CoIntelPro Has Risen From The Grave, Part II
First, save this URL: https://projects.propublica.org/parle...
This is most likely the reason that Parler was driven off all the major Internet platforms. Quite simply, it's a cache of videos taken -- usually with their cell-phones -- by the civilians, not the media, who were at the Trump speech and the Capitol on January 6th. There are hundreds of them, arranged in timeline order, at three different sites: the Ellipse during Trump's speech and the 1.2 mile march afterward, outside the Capitol building, and inside it. If you study those videos carefully, and compare them to the timeline I laid out in the previous post, you'll notice some interesting details.
Second, the FBI and the DC police are now admitting that the Capitol break-in was planned, weeks in advance, by a collection of "extremist fringe-groups" -- not by Trump or anyone working for him. These groups, the FBI claims, included "QAnon", "The Boogaloo Bois", "The Proud Boys" and "The Oathkeepers". The police also admit that there were some Antifa and BLM "activists" (including John Sullivan) among the crowd that broke into the Capitol building.
They're also admitting that Officer Bryan Sicknick did not die of being hit on the head with a fire-extinguisher by protesters. In fact, he walked away from the only pushing-match he was involved in, said he felt fine, worked the rest of his shift, went home -- and died the next day of causes which were not revealed even to his own family at the time, and still haven't been released to the public. This means that the other four people who died during the protest were all Trump supporters: Ashli Babbitt who was shot in the neck by a plainclothes Capitol cop, and two late-middle-aged men and a woman who died of heart-attacks during the march to the Capitol building. No, nobody was "trampled" or "crushed" to death in the crowd.
Now consider the comments by the media that a group of "protesters" -- perhaps two hundred of them -- had gathered at the Capitol building hours before Trump began speaking. This is where those Parler videos come in handy; look carefully at the crowd already gathered at the Capitol, and compare them to the crowd at Trump's speech. Note the differences between them.
The crowd at the Ellipse was enormous, roughly 100,000 strong. They varied in age from moderately young to distinctly old. They wore warm winter clothes -- understandably, since the overcast sky and the rough wind snapping the visible flags show that the weather was very raw and cold that day -- in widely different colors and styles, decorated with everything from "Trump 2020" buttons to whole flags. Some of them wore historical costumes and colorful wigs. They carried a large number of assorted flags and picket-signs, clear plastic water-bottles, cell-phones and occasional small hand-held videocams. They moved slowly, clustered in very small groups if at all, and generally kept a polite distance from each other. Most of them didn't wear masks.
In contrast, the crowd pre-gathered at the Capitol was small, 200 at most. In age they varied from moderately young to early-middle aged. They wore primarily dark (navy-blue to black) jeans, hoodies, jackets and watch-caps, with little to no decoration -- usually one or two buttons -- and dark running-shoes. They carried a few flags, often attached to baseball bats and hockey sticks. From the beginning they moved quickly, restlessly, and clustered in a large tight group. Some of them wore dark face-scarves as masks.
The early crowd also carried a number of bullhorns, which is interesting. The reason for bringing a bullhorn to a large gathering is to make speeches to the crowd. What speeches did they intend to make to the crowd gathered at the Capitol?
About 40 minutes after Trump began speaking, some of his audience pulled away from the area and began walking slowly toward the Capitol. Among them was the iconic Buffalo Boy, stripped to the waist to show off his tattoos; he was flanked by two young men carrying bullhorns. As the marchers continued, more of Trump's audience followed them. At the pace the marchers were moving, it took them half an hour to reach the Capitol.
Just a few minutes before 1 PM, just as the House of Reps gathered to begin counting the electoral votes, the crowd at the Capitol began to move. The timing was too precise to have been accidental. The civilian videos show that there were members of the early-bird bunch who had climbed the scaffolding beside the north door stairs and were shouting to the rest of the crowd through their bullhorns. The rest of the crowd, now tight-knit, began pushing through the temporary fencing and grappling with the police, making the police back up and send for more police in riot gear.
Trump finished his speech at 1:12 PM, and almost half of his audience -- about 50,000 people -- followed the earlier marchers toward the Capitol, forming an unbroken group along the mall from the Ellipse to the Capitol -- and concealing the difference between the early crowd and Trump's audience. Trump had said in his speech "I'll be with you," and it's possible that he actually intended to march along with his followers to the Capitol, but the Secret Service firmly disabused him of that notion and whisked him back to the White House.
Meanwhile the early bunch, now thickened by the first of the marchers from the Ellipse, pushed more aggressively, and loudly, at the temporary barricades -- and began seriously attacking the police, who began firing tear-gas into the crowd. At about 1:30 PM the DC police began evacuating the various buildings around the Capitol.
At 1:40 PM the DC Mayor declared a curfew and called for more police. By now the rest of Trump's audience had reached the Capitol, where they mostly milled around chanting slogans, or sat down and waited. The leading group, comprised of the early crowd and the first of the marchers, continued scuffling with the police and trying to get into the Capitol, pushing the police steadily back for the next half hour, particularly on the north and west sides of the building. At about 2:08 PM the Capitol was placed on lockdown.
At 2:11 PM the crowd broke through police lines at the north and west doors. At the same moment, police at the east doors opened the doors and let about 200 of the crowd come in -- and then led them through the building. To all accounts, this east-door crowd remained peaceable and did nothing but march through the Capitol, taking pictures. The question is why the police did it, and why at just that moment. Did they have some way of knowing the difference between the early-rowdy bunch and the general Trump supporters?
Through the next five minutes, the Rowdy Bunch broke in through windows and glass-paneled doors at the west and north entrances to the Capitol Building. At this point the DC police began evacuating the House and Senate chambers, thus interrupting the roll-call -- just as the Reps. from Arizona were challenging the electoral vote from their state on the grounds of discovered election-fraud.
This is interesting because, if the roll-call had been allowed to continue, the Reps -- and Senators -- from other states would have challenged too, thus giving Trump (and, we can assume, his supporters) what he wanted. The election, challenged, could have been sent to the House of Representatives for investigation and debate. This has happened a couple times before in US history, and it might have ended with either the House or perhaps the Supreme Court deciding in favor of Trump. Given the partisan makeup of the House, it was a thin hope -- but it was still a possibility. Therefore, the last thing Trump's real supporters would have wanted was to interrupt the roll-call.
At 2:30 PM DC Mayor Bowser -- again? -- ordered a city-wide curfew to begin at 6 PM. Meanwhile the Rowdy Bunch, about 200 strong, continued smashing and pushing their way into the building while the crowd that had been let in by the east door kept on walking, and taking pictures, directed by the police. At 2:38 Trump, long since back in the White House and alerted to the trouble at the Capitol, sent out a Tweet asking his followers to "support our Capitol police" and "Stay peaceful."
The Rowdy Bunch paid no attention, but kept breaking into the building by the north and west doors, several of them being diverted by the Capitol police, forcing their way toward the Speakers Lobby behind the House Chamber. The quiet bunch -- another 200 -- which had been let in by the east door, marched off toward the now-empty Senate Chamber, taking pictures, apparently unaware of the Rowdy Bunch going after the House. The vast majority of the Trump supporters, by the south and east doors, apparently had no clue what was happening inside.
At this point we should stop and consider the makeup of that collection of "extremist fringe-groups" who did the actual break-in.
It's widely known in the hacker community that "QAnon" was started as a prank by some college students. They had been studying computer science, knew how to make an authentic-looking website, and also knew how to advertise it on the Internet, particularly on the wide-open website 4Chan. When they realized that they were attracting a number of real wing-nuts, they quietly handed over their whole "organization" to the FBI -- which has been using it as a "nut-trap" and False Flag ever since.
The "Boogaloo Bois" likewise began as a website on 4Chan, first appearing in 2012, which didn't get much notice or make much noise until 2019, when it suddenly began making news for claiming attacks on police. Politically amorphous rather than distinctly right or left-wing, they claim to be variously "anarchists" or "libertarian-anarchists", but seem to agree on nothing but provoking a civil war, or race war, and bringing down the government. People claiming to be "Boog Boys" have shown up at BLM and Antifa actions as well as Trump rallies, but rarely at any political activity in between. They show all the earmarks of being an undercover police creation, intended to draw in and entrap political nuts from all over the spectrum.
Then there are the "Proud Boys", a genuine right-wing group founded by Canadian fascist radio pundit Gavin McInnes in 2016. He managed to attract what the Anti-Defamation League calls "essentially a drinking club" or street-gang with "nationalistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and misogynist" ideas. One thing nobody has managed to call them is "racist", since they're a very mixed group. Gavin McInnes was eventually pushed out and the group was taken over by Enrique Tarrio, a Black ex-Cuban with an understandable hatred of all things communist. During Trump's administration they made efforts to become respectable Republicans, but never quite made it -- probably due to their tendency to get into brawls with Antifa and BLM "protesters", which managed to win them a "domestic terrorist" label in Canada. Despite the FBI's claims, it's unlikely that the Proud Boys had much to do with the Jan. 6th riots, aside from providing maybe a dozen volunteers, since Tarrio himself had been arrested two days earlier for violation of his bail terms.
Finally there are the "Oath Keepers", perhaps 40,000 current and veteran military, police, and other first-responder Conservatives who pledge to keep the oath they swore on enlistment: to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic". They take this to mean refusal to obey unconstitutional orders, and opposition to Antifa and BLM. They've formed a loosely-organized militia whose services they offer whenever Antifa/BLM protesters threaten to show up. Of course they voted for Trump. Given their devotion to Law And Order, it's very unlikely that they would have assisted in breaking into the Capitol, despite accusations that a dozen of them were seen entering the building; they may have been among the 200 who were let in by the east door.
And there are the supposedly-few Antifa and BLM "activists" who were seen and videotaped at the head of the break-in crowd.
At 2:42 PM about 60 of the Rowdy Bunch climbed the stairs and reached the glass-paneled door to the Speakers' Lobby, which was barricaded from the inside, with plainclothes Capitol police waiting beyond with guns drawn and three DC police guarding the door from the outside. John Sullivan, leading the crowd, persuaded the three police to move aside and start down the stairs, whereupon several of his crowd began breaking the glass panels. Sullivan looked through, saw at least one of the plainclothes police with their guns drawn, pulled back and warned his followers -- still, several of them kept breaking the panels and pushed their way inside. Ashli Babbitt was not one of the first through the door, but she was the one the plainclothes cop shot. The others pulled her body back out the door and retreated themselves. Sullivan and his immediate cohorts retreated back down the stairs as four more DC police came up the stairs. For the next 40 minutes the Rowdy Bunch worked their way through the building, trashing one office, stealing a computer, and taking pictures.
At 3:13 PM Trump sent another Tweet, asking again for "No violence!" and to "respect the law". It's anyone's guess just who among the protesters inside the building noticed, but at 3:33 PM a stream of protesters were seen leaving. The size of this "stream" hasn't been reported yet, but between the Rowdy Bunch and the Quiet Bunch together it couldn't have been much more than 400 total.
So we're left with five questions: 1) Why did the cop at the east door open it up and not only let in the Quiet Bunch but lead them through the building? 2) Just who were the 200 who broke in by the north and west doors? 3) Just who were the 60 on the stairs (besides John Sullivan) that broke the door to the Speakers' Lobby? and 4) Why did the cop at the east door let in the crowd just four minutes before the crowd at the north door broke in? and 5) Why did the plainclothes cop shoot Babbitt and not the two or three men who preceded her?
It's clear that the break-in at the Capitol was carefully planned and orchestrated beforehand -- and not by Trump, or anybody in his camp. It's also clear that there was collusion from somebody on the inside. Now who could have had contacts that effective on the inside? It's extremely doubtful that AntifaBLM had an inside contact. Of the four groups suspected by the DC police, the Oath Keepers are the most likely to have had a sympathizer or two inside, but also the least likely to have plotted against Trump. The Proud Boys are absolutely the least likely to have any contacts on the inside, and the second least likely to have turned on Trump. The Boogaloo Bois look far too chaotic to have inside contacts, but what if they really are another FBI False Flag front? QAnon is certainly a front for the FBI, who certainly have some inside men at the Capitol, but would the FBI go this far to get Trump?
Why not? They're no fans of him -- or any Republican administration, really -- and they've done similar manipulations before. Does anyone remember the CoIntelPro scandal? Yes, it was more than 50 years ago and the campaign was supposedly shut down, but none of the involved agents were fired afterward and the records certainly weren't destroyed. I can't see those professional spooks giving up on a strategy that worked so well for so long.
So, no more than 400 people -- most likely only 200 -- successfully hijacked a crowd of 50,000 by getting ahead of them to their destination, leading their march to their destination, and then posing as their leaders while committing an obvious crime. This artful manipulation effectively slandered Trump and all his supporters, setting him up to be impeached (which didn't work) and his innocent supporters to be "cancelled", which very well may work.
So what can we learn from this? Well, take it from an old peace-marcher, there are ways to protect yourself and whatever movement you're backing -- but they're not easy, and they take a lot of work and forethought. I'll get to them in the next post. Meanwhile, stay cynical.
--Leslie <;)))><
