Patriots shouldn't try to twist reality.
6 Jan, whatever happened, was a big defeat for us, a huge gift to the Left. Anyone who doesn't understand that fundamental lesson is hopeless.
Now, was it a set-up, an orchestrated trap? Did the FBI, or a combination of the DC police and them, plan this all out weeks in advance. "Ha! Trump is calling a demonstration in Washington. We'll infiltrate the crowd with fake protestors, and then they'll incite the crowd to invade the Capitol, and that will discredit Trump!"
Well, maybe. I am doubtful, because organizing something like this, involving dozens, if not hundreds of people, would be VERY dangerous to do, if it got out.
But, there could have been a sort of low-level, spontaneous incitement. There were almost certainly infiltrators from various levels of the police, FBI on down, in that crowd. Some of the more militant groups, the Three Percenters and the Oathkeepers, who came to Washington, almost certainly already had some infiltrators in them back home. (The head of the Proud Boys was a police informant several years ago, which doesn't mean he remained one -- maybe he did it then to beat a charge -- but it is suspicious.)
So, in the chaos of a leaderless crowd [PATRIOTS: WE NEED AN ORGANIZATION!!!], it's quite possible that these infiltrators, perhaps just wanting to keep 'in character', did, with whatever level of enthusiasm, urge the crowd onward, without any direct instructions to do so.
Either way, we fell into a trap, even if it was one we set for ourselves.
As for the people who went into the Capitol, they seem to range from the real play-acting romantics -- the guys wearing body armor and camo with their AR15s in the trunks of their cars -- all the way to the innocent protestor who didn't know that he was committing a crime. (I've got a link to one poor fellow like that, which I'll try to find.)
The thing is, in a crowd, fired up with emotion over a stolen election, it's EASY to do dumb things. That's why we need an organization that can steward events like these.
Of all the protestors facing prison, or who have served time, we ought to distinguish among those who (1) actively fought with the police, (2) didn't fight with the police but did damage things, (3) those who just went in.
And perhaps a 'zero' category, those who went to Washington with what we might call 'insurrectional intent': carrying AR15s and, presumably, the things you would take to a genuine seizure of power. [Baofengs, rations, medical kit, maps, extra ammo, batteries] -- sheer Rambo Hollywood romanticism, but also signals that you're not just there for a peaceful protest.
Your best defense is to say that you thought AntiFa would be there with guns, or something. Lots of luck with that one.
It would be very interesting to ask each participant, what they thought they would accomplish by invading Congress? (The ones who knew they weren't just being taken on a nice escorted tour.)
Did they seriously think that a mob of Trump supporters would frighten Congressmen into voting the way Trump wanted? Seriously? I mean, ok, we've got some stupid people on our side, just like the other side does, but really ...
No, this was a spontaneous stupid thing, not an organized, planned stupid thing.
Like pronouncements of Mr Trump, it was just an unthoughtout spontaneous action, maybe helped on by infiltrators, who may have been part of an orchestrated plot by the other side, but who were probably just using their own initiative. ... their spontaneity taking advantage of ours.
And it doesn't matter. Do stupid things, get stupid prizes. Hundreds of our people in prison, millions of dollars to the lawyers, Mr and Mrs Middle America repelled in horror, and the Left unable to believe their luck -- all memories of the much more violent summer riots wiped out. Of course the Left will take advantage of this. They'd be fools not to. We would do the same to them, I hope.
Plus, they can now pretend to be indignant patriots-- "Ohhh,, an attack on our horrible racist capitalist government ... errrr.. I mean our wonderful Constitutional Democracy... and where's the flag for me to wave .. oops, forgot, I burned it last month...".
In serious struggle, defeats and setbacks are inevitable. Learn from them.
In the meantime, you take care of your people wounded in combat, even if they got their wounds in a futile action.
The imprisoned patriots are our own. At a minimum, every patriot should send a couple of dozen letters to them over the next few days. You can get their names and addresses in prison from the Patriot Mail Project, whose web address you can find by Googling.
