Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/07/unacceptable-probe-demanded-after-footage-shows-capitol-police-standing-aside-pro
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At least there is photographic evidence of the perpertrators on both sides.
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Iâve a friend, in Silver Spring, whoâd been having BAD internet issues, phone connection, etc. Anybody else, experience anything suspicious? It just seems to be blatantly, elaborate theatrics, towards autocratic censorship of the web, blatant obfuscatory agitprop⌠The COUP was 40yrs ago⌠INSIDE this same building (with Fascist cops keeping us ALL out!)
First time watching TV news, since Jan 1981: Do they now ALWAYS talk over actual events, controlling any narrative? Were the 6 remaining media afraid of getting microphones damaged by the fearsome & effective police response?
~https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/07/msm-already-using-capitol-hill-riot-to-call-for-more-internet-censorship/
~https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/05/biden-national-security-roles-455062
~https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/01/maga-cosplayers-seize-capitol-while-cops-flounder.html
~https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnewing/2021/12/28/the-ridiculousness-of-learning-loss/ (Iâm guessing, our slow internet, in NYC, is bandwidth, due to equity trading)
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These orders came from further up the food chain. One of the IL congressmen commented to the Chicago News that while entering the Capitol yesterday morning he actually wondered why there was actually LESS of a presence of Police than normal. Very unusual for a joint session with both the VP and the House Speaker in attendance.
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What the article leaves out [and which the wsws reported on] is that only 300 members of the National Guard had been deployed to the D.C. area which is certainly not enough to block out more than 1,000 members of a mob from entering the Capitol building. This would seem to indicate that either Trump or top members of the Guard were going to make sure that the mob had little resistance when they sought entry into the Capitol building. And as expected Biden has yet to call for the arrest of Trump in regard to his involvement of this coup.
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No problem here in Spain. 
And i donât do TV but watched on-line. (Aljazeera) Remember why Edward Snowden is in exile?
Great links thanks.
OBTW dump has had his social media rants blocked:
~https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/06/facebook-twitter-youtube-trump-video-supporters-capitol
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Donât hold your breath Terry.
Time for the blame game: the Others Fault. No one will take responsibility for this insurrection and destruction, not even Agent Orange. The GOP and the DP own this.
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As I thought I had indicated in that sentence as well as on the article entitled âCo-Conspirators in Sedition âŚâ, the moderate Biden has little intention of going after Trump as that would require courage and integrity, attributes which Biden is sorely lacking.
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Yep. Thatâs why Matt Gaetz (R-Asshole), on the floor of the House, proffered facial recognition technology showed Antifa was involved. I guess FOX people were pushing the âAntifa could have infiltrated the protestsâ line. These people can never take credit for what they do.
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I seldom link Politicoâs sneering obfuscation (but, hey⌠Amy Goodmanâs WHOLE show has become disingenuous blob-hyena blather, recently?) Thereâs a special place in HELL, for ignoring âBidenâs choiceâ of Albright Stonebridge Groupâs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, much beloved Victoria Nuland* & the whole Atlantic Council/ CAP coup, weâre blithely being DISTRACTED from? Meanwhile, Iâm marking speciously un-fucking-believably overvalued equities for sale, so maybe everythin IS back to normal & fundementally unchanged? Iâm wondering if Congress failed to notice Trumpâs coup due to shorting equities, theyâd legislated up, while running up BILLIONS in debt (did they LOOT Nancyâs gelato freezer?)
One thing, we all KNOW: Itâll end up being all OUR fault!
*Remember, when we used to mostly overthrow OTHER countries (to preclude competition in fracked LNG export)
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Can anyone tell me what the present state of the preliminary stages of investigation is, regarding the Capitol Policeâs lack of preparation and response? If what we are seeing in photos and reading in anecdotes reflects the reality, then the rot of Trumpism may be deeper and more pervasive than even we had imagined. If I were a congress-member, I would be incensed, I would be livid.
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Are we going to see any of that video on corporate media? Even MSNBC? No, not so far.
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Wings of a Dove, donât worry there are many copies of this same old movie âshowâ, with which Empire has been showing and deluding propagandized, infantilized, and just plain dumb lumpenproletariats for centuries.
As I just wrote this comment on Ezra Klineâs column in the NYT, "Trump Has Always Been a Wolf in Wolfâs Clothingâ â sub-head: âBy enabling the president anyway, Republican elites helped make the storming of the Capitol possibleâ:
Ezra incorrectly says, âTrump was telling his supporters that the election had actually been stolen, and that it was up to them to resist. And they took him literally. They did not experience this as performative grievance; they experienced it as a profound assault.â
This whole charade actually was very likely the greatest example of âperformative political artâ since at least 9/11.
While the real âTea Partyâ was actually the start of âOur Revolution Against Empireâ, this facade and charade of a scary âdressed-upâ mob was a production worthy of one-upping Mel Brookâs âThe Producersâ and âSpring Time for Hitlerâ combined. The scripts of this attack on âour democracyâ were clearly prewritten for the evening âshowâ of âcoming togetherâ in Biden-partisan manner.
But to get serious for a minute, âwe the American peopleâ need to understand the faux-reality being produced before our own eyes:
The long arc of history may have already bent too far toward Empire, since the Second World War of Empires ended, and in which since the collapse of the ânext to the last Empireâ on earth in 1991 â the âSoviet Evil Empireâ arenât they all, Ronnie? â we have allowed talk of âThe End of Historyâ to be prematurely understood as âThe End of Empireâ, despite Francis Fukuyamaâs refutation of his own work, and arguing for a second chance and path forward for âAmerica at the Crossroadsâ to prevail as a truly peaceful peopleâs socialist democracy over this first, last, and disguised EMPIRE.
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The damage of not holding Trump and Republicans actually responsible for what has happened will be massive.
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There will be no repercussions for Trump, the Congresspeople, or the protesters/mob as these are white supremacists, not BLM or Antifa. The failed state that is the US has a whole different MO when it comes to racist whites and people who believe in equality.
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Yes, of course, Beli_Tsari, thanks for all of these insightful and true links that you have provided. I was starting to think that no one else was noticing the scam.
I would only add for âcolorâ that Victoria Nuland should always be described accurately as, Victoria âKagan PNACâ Nuland, wife of all the Middle-East wars, past and to come.
Best,
Alan
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Well, the Trump MAGA Nazi, carrying zip-ties, has already been labled âANTIFA agent provocateur,â so, Iâm guessing a big part of âBidenâsâ Neocon monstrosity weâre about to be rounded-up by⌠is fishing, for some way to blame US all? Itâs like, theyâd bought this shit to âcoupâ Venezuela, Iran, Bolivia (maybe, left over from Ukraine, Libya & Syria oil, gas, lithium, Heroin ârevolutionsâ) so Neera couldnât let it all go to wasre?
@alan385 & @Maineac sorry⌠was trying to write & trade stocks simultaneously! Iâm so glad, weâre back to NORMAL!
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the exteme right wing nut jobs have been recruiting from the military and encouraging enrollment in the police forces of America for decadesâwe have known this --we have publicized thisâwe have advocated for change pointing this out for those same decadesâthe problem lies in our political establishments refusing to do their jobs from the towns to the cities to the DC nabobsâand now (as the attempt to overthrow the election demonstrates)we have proof positive they have infiltrated the houses of government
my bet is that this --like many other treasons-will be let to slide by the Democrats and nothing will be done to correct the problem(as was made clear in a conversation with black leaders and Biden showed)
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My 100mbps feel like a dial up modem.
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