In my first column after the events of Jan. 6th, 2021, I criticized those who called the protest a “coup,” pointing out that, “Some of the same politicians and bureaucrats denouncing the ridiculous farce at the Capitol as if it were the equivalent of 9/11 have been involved for decades in planning and executing real coups overseas. In their real coups, many thousands of civilians have died.”
The media at the time played up the violence committed by a relative few at the protest to stoke a national outcry and demands for “justice.” More than 1,500 Americans were charged over the incident and nearly 500 were imprisoned, including outrageous prison sentences for relatively minor crimes like entering the Capitol building through doors opened by the police, and filming the event.
While most Democrats and Republicans in Congress harshly denounced the January 6th “insurrectionists,” a few Members displayed the appropriate skepticism over accepted government narratives. Rep. Thomas Massie, for example, was relentless in his search for answers to a simple but critically important question: How many of the “insurrectionists” were actually undercover FBI agents and other law enforcement officers and what role might they have played in inciting the violence.
Massie grilled then-Attorney General Merrick Garland several times, but Garland would not budge. He refused to say whether there had been any undercover federal agents in the crowd, though of course he must have known.
Last week we learned a little more of the truth. With the release of the FBI’s long lost “after action” report, we now know that more than 250 undercover agents were in the crowd. According to the report, they were given roles including crowd control that they were not suited for. Some agents cited in the report complained of political biases in the Bureau against conservatives. What other tasks might have been given to a “politicized” FBI undercover team
More than 250 undercover agents...
I remember the pit in my stomach that day. Not because "our democracy" was threatened, or that they might "overthrow" the "will of the people". But for those poor fools that were going to have their lives turned upside down for being foolish enough to fall into this obvious trap. For believing someone like Trump would fight for them. Thankfully for these people, Trump did finally pardon them.
In addition to the undercover agents, there were more than two dozen paid informants in the Jan. 6th crowd. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the subcommittee investigating the matter, asks an important question: “With that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?”
Its truly sad that there are so few in DC and in the public that care about any of this. So many people I know just go along with the official narrative. We really can underestimate how easily the masses are directed away from questioning what their overlords are doing.
In the end, January 6th, 2021, was a coup of sorts. It was a coup against the First Amendment. The lesson for all of us is that if we do not regularly but peacefully exercise our First Amendment guarantees we will definitely lose them, regardless of who is in power.
I remember thinking on January 6th... yeah of course the election was rigged... they are all rigged in some sort of way. And I remember thinking, wow... to be this motivated by Donald Trump... People are thirsty for someone that will stand up for them. Even though he failed to do so for a very long time.
One can disagree with Trump voters as I do, but so few seem to care to understand WHY they support the guy and why the other alternatives have lost their confidence. Its not hard to understand if you want to. And its not hard to see how much hypocrisy is in DC about elections, and freedom of speech. The empire has no clothes.