Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
In the “domestic terrorism” at the Capitol, no protester set off a bomb, toppled a statue, or fired a weapon. Of the four who died that day, all were protesters. Ashli Babbitt, 35, a 14-year Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop as she tried to force her way into the Senate chamber. A rioter and law-breaker, yes, but a terrorist who deserved to die?
“That attack, that siege” of the Capitol, FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress, “was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it was behavior we at the FBI view as domestic terrorism.”
“Domestic terrorism,” said Wray, echoing his boss.
For what had been President-elect Joe Biden’s reaction to the Capitol riot?
“Don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple,” said Biden.
Yet, the phrase domestic terrorism conjures up events from our past far graver than a four-hours occupation of the Capitol. Nat Turner’s rebellion. John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry. Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma City.
The near assassination of Harry Truman at Blair House by Puerto Rican nationalists, Nov.1, 1950. The shooting and wounding of five congressmen from the House gallery on March 1, 1954.
The 1974 bombing of New York’s Fraunces Tavern — where Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers — also the work of Puerto Ricans demanding independence. Four died there and 50 were injured.
Yet, in the “domestic terrorism” at the Capitol, no protester set off a bomb, toppled a statue, or fired a weapon. Of the four who died that day, all were protesters. Ashli Babbitt, 35, a 14-year Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop as she tried to force her way into the Senate chamber.
A rioter and law-breaker, yes, but a terrorist who deserved to die?
Benjamin Phillips, 50, died of a stroke; Kevin Greeson, 55, of a heart attack. Rosanne Boyland, 34, was apparently crushed in the melee.
Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick died of a stroke the next day. Media reports that he had been hit with a fire extinguisher proved false. In the two months since Jan. 6, no one has been charged in his death.
Was Wray’s FBI alerted in advance of this impending act of domestic terrorism? Apparently, it was.
Writes The Washington Post: “A… report, prepared by the FBI’s Norfolk field office a day before the riot, … warned of specific appeals for violence, including a call for ‘war’ at the Capitol.”
The report quoted a source urging Donald Trump supporters to go to D.C. “ready to fight.”
“Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent, stop calling this a march or rally or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”
What did Wray do with this hair-raising warning? Did he call the D.C. police or Speaker Nancy Pelosi to alert her to what might be coming her way?
No. Wray never saw the Norfolk report. It was not passed up the chain of command to his office until after the riot. It was sent by email to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes the D.C. and Capitol Police, posted on a website and mentioned in a command center briefing in D.C.
Nonchalance seems to have been the FBI’s order of the day.
As acting D.C. police chief Robert J. Contee III told Congress, “I would certainly think that something as violent as an insurrection would warrant a phone call.”
One would think so. Explanations are needed.
How can Wray call a breach of the Capitol by a Trump crowd, an “act of domestic terrorism,” when his own subordinates did not regard it as sufficiently serious enough to give him a heads-up?
And is it not hyperbole to use terms like “domestic terrorism,” “armed insurrection,” “coup d’etat,” and “treason” to describe protesters pushing through police lines into the Capitol to disrupt a proceeding?
What is going on here?
The left will not let this go. It is exaggerating and exploiting what happened at the Capitol to paint the right as an ominous threat to American democracy — and itself as the savior of the republic. It seeks to demonize the populist right, cancel its voice, expel it from the public square and redefine it as a conspiracy against America, calling forth new government authority and power to monitor, expose and destroy it.
If assaulting cops and besieging public buildings amounts to domestic terrorism, the rioting, looting, arson and assaults on cops we saw all last summer in Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Kenosha and Louisville from antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors would more than qualify.
Today, Capitol Hill is encircled with high fencing topped by razor wire and patrolled by National Guard troops. It looks like the Green Zone in Baghdad. Apparently, the physical barriers and troops are there to protect against attacks by QAnon and white supremacists.
Minneapolis is taking similar precautions to protect the courthouse where ex-cop Derek Chauvin is to be tried for second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.
My guess, Minneapolis, not Capitol Hill, is where the action will be this spring, and it will not be Proud Boys keeping the cops busy, but folks who, if they did vote in 2020, voted Democratic.
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Big Gov now has 2 “pivotal events” to squawk about forever. Charlottesville and now the Capitol assault. Both of which stink as FF events.
How many times has Charlottesville been marched out as prima facia evidence of “right wing terrorism” that is “a threat to our democracy”. Spare me, it’s too comically weak to be taken seriously. Both are absurdities but provide the necessary ammo/talking points to demonize decent Americans concerned with the future of this country and for their families. You know, the armed patriotic ones concerned with the actual lunacy of Big Gov who pose a threat. The ones who stand in the way of the free sailing Marxist/Commie/Zionist/NWO (whatever you want to call the REAL threat) takeover attempt of this country. That real entity that wants to throughly control and enslave the citizens with ever increasing psychotic demands of subservience.
As usual, it’s projection. We are gas lighted. We know who the real enemy is.
Add Waco which was a mass murder of over a hundred civilians by the US Government. Also the Murrah building in OKC and the three NYC towers which all had charges planted on pillars at their base and murdered thousands. Also, hundreds of liberals in Panama were rounded up during our invasion, taken into the jungle, shot and buried in a hole by Delta Forces; they were later dug up by the UN and publicised for the whole world except the USA where the whole event was censored from the US public. Not to mention Chem-spraying, censorship of Conservatives, Affirmative Discrimination, lock downs, public schools, left all good-right all bad, MSM propaganda, murders like Epstein, Seth Rich, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, LaVoy Finnicum, Ruby Ridge; prisoners like Assuage and Snowden. Clearly TPTB in the USA is Evil and is at war with We The People; do not take The Shot.
You know who greenlighted the Panama invasion for George Bush, no other than William Barr.
Small world aint it.
Nattering about stuff is a waste of time. There is a war going on, against conservatives and Christians and white people. We are S. African whites, Zimbabwean whites and Kulaks and all the other classes of scape goats. They want us dead, FACT.
Pat says Sicknick died of a stroke. What’s his evidence of that? He has none. That’s just some shit he heard after the prior story of getting hit with a fire extinguisher fell apart. Greenwald highlighted the story on Revolver News that Sicknick went back to his station after the excitement and texted his brother that he was fine, although he’d been hit with some tear gas. Then he turns up dead – seemingly having died AFTER news reports of his death. Whereupon he’s cremated almost instantly. Chris Wray just testified that the FBI can’t release the cause of death. The media reported that as the FBI now knowing the cause of death. Not knowing and not saying aren’t the same. I think the FBI killed him. On purpose. Murder. They needed a dead cop, they knew he’d been there. No wife or kids. They released news of his death through their media accomplices and then rubbed him out. Probably an injection before he knew WTF. That’s what I think.
And how about the supposed bombs they found around the capitol? Most under-camera-scrutiny area in the country and the FBI can’t find the “bombers”. Fucking bullshit. If there were any bombs at all they were put there BY the FBI.
Then they arrest the Viking and Podium Man who are now facing decades in the slammer. “Deadly insurrection” my ass.
Here’s the thing about DC: it’s 95% libs. Largely black. So no democrat politician could ever be convicted there because of the jury pool. And Mr QAnon Shaman – who should be a hero just because of his fashion sense – will be convicted of whatever they charge him with. Poor stupid bastard. Normal Americans are not safe within the District. It’s like being in North Korea and thinking you can make a joke about the leader. I fucking hate that ugly town with its idolatrous monuments to men.
I think these criminals who don’t represent us should thank their lucky stars. I was hoping they would all be tarred and feathered and led away to never return. Since they will never vote for term limits on themselves. a corrupt swamp that gave trillions to corporations right away and slowly gave a few crumbs to citizens after months. the largest wealth transfer ever. The Gov. decided to close down the country for a bad flu season, not me. watch now as the vaccine is pushed on everyone. It’s all bullshit. I still believe that in our future we will see an economic collapse. Apparently, the Gov. wants to help make this happen sooner so our system can be replaced with some tyrannical replacement.
The tyrannical replacement has been instituted nearly worldwide and just has the conundrum of about 150 m. dissenting persons to deal with before completing their demonic mission.
This just happened in Texas, and should be more widely reported.
Anony – looked at that site lols. This was the next article. Just saying…. it might be BS.
ANSWER:
Please don’t squeeze the Chairman.
William Blum identifies nations that have been dominated by the US in KILLING HOPE; CIA AND US MILITARY INTERVENTIONS.
Douglas Valentine observes US foreign policies are being developed domestically in CIA AS ORGANIZED CRIME.
John Perkins identifies Wall Street to use the IMF, WB, US military and the CIA to enforce WS domination in CONFESSION OF ECONOMIC HIT MAN and in interviews.
And we still cannot get the picture of who is responsible ???