ISN’T IT AWKWARD TO CHARGE SOMEONE WITH INCITING AN INSURRECTION WHEN NO ONE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH INSURRECTION? Garland’s Choice: Should He Indict Donald Trump for Inciting an Insurrection?
These people will provoke a real insurrection with their behavior if they aren’t restrained by more sensible people. And the way the Democrats are doing in the polls, we may reach the point where a majority of Americans would be okay with that.
UPDATE: Roger Kimball: Jan. 6 is looking like a ‘Fedsurrection.’
Beattie’s latest story revolves around Ray Epps, a Phoenix-based professional provocateur and, apparently, FBI asset.
Epps was originally near the top of the FBIs list of “most wanted” figures from the Jan. 6 protest-cum-riot at the Capitol.
Then a funny thing happened.
Epps’s name was purged from the FBI files.
Some 700 people have been arrested for their part in the Jan. 6 demonstration.
But Epps and a handful of other major players in that drama remain unindicted.
Indeed, although the FBI surely knows their identity, they remain nameless to the public, known only through amateur video footage of the event. . . .
Beattie shows that what the media label an “insurrection” is almost certainly better described as a “Fedsurrection.”
And when I say “shows,” I mean shows.
His long essay doesn’t just describe what happened.
It is punctuated by scores of photos and video clips that prove the accuracy of what he describes.
We do not know with 100 percent certainty that the figures who organized and orchestrated the breach of the Capitol did so at the instigation of federal authorities.
But it sure looks that way. . . .
A review of the video footage shows a handful of main players that day.
None have been indicted.
Why?
The simplest explanation is that the people who took down the fences and the “restricted area” signs, who loudly directed crowd into the Capitol, were federal assets.
Beattie is right. “If Ray Epps was acting on instructions from a government handler from any federal agency (FBI, ATF, Pentagon, DHS, DEA, anything), we now are talking about perhaps the single most egregious caught-on-camera intelligence operation in our lifetimes.”
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