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These New Details About the 'Peaceful Tourists' Who Visited the Capitol Are Incredibly Dark

"The Conspirators: The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Jan. 6
"Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun"
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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 .. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21172347/513-sixth-superseding-indictment.pdf .. in part:
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It is CRITICAL that all patriots who can be in DC get to DC to stand tall in support of President Trump’s fight to defeat the enemies foreign and domestic who are attempting a coup, through the massive vote fraud and related attacks on our Republic. … [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.
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A drone, a weapons cache, 30 days of supplies, and a Quick Reaction Force.

By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 19, 2022


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More details about the peaceful tourists who visited the Capitol on January 6 came out Tuesday night in a late court filing from Washington, D.C. The government is trying to keep .. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1285411/gov.uscourts.azd.1285411.7.0.pdf .. a guy named Ed Vallejo locked up before his trial. Vallejo is a high-ranking member of the Oath Keepers who allegedly headed up a “Quick Reaction Force” based across the Potomac on January 6. The supporting evidence for the government’s motion gives us a fairly good idea what this alleged QRF was all about. From Politico .. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/oath-keepers-jan-6-weapons-cache-527359 :

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But the most salient details in the new memo describe the planning and stockpiling of weapons at the Comfort Inn. Among them, prosecutors say, were “at least three luggage carts’ worth of gun boxes, rifle cases, and suitcases filled with ammunition.”

“A second QRF team from North Carolina consisted of four men who kept their rifles ready to go in a vehicle parked in the hotel lot,” according to the Justice Department. “Later, Vallejo and other members of the Arizona QRF team wheeled in bags and large bins of weapons, ammunition, and essential supplies to last 30 days.”

Prosecutors say that as some Oath Keepers breached the Capitol, Vallejo “attempted, but failed, to launch … a ‘drone with a 720p cam for recon use.’” Capitol Police officials have, in recent days, described efforts to protect the Capitol against unauthorized drones.
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A drone?

These guys had a drone?

There clearly were different tiers of the insurrection. There were the masterminds in the Willard and in the White House. There was the unfocused mob acting out of abandoned wrath. And there was a group of militarized, sophisticated insurgents who came prepared to stop the certification of the 2020 election by force of arms if they thought that to be necessary. The militarized element had weapons, and they had reinforcements standing by. They were allegedly prepared for an ongoing insurgency. They were prepared for a new, darker country than the one that we have now.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38817339/oath-keepers-january-6-drone-quick-reaction-force/

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WARNING: LONG -Kyle Rittenhouse and the New Era of Political Violence
"Kyle Rittenhouse shot his victims, but we can't call them that? What kind of justice system is this?"
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It began with the video of a white police officer shooting a Black man named Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., a small lakefront manufacturing city, on Aug. 23, 2020.
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“KYLE RITTENHOUSE FOR CONGRESS,” Anthony Sabatini, a Republican state representative in Florida, tweeted. “I want him as my president,” Ann Coulter tweeted. “ALL THE BEST PEOPLE #StandWithKyle,” the right-wing commentator Michelle Malkin tweeted. “It’s now or never ... and, yes, it’s war.”
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In the Black Lives Matter demonstrations of 2020, many of the participants were not themselves Black: a significant break with the preceding history of racial protest politics in America, and a reflection of how much white liberals’ views on race had changed in the last decade .. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/10/05/4-race-immigration-and-discrimination/4_3-11/ . But even as racial justice became thoroughly embedded in Democratic politics, B.L.M. retained the characteristics of a largely leaderless protest movement — most notably, in 2020, an inability to control the actions that were taken under its banner.
P - According to a study .. https://acleddata.com/2021/02/05/us-crisis-monitor-releases-full-data-for-2020/ .. by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, only 6 percent of Black Lives Matter demonstrations last year involved violence — by demonstrators, counter-?demonstrators or police officers — or property destruction. But those that did presented an obvious dilemma for Democratic elected officials:
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Donald Trump had labored for several years to make a national boogeyman out of antifa,...
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But the possibility, however faint, of the event’s having been genuinely nonpartisan seemed to have been precluded from the outset by the organizers’ choice of headlining act: David Clarke, the former Milwaukee County sheriff and right-wing celebrity, and possibly the most political and polarizing figure in American law enforcement. In a 2018 column on TownHall.com, Clarke criticized the “guerrilla-type warfare tactics of the Democrat Party and the American left” and the Republican elites who were ill-equipped to fight them in “this new age of political warfare.” This sort of rhetorical posture, that held anyone to the left of the Republican Party to be a treasonous threat to the state, was once a fringe view in the party; by 2020, national Republicans who did not espouse it seemed the exception rather than the rule.
P - Clarke, who is Black, had also described Black Lives Matter activists as “subhuman creeps” and claimed that they were allying with the Islamic State to destroy America. Local racial-justice activists quickly assembled a protest to the Back the Blue rally. Early in the event, one of their number crossed the street, banging loudly on a metal pot. Several rallygoers confronted him, and as the argument escalated, another activist and a local journalist were hit as they tried to separate them. A white police officer in plain clothes mistaken by a rallygoer for a demonstrator was punched in the jaw when he went to pick up a BLACK LIVES MATTER sign that the activist had dropped in the street.
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All of these episodes looked, in retrospect, like steppingstones on the way to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol .. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007606996/capitol-riot-trump-supporters.html , where a coalition of standard-issue Trump voters, QAnon true believers and militiamen united in an attempt to blow up American democracy in order to save the country from their perceived enemies. We had entered a new era in which there would always be an enemy and someone ready to meet them. It was clear, by then, that what happened in Kenosha was about something much bigger than the buildings that burned there. It did not really matter if dozens of buildings were burning or one was. It did not really matter if buildings were burning at all.?
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