Where was Antifa on January 6, 2021?

American Thinker ^ | 27 Sep, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

Sometimes, when traveling through the internet, you read something that makes so much sense you think, “Yes, that’s it! That explains so much.” That’s the case for DC Draino’s theory about how the violence on January 6 originated. According to him, we’ve all been missing something right before our eyes.

Beginning in the 1960s, leftist protests involved violence. Thus, leftists violently and theatrically protested the Vietnam War:

[Numerous video links at source]

Even during the Obama administration, violence was always present, as was the case when BLM was ascendent during the George Zimmerman, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray protests:

With Trump’s election, Antifa took the violent protests to a whole new level. Who can forget them setting Washington, DC, on fire when Trump was inaugurated?

By 2020, BLM and Antifa had joined forces in an ecstasy of murderous violence across America:

And, of course, whenever conservatives assembled, Antifa was on the ground, ready to attack:

Meanwhile, conservatives have been renowned for their peaceful protests. You might find a random crazy person being naughty, but otherwise, Tea Party protests were cheerful and ended with the attendees carefully cleaning up any litter they might have left behind. There were no fires, no mass assaults, and no murders. (Hence, no videos to show you.)

And yet, suddenly, on January 6, conservatives turned into wild-eyed rioters, exactly like Antifa. Moreover, also on January 6, the hyper-confrontational Antifa was nowhere to be found.

Or was that whole thing an illusion? Were conservatives, as usual, peaceful, just like the grannies who wandered wide-eyed through Congress after the police opened the doors and let them in? And were the violent Antifa types hiding in plain sight?

DC Draino thinks that we may have watched an illusion on January 6, with the real narrative being...

[Chickensoup]

they were all over dc. saw it that night

[Reverend Wright]

Absolutely !

Antifa is Regime enforcers, for when they want deniability, and don’t want to use police or military.

[WVNan]

I was jumping up and down screaming to those who are going there (a lot of my friends) DO NOT GO! Someone, probably here, had found out that Antifa was planning to sneak into the crowd. I started sharing with friends and telling them to be careful. I watched the live streaming at RSBN from beginning to end. I saw the cops opening the doors and ushering people. Then the first flash bang was released and the RSBN man began chocking on the smock and moved to the lower capital and we saw Antifa breaking windows, and patriots screaming “It’s Antifa” and trying to pull them down. I knew what was happing. Since watching all that happened that day including President Trump’s arrival and speech. THE CAPITAL RIOT WAS PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT BY ANTIFA. I’ve never understood why RSBN has not put that video out to the public. I knew before and after the event what was happening. Why are we not shouting load and plain until the truth is known and the patriots are released from prison???

[suthener]

Who DIDN’T know this? Watch the video of Ashley Babbit getting shot. Those are not MAGA people around her. One of the guys with horned helmet guy was identified as an Antifa guy by name. There’s a video of people in bushes changing into from ANTIFA to MAGA clothes. This ain’t news.

[Albion Wilde]

They were right there in and around the Capitol Building, wearing maga gear, as advised on their web site.

[Fedora]

The same Antifa groups and partners that protested Trump’s inauguration (organized as DisruptJ20, DC Anti-Fascist Coalition, etc.), were there on J6 as the Shut Down DC coalition. Groups involved included:

Black Lives Matter DC
All Out DC
Autonomous Liberation Collective NYC
Baltimore Liberation Front
DC Youth Liberation
Front Fairfax Smash The Fash
Frederick Socialists
Generation Ratify
Liberty Union Party of Vermont
Maryland Youth Liberation Front
One People’s Project
Shut Down DC
RichmondStrike
Showing Up For Racial Justice DC
United Against Racism and Fascism-NYC
Wake Up 301

And people like John Earle Sullivan with a history of appearing alongside both BLM and the Proud Boys were also there.

[South Dakota]

Ask John Sullivan about one of the broken windows

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

It was the failure of the DC leadership and congressional Democrats who stopped effective law enforcement actions that could have crippled and exposed Antifa and affiliates as soon as the riots started.

I once gave a mini-lecture in my Police Science class that was full of law enforcement people about there being no such thing as a spontaneous leftist riot or mob action. It was always planned, including many anti-Vietnam riots, MayDay 1971 (I had a copy of its manual reproduced by HISC in one of its hearings), Carlos Marresquello’s guide to Urban Warfare, and SDS manuals, and related materials re earlier Red led riots in Harlem, etc.

Those in the class acted as though they never knew such materia existed. Apparently I was the only FBI CI in the class and with undercover time inside the Left. Made a Fool out of one local superego cop. He didn’t know crap about anything and proved it in a later fiasco.

The first thing you do to stop a violent riot is to take out its leaders, either with snatch and grab teams or heavy doses of tear gas, flash grenades, or batons. Once the leaders are out of the picture, a mob will collapse and make easy pickin’s of the other violent ones.