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The Fascist Assault on Congress, January 6, 2021:
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lifeworlds or Cartesian selves? --->
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Globalization is the elephant in the room
"How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed", review in the New York Times of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Princeton, 2020)
"The death spiral of an American family" (Washington Post, March 20, 2022)
Dorottya Szikra and Mitchell A. Orenstein, "Why Orban Won Again ( Project Syndicate, April 5, 2022)
Dick Lehr, White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland (Mariner Books, 2021)
Andrew Marantz, Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, 2019)
Michael Wolff, Landslide: the Final Days of the Trump White House (Holt, 2021), pp. 243-4 (excerpt)
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Gary Bartlett, 65
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a retired manual worker at General Motors
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Randy Weld, 53
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a self-employed carpenter
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David Snell, 55
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a logistics specialist
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Gary Sherrill, 65
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a concrete mixer driver
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Rose Kidd, 63
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a retired nurse
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This page assembles online media accounts of those arrested for their participation in the
events of January 6, 2020. Attempts were made to ascertain
occupational status and history; education; and
family/household/network embeddedness. Limitations in the
reporting of local media made this extremely difficult; and these
limitations themselves became a discovery incidental to the once
straightforwsrd process of reporting this basic info by the local
news-sources.
At the left is a table of occupations of the six attendees interviewed by the Guardian reporter. This is real journalism.
This kind of reporting is almost entirely absent from local American news sources.
---the lifeworlds of the
arrestees, as well as the problems attendant on attempts to categorize
the arrestees in terms provided by the U.S. Census and standard
sociological theory (middle class, working class, small business . . . )
North American Industry Classification System (U.S. Census Bureau)
Standard Occupational Classification System (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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Materials Herein Assembled I: Arrestees,
1. Mob at Capitol
this is a raw and incomplete PDF that was the basis for
discussions between PF and RB that led to a series of
reconceptualizations, methodological as well as substantive. The
failure of much of local journalism to provide basic facts re.
employment (occupation and industry) led me to cut short my efforts
to do all 212 individuals that I was working with. As it turned
out, this was sufficient material to think about, analyze, and draw
conclusions from.
2. Regional breakdowns.
This was the second step in arriving at the tables of arrestees from
selected states that became the basis for the comments on this page:
As we review states and other datasets in the right-hand column, it will
become increasingly evident that the analysis out of the University of
Chicago (and mainstream media coverage in general) fails to comprehend the major features of the dataset Arrests Arising out of the Assault on Congress. On the other hand, the five text referenced above right are consistent with our findings.
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Some Arrestees from the Jan. 6th, 2021
Assault on the Capitol
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DASEIN
New Jersey (n=9)
Tennessee (n=10)
Minnesota (n=3)
Florida (n=19)
Ohio (n=38)
Michigan (n=14)
Oathkeepers (n=14)
Proud Boys (n=13)
post-riot journalism Reuters: n=9 (or 7)
the Rittenhouse events: n=4
the Guardian story: a journalistic benchmark
Sado-Sexual Eigenvector of GOP Performativity
telephone threats to Upton, Dingell, and Swalwell
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Jackson (SSEVGOPP)
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New Jersey: comments
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This
already gives us a sense of the kind of problems the researcher has
when dealing with a population in the process of marginalization.
The instability in their lives is manifest in the difficulty of
category formation. The single word that could encompass this set
of individuals is marginal. Better, the data presented on this
page should be understood dynamically as artifacts generated by the process of marginalization that is one of the chief effects of globalization.
Thus, the
University of Chicago study that states that
40
percent are business owners or hold white-collar jobs. Unlike the
stereotypical extremist, many of the alleged participants in the
Capitol riot have a lot to lose. They work as CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court
documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed.
fundamentally misunderstands this.
New
Jersey's data (n=9) illustrates this problem of
categorization.
At first thought the occupational classification
cosmetologist (SOC 39-5012 Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and
Cosmetologists) should not pose a problem to the conventional scheme of categorization. From the standpoint of
agency, however (and thus, from a hermeneutical standpoint),
Abual-Ragheb's occupation seems less relevant than her statements and
her participation in the New Jersey chapter of the American Patriots 3%
and in her right-wing chat rooms.
Thomas Baranyi went into basic training for
the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged. Without any occupation
listed in the local media (or anywhere accessible) Baranyi is beneath
the radar, and also a failure at his attempt to enter the Performative Domain of "Legitimate" Violence. In this he can be taken as a
poster boy for the condition of marginality that is such a
prominent feature of our dataset.
Scott Fairlamb, gym owner (NAICS 713940 Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers) and martial
artist. Gyms and bars and salons occur regularly in the entire
dataset. But what one also finds is that--at least in the case of
gyms and bars--what we are really dealing with is social
networks. But Fairlamb is also a mixed martial artist. Does
this mean that he should be subsumed under the category performative domain of "legitimate" violence? Possibly, even likely. But we are still in the
early stages of our analysis.
Leonard Guthrie, street preacher--how should we conceptualize this case? In our
working dataset, the Mob at the Capitol, we developed the
temporary category of phantom. What we came up with after much discussion was the category of grifter. (Herman Melville: the Confidence Man)
Donald Trump is perhaps the world's greatest grifter.
Hale-Cusanelli is more straightforward: a white supremacist and a Nazi
sympathizer who stabbed a man, was a regular poster on anti-Semitic
social media groups, and has served in the U.S. Army since 2009. Thus, he is subsumed under the category performative domain of "legitimate" violence
Stefanie Hazelton is also more straighforward, or so it seems. A
prominent right-wing activist from South Jersey, an organizer against
New Jersey's shutdown orders, active in the anti-vaxxer movement, and
the founder of New Jersey for Medical Freedom, the state chapter of an
anti-vaccine network. This case is easily subsumable under the
category Politico.
Note that, while she is not a gym owner, she was one of the loudest
supporters of Atilis Gym. Given the point already made re.
Fairlamb, what we are really dealing with is social networks.
Indeed, Stefanie Hazelton should be thought of as part of the cadre of
right-wing politicos, and the social networks she is in contact with as
her base. There are many of these political cadre in the by now
predominantly fascist GOP. I don't know her occupational classification.
Then we have Patrick Stedman, a
self-described “dating [and] relationship strategist.”
Grifter? This is a good example of the grifter's chief characterstic: self-invention and fraud.
The two correctional officers, Suarez and Todisco, could be subsumed under SOC
classification 33-3012 (Correctional Officers and Jailers). From
the standpoint of agency, however, we realized the necessity of
creating a new category: Performative Domain of "Legitimate" Violence.
The video of Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd provides a glimpse of
the inner workings of this domain at its most extreme.
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS
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FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
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Abual-Ragheb, Rasha N.
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cosmetologist
In November 2020, a Facebook account with display name Rasha Abu
participated in Facebook and Telegram group chats involving the New
Jersey chapter of the American Patriot 3%. In the Facebook chat, user
Rasha Abu advised the revolution will start not by standing by but by
standing up. In addition, she advised civil war is coming and they need
to show support, and rise up and fight for our Constitution.
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cosmetologist
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Baranyi, Thomas
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graduated Trenton State College
In a Facebook post, Baranyi’s father said his son graduated from the
College of New Jersey, joined the Peace Corps, and also went into basic
training for the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged.
From 2018 to 2020, he served in the Peace Corps in Albania.
On December 22, 2020, his father took to Facebook to say they have not seen each other in person since 2017.
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went into basic
training for the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged.
BTR
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Fairlamb, Scott
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a
New Jersey gym owner, Fairlamb held a protest at his Pompton Lakes gym
in May in response to Gov. Murphy’s coronavirus restrictions.
Fairlamb, a mixed martial artist who
turned pro in 2000, owned and operated Fairlamb Fit in Pompton Lakes.
The gym's website has been taken down and the phone number is
disconnected. Social media accounts for both Fairlamb and his
co-workers have been removed.
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gym owner
martial artist
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Guthrie, Leonard
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(married with a daughter; identified himself as a street preacher.
His father told a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter that his son went to
the rally as the chaplain for a group that met in Washington to "pray
and support President Trump and the whole movement.”
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a street preacher
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Hale-Cusanelli, Timothy Lewis
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He is
an white supremacist and a Nazi sympathizer, according to an informant
who contacted Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special
agent Daniel J. Meyers on January 12, 2021. The informant
is enrolled as a confidential human source (CHS) with the NCIS.
He has served in the U.S. Army since 2009 but has never deployed.
In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was arrested after stabbing a man
he and his mother were living with in Pepperidge Court, Jackson, New
Jersey. With a wound to the abdomen, the victim underwent surgery in
the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New
Jersey.
As a contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle, he maintains a secret
security clearance and has access to a variety of munitions. He is
enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves. He is a human resources specialist
with the 174th Infantry Brigade at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in
Trenton, New Jersey.
He was a regular poster on anti-Semitic social media groups Jackson Strong and Rise Up Ocean County.
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Military
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aliases Ayla Wolf and Ayla Wolfe
a prominent right-wing activist from South Jersey, one of the loudest
supporters of Atilis Gym, that Bellmawr business that refused to follow
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s shutdown orders.
Hazelton has helped organize protests against New Jersey’s shutdown orders and is active in the anti-vaxxer movement.
Hazelton’s LinkedIn says she is the founder of New Jersey for Medical Freedom, the state chapter of an anti-vaccine network.
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Stedman, Patrick Alonzo
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a self-described “dating [and] relationship strategist”
In addition to offering relationship advice and touting his $500 master
class—which he claims is the “fastest and most effective way to change
your outcomes with women”—Stedman frequently writes about political
topics and his affinity for Trump.
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Suarez, Marissa A.
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worked
as a correctional police officer in Monmouth County since 2019 but
resigned after her arrest. At the time, Suarez was a probationary
corrections officer at the Monmouth County Corrections Facility
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correctional police officer
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Todisco, Patricia
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the performative domain of “legitimate” violence
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correctional police officer
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Tennessee: comments
Matthew
Bledsoe, owner of Primetime Movers, accreditation suspended by the
Better Buseiness Bureau, accused of assaulting his wife. See photos.
Jack Jesse Griffith. Griffith
went on to promote his social media handles and Trump video game.
Eric Munchel. The researcher is in luck. A local
activist journalism group produced this. Read it. Munchel
currently lives in Nashville. This is the whole ball of wax: he inflates his occupational status, is connected to the Performative Domain of "Legitimate" Violence, and hangs out with local Proud Boys and Qanon conspiracy theorists. Check out the photos. This whole ball of wax cannot be reduced to an occupational classification.
Blake Austin Reed's
work history is more revealing than his occupation (superintendent)
alone. This is one of the chief characteristics of the life-world
vector we could name marginality.
Ronald Sandlin. Read the info in table at the right. A sad sack in debt.
Eric Torrens is part of the network that includes Bledsoe and Griffin.
Padilla once had a job.
Roche is a waiter
Ronnie B. Presley: beneath the radar
Bryan Wayne Ivey: beneath the radar
we list under the category beneath the radar.
There is probably something a real local journalist could have found out
about these two, but journalism ain't what is used to be.
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beneath the radar
Consider an arrestee who might otherwise have been classified as BTR .
. . except that in the course of a Google search for info on Jordan T. Revlett of Kentucky, I came up with this from a local news source:
Two years before allegedly
storming the Capitol, Revlett took home fourth place in a country radio
station’s “She Thinks Her Farmer’s Sexy” contest seeking the hottest
local farmhands, WBKR reported.
Revlett, clad in a cowboy hat and a sleeveless flannel shirt in front
of John Deere farming equipment, racked up nearly 8,000 votes in the
contest sponsored by Ohio Valley Insurance – good enough to win tickets
to see country singer Justin Moore in Louisville, the station reported.
Absent this story, we would not know that he has an occupational title:
farmhand. We would have then classified him as BTR--Beneath the
Radar.
The question that arises out of this case: what socio-technical
categories might most likely be under the radar? Established
"small businesses", such as
GRIDER, Christoper Ray:
the owner of Kissing Tree Vineyards (ten employees). This is a
real drinkiing and dining establishment with a strong presence
online. This should be compared with Ryan Nichols' "small
businesses" (below).
NICHOLS, Ryan:
Nichols also owns Wholesale Universe. He and his wife also own and
operate Simply Unique Boutique in Longview. Nichols was also a
part-time agent with Texas Real Estate Executives in Longview. We’re
told Nichols was fired last week within hours of learning of his
involvement at the U.S. Capitol coming to the light.
Nichols and his wife are no longer active licensed agents in
Texas. Their "small businesses" are phantoms, with a crude online
presence. The disutility of using such sweeping categories as
"small business" is evident
REFFITT, Guy Wesley: He works in the oil and gas industry.
This kind of comment is commonplace: a vague reference to a broad
industrial category; no reference to an occupational title.
ADAMS, Daniel Page:
A Louisiana man and his East Texas cousin (Connell-oil worker).
The order states Adams stated his involvement in the riots was a
“middle-management” role at best and that he was not an instrumental
leader among the rioters. He also stated he has a family, potential
gainful employment and a leadership role in his community.
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Matthew Bledsoe
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•He is the owner of Primetime Movers
•BBB: the company's accreditation was suspended due to failure to
respond to one or more customer complaints filed with the BBB.
•He was accused of kicking in the front door of his home in Cordova,
chasing his wife Kathryn Bledsoe, picking her up by her throat and
slamming her onto the floor.
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violence
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Jack Jesse Griffith
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“I’m
not a domestic terrorist,” Griffith said. “For all the people
slandering, libeling, mislabeling my name, I’m a citizen I had nothing
to do with any violence, vandalism, and I love all my fellow citizens.”
Griffith
went on to promote his social media handles and Trump video game.
“Have an exuberant evening,” he said, as he hopped in a car to leave.
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Eric Munchel
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Munchel
currently lives in Nashville most likely working at Kid Rock’s Big
Honky Tonk bar downtown. He was accused of assaulting a man and woman
in 2013. He lists his profession as a bartender but Kid Rock’s
doesn’t hire male bar staff. This means he is likely working in the
kitchen or security. With his connections to others in private
security, that could very well be his role there. No record of military
service has been found. . . . He spent his summer hanging out with
local Proud Boys* and Qanon conspiracy theorists
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Blake Austin Reed
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From
2004 to 2009, he attended the University of Memphis in Memphis,
Tennessee where he earned his bachelor’s degree in organizational
leadership.
From 2012 to October 2013, he was the superintendent of Bluff City Operations‘ human resources management.
From February 2014 to November 2015, he was a superintendent at Regent Homes in Nolensville, Tennessee.
From November 2015 to September 2017, he was a project manager at Blalock Homes in Franklin, Tennessee.
From April 2018 to October 2019, he was a senior project manager at Vintage South Development in Nashville.
He owns Black Lion Brokers, which he established in November 2017 and is based in Nashville.
There is a Black Lion Realty in Nasvhille, NOT Black Lion Brokers
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Ronald L. Sandlin
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Ronald
L. Sandlin, 33, a self-styled internet blogger and protest organizer
from Tennessee, sobbed loudly and at one point blurted out, “Judge,
have mercy on me,” during his videoconference detention hearing on
multiple charges arising from the Jan. 6 breach at the Capitol.
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On December 31, 2020, he took to Facebook to announce that he was
“organizing a caravan of patriots” who were going to Washington D.C.,
USA to “stand behind” Trump. He shared a link of the GoFundMe page
asking for donations for him, Josiah Colt and Nathaniel J. DeGrave and
said the three of them had already booked and paid for their trip to
Washington, D.C. On January 3, 2020, he revealed on Facebook that their
GoFundMe page was deleted.
On January 2, 2021, he wrote on Facebook that in 2020, he had a
“huge financial blow,” “got dumped” by his fiancé, crashed his
motorcycle and lost his grandfather.
During a detention hearing in federal court in February 2021, the judge
told him he owes $500,000 in back taxes. In the same month, the
I-Team found that no community where he is known to have resided can
find a record of him voting in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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Eric Chase Torrens
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Torrens appeared in an Instagram video with Matthew Bledsoe and Jack Jesse Griffith (GRIFTER network)
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Padilla, Joseph Lino
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a company spokesperson for Wacker Chemie plant told us that Padilla worked at their Bradley County plant until 2016.
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subproletariat?
former worker?
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Michael Lee Roche
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He works as a server at Farmers Family Restaurant in Murfreesboro
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working poor?
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Ronnie B. Presley
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looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!
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Bryan Wayne Ivey
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looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!
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Minnesota: comments
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Victoria White
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Larvita McFarquhar, a friend of White. McFarquhar owns Havens Garden cafe, in Lynd, Minn., where White has worked.
Attorney: Video shows police attacking Trump supporter Victoria White on Jan. 6
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Jonah Westbury
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Westbury is from the city of Lindstrom (University of Mary North Dakota)
a former wrestler for the University of Mary Marauders in Bismarck, N.D.
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Jordan K. Stotts
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works in nurseries and greenhouses during the summer and travels in his van during the winter.
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the Trump Jury in New York
Juror 1
| A man who lives
in West Harlem and works in sales. He is married, likes to do "anything
outdoorsy," and gets news from The New York Times, Fox News and MSNBC.
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Juror 2
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A
man who works in investment banking, follows Twitter as well as Truth
Social posts from Trump and said, "I don't have any beliefs that might
prevent me from being fair or impartial."
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A
young man who has lived in Chelsea for five years, works as an attorney
in corporate law, and likes to hike and run. He gets news from The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Google.
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Juror 4
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A man who's a security engineer and likes woodworking and metalworking.
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Juror 5
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A
young woman who is a Harlem resident and works as a teacher. She lives
with her boyfriend, loves writing, theater and traveling. She gets news
from Google and TikTok and listens to podcasts on relationships and pop
culture.
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Juror 6
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A
young woman who lives in Chelsea and works as a software engineer. She
gets news from The New York Times, Google, Facebook and TikTok.
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Juror 7
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A
man who lives on the Upper East Side and works as attorney as a civil
litigator. He enjoys spending time in the outdoors and gets his news
from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and
the Washington Post.
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A man who's retired but worked for a major wealth manager. He said he enjoys skiing, fly fishing and yoga.
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Juror 9
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A woman who is a speech therapist, gets news from CNN and likes reality TV podcasts.
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Juror 10
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A man who works in commerce, reads The New York Times and listens to podcasts on behavioral psychology.
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A woman who works as a product development manager and watches late-night news and reads Google, business and fashion news.
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A woman who is a physical therapist who likes running and tennis and listening to podcasts on sports and faith.
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A woman who works as an asset manager and likes to run, hang out with her friends and eat.
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Edgewater
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Anderson, John Steven
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Courthouse
records on the Clerk of Court website show ANDERSON involved in
contentious divorce litigation alleging domestic violence, as
well as dismissed charges of assault, and fines paid for driving
without wearing a seatbelt, driving with an expired license tag.
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Biggs, Joseph Randall
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Proud Boys, Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child
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Camargo, Samuel
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Like
many of the MAGA fanatics who have been arrested in the two weeks since
the insurrection, Samuel Camargo implicated himself by bragging about
his participation on social media, authorities said.
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Counsil, Matthew
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A Tampa Bay resident
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Curzio, Michael
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spent time in prison for attempted murder.VIOLENCE |
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Garcia, Gabriel Augustin
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ran as a Republican in District 116 in Miami-Dade
a former U.S. Army captain, ran for Florida House District 116 as a Trump backer.
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GOSSJANKOWSKI,
Vitali
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a student at Gallaudet University
Katherine Jankowski, his mother, was formerly an administrator at Gallaudet.
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Honeycutt, Adam Avery, 39
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works as a bail bondsman in Northeast Florida
Honeycutt has three prior arrests on charges of drug possession,
domestic battery and breach of peace, but he was only found guilty of
that last charge.
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Johnson, Adam
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Johnson Is a Stay at Home Father Who Makes Furniture
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Maldonado, Steven Omar
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Maldonado
alias Emilio Maldonado is a Puerto Rico native and lives in Palm Bay,
Brevard County, Florida, according to Conan Daily. Previously, he was
arrested for a couple of misdemeanors in 1998 and is a real estate
sales associate. The site also listed him as a diver and he worked at
the Treasure Coast Dive Charters as a boat captain where he offered
diving and spearfishing trips on the Treasure Coast in Florida.
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Pert, who is the assistant manager of a Circle K convenience store in Middleberg, requested time off work to go D.C. with Winn.
“We’re on our way to DC because us as American patriots, we’re tired of
this shit,” Winn allegedly said in their live-stream. “It’s time to
make a stand. I never really knew how deep and corrupt all this crap
was and how far back it’s gone. But American needs to wake up. We’re on
the verge of fucking losing it.”
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RIVERA, Jesus (aka, JD Rivera, Jesus Delmora Rivera)
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U.S. Marines (Former)
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STEPAKOFF, Michael
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Stepakoff leads Temple New Jerusalem, a Messianic synagogue in Palm Harbor. He is also a former attorney.
Palm Harbor, Florida, rabbi
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Sweet, Douglas
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She
said Douglas was a self-employed man who does "handyman stuff" but
spends most of his time with his extremist groups. attended the
violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville
see photo!
“The Daughter Of A Trump Rioter Arrested At The Capitol Says She Is "Ashamed And Disgusted””
Douglas Sweet from Hudgins and Cobbs Creek resident Cindy Fitchett
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a Clay High School graduate who attended the University of North Florida
WEEKS then sets up his camera to show his face and launches into a
speech declaring both the actions he has taken and his intentions.
“We’ve reached the steps. We’ve had to climb scaffolding. We’ve had to
climb ladders. We’ve had to break things to get through, but we’ve
gotten through. We’ve gotten through, and we are going to take back the
Capitol! We’re taking back our country! This is our 1776! This is where
it’s gonna happen! This is where Tyranny will fall! This is where
America will rise! Look at this, America! Look at this!”
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A Lemon Bay High School graduate
see Pert.
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Since Jan. 6 Insurrection, 38 Ohioans Accused Of Participation
Seven Ohioans have pleaded guilty to charges connected to storming the U.S. Capitol.
https://patch.com/ohio/cleveland/jan-6-insurrection-38-ohioans-accused-participation
Posted Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 7:04 am ET
Jared Hunter Adams - Pleaded not guilty
Stephen Michael Ayres - Agreed to a plea in December.
Steven Billingsley
Therese Borgerding
Gabriel Burress
Donovan Ray Crowl
Luke Faulkner
Troy Elbert Faulkner
Timothy Allen Hart
James Matthew Horning - Pleaded not guilty
Derek Jancart - Pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct
Caleb Jones - Pleaded guilty and accepted plea agreement.
Jared Kastner
Terry Lynn Lindsey
Robert Anthony Lyon - Pleaded not guilty
Clifford Mackrell - Pleaded not guilty.
David Mehaffie - Pleaded not guilty to all counts.
Walter Messer
Brandon James Miller - Pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing
Stephanie Danielle Miller - Pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing
Bennie Alvin Parker
Sandra Ruth Parker
Madison Pettit
Christine Priola
Erik Rau - Pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a Capitol building
Oliver Louis Sarko - Pleaded guilty to knowingly entering
Ethan Seitz - Pleaded not guilty
Alexander Sheppard - Pleaded not guilty
Justin Stoll
Cole Andrew Temple
Dustin Byron Thompson - Pleaded not guilty
Jessica Watkins
Jodi Lynn Wilson
John Douglas Wright
Elijah Yazdani
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Oathkeepers: comments
Regarding
the Oathkeepers, we have some tentative results so far: they
are not only ex-military; they are also a general manager at a car
dealership, a self-employed carpenter, a window washer, a tatoo parlor
owner, the owner of a marginal day-car facility, and a former police
officer. The outlier in this table--and that by a long-shot--is
Stewart Rhodes, Yale Law School, clerk for Arizona Supreme Court
Justice, and a staffer for Ron Paul.
preliminary findings:
the
single word that could encompass this set of individuals is marginal,
and that in several senses. the standard occupational and
industry classifications are inadequate, indeed misleading First, as
grifters, BTR, and low-wage service workers in very small
establishments; second, as almost entirely outside the world of modern
institutions; and third, arising out of the collapse of the economic
basis for socialization into adulthood within the psycho-cultural
framework provided by white supremacy, there results a prolongation of
adolescent sadism (Goldberg and Weitz). This is the basis for Trump's
rhetorical success.
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Oathkeepers N=14 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS PBs
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Kelly Meggs
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general manager at a car dealership
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Connie Meggs
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Kenneth Harrelson
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Retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Harrelson
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Donovan Crowl
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Marine veteran, militia
a self-employed carpenter
Prosecutors said he does not have a stable address
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Jessica Watkins
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bartender who runs a self-identified militia, joined by three others in her unit, drove to Washington D.C. last week
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Joshua James
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window washer
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Robert Minuta
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tatoo parlor owner; High School graduate
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Stewart Rhodes
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Stewart
Rhodes grew up in the Southwest and joined the Army after finishing
high school. He became a paratrooper, receiving an honorable discharge
due to an injury in a night parachuting accident. Then Rhodes attended
college at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, graduating in 1998. Rhodes
has said that he taught street crime survival and rape prevention at
the college women’s center and also worked as a certified Nevada
concealed-carry firearms instructor.
After college, his first politically oriented job was supervising
interns in Washington, D.C., for libertarian Ron Paul, then a
Republican congressman from Texas. Rhodes subsequently attended Yale
Law School, graduating in 2004, and clerked for Arizona Supreme Court
Justice Michael D. Ryan. A trial lawyer and libertarian, he later
volunteered on Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign.
more: SPLC
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Tanios, George Pierre 39
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a West Virginia sandwich shop owner
GROUP OF 8 PHOTO
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Grayden Young
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an
Army and Navy reserve veteran; a brother, husband and a small business
owner; brother of Steele; Manager at Young Children's Academy
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Laura Steele
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a former High Point police officer; sister of Young
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Sandra Parker
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Bennie Parker*
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Biggs. I looked at about 4 or 5 local and national news stories
about Biggs. No occupational information. However, if you
read the Wikipedia entry on Biggs, it becomes evident that his
political life was a sado-sexual tour de force. Lifeworld vs.
nomothetic (Luria: ideographic vs. nomothetic)
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Proud Boys: N=13 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS | FUZZY SET CATEGORIES |
Enrique Tarrio
| "Arested Proud Boys chairman has history of business failure, apparently lives with mom" (WAPO JANUARY 8, 2021)
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Joseph Biggs
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Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child. This Wikipedia entry is a must-read: Joe Biggs.
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Ethan Nordean
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•Auburn,
Washington.has been a Proud Boys chapter president and member of the
group’s national “Elders Council.” willing to stake the home
where his wife and child were living (?)
•Proud Boy activist who was fired by his father, Mike Nordean, over his
membership of the group. Mike Nordean owns Wall’s Chowder House and
Wally’s Drive-In in Des Moines, Washington.
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Zachary Rehl
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Zach Rehl biography: 13 things about Proud Boys member from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Charles Donohoe
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presidents of his local Proud Boys chapter
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Ashlock, Ryan
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Gardner, Kansas. Kansas City metro chapter of the Proud Boys
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Chrestman, William
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DECARLO, Nicholas
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In
some photos, DeCarlo was seen with Nicholas Ochs, one of the founders
of Hawaii’s chapter of the Proud Boys, neofascist group.
In addition to his work for Murder the Media, DeCarlo said he also worked trading bitcoin online currency.
DeCarlo said he was not a member of the Proud Boys. But he said the Proud Boys had raised money for his defense
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GARCIA, Gabriel Augustin
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a
former U.S. Army captain, a 2020 candidate for the Florida State House
and a reported member of the Proud Boys / ran for Florida
House District 116 as a Trump backer
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GOODWYN, Daniel
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A
San Francisco freelance web developer who calls himself a Proud Boy and
has an extensive history of COVID denialism has been charged for his
alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Goodwyn has a large digital footprint. According to his personal
website, he attended City College of San Francisco and works as a
freelance web and app developer. He lists Jews for Jesus as one of his
clients and, strangely, posts links to everything from his Gab, Parler,
Venmo and Pandora accounts to his dating app profiles.
On his Twitter account Goodwyn claimed in September he was "arrested
and cited" for not wearing a mask on Muni. Afterward, he posted video
of himself on YouTube, maskless, reading a statement in front of the
Hall of Justice. In it, he repeats a number of lies about the
coronavirus pandemic, including denying it outright and falsely
claiming COVID vaccines will contain "a microchip.”
He used the citation to fundraise for himself on a Christian
crowd-funding site used by other far-right extremists like Stop the
Steal founder Ali Alexander. Goodwyn raised $1,689 of his $5,000 goal.
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Greeson, Kevin
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On Jan. 4, Kelly allegedly wrote, “I’ll be with ex NYPD and some proud boys. This will be the most historic event of my life.”
Read this: The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson.
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KELLY, Christopher M.
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works for a fixed wireless company in Cedar Rapids
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Pezzola, Dominic
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“The
Proud Boy Who Smashed a US Capitol Window Is a Former
Marine”
The Aquinas Institute in a suburb of Rochester, New
York.
One person who has known Pezzola for over 20 years described him as a
hardworking father of two daughters whose politics grew increasingly
extreme over the last two years. VICE News attempted to
contact Pezzola via phone numbers connected to his business
“Out of everyone in our class, I would have picked him out as a
domestic terrorist,” one classmate, who asked to remain anonymous for
her safety, told VICE News. “He was always a bit machismo,” remarked
another, who had the same request for anonymity.
Pezzola, of Rochester, N.Y., also has been named in state tax warrants
totaling more than $40,000 over the past five years, according to
public records. His attorney declined to comment.
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Another candidate for poster
boy representing the marginal principle axis of this dataset is
Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boy chairman at the time of his arrest.
•So
far we have looked at Tennessee, Minnesota, and New Jersey. This
already gives us a a sense of the kind of problems the researcher has
when dealing with a population in the process of marginalization.
The instability in their lives is manifest in the difficulty of
category formation. If we now turn our attention to the cult of
sado-sexual "masculine" violence that is the fundamental principle of
Trump's performativities, we must consider the vanguard of the assault
on the capitol, the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys. (These Oathkeepers
and Proud Boys are also included in the tables of states.) They
are our stormtroopers--no other term will do. These are the cadre
of fascism, operating in the context of and with the enthusiastic
support of the GOP "base."
•Regarding the Oathkeepers, we have some tentative results so far: they
are not only ex-military; they are also a general manager at a car
dealership, a self-employed carpenter, a window washer, a tatoo parlor
. . . , the owner of a marginal day-car facility, and a former police
officer. The outlier in this table--and that by a long-shot--is
Stewart Rhodes, Yale Law School, clerk for Arizona Supreme Court
Justice, and a staffer for Ron Paul.
•Thus, the single word that could encompass this set of individuals is
marginal, and that in several senses. First, as grifters,
BTR, and low-wage service workers in very small establishments; second,
as almost entirely outside the world of modern institutions; and third,
arising out of the collapse of the economic basis for socialization
into adulthood within the psycho-cultural framework provided by white
supremacy, there results a prolongation of adolescent sadism.
This is the basis for Trump's rhetorical success.
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on this
site fascism denotes primarily not the mere concept, often given as a
definition, but a set of texts focused on the problematic of fascism.)
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Grifter: forming a concept
The
category grifter emerged out of conversations between PF and
RB based on a working dataset: the Mob at the Capitol. It
is striking now to realize just how like Trump these arrestees
were! Thus, the necessity at this late date of putting the
principle result first. PDLV, grifter, marginal worker, marginal
business, phantom
A Con Man Is Succeeding Me in Congress Today
NYT Jan. 3, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET
(" GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls members of House Freedom Caucus ‘grifters,’ ‘performance artists’," WAPO Dec 7, 2021)
Grifter or Grafter? A new parlor game that explains Trumpworld.
BY JACOB WEISBERG,MAY 10, 2018
Dover case
Our
work on this dataset occured in the context of mainstream media + University of Chicago study
"Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds", NYT
, including this from the New York Times of January 26, 2021: "From Navy
SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the
Capitol":
One striking aspect of the angry crowd at the Capitol was how many of its members
seemed to come not from the fringes of American society but from white
picket-fence Main Street backgrounds — firefighters and real estate
agents, a marketing executive and a Town Council member.
And from the Atlantic of Febuary 2, 2021: The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists,
by Dr. Robert A. Pape, principal investigator, and Dr. Kevin Ruby,
senior research director of "The Face of American Insurrection," cited
below (excerpt 3):
40 percent
are business owners or hold white-collar jobs. Unlike the
stereotypical extremist, many of the alleged participants in the
Capitol riot have a lot to lose. They work as CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court
documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed.
These findings are as intetheticas as possible to mour finding, reported on this page.
Business Owner: 13%
– Owner, Ameri-I-Can Ammo
– CEO,marketingfirmCogensia
– Owner, Wholesale Universe, Inc.
– Owner, Matador Sport Fishing
White-Collar: 28%
– GoogleFieldOperationsSpecialist
– Regional Portfolio Manager at BB&T Bank
– Doctors, Attorney, Architects
Although
the authors of this report did not include the names of the individuals
refered to above, I found almost all of them in my partial
dataset. The four "business owners" could be described as marginal, phantom
They simply are not the the kind of
ontologically well-determined objects (occupation/property ownership)
implied in the statement: "They work as CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants."
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▪ Business Owner: 13%
– Owner, Ameri-I-Can Ammo (Marsha Murphy)
– CEO,marketingfirmCogensia (Ruskelas)
– Owner, Wholesale Universe, Inc. (Nichols, Ryan)
– Owner, Matador Sport Fishing (HILES, Jacob)
▪ White-Collar: 28%
– GoogleFieldOperationsSpecialist (Goodwyn?; Gionet?
the Doctors (America’s Frontline Doctors, Simone
Gold, John Strand),
the Attorney (CALHOUN Jr., William McCall),
I could find nothing like architect in my dtabase
the highest staus corporate exec: – Regional Portfolio Manager at
BB&T Bank (Georgia, Christopher Stanton suicide)--committed
suicided two days after he was arrested.
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As we add states and other datasets in the right-hand column, it will
become increasingly evident that this analysis out of the University of
Chicago (and "mainstream" (corporate) media coverage in general) fails to comprehend the major features of the dataset Arrests Arising out of the Assault on Congress.**
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from Frank Ninivaggi, Envy Theory: Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
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the Rittenhouse events: n=4
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What we know about the 3 men who were shot by Kyle Rittenhouse,
NPR, Nov 20, 2021
Protester shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha is now suing Wisconsin authorities,
NPR Oct 18
Kyle
Rittenhouse, American Vigilante. After he killed two people in
Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle
The New Yorker, June 28, 2021
A mentally ill man, a heavily armed teenager and the night Kenosha burned (WAPO, Oct 3, 2020)
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NAME
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THE RITTENHOUSE EVENTS:
NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS
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Kyle Rittenhouse
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from Kyle
Rittenhouse, American Vigilante. After he killed two people in
Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle (The New Yorker, June 28, 2021)
he
was seventeen and lived with his family in an apartment in Antioch,
Illinois. His social-media accounts—Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat,
Instagram—showed him handling long guns, cheering for Trump in the
front row at a campaign rally, and participating in a Police Explorers
program for teen-agers. He ardently supported Blue Lives Matter and
wore a T-shirt from 5.11 Tactical (“gear for the most demanding
missions”).
Weeks before the shootings, Rittenhouse had been hanging out with other
teen-agers on the Kenosha waterfront when an argument erupted involving
the younger of his two sisters, McKenzie. Reese Granville, a rapper who
happened to be cruising past with a friend, filmed the altercation with
his phone. (In the video, Granville and his friend could be heard
debating what would happen if the police arrived: “It’s all white
people, boy. We Black—we goin’ to jail.”) When a girl started to fight
with McKenzie, Rittenhouse punched her, repeatedly, from behind.
Bystanders broke it up by turning on Rittenhouse: “Don’t put your hands
on a female!”
Just south is Lake County, Illinois. Rittenhouse’s parents, Wendy and
Mike, got married there in February, 2000, and their daughter Faith was
born six months later. The other two Rittenhouse children were born in
2003: Kyle in January, McKenzie in December. When the children were
small, Wendy and Mike worked various jobs, including machine operator,
housekeeper, and cashier. Mike, who struggled with alcohol addiction
and sometimes experimented with drugs, was unemployed for a couple of
years. When Kyle was four, Mike was charged with domestic battery after
allegedly punching Wendy in the stomach. (He denies this; the charges
were dismissed.) Twice, Wendy and the children briefly lived in a
shelter.
Wendy and Mike eventually split up. (Mike says that he has been sober
for years and wants to repair his family relationships.) Wendy had
become a certified nursing assistant, but she continued to struggle
financially. The family was repeatedly evicted.
Wendy sometimes felt too overwhelmed to help her kids navigate
difficulties. In 2017, when Kyle was fourteen, she tried to resolve a
conflict between him and two classmates, twins named Anthony and
Jonathan, by seeking restraining orders. In a handwritten petition to
the court, Wendy, who has dyslexia, wrote, “Anthony calls Klye dumb
stupid say that going to hurt Kyle. Anthony follows Kyle around to take
picture of Klye and post them on soical media.”
That fall, Rittenhouse, a pudgy ninth grader in dark-framed glasses,
joined the Explorers program at the Grayslake Police Department, near
Antioch. The police chief viewed the program as a way to “teach
self-discipline, responsibility and other appropriate ‘life lessons’ ”
to youths who “may have a challenging home, social, or school life.”
Rittenhouse participated in a similar cadet program through the Antioch
Fire Department. Jon Cokefair, the fire chief, told me, “Most of the
kids that are doing this, they don’t play football, they’re not
cheerleaders—this is their focus.”
Jeff Myhra, the deputy chief who ran Grayslake’s Police Explorers
program, told me that participants trained with harmless replicas of
service weapons. Explorers wore uniforms and often helped manage parade
traffic. Rittenhouse went on police ride-alongs, a practice that may
impart a false sense of competence, or authority. One brochure
declared, “Like Police Officers, Explorers must be ready and willing to
encounter any emergency situation such as first responders to accidents
or injuries.”
In 2018, shortly after another eviction, Wendy filed for bankruptcy.
She developed a gastrointestinal bleed that required hospitalization,
and Faith was also hospitalized, after an attempted overdose involving
over-the-counter painkillers. To make money for the family, Kyle worked
as a fry cook and a janitor while attending school online. He also
became certified as a lifeguard and found part-time work at a Y.M.C.A.
Eventually, he hoped to graduate from high school and become a police
officer or a paramedic.
In January, 2020, Rittenhouse, now seventeen, tried to join the
Marines, unsuccessfully. Shortly after the pandemic arrived in America,
the Y furloughed him. He applied for another lifeguard position, and
while awaiting word he hung out with his sister McKenzie’s new
boyfriend, Dominick Black, who was eighteen.
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Joseph Rosenbaum
first man killed by Rittenhouse
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from What we know about the 3 men who were shot by Kyle Rittenhouse, NPR, Nov 20, 2021
Rosenbaum was at the unrest after having just been discharged
from a hospital in Milwaukee, his fiancée, Kariann Swart, testified at
the trial. Rosenbaum, meanwhile, was unarmed and carried a plastic bag
containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, socks, deodorant and some papers.
Swart testified she and Rosenbaum were living in a motel at the time
Rosenbaum was killed, and that the couple had at times been homeless.
She also described Rosenbaum's mental health issues, saying he was on
antidepressants and medication to treat his bipolar disorder. He had
been in a hospital following a suicide attempt. Rosenbaum was raised
in Texas and Arizona, according to The Washington Post. The paper
reported that Rosenbaum said he was molested by a stepfather and had
spent most of his adult life in prison starting at age 18 for sexual
conduct with five preteen boys.
His mother was sent to prison when he was 13 and Rosenbaum began using
heroin and methamphetamine at a group home where he was sent, the Post
reported.
Swart had pressed charges against Rosenbaum in July 2020 after a fight
in which he assaulted her, the paper reported. But she was open to
reconciling, telling the Post that he had told her: "I want to fix
things. ... I want to get myself right." |
Anthony Huber
shot and killed
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The
26-year-old, who grew up in Kenosha and was an avid skateboarder, was
at the protest with his girlfriend Hannah Gittings. Huber had spent time in prison twice, first for violating
probation after strangling his brother and again for kicking his
sister, the Post reported. He spent a lot of time at the local skate park and also struggled with bipolar disorder. |
Gaige Grosskreutz
the third man shot--the one with the handgun
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Grosskreutz
became a paramedic after high school, but the profession left him burnt
out, according to the Post. He then switched paths, majoring in outdoor
education at Northland College. He got involved in the protests that
summer after an internship fell through, joining forces with an
activist group called the People's Revolution and helping out with
medical care at protests.
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A Journalistic Benchmark . . . and an unexpected finding
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS | FUZZY SET CATEGORIES |
| Deborah Wagner, 55 | a retired court clerk
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Gary Bartlett, 65
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a retired manual worker at General Motors
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Randy Weld, 53
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a self-employed carpenter
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David Snell, 55
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a logistics specialist
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Gary Sherrill, 65
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a concrete mixer driver
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Rose Kidd, 63
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a retired nurse
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telephone threats to Congressmen
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post-riot journalism: Reuters: n=9
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS | FUZZY SET CATEGORIES |
| In Arizona, a stay-at-home dad and part-time Lyft driver
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In Utah, a youth treatment center staffer
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In Vermont, a man who says he works in construction
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Ross Miller, a Georgia real-estate investor . . . . Miller, who said he was in his sixties
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Vermont
(ibid.?): “You guys are a bunch of f‑‑‑‑‑‑ clowns, and all you dirty
c‑‑‑suckers are about to get f‑‑‑‑‑‑ popped,” he said. “I f‑‑‑‑‑‑
guarantee it.”
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| Jamie Fialkin |
Jamie
Fialkin of Peoria, Arizona. . . . A former stand-up comedian from
Brooklyn, New York, Fialkin said he has a degree in actuarial science,
the study of insurance data. In 2017, he self-published a book marketed
as a “survival guide” for first-time older parents. The 54-year-old
said he spends most days taking care of his two young daughters and
driving part-time for Lyft. . . . The self-described Orthodox Jew
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| Jeff Yeager |
Jeff Yeager, a 56-year-old self-employed electrician from Los Angeles
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| Eric Pickett |
Eric Pickett, a 42-year-old night staffer at a youth treatment center in Utah
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Bennington, Vt.: unnamed: He said he lived “in the woods,” and worked in construction.
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from Michael Wolff, Landslide: the Final Days of the Trump White House (Holt, 2021), pp. 243-4:
Who were these people [who assaulted the Capitol]?
Every one of the people yet in the White House as well as those who had
slipped out, along with the president’s large traveling retinue, his
family, the many members of Congress seeking photo ops with him, and
the legions of favor seekers, had all been at rally after rally and,
over and over again, seen vivid demonstrations of the exotic,
self-dramatizing, out-from-under-a-rock Trump fan base. But now, to a
person, to a political professional, they were dumbfounded and
awestruck — revulsion competing with incomprehension.
Even Trump himself, the clearest channel through to this fan base, seemed confused.
In part, the radically faithful had simply been concentrated. The
merely eager party types, and the Las Vegas audience sorts, and the
local business proprietors, and the family-outing Republicans, and the
VFW-post members, and various church groups, the salt of the Republican
earth, more or less in normal dress, all had mostly self-selected out,
leaving what was generally, if abstractly, referred to in the Trump
circle as the “hard core.” But no one had ever come so clearly
face-to-face with this pure hard core as was happening now and would
happen, in video footage and in indictments, in the weeks to come.
In some sense all the currents of the conservative movement--its way of
life, its power structure, its institutional identity, its carefully
assembled philosophy--had been custom-designed to avoid this
moment. The wierdos and misfits; the extremists; the apocalyptic
people; the paranoids; the conspiracy believers; the embattled remnants
of an activist racist world; the followers of Robert Welch, the John
Birch Society founder; and the admirers of James B. Utt, the
Congressman and racist from California's Orange County (what Fortune
magazine; in 1968 called America's "nut country"); and generals llike
Curtis LeMay, a face of the right wing in the 1950s and '60s, ready to
nuke whoever back to the stone age--all these had been for so long
sanitized out of the conservative movement. The currents of
William F. Buckley Jr. (via Edmund Burke), corporate leadership,
Richard Nixon realpolitik, Ronald Reagan morning-in-America politics,
upwardly mobile capitalism, famoily values, and megachurch
institutional conservatism had taken over. But now, it turned
out, the real right wing had not gone away at all, but, apparemntly,
flourished unseen, becoming ver more baroque, ecstatic, and as far from
the bourgeois world as it was possible to get.
The most immediate issue was that no one, at least not in this up-close
moment, was going to defend them--nobody employed in the Republican and
conservative firmament. Indeed, the cadres were threatening to
behead one of the leading representatives of faith-based,
institutional, sanitized-to-the-point-of-blandness modern conservatism:
Vice President Mike Pence!
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Globalization is the elephant in the room
from "Ukraine War Pushes Germans to Change. They Are Wavering." (New York Times, April 4, 2022)
Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification,
business as usual has largely meant “change through trade” — the
conviction that economic interdependency would alter authoritarian
governments like Russia and China for the better and help keep the
peace. Prosperity and democracy, the thinking went, go hand in hand.
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Three Telephone Threats to Lawmakers:
the sado-sexual eigenvector of GOP performativity
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Rep. Eric Swalwell telephone threat:
*Oh yeah your'e acting like my call's very important to you Mr. Intel man. Here's some intelligence, motherfucker.
Let me show
you . . . . a Fox news. on Tucker Carlson, saying that how bad,
that that unarmed veteran, that white woman, that was shot by a cop,
you said he was a brave officer, shooting a serious threat. He
was a coward, bitch (1), who shot an unarmed white woman. if she
would have been some black nigger crackhead you guys would have had
that cop's [unintelligible] fixed.
Fuck you
you Obama nigger ass-licking pig. Andy McCabe just got his
fucking pension back, and he's a traitor, a liar, a leaker, squeaker
lying traitor little bitch. Just like Comey, and the rest
of the Clinton cartel.
[unintelligible] and --- obama's niggers . . cartel. [unintelligible]
Fuck you, you pig. You little faggot bitch
Get by that Chinese lawyer and move to China, you fucking cocksucker, you soul-eating bastard.
Intelligence
committee? motherfucker my dog has more intelligence in his giant
nut-sack than you have in your warped little mind. You and Adam
Schifftless--that little fuckin' over-medicated freak. You people
are a disgrace to God our country and our people. You're the
enemy of the United States people motherfucker. You atheist
communist faggots are the threat to our democracy, our constitution and
our way of life.
[unintelligible]
and as these foreign invaders . . . I hope they chop you
and your family up and feed them to their dogs, you pig, you fuckin'
bitch . . . . 1:37. . . . asshole. And
Trump NATION! . . . Trump NATION baby!
Rep. Fred Upton telephone threat
Fucking
traitor. That's what you are. You're a fucking piece
of shit traitor. I hope you die. I hope everybody in your fucking
family dies. You fucking piece of shit trash motherfucker.
Voted for dumb-ass fucking Biden? You're stupider than he
is. He can't even complete a fucking sentence, you dumb
motherfucker traitor, piece of shit, motherfucker, piece of
trash. I hope you fucking die. I hope your fucking family
dies. I hope everybody in you fucking staff dies, you fucking
piece of fucking shit. Traitor.
Rep. Debbie Dingell telephone threat
“You
fucking old, senile bitch, you’re as old and ugly as Biden,” the caller
says. “You ought to get the fuck off the planet. You fucking foul
bitch. I hope your family dies in front of you. I pray to God, if
you’ve got any children, they die in your face.”
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