Hey Antifa apologists, yes you! Still proud of your black-clad anarchists? Andy Ngo, in the NY Post:
In August, NPR gave an unchallenged platform to Vicky Osterweil to promote her book âIn Defense of Looting.â During the interview, the author argued that rioting and looting were legitimate acts of protest. Both local and national media rigidly only referred to the far-left rioters as âprotesters.â The Associated Press, which sets guidelines for journalists, amended its stylebook to discourage use of the word âriot,â given protestersâ âunderlying grievances.â
Hours after pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, Antifa tried to break into the Multnomah County Courthouse in downtown Portland. A mob of black-clad Antifa militants proceeded to smash businesses and public buildings using hammers. On one wall, they spray-painted an Antifa logo and the warning, âThe state can no longer suppress us.â
Protesters then confronted Mayor Wheeler at a restaurant and hit him. But by morning, no national media had reported on the anti-government violence in Portland â the third riot in the city since New Yearâs Eve.
It will be interesting to see if the "BRING YOUR ARMS " national gatherings take place on 17th of Jan as planned ,in the light of the Capital storming.
Both Acevedo and Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner who led the department during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, said they did not fault the responses of clearly overmatched front-line officers, but the planning and leadership before the riot.
"Was
there a structural feeling that well, these are a bunch of
conservatives, they're not going to do anything like this? Quite
possibly," Mr Davis said.
"That's where the racial component to this comes into play in my mind. Was there a lack of urgency or a sense that this could never happen with this crowd? Is that possible? Absolutely."
IOW, white people would never get this violent.
Not a violent bone in their lily-white bodies. Law and order!
Both Acevedo and Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner who led the department during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, said they did not fault the responses of clearly overmatched front-line officers, but the planning and leadership before the riot.
"Was
there a structural feeling that well, these are a bunch of
conservatives, they're not going to do anything like this? Quite
possibly," Mr Davis said.
"That's where the racial component to this comes into play in my mind. Was there a lack of urgency or a sense that this could never happen with this crowd? Is that possible? Absolutely."
Both Acevedo and Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner who led the department during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, said they did not fault the responses of clearly overmatched front-line officers, but the planning and leadership before the riot.
"Was
there a structural feeling that well, these are a bunch of
conservatives, they're not going to do anything like this? Quite
possibly," Mr Davis said.
"That's where the racial component to this comes into play in my mind. Was there a lack of urgency or a sense that this could never happen with this crowd? Is that possible? Absolutely."
Wow, I have to spell it out for you. This poorly planned and thought out event was a golden opportunity for Congress and the alphabet agencies to orchestrate and allow operatives and true protesters to waltz into places that they could have easily prevented them from doing so creating the environment to get Trump to finally concede and remove his power and influence to facilitate an orderly transition of power and silence Trump once and for all. These are the same tactics used in the BLM protest when operatives, some police, some FBI and some Antifa were caught on film perpetuating the violence and even providing cases of bricks strategically placed in hot spot locations. They were successful. I cannot believe you would be so naive to think that protestors could just waltz into the capitol so easily without inside assistance and coordination. Quite frankly I cannot believe I am having to spell this out for you and I have nothing more to say about it. You believe what you like, neither of us have any power to do anything about it anyway.
All I can say is WOW... that is a pretty wild fairy-tale that you concocted. You mean some members of Congress orchestrated this knowingly putting themselves in harm's way in an effort to hurt Trump with the end game being him conceding an orderly transition? 𤣠That is some wild shit there bro.
If there was anybody behind a dangerous half-baked scheme like this then my money is on Trump... not Congress.
I'm with you, VV. "Congress and the alphabet agencies" did not set a trap for Trump in an attempt to discredit him. The Capitol Police simply did not plan for an attempt to storm the building and did not have sufficient number of policemen in place to deal with the situation on the fly. Many people in the Capitol Police are going to lose their jobs.
Trump screwed up. He didn't sufficiently think through the consequences of inciting protesters to go over to the Capitol building. It's possible that he never thought the protesters would try to get into the building. As it is, according to a poll posted here, 45% of Republicans thought storming the building was justified so Trump likely didn't lose much support from his popular base.
We'll see if this damages Trump's chances in 2024. I really hope so. He is completely unfit to have any serious visibility in American public life.