That’s how Troy Thompson, spokesman for the Department of General Services – the agency that protects the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, described yesterday’s mass national armed protest “domestic terrorism” event that the mainstream media (and various government agencies) has been “warning” ‘good’ Americans about all week.<\/p>\n
As\u00a0we reported in detail yesterday<\/a>\u00a0– avoiding the mainstream media’s jump to a pre-conceived narrative conclusion – armed\u00a0protesters did indeed appear at multiple state capitol\u00a0complexes across the country Sunday morning.<\/p>\n This\u00a0followed a special bulletin from the FBI<\/strong>\u00a0last week that warned:\u00a0“armed protests<\/a>” were being planned at 50 state capitols<\/strong>\u00a0and the US Capitol in Washington, DC, ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. This was\u00a0immediately picked up by the media and amplified dramatically…<\/strong><\/p>\n However,\u00a0as Reuters reports<\/a>,\u00a0only small gatherings of demonstrators had taken to the streets alongside much larger crowds of law-enforcement officers and media personnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n Even worse, they decried violence! Doesn’t sound very “terrorist”-y or “coup”-y or “insurrection”-y:<\/p>\n \u201cI am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>said one man standing on the lawn in front of the capitol.<\/p>\n The man, who refused to give his name, wore a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d hat and waving a \u201cDon\u2019t tread on me\u201d flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And furthermore,\u00a0as we detailed previously<\/a>, while the protesters are being identified across various platforms as members of a so-called “boogaloo” movement,\u00a0they largely appear to be generic anti-government anarchists\u00a0<\/strong>– some of whom call themselves “liberty boys,” and others who oppose the conservative Proud Boys. Their sudden emergence surrounding the inauguration is curious, to say the least.<\/p>\n Even The Guardian was forced to admit:<\/p>\n “At heavily fortified state capitals across USA on Sunday,\u00a0law enforcement & media outnumbered protesters, with only a handful of armed men showing up<\/strong>\u00a0to planned demonstrations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Some local news agencies flipped the narrative, proclaiming that the lack of turnout of “domestic terrorists” was due to the outsize presence of National Guardsmen nationwide.<\/p>\n We suspect otherwise, as we have already seen numerous walkbacks of hyperbolic headlines and statements from various deep-state-loyal agencies:<\/p>\n So who could blame Americans for not trusting the media or the government?<\/p>\n As Jordan Schachtel concludes,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0FBI seems to be grossly exaggerating the capabilities of a fringe network of activists<\/strong>\u00a0that does not have the capacity to mobilize significant numbers of people. Certainly, they do not present a threat of \u201cinsurrection,\u201d or anything close. In leaking these bulletins to the media, it appears that the Bureau is once again, after four years of \u201cTrump-Russia\u201d madness, engaged in unsavory activism and attempts to manufacture a political narrative.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/militants%20boogaloo_0.png?itok=FOpkgMpf\")
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