UPDATE: I cited Greenwald on the DHS hiring disinfo specialists to censor the web, under the guise of correcting disinformation. On second thoughts, Greenwald is probably not the best person to cite, given his past with Snowden and other deep state actors, good or bad. So I’ve deleted the quote.
David Troy does a deep dive into what he considers the background of Jan 6.
Just a glance tells me Troy has an axe to grind….linking child porn to the gold standard is I suppose one way of looking at gold-bugs.
He mentions the following, whose deaths he spins to support his pro-government/deep state argument:
Mark Lombardi, about whom I blogged a DECADE ago.
Gary Webb, about whom I blogged more than a decade ago.
Danny Casolaro, about whom I also blogged a decade ago.
[the post was made private so I will repost it and link to that]
No time for more now.
EXCERPT:
The work of multiple researchers and historians has intersected to provide a fuller picture of the historical forces that led to the events of January 6th. The story centers on the Council for National Policy (CNP) and its members and affiliates who were the most active organizers and participants. But the deeper question is why this history unfolded the way it did.
Where did the CNP come from? What are its goals? Considering this larger historical frame apart from the day-to-day frustrations of party politics reveals a number of key themes. CNP was born from the same network of people who created both the John Birch Society and the World Anti-Communist League. In turn, those networks are also tightly associated with the birth of American libertarianism and also harbor a fervent and lingering passion for the gold standard.
Within this community, the fear and distrust of communism cannot be separated from the libertarian “non-aggression principle” and the preference for the gold standard. The fetish for gold is in fact directly tied into the non-aggression principle in that they see inflationary fiat currency as a kind of “molestation,” as articulated by Robert LeFevre, considered by many to be the progenitor of modern American libertarian thought.