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This morning I saw a really intersting article in my 'Lawfare' newsfeed.
It is a treatment of what is known on the "insurrection"-aspect of the January 6th breaching of the Capitol of the United States.
And frankly, I found it traction-ful because it seemingly supported my own view that January 6th was not a mere 'Tourist Gone Wild' event. It was more than a spontaneous protest that got out of hand. I've long felt....and said so on this venue.....that there seemed to be some guiding hands involved. And if so, to what end? And by whom?
Anyway, Lawfare offers us their view on that. I am offering a taster below. And becaue Lawfare has no paywall I've offered the link if you want to read the whole enchilada. But, I'm gonna break this OP into three posts. As the information is thick with names and actions, and covers several aspects of the events.
You can read it in its entirety in this link: The Conspirators: The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Jan. 6
"A week before the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, issued an unusual message to his crew.
In a Dec. 29, 2020, post on Parler, Tarrio called on gang members to “turn out in record numbers” on Jan. 6, but this time “with a twist.” He continued: “We will not be wearing our traditional Black and Yellow. We will be incognito and we will be spread across downtown DC in smaller teams.”
That same day, the head of a Florida Proud Boys chapter, Joe Biggs, issued his own Parler post highlighting the importance of “blending in” on Jan. 6. “You won’t see us,” he wrote. ........ Jan 6th is gonna be epic.”
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"By then, another far-right, extremist group, the Oath Keepers, was also preparing for Jan. 6. Two days before the riot, the group’s founder and leader, Stewart Rhodes, posted a statement on the Oath Keeper’s website. It read in part: "[W]e will also have well armed and equipped QRF [quick reaction force] teams on standby, outside DC, in the event of a worst case scenario, where the President calls us up as part of the militia to assist him inside DC."
"“I’ll keep working on overall contact between Natl/congress team and stop the steal team for scheduling etc.,” Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs wrote, for instance, in an encrypted Oath Keeper chat channel on Signal on Jan. 4. "
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More follows in the next post.
The third aspect I reference above will be a separate thread ...(about Roger Stone)....because, for me, that was new information. And it does offer a remarkable insight into Stone's thoughts, and actions, vis-a-vis January 6th.
It is a treatment of what is known on the "insurrection"-aspect of the January 6th breaching of the Capitol of the United States.
And frankly, I found it traction-ful because it seemingly supported my own view that January 6th was not a mere 'Tourist Gone Wild' event. It was more than a spontaneous protest that got out of hand. I've long felt....and said so on this venue.....that there seemed to be some guiding hands involved. And if so, to what end? And by whom?
Anyway, Lawfare offers us their view on that. I am offering a taster below. And becaue Lawfare has no paywall I've offered the link if you want to read the whole enchilada. But, I'm gonna break this OP into three posts. As the information is thick with names and actions, and covers several aspects of the events.
You can read it in its entirety in this link: The Conspirators: The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Jan. 6
"A week before the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the Proud Boys, issued an unusual message to his crew.
In a Dec. 29, 2020, post on Parler, Tarrio called on gang members to “turn out in record numbers” on Jan. 6, but this time “with a twist.” He continued: “We will not be wearing our traditional Black and Yellow. We will be incognito and we will be spread across downtown DC in smaller teams.”
That same day, the head of a Florida Proud Boys chapter, Joe Biggs, issued his own Parler post highlighting the importance of “blending in” on Jan. 6. “You won’t see us,” he wrote. ........ Jan 6th is gonna be epic.”
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"By then, another far-right, extremist group, the Oath Keepers, was also preparing for Jan. 6. Two days before the riot, the group’s founder and leader, Stewart Rhodes, posted a statement on the Oath Keeper’s website. It read in part: "[W]e will also have well armed and equipped QRF [quick reaction force] teams on standby, outside DC, in the event of a worst case scenario, where the President calls us up as part of the militia to assist him inside DC."
"“I’ll keep working on overall contact between Natl/congress team and stop the steal team for scheduling etc.,” Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs wrote, for instance, in an encrypted Oath Keeper chat channel on Signal on Jan. 4. "
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More follows in the next post.
The third aspect I reference above will be a separate thread ...(about Roger Stone)....because, for me, that was new information. And it does offer a remarkable insight into Stone's thoughts, and actions, vis-a-vis January 6th.
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