False Flags at the Capitol
This is hardly the only video on this topic, and hardly the only eyewitnesses whose testimony is available online. My own family was at the rally.
My comment: In the information age, despite the ferocious attempts at censorship, subtle or blatant, the Tech Oligarchs have imposed, information is nigh impossible to silence.
So what is done instead is to label it as fake, and to tell one and all that the virtue of justice, that is, listening to both sides before deciding, is one and the same as the vice of treason, not to mention being a sign of gullibility and folly.
The worldly powers cannot stop the truth, but they can label it a thought crime.
A crucial part of this tactic is to maintain an atmosphere of shrieking witch-hunt hysteria, so that calm reflection is deterred, and the discovery of evidence discouraged.
The tactic of banning thoughts as thought crimes, at one time, provoked Americans into seeking out the forbidden material out of sheer stubbornness.
The worldly powers have used their control over schools to raise a generation of dolts, and used their control over public entertainment to glorify emotion over self-command.
The unwitting dupes of the worldly powers, even as they congratulate themselves on their nonconformity, act like mindless hand-puppets, or glassy eyed men possessed by a ghost. Their only known debate tactic consists of hurling vehement yet nonsensical accusations.
We have all heard such an unwitting possessed puppet denounce Trumpsters with the fury of a hellfire preacher, but not pause to discover who committed the acts of violence and treason denounced.
All the available signs so far point to a partial failure of Antifas to stir rage into the MAGA crowd, who are, by and large, law abiding, homeschooled, and middle aged. This may be due to Trump’s late arrival at the Ellipse throwing off the planned Antifas schedule. Clips exist of MAGA-men trying to pull Antifas back from barricades or to discourage violence while the Antifas try to urge the crowd forward.
It is, in other words, Fake News. The speed at which the Congressmen and mainstream media spread the story is perhaps suspicious, for it may indicate prior warning, prior planning.
The modern generation will recoil from anything labeled thought-crime, but will join instead in the Two Minute Hate, even one that, like the current, will last two terms.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
