@tilllindemann said in [Politics Super Thread \- keep it all in here](/post/1298097) said:
An important postscript to the Capitol protests. It has been widely reported ever since that day that one of the protestors laid pipe bombs. This is incorrect. They were planted at the Republican and Democrat headquarters, not the Capitol, which was known from the start but not really reported as such. Now, the FBI has just conceded they weren't even planted that day, but the previous day. In other words there is nothing tieing them to the Capitol protest at all. Why is this important? Because it is the Capitol protest that is being used to justify calls for more sweeping powers to fight 'terrorism' and 'sedition'.
If some lone wolf nutter, of as-yet unknown political or religious leanings, plants home made pipe bombs targeting both major political parties, there is nothing in that act that isn't addressed by current laws.
But if there's this sense that hey it's not a lone wolf, it's hundreds of thousands, millions, of violent terrorist Trumpists - then oh my goodness it's an existential threat, quick, give more power to the security-intelligence apparatus! Quick, crackdown on protest! Quick, restrict unpopular opinions on social media! It could lead to terrorism!
While they did not get a chance to plant them, a few of the protesters were caught with pipebombs. It must have been an unlucky coincidence.
But they weren't really, that's the point.