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There's more than one zip tie guy, the guy in the mask is still unknown I believe.
 
blastula said:
There's more than one zip tie guy, the guy in the mask is still unknown I believe.
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From Floof's link:

John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto, tweeted Friday another rioter carrying zip-ties had been identified as Eric Munchel from Nashville, Tennessee.
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Keith&Co. said:
I believe the law actually requires a Presidential library, but this is Trump. His library will be about the size of the non-denominational chapel at O'Hare. And that's including the gift shop and the restroom.
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I’ve been saying for a long time that his library will be an evidence locker. The chapel sized room will be for all the non-incriminating documents.
 
Deepak said:
Angry Floof said:
He's Air Force. https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/air-force-vet-identified-as-rioter-with-zip-ties/
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There was at least one more with those cuffs https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347011413101998080?s=21
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That's the one I thought we were talking about. That's the "guy with zip ties" image I've been seeing all over media. Then when I saw the image of a guy dressed exactly like this but showing his face, I assumed it was this guy.
 
W. Virginia Delegate Derrick Evans, who took part in the riot, has resigned.
 
Des Moines man photographed at U.S. Capitol riot faces five federal charges

Pro-Trump dark money groups organized the rally that led to deadly Capitol Hill riot
  • The rally, officially known as the “March to Save America,” was largely organized by a 501(c)(4) group known as Women for America First.
  • Women for America First’s Facebook pages show they were calling on supporters to be part of what they described as a “caravan” to Washington for the event.
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It figures. This rally was attended by people from all over the nation.

Pentagon, D.C. officials point fingers at each other over Capitol riot response - "Confusion and finger-pointing continue between local and federal law enforcement agencies after Wednesday's siege of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob."

Capitol rioters lose jobs after social media users identify them | TheHill


House Democrats are Ready to Impeach Trump. Again | The Mehdi Hasan Show - YouTube - interviewing Ilhan Omar
The lists in that video include 193 House Democrats out of 222, 1 House Republican out of 213, 35 Senate Democrats out of 46, and both Senate Independents.
 
In addition to being emboldened, I'm pretty sure that our insurrectionist trumpsuckers have become a tad complacent in recent years. They could be in for a very rude awakening once the full force of the federal intelligence community comes down on them. I hope Merrick Garland takes an aggressive stance - I won't even complain if it smells a little bit like sweet revenge.
 
Opinion | The Capitol mob was a propaganda coup for the far-right Trump insurgency - The Washington Post

After noting how isolated Trump is becoming, with his advisers deserting him, as he rages over the failure to reverse the election,
On the other screen, a different picture is emerging: For the loose network of groups and lone actors that carried out Trump’s calls for violent disruption of the lawful conclusion of the election, it’s becoming clear that the siege was a huge and momentous success, a propaganda coup that will energize them for a long time to come.

“Make no mistake: Wednesday was a watershed moment for the far-right extremist movement in this country,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, told me.

“By all measurable effects, this was for far-right extremists one of the most successful attacks that they’ve ever launched,” Jared Holt, who tracks far-right groups for the Atlantic Council, added. “This will be lionized and propagandized on likely for the next decade.”
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I wouldn't be surprised, even as some of their number try to disavow the attack by calling it an Antifa "false flag' operation.
 
lpetrich said:
Opinion | The Capitol mob was a propaganda coup for the far-right Trump insurgency - The Washington Post

After noting how isolated Trump is becoming, with his advisers deserting him, as he rages over the failure to reverse the election,
On the other screen, a different picture is emerging: For the loose network of groups and lone actors that carried out Trump’s calls for violent disruption of the lawful conclusion of the election, it’s becoming clear that the siege was a huge and momentous success, a propaganda coup that will energize them for a long time to come.

“Make no mistake: Wednesday was a watershed moment for the far-right extremist movement in this country,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, told me.

“By all measurable effects, this was for far-right extremists one of the most successful attacks that they’ve ever launched,” Jared Holt, who tracks far-right groups for the Atlantic Council, added. “This will be lionized and propagandized on likely for the next decade.”
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I wouldn't be surprised, even as some of their number try to disavow the attack by calling it an Antifa "false flag' operation.
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There's every reason to think they're going to try again near or on Inaguration day, and perhaps even after that. They're not going to go away any time soon.
 
GenesisNemesis said:
lpetrich said:
Opinion | The Capitol mob was a propaganda coup for the far-right Trump insurgency - The Washington Post

After noting how isolated Trump is becoming, with his advisers deserting him, as he rages over the failure to reverse the election,
On the other screen, a different picture is emerging: For the loose network of groups and lone actors that carried out Trump’s calls for violent disruption of the lawful conclusion of the election, it’s becoming clear that the siege was a huge and momentous success, a propaganda coup that will energize them for a long time to come.

“Make no mistake: Wednesday was a watershed moment for the far-right extremist movement in this country,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, told me.

“By all measurable effects, this was for far-right extremists one of the most successful attacks that they’ve ever launched,” Jared Holt, who tracks far-right groups for the Atlantic Council, added. “This will be lionized and propagandized on likely for the next decade.”
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I wouldn't be surprised, even as some of their number try to disavow the attack by calling it an Antifa "false flag' operation.
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There's every reason to think they're going to try again near or on Inaguration day, and perhaps even after that. They're not going to go away any time soon.
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I think you might be surprised how quickly they "go away" when the full force of the US intelligence and law enforcement are working against them instead of with them. If we get that far.
 
In a terrific segment, Rachel Maddow looked at Wednesday’s events and concluded that the loosely knit movement that showed up on Trump’s behalf will see all this as a “big success.”

“His supporters pulled off a violent, armed insurrection attacking the U.S. Capitol,” Maddow noted. “And then they all just walked away to tell their war stories about it.”
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Not just tell stories, but show off pictures and videos of themselves there.

The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance | WIRED - "The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn't need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight."
We don’t need a cutting-edge surveillance dragnet to find the perpetrators of this attack: They tracked themselves. They livestreamed their felonies from the halls of Congress, recording each crime in full HD. We don’t need facial recognition, geofences, and cell tower data to find those responsible, we need police officers willing to do their job.

It’s hard to state just how jarring the images from the Capitol were. Not the violence from the Republican rioters, but the passivity, even complicity, of the police. After a quarter century of activism, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen protesters of color and progressives arrested, beaten, and worse.

People speaking out against injustice are met with brutality as a matter of course. But while millions of Americans face violence for protesting legally, white conservatives can break the law with impunity. That’s the failure we witnessed: not the angry mob but cooperative cops who were willing to look the other way or even pose for coup selfies.
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Albert Fox Cahn🔯 (He/Him) on Twitter: "My latest: after the #Capitol attack, new #FacialRecognition is a mistake. “For the police charged with protecting our Capitol, the concern is not that they had too little power, it is that they lacked the willpower to use it against white conservatives.” (link)" / Twitter
I'm a honky, and I agree. They embarrass the white race all too much.

Trump allies helped plan, promote rally that led to Capitol attack - ABC News - "The president urged a sea of supporters to march to the Capitol."
In the days before a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's political apparatus worked behind the scenes with pro-Trump groups to plan and promote events in Washington, D.C., that ultimately led to Wednesday's attack on Congress.
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Garance Franke-Ruta on Twitter: "The investigation into what happened at the Capitol will need to include deep financial forensics to determine the extent to which it was an Astroturf Rebellion https://t.co/iqGw7ho4h7" / Twitter
 
[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meet Dr. Tammy Towers Parry a Family Medicine Doctor in Seattle, WA, "We just stormed the Capitol.. it's the least we can do, so God Bless America. Joe Biden did not win. He's hopefully going to prison" <a href="https://t.co/BrAcKQsKVg">pic.twitter.com/BrAcKQsKVg</a></p>— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1347598242809139208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]..
 
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