Bannon found guilty

"Justice For J6" Says They're Rallying For Nonviolent Offenders. Most Alleged Capitol Rioters In Jail Are Charged With Violent Crimes.

 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/insurrection-defendants-jail-rally-political-prisoners

Organizers of this weekend’s “Justice for J6” rally say the event is meant to support “nonviolent offenders,” but the majority of defendants held in jail in connection with insurrection are charged with assaulting police or other violent crimes.

Of the more than 600 alleged Capitol rioters arrested to date, 71 were in jail as of Sept. 17. The narrative that defendants ordered to stay behind bars while their cases are pending are “political prisoners” has become a rallying cry among conservatives who backed former president Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement. On Saturday, Trump supporters are expected to participate in a demonstration pitched as showing support for those charged with storming the Capitol and temporarily stopping Congress from certifying the results of the election.

Trump ‘100% Committed Crimes’: Evidence Moves From Speech ‘Incitement’ To Wider MAGA Conspiracy

Jan. 6 hearing dominates top TV networks — except one

 https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-sean-hannity-television-donald-trump-609dcc5bc158308d7bc633ad52462f3d

America’s top television networks on Thursday turned prime time over to a gripping account of former President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — with one prominent exception.

The top-rated news network, Fox News Channel, stuck with its own lineup of commentators. Sean Hannity denounced the “show trial” elsewhere on TV just as he was featured in it, with the House’s Jan. 6 committee examining his tweets to Trump administration figures.

The President Who Stood Still on Jan. 6

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-president-who-stood-still-donald-trump-jan-6-committee-mike-pence-capitol-riot-11658528548

No matter your views of the Jan. 6 special committee, the facts it is laying out in hearings are sobering. The most horrifying to date came Thursday in a hearing on President Trump’s conduct as the riot raged and he sat watching TV, posting inflammatory tweets and refusing to send help.Still, the brute facts remain: Mr. Trump took an oath to defend the Constitution, and he had a duty as Commander in Chief to protect the Capitol from a mob attacking it in his name. He refused. He didn’t call the military to send help. He didn’t call Mr. Pence to check on the safety of his loyal VP. Instead he fed the mob’s anger and let the riot play out.

Who Deserves to be Our Hero? by Rabbi YITZCHOK ADLERSTEIN

 https://cross-currents.com/2019/04/13/who-deserves-to-be-our-hero/

Heroes need not be perfect. Gedolim need not be perfect. They never were, and they never will be. A person who demands never to find fault in his or her mentor will never have a meaningful mentor.

The obvious question is whether therefore all faults are ignored and the gadol is never held accountable for mistakes?

Gedolim don't apologize because they don't think they make mistakes

 One of the most important factors in human relations is apologizing for hurting another person. Don't recall stories of gedolim  apologizing apparently because they never err or think they never err

How to Apologize

 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/97408/jewish/How-to-Apologize.htm

Some people are concerned about saying "I'm sorry." Perhaps they think that by doing so they will be admitting a wrongdoing. Perhaps they are afraid of what might happen if their apology is rejected. However, we would gain a lot more respect from others if we had the courage to apologize. All we would be saying is: I am smarter today than I was yesterday, and I have learned something new. "It is our anger that gets us into a fight," a wise man once said, "and our ego that keeps it there."

Is It Too Late to Apologize?

https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/339510?lang=bi

 Maimonides’ Four Steps to Apologizing

The most famous laws about apology come to us from the 12th century rabbi, philosopher, and physician Maimonides (1135-1204, Spain), or Rambam, one of the greatest Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. Maimonides wrote codes of law for the Jewish community, clarifying common Jewish practice and accepted standards of observance.

According to Maimonides, four of the most important steps of teshuvah (repentance) are the following:

Verbally confess your mistake and ask for forgiveness (Mishneh Torah 1:1).

Express sincere remorse, resolving not to make the same mistake again (Mishneh Torah 2:2).

Do everything in your power to “right the wrong,” to appease the person who has been hurt by your actions (Mishneh Torah 2:9).

Act differently if the same situation happens again (Mishneh Torah 2:1).

Stolen Innocence - Rabbi Baruch Lanner, the charismatic magnet of NCSY, was revered in the Orthodox Union youth group, despite longtime reports of abuse of teens. By Gary Rosenblatt

 https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/stol/Stolen%20Innocence%20-%20Gary%20Rosenblatt%20-%20Jewish%20Week%20-%20Sexual%20Abuse.pdf

Baruch Lanner is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant, dynamic and charismatic educators in Jewish life today. As director of regions of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, an arm of the Orthodox Union, the 50-year-old rabbi has been working with and supervising teenagers for more than three decades. He has also been a principal and teacher in yeshiva high schools in New Jersey, and for many years has led a highly successful six-week NCSY summer kollel program in Israel offering Torah study to up to 300 American boys. But even while he is credited with bringing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of youngsters closer to Judaism, reports have continued to circulate that he has harassed, if not abused, many scores of teens sexually, physically and/or emotionally, from the early 1970s to the present. Though Rabbi Lanner's erratic behavior has long been an open secret in some Orthodox circles, for the first time more than a dozen former NCSYers and others have come forward publicly over a three month period, telling their stories to The Jewish Week. They described in detail firsthand experiences, including Rabbi Lanner's alleged kissing and fondling scores of teenage girls in the 1970s and '80s, repeatedly kicking boys in the groin, and reports of taking a knife to a young man in 1987, and propositioning girls in 1997 at the yeshiva high school where he was principal for 15 years. 

Seven stunning moments from the Jan. 6 hearing

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3570046-seven-stunning-moments-from-the-jan-6-hearing/

In an audio clip, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) described McCarthy talking about calling the White House and getting through to Trump.

“He said, ‘You have got to get on TV. You’ve got to get on Twitter. You’ve got to call these people off,’” Herrera Beutler said. “You know what the president said to him? This is as it’s happening. He said, ‘Well, Kevin, these aren’t my people. These are, these are antifa.’”

Video of Josh Hawley Running Away From Capitol Mob Sparks Mockery and Memes

 https://www.newsweek.com/video-josh-hawley-running-capitol-mob-memes-1726994

A video of Donald Trump admitting he did not "want to say the election was over" was the real bombshell footage shown at the latest January 6 committee hearing, but another clip captured the public's attention on Thursday: one showing Sen. Josh Hawley fleeing the Capitol only hours after he cheered on the pro-Trump mob.

On January 6, 2021, Hawley was pictured backing the crowd preparing to storm the Capitol, raising his fist at them in solidarity and support.

The image, which went viral, became a form of political currency for the Republican senator among Trump supporters and an awkward testimony of his role in the riots, which he repeatedly denied inciting.

The video caused many of those in the committee room —reporters, congressional aides, security staff, and visitors— to burst into laughter.

January 6 suspects' D.C. jail complaints are hypocritical, but they're not wrong

 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/january-6-suspects-d-c-jail-complaints-are-hypocrital-they-n1287184

Some defendants who have been held in the District of Columbia jail after being suspected of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol have complained that the conditions they’re being subjected to are inhumane. But in their case, they have conservative public officials who are echoing their complaints. In December, 14 Republican members of the U.S. House sent a letter to Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, complaining that the Jan. 6 defendants are being “treated as subhuman.”

The Crisis at the D.C. Jail Began Decades Before Jan. 6 Defendants Started Raising Concerns

 https://time.com/6137882/dc-jail-conditions-january-6/

For years, advocates have raised concerns to the District of Columbia government over what they say are inhumane conditions inside the CDF, a nearly 50-year-old jail just two miles from the U.S. Capitol. Yet it was only when detainees accused of storming the Capitol building last Jan. 6 began raising complaints about the conditions of a neighboring jail facility that reform efforts gained momentum. After Jan. 6 defendants’ lawyers raised allegations of poor conditions at the Department of Corrections (DOC) facility, including a lack of access to medical care, an unannounced review of the jail by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) concluded there was “evidence of systemic failure.” USMS announced Nov. 2 that it would move 400 federal detainees out of the CDF to a federal prison in Pennsylvania.