Capitol Offenses

[XLFD]

"Police allowed several hundred protesters to peacefully enter the capitol building around 1pm, where they crammed shoulder-to-shoulder near the entrance to legislative chambers." 

If your first impression is to believe this is from an article telling the reader about what happened one year ago in Washington DC on January 6th, you would be wrong.  This was actually written 9 months prior to that in The Guardian on 4-30-2020 and the capitol building it refers to is the one in Lansing Michigan.  

Events that took place in Michigan in 2020 and 2021-- months before similar incidents took place nationally with a cast of similar characters-- can easily lead one to believe that both were related and both were preplanned to attain an objective that was effectively reached in both cases. 

Michigan, April/October 2021

Let's refresh ourselves on what happened in Michigan in 2020.  On April 15, a growing group of Michigan citizens were pushing back in peacefully protesting against Governor Whitmer's state shutdown orders with “Operation Gridlock”.  Two weeks later, they returned to Lansing with many openly carrying firearms for what they would say was their own security.  The legislature was in session that day to discuss the governor's request to extend her powers.

Michigan State Police allowed these people inside the capitol, and even though the uninvited citizens didn't break anything or use their firearms, the media and state Democrats used the negative optics of armed men screaming at state troopers and lurking in the capitol rotunda against the protesters. 

The blowback from the national media and moderate citizens muted further recurrences of such displays, and future demonstrations by those upset with the shutdowns were very dialed back, eventually being overshadowed by different protesters aggressively demonstrating against the police-involved death of George Floyd.  Anger against lockdowns was effectively replaced with anger against police brutality and for social equity.

But even those protests ran their course after summer ended and much of the manpower went back to college or other pursuits.  As Governor Whitmer revisited draconian lockdown strategies once again for the fall, it looked as if she would face more pushback from those folks who came out in force in April, but before that could happen a surprise plot twist unfolded.  

On October 8, 2020, Federal agents announced they thwarted a plot to violently overthrow the state government as well as kidnap and harm Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — a conspiracy that allegedly included visits to her home in northern Michigan and training with firearms and explosive devices.  The alleged plot uncovered by Federal agents mainly involved six conspirators unhappy in part about Whitmer's coronavirus restrictions, but also included at least seven members of a Michigan militia known as the Wolverine Watchmen accused by state officials of targeting police, making threats to "instigate civil war" and helping to plan Whitmer's kidnapping.  

The story once again went national and once again it portrayed the governor and state government of Michigan as a victim of what appeared to be a group of right-wing insurrectionists bent on toppling Michigan's elected state officials with an aggressive coup.  It was a compelling story, and likely motivated sympathetic feelings towards the governor and her Democrat allies whose images had suffered during the summer.

Fifteen months later, not much else has been revealed regarding the kidnapping plot and its perpetrators other than there were plenty of FBI confidential informants among the people involved in the case.  The one person who has pled guilty, Ty Garbin, a Hartland man and an apparent anarchist that was part of the original group of defendants that were charged, was sentenced to just over six years in prison and fined $2,500.

As for details of the case over that 15-month period, it's been largely in favor of the defense.  The FBI admits to using 12 confidential informants during the summer to gather their information, much of which is being kept from the defendants and their attorneys.  On this last Christmas the defense attorneys filed a brief to dismiss the case against their clients saying:  "The government conceived and controlled every aspect of the alleged plot."  

Their defense and their motion has been strengthened by the collapse of the credibility of the accusers.  A federal trial in the kidnapping case is scheduled to begin on March 8. Last week, prosecutors confirmed they would not be calling on three FBI agents at the center of the investigation to testify after one was charged with domestic violence and fired, a second was accused of perjury in a prior case, and a third was discovered to have incorporated a security business linked to an online troll.

And just the other week, one of the confidential informants, Stephen Robeson, was charged in Sauk County, Wisconsin, with defrauding a couple out of an SUV by convincing them to donate it to an anti–child sex trafficking charity that did not exist, according to the criminal complaint filed by the prosecutor.  When your accusers are fraudsters and perjurers, the state's case weakens considerably, especially when there appears to be a plot contrived solely by government agents.

So why would the federal government through the FBI spend a lot of public resources contriving such a plot, if that were the case?  While it may have had some effect on the election three weeks away in swing-state Michigan, and re-fostered sympathy anew for the overbearing governor and her mostly-abiding legislature, the FBI itself was making a strong statement about how they could sway public sentiment away from those who were supposedly aligned with protecting their basic freedoms from an ever-growing swampish government. 

If this indeed was a ruse, it worked rather well, which is probably why the optics of Michigan militiamen invading a capitol building and the ideas of a planned insurrection were recaptured early the next year in the political center of the nation.

Washington DC, January 6, 2021

One year after this event, none of the as yet available evidence shows that the invasion of the national Capitol Building was a planned plot by one or more groups or an insurrection.  More evident is a series of questionable actions by the Capitol Police involved that defy normal security protocols and suggest a staged contrivance of epic proportions.  These obtuse, choreographed actions are not highlighted in mainstream media outlets, but they live on elsewhere.

You can see barriers being quietly removed from areas, you can see officials allowing entrance to the capitol undisturbed, you can see capitol police engaged in egregious acts of police brutality, you can see capitol police move aside from a secured doorway at their back only to see protester Ashli Babbitt shot shortly thereafter by another one on the other side of the door without any warning.  If that unlawful shooting happened to a BLM protester the prior summer invading a police station, that cop's career and liberty would have been lost, but instead he is heralded as some kind of hero by those who believe the established narrative but not their lying eyes. 

Then there is the Notorious Ray Epps urging the storming of the capitol and being outed by the crowd as a "Fed', which he likely was.  Though caught on camera doing a lot more insurrectional activity than likely all of those currently incarcerated over the last year can make a claim to, Epps is a free man, likely a well-paid confidential informant whose job was to create an optic.  

Epilogue

One should recognize that January 6th, 2021 event at Washington DC was likely as planned as the April 30th, 2021 event at Lansing-- by the government.  One should further realize that the FBI's operation in rural northern Michigan where it is likely that "The government conceived and controlled every aspect of the alleged plot" was a dry run for the government's/FBI's January 6th plan to discredit the efforts being made to challenge the election results by the incumbent president and his allies.  Your government has been holding political prisoners for a year (15 months in Michigan) without showing you any credible evidence of their 'heinous' crimes broadcast carelessly in the media, most of which would be considered civil infractions or misdemeanors; your minimal civic duty is to be outraged.

[Sidney Johnson]

I grew up in a time when the very idea of a totalitarian dictatorship in this nation was considered absurd. Such scenarios were only to occur in third world nations.  So what has happened?  Well, we have allowed ourselves to be lulled to sleep and we have now awakened to a disturbing situation that many have no idea of how to respond.  People must now use their minds, they must inform themselves, they must become involved.  Thank you Mr LUFT for your continued commitment to inform and educate.

[XLFD]

A foundation of our Constitutional government was to naturally distrust the government, you find evidence throughout the founding documents, the initial conventions, the Federalist papers, etc.  Those who want to exploit everyone else by getting into government and abusing power used to be easily spotted and deposed by those defending core American values, but over time, a lot of that has been lost.  

I admit to being overly sensitive in my distrust of government and attribute that to my work over the last fourteen years in rooting out and exposing corruption in several local governments.  I have seen a corrupted Ludington city government orchestrate their own dramatic presentations trying to discredit me and other people-- fortunately the directors of those farces have been discredited and outlasted in some part by my efforts.  

Everything I have seen and read over the last fifteen months-- the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Michigan kidnapping plot and the 1-6-21 DC riot-- points irrefutably to government stagecraft.  The last thing corrupted governments want is someone in charge who defies sinking to the level of corruption that the rest of government is at.  Love him or hate him, that was what Donald Trump represented and anybody who doesn't believe at this time that the election in 2020 wasn't rigged to count unlawful votes are the ones wearing tinfoil hats.   

[Sidney Johnson]

I agree with you. 

My democratic brother thinks I'm a radical right winger and so do others in my family.  I'm okay with that because the truth is becoming more obvious each day.

[Willy]

I've been impressed with your work before X, but this article is definitely one of your best. Sidney is correct, for to long now the people have been spoon fed what to think  and they seem to have lost the ability for critical thinking. It's easier to plop down and watch whatever is put before you and accept it without question. If you want the truth, you must look for it. And I suggest that folks start looking soon, before it's to late.

I attended all of the rallies in Lansing and I can say that I saw no Swastikas, nooses or  Rebel flags. News agencies such as the Guardian only repeat the lies told by the Left. As far as the gun totting militia, I saw only a few of them. Most folks were family types just expressing their distrust of Government and wanting their rights and freedoms restored.

At that time as now, I think that having militia types there was a big mistake. They were a perfect set up for negative propaganda and photos. You have to wonder what stupid ideas were swimming in their brains thinking they would help promote the rally by walking around looking menacing like the Taliban. Even to this day that's the first picture most people who were not at the rallies have stuck in their heads. Gun slinging militia types. Below are photos of what portion of the population  the crowd really represented.

[XLFD]

Thanks for the nice compliment, Willy, I was worried that I left off too much of what could have been a much more broad-based analysis in order to simplify it.  I think that in light of what happened on April 30, 2020, and on January 6th, that it is not unreasonable to suspect that state operatives were wanting to shift the grassroots movement's generally successful Operation Gridlock two weeks prior to one more of their liking.  Whitmer, AG Nessel and/or the local FBI office undoubtedly pondered over this question:

"How can we reduce the effectiveness of the next grassroots protest against lockdowns at the capitol?" 

We know the FBI had infiltrated some of these 'militia groups' to the point of saturation by October 2020, the big question for those of us who do not trust the swampish governments that supposedly represent us is:  "What was their part, if any, in orchestrating the optics of April 30?" 

If we knew the full answer to that, it may tell us quite a bit about what would happen in October and on January 6th.