Up North Progressive

What happened on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, was a terrorist attack on our nation’s Capitol. It must be treated as such and prosecute everyone involved.



Over the past four days, social media has used images and locations in and around the Capitol to ID the terrorists involved with the attack on Congress. Reports to the FBI to get these people arrested and off the streets is ongoing.

In Michigan, busloads of people went to Washington to participate in Trump’s “wild time” Stop the Steal rally that in reality was a terrorist attack on the Capitol. Ersatz Elector Matty Maddock went to Washington on January 6th and helped attack the Capitol building. His wife, Operation Gridlock organizer Meshawn Maddock, was there with him, proud of being part of a planned terrorist attack on the Capitol. Two busloads from Allendale made it to Washington. Logan Grimes, arrested for having an unregistered handgun, hails from Cadillac. Six other Michigan residents were arrested on the day of the attack.

The most incredible crowd and sea of people I’ve ever walked with ♥️ https://t.co/y2ylv9VctG

— meshawn maddock (@meshawnmaria) January 6, 2021

Social media took steps in the days after the attack to silence Trump and other instigators. Terrorist discussion boards are de-platformed as well. Cloudflare pulling the plug on these websites is good, but there are other places for them to hang out and plan the next attack.

TheProudBoys parleyed.

— Proud Boys TheProudBoys Sunday, January 10, 2021

If you want to believe or think they won’t try this a second or third time, the Trump terrorists already plan on attacking the Capitol again on January 20th.

Every elected official involved with the terrorist plot on January 6 should be censured and stripped of committee assignments; including removed from office and banned from holding office for the rest of their lives. It doesn’t do any good to put the foot soldiers in jail while the ringleaders walk free.

This also goes for Michigan’s US Congress members who committed sedition in December:
Jack Bergman (R) of District 1, Bill Huizenga (R) of District 2, John Moolenaar (R) of District 4, and Tim Walberg (R) of District 7 signed the amicus brief to the Supreme Court in December with the intention of overturning Michigan’s election. Jack Bergman and Tim Walberg objected to the election results after the attack on the Capitol building. We need to send Jack Bergman home to Louisiana where he belongs and have an actual resident from Michigan represent the 1st Congressional District.

From November 3, 2020, to now has been part of a GOP terrorist attack on the United States. They have every intention of coming back for another round of attacks in 10 days. Michigan must punish elected officials who participated in the coup and intend to continue past Joe Biden’s inauguration. There is no unity or healing as long as these traitors are still in office.