What We Know Now, Three Years Later

We just passed the third anniversary of what we are told was the worst attack on our country since Pearl Harbor, maybe since the Civil War. You know, that time hundreds of thousands of Americans attended a peaceful rally at the Capitol, and a few got out of hand, but they killed no one. Except, there was an unarmed young woman shot by Capitol police. And another woman was apparently beaten to death, but they blamed it on drugs to cover the facts. And zero officers or anyone else was killed by the protesters, but an officer who died the next day of unrelated natural causes was spun as a beating death by protesters. You remember that one? That really big lie?

Patriots gathered on January 6, 2021
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There were some things we knew within days, or at least a short time after that J6 2021 event. I wrote a piece on January 14, 2021, which I think stands up fairly well. Estimates of a million attendees have been reduced. I don’t know how many there really were, but at least several hundred thousand. The officer said to have died by being beaten was not. Officer Sicknick was fine all that day; he died the following day of a heart attack, which medically seems unrelated. There was an additional death of a woman in the crowd, Rosanne Boyland, that was not a medical event, but more likely a beating by some officers (other officers and crowd members tried to rescue her). But I wrote this conclusion to that piece, and I think it’s basically still proving true:

Based on what I’ve pieced together, I have what I think happened. I think the President called patriots to Washington to encourage the legislature to protest the electoral votes in the states known to have voting results that should not have been certified before the evidence was considered. I think a million people showed up to support him in doing that very thing. I think bad actors saw this as an opportunity to do damage to Trump and to his supporters. These include agent provocateurs, possibly Antifa and BLM, and also Pelosi and/or others who left the Capitol vulnerable, possibly by coordinating with those APs.

Several news outlets—the independent conservative ones—put out pieces this week, on or near the anniversary. They corroborate my assumptions from three years ago. And they add more evidence, and show how the regime has used this event as a weapon against their political enemies (We the People).

It Was a Trap

Tucker Carlson did an interview with Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana. You might remember Higgins from a year ago when he questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray about whether there were FBI assets dressed as Trump supporters inside the Capitol building before the doors were opened to the public on January 6, 2021. It was a direct yes-or-no question. Director Wray obfuscated. Higgins said, “It should be no.” But the Director continued to claim he wasn’t allowed to divulge anything about how or when the FBI uses assets (informants, undercover agents).

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana, asking questions of 
FBI Director Wray a year ago,
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Higgins didn’t ask that question in ignorance. He knew they had assets inside the Capitol before doors were opened—so they could guide the crowds to the areas where it would look like they had the most nefarious intent, such as the House Chamber or the Speaker’s office.

Here’s some of what Rep. Higgins told Tucker:

I’d seen evidence, even at that time, that the FBI had embedded themselves into various groups online, across the country, of Americans who were essentially voicing their concerns and airing their grievances with each other about COVID oppression. Those Americans were targeted by the FBI—almost universally Republicans and largely Trump supporters. But the FBI worked undercover to infiltrate those conversations and become a significant part of those individual Americans’ communications.

And when you dig into the evidence that we’ve had revealed through some criminal cases that I’ve followed, and worked with the families of J6 political detainees and Americans that have been persecuted for their involvement in the Capitol that day, some of that evidence shockingly reveals that the FBI agents that were operating undercover within the online groups across the country were the first ones to plant the seeds of suggestions of a more radical occupation of the Capitol. And they were sort of testing the waters of who amongst that group would begin acknowledging that, “You know, maybe we should do that. Maybe we should plan for an occupation like that.” But if you look at the origins of those conversations, they were started by the FBI undercover guy that was operating inside the group….

So Americans gathered at their own Capitol to appropriately air grievances and protest at their Capitol. But embedded amongst their number was an FBI asset that had been working from within their group online for many months. So this was the level of manipulative effort that the FBI invested into American citizenry and our assembly online to exercise our rights under the First Amendment, to talk to each other about whatever we want to talk about, including the insidious oppressions of COVID that we were suffering across the country.

Tucker pointed out that this is entrapment. Indeed. Later Tucker asked how many FBI assets are we talking about: 10? 20?

Rep. Higgins says no, and gives a much higher number:

No. Based upon some very conservative but, like, hard investigative effort—evaluation of the numbers, from putting together eyewitnesses, and videos and affidavit statements, and whistleblower statements, and court records that have been revealed through individual criminal cases where J6 defendants have been prosecuted and smart attorneys have forced admissions by the DOJ and the FBI. But those admissions have been sealed within the parameter of that criminal case by protective order, by the judge, so that I can’t share them, but I’ve seen them. So, real hard objective and conservative estimates would put the number of FBI assets in the crowd outside and working inside at well over 200.

Rep. Clay Higgins talks with Tucker Carlson,
screenshot from here

In that huge crowd, there was violence. And I don’t mean in any way to minimize that. But violence was the goal of the instigators. And yet, after all the persecutions and prosecutions, they’ve come up with almost no cases of violence—and zero cases of insurrection, as of last March. Robert Gouveia had gone through court records and put together a list. There may still be more cases coming, as persecutions will continue “until morale improves.”

Even among those listed cases, most would be thrown out if they were held anywhere but in a DC court, where impartial juries are about as common as unicorns. But, if I understand Gouveia's March 2023 numbers, there were a total number of 950 people (in fact, I think they hit the 1,000 mark recently) charged with a total of 1774 crimes, 90% of which are “entering the Capitol,” regardless of being invited in by police, so there was no intent to do wrong, and misdemeanor trespass is the most you could charge. Only two categories are violent, both of which could also apply to not-actually-violent or not-seriously-violent offenses (flag poles and even water bottles were considered weapons; no guns or knives were found). But we’ll count them. There are a total of 383 of these. That’s 21.6% of the total charges filed.

If we use Rep. Higgins conservative 200 figure (he believes it’s much higher), FBI assets' numbers were 21% of those 950 people charged. Not that they charged, of course. But comparing numbers, it took almost a ratio of one FBI asset for every five people they were able to urge into the Capitol or appear to do something wrong.

We don't have numbers of how many were trying to prevent the provocateurs from stirring things up. It's a safe assumption, I believe, that no violence would have taken place without the FBI’s agent provocateurs.

Fascist Oppression Stories

The Epoch Times put out a Part II of their documentary on The Real Story of January 6; it came live on the anniversary, this past Saturday. [You might want to start with Part I from July, and they have other coverage as well.] Reporter Joseph Hanneman covers a lot of stories. A number of them are what we’d call typical American patriots who are being persecuted by our government, as if we were a fascist regime. 

There’s the Munn family, five of them, parents and teenage daughters, who went to the Capitol that day, from their home in Texas. They had big questions about the nefarious elections (as we all still do) and went there to hear President Trump and voice their grievances. They were not violent. They got caught up in a crowd moving toward and into the Capitol. They were smashed up against a window that had already been taken out. So the dad crawled through and helped the others through, and their plan was to find a safe place to wait out the storm of people, and then get out. They are being labeled domestic terrorists. Their case, at this point, is that they are on probation. They lost their jobs and have had to drive hours away to get employment. They have received death threats. So they are moving to another state, pending permission from probation officers at each end. 

They were raided by a SWAT team in the early morning, and forced out without getting any belongings or even being allowed to dress. They found later that the FBI had planted listening devices in the home, which they discovered by accident, because the devices were interfering with their internet.

This device was discovered by the Munn family in their home. Reporter
Joseph Hanneman had a former-FBI friend identify it.
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Huge resources were diverted from all other focuses of the FBI to the “domestic terrorist threat.” There were whistleblowers, who tried to go through all the proper channels, and were terminated for doing so, but their testimonies nevertheless got to Congress. They have faced loss of their careers, loss of their belongings (one was in the middle of a move, and the government confiscated his stored belongings). They reported that, while there are appropriate times for using a SWAT team, that should never happen with non-violent people, particularly people who are cooperating with investigators. And yet this is what they were being ordered to do.

There was one story of a man who was at the Capitol on J6, Ronald Colt McAbee, now held for two years, before finally getting a trial, which will be appealed. Since he was non-violent and not a flight risk, they expected him to get out on bond, but the judge rejected that request. His wife wasn’t allowed to see him or talk with him, but just recently she was able to visit him for an hour. He was a trained police officer there that day, and did what he could to prevent damage. He was one who tried to help Rosanne Boyland when she was dying. For that he was charged with obstruction or some such “danger” to the country.

J6 prisoner Colt McAbee with his wife,
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These cases aren’t over. By calling them domestic terrorists, the prisoners lose their rights as Americans. That’s why the designation is being used. This was intended for actual terrorists, acting as nonuniformed combatants, a designation intended for war times when enemies infiltrate as spies.

Speaking of misusing intended laws, calling this event an insurrection is a huge lie. Insurrection is making war against the country—essentially instigating civil war, trying to overthrow the government. That is what the 14^th Amendment referred to, to prevent leaders of the Confederacy from shortly afterward trying to become President of the nation they had insurrected against. What happened on January 6^th, despite the instigated violence, was the most pitiful attempt at insurrection in the history of nations. No weapons. No interference with official proceedings, even, which simply concluded later the same evening. No government officials harmed or even endangered. And even what happened seemed to have been staged—and lied about to look worse—by the Deep State.

When Tucker asked Rep. Higgins who was behind it, he said this:

The combination of several of the most extreme liberal, anti-Trump, anti-America-First factions that were in positions of authority within our federal law enforcement organizations and the Democrat party across the country.

It will be a matter of finding these factions and rooting them out. That is the only way to get our country back, because right now we are under their fascist dictatorship. Higgins points out that, even though they can recommend charges in Congress, they depend on the Department of Justice to carry out prosecutions. And the current DOJ is complicit in the whole mess.

Death That Fateful Day

There was another video this week, updating information about Ashli Babbitt. Her estate (I believe her husband and parents) have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. And it has some useful information in discovery. The video is Greg Kelly, for Newsmax, January 5, 2024. Kelly has followed this case for a while, and brings out several details from the lawsuit.

Ashli Babbitt was guided by police to the door where she was eventually killed,
screenshot from here

He showed video of Ashli, peacefully walking to the Capitol after the conclusion of the President’s speech at the ellipse near the White House. Kelly says:

First of all, you saw Ashli Babbitt on January 6th. We’ve showed you this picture before. She’s not an insurrectionist. She went to engage in well-protected First Amendment speech and to see President Trump. She was at that ellipse rally, which is peaceful, which was calm. And then with others. Yeah, she walked over to the Capitol. Walked over. It wasn’t a stampede. It wasn’t a raid. She walked peacefully to the Capitol. 

And this is new. You see, nobody knew actually how she got in there. We still haven’t seen the videotape. But we know this: She didn’t break in. She wasn’t part of a crew that broke windows and stormed in. We know this: two undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers followed close behind Ashli as she climbed the stairs to the West Terrace. Two undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers were there. Why didn’t they stop her? If she were a threat? You know what? She wasn’t a threat. 

And everybody was walking in at one point on January 6th. Ashli entered the Capitol on the Senate side long after others had done so. Once inside, according to the lawsuit, Ashli encountered a female Capitol Police officer who directed her to walk south towards the House side. And you know what? Everything I found in this lawsuit corresponds to other evidence we’ve already seen. Here’s Ashli Babbitt, walking through the rotunda, and you know what? She actually does look just like a tourist. Yeah. Peacefully. Listening to law enforcement. Following their instructions.

There’s an oddity Kelly shows video of, at the door to the House chamber, where Ashli was ultimately shot. There are three officers there, standing near the doors, protecting the House chamber from being entered. There’s a big crowd there, seeming agitated. (We’ve seen video of agent provocateurs among them before.) These three officers, “First, Officer Kyle Yetter on the left, Sergeant Timothy Lively in the middle, and Officer Christopher Lanciano on the right.” They have been ordered to guard the door. But then, with the crowd there, the three suddenly, and quite casually, leave. For a coffee break? Why?

Three Capitol Police officers who were guarding the door
left the scene just before the door window was broken.
screenshot from here

As soon as they leave, there is a guy who begins pounding on the window in the door, and breaks it. This is the window Ashli Babbitt is stepping through when she is shot and killed.

She has no weapon. She is not dangerous looking, as a trim, 5’5” female. She’s off balance, working her way through the window, with a backpack on. An officer on the inside (since the officers, who were treating her and the others outside as non-threatening, had left) could have quickly flex cuffed her, held her aside to deal with later, and dealt with anyone else who came through the window—which would have been one unarmed person at a time.

That would have been normal police procedure. But that is not what was done.

Lt. Michael Byrd is shown in video, earlier, weapon drawn while walking through the House Chamber. This is already against protocol. There is no reason at that point to have a gun drawn. The doors are locked. The House members have been evacuated. Who is he drawing his weapon to fire on? The lawsuit quotes Capitol police policy: “Firearms may be withdrawn from their holsters only when officers are preparing for its expected, prudent, and lawful discharge, to protect themselves or others from imminent death or serious physical injury.”

 

Lt. Byrd is shown on video in the House Chamber with gun drawn,
screenshot from here

Ashli Babbitt wasn’t a threat of imminent death to anyone. No one heard Byrd give any warning. No, “Stop or I’ll shoot.” Nothing.

Sometime later he sat down with Lester Holt on a news program, and, as Greg Kelly points out, probably incriminated himself.

Holt: “When you fired, what could you see? Where were you aiming?”

Byrd: You’re taught to aim for center mass. The subject was sideways, and I could not see her full motion of her hand or anything. So I guess her movement, you know, caused the discharge to fall where it did.”

He didn’t see her hands, so there was no mistaking something for a gun; he admits he saw no gun. There had been no reports of guns or weapons used elsewhere that day. There was no expectation that she would have one. And she wasn’t in a position to use one anyway. He wasn’t in imminent danger. He didn’t give warning. He used lethal force at close range, hitting her in the head. And he got praised and promoted for this act of murder.

There’s more. Byrd told investigators that there were 80-90 people he was protecting in the House Chamber; there were only about 6, all officers plus a couple of House members with military experience. So he was either woefully unaware of his surroundings or he lied.

One minute after shooting Ashli Babbitt, at 2:45 PM, according to the lawsuit, Byrd made a radio call saying this: “We got shots fired in the lobby. We got shots fired in the lobby of the House chamber. Shots are being fired at us. And we’re prepared to fire back at them. We have guns drawn. Please don’t leave that end.”

Transcript of the radio call from Lt. Byrd one minute
after shooting Ashli Babbitt,
screenshot from here

This implies that the officers were being fired upon. That is a lie. There was only one shot fired: Byrd shot Ashli Babbitt. This call makes it appear he recognized he had made a bad shoot and was trying to cover it up by claiming it was necessary in a wild shootout.

Byrd has a history of misuse of his firearm—besides once leaving it in a public restroom. Discovery in the lawsuit reveals that he fired while off duty. As Kelly tells it,

Well one day, when he was off duty, his car was stolen. According to the lawsuit, Byrd just started shooting at the car: “Lieutenant Byrd’s police powers also were revoked for a prior off-duty shooting into a stolen moving vehicle in which the occupants were teenagers or juveniles.” The stolen vehicle was Lieutenant Byrd’s car.

That’s not the way you use deadly force. Might be tempting, certainly for— But not for a law enforcement officer. You don’t start shooting at a car that was stolen. Not if you’re a professional law enforcement officer.

And then there’s this: “Lieutenant Byrd fired multiple shots at the fleeing vehicle in a suburban area. Stray bullets from Lieutenant Byrd’s firearm struck the sides of homes nearby. An official investigation found that Lieutenant Byrd’s use of force was not justified.” So we had a record of this. Yet he was still employed by the Capitol Hill police. That’s a problem.

There’s more, certainly, that could be told about J6. And eventually maybe it will be. What we thought happened three years ago, there’s more and mounting evidence for: peaceful Americans were set up to be blamed for violence; when not enough violence happened, the tyrants persecuted the peaceful Americans anyway.

We are in a fascist tyranny. We might be able to recover our country. If so, it will take some brave standing up against the bullies. And it will have to happen this year, while we still have plenty of memory of our freedoms.