ADMIN NOTE: The purported “source” for the claim connecting Gini Thomas to 80 buses has documented why that claim is inaccurate.
It has been reported from numerous sources that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sponsored 80 busloads of “protesters” to Wednesday’s insurrection at the Capitol. Let’s say each bus held 30 people. That’s over 2,000 individuals. This is in addition to promulgating the lies about Donald Trump’s “stolen election” through her social media up to and including the morning of Wednesday’s insurrection. What’s the likelihood that any one of those 2,400 individuals participated in the seditious attempt at overthrowing our government? Of course, Mrs. Thomas has since deleted the relevant social media posts, but they were already captured.
After 9/11, anyone questioning even in the least George W. Bush’s actions, including signing the odious Patriot Act and leading us into a disastrous war, was accused of giving “aid and comfort” to our enemies. What Ginni Thomas did here was akin to paying for the plane tickets for the 9/11 hijackers. How is this not “aiding and abetting” the attempt to violently overthrow our government?
Let me restate this because this was the thought that inspired this diary: Ginni Thomas sponsored (possibly meaning paid for) 80 busloads of “protestors” to the Capital on Wednesday, equaling or greater than approximately 2,000 people, any of which could have been involved in breaching the Capitol Building and attempting the seditious overthrow of our duly elected government. It is as if she had paid for the plane tickets of the 9/11 hijackers.
Even, and ESPECIALLY, the most powerful need to be HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR CRIMES.
Saturday, Jan 9, 2021 · 2:50:33 PM +00:00 · Teduardo
Thank you everyone for commenting and recommending. I haven’t written more than a dozen diaries since becoming a member in 2004, but this is the first one that’s landed on the homepage trending list. I appreciate each and every one of you, and especially this site and community that I have visited daily for 18+ years
Saturday, Jan 9, 2021 · 3:12:12 PM +00:00 · Teduardo
In the interests of fairness and reason, I feel compelled to draw your attention to this very insightful comment by VClib, below:
Here is the challenge. The “rally” had a permit issued by the Park Service, or DC government, and was a legal assembly. The permit had rules that required the rally attendees to stay constrained to a certain geography, which was not adjacent to the Capital building.
Sponsoring buses to bring people to a rally that had complied with all the necessary rules to have a permit isn’t a crime. Trying to attach some criminal or civil liability to Ginni Thomas for what the people did after they violated the rules of the permit is going to be a very steep legal mountain to climb.
Saturday, Jan 9, 2021 · 4:09:01 PM +00:00 · Teduardo
I also want to make clear that as of now it has been alleged she “sponsored” the 80 buses. Whether that sponsorship was monetary, or as a board member of CNP Action (as stated in this tweet), I don’t know. What I do know is she has been a virulent organizer against the Democratic party and leftists, and has participated in lying about the election and organizing people to attend Wednesday’s “protest” through her social media (see links in the diary above). At what point does this cross the line to being tantamount to yelling FIRE in a crowded theater; i.e., active incitement? It’s as though she organized thousands of people (many of whom are armed — see quote here: “We all have guns and concealed carry,” Thomas said, “to handle what’s coming.”) by telling them the money in a private bank is theirs (when it isn’t) over and over for months, then transporting them to the bank for some undisclosed activity, and then… what? With power comes responsibility. At the end of the day, there need to be vigorous investigations not just of Trumpist rubes, but of those in positions of power that helped make Wednesday’s insurrection manifest.
Saturday, Jan 9, 2021 · 6:03:26 PM +00:00 · Teduardo
As a final update, I want to list the sources the piqued my interest in this story. As one states, this started going viral yesterday so I am in no way responsible for the great reporting that prompted this post. Please check out these folks for more background and research: