A sentencing hearing broke down this week for a self-employed handyman from Texas who used a metal whip and unloaded a can of bear spray on officers during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots.
a self-employed handyman from Texas who admitted to using a metal whip and unloading a can of bear spray on officers during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Taake had been on pretrial release for a pending child-solicitation case in Texas when he went to the Capitol ready for violence
Court documents show that Taake portrayed himself to his would-be paramour as little more than an innocent bystander. “Safe to say I was the very first person to be sprayed that day … all while just standing there,” he added.
When he was arrested on Jan. 2021, the FBI recovered three loaded guns from Taake’s residence even though he was barred from having them due to his status as a felon, authorities said.
They said that based on reports from his pretrial detention, he has “taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament.”
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Even when they aren’t at the top of the hierarchy, a) they’d like to keep the possibility that they could be at the top open, b) like not being at the bottom of the hierarchy, and c) believe one’s position in the hierarchy is deserved (which can even overrule item b and makes them admire the ones higher up, at least until they start threatening their ideas about the hierarchy).
The party of law & order. The party of personal responsibility.
Conservatives make a lot more sense when you realize that they are actually about preserving a hierarchy and everything else they support or oppose is in pursuit of that.
Even when they aren’t at the top of the hierarchy, a) they’d like to keep the possibility that they could be at the top open, b) like not being at the bottom of the hierarchy, and c) believe one’s position in the hierarchy is deserved (which can even overrule item b and makes them admire the ones higher up, at least until they start threatening their ideas about the hierarchy).