THE THREAT
Chilling accounts of the attack on The Capitol. Police officers starting to do media interviews with harrowing stories of fending off attackers for hours and being beaten and threatened with their own guns by? White supremacists, QAnon cultists, offduty police and firemen, aka Trump supporters.
FBI director Chris Wray, in a meeting with out going V.P. Mike Pence says “we are seeing an extensive amount of concerning online chatter” about threats to the inauguration on Jan. 20th. “Right now we’re tracking calls for armed protests”.
So the Capitol is locked down with 12 foot fencing and several thousand National Guards, who are armed and should be armed.
More than 100 arrests including the man who was seen outrageously beating a D.C. policeman with an America flag, and was interviewed saying “death is the only remedy for what’s in that building” calling law makers “treasonous traitors”.
Don’t forget these people, extreme and violent were riled up by an impeached President Trump who has continued to call the election stolen and urged them to fight. He has undermined the legal system, the FBI, the State Gov’s all in the fight to keep power. The Big lie supported by many in The Republican party.
One policeman said he was tased several times and he was beaten and they were chanting to shoot him with his own gun. In an interview officer Michael Fanone, said thanks people who stopped him from being shot, but “fuck you for being there”. Aptly put in my opinion. Trumps supporters, zealots and true believers in the worst way.
In an interview today on CNN, Acting Deputy Sec. Homeland Secretary Ken Cuccinelli blamed the Capitol Police Dep’t for a failure to prepare. He says the “online chatter” is about State Capitols but very nonspecific. Should they raise national terror level? Of course they should. But Homeland says they won’t do so, again showing a weakness in dealing with white supremacy threats. Cuccinelli is asked about amplified claims of election fraud contributing to the security threat, and responds it’s a narrative online. Does Trump who continues to refuse to accept defeat, need to tell people he lost? Cuccinelli responds "that Trump made a statement saying there will be a transition, and “that’s what that means” and side stepped the issue of The Presidents need to admit he lost. It’s extremely fundamental to having peace in America, even if Cuccinelli won’t say it. Trump lost. And the big lie has to end.
White supremacists played a major role in the violent riot. There were dozens there. On Back Story with Dana Lewis, we interview The Soufan Centres Naureen Chowdhury Fink, who talks us through the difficulty of arresting these people as they amass weapons and plot violence because of limits on monitoring Americans, and the fact in The U.S., as we all know buying guns is no offence. The links between these violent radicals is International and growing. That interview will be live later today.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1016881/7307512
History Lesson
Lessons from History are haunting and relevant. If you think Trump’s threat to America ends on Jan. 20th think again…
Hitlers attempt to take over The Bavarian Government ends in failure in Nov. 1923. Within a decade Hitler would install the Third Reich.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/15/trump-hitler-us-capitol-beer-hall-putsch/
Polling
9 in 10 Americans oppose the storming of the Capitol. 9 out of 10 Dems say Trump is responsible. Only 2 in 10 Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-poll-post-abc/2021/01/14/aeac7b96-5690-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
Variants Covid-19
There is a race on to get the numbers of people hosting Covid19 down to zero. Because it we don’t the virus will eventually outrun the vaccines , and beat them.
There is growing concern about The Brazil Variant, and The British variant, and The South African variant. So far not vaccines beaters but evolving. Our Back Story podcast on the variant here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-race-against-time-covid-variant/id1512445640?i=1000504057998
More than 90,000 Americans could die of Covid in THE NEXT THREE WEEKS!
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/14/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html
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