If enough people say something often enough, it becomes “true.” Big media and people at the highest levels of government now accept that the Capitol takeover of January 6 was an “armed insurrection” by “white supremacists.” A few eccentrics wonder how you can have an “insurrection” with no plan and no weapons, but virtually everyone has swallowed the story about “white supremacists.”
As for “insurrection,” even the Republican lawyer Michael van der Veen, who defended Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, said something MSNBC called “obvious”: “The question before us is not whether there was a violent insurrection of the Capitol. On that point, everyone agrees.” Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is one of a very small number of politicians who doesn’t. He pointed out that the mob wasn’t armed, and that a three-hour occupation is not an “insurrection.” Media ridiculed him, with an MSNBC contributor writing, “Let’s take a minute to unpack this, because while I tend not to expect much from Ron Johnson, this is extraordinary, even for him.”
An indignant CNN articled listed the “arms” the “insurrectionists” used: “a baseball bat, a fire extinguisher, a wooden club, a spear, crutches, a flagpole, bear spray, mace, chemical irritants, stolen police shields, a wooden beam, a hockey stick, a stun gun, and knives.” Not even comic- opera coup-plotters in Upper Volta or Rio Muni would try to overthrow a government with bear spray and pocket knives.
One of the few journalists who scoffs at the “armed insurrection” tale is Glenn Greenwald. He writes: We know that “no Trump supporter fired any weapon inside the Capitol and that the FBI seized a grand total of zero firearms from those it arrested that day . . . .” He adds that there were “no known cases of the rioters deliberately killing anyone,” and “no evidence anyone intended to assassinate Mike Pence, Mitt Romney or anyone else.”
Why the drumbeat about “armed insurrection”? Mr. Greenwald argues that “the more you can demonize your opponents as something monstrous, the more political power you can acquire,” and that Democrats warn about an attempted coup “because declaring an ‘armed insurrection’ empowers the state with virtually unlimited powers to act against the citizenry.” So far so good, but Mr. Greenwald is silent about who the rioters were and what they wanted.
Others had that figured out almost before the tear gas had cleared. Joe Biden pegged the rioters as “a bunch of thugs, white supremacists, domestic terrorists.” It would be tedious to list even just a few of the press articles that blamed the riot on white supremacy, but I will be tedious.
“Years of white supremacy threats culminated in Capitol riots,” Associated Press, January 14, 2021 “White supremacist extremists are the nation’s deadliest terror threat,” Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2021 “The Capitol attack was White supremacy, plain and simple,” CNN, January 10, 2021 “White Riot,” New York Times, January 13, 2021 “The seditionists made clear what their attack was about: White supremacy,” Washington Post, January 15, 2021 “What the Capitol Insurgency Reveals about White Supremacy and Law Enforcement,” Brookings Institution, January 12, 2021 “The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy,” Atlantic, January 7, 2021. “Insurrection Day: When White Supremacist Terror Came to the US Capitol,” Guardian, January 9, 2021. The FBI launched a massive manhunt for these white supremacists. There have been 275 arrests, and several outlets have written about who the rioters were, but no one has looked into them more carefully than staff at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University (GWU). Last week, it issued a report called “This is Our House!” which looks into 257 people who have been arrested and indicted.
The report sorts the 257 defendants into three groups: “militant networks,” “organized clusters,” or “inspired believers.”
#1: noone222 To: Ada (#0)
It's clear that some people are capable of reading but not able to think. I'm sure that some of those that read MSM articles that are written for the purpose of guiding non-thinkers into radicalization without supporting FACTS are lured into racist groups. Most of the people buying into overtly racist groups are prompted by media and usually when they join a racist group are welcomed aboard by some government plant.
1st off, the people in America are being taught that having a preference for ones own people is racist when it's only natural. The real racists are people that interfere with the natural order of things by legislating affirmative action hiring and education laws rather than allowing merit to be the ruling factor. The people attempting to legislate reform of others by discriminating in favor of one group over another "are the racists" and more than likely have an un-American agenda or are being pressured by lobbyists to support "reverse discrimination."
I'm 70 and white. For most of my life I have witnessed every other sector of society given some form of "protection" or advantage based upon race or gender with respect to a variety of things but I'll just mention education and employment. College acceptance and government jobs were definitely two areas that adopted unfair practices that negatively impacted white's opportunities. Not only that, but promoting the education and employment opportunities for people less qualified is a self defeating process that has in my opinion lowered the standards in America.
I have held positions in management that required me to hire and fire personnel. Race wasn't a determining factor unless the potential hire wore a black panther uniform or a swastika to the interview. Of course that's an exaggerated and unlikely scenario but it's ridiculous to think that a capable manager would do anything related to hiring other than hire the most qualified person because his/her job depends upon success and not on how many minorities are part of the staff. Another thing that I believe is a very important criteria in determining who gets hired is past performance and compatibility with others. Hiring someone that will sour the other employees attitude can be a major setback. What has happened over time is that race has become critical as a factor in hiring when it is actually irrelevant.
I think this type of racial preference when hiring is most obvious in government. Everyone having contact with government agencies knows just how incompetent things can get when lowering the qualifiers for race based considerations. The frustrations enjoyed when dealing with the DMV (BMV) and waiting forever to accomplish the task or dealing with the court systems and lost paperwork or other incidents of incompetence reduces the quality of outcome for EVERYONE.
On a current situation of note, the election outcome was highly prejudiced and resulted in a fraud of irreparable damage when, from all appearances, large metro areas that also included a high concentration of Blacks controlling ballot counts cheated the rest of America out of their votes and by so doing elected a dementia riddled criminal to the highest office in government.
I do not wish to be misunderstood about the last election fraud. The upper levels of this "conspiracy" were in most circumstances White people that took advantage of the lower level workers and played upon the "it's time to get even" for past injustices narrative to accomplish a "coup" that will inevitably cause much damage or worse destroy America by making a civil war necessary.
Government and media are the most responsible culprits in stirring race wars and discontent among the public. Facts are irrelevant when promoting an agenda. Acceptance of ludicrous conditions will only result in more ludicrous conditions. White people are guilty of accepting lower standards, affirmative action, and trying to go along to get along. This is most evident in the election of Barak (Hussein) Obama.
There isn't any reason for me to start ranting about this communist subversive "community organizer" that has lied about everything relevant to his qualifications for the job, but was elected in spite of the facts because Whites wanted to make it clear that they weren't racists. This has not only elected the worst candidate available at the time but opened Pandora's box to a never ending stream of offensive and destructive communist agenda issues that are using a multitude of "NON-ISSUES" blown up and distorted to cover-up and condone incompetence and subversive acts against America.
My point is not to condemn anyone individually but rather everyone that claims to be a loyal American regardless of any other issue. Only we the people can resolve the problem in favor of freedom. That means all of us need to realize we will never agree in every issue but we can agree to be free. As long as we're free we can work our way through disagreements that are secondary to freedom.
Washington, D.C. has failed the people by and through corruption beyond repair. Bribery and compromise have destroyed any reason for its existence. Divorce is in the air and the only question is whether it will be contested or uncontested.
noone222 posted on 2021-03-11 07:31:22 Reply Private Reply
#2: Ada To: noone222 (#1)
Good post!
Ada posted on 2021-03-11 07:58:20 Reply Private Reply
#3: noone222 To: Ada (#2)
noone222 posted on 2021-03-11 08:39:18 Reply Private Reply
#4: BTP Holdings To: noone222 (#1)
Experience shows those who have the power never willingly give it up. The only question is who has the bigger guns? ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2021-03-11 09:15:14 Reply Private Reply