FBI INVASION IN MESA COUNTY
I’m sure by now we have all heard about the FBI searching Tina Peter’s home along with three others in a raid on November 17, 2021. "Essentially, they were soldiers in combat gear. They were not men in suits with badges," she said. "They looked very much like they were in a combat zone — soldiers with automatic weapons and combat gear."
The door to Sharronna Bishop’s Garfield County home appears that it was entered by force. Bishop recalled, “Just as we were about to open the door it flew open. They had used a ram to bust down the door. They were yelling that this was the FBI, open the door.” I took my two children into their bedroom. She says the door wasn’t locked. Bishop, a former campaign manager for Rep. Lauren Boebert, says she was told the search was part of a wire fraud investigation. |
Peters, the Republican Mesa County Clerk, felt that she was being investigated because she had taken the initiative to investigate the 2020 election and the steps taken by the Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Peters acknowledged that she “commissioned somebody to come in” to copy the hard drives. The idea was to make one copy before a planned software update and another copy after, she said, and then to compare them to determine whether files necessary to investigate past elections were deleted.
The lawsuit had been filed by Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D), whose office supervises elections run by county clerks. It seeks to strip Peters and her deputy, Belinda Knisley, of their election powers, arguing that they were responsible for an “unprecedented security breach.” (Voting machine information from Mesa County somehow ended up on a public website.) Peters and Knisley’s lawyers have argued that at worst the two women committed “several technical violations of election regulations, none of which justify removal of an elected official.” They have said that the two were within their rights to bring in a consultant, and that Peters and Knisley never authorized confidential data to be published online. |
Now four homes have been searched, phones and computers seized as part of a criminal investigation by the FBI, Colorado Attorney General and the Mesa County District Attorney. “This is not what we do in America. We don’t silence people like this. We don’t shut them down because of what they are saying and we certainly don’t criminalize and terrorize them, not in America,” said Bishop with tears in her eyes.
Peters insisted her actions were necessary to protect election security — and she called on county clerks elsewhere to follow her lead and copy their own voting-machine hard drives. She alleged that she has become the target of powerful forces that do not want her to get to the truth
UPDATE: Mesa County is withdrawing it’s lawsuit which was filed against clerk and recorder Tina Peters, citing that Peters has complied with the duties assigned to her position as clerk and recorder to attest official commissioner documents.
Rules first implemented in June, block what Griswold labeled as “sham election audits” by banning county clerks from allowing access to voting machines unless that person has passed a background check and is performing a task with authorization from either the county clerk or Griswold’s office.
It seems that this is normal operating procedure these days. Everything requires an excessive response. The assumption that republicans are crazy, conspiracy lunatics that are fomenting revolution and civil unrest seems to be the Democratic mantra. What happened to the days when everyone wanted to get to the truth, where people were considered innocent until proven guilty and everyone had a right to question and speak their mind. We are so intent in protecting our thoughts, our agenda, our political party that we make everyone else out to be an idiot. It has come to the point that we are in fear that the “others” are out to get us and the other side feels the same.
2 Timothy 1:7 says: “God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” So, we shouldn’t operate in fear, but in the power of the Holy Spirit with love and the mind of Christ. I remember a poem by Rudyard Kipling that was given to me in high school that I often considered. I hope you have read it before.
Peters insisted her actions were necessary to protect election security — and she called on county clerks elsewhere to follow her lead and copy their own voting-machine hard drives. She alleged that she has become the target of powerful forces that do not want her to get to the truth
UPDATE: Mesa County is withdrawing it’s lawsuit which was filed against clerk and recorder Tina Peters, citing that Peters has complied with the duties assigned to her position as clerk and recorder to attest official commissioner documents.
Rules first implemented in June, block what Griswold labeled as “sham election audits” by banning county clerks from allowing access to voting machines unless that person has passed a background check and is performing a task with authorization from either the county clerk or Griswold’s office.
It seems that this is normal operating procedure these days. Everything requires an excessive response. The assumption that republicans are crazy, conspiracy lunatics that are fomenting revolution and civil unrest seems to be the Democratic mantra. What happened to the days when everyone wanted to get to the truth, where people were considered innocent until proven guilty and everyone had a right to question and speak their mind. We are so intent in protecting our thoughts, our agenda, our political party that we make everyone else out to be an idiot. It has come to the point that we are in fear that the “others” are out to get us and the other side feels the same.
2 Timothy 1:7 says: “God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” So, we shouldn’t operate in fear, but in the power of the Holy Spirit with love and the mind of Christ. I remember a poem by Rudyard Kipling that was given to me in high school that I often considered. I hope you have read it before.
If …
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!
Be on your guard;
stand firm in the faith;
be courageous; be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13
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