Why did the Capitol Police
fail to protect the Capitol?
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
1/7/2021 4:29:20 AM
January 6th’s events are being seized on as a game-changer, leading to calls to invoke the 25th Amendment, calls to impeach and remove President Trump, and discrediting Trump, his supporters, and conservatism. It has distracted attention from issues around the legitimacy of voting procedures in several key states, and guaranteed the Electoral College vote just before 4 AM that ratified Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’s inauguration as president and vice president.
Applying the classic legal question “cui bono?” (“who benefits?”), it is clear that Democrats, anti-Trump establishment Republicans, the leftist media, and TDS sufferers all are victorious.
A Pyrrhic Victory at best.
Now let's see the Utopia that they are going to give us now that they control all the levers of Power including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Somehow, I in my 75 yrs have never seen it end well for communists, but then who knows what can come from this Brave New World. We already have the Ministry of Truth run by the major networks and Cable News so now it is just a matter of time for the Ministry of Love, I don't think Orwell imagined quite like this but he did fear the bureaucrats most of all and they after all are the real slave owners aren't they? His 1984 was a very dull place with no one really communicating. Looks like the masks have accomplished much of that goal. Texting being the choice of the young there really are no real connections are there? It is much easier to shut down the network of cell phones than the one of real people after all.
I say congratulate all your leftist friends and wait for the never ending party to begin. Looking forward to it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
John C 1/7/2021 5:20:59 AM (No. 651429)
It was a set up; A convenient target and source organizer had to be be obama.
Reported face recognition says Antifa thugs, the uniforms on the thugs breaking equipment, black with back packs, but red hats.
We have been played.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/7/2021 5:43:09 AM (No. 651433)
You bet it was a set up. It was an inside job that because it was too easy for people to get into the Capital.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JL80863 1/7/2021 5:52:54 AM (No. 651436)
I think the larger question is where was our vaunted domestic intelligence service? We are supposed to believe the FBI didn't know anything about this? Exactly what have they been doing? The depth of the corruption is astounding. I thought that much of what we were seeing was activity by the self protective bureaucracy. I was wrong. The deep state exists and extends it's tentacles through all three branches of government. Having betrayed it's entire base, I wonder where the GOPe expects to get donations from?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 1/7/2021 6:08:19 AM (No. 651446)
Yesterday was the glorification of fake news, Republican venality and treachery, and Congressional depravity all rolled into one brief spectacle. President Trump's speech and his magnificent turn out of support was the foil upon which the traitors to our country danced and leered. Let it, as the President said, never be forgotten.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 1/7/2021 6:23:54 AM (No. 651451)
Well folks......the unthinkable has happened. The crazies have taken over our country. We will never have honest elections again. None of the criminals going back to the Hillary era will ever serve a day in jail, the president SELECT and his family will enjoy their ill gotten millions and life for the citizens of our lost country will never be the same. Biden will be outta' there within six months and the laughing lady he selected as his VP will become president. Enjoy the next few days before the evil devils take over.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 1/7/2021 6:32:24 AM (No. 651458)
Well, how did you like Obama's Civilian Army?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/7/2021 6:51:43 AM (No. 651467)
Perhaps I missed it but where was the similar media outrage when cities across America burned all year long and the body count in some places tops 600 or 700 every year.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 1/7/2021 6:52:37 AM (No. 651468)
This is the last time we will hear about defunding the police.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
athina 1/7/2021 7:11:13 AM (No. 651482)
Still frame of a video shows the shooter - not a police officer. A man with a suit on, receding hair. I’ll try to find a link to post. Just saw a tweet of it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
felixcat 1/7/2021 7:32:54 AM (No. 651499)
Just like in Charlottesville - local and state police along with the Governor of Virginia, mayor of Charlottesville conspired to force the two opposing groups to confront each other in that small and easily controlled Lee Park.
This was a a set up. The Capitol Police and the Metropolitan DC Police work closely along with other law enforcement to protect the Capitol and our precious representatives all the time and no one saw this coming?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
greyseal 1/7/2021 7:36:17 AM (No. 651504)
Et Tu, Lifson?
Poster #1 gets it - we're now a banana republic soon to be the Socialist States of America. Let's party like it's 1999 because it'll be the gulags for the 74 million of us who made the mistake of voting Republican.
And don't think that some call to arms from patriot militias or secession will save us. They will either ignore or shred the Posse Comitatus act just as quickly as they did the Constitution.
On your knees Comrades!
greyseal
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snapper451 1/7/2021 7:50:49 AM (No. 651513)
This was all a set up. The final nail in the coffin for MAGA by the deep state. Their goal was to prevent a 2024 comeback and this did the trick. Yes, some Trump supporters were wrong but the ANTIFA infiltrators did their job (prescribed by Obama/Soros) to rile up the crowd and the Capital police folded faster than the Philadelphia Eagles did last Sunday night. What is so shameful and despicable was the "rush to judgement" against the President. Sadly, in Tampa, our spawn of Satan(Nancy Pelosi disciple) Rep. Kathy Castor teamed with Rep. Charlie Crist to call for President Trump being removed from office. Total hysterics and likely all pre-planned - like this all was.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 1/7/2021 8:04:24 AM (No. 651530)
The courts have ruled. No citizen of America has standing against the Marxist Communist democrats One World Government. Our constitution is no longer valid as is our Bill of Rights by a well oiled Marxist Communist democrat coup.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/7/2021 8:09:52 AM (No. 651535)
Just a historical note...
Nicolae Ceausescu disarmed the Romanian people in the late 1940’s and became a socialist dictator with not just an army at his beck and call, but also a huge militia, armed with machine guns, who were posted on every street corner and secret police patterned after the Nazi SS. Go check out what happened to him and his wife on Christmas Day 1989. And remember once again - those people were disarmed.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/7/2021 8:29:26 AM (No. 651557)
The violence from this "storming" came from the police, not the protestors. The disinformation about the Iranians was some sort of signal or smokescreen. These people are textbook evil, tyrannical thugs. Let's see how fast USA Venezuela is destroyed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/7/2021 8:40:26 AM (No. 651567)
It was wrong to storm the Capitol but somehow satisfying to see Congress scurrying out like a bunch of scared little mice. Our opposition talks a big game but are a bunch of scared little weasels. The real Trump supporters conducted themselves as patriots and did nothing unlawful.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/7/2021 8:46:54 AM (No. 651575)
This was a psyops event, staged in front of massive enemedia presence, with near-military precision. Mission Accomplished.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
nina584 1/7/2021 8:47:28 AM (No. 651576)
This was a total set up by the rats to stop the inquiry. They knew the stupid republicans will fold like a cheap suit.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
judy 1/7/2021 8:52:33 AM (No. 651585)
All the fake media & republicans, including Fox blamed Trump before they were aware of any facts.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
athina 1/7/2021 8:55:25 AM (No. 651589)
Re#10, try this
https://twitter.com/opeysheart/status/1347120648024326144?s=21
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/7/2021 9:05:28 AM (No. 651607)
Yes, obviously. It was a set up to destroy Trump. Congratulations, deep state and msm. I am sure Ashli Babbitt appreciates it.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
little guy 1/7/2021 9:13:23 AM (No. 651619)
It is easy to prove that it was a set-up .... and right out of the Chi-Com playbook of planting a false flag. Watch how many of the most prominent people seen breaking the law DO NOT get arrested! Why? Because that will show their real identities and their links to the Dems.
In Hong Kong many of the "rioters" were actually working for mainland China. They started the fires as an excuse to allow the military to be called out and wade into the crowds to break heads.
The D.C. police knew about this rally weeks ago! They knew the Capitol "invasion" was a possibility and stood aside to let some Antifa & BLM types lead the crowds by yelling "Follow me!". The purpose was to get today's headlines calling for Trump to resign and hand the "transition" over to Pence.
This is our "Reichstag fire" ... an arson set off by Hitler's own supporters so he could have the excuse of cracking down on the opposition.
We're not in Kansas anymore! Brace yourselves.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
happywarrior 1/7/2021 9:19:38 AM (No. 651625)
I wish Lifson could have posted the strangest video of all. A Capitol police officer is "blocking" protestors on the stairs with his baton but then turns around and seems to lead them up a flight of stairs. On the next landing he faces them again and acts like he is blocking them but turns around and they follow him up the stairs. This is the video everyone needs to see.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 1/7/2021 9:25:18 AM (No. 651633)
The worthless politicians had already written their speeches of disgust towards the American people before the the breaking in. Even they new Antifa was coming.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 1/7/2021 9:49:12 AM (No. 651670)
The answer to the question is because they are in it together.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/7/2021 9:58:56 AM (No. 651680)
Congress puts on a great show. They (the Republicans) needed an 'emergency' to stab Trump in the back. Voila! The capitol 'breach' by a 'mob' of 'Trump supporting rioters'. Roll the fake shock and outrage. We just cannot give into a mob! Biden is confirmed as President elect.
DC has been dealing with protests and riots for over a year. They knew what was coming, what would be needed to control it, and chose to 'use' it rather than maintain order.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 1/7/2021 10:12:38 AM (No. 651697)
Warmup for the Reichstag event they're working on.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
A Burrite 1/7/2021 10:32:18 AM (No. 651722)
If you look very carefully on Twitter, you will find one pic and one video. The pic shows the "viking" standing with Pelosi's son-in-law. The video shows the Capitol Hill police taking down the barriers and escorting the anti-farts through to enter the Capitol building. The fix was in to blame the Trump supporters!
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Were there any arrests of the protestors who were inside the Capitol building? If not, why not? If yes, please identify them.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/7/2021 11:51:54 AM (No. 651795)
I will never concede... I will live in my America that is the home of the free and brave....I don't know what President Trump's plans are... but I'm with him all the way...he saved our country from crooked hillary... now he must save our country from obama/biden again....perhaps a few crazies will understand what yesterday was all about....it shows DC what the people really think...they are NOT home free...Americans will watch their every move...
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
TennDon 1/7/2021 11:52:18 AM (No. 651796)
#9. This is the last time we will hear about defunding the police.
They’ll just transfer the funds to the Secret Police.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DVC 1/7/2021 12:01:20 PM (No. 651806)
The police made NO SERIOUS EFFORT to keep people out.
Watch the videos. I saw about 25 officers confronted on the upper steps by about 50 protesters. One squirt of what I assume was pepper spray, then the officers push a bit, shove a bit, then just back up and run away, with the people following them at a slow walk.
The LET them just walk in from the videos I saw, other than pushing over some flimsy temporary fences.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
XCenturion 1/7/2021 1:00:04 PM (No. 651866)
The Capitol Police force is nothing more than a glorified security force with the mission to protect the Capitol grounds and the reprobates that gather there.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 1/7/2021 2:29:43 PM (No. 651964)
The most aggravating part of this whole thing has been how the left was so proud of the cops standing down when antifa was tearing up cities across America but now wants to know what happened when they did. You just can't fix
stupid.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Sully 1/7/2021 3:32:50 PM (No. 652044)
Great article. Good video. But you will never know the answer. They will investigate themselves and find nothing amiss.
They can't even find wrongdoing in a soft coup where lovers narrate the whole thing to each other in captured text files and emails admit the plot.
That swamp is real and the last great hope to drain it is now out of power.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
red1066 1/7/2021 5:19:57 PM (No. 652169)
The Capitol police are Trump supporters.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/7/2021 6:27:32 PM (No. 652233)
#21, I would bet that the shooter was either a plain-clothes cop or an FBI agent. What I want to know is why he had live ammo instead of rubber bullets in his gun.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/7/2021 7:04:29 PM (No. 652285)
I think the 'event' was planned by the Democraps and the Capitol Police were the pawns...
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
columba 1/7/2021 7:22:28 PM (No. 652308)
Most all articles on Lucianne come from the Media. The Media portrays Jan 6 in DC as an all out riot. However, I heard on the radio yesterday on the 6th that one security guy noted that his staff members were without food and locked in. So ..he called a spaghetti restaurant that delivered ... and the delivery was made without difficulty.
How do these scenarios relate? One of them is a fabrication.
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