It should now be clear to all who have been paying attention, Donald J. Trump was the Osama bin Laden of the domestic terror attack of January 6, 2021. Much like bin Laden, Trump’s efforts didn’t begin and end in a single day. It took months of planning. While the events of September 11, 2001, were the culmination of months of preparation by a group of international terrorists, January 6, 2021, was the culmination of a multi-phase plan executed by a group of domestic terrorists. What makes this latter act so vile is that it was led by the president of the United States.
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| Domestic Terrorist International Terrorist |
The groundwork for January 6, 2021, was laid well before the
November elections of 2020. Back then, Trump
was already claiming, before any votes had been cast, that if he lost, it was
proof the election was fraudulent. By
inference, if he won, it was the will of the people in a completely fair
election. In his mind, Win=Fair, Lose=Fraud.
While bin Laden planned and directed the September 11th
attacks using others as pawns, Donald Trump committed grave atrocities using
gullible people in a like fashion. It
would seem that the main difference between the two is that Trump wanted to march
with his rioters and was only stopped by his Secret Service staff. While such ambition is not in keeping with
this draft-dodging couch-potato with heel spurs, we may never know if his faux
courage was something new. The Secret Service deemed the events of this day unworthy of saving
for posterity. They willingly deleted
all phone data for the day. We will never know what might have happened if he had been allowed to go to the Capitol with his bodyguards to bravely go where no president had gone before. He would have been the first president to lead an attack on his own country.
Trump hired and fired advisors and lawyers to get just the right mix of sycophants who shared his vision of win-at-all-costs. Should that cost include breaking the law, setting aside morality, and ignoring the Constitution, they were ready. He needed people to look at our laws as mere suggestions to be interpreted in any way necessary to allow him to retain power in the absence of enough votes to win fairly. In this group of ne'er-do-wells, we find a pillow vendor, a disbarred drunk lawyer, conspiracy theorists, several “flexible” lawyers, a retired military colonel/convicted felon, and an online overstock furniture guy. Trump always hired the finest.
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| Trump's Dream Team of Sycophants |
This was not one seditious act but a multi-part plan with
tentacles that slithered in many directions.
The whole thing was an attempt to create enough chaos to confuse people so
that they would believe that Donald Trump won the election, or to at least throw
the results into question. The idea was
to use the tried-and-true marketing FUD method to win the presidential
election.
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| The FUD Factor |
For those of you perhaps unfamiliar with FUD, it stands for
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. I bet you
thought it had something to do with Elmer but Elmer Fudd
is spelled with two d’s and even Elmer couldn't have screwed things up this badly. It is a common marketing
strategy used by a dominant or privileged organization to restrain competition by introducing suspicion and uncertainty into the marketplace to
the detriment of other competitors. FUD
is also a propaganda tactic used in public relations, politics, polling, and
cults. It is a strategy developed to
influence perception by spreading negative, dubious, or false information to
instill fear.
Trump started with lawsuits challenging the vote
counts. He hired his own experts to find
anything he could use to challenge the election results. They gained access to voting machines. They watched surveillance videos of precinct
counts and drew phony conclusions as to what they saw. They conspired to appoint boards of fake
electors to go to Washington to challenge the actual electors. They tried to coerce governors and election
supervisors. Trump wanted to direct the military
to seize state-owned voting machines. They
tried to threaten and intimidate election workers. They used social media and compliant news
sources to spread rumors, stories, falsehoods, half-truths, and outright
fabrications to muddy the waters.
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| Cyber Ninja Examining Ballots for Fraud They Found None, Repeat..., No Fraud |
The claims went from bizarre to ridiculous. Strange satellites were beaming signals to change election results. The dead Hugo Chavez used secret information to magically flip votes from Trump to Biden. Storage bins normally used to carry ballots were described as mysterious suitcases or boxes that contained fraudulent Biden votes.
A GOP mega-donor from Texas, Steven Hotze, was charged
with unlawful restraint and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an
air conditioning repairman was run off the road and held at gunpoint. One of Hotze’s hired posse of private investigators
mistakenly thought the repairman’s van held 750,000 fraudulent mail-in ballots. Then there is The Sixth Sense version of
voter fraud, “I see dead people.” Claims
of widespread fraud by people using the IDs of dead voters are broad and almost
always unfounded.
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| I see dead voters in every state Trump lost. |
Their Machiavellian plot had all the essential ingredients. They had the fake slate of electors standing
by, they had 147 Republicans who would vote to object to the certification of
the electoral votes, and Trump had intimidated and threatened his vice
president to get him to either refuse to certify the results or overturn the election
results. Trump's ace-in-the-hole was his rally mob which would storm the Capitol, stop the certification, and if Mike Pence met
his maker hanging from the available gallows, it would just be icing on the presidential
cake.
The period between September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021,
is 19 years, 3 months, and 26 days. That’s
the time between the bin Laden attack with his group of international
terrorists and the Donald Trump attack with his band of domestic terrorists. It remains to be seen which terrorist did
more damage to this country. At least we
know where Donald is hiding so he won’t be so hard to find. We all know who is in Jeopardy. I’ll take Domestic Terrorism for $1,000 Alex.
From 18 USC § 2331(5)
Domestic terrorism:
(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A)
involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws
of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to
intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a
government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a
government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur
primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
In an example given under the legal expansions created under
Section 802 of the USA Patriot Act, they use the case of protestors who trespassed
on a Vieques Island military installation to protest military exercises. Their conduct fit the definition of domestic
terrorism because the protesters broke federal law by unlawfully entering the
airbase and their acts were for the purpose of influencing a government policy
by intimidation or coercion.
The language in the law is broad enough to authorize the government
to seize the assets of any individuals involved in domestic terrorism. Is anyone interested in a home with a golf course in
Palm Beach? I’ll start the bidding at
$5.00.
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| For Sale, Government Auction |
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