Idiot of the Week: Pizzeria Owner Mounts Truly Bizarre Defense -

 This week's Idiot is a woman who owns a restaurant in Pennsylvania, who stormed the Capitol on January 6th and demanded to "hang Nancy Pelosi." She doesn't think she did anything wrong, AND she told a judge that she is not subject to the laws of the U.S., only "God." - Not only does this woman think she's above the law, in her wackiness - she's convinced Trump won (he didn't), leading an insurrection against the government is acceptable, and that her version of "God" overrules everything. Those are signs of some serious mental issues. 

(Photo: credit; The Daily beast)

Pizzeria Owner Mounts Truly Bizarre Defense for Jan. 6 Riots

A Pennsylvania woman who stormed the Capitol and told a police officer to “bring Nancy Pelosi out here now… we want to hang that fucking bitch” has filed court documents claiming to be a divinely empowered entity immune from laws.

Pauline Bauer, a Pennsylvania pizzeria owner, is accused of multiple counts of violent entry, disruptive conduct, and obstruction of Congress after she allegedly broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6.  The Daily Beast reports Prosecutors allege that Bauer tried organizing buses to transport people to D.C. for a rally that preceded the riot, and that while in the Capitol rotunda she told police that she wanted to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

But in what experts describe as an inadvisable legal strategy, Bauer has demanded to represent herself in court, appeared to threaten a court clerk with prison time, and declared herself a “self-governed individual” with special legal privileges.

Bauer does not simply appear in court, she clarified during a June 11 proceeding via Zoom. “I am here by special divine appearance, a living soul,” she told a judge that day, while stating that she did not want an attorney.

“I do not stand under the law,” she said. “Under Genesis 1, God gave man dominion over the law.”

FROM THE IDIOT'S HOMETOWN:   RESTAURANT OWNER'S CAPITOL RIOT ARREST RATTLES HOMETOWN

KANE, Pa. (AP) July 28, 2021 — A crank caller ordered an “insurrection pizza” from Pauline Bauer’s restaurant. A profane piece of hate mail addressed her as a domestic terrorist.  Bauer was heard shouting at police to “bring Nancy Pelosi out” to be hanged during the riot, the FBI says.   

  Bauer was arrested in May along with William Blauser Jr., a Vietnam War veteran and retired mail carrier. Surveillance video shows the two of them entering the Capitol through an east Rotunda door where at least three police officers were trying to block entry. Video from a police officer’s body camera captured Bauer saying to bring out Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House.  “Bring them out now. They’re criminals. They need to hang,” she said.

    In Bauer’s hometown in rural Pennsylvania, her arrest and that of a longtime friend have rekindled partisan bickering, more often on social media than on street corners, some residents say. As Bauer and William Blauser Jr. fight the charges in court, many in the town of Kane have struggled to comprehend how two of their neighbors could be among the hundreds of Trump loyalists bent on overturning the election that day.

 Bauer has been combative with the judge presiding over her case and claimed the court has no authority over her. She was jailed for one night in June after she refused to answer a magistrate judge’s routine questions. During a recent hearing, she told U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden that she doesn’t want an attorney to represent her “or any lawyering from the bench.”

 

Pauline Bauer leans against a wooden statue outside Bob’s Trading Post, her restaurant in Hamilton, Pa., Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Bauer is one of more than 540 people charged with federal crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

“I do not recognize your bar card, sir,” she told McFadden, who appointed a lawyer to act as her standby counsel.

Bauer posted on Facebook that she was inside the Capitol. Several witnesses who saw her posts contacted the FBI. One of them was a customer who said Bauer “became more and more political over the past year, and began losing business because people were uncomfortable about her constant political rhetoric,” according to an FBI agent.

Investigators believe Bauer used her restaurant’s Facebook page to promote a bus trip to Washington on Jan. 6 for the “mega million rally.”

 “Need 51 people to fill a bus,” she wrote, according to the FBI.

 Bauer denies that she organized a bus trip. Blauser said he, Bauer and seven others traveled to Washington in a passenger van, not a bus. She and Blauser left the Capitol about 38 minutes after they entered.

 “A lot of people say that they’re proud of me for standing up for my rights,” Bauer said.

 Blauser claims they “got caught up in the moment.”

 “Everyone else was going up and going in, so we just followed along with them,” he added.

 Bauser and Blauser both were freed on $10,000 bond after their arrests. They don’t have a trial date yet. More than 20 other Capitol riot defendants have pleaded guilty as of Monday. Only three have been sentenced, with one getting eight months in prison for breaching the U.S Senate chamber.