Did Amy Kremer and Chris Barron Sabotage the Capitol Rally?

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Lila

Note: This still needs additional research and links, but I am posting it to identify how the walk to an area near the Capitol building was sabotaged.

SUSPECTED SABOTAGE OF JAN 6 EVENT BY WOMEN FOR AMERICA EMPLOYEES

I previously posted the signed public statement by the founder of STOPTHESTEAL, Ali Alexander, that he has had information for some time that the march to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sabotaged by two people, one of whom worked for Women For America First, a group founded by the Kremer family; the other is a Trump campaign advisor.

He adds that there was “at least one campaign advisor,” which suggests that there may have been more than two saboteurs.

STOPTHESTEAL is one of several groups involved in the two Capitol Hill events and was permitted to use Lot 8, near the Capitol building, for its ONE NATION UNDER GOD event. The first event, the Save America rally, was held at the Ellipse, which was permitted to Women For America First.

It is this group that Ali claims produced the two saboteurs.

WHO ARE THE SUSPECTED WOMEN FOR AMERICA FIRST SABOTEURS?

Women For America First put out this statement about the aftermath of the Capitol, denouncing the violence and distancing itself from it.

SUSPECTED SABOTEUR I: CHRIS BARRON

Note: These are my suspicions based on the resumes of the people involved, their history of subversion. Most likely, the suspects acted through underlings whose names will only surface from a police investigation. However, the underlings would not have been able to act without the go ahead from their superiors. So, fingering these two people is justifiable in the context of the awful national consequences of what happened on January 6.

Barron’s Current Position

The founder of WAF is listed as Amy Kremer and the press statement gives a contact, Chris Barron. with an email address with the domain name rightturnstrategiesdc.com

Right Turn Strategies is a PR/lobbying/strategizing group, adept at working both inside and outside DC and they explain what they do thus:

“Within our communications practice we offer a variety of services including traditional public relations, marketing support and brand development, media training, and crisis management. As a result, we are fluent in crafting both proactive and reactive strategies. We understand that some clients seek us out to raise their profiles- or that of their business- while others have come to us in an effort to stay “under the radar.”

Experienced in both paradigms, we quickly assess the situation, and craft and execute a plan to further our client’s objective.

More often than not, the most important component of a successful strategy is getting the messaging right for the targeted audience. In today’s world, this might mean crafting multiple, nuanced messages to reach different audiences.”

The reference to crisis management and under the radar operations suggests that the group might be adept at subverting a movement from within using deceptive techniques.

Chris Barron seems to be the “Trump campaign advisor” that Ali Alexander refers to in his allegation, since Barron’s biography at the end of a piece on NeverTrumpers has this:

So Barron has a history of creating astroturf Republican outfits, using money from K street, which was created to finance groups advocating lower taxes, to undermine genuine grass-roots small government outfits. To make the situation worse, the original Tea Party formed from a base of anti-Federal Reserve, pro-hard money, Christian conservative, and anti-NWO groups that were followers of Republican candidate Ron Paul, had by then itself been subverted into the later Tea Party, funded by the Koch brothers.

This latter Tea Party, already closer to the statist mainstream than its original base, was the one targeted by Barron’s deceptively named Mainstream Republicans.

MR’s positions in truth more resembled those of mainstream liberal Democrat groups. Indeed, the two worked together to undermine first, the Tea Party, and then its resurgence in the shape of MAGA [Make America Great Again].

Barron’s profile and history show clear evidence of intentionally subverting the base that became the core of Trump’s following.

So why was he an advisor to the campaign and a coordinator of the single most important public event in the entire Trump presidency?

II SUSPECTED SABOTEUR II: AMY KREMER

Amy and Kylie Jane Kremer’s Position

We find the same profile and history in the case of Amy Kremer, the other suspected saboteur, who with her daughter is the founder of Women For America First, a 504c foundation. 504c’s do not need to reveal the sources of their funding.

Kremer’s daughter Kylie Jane is the director of Women for America First and the permit for the January 6 event was in her name.

Amy Kremer’s History

Kylie Jane’s mother is referred to as a former Tea Party activist, but further research shows that Amy Kremer is actually a liberal Republican or RINO with a history of subverting the Tea Party, just like that of Chris Barron.

Kremer founded Tea Party Patriots, which left-liberal reporter David Wiegel, who followed and misrepresented the Tea Party movement for years, describes as the original grass roots movement. However, TPP was only created in 2010 and the original Tea Party came out of the Ron Paul libertarians around 2005- 2007. By 2010, that movement had been coopted by mainstream Republicans receiving Koch funding and a rift existed between the two groups’ motivations and goals. Kremer’s TPP was thus, already a mainstream Republican group, something Wiegel’s unreliable narrative fails to state.

On top of that, Kremer then subverted this group by leaving it to form Tea Party Express, a spin- off from another astro-turf group and locked down TPP’s resources during her exit, thereby effectively neutering it. It’s likely that that was her goal all along, which means she too has a history of turning grass roots Republican movements into liberal Republican or RINO projects.

Exactly like Chris Barron.

HOW THE PLANNED EVENTS OF JAN 6 WERE SUBVERTED

The Jan 6 events were subverted in two distinct ways:

The main speakers, including Trump, were lined up only 2-3 days before the first event at the Ellipse, although PDJT had been promoting the event from mid- December onward. To add to the confusion, at least one data science speaker was cancelled a couple of days before the event and didn’t even go to DC. The slots for the remaining data scientists, Patrick Byrne, and General Flynn, were all cancelled at the meeting itself. No special preparations had been made for them, reportedly, so the decision to cancel was seemingly not last-minute, but taken earlier, while the speakers were notified at the last minute. This suggests that the person who cancelled didn’t want to allow for explanations, substitutions, or any fall-back planning. That is a sign of sabotage not confusion.
The second event at Lot 8 was also sabotaged, because programming and instructions about how to get there from the Ellipse were never given at the first event, which was the original plan. People observed a younger crowd, smelling of marijuana, and dressed in ways unusual for Trump supporters, coming in to the previous night’s event, as well as the events of Jan 6. Some of this younger crowd seems to have left before Trump’s speech got under way and gone on ahead to the Capitol building, from where they got into the building and engaged in some vandalism. The police appear to have been negligent in protecting the building and were also seen in many videos actively helping people enter and looking the other way, on one hand, while also engaging in unprovoked aggression, including pepper- spraying, tasering, and releasing smoke-bombs.

From StopTheSteal’s statement above and other news items, we get the following:

There was an event at the Ellipse of the President’s Park or South Lawn, permitted to Women For America First, hosted by a variety of groups, including Ali Alexander’s StopTheSteal, Women for Trump, and Women for America First, etc.
The permitted event was to begin at 9 AM and continue to 5 PM
President Trump’s speech was scheduled for 11 AM but it was delayed by and hour and went on to 1 PM??. It seems that while POTUS boosted the event from mid-December onward, he only knew he was scheduled to speak on January 3rd, on the weekend before the event. Could this be why the speech sounded mundane? The Trump team denied that any member of his campaign staff was involved in the organization, operation, or funding of the rally. And if any contractors or former members were, it was without the authorization of the campaign. Thus, Barron as a media liaison of the campaign, would have acted on his own.
Patrick Byrne, Michael Flynn had been told they would speak on January 6 at the invitation of Women For Trump, according to Patrick Byrne. Byrne implies he was told sometime after January 2 and before January 6, which fits with when Trump was told. On January 5, he was told that one of the 3 or 4 scientists and analysts who had been asked to speak for a few minutes each had had his slot cancelled. When Byrne and Flynn got to the Ellipse on the 6th, there was no slot for them. They listened to the speeches right up through some of Trump’s. Flynn was later invited on stage by an embarrassed organizer, but he refused. The two left in the beginning or middle of POTUS’ speech.
Eric and Don Jr. gave speeches.
Alex Jones was told that he would be leading a procession to the Capitol and his signal would be the moment when Secret Service police came up to him at the event. But he found that people had gotten there ahead of him.
The second part of the event was the One Nation Under God event at Lot 8 near the Capitol building, which was organized by and permitted to StopTheSteal. Programming and instructions about walking over there from the Ellipse were supposed to be given to the audience and televised on a large screen at the first event at the Ellipse. Through the deliberate sabotage of two employees of the Women For America, according to Ali Alexander, this never happened. Instead, the crowd was left to wander over mistakenly to the Capitol building itself, where, unknown to them, a trap was ready to be sprung.
At Lot 8, Senator Paul Gosar [R- Arizona] was supposed to raise the original objection to the election certification and then Senator Ted Cruz [R-Texas] was to propose a Commission to review the merits of the objections. StopTheSteal anticipated that the gathered crowd of OVER A MILLION would add their voices to strengthen the resolve of the wavering Republicans. This and only this was what President Trump intended. Not the march to the physical Capitol building, where, again, unknown to the protestors, additional security had been refused, security had been told to let in people, and infiltrators of many stripes were present, posing both as Trump supporters, as well as opposition, like BLM and Antifa. There were actual BLM supporters present, as well as agent provocateur right- wing groups like Proud Boys posing as BLM, thus adding dense confusion to the events that followed.

StopTheSteal Blames Women For America First For Jan 6 Chaos

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Lila

From Ali Alexander of STOPTHESTEAL:

“….Women for America First and at least one Trump campaign advisor betrayed President Trump by intentionally eliminating the clear directions meant for the million-plus patriots Stop the Steal had assembled to hear President Trump.

President Trump was unaware of this catastrophic failure when he gave his keynote address. His general comments about walking to the US Capitol were meant to point people to what was supposed to be the previously mentioned Lot 8, permitted to us by the Capitol Police not the physical building itself.

This is the first time this information is being made available to the general public.

This last minute negligence by Women for America First–run by the Kremer family–spiraled the nation into chaos. Stop the Steal remains in support of federal investigations probing the decision-making processes that led to the civil unrest, as well as civil wrongful death claims from families who lost loved ones. We were all hijacked.

In contrast to the chaos at the Capitol, the Stop the Steal movement for election integrity remained peaceful. Over a 10-week period, Stop the Steal hosted nearly two million Americans in approximately 600 to 1000 protests in all 50 states.

The premeditated actions of bad actors not only disgraced our Capitol but also disrupted both the Stop the Steal sponsored event at the Ellipse and the Stop the Steal organized event at Lot 8 on Capitol Hill permitted by US Capitol Police….

This evidence exonerates any claims of incitement. Our non-association with these photographed and recorded agitators proves both Stop the Steal and President Trump did not participate in any conspiracy to commit insurrection….

….I, Ali Alexander, am publicly stating what I’ve already privately told officials: I remain ready to publicly testify before Congress and Almighty God to the events that led to and occurred on January 6, 2021.

Christ is King.

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Posted on January 31, 2021 by Lila

From Oathkeepers.org:

We know that after Jan. 6, law enforcement reported that, “Antifa members disguised themselves with pro-Trump clothing to join the DC rioting,” and that the “infiltrators were recognized due to their participation in New York City demonstrations.”

We know extreme Black Lives Matter activists were involved in breaching the Capitol. One BLM activist, John Earle Sullivan, was photographed inside the building, and Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo reportedly showed a video of Sullivan and other BLM and Antifa members in the Capitol saying they were going to, “Burn this s*** down.”

That aligns with Sullivan’s previous behavior. In August of 2020, Sullivan spoke at a BLM rally in Washington D.C., identifying himself with a group called “Insurgence USA,” saying, “We f****** going to burn this sh** down.” He also said, “We gonna rip Trump outta that office right over there,” and, “We ain’t about f****** waiting for the next election, we’re gonna go get that m*****f******. He then led the crowd in a chant, saying, “It’s time for a revolution.”

We know that Sullivan’s group, Insurgence USA, helped organize a rally on Jan. 6 in Washington D.C., just two miles from the U.S. Capitol. The flyer for their event states, “Must have Tactical gear / bulletproof vest, bring first aid kits and water.”

We know that Sullivan “just happened” to be a few feet away from unarmed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt as she was shot dead by a “plain-clothed officer” inside the U.S. Capitol.

Another question that should be answered: How did John Sullivan just happen to be interviewed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper the evening of Jan. 6? Think for a moment. How does one just happen to be chosen to be a guest on CNN with Anderson Cooper on the night the Capitol was breached? And again on Good Morning America the next morning?

During Sullivan’s interview on CNN, he said one of the Capitol Police officers was crying as people entered the Capitol. “I remember just looking up and seeing one of them crying, saying they want to go home to their kids.”

“I ended up talking to a few of them,” Sullivan said. “I said ‘Hey, like, we can just make a path for you to get — by no means am I there on the Trump side – the MAGA side – but I don’t want to see people get hurt unnecessarily, especially when there should be a better way to go about it.’ So I told everybody to just let them go, they’re willing to go peacefully.”

We now know that Sullivan lied to Cooper. A video of Sullivan’s escapade into the Capitol shows Sullivan stirring up the crowd to climb up the wall and enter the Capitol, urging people to kick in doors, telling Capitol police that they need to go home, and warning Police officers that they are going to get hurt unless they let the crowd through.

Sullivan was a master manipulator who played both sides, and he did it seamlessly. When he wanted to stir up Trump supporters who became mixed in with the Antifa/BLM insurrectionists, he could be heard leading a chant of “USA! USA!” When police challenged him, he would claim to be part of the press and say, “I’m just recording.”

At one point, Sullivan told someone, “I’ve been to so many riots,” and then his voice became giddy after several obvious instigators rallied the crowd to push through police lines. Sullivan could also be heard yelling, “Push” when he wanted protestors to push through a police line, and he even offered the use of his knife to open locked doors.

When someone said they were going to be arrested, Sullivan said, “It’s just a little jail time,” and, “Don’t worry, you’ll be fine. I do this all the time.”

The ultimate betrayal

Just before Ashli Babbitt was killed, it was Sullivan who told the police, “We want you to go home. I’m recording, and there’s so many people. They’re gonna push their way up here. Bro – I seen people out there get hurt. I don’t want to see you get hurt. We will make a path to get out.” Then Sullivan yelled for the crowd to make a path. As the police acquiesced and started leaving, Sullivan yelled, “I want you to go home!”

Then, after the police left and the doors to the Speaker Lobby became vulnerable, Sullivan yelled, “Go! Go! Let’s go! Get this s***!”

Immediately, two people started breaking the glass windows of the doors. These were the same people I previously described as instigators, and both were dressed in clothing typical of Antifa. As they continued breaking the safety glass, Sullivan saw someone on the other side of the doors holding a gun. Sullivan yelled out, “There’s a gun!” However, for the next 14 seconds, while filming someone’s hands holding the gun, Sullivan does not tell the two who are breaking the glass to stop. He doesn’t say anything to anyone. Later he says he personally wasn’t worried because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.

After Ashli Babbitt was shot, Sullivan could be heard taunting the police and apparently attempting to stir the crowd at the same time. Sullivan said, “Are you going to shoot everybody?” Shortly thereafter, Sullivan again seemed to be trying to stir the crowd by yelling, “She dead! She’s dead!”

Additionally, in a separate snippet of video, Sullivan and video journalist Jade Sacker were standing in the Capitol, and Sacker was ecstatic that they made it in. In reply, Sullivan told Sacker, “I was trying to tell you – I couldn’t say much.”

Why not? What couldn’t he say? What did Sullivan know and when did he know it? How much foreknowledge did Sullivan have that the Capitol would be breached?

Proud Boys Arrested, Infiltrated Jan 6 Protest As Antifa

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Lila

Two more leaders of Proud Boys, the agent- provocateur fake-right group started by noted leftist bohemian Gavin McInnes, have been arrested for participating in the January 6 Capitol protest.

Notably, one was on record boasting that he would attend the rally unrecognizable as a Proud Boy and blending in with Antifa, according to police.

The Daily Beast reports:

Prosecutors also describe in the complaint how Proud Boy organizers—including the organization’s leader, Enrique Tarrio, encouraged their members to attend the insurrection at the Capitol in the days leading up to it.

In one Dec. 29 message, Biggs wrote on Parler, “We will not be attending DC in colors. We will be blending in as one of you. You won’t see us. You’ll even think we are you…We are going to smell like you, move like you, and look like you.”

“The only thing we’ll do that’s us is think like us! Jan 6th is gonna be epic,” Biggs continued, according to the complaint, which notes that authorities understood he was speaking directly to “antifa.”

Tarrio was arrested on Jan. 4, two days before the riots. Several other extremists have been arrested for their roles in planning and participating in the riots, including Dominic “Spazzo” Pezzola, a Proud Boys member who allegedly smashed a window at the Capitol with a police shield, and an apparent leader of the Oath Keepers.

Proud Boys Leader Was FBI Informant

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Lila

I mentioned in an earlier post that the alleged far-right group, Proud Boys, was likely to be some kind of agent provocateur.

Now it turns out that one of the leaders, arrested in the wake of the Capitol Protest of January 6, was actually an FBI informant.

“The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group has been unmasked as a “prolific” former FBI informant.

Enrique Tarrio, 36, worked undercover exposing a human trafficking ring, and helped with drug and gambling cases, according to court documents.

Tarrio’s documented involvement with law enforcement related to the period 2012 -2014. There was no evidence of him cooperating after that.”

Tarrio himself says he has no recollection of every having acted as an informant.

Indian Jan 6?: Farmers Breach Republic Day Barriers, Clash With Police

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Lila

The Republic Day parade in the Indian capital, Delhi, has turned chaotic, as protesting farmers, given permission to hold a rally after the parade, arrived early, broke through barriers, and clashed with lathi-charging police, in what looks like a reprise of the instigated and staged violence, at the January 6 Capitol protests in the USA. Violent riots, reportedly instigated, are now unfolding in Putin’s Russia as well. Billionaire leftist change maestro, George Soros, has poured money into attacking Trump, Putin, and others.

Meanwhile, the Italian PM has resigned.

FBI: Oathkeepers Linked To Jan 6 Arrests, Sedition

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Lila

AP News, January 20, 2021:

CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal authorities presented new details on Tuesday about three self-described members of a paramilitary group who are the first to be charged with plotting the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The FBI said a Virginia man, Thomas Edward Caldwell, appeared to be a leader of the effort. Caldwell and a man and woman from Ohio were all charged with conspiracy and other federal counts, the first of more than 125 people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 assault to be charged with conspiracy.

The chilling details in the case included communications between the defendants and others.

“All members are in the tunnels under the capital,” the FBI quoted a message sent to Caldwell during the Capitol attack. “Seal them in turn on gas.”

Other messages referred to the legislators as “traitors” and called for “night hunting.”

The FBI collected social media messages, photos and video to identify them as part of the Oath Keepers, which believes in a “shadowy conspiracy” to strip Americans of their rights.

Messages included in FBI charging documents had quotes with the three suspects exulting over breaching the Capitol, and Caldwell telling an Oath Keepers leader he was ready to attack Ohio’s capital of Columbus.

“We need to do this at the local level,” he allegedly messaged. “Lets (sic) storm the capitol in Ohio. Tell me when!”

Details of the documents made public offer some insight to planning and coordination behind the extraordinary attack, which apparently took law enforcement by surprise despite various warnings online.

The Oath Keepers group often recruits current and former military, police or other first responders. Records show that Donovan Crowl, 50, served in the U.S. Marines. He was arrested along with Jessica Watkins, 38. Both are Champaign County, Ohio, residents. It wasn’t clear immediately whether either Caldwell or Watkins has military or law enforcement experience.

The FBI said some Oath Keepers members were wearing helmets, protective vests and items with the group’s name and motto: “Not On Our Watch.” The FBI also said that they seemed to “move in an organized and practiced fashion and force their way to the front of the crowd gathered around a door to the U.S. Capitol.”

An affidavit filed against Caldwell states that he was involved in the planning and coordinating of the Capitol breach with Watkins and Crowl. Watkins, who allegedly called herself the commanding officer, and Crowl allegedly belong to the Ohio State Regular Militia, dues-paying members of the Oath Keepers. In one social media post, the FBI said, Watkins pictured Crowl and called him “one of my guys.”

Patrick Byrne: Walk Past The Barking Dogs…Or Lose

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Lila

The former CEO of Overstock.com, more notorious as the publisher of the Deep Capture website, advises the right to be Shaolin Monks:

“The other side will try to provoke us, but we are like Shaolin monks: We “walk on past the barking dogs” (as my martial arts master taught me). As he put it to me so many decades ago: “When a dog barks at you, you don’t feel a need to bark back at it, or to run over and kick the dog: you walk past the barking dog.” Similarly, in the days ahead as we patriotic Americans gather publicly to make our positions known, when the Goon-Left shows up we do not get in screaming matches with them, we do not let our tempers rise. We let them bark all they want while we maintain our discipline, poise, and calmness. That is how we show the American people who we are, and who the Goons really are. It is how we win.

Of course, if and only if the dogs actually attack, not just bark but attack, at that point you have the right of all free men and women to defend yourselves, with whatever minimum of force lets you resolve the situation safely. Just remember, however, the Goons think they win if they can make you go violent in front of the TV cameras. And they are right, they will win….. unless you have shown such a preponderance of control that no reasonable observer could question that they were the aggressors, and you were exercising your right to self-defence.”

How I wish I could agree with Mr. Byrne.

But I cannot.

The truth is most of the conservatives at the Capitol protest did indeed behave like Shaolin monks, as the New York Post reporter’s footage that I posted earlier demonstrates.

A few let loose, but only AFTER the police lobbed smoke bombs, tasered them, and used pepper spray….and after various agents provocateurs instigated brawls and vandalized the building, albeit on a much smaller scale than anything America witnessed through the last two years of inner cities on fire.

The problem is not that the right was tricked into breaking the law.

The problem is they did not break the law….at least, not at first.

It is not trespass if you are invited into a building. The guards let people in and did nothing to discourage what was going on.

Watching from across the world, I believed the guards were sympathetic and eager to let people in.

Point two. Even if they had not been invited in, I would not see anything wrong in people entering the house of the people, something they do routinely during tours.

How much more so during an existential crisis of the republic?

It is the will of the people, tempered by the constitution of the nation, that hallows the halls of government. The Representatives are interlopers if they do not represent the people and the Senators are only hired guns if they do not represent the constitution.

When the people’s will is thwarted for evil ends and the constitution cast aside like a used rag then the halls of government are no longer hallowed but cursed; no more Mount Sinai, but a golden calf consecrated to Libido Dominandi.

That is my first point. Conservatives were a. not really doing anything very bad and b. were quite justified in whatever they did do by the egregious behavior of their targets.

My second argument with Mr. Byrne is that agents provocateurs can act without any assistance from the ordinary citizen.

By this I mean that provocateurs and those they provoke can both be stage managed. Anyone could have a social media account opened in their name and a dozen MAGA rants posted therein. Within the totalitarian spy state in which we live, faking an online persona and then foisting it on some innocent is child’s play. A Shaolin monk, killed by an agent provocateur, can be reborn on the internet as a vile pedophile rapist, on the strength of very little but online rumor. Once that label has taken hold, posthumous rehabilitation is impossible. Once reputation is gone, then who are the good guys and who are the bad? In short, for a man who engaged the media in such hand- to- hand combat and had his own Wikipedia biography targeted, Mr. Byrne seems to have forgotten that it is not who you are, but who people think you are.

To recap my argument, not only does Mr. Byrne, one, regurgitate the assumptions behind the mainstream narrative about January 6, two, his advice fails to account for how Shaolin monks avoid being recast as their opposite through the media.

To elaborate. There would have been no Mahatma without Margaret Bourke White and the reverential international press that followed with her. In today’s media ethos, the Mahatma would only be Mohandas, a big- eared, toothless lecher, a pedophile rapist and Luddite, a coward and traitor intent on giving India to Pakistan. Indeed, that is how Gandhi is seen, now that the hagiographers have been succeeded by the debunkers.

My third argument contra Byrne is that violence is only a loser’s game if it is sporadic and individual. Not otherwise.

It goes without saying that John Q Public should not be stocking up on ammo and rifles in the hope of taking out his state representative. In the age of Pegasus, unmanned drones, and AI bots, he is likely to end up in a psychiatric hospital or dead.

However, the idea that wearing buttons and going about our business is going to put an end to the rot is laughable. The boot will not lift from our necks until we join hands and throw it off from us. Concerted public ACTION, not slogans is what will win the day.

Militias could indeed be a part of that action, but not in the way most people think.

I suggest citizen patrols that show up wherever BLM or Antifa threaten people, their homes and businesses. That would be a real start.

But actual physical violence is the smaller part of the problem..

It is the media distortion of reality that is the bigger part.

So another project of resistance should be to target journalists who are especially mendacious about conservatives. We should give them the same relentless public exposure and censure they give others. We could list their failed predictions, their past plagiarisms, their padded resumes, their personal and business fiascos in little biographies that could be inserted below any commentary of theirs wherever it appears and we could do this relentlessly.

Neither of these courses of action is going to win us good press on the left. And that is the final issue I have with Mr. Byrne’s criticism. It is stuck at the level of optics.

Optics is certainly important. Very important. But that doesn’t mean we give up certain options. It means we get smart about our options. It is certainly a bad idea to get caught on camera beating up a leftist goon [and here, I definitely mean a goon, not just some social justice warrior who gets on your nerves.]

The remedy is not to give up beating up on the goons.

It is to make sure the cameras are switched off when you take off your gloves.

Trump Incitement Timeline Fully Debunked

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Lila

‘From CNN via DCPatriot:

“Evidence uncovered so far, including weapons and tactics seen on surveillance video, suggests a level of planning that has led investigators to believe the attack on the US Capitol was not just a protest that spiraled out of control, a federal law enforcement official says.

Among the evidence the FBI is examining are indications that some participants at the Trump rally at the Ellipse, outside the White House, left the event early, perhaps to retrieve items to be used in the assault on the Capitol.”

This reference to the crowd at the Ellipse is interesting because it appears that it was pioneer alternative news provider Alex Jones who organized the crowd at the Ellipse.

The observation that the movement to the Capitol came from the crowd at the Ellipse is seconded in this piece at USA Today:

Many of the rioters came directly from President Donald Trump’s “Save America Rally” that began hours earlier on the Ellipse, a park near the White House. Trump spoke to them for more than an hour, insisting that the election had been stolen.

USA Today’s timeline has the rally at the Ellipse starting around 6 am with some supporters arriving the previous night. It has the Save America Rally beginning at 11 am with speeches by Eric Trump and Don Jr. and Rudy Guiliani, followed by Trump at around 11.50 am.

The speech goes on for about an hour and during the time Trump urges supporters to walk down with him to the Capitol and tell Congress to do the right thing.

USA Today claims the protestors at the rally started the walk at the end of the speech at around 1 pm.

But Raheem Kassam has debunked this “Trump incitement” time-line. The speech was not easy to hear, was mostly a laundry list of election fraud with nothing new in it, and began late, so people wandered off before it ended toward the Capitol.

Kassam points out that the first protestors arrived at around 12.40 pm at the Capitol, a half hour before Trump ended his speech at 1.11 pm and over 76 minutes before any supporter could have made the 45 minute walk from the Ellipse to the Capitol following the speech. The outer perimeter of the Capitol had been breached and police chief Sund was calling for the National Guard before the President had even finished his speech. In fact, to do what investigators found them to have done, those who breached the Capitol would have had to have left the Ellipse before Trump began speaking.

The SGT Report published an eye witness account of the Ellipse rally and the walk to the Capitol, which contradicts the mainstream reports on several points.

Apparently the rally at the Ellipse was to run from 9 to 11, followed by another gathering at the North lawn of the Capitol building at 1. This was announced at the website wildprotest.com which now brings up a 404 error sign.

Other participants have also mentioned the confusion arising from two planned events and the first one running an hour late.

The SGT Report account mentions young men with scary masks but Revolutionary symbols on the backs of their clothes boarding trains running into DC. It also mentions the unusual smell of pot at the Ellipse, but, other than that, nothing unusual about the crowd of mostly white but some Asian and a few black supporters.

He does observe that the earliest people to get to the Capitol were on average younger than the group at the Ellipse and they were the ones scaling the walls and pushing through the metal barriers. He saw smoke, smelled tear gas and heard ceremonial cannon fire but he saw no violence from the protestors and knew nothing about the entry into the Capitol until he heard it from someone else. Then he saw what he thought was an Antifa infiltrator breaking glass to enter the building. Later he heard that a woman had been killed.

As mentioned earlier, Alex Jones paid half a million to book the Ellipse and he said he was asked by Trump to lead the march. The secret service was supposed to call him out earlier to do that but he found that people had already gone on ahead.

“Jones also said he paid close to $500,000 to book the Ellipse, the park where Trump’s supporters initially gathered, and other areas near the Capitol. He said 80% of the money came from an unnamed donor.”

The second interesting point is that investigators are using a counter-terrorism strategy of picking up people who might be of concern in the future on very minimal charges. The targets mentioned in the piece are both Proud Boys leaders who were taken in on fairly innocuous infractions, such as destroying a BLM banner and making ominous online postings. Proud Boys is supposedly a far- right outfit that has picked up a reputation for standing up to BLM and Antifa, which, of course, means that in the mainstream narrative they are violent murderous fascists. I say supposedly because several savvy observers think PB are agents provocateurs themselves.

The final point made in the piece is that investigators are looking for evidence of any kind of command and control behind the protestors, which suggests that they don’t think that the more violent aspects of the rally were set off spontaneously by what Trump said in his speech, which is the mainstream narrative. They think there was a coordinated plan in motion, well before Trump even got to the protest.

Stirring Footage From Inside Jan 6 Capitol Protest

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Lila

Watch this footage taken by New Yorker reporter Luke Mogelson and ask yourself if, given the circumstances, there’s anything at all to be ashamed about in the overall behavior of this crowd of anywhere from half a million to over a million.

I couldn’t have felt prouder watching this honest, courageous, self-restrained ground-swell of patriotic feeling and righteous indignation.

If this be insurrection, make the most of it. And count me right in as an insurrectionist.

The protestors for the most part are dressed in ordinary street wear, some wearing masks of the US flag, others carrying US or Trump flags. Inside the halls of Congress they chant, Protect your liberty, Protect the constitution and tell the guards they are there because Trump, the guards’ boss, wants them there. They thank the guards for letting them in. They chant “Whose house? Our house,” “It’s the people’s house, let the people in,” and similar stuff.

“Defend the constitution against enemies, foreign and domestic,” shouts another. They talk about it being a war.

They march through the halls, look around and ask where everyone is because there’s no one but police. The brave Congress critters are skulking under desks in safe spaces, instead of meeting their constituents.

When someone sits in the vice president’s chair, one of the leaders tells him he cannot and it is disrespectful. The fellow in the chair then asks, with splendid logic, why THEY can steal an election, but HE cannot sit in a chair. But he does get up.

The officers who let them in are thanked repeatedly and told that they are only doing their job and it’s appreciated. A leader calls out that this is hallowed ground, sacred, and deserves respect. Another protestor says, Now that we’re here, we might as well form a government.

One guy’s looking for anything in the papers left behind that can be used against these “scumbags,” a sentiment probably shared by around 100 million people, including this blogger.

Someone tells the rest to watch what they do, because it’s a PR war…there’s talk of an information operation.

The guy with the horns on his head, Qanon Shaman, bellows in the background high above the paper hunters at the desks. Someone says they’ve found papers showing that Cruz was going to object to Arizona’s objection…he was going to sell us out anyway..Then he seems to retract. Another person says, Cruz and Hawley would have wanted us to do this. Someone says, There are 4 million people coming, some have just not got there. Another refers to a million people.

Several men get up and invoke Jesus Christ’s name, asking for light and protection from heaven, thanking Him for giving them the opportunity to be heard in this place and for being able to take back the country from communists, globalists, and traitors.

Before leaving, one of the leaders wants a picture taken and asks permission from the guards to do it.

Then they leave through one entrance while Mogelson leaves through another, where he takes more footage, this showing a more boisterous side of things. People are scaling the walls, tearing off fabric high up, but are largely nonviolent, with lots of chanting: USA, USA, and I think, We want Trump.

The police start tasering and throwing smoke bombs and people shout, Is that all you’ve got? We’re coming for you…

Someone builds a gallows and starts shouting, We’re going to hunt each and everyone of you down. There are calls to fight at home, to protest in the state capitols and to organize. Better to die a free man, shouts one man, than on your knees. Someone uses a flagpole to smash what looks like suitcases or boxes and shouts about how the media wouldn’t be able to record that. Another man says CNN is hiding behind Union Station.

People shout Treason, treason, treason.

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