National guard members patrol near the Capitol building in Washington DC. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters
Glenn Greenwald: As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever
If the threat of "armed insurrectionists" and "domestic terrorists" is as great as some claim, why do they have to keep lying and peddling crude media fictions about it?
Twice in the last six weeks, warnings were issued about imminent, grave threats to public safety posed by the same type of right-wing extremists who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. And both times, these warnings ushered in severe security measures only to prove utterly baseless.
First we had the hysteria over the violence we were told was likely to occur at numerous state capitols on Inauguration Day. “Law enforcement and state officials are on high alert for potentially violent protests in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, with some state capitols boarded up and others temporarily closed ahead of Wednesday's ceremony,” announced CNN. In an even scarier formulation, NPR intoned that “the FBI is warning of protests and potential violence in all 50 state capitals ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.”
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WNU Editor: My must read post for today. Glenn Greenwald dissects what has and is going on.
As to what is my take. I have a certain perspective on what an insurrection looks like. I was there when Russian T-80 tanks were firing on the Russian legislative building in 1993 (Russian Constitutional Crisis). So from my experience .... this "Capital Hill insurrection" was anything but an insurrection.
But it is not only the Democrats who are still clinging to this narrative of a dangerous uprising that justifies the arrest of 300 people (of which many were in the wrong place at the wrong time), the massive surveillance of "suspects", and the need to surround the capital with fences and barbed wire backed by thousands of National Guard troops and police. I would also add the media and the never-Trumpers in the Republican party who are continuing to push this narrative.
Bottom line. For an insurrection that threatened to overthrow the U.S. government. The only person who got shot was an unarmed protester by a Capital Hill police officer (who has still not been named).
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The Never Trumpers who are left should look to what happened to the Lincoln Project Alum.
They should look to what will happen to Bitch McConnell. Looks like his wife might be going to prison.
To be a Never Trumper is a Red Badge of Shame!
We must forgive the media for likening January 6th to an insurrection. Your average knuckle dragging, "Can you get me a hunting license?" media reporter does not know the difference in calibre of a T-72 compared to a AR-15. Nor the explosive effects.
I feel bad not knowing or not remembering that the tanks actually fired their guns in Moscow in 1991. I knew the tanks were there, but ...
Federal investigators have begun piecing together evidence that some of the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 were executing well-laid plans, deploying communications systems and issuing marching orders to rioters as they battled police.
A new affidavit filed Tuesday by the FBI described preparations by the right-wing Proud Boys to storm the Capitol, including using earpieces and walkie-talkies to direct movements throughout the building and a discussion about wearing black to dupe people into blaming antifa for any trouble.
A separate criminal filing released Wednesday afternoon — charging Patrick McCaughey III for pinning a police officer with a shield, which led to a now-iconic image of the brutality of the insurrection — described leaders among the rioters issuing marching orders to more effectively fight police.
“Unidentified rioters are heard instructing the front line of rioters to make a ‘shield wall‘ to prevent law enforcement from controlling rioters with oleoresin capsicum spray,“ according to the affidavit from a deputy U.S. marshal.
At a hearing on McCaughey’s case on Wednesday afternoon, a federal magistrate judge in White Plains, N.Y., ordered the 23-year-old Connecticut native detained pending trial on charges of assaulting police officers, civil disorder, entering a restricted building or grounds, and violent entry or disorderly conduct. The ruling to hold McCaughey without bail came after prosecutors emphasized the level of coordination in the attack.
“Mob is not the right term, because there’s a level of organization here that bears noting,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Gianforti said. “The rioters are swapping in people here who are fresh. They’re passing weaponry to the front of the scrum to use against officers.”
The new court filings were the latest indications that the Jan. 6 riots included cells of organized, militarized insurrectionists, beyond the rabble of disorganized Trump supporters who joined the fray. That evidence includes the conspiracy case filed this week against three so-called Oath Keepers, members of an Ohio-based chapter of the loosely connected paramilitary group, who face charges of seeking to injure police officers, obstruct Congress and damage federal property.
Investigators caution there is an important legal distinction between gathering like-minded people for a political rally — which is protected by the First Amendment — and organizing an armed assault on the seat of American government. The task now is to distinguish which people belong in each category, and who played key roles in committing or coordinating the violence.
Video and court filings, for instance, describe how several groups of men that include alleged members of the Proud Boys appear to engage in concerted action, converging on the West Front of the Capitol just before 1 p.m., near the Peace Monument at First Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Different factions of the crowd appear to coalesce, move forward and chant under the direction of different leaders before charging at startled police staffing a pedestrian gate, all in the matter of a few minutes.
An indictment Friday night charged a member of the Proud Boys, Dominic Pezzola, 43, of Rochester, N.Y., with conspiracy, saying his actions showed “planning, determination, and coordination.” Another alleged member of the Proud Boys, William Pepe, 31, of Beacon, N.Y., also was charged with conspiracy.
Minutes before the crowd surge, at 12:45 p.m., police received the first report of a pipe bomb behind the Republican National Committee headquarters at the opposite, southeast side of the U.S. Capitol campus. The device and another discovered shortly afterward at Democratic National Committee headquarters included end caps, wiring, timers and explosive powder, investigators have said.
Some law enforcement officials have suggested the pipe bombs may have been a deliberate distraction meant to siphon law enforcement away from the Capitol building at the crucial moment.
After the members of the Electoral College in 50 states and the District of Columbia met on December 14 and formally cast their ballots, giving Biden the victory by a margin of 306 to 232, Trump, in the words of the brief, “fixated on January 6, 2021—the date of the Joint Session of Congress—as presenting his last, best hope to reverse the election results and remain in power.”
Trump summoned tens of thousands of his supporters to Washington D.C. on January 6 with promises that the event “will be wild.” He repeatedly declared that Congress had the power to overturn the electoral votes of the states he was contesting—it does not—and even that Vice President Mike Pence had the power to unilaterally reject the votes of these states—he did not.
He has repeatedly and explicitly backed the use of violence by his supporters against his political opponents, going back to the 2016 campaign, and he intensified these exhortations throughout the last weeks of 2020 and the first week of 2021. As the House brief notes, in the weeks preceding the congressional certification, Trump issued a series of incendiary statements denouncing the “rigged” and “stolen” election, calling on his followers to “fight like hell” and “fight to the death.”
The brief adds that “it was obvious and entirely foreseeable that the furious crowd … was primed (and prepared) for violence if he lit a spark.”
The House brief notes the statements at the January 6 rally by Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani calling for a “trial by combat” and the declaration by Donald Trump Jr. to Republican legislators wavering on supporting the coup, “We’re coming for you.”
Finally, President Trump appeared behind a podium bearing a presidential seal. Surveying the tense crowd before him, President Trump whipped it into a frenzy, exhorting followers to “fight like hell [or] you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Then he aimed them straight at the Capitol, declaring: “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”
As these words were spoken, the crowd began surging down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol. Trump had promised to go with them but went back inside the White House to watch the action he had incited unfold on television. He reportedly watched the mob attack on the Capitol with approval and even enjoyment, while calling one senator during the attack to urge him to delay the certification proceedings as much as possible—a clear effort to coordinate the actions of his agents inside Congress with the actions of his agents outside it.
None of this will do any good. You are a liar and nothing you say, nothing will change that.
Full Frontal Fred
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Another copy & paste job by a man without an original thought.
Haha pathetic who even bothers reading this leftist BS
It's all a lie
Everything
Believe all women, while Nancy lies to tbe entire country
Fat is beautiful .. pushed for years by the left, just before a pandemic hit that kills mostly obese people
Then they blame it on white men
It's unbelievable
If you let their lies and election theft continue, you will never get the country back
Half of the people on Twitter are boys
Fred is so deprived and brain dead I wish he was a Russian bot and maybe he is.. that deranged and vulgar and wrong seems like what a Russian bot designer must think of dumb reckless Americans
Well done
Oh and about the Capitol. Of course tbe lie is falling apart just like all the other leftist hoaxes
BLUE ANON is banned for a reason because it exposes all the hoaxes and false flags and lies the left Democrat buttons believe in and push on you the f dumb ones like Fred
Keep the truth alive. We all witnessed what happened. We all remember president Trump repeatedly tell Vice President Pence to over turn the electoral vote. Shame on the editor for posting this Sham of an opinion piece.
I don't know, they have already caught 250 of the 200,000 people involved, this thing may drag on for another 20-30 years....
Shame on you dogblack!
FBI shredded ballots in Georgia.
I thin k you are a literal idiot or a foreigner
Tell me how you do not know about federal records retention laws. All Federal and DoD employees have yearly mandated trainning. Various state laws have records retention laws.
If you are in HR you know about records retention laws.
If you are a lawyers, you know about records retention laws.
If you are an accountant, you know about records retention laws.
Corporations and companies do not want to get crosswise with the government so they have annual records retention training.
How the FUCK is it you loathsome idiot that you do not know that federal records and ballot cast in a federal election would qualify have to be held for a period of time?
52 USC 20701: Retention and preservation of records and papers by officers of elections; deposit with custodian; penalty for violation
Every officer of election shall retain and preserve, for a period of twenty-two months from the date of any general, special, or primary election of which candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, or Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are voted for, all records and papers ...
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml
22 MONTHS!"
So why did the FBI ensure the ones in Georgia were shred in less than two?
Point me to the law that says those records should have been shredded.
Blackdog you are a moron and the best part of you ran down your mother's leg, where the dog licked it up!
The so-called insurrection is just the next/most recent Democrat lie - among others.
EG:
Russian collusion,
The Steele dossier,
Ukraine phone call,
Jussie Smollett fake race attack,
Covington fake race attack,
Brett Kavanaugh - gang rapist,
2020 Fair Election,
ALL,
LIES,
R,
Blue Anon....
CRUMBLING? THIS TODAY
A New York man with ties to Roger Stone and links to the far-right militia the Oath Keepers has been arrested by federal agents on charges tied to the Capitol riots in January
Roberto Minuta, who reportedly provided security to Stone in Washington in the hours before the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol, was arrested Saturday
Feds also picked up 32-year-old Isaac Sturgeon from JFK Airport, who's accused of shoving barricades at police on the day of the riot and faces multiple related counts
A New York man with ties to Roger Stone and links to the far-right militia the Oath Keepers has been arrested by federal agents on charges tied to the Capitol riots in January, law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case told News 4 Monday.
YO! BLACK DOGGIE
BIDEN WON BYH TEN MILLION IN POPULAR VOTE. FBI SHREDDED THAT MANY? AND HE WON BIG IN ELECCTROAL COLLEGE...ACCOUNT FOR THAT DOGGIE
Fred (3:04),
Black Dog is on your side on this issue, but you cannot tell, because your reading comprehension is below that of a 1st grader's reading comprehension.
Ballots have to be kept for 22 months, so why the shredding? If it is normal business, why bring in the FBI?
If they did not shred them, can they produce all the ballot today?
It is ONLY the right wing press that makes a claim about shredded documents. Here is what the shreding company says about that fake story
The Cobb County elections department released an online statement titled Document Shredding at the Jim R. Miller Park in response to the social media uproar created by the sharing of the video:
There has been significant social media chatter about some document shredding at the Jim R. Miller Park Event Center in Marietta, Georgia where our Elections Department had previously conducted the state-ordered re-tally of votes in the November 3rd election.
The shredding company routinely responds to the Elections Department following an election to help dispose of non-relevant materials that cannot be easily disposed of. The company did work at the Jim R. Miller Event Center early on Friday, November 20th, and helped dispose of the following items:
Mailing labels (with voter info) that are incorrect or if we've printed too many
Copies of apps printed from OnBase if we are looking for something (the originals are filed in evidence)
Copies of outdated or changed procedures, policies, forms, notes, or form letters
Regular and third-party envelopes with voter info on them
Reports when we are finished doing 'check off the list' steps
Sticky notes and phone messages with voter phone #s or email addresses
White privacy envelopes after the election is certified
Printouts of old emails when we have a more current response in the chain
Duplicates of faxed applications (when voters fax multiples copies of the same app all at the same time)
There were a tub or two of applications we had copied for the December election and labels that we put in the shredder when the elections were combined and moved to January 5th
"None of these items are relevant to the election or the re-tally," said Elections Director Janine Eveler. "Everything of consequence, including the ballots, absentee ballot applications with signatures, and anything else used in the count or re-tally remains on file. After an out-of-context video was shared on social media we contacted state officials to reassure them this was a routine clean-up operation and they could come to inspect our stored materials if they wished."
A1 Shredding also released a statement saying it has no idea what kind of documents were inside the containers it picked up for shredding:
Given the confidential nature of the documents that are provided, we do not inspect nor do we have any knowledge of the contents of the materials that we are asked to pick up and shred for our customers.
Posted by A1 Shredding & Recycling, Inc. on Saturday, November 21, 2020
NOW: BALL IN YOUR COURT. SHOW FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF FBI SHREDDING
NOW: BALL IN YOUR COURT.
CORRECTION.
NOW, [THE] BALL [IS] IN YOUR COURT.
The word "the" is not required grammatically. However, the word "is", is required.
I expected more from a PhD in English. Please name the college where you 'earned' your PhD. I would like to have a word with them.
I got my degrees at X college and it was there that I got my first anal sex with your mother
The bigger the lie...
One thing we know for certain:
Poll watchers were systematically harassed and denied access in 5 key battleground states. All on video. Hundreds of sworn witmesses AND almost zero reporting on the left,except when they call it all a hoax. I've got two eyes. I've watched several US elections (I'm from UK for transparency),and this was an outrageous act of interfering with democracy. It went almost unreported and the media IS THE REASON why you guys can't see eye to eye.
You are being underinformed and misled on the left on so many issues it is mind boggling, after all the scandals, that you still think of the right as the bogie man.
Complete and utter zombies. Brain dead. NPCs
4:54,
Why would you do anything like that to your penus? Because you read about it in Playboy? You realize that that mag is out of business. Hugh Hefners's son joined the Air Force. I wish him well. So some lifestyle's just do not work out.
You have to consider than you have a different microbiome in or on different parts of your body. mixing and matching such biomes is not conducive to good health.
The left is...I don't know, as if they cannot perceive that they're completely being lied to. I mean fox is bad on the right, but cnn and these other garbage channels....
The lies
Russia collusion hoax-- which was actually a Democrat funded operation paid for by the Clinton campaign, putting the country through years of hysteria, millions of dollars lost, but more importantly the public was led to believe that DJT was am illegitimate president, while the actual illegitimate president is now in office. It's complete inversion
You tell a leftist that this senile, corrupt pedophile had 10 million more votes than Obama which was a record turnout, or Trump which was a record turnout
All the statistical data, the near impossibility of a guy who didn't even make the cut in the primaries, he was the least liked candidate.. no one showed up to his events.. the guy held almost no rallies.. the guy who slept in his basement during the pandemic and had only a couple scripted interviews... the guy who was involved in so many scandals the left media didn't cover, from the Chinese spy hunter Biden pedophelia connection to the Ukraine 1ban scandal...
The left nutjob just nods along while you explain him or her or it or they or whatever mental disease they now have.. you explain to them the statistical abnormalities sworn under oath statisticians ruled out as impossible or magic...
As long as the media tells them Trump was bad and Biden is legitimate they believe it. They not only believe it, they tear you down.. call everything a hoax, while google literally again came to the rescue of the fascist Democrat party(that's what the merger of big tech/ corporations and the state is you fcking dumwits WAKE UP!!).. and just banned the catchy term BLUE ANON.. why? Because all the lies and smears and division are pushed on you ny these ghouls that enrich themselves of your and my misery. They're not human.
I repeat. They're not human. Nothing about them is human but the flesh they wear. They're mass murdering psychopaths enslaving and degrading the spirit of humanity. What would YOU call such an entity??
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