Comments on: Frei and Barnes on recent developments concerning the January 6th “insurrection”

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:58:21 +0000

I think prudence would cause one to stay far away from a likely trap and this had trap written all over it from the get go. That and the fact peaceful demonstrations are a waste of time. Case in point: Right to Life. We learned. The last boobytrap appears to have trapped no boobs. Did out a bunch of Feds though.

By: neo

neo — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:39:13 +0000

Rufus T. Firefly:

It is not possible to make sure everyone is peaceful in any demonstration, ever – unless it’s a demonstration of 2 o 3 people you know very well, which wouldn’t be much of a demonstration.

Curious about a few things: (1) Do you think the FBI had no involvement in stirring up or actually leading the violence? (2) How much of the demonstrators’ violence do you think was defensive, after being attacked in various ways by police, and how much was unprovoked aggression on the part of the demonstrators? (3) What percentage of people who were actual demonstrators do you think were violent? (4) What about the fact that huge numbers of the demonstrators thought they were being ushered into a building that was open, and who acted like tourists there?

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Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:35:22 +0000

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By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:19:46 +0000

Most folks involved with the Tea Party understood the vast majority of the media are not their friends, and will never report fairly on them. Any conservative group has to use Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Gandhi as examples.

I know a lot of good people got caught up in the January 6th protest in the Capitol building, but it was very foolish to march there and enter the building. There was nothing to be gained and the risk of bad optics was certain. Ashli Babbit’s death is an awful tragedy.

Look at the annual, Right to Life march in D.C. Likely the most consistent and well attended protest in U.S. history. How many Americans even know it occurs every year? How many newspapers or television news programs report on it?

I’m all for Constitutionalists standing up and protesting the usurpation of our rights, but any large scale events have to be led by people who know how to coordinate non-violent, peaceful protests. The Left lies and they will use any imagery available to propagandize false narratives. Hundreds of photos of families living in squalor under a bridge are mitigated by one photo of a border agent’s horse’s reigns.

The Right should get out in numbers and make their presence known and voices heard, but they have to be very well coached and prepared to always appear peaceful.

By: gmmay70

gmmay70 — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:03:14 +0000

Frei’s comments echo my own. Some of the footage was bad, but I do recall one clip that showed a protester verbally engaging with a cop (or some sort of security) and the cop hitting/shoving the guy in the shoulder for no apparent reason. Enough of that sort of footage will seriously undermine the public case against the protesters, that’s for sure.

But it won’t change many minds either way. That’s where we’re at.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 06:19:06 +0000

“…rowdy trespass…”

But it did not start that way.
Nor was it intended that way.

How did it “GET” that way?

By: CDville

CDville — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 23:46:04 +0000

Way back in January I saw a report of rally participants getting tear gassed while waiting quietly in line for the portapotties nearest the building.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:37:18 +0000

The scathing conclusion is the Capitol Police and the FBI knew in advance and allowed (together) the rowdy trespass of the Capitol to occur. They knew this was not an organized coup with leaders,nor a seizure or an occupation. And a Cap Cop shot an unarmed, non-violent 31 year-old trespassing woman to death with zero consequences to the shooter, who portrayed himself as a “victim”. He’s black, of course, since all blacks are victims.

Plus, hundreds of protesting Americans have spent months in solitary confinement with a Congressional delegation barred from seeing the prisoners and their situation.

Stalin would be pleased.

By: n.n

n.n — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:26:42 +0000

Understaffed by choice… her choice. An invitation hastily, summarily withdrawn. An unarmed, white woman executed (diversity motive?). She might have been a baby “burden”… What is the self-defense standard of threat? Plausible? A disorder (“riot”) forced. A Whitmer-closet. A multi-trimester handmade tale of projection and obfuscation through braying and steering.

By: sonny wayz

sonny wayz — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:07:29 +0000

@Barry

“Oh, and the actual head of the Capitol Police finds it necessary (prudent? ethically advisable?) to quit his post soon after the “event”…which I suppose means that at least one person in this whole steaming staged POS is a “responsible” citizen….”

Or getting out while the getting’s good.