Nadene Goldfoot
Fact check: False claim of facial recognition of antifa members during U.S. Capitol riot
Claims that members of antifa were identified among rioters at the U.S. Capitol by a facial recognition company are false. The facial recognition technology firm publicly refuted the claims. Published Jan. 7. (That's scanning a lot of faces in a short time and pronouncing this.) Who is Antifa?
"Those groups formed a combustible mix with the anti-Semites and QAnon conspiracists rampaging on January 6 to create an existential crisis for the Republican Party, which faces the choice of remaining in thrall to Trump and his more toxic supporters or breaking away."
- A YouGov survey of 1,500 US citizens found that 30% of self-identified Republicans have a favorable view of "QAnon."Therefore, all these protesters were not just simply "Republicans." Quite a group combined their efforts to pull this off -something our Americans have always known before -that such an act simply is not kosher under any circumstances. Americans have always been taught that they don't take the law into their own hands. They have also been taught in sports that one will win and the other will lose and in the end of a game you will shake hands.
The man wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt who was photographed at last week's deadly pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol was arrested Wednesday in Virginia, officials said. The man, Robert Keith Packer, 56, of Newport News, was booked into Western Tidewater Regional Jail by the U.S. Marshals Service at 8:53 a.m., according to inmate records. Auschwitz was one the most notorious death camps run by Nazis during the Holocaust and World War II. Packer's sweatshirt also bears the slogan "Work Brings Freedom," in apparent homage to the German saying "Arbeit macht frei," which was at emblazoned at the gates of Auschwitz and other death camps. Which group might he belong to? Qanon or Antifa or another? Are the Nazis active again?
The "Gimmee generation, a generation that wants results now, has shown that they have no patience for procedures that are non-violent. They've been working up to a pitch with all the constant demonstrations and destruction of cities. Take Portland, Oregon, for instance. We have seen demonstrations going on for over 100 days and every night, like clockwork, the destruction of businesses and city and government buildings were defaced, marred, attacked. Our downtown area doesn't look the same, anymore and is an eyesore to behold. It brings tears to my eyes to see my city so damaged as if we've been in a war.
Now it is generalized that there is a possibility that the Republicans can split in half with Antifa as one group and the Republicans as the other. I don't see that at all. Antifa, like others, has many who are anti-Semitic. They stand for anti-much except themselves! They should remain in the minority of our population and hopefully get a different kind of help for their warped thinking. I wonder if they ever went to high school and graduated. They had to have failed US Government classes. Qanon is in the same position with the same hatreds. A slogan of theirs is, "Follow the white rabbit." If that is who their leader is, I think they've already been led down the rabbit hole and into Bernice's wonderland and smoked the Q.
In October 2017, an anonymous user put a series of posts on the message board 4chan. The user signed off as "Q" and claimed to have a level of US security approval known as "Q clearance". These messages became known as "Q drops" or "breadcrumbs", often written in cryptic language peppered with slogans, pledges and pro-Trump themes. At its heart, QAnon is a wide-ranging, completely unfounded theory that says that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles (people attracted to children sexually) in government, business and the media.
QAnon believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed. There are so many offshoots, detours and internal debates that the total list of QAnon claims is enormous - and often contradictory. Adherents draw in news events, historical facts and numerology to develop their own far-fetched conclusions.
Yes, Hillary was very aggravating and upsetting to many people, and that's why she lost the election. Trump's victory was such a surprise to the nation that it's a wonder all the Democrats didn't have heart attacks right then and there. She had been, so many thought, a shoe in. The Left had no idea of what the Right felt or thought at that time. Trump had questioned Obama's place of birth and had aggravated them, but they didn't think he had it in him to win the Presidency. But nobody had the un-brainy idea of taking matters into their own hands and staging a coup over it. We have elections every 4 years. Didn't we all learn some things in our required history classes or political science classes?
A Pew Research Center study in September 2020 found that nearly half of Americans had heard of QAnon- double the number from six months before. Of those who had heard about it, a fifth had a positive view of the movement. And for many believers, QAnon forms the foundation of their support for President Trump. Mr Trump has, unwittingly or not, retweeted QAnon supporters, and prior to the election his son Eric Trump posted a QAnon meme on Instagram.
One outspoken QAnon supporter, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, was elected to the US Congress in November. She is an American politician and conspiracy theorist serving as a U.S. Representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district. Greene was elected to Congress in the November 2020 elections, and she took office on January 3, 2021. The attack on Congress took place on the 6th of January 21, a Wednesday.
Georgia's 14th Congressional District includes almost all of northwestern Georgia. Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, Whitfield, and a portion of Pickens counties are included in the district.
The 14th Congressional District seat is currently represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R). Georgia is also the state that Trump had contention with; demanding a recount of votes to show he had won.
Left-wing activist, John Sullivan, charged in Capitol riot after saying he was just there to 'document'
"The storming of the United States Capitol was a riot and violent attack against the United States Congress on January 6, 2021, carried out by a mob of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump in an attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. The riot led to the evacuation and lockdown of the Capitol "that was in session, "and five deaths."
PLUS: from wikipedia 1/19/21
The mob that stormed the Capitol consisted of some of Trump's longtime and most fervent supporters, coming from across the United States. The mob included Republican Party officials and political donors, far-right militants, and white supremacists. Some individuals came heavily armed. Included in the group were some convicted criminals, including a man who had been released from a Florida prison after serving a sentence for attempted murder.
Supporters of the boogaloo movement, the Traditionalist Worker Party, the Three Percenters, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, QAnon, the Groyper Army, and national-anarchism, as well as neo-Confederates, Black Hebrew Israelites, and Holocaust deniers, among others, were present during the riot, with some wearing emblematic gear. Neo-Nazi and Völkisch-inspired neopagan apparel was also worn by some participants during the riots, including a shirt emblazoned with references to the Auschwitz–Birkenau concentration camp and its motto, Arbeit macht frei (German for "work makes you free").
After the storming of the Capitol, two white nationalists known for racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric streamed to their online followers a video posted on social media showing a man harassing an Israeli journalist seeking to conduct a live report outside the building. Some participants wore shirts bearing the abbreviation 6MWE, standing for "6 Million Wasn't Enough", a reference to the number of Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust.
According to the FBI, the majority of individual participants in the riot who appeared on its terrorist watchlist "are suspected white supremacists." Following the event, members of the Nationalist Social Club, a neo-Nazi street gang, detailed their participation in the storming and claimed the acts were the "beginning of the start of White Revolution in the United States".
The Associated Press reviewed public and online records of more than 120 participants after the storming and found that many of them shared conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election on social media and had also believed other "QAnon" and "deep state" conspiracy theories. Additionally, several had threatened Democratic and Republican politicians before the storming. The event was described as "Extremely Online", with "pro-Trump internet personalities" and fans streaming live footage while taking selfies.
Some military personnel participated in the riot; the Department of Defense is investigating members on active and reserve duty who may have been involved in the riot. Police officers and a police chief from departments in multiple states are under investigation for their alleged involvement in the riot. As of January 14, at least 28 law enforcement officers or officials are suspected of participating in Trump's pre-riot rally, or joining the Capitol riots, or both. Two Capitol Police officers were suspended, one for directing rioters inside the building while wearing a Make America Great Again hat, and the other for taking a selfie with a rioter.
Resource:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/opinion/trump-republican-party.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/53498434
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/insurrection-investigation-washington-lockdown/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/georgia-secretary-state-launches-investigation-after-unacceptable-voting-problems-n1228541
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531
https://www.adl.org/antifa
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/left-wing-activist-charged-in-capitol-riot
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/14/fact-check-truth-capitol-riot-antifa-chuck-norris/6653343002/
PLUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol
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