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  1. A certain rough justice would be done if he and his family had to skip town ahead of a posse. Justice is seldom done, in this country, of course.

  2. @neo:Note that after the near-murder of Steve Scalise, and the attempted murder of several other GOP members of Congress, no such expansion of the Capitol Police occurred. And yet that incident was far more dangerous and threatening to members of Congress than anything that happened on January 6th.

    Was it?

    Scalise’s life was threatened, as were some individual politicians. But Jan 6 was perceived by Congress to have threatened the LIVELIHOODS of Congressmen and Senators COLLECTIVELY and the livelihoods of their patrons and/or clients.

    And that’s why Congress is responding collectively with an expanded institution.

    Interesting to see what McConnell does.

  3. The USCP is not quite the secret police yet, so far as I know, but early days…

    Clearly they are expanding.
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    Secret police — Police established by national governments to maintain political and social control. Generally clandestine, secret police have operated independently of the civil police.

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/secret-police

  4. Why would there be death threats for the hero that saved us from the worst attack on the US Capitol since 1812? Besides, after their heroic actions, we had the National Guard protecting everyone for a 5 (maybe more, quit counting) block radius. How was the person under any threat? We should know the name of this hero that protected our Democracy.

    Lack of disclosure suggests a lack of consistency that January 6th was really anything other than protestors parading around the Capitol to make their voices heard, while a single shot rang out to quell the speech of the people and stop them dead in their tracks. To make the double standard crystal clear; I’ll just leave this here: Regarding double standards: I’ll just leave this here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/meet-police-officers-prevented-massacre-gop-baseball-practice/story?id=48037013

  5. “Congress has exempted the USCP from Freedom of Information Act requests…”

    And therein lies ultimate responsibility.

    “Jan 6 was perceived by Congress to have threatened the LIVELIHOODS of Congressmen and Senators COLLECTIVELY and the livelihoods of their patrons and/or clients.” Frederick

    The tone of your comment indicates you actually believe that drivel. News flash! Congressmen and Senators work for the people not the reverse. In the aggregate, Congress is in blatant violation(s) of their oath. The people present on Jan. 6th were there to remind them of their responsibility and to obtain redress of grievance in a stolen election. Almost all were unarmed and peaceful. Such do not threaten the “livelihoods” of Congress.

  6. Geoffrey Britain:

    I read Frederick’s comment as sarcasm. It’s so hard to tell these days!

    Perhaps he will clarify.

  7. Huxley, I think you’re right. In our day, sarcasm and parody can so easily be missed. The world around us is as absurd as any parody we could invent.

  8. Geoffrey jumps the shark?

    When Republicans congress critters are shot it’s no big deal. When Nancy’s desk is rearranged someone (a citizen) is shot, summarily executed, murdered immediately. Message sent.

    Ashli Babbitt, RIP.

  9. Cap’n Rusty, the DC Police were in charge of that investigation.

    OTOH, the US Capitol Police were probably in charge of making sure it was not PROPERLY investigated.

  10. I did wonder whether Frederick’s comment was meant as sarcasm. If so, it escaped me. And if so, I apologize. But would ask him to in future be a bit more obvious for the dullards such as myself.

  11. The CP are an embryo of a national secret police if the Dems stay in power.

  12. I recently noted that the Capital Police are opening offices in CA and FL. My suspicion is that the goal of ‘defund the police’ is to drive the number of officers down to the point where we will welcome a national police force. A police force controlled, recruited, and paid for by US. A police force that will have no local oversite. Similarly to the CCP troops moved into the city to resolve the Tiananmen Square problem.

  13. I wouldn’t say it was “sarcasm”, I’d say I was describing a point of view I do not personally hold.

    I think the Congresscritters really do feel more threatened by what happened Jan 6 than by what happened to Steve Scalise. Certainly they don’t want to get killed by nutters. But the once-in-a-blue-moon attack on individual Congressmen is a much lower threat (in their eyes) than the American people (who I agree with Geoffrey that Congress ought to serve, but rarely has) potentially taking their collective power and perks away.

    Does no one read “The Gilded Age” anymore? It’s fiction, yes, but it’s not hard to find the history on which it’s based. Congress protects its privilege of directing tax money and shields its own from accountability. Remember the one caught with cash bribes in his freezer, and both parties worked to protect him?

    The raid of Jefferson’s office set off a series of political events: Jefferson immediately challenged the action in federal court. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued “a rare joint statement demanding that the FBI return the documents and saying that Jefferson then should cooperate more fully with the investigation”. “Many Republicans and Democrats contend that the unprecedented raid on a congressional office was unduly aggressive and may have breached the constitutional separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government that are meant to shelter lawmakers from administrative intimidation.” Tensions escalated to the point where – according to AP – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, his deputy Paul McNulty, and possibly FBI Director Robert Mueller “were said to be ready to quit if the Justice Department was asked to return the Jefferson documents … [while the] House was threatening to go after the Justice Department’s budget”.

  14. One odd thing about this situation perhaps helps in removing doubt, especially as it has been put into the ‘Ignored and Unexplored’ file by the media:

    Michael Byrd has been on extended leave ever since January 6th, appears to still be on leave, does not return calls, and has rather professionally scrubbed his online social media presence.

    Why?

    Paraphrasing Holmes, it’s odd that the dog didn’t bark.

  15. The dots are connected by J. E. Dyer.
    The branch offices of the Capitol Police, the spying on Tucker Carlson, and “the Biden administration’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, which was promulgated in March 2021. This is the overarching guidance that is supposed to inform all policies relating to national security, which would include the domestic terrorism strategy.”
    Plus the Wuhan Lab Leak.

    RTWT – but here are some of her conclusions, after walking us carefully through the background and the implications.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/07/08/license-to-monitor-national-strategies-the-capitol-police-and-tucker-carlson/

    The two strategy documents put out by the Biden administration are not just boilerplate. They contain the language and premises to justify moves like deploying an un-FOIA-able police force to look for “domestic terrorist threats” against the U.S. Capitol out in America’s hinterland, and wielding the intelligence collection tools of the federal government against Americans, if domestic terrorism, violent extremism, and/or foreign influence on or through same is said to be at issue.

    There has been well-informed speculation already about what sort of story Tucker Carlson might have been working on to catch the attention of U.S. intelligence. Lee Smith had a plausible proposition at the Epoch Times on 2 July: he pointed out Carlson’s interviews with Dr. Li-Meng Yan, the Chinese whistleblower who asserts that COVID-19 was engineered in a lab and spread intentionally as a bioweapon.

    However you come down on that issue, the point from the perspective of this article is that Carlson’s connection with Dr. Yan – or potentially his pursuit of an interview with Putin – might be assessed under the assumptions of the Biden strategies as an enterprise to cooperate with a malign foreign entity in spreading “disinformation.” Such “disinformation” would then be framed as incitement to extremism, likely to lead to unrest and anti-democratic activity, and to culminate in terrorism.

    We’ve seen just such fantastic leaps of logic day after day, in mainstream media coverage of every objection to the approved narrative about political events and conditions, from racism to all forms of discrimination, and on to concerns about election integrity (Republican concerns that exactly mirror concerns expressed by Democrats in every election of the last 20 years) and the nature of the Capitol riot in January.

    The national strategy documents published by the Biden administration are blueprints for using such leaps of logic to make policy – and to justify using the tools of intelligence and law enforcement for monitoring blameless Americans, based not on probable cause but on theoretical suspicions that come from a political narrative.

    And they’ll come for your Legos too.
    (Check the comments for D4x’s remarks.)
    And this.

    https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-claims-sauron-had-lego-model-of-minas-tirith-in-his-bedroom

  16. “Why are the Capitol Police different? Why are they even less accountable than the Secret Service?”

    Congress routinely exempts themselves from the laws they pass. Why should their Police force be any different?

    “But Jan 6 was perceived by Congress to have threatened the LIVELIHOODS of Congressmen and Senators…”

    I think the sentiment that the Congresscritters are/were scared is true but for a slightly different reason. It’s very probable that the Democrats set up the whole breach scenario and that FBI Informants/Instigators led the charge while the highly-paid and under-worked Capitol Police watched from the sidelines. It was all an effort to tarnish Trump and his voters.

    They wanted a small event that they could spin as a riot. Instead, they got a “mostly peaceful protest”. They wanted a group of clueless trespassers, they got a mob. They scripted some political theater where they could pretend to be in danger but they lost control of the narrative. Members of Congress were never in any danger but the events drove home the point that they are not immune from the events that they create. They thought that they were untouchable and all powerful, they learned some reality and Congresscritters don’t like reality. And some of them, in the wee hours of the morning, probably think about the mobs they’ve been encouraging in their districts and whether or not those mobs will turn on them (hint: they will).

  17. Democrats and their Propaganda Ministry as well as their street gangs, BLM and Antifa are sure quick to want any policeman who has a confrontation with a minority his identification.

  18. Here’s a question for Neo and all the folks here: How do you keep from sinking into despair over everything that’s happening?

    I’m not normally given to darkness and depression. But taking all of this in, even a confirmed optimist or Pollyanna would have a hard time not heading over to the liquor store for a bender.

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