03-02-2021, 02:25 PM
(03-02-2021, 02:11 PM)Dill Wrote: 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.
McVeigh was a "lone wolf" as well. Hodgkinson may not have acted on Bernie's urging, but he learned to demonize the GOP from somewhere.
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.[/quote]
Of course, this assumes all of those people were there to commit violent acts. Which, we already know is false.
Quote: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!"
Because they demonstrably do. One needn't look any further than all the businesses in major cities boarding up their windows for election day.
Quote: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.
You're being far too kind to yourself and your friends here. Your actual intent is to lump everyone on the right into a domestic terrorist pile so you can further marginalize them and their positions. Thankfully only the usual suspects are buying it.
