Posted on 01/07/2021 10:16:52 AM PST by winoneforthegipper
There is much being said on Free Republic and in the halls of hell that just is not true in regards to what took place yesterday in Washington D.C.
I will start from the moment I arrived at the Ellipse area at 7:00am.
Shortly after establishing a viewing spot near a trumpotron the service tech assigned to the trailer box of audio/visual was accosted by a what looked like an ex-military boy gone bad. This mid-thirties toned man truly wanted to take on the world. Having no clue what his beef was with the operator or the others that came to the techs defense after a 15 minute bravado belch the guy slipped away into the crowd that by now was huge.
Minutes turned into hours of pushing and shoving sprinkled with dirty looks and threats. The crowd was hostile right from the start. Certainly not nearly as warm and inviting as the other Trump Rallies I attended before.
Speaker after speaker spoke....and the crowd was thrilled but there was indeed an undertone this not why many were there. They wanted the Capitol and frankly so did I
By the time POTUS took the podium I had seen 4 and a half hours of of humanity pass in front of my eyes the last two hours of which was slowing to the march of sardines towards their tin can. Most every tree in the area were full our feathered Trumpsters thought to be highly endangered.
Lucky for me a wayward female antifa and her bicycle were locked in this canned sea directly and pressingly in front of me. Turned out, by the fact she was extremely out of numbers she played very nice for the entire hour she was entrapped. I offered her 20.00 so she could may go out and buy a new helmet as the one she had would not afford her any protection if she did take a dump on her bike. She refused but graciously.
Finally the masses were moving as Trump finished his address. All in all....two people rushed to the ER. 5 people with panic attacks brought on by the cloistered nature of the crowd. Countless other hostile combovers and my giving of newly purchased cheap gloves to a young lady that forgot to check the forecast, I was on my way down to the river.
The long march to congress was paining on old leg muscles that were stood on with limited movement for the last 5 hours. Looking at the others making the trek i took comfort in seeing other eyes displaying the same distress. Half way along the path a word pass around that the police were authorized to us non-lethal means to stop the hoard. Odd for at that time I don't believe anyone had made it there.
As we made it to the reflecting pool the fist tear gas and flash bangs could be seen at the main stair case. It energized the marchers like nothing ever could. If you want someone to blame for the behaviour that was to transpire....yeah that kinda was a spark.
I made by way to the courtyard area behind the Capitol Bldg where at first myself and a handful had made it. Riot police formed there almost immediately and proceeded to use the porch access to swing around to the front steps. I tried rather forcefully to follow them as to of course document their progression as they seemed quite determined. I was asked to turn back and I did so begrudgingly.
Turning back I forwarded my attention to a crowd gathering at the main rear stair case. Police were on the veranda and for the most part though loud the situation was contained and the scattered police responding to the area were cordial and non-excited.
Throughout the next half hour pods of Patriots made there way into the capitol unobstructed and perhaps even invited. Some would come back out in full on tear gas induced convulsions. Other groups were allowed to return unscathed. Odd thing is whoever was gassing did so without regard to the fellow LEO's as they were coming out left and right in full distress.
I went to the House service entrance next that is when i heard the shot. A few minutes later a gurney with a yound lady being feverishly attended to was rushed by directly in front of me. Blood was gushing from neck even then. I remember looking up and seeing a marcher coming up to the Capitol Police that led the passing and shouting something fierce as to how the hell they could have shot her.
The crowd there became enraged. How the building did not go up in flames is beyond me. That was the difference to me. What could have gone down would have oh so much worse.
From there till the time i left i made rounds to near the press area and back to the courtyards that filled with other groups. It was surreal. As I was heading back to the service steps I was met on my way by none other than the famed Black Hebrew Israelites of the Covington KY fame. Around 20 of them, one by one passed by and as they were I looked one in the eyes and stated...that this will not be a good idea guys. To that he replied Look what you have done to our City. You cant make this stuff up.
I left as the FBI in full fatigues were assembling to overtake the building and secure it.
Folks these people would have done what they did without Trump in fact...the word Trump is no longer a surname. It is a movement.
You Freepers on here casting shame...I can not stress enough how very ignorant you are. Not only as to what transpired yesterday but your continuing flaws of listening to what others tell you to think. It is in my opinion "first blood" event for what i felt and saw yesterday...it was obvious our Government is no longer.
I am open to any questions and copy paste those links to pictures...maybe later tonight i will get them into comments.
https://ibb.co/HVsW3M6 https://ibb.co/f9ZvWjw https://ibb.co/QpJ1L1m https://ibb.co/DKGPKqF
On a side note i penned this while doing my normal tasks of the day so plenty of starts and stops...but I tried being as thorough and honest with the English language as I could.
Excellent report and glad you made it back.
So could you tell which ones were Antifa?
Only a few so don’t get carried away.
The VAST majority were completely supportive.
But I lost it when only maybe a dozen folks talked as if COVID was the end of the world here.
So I understand and am glad you posted this :)
Thank you for posting this.
One of my cousins is there and this is what she said. My cousin Connie Maxwell was there and says it was a set up and it was antifa.
“Just talked with a woman who entered the capital building. Said police let them in. They were there 2 min She said at another entrance is where the violence was. She and people I have talked with say Antifa was present and were a part of that violence. I’m not saying Trump supporters didn’t get involved but there was too much staging of pictures. Why didn’t the police officer draw his gun on those coming up the stairs. The police officer was at the top of the stairs waving his baton”
No one’s talking about the shooter of the gal from San Diego was a democrat congressman who bragged how he wanted to “get him one” to a congressional police officer right before the shooting.
Bkmrk
That was murder, not self defense. The shooter had plenty of room to retreat and his life was not threatened, murder.
Thanks for your report and perspective. I no longer care to read any of the opinions not supported by facts and data or any of the vanity bloviatons posted here, so your post is a welcome respite.
Thank you for taking the time to be there. Many with you in spirit.
Thanks too for writing and sharing a brief and engaging account.
“... a set up and it was antifa.”
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It was one of my theories previously that Antifa was run more by the deep state than it was by the DNC (though the lines are heavily blurred) and I that opinion was slightly bolstered by yesterday.
I know it sounds like psychological denial, but I honestly believe that the vast vast majority of patriots who were there really thought they were just demonstrating and making a statement, with their presence. A bold statement, perhaps even boring on the style of the old occupy movement, but never intending to “storm” the building. Just stand outside of it. I would venture to guess that a great majority, if they had heard there were plans to “storm” the building would have changed their own plans.
The victor writes history.
You have an extremely steeped slope of an up-hill-battle if you want your account and perspective on events to register on the seismic record of how history will be written about that event.
I fugure Congress is the institution doing the killing, and presenting a great danger to the people.
I also very much appreciate your eyewitness report.
And in the modern era the leftists craft the narrative and then repeat it endlessly. Even if the narrative is contradicted by facts, and even their own prior statements.
Note that when Republicans enter a capital building it is the end of democracy, and insurrection, violent, etc. But when Democrats occupied the capital building to protest a Republican legislature in Wisconsin it was a courageous act by the voters and teachers union members.
Nobody on the left got upset when a group of protestors broke into the Senate chambers during the Kavanaugh hearings. And nobody on the left got upset when they confronted Senators in the hallways. Instead they were praised.
And when BLM rioters entered, vandalized, and burned a police station in Minneapolis, along with hundreds of other buildings the left called it a mostly peaceful protest.
The leftists condemned President Trump for suggesting that the National Guard could help control rioting BLM and Antifa members a few months ago. But when they called in the National Guard yesterday nobody said a word. Unlike the pro Trump protestors yesterday the BLM and Antifa protestors set a historic church on fire.
Shooter was wearing a suit with big cuff links. Not your standard cop attire. DemocRAT Congress man more likely.
See this;
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3922433/posts
I did not see any burning police cars, burning businesses or burning churches. And no orders for police to stand down. A huge double standard even though Antifa was involved. I bet none of them got arrested.
It was a hate crime, a Negro who wanted to shoot a white person.
IMHO. First, President should have had the rally on week-end or day before the vote not day of so that they wouldn’t get blamed for interfering with Congress/Voting, etc. I knew the rally would become nothing more then Anitfa disguised as Trump people in order to ensure the peaceful rally, protest would end badly. The consequence, woman shot, Media, GOP, Dems all blaming Trump and his supporters. How did they all not know it would be set up for them to take the fall and the blame?
Second, I feel bad for the Patriot that lost her life but she shouldn’t have tried to climb through it knowing there were people armed on the other side. Too bad it wasn’t the guy with the horns, Anitfa tattoo freak. Of course it had to be Trump Patriot taken down.
Whether it was literally a Congressman, or one of his hired thugs, same thing. It’s a criminal enterprise against the people, masquerading as a government.
They even have catchy patriotic slogans.
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