A woman who traveled to Washington, DC in her private plane to storm the U.S. Capitol has asked President Trump for an eleventh hour pardon, claiming she is being persecuted. This sad tale is a reminder of personal responsibility incumbent on all travelers.
Private Planes, Presidential Pardons & Personal Predilections
Angry Trump supporters from across the nation boarded commercial airline flights to take part in the now infamous protest-turned-violent-insurrection earlier this month. But Dallas-area realtor Jenna Ryan took her private plane.
As she entered the Capitol, she told her Facebook followers:
“This is a prelude to the war that’s about to happen.”
In a now deleted video, she added:
“We are going to f***ing go in here. Life or death, it doesn’t matter. Here we go.”
Basking in her perceived victory, she proclaimed on Twitter:
We just stormed the Capital. It was one of the best days of my life.
— dotJenna – Jenna Ryan Realty (@dotjenna) January 6, 2021
and later added:
“All these working class people taking the week off … We flew here for freedom. They want to steal the election, they want to steal everything…We the people are pissed off … We flew by a private jet, God wanted us here today. Trump is my president.”
Umm. No. Just no. God did not want you there.
She was later arrested and now faces charges including disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful entry.
Of course now she was never for the violence, posting on Facebook:
“I do not condone the violence that occurred and I am truly heartbroken for the people who have lost their lives. Hatred and violence toward each other are not going to solve our country’s issues. As a nation, we need to come together Republican, Democrat and Independent and have an open and honest discussion about the issues in our country and resolve our issues in peace.”
But she has also called upon President Trump, even as he leaves office today, to pardon her.
“I would like a pardon from the President of the United States.”
Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan is the 2nd D.C. riot participant to ask for one. She flew on a private jet to D.C. to “stop the steal.” FBI arrested her today. She says: I feel persecuted. pic.twitter.com/Rk4XCYVqX3— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 16, 2021
If she only knew was persecution really was…
CONCLUSION
Why this issue? Why now? I think we the traveling public (with most of us traveling commercially) have an added responsibility to exercise care. Unlike in the past, a savvy traveler can get anywhere relatively quickly. That creates great opportunity for good. It also creates great potential for evil, like the insurrection on display on January 6th. When I hear people talk about being persecuted, I think about Christians or Uighurs in China or Muslims in Burma, not spoiled brats in private planes who do not want to take personal responsibility for their actions.
With great power comes great responsibly. Even during the pandemic, we have a wonderful opportunity to travel. May we exercise that privilege with the same care we would treat our loved ones.
(H/T: View from the Wing)
This story is interesting. The first thing I’ve noticed is that I don’t think I’ve ever seen a photo of her inside the Capitol building so she was basically bragging about “storming the Capitol” on social media. Second, President Trump, can’t pardon her due to bad timing on her part. If this happened 2 years ago maybe. Third, the media loves this story as wealth shaming on a person flying a private jet.
She posted a bunch of pics and livestream from inside the Capitol but took them down when she realized the orange wasn’t her color.
Correct.
‘Wealth shaming’ because someone who flies to DC in a private plane complains that ‘everything is being taken from her’ sounds more like total non self awareness shaming.
not a ‘jet’, piaggio avanti
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Ur first line says she flew there in “her private plane”. Something tells me it isn’t hers, and that one word changes a lot of the meaning
Ok I guess flying in “a” private plane makes her less well off than flying in “her” private plane.
Oh she is definitely being persecuted now!
I can’t get over the fact that selling residential real estate should be so lucrative in the US.
“I think about Christians or Uighurs in China or Muslims in Burma,”
How come the jihadis don’t do jihad in china and Burma. The Islamist jihadis are picky a-holes.
I know of 2 friends who were at the rally but chose not to storm the Capitol. There were peaceful protesters in that group. Thousands were present but I believe only a few hundred entered the Capitol. I don’t understand what made them think they were entitled to storm the Capitol.
As far as travel goes, I really hope Biden allows Americans to travel to DPRK again.
If you are going to claim God wanted you there, you need to own it all. MLK Jr. didn’t ask for a pardon. Gandhi didn’t ask for a pardon. They were willing to go to jail because they believed in what they were doing. If you aren’t willing to suffer for it, you are a dilettante and you deserve to be in jail, because deep in your heart you know you were wrong. God may show you mercy but there is no reason the rest of us need to.
These Texas bubbas and backward buffoons are traitors! They are wearing their ignorance and stupidity for all to see!
I wish for them all to be arrested, thrown in prison and allow this already great Country to move forward and put these past four disastrous years behind us!
The devil has departed the White House!
Hopefully sooner rather than later we’ll be able to live and let fly once again.
Yes Joey: DPRK is at the top of my bucket list mainly because I want to fly on some of those vintage Soviet airliners.
Cheetos boy will not help any of the people who listened to him and behaved stupidly. He’s never helped anyone in his life. Follow a malignant fool, he made a fool of yourself.
People storming the Capitol was funny, therefore it is good lol
No one escapes the Law of the Harvest. What you sow, you will (eventually) reap. Some call it karma.