UPDATE: It was a suicide.
UPDATE: A second Capitol Hill police officer has died. Not sure if it is from injuries at the Capitol Siege.
Same guy? The one who told baked alaska they were going IN the building!? pic.twitter.com/E0R5e1DnNJ
— ??? Ghost of Sherman (@TheF0RCE) January 9, 2021
America Saved ?? pic.twitter.com/byRLteJLz3
— The Daily Grifter (@DailyGrifter) January 7, 2021
Yoba did in fact leavepic.twitter.com/MYWzqC4GkW
— The Daily Grifter (@DailyGrifter) January 7, 2021
1/2 The mother of all conspiracy lawsuits is coming sometime after the inauguration..
— Jason Kessler (@TheMadDimension) January 10, 2021
Its going to name Donald Trump as well as a lot of these guys who threw the UTR marchers under the bus:
Alex Jones
Ali Ackbar
Nick Fuentes
Infowars
Baked Alaska
The mystery Bitcoin donor, etc
2/2 The plaintiff(s) are potentially:
— Jason Kessler (@TheMadDimension) January 10, 2021
US govt
City of Washington DC
US Senators or congressmen
An injured police officer
Family of the deceased police officer
Since I keep hearing comparisons between Charlottesville and the Capitol Siege, I would like to compare and contrast the two events because there are major differences.
Similarities
- Baked Alaska and Nick Fuentes, AmNats and Patriot groups were present in Charlottesville and DC. Both events were heavily promoted by Andrew Anglin and the Daily Stormer
- Several demonstrators brought Confederate flags
- Bad optics involving people like the QAnon Shaman who had their own agenda
- Charlottesville and the Capitol Siege were both promoted on social media
- Charlottesville and the Capitol Siege were volatile public events
- Donald Trump condemned Charlottesville and the Capitol Siege while noting that good people were present at both events
- Media firestorm
- Political hysteria
- Big Tech censorship
- Deaths and arrests
- The outcome was not what the organizers of either event had intended
Differences
- The Capitol Siege was a MAGA event focused on Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud. It attracted Patriots and Trump supporters. Charlottesville had nothing to do with Donald Trump and was about preserving Confederate monuments
- Vastly more people participated in the Capitol Siege
- Unlike Charlottesville, which was supposed to be a legal free speech rally in a public park, the Capitol Siege was a literal goon march by conspiracy theorists
- QAnon prophecies about “Trust the Plan” and “The Storm Is Coming” is what fueled the Capitol Siege, not anything related to White identity
- Alex Jones had vowed for months that “1776 Will Commence Again.” This was the millenarian, apocalyptic mindset that his supporters had when they stormed the Capitol
- The Capitol Siege was a civnat event hosted by Donald Trump and Alex Jones. Charlottesville was an ethnat event that attracted people who were not Trump supporters
- Charlottesville spiraled out of control because it was disrupted by Antifa. In contrast, Antifa did not come out on January 6. There is no evidence Antifa disrupted the MAGA March
- Ethnats and Antifa who were the two sides in Charlottesville did not play a major role in the Capitol Siege. Instead, it was Patriots and MAGA vs. the police
- In Charlottesville, ethnats had a federal court order and the legal right to be at the Unite the Right rally in Lee Park. In contrast, the people who participated in the Capitol Siege had no legal right to be in the Capitol to disrupt the Electoral College vote
- In storming the U.S. Capitol, the people who participated in the Capitol Siege attacked the seat of government of the United States to dispute the outcome of an election which is very different than hosting a legal free speech rally in a public park in a college town in Virginia
- In Charlottesville, Unite the Right protesters cooperated with the police and dispersed when ordered to do so. In the Capitol Siege, the people who participated attacked the police. They killed a police officer. The Capitol Police also shot and killed Ashli Babbitt. The helicopter crash in Charlottesville that killed police was due to a mechanical failure and had nothing to do with the rally
- Big money was behind the MAGA March. In contrast, Unite the Right protesters traveled to Charlottesville on their own or raised money from small donations
- After Charlottesville, no one boasted that the outcome of the event was what they had intended because the expectation had been that the police would maintain order and not allow Antifa to disrupt the Unite the Right rally. In contrast, Nick Fuentes has boasted about the Capitol Siege disrupting the Electoral College vote and it is clear that at least some of the MAGA Marchers intended to break into the Capitol before the event
- Pipe bombs were placed outside the RNC and DNC headquarters. No one brought pipe bombs to Charlottesville
- Anti-Trump “wignats” had no interest in this event. This hasn’t stopped conservatives from seeing everyone from Matt Heimbach to Michael Tubbs at the Capitol Siege
My instant reaction as the Capitol Siege unfolded on live television was that it reminded me of the Bundy Ranch on a vastly greater scale. YOBA was screaming “Occupy the Capitol.” The Capitol Siege didn’t remind me of Charlottesville at all because we hadn’t been trying to do anything illegal. None of the Unite the Right organizers faced federal criminal charges because there was never any proof that anything had happened that day except that Antifa had showed up and disrupted our rally.
The Sines v. Kessler lawsuit has dragged on for four years because there simply isn’t any proof of a “conspiracy” in Charlottesville. The plan had only been to go to the rally and the afterparty. No one including James Fields ever had any plan except to go to the rally. Is the same true of the Capitol Siege though? Was that a purely spontaneous event or was it organized beforehand?
