Brave Glenn. I have been disturbed by the constant use of the term "insurrectionists" when this has never been proven. Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes - this has just become a normal way to refer to PROTESTERS. There is a word for them - they are protesters. Did they disrupt violently? Yes. Have Democrats? YES. That is what you do in America. If the media tried to destroy Trump and them - lying about them being racists, etc. then they have every right to show their anger by protesting. Not violently but until they condemn the left's very violent protests how can they say this too is not allowed? And yet here we are. A propaganda driven state and an entire political party that used to stand up for civil liberties in full support.
This is a very well-documented article. The questions from Revolver News are addressing the strangeness of the entire FBI and DOJ response to the January 6 protests. This one is the most troubling to me: "• Why are low-level protesters being charged with major crimes while the alleged organizers of this riot and the leaders of these groups have not been?"
How can the holding of those who did minor crimes for five+ months be justified? That's longer than the time in prison that their listed crimes would warrant.
To me, this is akin to the coverup of the death of Ashli Babbitt. I have watched the video of her shooting repeatedly concluding that it was clearly murder. She posed no risk of death or great bodily harm at the time she was killed. Yet the DOJ pronounced they would not prosecute the shooter as he had ample reason to kill her and he was even referred to as as a "hero". Moreover, the name of the shooter has not even been revealed even though I wrote my US Senator asking him to identify the shooter. Low level protestors indicted for serious felonies and the killer of Ashli Babbitt was and is even praised. My heads like Linda Blair's in The Exorcist.
Not long ago, I was a vocal supporter of the security state. I used to laugh at the idea that there was a deep state. Then, Trump was elected and every imaginable horror crawled out from under the rocks in DC for everyone to see. Now, I just feel like a tool and an idiot. But at least I'm no longer ignorant. That is something I guess.
They have to keep the lie of the insurrection up for control and power. Their news media fan boys need to keep it up to carry water for the elites. This January 6 story doesn't get better with age just unravels.
My questions are when did our government start hating it citizens this much? And when does it stop?
To me one of the most damning facts about our vaunted corporate media is their utter lack of curiosity concerning events when the answers to normal journalistic probing questions might reflect badly upon the agreed group think narrative. They are media, but they are certainly not journalists.
Revolver News is an upstart, having been in existence for just over a year. Yet reading their story, referenced/linked by Glenn, they appear much more capable than ANY corporate media outlet at asking the questions that should be asked. How weird is it that they now do the work that NYT, WaPo, WSJ, etc., USED to do. I wonder whether an industry has EVER self-destructed in less time than the MSM. I can't think of any. They will hang on by telling their minion readers what they want to hear, but they will never be anything but Dem/IC/radical left lackeys again.
The ignored, but most relevant fact, is the derailing of the Congressional discussion of voter fraud. This was the only national exposure to the evidence of voter fraud, and it was being presented in both the Senate and the House. I was watching those proceedings on CSPAN which had just started. The anchors shifted from those proceedings to the protestors outside of the capitol. One of them remarked that the Capital Police had been told not to engage with the protestors, the was some conversation as to why that might be. I only know that once the incursion happened that the discussion of voter fraud swiftly ended, never to be resumed. In fact it seemed that to bring that subject up was to be complicit with the "armed" insurrectionists. A term of art which has specific and drastic legal consequences.
The FBI is the leading purveyor of child porn. The FBI is probably the leading purveyor of terrorist plots. The CIA was heavily involved in cocaine distribution. The ATF runs guns.
I’m beginning to think the agencies in DC don’t have our best interests in mind.
"But now, reverence for security state agencies reigns."
My instant response to that is:
"Only in the twisted minds of the ultra-rich's propagandists."
Seriously, I think whatever "reverence" may have existed for "security state agencies", that's been waining since the start of the Iraq war and is probably now at an all time low among the general population. Simply, we, collectively, just aren't that stupid, and we're better informed now (thanks in large part to people like Snowden, Assange, and, yes, Glenn).
Remember the first "controversial" article from Revolver? They pointed out that Officer Sicknick was not murdered and there were several other inconstancies. The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, et all wrote a fantastical account of a great "insurrection." Tellingly, only one of them has had to issue retractions so far.
The questions being posed by yourself and Carlson, etc. are reasonable questions. The fact that the media are protecting the FBI should concern everybody regardless the scenario. These last few years have convinced me that our DOJ and FBI are a fully politicized, wholly corrupt deep state which will do ANYTHING to protect themselves including leaking to the media, disappearing emails and text messages, altering evidence and arresting/intimidating political enemies. Clapper lied to congress and he's a left media hero but Roger Stone had his door kicked in at 5am with a SWAT team and a CNN news crew. Welcome to Brazil.
Prior to Trump, I had resigned myself to the fact that politicians and prestige media were thoroughly corrupt. Now I have to toss in the federales, too! What truly surprises me is how vicious, immoral, and conscienceless these groups are. They will lie, defame, and misrepresent to destroy anyone who could threaten their grip on power. Truly, we are dealing with sociopaths.
Brave Glenn. I have been disturbed by the constant use of the term "insurrectionists" when this has never been proven. Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes - this has just become a normal way to refer to PROTESTERS. There is a word for them - they are protesters. Did they disrupt violently? Yes. Have Democrats? YES. That is what you do in America. If the media tried to destroy Trump and them - lying about them being racists, etc. then they have every right to show their anger by protesting. Not violently but until they condemn the left's very violent protests how can they say this too is not allowed? And yet here we are. A propaganda driven state and an entire political party that used to stand up for civil liberties in full support.
This is a very well-documented article. The questions from Revolver News are addressing the strangeness of the entire FBI and DOJ response to the January 6 protests. This one is the most troubling to me: "• Why are low-level protesters being charged with major crimes while the alleged organizers of this riot and the leaders of these groups have not been?"
How can the holding of those who did minor crimes for five+ months be justified? That's longer than the time in prison that their listed crimes would warrant.
And the treatment of Parler was a total disgrace.
Thank you, Glenn, for preparing this article.
To me, this is akin to the coverup of the death of Ashli Babbitt. I have watched the video of her shooting repeatedly concluding that it was clearly murder. She posed no risk of death or great bodily harm at the time she was killed. Yet the DOJ pronounced they would not prosecute the shooter as he had ample reason to kill her and he was even referred to as as a "hero". Moreover, the name of the shooter has not even been revealed even though I wrote my US Senator asking him to identify the shooter. Low level protestors indicted for serious felonies and the killer of Ashli Babbitt was and is even praised. My heads like Linda Blair's in The Exorcist.
Not long ago, I was a vocal supporter of the security state. I used to laugh at the idea that there was a deep state. Then, Trump was elected and every imaginable horror crawled out from under the rocks in DC for everyone to see. Now, I just feel like a tool and an idiot. But at least I'm no longer ignorant. That is something I guess.
Our wonderful FBI...
The FBI knew in advance the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. 53 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance the Las Vegas shooter (Stephen Paddock). 60 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). 14 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance of the Sandy Hook shooter (Adam Lanza). 26 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians. 3 dead, hundreds injured.
• The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). 17 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan). 13 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance of the Boulder Colorado shooter (Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa). 10 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance the Garland, Texas, shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi). 1 dead.
• The FBI knew in advance of 9/11 that terrorists were training in US flight schools and had plans to fly planes into buildings. 2,977 dead.
• The FBI suppressed a massive amount of evidence concerning McVeigh’s accomplices of the Oklahoma bombing. 168 dead.
• The FBI entrapped General Flynn.
• The FBI knew in advance and facilitated 1/6.
• The FBI is a terrorist organization weaponized against it's own countrymen.
They have to keep the lie of the insurrection up for control and power. Their news media fan boys need to keep it up to carry water for the elites. This January 6 story doesn't get better with age just unravels.
My questions are when did our government start hating it citizens this much? And when does it stop?
To me one of the most damning facts about our vaunted corporate media is their utter lack of curiosity concerning events when the answers to normal journalistic probing questions might reflect badly upon the agreed group think narrative. They are media, but they are certainly not journalists.
Revolver News is an upstart, having been in existence for just over a year. Yet reading their story, referenced/linked by Glenn, they appear much more capable than ANY corporate media outlet at asking the questions that should be asked. How weird is it that they now do the work that NYT, WaPo, WSJ, etc., USED to do. I wonder whether an industry has EVER self-destructed in less time than the MSM. I can't think of any. They will hang on by telling their minion readers what they want to hear, but they will never be anything but Dem/IC/radical left lackeys again.
FBI knew and did nothing/encouraged and entrapped people? Corrupt.
FBI didn't know and did nothing to prevent it happening? Incompetent.
Any further questions?
The ignored, but most relevant fact, is the derailing of the Congressional discussion of voter fraud. This was the only national exposure to the evidence of voter fraud, and it was being presented in both the Senate and the House. I was watching those proceedings on CSPAN which had just started. The anchors shifted from those proceedings to the protestors outside of the capitol. One of them remarked that the Capital Police had been told not to engage with the protestors, the was some conversation as to why that might be. I only know that once the incursion happened that the discussion of voter fraud swiftly ended, never to be resumed. In fact it seemed that to bring that subject up was to be complicit with the "armed" insurrectionists. A term of art which has specific and drastic legal consequences.
The FBI is the leading purveyor of child porn. The FBI is probably the leading purveyor of terrorist plots. The CIA was heavily involved in cocaine distribution. The ATF runs guns.
I’m beginning to think the agencies in DC don’t have our best interests in mind.
Glenn writes:
"But now, reverence for security state agencies reigns."
My instant response to that is:
"Only in the twisted minds of the ultra-rich's propagandists."
Seriously, I think whatever "reverence" may have existed for "security state agencies", that's been waining since the start of the Iraq war and is probably now at an all time low among the general population. Simply, we, collectively, just aren't that stupid, and we're better informed now (thanks in large part to people like Snowden, Assange, and, yes, Glenn).
I think the FBI does more than "shape" media these days. It sure seems like they are directing a lot of it (along with the other swamp members).
Remember the first "controversial" article from Revolver? They pointed out that Officer Sicknick was not murdered and there were several other inconstancies. The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, et all wrote a fantastical account of a great "insurrection." Tellingly, only one of them has had to issue retractions so far.
The questions being posed by yourself and Carlson, etc. are reasonable questions. The fact that the media are protecting the FBI should concern everybody regardless the scenario. These last few years have convinced me that our DOJ and FBI are a fully politicized, wholly corrupt deep state which will do ANYTHING to protect themselves including leaking to the media, disappearing emails and text messages, altering evidence and arresting/intimidating political enemies. Clapper lied to congress and he's a left media hero but Roger Stone had his door kicked in at 5am with a SWAT team and a CNN news crew. Welcome to Brazil.
Prior to Trump, I had resigned myself to the fact that politicians and prestige media were thoroughly corrupt. Now I have to toss in the federales, too! What truly surprises me is how vicious, immoral, and conscienceless these groups are. They will lie, defame, and misrepresent to destroy anyone who could threaten their grip on power. Truly, we are dealing with sociopaths.
MSM: It's a wild conspiracy theory!
Me: Oh? It must be true then.
MSM: This issue will have dire consequences if we do not address it right now. It is a crisis!
Me: Oh? Okay so it is bullshit.