Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by filoeleven on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:35PM (#25841942)

That’s a fair take concerning the Capitol police (who are a separate force from DC police, just FYI). But even the calls to have the National Guard on standby, given new intel 1 or 2 days before the event that it was going to be bigger than expected, were denied before the event.

Then when things began to escalate, calls for National Guard assistance were denied by the Pentagon for at least a full hour. In a rapidly-evolving situation, especially when the Capitol building has been breached and it takes time to summon the troops since they weren’t on standby, that is an eternity.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by aerosmile on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:35PM (#25842315)

You’re onto something there. But it’s more a means to a political end, as opposed to another data point of systemic racism. Both are awful, but not entirely correlated in this instance.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by CRConrad on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:21AM (#25857033)

Using these violent incidents as “a means to a political end” is the very definition of terrorism.

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