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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We're en route in a grand theft auto golf cart to the Capitol building right now."
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/oath-keepers-rode-golf-cart-capitol-riot
Two more alleged Capitol rioters who arrived at the scene on Jan. 6 in full battle gear after swerving around law-enforcement vehicles in a golf cart have been added to the Oath Keepers conspiracy case, according to a new indictment unsealed on Thursday.
Roberto Minuta, 36, of Prosper, Tex., and Joshua James, 33, of Arab, Ala. were arrested and charged in March but were indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday along with ten others associated with the Oath Keepers already charged in the conspiracy.
The new indictment also reveals that, in the hours before the Capitol was breached, Minuta, James and another unidentified individual, known in the indictment as Person Ten, had a series of phone calls with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. Rhodes, who was in Washington, DC, on the day of the riot, did not enter the Capitol and has not been charged. (Rhodes recently said he expects he may go to jail soon for what he characterized as made-up crimes.)
According to the indictment, Minuta, James, and others dressed in battle gear climbed into a pair of golf carts and headed toward the Capitol building, swerving around law enforcement vehicles.
The indictment said that Minuta, who allegedly carried bear spray and wore ballistic goggles, declared: Patriots are storming the Capitol building. Theres violence against patriots by police so were en route in a grand theft auto golf cart to the Capitol building right now.
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"We're en route in a grand theft auto golf cart to the Capitol building right now." (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 2021
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Blue Owl
(57,467 posts)1. Grand Theft Golfcart -- sounds like an anti-tRump punk band
I like it!
OAITW r.2.0
(30,672 posts)2. Arab, Alabama?

lunatica
(53,410 posts)3. He probably calls himself an Araber
Or Arabarian, or Araberian
OAITW r.2.0
(30,672 posts)4. He should call himself an asshole.
If he had any intelligent self-awareness.
crickets
(26,158 posts)5. Does it still feel like a game, boys? K&R for visibility.