The so-called “attack” on the U.S. Capitol was a set up, with several thousand Trump supporters acting as unwitting bit players in an event incited by Antifa and BLM agitators disguised as Trump supporters. The FBI knew something was going to happen at the Capitol but did nothing to prevent nor deter it. The FBI and the U.S. Capitol Police just stepped back and let swarms of Trump supporters into the Capitol.
It is essential to be very clear about what happened and what did not happen. This was not a “riot” if riot means people hurling rocks and bottles or igniting Molotov cocktails and torching all structures in their reach. The vast majority of those who entered the Capitol behaved more as tourists than anarchists. There was no wanton, massive destruction of art work, furniture or signs inside the building. Walls were not covered with graffiti or feces.
Most importantly, the Trump supporters did not kill a single person. I want to reiterate that point because my bookkeeper, who had listened to the media lies, believed that at least seven people died and that the Trump folks killed them all, including the Capitol policeman. All a lie.
Glenn Greenwald did a masterful job in deconstructing this monstrous propaganda:
One of the most significant of these falsehoods was the tale — endorsed over and over without any caveats by the media for more than a month — that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by the pro-Trump mob when they beat him to death with a fire extinguisher. That claim was first published by The New York Times on January 8 in an article headlined “Capitol Police Officer Dies From Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage.” It cited “two [anonymous] law enforcement officials” to claim that Sicknick died “with the mob rampaging through the halls of Congress” and after he “was struck with a fire extinguisher.”. . .
After publication of these two articles, this horrifying story about a pro-Trump mob beating a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher was repeated over and over, by multiple journalists on television, in print, and on social media. It became arguably the single most-emphasized and known story of this event, and understandably so — it was a savage and barbaric act that resulted in the harrowing killing by a pro-Trump mob of a young Capitol police officer.
It took on such importance for a clear reason: Sicknick’s death was the only example the media had of the pro-Trump mob deliberately killing anyone. In a January 11 article detailing the five people who died on the day of the Capitol protest, the New York Times again told the Sicknick story: “Law enforcement officials said he had been ‘physically engaging with protesters’ and was struck in the head with a fire extinguisher.”
But none of the other four deaths were at the hands of the protesters: the only other person killed with deliberate violence was a pro-Trump protester, Ashli Babbitt, unarmed when shot in the neck by a police officer at close range. The other three deaths were all pro-Trump protesters: Kevin Greeson, who died of a heart attack outside the Capitol; Benjamin Philips, 50, “the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo,” who died of a stroke that day; and Rosanne Boyland, a fanatical Trump supporter whom the Times says was inadvertently “killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line.”
Got it? The only person to die as a consequence of a deliberate act of violence (i.e., shooting a pistol) was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Trump supporter shot by a still unnamed cop.
I understand why the Democrats embrace the lie of an insurrection as a pretext to destroy all vestiges of Trump and his supporters. They want us dead. But I am damned if I understand why so many Republicans are playing along with this perfidy and embracing the deceit of an insurrection that did not happen. People entering the U.S. Capitol at the invitation of some of the U.S. Capitol police is not the breakout of a violent revolution.
But Biden, the Democrats and much of the media are committed fully to using this falsehood, this damnable prevarication, as a weapon to bludgeon anyone who tries to speak the truth about what really happened. If you do not denounce the insurrection then you are a domestic terrorist and must be dealt with.
What should really scare the hell out of you and out of every honest civil libertarian are the subsequent actions of America’s GESTAPO aka the FBI. (And yes, they have become an American version of the Gestapo–carrying out partisan political attacks and ignoring the Constitution.) Ken Klippenstein, writing at the Intercept, is the only one so far to report this:
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members of Congress, raising potentially thorny legal questions.
Using special emergency powers and other measures, the FBI has collected reams of private cellphone data and communications that go beyond the videos that rioters shared widely on social media, according to two sources with knowledge of the collection effort.
In the hours and days after the Capitol riot, the FBI relied in some cases on emergency orders that do not require court authorization in order to quickly secure actual communications from people who were identified at the crime scene. Investigators have also relied on data “dumps” from cellphone towers in the area to provide a map of who was there, allowing them to trace call records — but not content — from the phones.
And the FBI did not limit its illegal searches to just your average Trump supporter strolling around the Capitol grounds on January 6. The Bureau also grabbed phone records of members of Congress, but only Republicans. (I recommend you read the rest of Ken’s story to appreciate how dangerous this situation is and will become.) Congressman Matt Gaetz understands. He tweeted out Klippenstein’s excellent report:
This story is jaw-dropping.
We should hold hearings in the House Judiciary Committee to review how and why the FBI was gobbling up phone data from their critics.
The vast majority of Trump voters and supporters are law abiding, peaceful folks. The rabid, radical left now in charge of the Democrats mistakes this silence for stupidity and weakness. But we are not going to acquiesce to such bullying and abuse. Most importantly, we are not going to accept the tsunami of lies sweeping over the airwaves and the internet.
We know what a real insurrection looks like. We remember the burned out stores and restaurants in Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York, Oakland, Seattle, Portland and Saint Louis. We remember the White House being besieged by Antifa and BLM hordes hurling bricks and frozen water bottles. We remember that more than a hundred police and Secret Service were wounded in these frays. We remember the monsters who set fire to St. John’s Church, which sits across Lafayette Park from the White House. We saw actual insurrection and we also saw the Democrats and the media insist that this was mere peaceful protesting.
This is the line in the sand separating decent Americans from depraved animals keen on destroying this Republic. The Trump supporters who gathered in Washington on January 6 are not racists nor insurrectionists. They are patriots who love this nation and what it is supposed to stand for. But they also are men and women who witnessed a fraudulent Presidential election and the subsequent abdication of the very institutions of law enforcement and justice that were supposed to uphold the rule of law.
We will fight to preserve equitable, fair justice. We will fight to preserve the right of each and every person to speak his or her mind. And this fight starts with rejecting the vile whopper that Trump and his supporters are guilty of insurrection. No. We are guilty of loving America.
Good article. I wish the spineless Republicans would point this out. Instead of acquiescing they need to stand up and fight against the constant Democrat and media lies.
amen, brother! Well said!
set up and orchestrated by the demonrats. msm has done nothing but lie for the last 12 yrs, at least. Take piglosi , the tumor, and all other demon leadership out of the country along with their most ardent supporters and leave them there
I would like to know who and where the money came from that built the capital, the white house and all of the buildings in Washington. We the people payed for the buildings with our tax money, so that makes the buildings ours, so how can we invade what is ours, a government of by and for the people, it is ours not congress or senate, it is there for them to use. The halls of the capital belong to we the people, the ones that use it are servants of the people for we pay there salary, they are NOT Elite, they are NOT more important than any other human, they are sent there to represent we the people.
Well said Tippy, I agree 100% . We paid for it and it belongs to WE the people. We vote for whom, we hope will stand up for us as you said , It is time to be more choosy who we put there . If our Republicans can’t put on their Big Boy and or Girl Pants as the case may be then why are they being paid at all. By the way WE are their BOSSES, in case some of you all in DC have forgotten that, We the people can and will change it. We will keep the ones who fight for our rights and dump the ones who don’t. That is how it is supposed to work and will from now on. Time for all states to require PHOTO ID TO VOTE !!!!! No photo Id no voting and get rid of the machines and the counters that were bought off or threatened. Also no more mailed in voting. Absentee ballots must be checked and no more deceased ballots. Cheaters should be thrown out.
My goodness, I am so tired from the false information that people has been feed, such a shame. This lies has been divided country and family. . What a beautiful story this article has presented, yeah we are COUNTRY lovers, not criminals. We hold our head high. We support law and order, we are intelligent people, and we love our President Trump and stand by him. We are not sheep.
We just want for the people, that we are not anarchistic, we never burned and stole by burning and tearing, looting in the name of Of Love Fest. Oh my bring me to tears, what is happening in our beloved country. We need to stand firm in our conversation, and be proud of being REAL AMERICANS.
God bless AMERICA, and PRESIDENT TRUMP.
More than well said. Ashli Babbitt deserves our tears and her family our most heartfelt condolences. The cop that ended her life deserves a fair trial.
We must educate the general population that has been fed the lies from the Democrats and media for so long that most believe without question. We must present irrefutable evidence of the truth and crimes of the left and get the people on the side of what is right.
I have been saying basically the same thing since this all took place, I spent 25 years in the United States military and was part of an unit that would from time to time go to places around the world to clean up the mess after citizens tried to “overthrow” the government and what we saw on January 6, 2021 comes nowhere close to some of things I saw.
Furthermore when a government is overthrown those doing the overthrowing take the leaders out (and I don’t mean for a walk) they don’t go sit at their desk.
I would suggest anyone who believes what happened was an attempt to overthrow the U.S. Government to go watch the video of what happened to Muammar Gaddafi as that is what an insurrection looks like.
So much for patriotism, the Republicans don’t know what patriotism means unless it’s an insurrection.
Evidently, you’re one of the liberal projectionists?? If you are, then you don’t even have a clue.
The FBI would do well to check the phone and electronic records of the democommie politicians, who continue to “project” such a “big stink” over ALL of this. I do believe they should start with commie pelosi and then check out her various other “comrades” (80+) who sit in OUR Halls of Congress!
PS-My gut tells me, if they did that, they would have ALL the answers they need, about “who” started it and “used” it, to their “crisis advantage”!
The cop supposedly bludgeoned to death? Last I heard, the police still didn’t know what killed them.
Yeah, that’s suspicious. I mean, if I was bludgeoned to death by a fire extinguisher, I think it’d be obvious blunt trauma, en masse, was used on me. The fact they don’t know implies her death was orchestrated, all to smear blood over Trump.
“They wave the flag of Freedom then use the poles as BATS!” Come on people wake up….your eyes saw the same Red Hat supporters doing the dirty work of The Anarchist and Chief. They built gallows on the Capital grounds and wanted to hang political figures including Mike Pence. You can spin it anyway you want but the TRUTH is no one other than Trump supporters would be caught dead at that insurrection. It’s against federal law to enter Capital grounds without permission from Congress or permit. That means anyone there at the time were committing a crime therefore criminals. Breaking windows and entering illegally??? How do you explain away that?
Permits were approved for the rally location but not a mile away at the Capital. What happened to the party of LAW and ORDER? The insurrection represents the Trumpian Party now not the Republican Party!
Now new 2nd threats on America’s Capital are being spread. What the hell do you really support? Self-evaluate please! You are not Patriotic Americans!
That is: You are not Patriotic Americans if you support violence against our elected leaders/ representatives and support attacks on our American Capital. The Constitution gives us other liberties/ways to voice our opinions. If we don’t like the way they are doing things then vote them out of office don’t kill them.
Hmmmm……A police officer knees Fentanyl-laden George Floyd and all of Hollywood shows up, pays for a $1M funeral, Floyd’s a martyr, Chauvin’s a murderer. A Capitol Police officer fires into Ashli Bobbit’s neck, there’s no blood for a while, people mill about, then Ashli and the LEO vaporize. (scratching head)