This is something of a sequel to my recent post about the wildly excessive sentences handed down to the members of the Proud Boys, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” and is prompted by Julie Kelly’s analysis Blood Lust in which she covers one of the most disqueting results of these Star Chamber proceedings - the suicides of some of those charged knowing what the blood thirsty DOJ and the Federal Court in DC will do to them and their families.
While I wholeheartedly recommend a full and careful reading of Kelly’s excellent reporting I do so with a caveat: it makes for uncomfortable reading as the examples she cites of some of the reactions of those on the left to the suicide she features but also the sentences handed down to many of the Jan. 6 defendants are, to put it mildly, disquieting, disturbing and indicative of some very troubled minds.
This is the story of “Jord” Meacham who went to the Capitol on January 6 with his uncle and did something, in Kelly’s words, that deeply offended the ruling class- he demonstrated his support for Donald Trump. He was 19 years old at the time. The FBI agent’s report specifically noted in his report that Jord was carrying a Trump flag, as if that had anything to do with whether or not he should be criminally charged. He was in the Capitol building for a total of ten minutes, assaulted no one, damaged no property. Here is Jord on that fateful day, surely not the picture of an alleged “criminal” as the ghouls of the U.S. Attorney’s office painted him:
For this, the horrible, dastardly, threat-to-”Our Democracy”, crime of “parading” in what many of us were taught and believed, and just to be clear I still believe, is The People’s House, on August 28, a Judge in Washington scheduled Jord’s arraignment.
That very night Jord ended his life with a shot to the head.
As Kelly notes, Jord was “the sort of person the elites in Washington despise.”
He was one of 10 children, and lived in rural Utah near the Nevada border working on his family’s ranch. Here’s the Meacham family:
Here are the “crimes” with which Jord was to be arraigned for, surely serious and grave enough to have constituted a clear and present danger to “Our Democracy” and certainly could have, at least in the minds of some of the bottom feeders in Washington, led to the overthrow of the entire government:
Jord Meacham, age 22, was pronounced dead at 9:21 pm on August 28, 2023.
His is the fourth known suicide of a January 6 defendant; here is Julie Kelly’s summary of the others:
… Christopher Stanton Georgia, 53, shot himself in the chest a few days after January 6; he had been arrested and charged with unlawful entry and violating the city’s curfew. Mark Aungst, 47, killed himself in July 2022, a month after pleading guilty to the petty offense of “parading” in the Capitol.
She also sums up what Jord would have faced had he tried (key word considering there has only been one acquittal in the hundreds and hundreds of January 6 cases) to contest the charges; it makes for a grim outlook indeed:
Jord did have his life ahead of him. But in the short term, he and his family would’ve been subjected to ongoing torment inflicted by a cruel and ruthless DOJ. He would’ve been openly berated by a lunatic judge—Walton accused one man who pleaded guilty to a petty offense of “disgrac[ing] this country in the eyes of the world” and “attack[ing] the government”—in open court. He would’ve been branded a domestic terrorist despite the low-level charges filed against him. He would’ve been hounded by the news media, both local and national.
Such is the fate of every January 6 defendant. And Jord undoubtedly knew the nightmare in front of him.
All of this is ghoulish enough but one reason I decided to write this post was to point out the bizarrely unhinged comments made by some of our - as much as it deeply pains me to have to admit it - fellow American citizens. Here are just a few examples of the despicable things being said about Jord and the other Americans who have been caught up in this most disgraceful chapter in our history:
What kind of soulless monster cheers, for the world to see, a tragedy this horrific?
What kind of potentially dangerous person - “person”?- would openly call a young man like Jord “too cowardly to stand trial” and then proudly proclaim that he was “good with that”?
What rock do these animals live under and what do they signify is happening to the moral fiber of our nation?
If this is not evil then the word no longer has any real meaning.
I want in the worst kind of way to believe that our country still has a vibrant and bright future and have written in the past about hopeful signs we see all around us, such as Ruby LaRocca, but if “people” like these elect our next President, we may never recover.
Here is a photo of the person who the scum we refer to as “elite” in Washington think was a threat to the continuing existence of the government of the United States of America; they are truly consumed by what Kelly termed “insatiable bloodlust”:
Goodbye, Jord.