It’s Monday…
Trump has been silenced. Off twitter and facebook. And now they have banned Parler which was becoming an alternative website for Trumps supporters.
The CEO of Parler John Matze “I believe Amazon, Google, Apple worked together to try and ensure they don’t have competition,” Mr. Matze said on Parler late Saturday. “They will NOT win! Who does that remind you of?
But, of course he wasn’t talking about the horrendous material on his site, where people call for violence and overthrowing Gov. So does the free speech debate trump the nations security and the obligation of tech companies to police extremism and calls for violence? You won’t hear about this from Matze, but that’s the issue and policing his website now falls on other tech giants who have been criticized before for not pulling off offensive incitement. If you call for violence and overthrowing Gov should you be on a website? If that website doesn’t pull down that material should is allowed to function? Is it free speech to spread hatred?
I have spent a weekend watching videos of the attack on The Capitol. And reading the reasons the Democrats will move forward to impeach Donald Trump. I have heard the warnings why they shouldn’t cause more disruption and division, and I have heard reasons why they think Trump incited insurrection and how they feel compelled to prosecute this. The democrats will first act V.P. Mike Pence to remove Trump. If it fails, which it apparently will they will move to impeach Trump. But time is against all of this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55611630
What occurs to me;
-the pieces of video that stand out are showing former soldiers (One a Lt. Col) inside the building armed with zip ties. There was an intention to handcuff and possibly kill law makers. There were elements that were well planned and they had maps of the building inside and knew what offices to go seeking among others V.P. Pence, and Democrat House Speaker Pelosi. These murderous thugs deserve the full weight of the law, all of them.
-other videos showing nazi slogans and more on Trumps followers, where policemen were beaten and dragged down the steps of the Capitol. How outrageous and disgusting. And they have to be hunted down all of them and jailed.
-there are stories of hero cops, and cowards, who seemed to sympathize with the crowd and stood back and let them march on through. Those police need to be held accountable.
-There is much unanswered about the calls to the National Guard. About how The Pentagon didn’t seem to allow them to respond. Then they did. But what was The W.H. doing? And why didn’t the D.C. mayors urgent calls for deployment immediately roll out back up?
-we also know the police leadership was warned by the FBI and others about the potential dangers of the march. Why wasn’t the police dep’t on guard? Why? We need to understand the horrible failures and it fuels thought the police were sympathetic to the white demonstrators. Had it been a Black Lives Matter protest the police actions would have been much bolder and harsh.
-we need to know who funded their trips to Washington and who paid
-we need to know who Trump spoke to during the demonstration and was there W.H. coordination?
-you need to listen to Trumps words and how he manipulated the crowd, as he always has, with his symbolic words, that never quite say what he means, but clearly tell the crowd what to do as he has told the nation since coming to power not to believe the media or the elections and to divide.
Vice News has a good version of the speech and crowd movement:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wnx7/how-trumps-capitol-speech-incited-an-insurrection?utm_source=reddit.com
The NYTimes on incitement in the speech:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/us/trump-speech-riot.html
And The NYTimes has a good piece on The American Abyss and Trumps lies and autocracy. Here’s a paragraph you should read about why this isn’t about Trumps election fraud claims. This is about a constant and dreadful attempt to erase all the checks and balances of free society from law enforcement, to media, to the final victim, American democracy.
“Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. Without agreement about some basic facts, citizens cannot form the civil society that would allow them to defend themselves. If we lose the institutions that produce facts that are pertinent to us, then we tend to wallow in attractive abstractions and fictions. Truth defends itself particularly poorly when there is not very much of it around, and the era of Trump — like the era of Vladimir Putin in Russia — is one of the decline of local news. Social media is no substitute: It supercharges the mental habits by which we seek emotional stimulation and comfort, which means losing the distinction between what feels true and what actually is true”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html?action=click&campaign_id=51&emc=edit_MBE_p_20210110&instance_id=25867&module=Top+Stories&nl=morning-briefing&pgtype=Homepage®i_id=67323566§ion=topNews&segment_id=48938&te=1&user_id=7978ae3bd37bc548e89883d022582b81
Other News
The virus is out of control and the numbers are hard to process. In England, where I am they are saying 1 in 5 in The UK have had the virus. In London it may be 1 in 2. says the Gov. Mass vaccination centres being rolled out today. 1/3 of the elederly population in care homes have received “the jab” says The Health Secretary.
More here in The Guardian, but the next 2 weeks will potentially overwhelm hospitals already reeling under the strain of Covid19 patients.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/11/calls-to-escalate-english-lockdown-amid-fears-one-in-five-may-have-had-covid
And in The U.S. the decision made not to administer one dose like in The UK. CNN has a good interview on this with Fauci.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-01-11-21/index.html
The WHO today finally arrives in China to investigate the origins of Covid. My experts tell me it wasn’t the wild animal market in Wuhan. It broke out long before Jan and had to develop in humans to be so transmissible. It could have come from The Wuhan lab where they experimented with ‘gain of function’. It could have come from elsewhere in Hubei Province. ask yourself what kind of evidence trail is there after a year? Will China actually come clean and admit if it was a lab escape? This is not conspiracy material. We know factually the lab had experiments but we don’t know when they ended, if they ended.
My podcast on the pandemic cover-up.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1016881/6565870
Have a good week everyone.
Thanks Dana! What a mess, cleaning it up will take years.