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applegrove

(118,642 posts)
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 06:05 AM Jan 2021

At the Demonstration Jan 5th the future insurrectionists went to, I pointed

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out so many had knapsacks. I wondered why because normally a few people will be wearing one at any kind of demonstration. But never almost everyone. We speculated what was in the knapsacks and did someone send out instructions.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14814107

Do you think a huge part of those out Tuesday night had instructions?

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applegrove

(118,642 posts)
2. I went looking for the photo/footage that showed so many knapsacks but could
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 06:10 AM
Jan 2021

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not find it. Turns out it is the top video at the OP in my link.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
3. I remember that The Boston Bomber Brothers used knapsacks to tote their pressure-cooker bombs
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 06:19 AM
Jan 2021

around. Searches and scanners can be useful!

applegrove

(118,642 posts)
4. I wonder if they worried authorities might be checking out their air b&bs
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 06:22 AM
Jan 2021

while they demonstrated tuesday night to get intel on their intentions, so vanilla isis took the helmets, zip ties, noose, and the bear spray with them in knapsacks, and preplanned that. Hypocrites love to teach others into being hypocritical to increase the humiliation of some other, and what could be more hypocritical than to act peaceful at a Jan 5th rally with a can of bearspray on your back. They must of had some insider police info from at least one member of the mob who 1) was police 2) travelled to washington to do an insurrection or helped plan it 3) knew police tactics of assessing the threat of rallies involving extremists. Like the FBI guy said on Bill Maher last week the authorities can be anywhere on the political extremist scale, just like any american. And there were at least 3 at the Capitol. I'm speculating. Who knows.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
5. I think that the number of arrests since the insurrection has shown that eventually we'll need to
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 07:03 AM
Jan 2021

build new prisons to house all of these miscreants. It's obvious that the insurrectionists had a lot of passion but
very poor planning to avoid arrest. Cleaning up this mess is just at the beginning stage.

applegrove

(118,642 posts)
6. Yes they were riding a delusion. But they got enough preplanning to somehow
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 07:15 AM
Jan 2021

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put a life sized gallows and a noose up outside. But yeah. They were whipped into a lather and let lose. Many will suffer and not just the victims. The perpetrators will suffer too for being in a cult with Trump's love bombs and the insurrectionists being flying monkeys and seriously breaking the law.

Here is the best description I have seen of cults:


https://www.dcreport.org/2021/01/22/how-trump-and-other-cult-leaders-infect-their-disciples/

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
9. I'm thinking perhaps we go with Trump's
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 07:36 AM
Jan 2021

idea to buy Greenland (sorry Greenland) and make it a penal colony.

Could that be done through reconciliation?

mezame

(295 posts)
10. Building More Prisons...
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 07:55 AM
Jan 2021

Gawd the thought kinda squicks me out for some reason. Haven't we got enough of those already?

There's a lot of infrastructure repair needs doin' - we could learn a lesson here from the Cool Hand Luke Model of Reformation. Let's help these good 'ol boys get their minds right!

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
11. When a conspiracy is directed from the highest level of national government then all we can do is
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 08:17 AM
Jan 2021

react. Now tRUMP/reTHUGS are out of power and we're working on cleaning up all aspects of their mess.

catrose

(5,065 posts)
13. Regular protest advice was a fanny pack
Mon Jan 25, 2021, 09:14 AM
Jan 2021

I could fit a bottle of water, snack, ID, phone, and money in one, all I needed for the day. So I'm wondering what they needed a knapsack for.

And still wondering why they weren't arrested the same night. We might know then.

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