CPAC stage design - Fascists gonna Fascist

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(03-02-2021, 12:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No we don't forget that.  But you are missing the point.  Bernie did not promote a massive lie to motivate his followers to violence.  He did not claim that Democracy had failed and the only option left was "trial by combat".

You just can't lump an act of terror instigated by the President of the United States in with all other such actions.

I think it helpful if one looks at such attacks from an intel/FBI/law enforcement perspective.

Someone like Hodgkinson, Scalise' shooter, was a true lone wolf--unstable, angry, antisocial. He was not acting at Bernie's urging, and Bernie quickly denounced him. Not much of a trail to follow there; and when the shooter is dead, it's case closed.

Not so with the Capitol breach, which involved some 800 people, 799 still alive, 9,000 more outside, and the collusion of certain GOP party leaders and the president, who called them to that place on that date to disrupt the peaceful transmission of power.

The Big Lie which moved that mob to the Capitol is still an active force in U.S. politics, as anyone watching CPAC last week could see. Social media is still crackling with talk of taking down the illegitimate Biden government, "taking our nation back."

FBI agents tasked with protecting the Capitol--and all of us--from domestic terrorism, will be interested in assessing active threats, and in prioritizing them. Their concern is now a mass movement which includes violent actors. Many of them. People sitting around that table won't be reminding each other of a 50-year-old bombing incident by a defunct group or interrupting intel analysis to exclaim "whattabout that guy shot Scalise!? 'The Left' does it too!"

They'll be especially careful now that they have been accused of underestimating Right-Wing threats and over-reacting to Left.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/blm-protest-capitol-riot-police-comparison/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/police-response-black-lives-matter-protest-us-capitol/index.html

Their job is to assess threats, not to defend one side of the political spectrum from PR fallout rooted in its own bad behavior.

I think that is the perspective of most of us on this thread who are concerned about the Capitol riots, the Big Lie, and Trump's vow to continue fighting.