Hundreds of people who walked through the Capitol Building on January 6th remain in custody unable to obtain bail within our legal system. Why? The claim is that they were involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the government and are far too dangerous to be let out on the streets while the case is being built against them. Perhaps the better description should be while the case is being spun out of whole cloth against them. And this would be far from the first time that such activities have occurred.
Did people enter the Capitol Building and cause damage? Yes. Should those people be held accountable? Yes. How many such people are there? Who led the charge so to speak? How did such people arrive at the state of mind to execute such actions? Recently articles have surfaced that point a finger at federal law enforcement agencies potentially being part of the “groundswell” that resulted in the chaos at the Capitol Building.
Farfetched? Not really. Unfortunately, the FBI has a long history of shadowy connections to major terrorist events.
Trevor Aaronson wrote an extensive piece in Mother Jones in 2011 about the FBI’s “connections” to various “domestic extremism” plots that they uncovered. Unfortunately, it showed that the FBI’s efforts were less about uncovering and more about fomenting in many cases.
While it is not easy to summarize Aaronson’s findings, the following are facts from his article. Please keep in mind that Mother Jones is considered a left-of-center publication.
- Nearly half the 508 prosecutions involved the use of informants.
- Sting operations resulted in prosecutions against 158 defendants. Of that total, nearly one third (49 defendants) participated in plots led by an FBI operative instigating terrorist action.
- With three exceptions, all of the high-profile domestic terror plots of the last decade (2001-2011) were actually FBI stings.
- In many sting cases, key encounters between the informant and the target were not recorded—making it hard for defendants claiming entrapment to prove their case.
The Mother Jones piece has a searchable database of these cases.
Jack Cashill, a noted producer of documentary films as well as a prolific writer, penned a piece on these activities of the FBI for WND.com last week. As Jack noted, it might be a good time to revisit the 2016 plot to bomb a Kansas mosque and apartment complex.
Over the spring and summer of 2016, a splinter group from the Three Percenters – one of the groups involved in the events of Jan. 6 – began to contemplate a “plan” to deal with the Somalis imported to western Kansas to work in the packing plants.
A surprisingly fair December 2017 article in New York Magazine by Jessica Pressler details how the plan progressed from something that was mostly barroom BS to a bomb plot for which three men were sentenced in a federal court to prison terms of up to 30 years.
According to Stein, one of the three “conspirators,” one Dan Day, an FBI UC set them up.
“He’s the one who fed us all the information, showed us how bad they were, doing this and that and the other,” Stein told Pressler. “He was working for the feds the entire time. It was all a setup.”
Writes Pressler, “This time, Stein’s paranoid fantasy had turned out to be at least partially true.” Day, she reports, was in fact a paid informant for the FBI. He apparently had been reporting on Stein since Stein introduced him to the other soon-to-be conspirators at a gun show in February 2016.
According to Stein, it was Day who told the group he saw ISIS recruitment fliers in a local public library and who directed their attention to an apartment complex in Garden City where Somalis live. Day lived in Garden City.
It was Day who pushed for action before Election Day 2016.
“I can’t let what could happen a year from now, or six months ago, dictate what we f—ing do now,” Day allegedly told Stein in August 2016. “I mean, you just can’t.”
This led eventually to the UC offering to build a bomb (ammonium nitrate) for the conspirators. As Cashill noted, this sounds an awful lot like the Oklahoma City bombing. And there was an accomplice, John Doe #2,in that event who disappeared. Was he an FBI UC?
Was the January 6th event the result of the FBI manipulating some individuals who had legitimate grievances into entering the Capitol Building so that the elite politicians could claim that an “insurrection” had taken place? Who are the unindicted co-conspirators in these cases? Why are they unindicted? Was this another attempt by the FBI to show their elite politician masters just how useful they could be?
As the Revolver article noted:
If it turns out that an extraordinary percentage of the members of these groups involved in planning and executing the Capitol Siege were federal informants or undercover operatives, the implications would be nothing short of staggering. This would be far worse than the already bad situation of the government knowing about the possibility of violence and doing nothing. Instead, this would imply that elements of the federal government were active instigators in the most egregious and spectacular aspects of 1/6, amounting to a monumental entrapment scheme used as a pretext to imprison otherwise harmless protestors at the Capitol — and in a much larger sense used to frame the entire MAGA movement as potential domestic terrorists.
As I have noted before, the Democrats and their allies want to paint anyone who believes in liberty and individual freedoms as a domestic terrorist. They want to create a totalitarian state where only they have any say in how the country is run. It is time to push back against such a narrative.