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They were. Either they didn’t think there was anything to worry about...and there wasn’t, because that group was very orderly...or it was some kind of a trap.

I actually don’t think it was a trap, or if it was, the cops weren’t in on it, because it wasn’t even expected that people would attempt to get into the Capitol. That wasn’t on the program and Trump certainly didn’t expect it or urge it.

But a Freeper who was there said that while he was approaching the building, he saw a group of men in black “assault gear” go behind the building. These were the ones who then tried to scale the walls and actually did break into the building from the other direction as the peaceful group filing into the rotunda. They then started breaking windows and roaming the halls. Was this a setup? I don’t know. The one picture of a guy in black with a handful of zip ties makes me wonder if at least some of them were not perhaps undercover law enforcement but I guess we’ll never know.

In any case, the point is that there were two different things going on in the building. It’s very possible that the guys in black were some kind of radical right wingers living out their fantasy, although it’s hard to believe, with the amount of surveillance these groups get, that they could have gotten that far.

Whatever, the fact that they could even gain any credibility among rational conservatives is the result of the fact that all of the legal avenues to express our grievances were denied to us by the refusal to examine the election. Sadly, their actions prevented the one last hope that we would get any official acknowledgment (the Senators who were prepared to object) that might have laid the way for further investigation and correction. There’s no hope of that now, and the actions at the Capitol gave the left just the excuse it was looking for to eliminate our side entirely from participation in the government and even society of the US.