My latest in PJ Media:
CIA agent Kevin Carroll wants a new war on terror. He wrote Monday: “We defeated al Qaeda and can do the same to the fascist thugs who attacked our democracy last month. But only if we take similar hard measures against the enemy within.” Trump supporters were offended by this, but it’s actually the best idea anyone has had since Donald Trump decided to go down that escalator and run for president.
The new war on terror will not be fought only against those who want to overthrow the government. Carroll’s CIA colleague Robert Grenier told NPR Tuesday that “even at the seeming height of the crisis immediately after 9/11,” he explained, “there really weren’t that many members of al-Qaida in Afghanistan.” So it wasn’t only they who had to be hunted down. What was done to al-Qaeda and has to be done now, Grenier said, is “to remove the supportive environment in which they were able to live and to flourish.”
The “supportive environment” in which the Capitol rioters “flourish” is you, me, and Aunt Mabel, ordinary Americans who committed the crime of voting for Donald Trump.
But fighting this like we fought al-Qaeda, that’s a capital idea, if you’ll pardon the expression. It will mean that the political and media elites will take great pains to assure the public at every conceivable opportunity that the Capitol rioters do not represent Trump supporters in the aggregate, but are rather the exponents of a twisted and hijacked version of Trumpism, a thoroughly peaceful and benign ideology.
Overheated leftist ideologues such as Reza Aslan and Mehdi Hasan, if they dare suggest that all Trump supporters are, in Aslan’s words, “by definition white nationalist terror supporters,” will be excoriated as racist, bigoted Trumpophobes whose “hate” must result in their marginalization, deplatforming, and ultimate complete silencing. Even those who take pains to repeat that not all Trump supporters are terrorists will also be tarred as Trumpophobes anyway; in fact, even the slightest criticism of Trump or his political agenda will before too long be regarded as unacceptable Trumpophobia and an indication that the speaker has no place in polite society.
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Wellington says
The Left means to demonize conservatives en masse.
Never mind that over 99% of Trump supporters on January 6th in DC were peaceful.
And never mind as well that BLM and Antifa had “their way of things” last year in large part because the Democratic Party not only looked the other way but endorsed this thuggery (e.g., Kamela Harris providing bail money to violent rioters in Minneapolis).
It’s an Orwellian world descending upon America, courtesy of the Left and its temporary ally, Islam.
gravenimage says
+1
puraposta says
Agreed. Foolish idea at best because they know 80+ million voted for the other guy. Creeps like Carroll are just digging a bigger hole for themselves. BTW just when was AQ defeated?
gravenimage says
Another good question. It is not as though the threat of Jihad terror is past.
Alfredo says
The oppressive tolerance of Marcuse, the high priest of the woke cult is what feeds the irrational hatred of any dissenting belief and therefore needs to be destroyed even preemptively. Because what Antifa and BLM do, is not considered “domestic terrorism”
Only those who voted for Trump are “the enemy within” in other words war on over 75 million Americans has been called for.
IanB says
Yes, a CIA agent inciting civil war. Trouble ahead.
revereridesagain says
They are now the defenders of the party of BLM and Antifa, which explicitly condemn such elements of “whiteness” as individualism, rationality, and objectivity — and supporting intellectual virtues of freedom. No wonder they embrace the backward savagery of Islam — one malevolent tribe recognizes another.
mortimer says
Agree with Wellington. The essence of the Orwellian nightmare is Gaslighting … pretending that one’s targets are insane. They have decided that American conservatives are insane and dangerous and they repeat that canard every minute so that the danger appears greater and greater to those unable to use critical thought.
A bunch of unarmed clowns in costumes at the Capitol are hardly a danger to the members of the legislature, let alone an ‘insurrection’. It was a small group of hot heads who illegally entered a restricted area. They deserve the legal punishment they receive, but sedition is not one of their faults.
Sedition applies to those who stole the election … the Big Tech, the Big Business and the Big Labor cabal of conspirators. They should be pursued by the long arm of the law.
It must never happen again.
gravenimage says
+1
Phil Copson says
“…They deserve the legal punishment they receive, but sedition is not one of their faults….”
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Until you know what “punishment” they receive, how can you possibly say that ?
The prosecutors will doubtless do their utmost to ensure that the cases against the protesters are heard by same type of activist Democrat judges who turned rioters and arsonists loose day after day in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Kenosha etc in order that they could continue the Left-wing insurrection against the Trump administration: Who can doubt that they will be equally as deranged in their sentencing of the disenfranchised Republicans protesting against the outcome of the fraudulent 2020 election, as they were dismissive of the violence of Antifa-BLM, or the vast amount of well-attested evidence of vote-rigging ?
Who wouldn’t enter the Capitol when the police themselves opened the barriers ?
The constantly repeated claim that “five people were killed” is another piece of deception: From what I have read, the only person who was deliberately killed was protester Ashli Babbitt, shot dead by an out-of-control police officer. So far as I can piece together, the others died of heart attack, crush injuries, or stroke – which could equally have happened amongst a crowd of Antifa supporters or at a football game. (A real oddity – if it can be believed – is that TWO police officers are supposed to committed suicide after the protests! Why on earth would that happen ? And if it did – were they “involuntary suicides” of the kind that seem so prevalent amongst anyone who knows too much ? Nothing seems impossible any longer.)
With a journalist facing a ten-year sentence for circulating a meme about Hillary Clinton, the politically-motivated imprisonment of a film-maker in order to shift blame from Clinton for the deaths of the US Ambassador and security staff in Benghazi – (his film had zip to do with the planned attack on the embassy, and – even if it had – how does it excuse Obama and Clinton’s failure to protect the US embassy ?) – and the illegal actions and baseless accusations of Clinton/Obama/Biden and the FBI against Trump’s team, nobody can have any confidence in the impartiality of much of the judiciary.
In particular, the Kafka-esque machinations of Judge Sullivan in which he acted as prosecutor, judge, and jury – suggesting new charges and seeking to imprison General Michael Flynn for “perjury” on the grounds that Flynn had “pleaded guilty when he knew himself to be innocent” – are straight from Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea, or Xi JInping’s China.
gravenimage says
+1
very old white guy says
failure to use the second amendment to enforce the first will go down in history as the biggest mistake ever made by free people anywhere.
Rob Porter says
Wellington, what you omitted mentioning is that this clueless CIA clown, Kevin Carroll, with his all too evident bias reflects a CIA that cannot be trusted within a democratic society. The people who “attacked our democracy” last month were, in respect of violence and damage caused, chicken feed compared to the Antifa Marxists and Black Lives Matter Marxist and anti-white black racists who destroyed parts of U.S. cities last summer. Yet Carroll and his colleague, Robert Grenier, do not include in their equation those two vicious left-wing ‘enemy of the people’ groups whose “supportive environment in which they were able to live and to flourish” must be eradicated. These two men are so clueless that they fail to recognize how revealing of their leftist views are their words. It was good to see Robert Spencer mocking the revealing words of Kevin Carrol because Carroll, now clearly evident, is part of a hopelessly compromised liberal/left-wing organization that increasingly resembles the Soviet KGB. Is the FBI any different nowadays?
E T says
How can American so-called leaders honour the people who died in 9/11 when they befriend the leaders of he very group which nurtured and produced the jihadis who conducted the attack and continue their plan to destroy America?
Ilhan Omar continues to trash Americans while her husbands firm received millions from her campaign funds. What is wrong with that picture? She is damn right “some people did something.”
Unbelievable absolute disgrace
mortimer says
They mean that they will make life hell for anyone who believes in traditional American virtues: the nuclear family, faith in God and freedom. They are globalist authoritarians bringing in a one-party dictatorship.
They want to make having another opinion than their own impossible. Traditional Americans will organize, form committees and a new, revised MAGA movement will send these elitists to the unemployment line.
mortimer says
It’s a war on the whole MAGA movement. As we know, many of them are people of all colors and religions.
Soon those ‘minority’ MAGA members will be standing up to denounced the disasters of the Biden Conspiracy and proudly declare: ‘I didn’t vote for B(r)i(b)den … I voted for Trump.’
livingengine says
20 years after 911, and the greatest threat to our safety is white people.
Does that seem natural to you?
gravenimage says
If the New War on Terror Is Fought Like the Last One…
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I take the point here–but that he and many others are calling for a war on all conservative Americans is *deeply* chilling.
And somehow I doubt this war would be as ineptly waged as that against Jihad.
Andrew Blackadder says
Methinks the Planet has shifted slightly off its Axis. Up is now Down, In is now Out, and voting for Donald Trump is insurrection.
Stop the Planet I want off.
Infidel says
RS touched on one aspect of this war on terror, but here’s another. Right now, the US has troops in about 150 countries in the world – out of the 193. How about our paranoid government recalls them all back to the US, and puts them there in all our cities – particularly the red ones (from where they mostly enlist)?
That way, one key demand of the MAGA section of the GOP will be met: bringing all our troops home. They will be in red cities, preferably the ones they came from, and few of them are likely to be maimed by IEDs and so on. With any luck, they can be near their families, their kids won’t have to be surprised at school w/ daddy or mommy suddenly showing up unexpected, and everything can be hunky dory
They can also be – in the same manner as in Afghanistan and Iraq – engaged in building our infrastructure, hardening the grid and so on. Here’s a hint to Congress: just pretend that America is another foreign country, not the US, and start spending trillions that we don’t have on ‘them’. There won’t be as many Taliban or Mahdi/Badr forces blowing them up, and those troops can work w/ the civilian American people on this stuff. And the Pentagon can keep passing joint resolutions extending their stay abroad (i.e. outside DC, New York, Chicago, LA, Seattle, Portland, et al) and Liz Cheney will find a reason to make common cause w/ Matt Gaetz. Those troops will be seen as liberators, and we will all sit around the fires and sing kumbaya! ?
gravenimage says
The only way this administration would put American troops in the streets here would be to round up conservatives.
Wellington says
Absolutely. Biden (actually all those controlling him like Susan Rice) is someone no one need fear except American conservatives.
mortimer says
Agree with GI. They would not send out the National Guard to stop BLM rioters, but they did from stopping conservatives from making peaceful protest.
The Dems are Gaslighting the country.
Oren says
Remember that they do not have the support of the left to do these things, the reality is that it is the billionaires who are attacking american democracy. Not necessarily all of them. Their assets will be seized and used to compensate their victims, but that will not be enough. Their supporters are liable. I suspect there are few leftists who support these actions, and most of them now see that it is A foreign interest that wants to destroy american democracy to avoid prosecution for the billions they have embezzled. They own the media that covers for them. In G-d I trust.
Maggie says
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/reichstag-fire-democrats-daniel-greenfield/
The inscription “To The German People” on the Reichstag has a history worth knowing. Conceived by Huguenot Paul Wallot, commissioned by Jewish civil servant Theodor Lewald, produced (from melted down cannon tubes) by Jewish bronze foundry Samuel Abraham Loevy.
But that’s not where the story ends. A Muslim named Tareq Alaows (who was privileged enough to study law under Assad’s regime) registered as a “refugee” in Germany in 2015. He wants to enter the Bundestag this year for the Green neo-communists to become “spokesman for all refugees.”
Although FRG “citizenship” is only granted after at least 8 years, U-Boot Alaows now got it early after 6 years due to “outstanding merits.” He has founded a smuggling organization that brings even more Muslims to Europe.
Now he has announced that his first official act in Berlin would be to replace the words “To the German people” with “To all who live in Germany”. As a member of the Bundestag, he gets €10,000 a month and a pension for life.
gravenimage says
Just insane, Maggie. Thanks for that information about Germany.
Maggie says
You’re welcome, gravenimage. Did they took down https://www.refcrime.info?
gravenimage says
I’m not sure, Maggie–I was not familiar with this website. Looks concerning, though.
Phil Copson says
Excellent piece from Robert…LOL.
As a fellow Trump supporter, I feel that it would be no less than my duty to extend the same helping hand to illegal American immigrants that the United Kingdom already does so enthusiastically to anyone with the price of a train ticket to the French coast, a rubber dinghy, and that all-important box of matches – (for setting fire to their accommodation in order to be moved to up-market hotels and seaside holiday camps especially requisitioned for the purpose.)
If Robert and Pam care to make the trip, I will naturally do my utmost to make them welcome, regardless of any objections that other holiday-makers at Butlins in Minehead, Pontins in Cardiff etc, may make to having these undocumented Trumpistas amongst them.
Of course, Robert and Ms Geller have got a bit further to row than the average invader, but winter is almost over and I hear that the Atlantic can be quite pleasant at this time of year…..
Chrissie01 says
please, please, please inform yourselves: The rioting was a false flag measure. It was the same hoax as the election. This hippie guy with the bull’s horns is a known antifa criminal. He (and a few of his pack) lead the people into the building. I do not know if the vid is still on yt, but there is one on which this guy is triumphant over luring people in…yelling, we did it, we did it. We’re going to throw this bastard out (speaking about Trump).This is the violent fraction of this “storm” (guess they’ve never seen a real one)…there were even veterans trying to convince them to stay peaceful. And now they smear Trump with it.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
We defeated al Qaeda…
This is a myth, Fake History. We *stopped* al Qaeda, but never disbanded them.
We’re in the middle rounds now, and, for the Moslems, it’s counterpunch time. And al Qaeda has the gloves on.
gravenimage says
+1
tgusa says
It is just fine for DC to allow criminal aliens to swarm across the border in to our communities but it is outrageous when American citizens swarm in to DC. By this guys rules that makes the DC establishment the terrorists. The DC establishment called in the national guard to protect their community. If we rally together in states to protect our communities I bet they call us terrorists. They care about their community but not our communities. And lets not forget the midnight refugee dumping that DC has been doing in our communities. That is their democracy but it is not your democracy. DC does not represent the American people.The enemy state is calling the people enemies of the state.
somehistory says
Everyone should read what was written in Times Mag. It has been reported on in The Epoch Times.
The authors of the Times article were bragging about how they, and they say not “rigged” the election, but they did in fact ‘rig’ things.
At one point on election night, Mr. Trump was way ahead and these guys…the ones who had kept positive things about the President from making the news, and negative things about biden from making the news…thought Mr. Trump was going to win, despite all of their shenanigans.
They claimed that the “media” would decide who won.
A guy at FOX, a democ rat, put a check mark on AZ for biden….long before the votes were in…there were only a few at that hour that had been counted there…and then FOX “called” AZ for biden and the crooks ***knew*** then that their deals had worked.
However….before FOX called AZ, these guys had the ***mobs*** on standby to hit the streets, to fill the streets with rioters. The mobs were those who had been setting fires, breaking windows, destroying property, shooting, threatening, etc. all year and they were on standby to do this when Mr. Trump won.
Members of these mobs were already planning the riot at the Capitol. Warnings had gone out. I recall reading a few days ahead of Jan. 6, that DHS was saying “domestic terror” from the “left” would be out in force and the different agencies were being told to be ready to deal with that. They…and the FBI is a department of DHS… knew that this was going to happen; extra officers were offered and were turned down by people like the mayor and the Capitol PD.
There were supporters of Mr. Trump who went to the building, but a majority of supporters ***did not *** go there.
Now, the democ rats are calling everyone who is not of their crowd, terrorists, and saying they need protection. But, as they all say this, bm and antifa are in D.C. rioting and accosting diners and other citizens, and the local PD are the only ones trying to stop it. The National Guard troops are not helping the local cops against the left’s hired mobs.
MIke says
drone attach’s on American’s home
looking forward to it
How about machine guns on over passes or tanks
I’ll get my umbrellas
don’t say BOOB to anyone on the left they may wet them selves
the Democrats are more afraid that they are getting caught