Mob Rule At The Capitol and A Post-Mortem on Voters Frustration
Jason Cousineau and Eric Fisk | January 7th, 2021.
Jason Cousineau and Eric Fisk discuss the frustrations behind the protests during the past year, leading to the riot at The Nation's Capitol when the Electoral College results were certified. Why are there so many people on all aspects of the political spectrum who feel disenfranchised and under-represented?
With all the money The Federal Government spent on security since September 11th, 2001, the United States' Capitol Building so quickly taken by these protestors? Why were U.S. Capitol Police unprepared for this, and some officers were taking selfies with protestors after they broke in?
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The Washington Times: "Facial recognition firm claims Antifa infiltrated Trump protesters who stormed Capitol," By Rowan Scarborough | Wednesday, January 6, 2021 ["CORRECTED: Facial recognition identifies extremists storming the Capitol."]
Trump supporters say that Antifa members disguised as one of them infiltrated the protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. A retired military officer told The Washington Times that the firm XRVision used its software to do facial recognition of protesters and matched two Philadelphia Antifa members to two men inside the Senate. The source provided the photo match to The Times.
0Censor: "The Blame Game Exposes Double Standards" Posted by Timothy Benton | January 7, 2021
AFTER A YEAR OF BEING TOLD WE WERE RACIST FOR JUDGING PROTEST FOR THE RIOTS, LOOTING, AND BURNING GOING ON BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, WE ARE NOW CONDEMNED BECAUSE WE WILL NOT JUDGE THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS BY THREE ACTIONS DOZEN PEOPLE BREAKING INTO THE CAPITAL BUILDING.
Yesterday, after hundreds of thousands came to Washington DC to protest this sham of an election, we have seen double standards exposed many times by the GOP themselves. In contrast, our leadership on the left has shown us that what they call for with their own constituents and what they demand of the GOP are two completely different sets of standards.
Before we start this off, I want to make it known. I 100% support the right to protest peacefully. I know this whole situation is frustrating, but there is no excuse to take it out on the police or vandalize break into federal property.
PBS Frontline: "Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready." by Logan Jaffe Lydia DePillis Isaac Arnsdorf David McSwane | January 7th, 2021
The invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was stoked in plain sight. For weeks, the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump railed on social media that the election had been stolen. They openly discussed the idea of violent protest on the day Congress met to certify the result.
“We came up with the idea to occupy just outside the CAPITOL on Jan 6th,” leaders of the Stop the Steal movement wrote on Dec. 23. They called their Wednesday demonstration the Wild Protest , a name taken from a tweet by Trump that encouraged his supporters to take their grievances to the streets of Washington. “Will be wild,” the president tweeted.
Ali Alexander, the founder of the movement, encouraged people to bring tents and sleeping bags and avoid wearing masks for the event. “If D.C. escalates… so do we,” Alexander wrote on Parler last week — one of scores of social media posts welcoming violence that were reviewed by ProPublica in the weeks leading up to Wednesday’s attack on the capitol.
Thousands of people heeded that call.
Politico: "Bonus Army expelled, July 28, 1932," By ANDREW GLASS July 28th, 2015
On this day in 1932, William Mitchell, the U.S. attorney general, ordered tens of thousands of World War I veterans and their families removed from government property. In the midst of the Great Depression, the veterans, known as the “Bonus Army,” had come to Washington to lobby Congress to accelerate the year when they would be eligible for their cash bonuses.
After Mitchell issued his order, the veterans resisted the D.C. police at their encampment on the banks of the Anacostia River. Shots were fired. Two veterans were wounded in the melee and later died. When told of the violence, President Herbert Hoover ordered the army to clear the veterans’ campsite.
