A Bridgewater NH man was among those arrested in connection with the storming of the US Capitol.
“Trump can’t take all the blame. Technically, he didn’t personally riot or kill anyone. Then again, neither did Charles Manson.”
Karey Caldwell
President Donald Trump’s impeachment will not solve the problem of extremists who either believe the November election was stolen or who are taking advantage of the conspiracy theory to advance their own agendas.
As law enforcement officials move forward with efforts to crack down on the participants in the Jan. 6 takeover of the U.S. Capitol building, they are warning that further violence may occur. “Strong evidence .. supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government,” prosecutors wrote, and they believe “the insurrection is still in progress.”
Among those arrested was Thomas Gallagher, 61, of Bridgewater, N.H. Capitol Hill Police initially arrested Gallagher, along with five others, for refusing to leave the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Capitol Hill Police Officer Joseph Bruno said Gallagher was at the front of a group that was “making loud noises, and kicking chairs, throwing an unknown liquid substance at officers, and spraying an unknown substance at officers.”
Gallagher was released and allowed to return to New Hampshire, but FBI agents picked him up on a warrant this week. The magistrate judge, Andrea Johnstone, accepted Gallagher’s application for a public defender. As a condition of his release, Gallagher was ordered to stay out of trouble and stay out of the District of Columbia.
COVID-19 Vaccine
New Hampshire will start taking requests from people 65 and older to obtain the vaccine for the coronavirus on Jan. 22, with the first doses to available on Jan. 26. Governor Chris Sununu said they can go to vaccines.nh.gov to register.
Among those who contracted COVID-19 was singer Marianne Faithful, who almost did not survive. She does report lingering effects of the disease: “Three things,” she said: “the memory, fatigue and my lungs are still not OK — I have to have oxygen and all that stuff. The side-effects are so strange. Some people come back from it but they can’t walk or speak. Awful.”
One of the after-effects was the loss of her ability to sing. “Maybe that’s over,” she said of her recording career. “I would be incredibly upset if that was the case, but, on the other hand, I am 74. I don’t feel cursed and I don’t feel invincible. I just feel … human. But what I do believe in, which gives me hope, I do believe in miracles. You know, the doctor, this really nice National Health doctor, she came to see me and she told me that she didn’t think my lungs would ever recover. And where I finally ended up is: OK, maybe they won’t, but maybe, by a miracle, they will. I don’t know why I believe in miracles. I just do. Maybe I have to, the journey I’ve been on, the things that I’ve put myself through, that I’ve got through so far and I’m OK.”
Biden’s Ambitious Plan
Faced with persistently high death tolls from the coronavirus, along with the economic fallout that has seen the number of unemployed Americans rising while consumer spending has plunged, President-elect Joe Biden is pushing a $1.9 trillion economic relief proposal. “It’s not hard to see that we’re in a once-in-several-generations economic crisis,” Biden said Thursday night in unveiling his plan. “We have to act and we have to act now.”
Unlike the coronavirus-related stimulus bills passed last year, including a $2 trillion package passed in March and a $900 billion package passed in December, Biden’s proposal is tightly focused on the coronavirus and its effects on the economy. The earlier bills included spending on controversial items that had no relation to the pandemic.
Still, Biden will have to persuade fiscal conservatives that adding to the deficit now will lead to a robust economy that eventually will wipe out that deficit.
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