Washington, D.C. is not the same place post January 6, that it was just the day before. The violence at the Capitol on that date not only sparked a huge investigation, but it had the effect of adding a substantial chill factor to any and all threats of violence that used to be dismissed as just that, threats. ABC News is reporting some very ambitious plans to wreak havoc Thursday, March 4, because that’s supposed to be the date that Donald Trump returns to power, per QAnon.
An internal U.S. Capitol Police bulletin distributed Tuesday contains information about a possible militia plot to storm the Capitol on or around March 4, sources told ABC News.
The information in the bulletin is sourced to an FBI intelligence report from late February that describes the an alleged plot by the “Three Percenters militia group to use diversionary tactics such as detonating a bomb” to draw law enforcement away from the Capitol prior to an attempt by the group to take over the U.S. Capitol, according to a law enforcement source.
The credibility of the information in the bulletin remains unclear.
The bulletin describes the Three Percenters’ alleged goal of having 50,000 members from around the country travel to D.C. on or around March 4 through March 6 and participate in a plan to overrun law enforcement and the National Guard troops at or near the Capitol Complex, the source said.
Federal prosecutors have described Three Percenters in court as a “militia extremist” group “based on the myth that only three percent of American colonists took up arms against the British during the American Revolution,” and that some members “regard the present-day US Government as analogous to the British” during the American Revolution in terms of infringements on civil liberties.
The only good thing that can be said about the January 6 insurrection is that it put the intelligence community and law enforcement on notice to take extremists seriously and be prepared for domestic terrorism. At this moment there is no intelligence that 50,000 or anything like that number are headed towards Washington.
Be that as it may, the House will not be in session Thursday, as a security precaution.
I trust that, if any of these “Three Percenters” show up, they will be arrested for unlawful assembly and sedition. And it would certainly not hurt my feelings if any of them are shot and/or killed by legitimate law enforcement (Capitol police or DC police) in the process.
Of course, I doubt any of the cowards will actually show up.
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