, suggests that even fictional tales can be plausible — well, up to the part where armed and deputized citizens began arresting FBI agents for violating citizens’ rights. After all, didn’t the American electorate favor the return to a communist government by electing Basement Joe?
Wow, have to get that book, thanks Mustang. And your comment is superb and on the money. Look out FBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As Rudyard Kipling put it, “And it’s Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy wait outside. But it’s savior of the nation when the troopship’s on the tide.” Thanks for this. I’ve decided to set a new agenda for myself. I want to learn how to say “disgusting” in as many languages as possible.
LOL, pls comment when you find some
The way this and other arrests of “right wing” Americans, even when elderly and with no indication of potential violence (Manafort, Stone et al.) are done compared to the quiet arrests of Antifa and BLM terrorists proves that our own federal law enforcement agencies are wholly “woke.”
More evidence that our now-mortal Marxist enemies have very successfully “marched” through every American institution that helped make our nation great—family, education, courts, law enforcement AND the military as shown in the leftist outcry last week from active duty sources (including the USMC!) when Tucker Carlson dared state the obvious truths about DoD being more concerned with social engineering than war fighting.