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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge blocks release of Tennessee man seen with zip ties at Capitol riot
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the release of a Tennessee man accused of storming the U.S. Capitol last month armed with zip ties.
In a blistering opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth said Nashville resident Eric Gavelek Munchel, 30, and his mother, Woodstock, Georgia, nurse Leslie Marie Eisenhart, 56, both pose "clear danger to the republic" in ways that would've troubled George Washington.
In widely circulated photographs, Munchel was seen inside the Senate chamber with zip ties and a holstered Taser. He was among two men dubbed "zip tie guy" due to the images. Eisenhart was next to him in some of the footage.
By joining pro-Trump mobs and attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6 in a bid to overturn November's election won by President Joe Biden, the suspects struck at the heart of American democracy, the judge said.
Lamberth quoted Washington's famed 1796 farewell address when the nation's first president said: "The very idea of the power of and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."
"Indeed, few offenses are more threatening to our way of life," the judge wrote of charges against the suspects.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1258251
"Indeed, few offenses are more threatening to our way of life," the judge wrote of charges against the suspects."
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Judge blocks release of Tennessee man seen with zip ties at Capitol riot (Original Post)
orangecrush
Feb 2021
OP
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)1. Thank you, Judge Lamberth
RESPECT
NCjack
(10,279 posts)2. Yes. This judge practices Law & Order.
StClone
(11,684 posts)3. He is now zip tied
To jail at zip code 37208 I think.
Cha
(297,321 posts)4. Excellent! Judge Royce Lamberth
gets IT!
TY!