[Powerline] I have watched Tucker Carlson’s reporting on the previously suppressed January 6 tapes over the past three evenings along with his reconstruction of events. Nauseated by the incessant palaver about the supposed “insurrection,” I can’t help but want to hear the full story. I support his efforts to redress the Democrat/media hysteria. Yet his account seems to me lacking in its own way.
Last night Tucker acknowledged and accepted the assessment that 114 police officers were injured during in the mostly peaceful riot. He condemned the assaults on police officers.
Tucker condemns the riot that delayed the certification of the 2020 election by Congress, but that’s not the whole story. He argues that the protest was “mostly peaceful,” or “mostly peaceful chaos.”
We mocked CNN et al. when they took this precise tack on the George Floyd riots of 2020 in Minneapolis and elsewhere around the country. Tucker’s take on January 6 seems like a satirical echo of the media echo chamber, and yet he is serious.
This is what he had to say Monday evening, per Jacob Sullum’s Reason column:
“Hundreds and hundreds of people, possibly thousands,” entered the Capitol over the course of two hours that day, Carlson said. “The crowd was enormous. A small percentage of them were hooligans. They committed vandalism. You’ve seen their pictures again and again. But the overwhelming majority weren’t. They were peaceful. They were orderly and meek. These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers.”
Sullum comments:
That gloss is misleading in a few ways. Carlson mentioned vandalism but not violence against police officers, which indisputably occurred even if it was not typical. His characterization of the Capitol invaders as “orderly” is hard to reconcile with his description of the scene as “mostly peaceful chaos.” The adjective meek likewise seems inapt for people who entered the Capitol without permission as Congress was ratifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, precisely because they objected to that ceremony, which they erroneously saw as confirming an illegitimate result.
Last night Tucker acknowledged and accepted the assessment that 114 police officers were injured during in the mostly peaceful riot. He condemned the assaults on police officers. “Mostly peaceful” doesn’t quite cut it. Read the rest at the link
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"The adjective meek likewise seems inapt for people who entered the Capitol without permission..."
When a Uniformed Capitol Police Officer visibly opens doors in the Capitol Building and visually directs people into areas of the building, it seems reasonable to presume at least some level of tacit "permission". Thus a blanket assertion of knowlingly illegal entry is specious.
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We just want the video so that we can decide. We are for accountability, especially for the instigators. We have questions about whether it was coordinated, manipulated or acerbated by the Feds. Show me video of Qanon Shaman doing some heinous violence and I am down for his long sentence as long as all the BLM rioters are held to the same standard. Equal Protection is guaranteed. Also Brady Material like this video needs to be lawfully surrendered to defendants.
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Some time ago, [oh no here comes a story!] I was standing near the White House entry gate guardhouse. Three CAPOs were lightly chatting with a fellow in a fashion to 'draw him out'.
Sitting on a (1)desk corner, (2)leaning in a doorway, (3)walking to the fellow with a fresh hot cup of coffee, the three were doing a covert interview. All ready to move on the guy.
"Oh, you with a tour group?"
"What time is the tour?"
"Where are you from?"
"I'm John, what's your name again?"
"That your backpack? What's in it?"
"When did you get here? Come with anybody?"
"What kind of medicines in the bag? You get carsick?"
"That pack looks heavy, got a bottle of water in there? Why don't you set it down."
All pointed, each CAPO carrying a theme but redirecting the last question, listening for conflict, confusion or verbal response triggers.
Turned out the guy was on a personal 'day in the park' break from his meds for schizophrenia. He had a thermos of soup and a sandwich in the backpack. He had left his gun at home that day because they didn't allow guns on the tour bus.
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Myself and the comment section of Powerline do not have a very high opinion of the articles author, Scott 'little pecker' Johnson.
"Scott... clutching pearls and swooning towards the fainting couch is so unmanly. Don't spend your remaining days as an invertebrate."
"Thanks for your opinion Scott. Out of 15,000 people, a few hundred got out of line. And those were a bunch of misdemeanors, with a few exceptions. Pay your fine and go home. Not years in prison. The whole leftie proposition that this was a “wiolent inthureccshun” is beyond preposterous, but it sure fits their narrative."
My snark of the day is from Powerline comments, ha!:
"Is it too soon to speculate that Tucker won't be showing any new J6 video footage?"
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Powerline is in the same orbit as CONservative treehouse. Pretends to hate McConnell but actually doesn't and insists DeSantis is head of the deep state.
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For two years now, we have heard about an insurrection that everyone knows was bogus. The media deliberately lied in its vain attempt to ruin President Donald John Trump — one in a series of attempts by the real deniers of election results.
Tucker Carlson’s revelation that the Capitol Police incited peaceful protesters has been dismissed by a media obsessed with lying. The key to Pravda — the Soviet version of propaganda — was not to get people to believe it, but to get people to stop following the news. Judging by television ratings in the 21st century, it is working. It indoctrinates Americans to believe they are powerless and that resistance is futile.
So the lies continue.
NBC told the fools who trust it, “Tucker Carlson, with video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering.”
The NBC fairy tale said, “Carlson focused Monday’s segment on promoting former President Donald Trump’s narrative by showing video of his supporters walking calmly around the U.S. Capitol. He asserted that other media accounts lied about the attack, proclaiming that while there were some bad apples, most of the rioters were peaceful and calling them sightseers, not insurrectionists.”
Well, they weren’t sightseers, but they were far from being insurrectionists. No, Nancy Pelosi and the rest plotted to hijack President Trump’s peaceful rally on the National Mall. A few hundred of the 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital went to the Capitol — which was closed to the public due to covid — and the heavy doors were opened. To paraphrase Mayor Marion Barry Jr., the bitch set them up.
[IsraelTimes] A recent exchange of life-saving knowledge bypassed long-held hatreds and demonstrated the potential benefits of peace.
The aftermath of the earthquake in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and Syria saw the heroism of Israeli rescue teams, who saved dozens of lives through quick and selfless action, as well as the nihilism of the Assad regime, which chose to see its own people die rather than receive assistance from "the Zionist entity."
Where Syrians win a measure of freedom from that tyranny, they tend to choose partnership with Israelis.
A few months before the earthquake, the Arab Council for Regional Integration, a civil movement supported by the Center for Peace Communications whose Syria chapter I lead, organized a knowledge transfer operation in the country’s autonomous northeast — the one part of Syria that is free of both jihadist and Iranian domination. We brought Israeli expertise to bear on two dire problems the territory faces. In so doing, we delivered tangible evidence of the benefits of a peace between peoples and showed that more is possible.
By way of context, hundreds of civilians in the northeast are killed or maimed each year by landmines, which number in the thousands. Some were planted by the regime and others by ISIS in a series of scorched earth campaigns. As to the minority of land that can be safely cultivated, it suffers from longterm desertification — due to drought and decades of neglect by a predatory central government.
To address these problems, we convened Syrian Arab and Kurdish engineering students in the northeast town of Qamishle for a 35-hour remote learning course, through which they acquired software and hardware design skills to construct two smart devices out of a low-cost circuitboard. Their teacher, beamed into the classroom via Zoom, was Majd Thabet, a Druze citizen of northern Israel.
Thabet showed students how to build remote-controlled rovers, equipped with sensors and a camera, which can survey swaths of territory and pinpoint landmines for removal. Designed to save lives and render territory accessible again, the vehicles cost less than $100 each to build. In a meaningful sign of local buy-in, Syrians in the area are using their own resources to acquire the equipment.
Thabet also taught the Syrians to repurpose the same circuitboard and sensors to measure and regulate ambient light, humidity, and temperature in an enclosed space. Thus reprogrammed, the device can convert the many greenhouses locals have built into "smart greenhouses," optimizing the climate for a given crop and thereby boosting yields.
"It was a dream come true," the Israeli instructor said of the experience. "We see the problems [in Syria] and always wonder ... how can we assist these people who are just like us? Then this opportunity came. At the beginning, I was a little nervous: What will they think of me? It turned out to be quite natural; we can talk, engage, and work together, because we share the same goals."
For generations, Syrians have been indoctrinated to hate Israel, taught that it is a "usurping entity" bent on exploiting and harming its Arab neighbors. But this propaganda apparently had not penetrated the Syrian engineering student who organized the class, nor the peers he invited to participate. "Our friends and colleagues wholeheartedly supported the idea," he said. "It was a great experience and it benefited us." An administrator at nearby Rojava University who observed the class called for further cooperation to develop her institution. "Where another country or university has the capacity to help us," she said, "we can achieve a higher quality of instruction, both in terms of the ideas we learn and how effectively we put them to use."
Syria’s autonomous northeast is one of numerous sub-state enclaves, from Libya to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , where new forms of engagement have become possible between for the sake of development. Where locals choose to engage Israelis, it behooves the Abraham Accords states as well as their Western allies to facilitate and enhance the connectivity.
The Arab Council is committed not only to organizing such partnerships but also to raising awareness of them throughout the region in order to counter opponents of peace. To those who incite against Israeli-Arab cooperation, we say, who was it who planted the landmines — and who is it who now strives to remove them and rejuvenate the territory? Until the day it becomes unnecessary to even pose such questions, we will do everything we can to elicit them.
[Hot Air] No kidding. However, don’t consider Robert Redfield a johnny-come-lately to the lab-leak explanation for COVID-19’s origin. Almost exactly two years ago, just after the former CDC director took his leave of the Biden administration, Redfield stunned CNN host Sanjay Gupta by declaring his conclusion that the pandemic started as a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and resulted from gain-of-function (GOF) research funded in part by the US despite warnings against it.
Two years later, Redfield declared himself even more convinced today of his conclusions. Redfield testified today at a hearing of the House select subcommittee on the pandemic, and he didn’t hold back:
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He was right there with Fauxi and scarf woman. He clearly senses he's the one to go under the bus and he doesn't want to go.
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Economically, this was bigger in the same way that current hurricanes do more economic damage than one in 1901. The economic damage would have been much less if we had not done dumb stuff. Much of the dumb stuff was recommended. By Fauci and Birx after they initially recommended hugging Chinese people.
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It was a fail. The plan was to kill the oldest 1/3 of the human population quickly. Didn't happen. The "vaccine" was supposed to help the project along.
Instead, all the Gen XYZ who supported vaxx mandates are now on time delayed lethal injection.
Wall Street has adjusted accordingly.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
