These are merely attempts to gaslight people into believing that legitimate differences of opinion are crimes that carry guilt and shame.
A good number of FBI staff had sympathy for the protesters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, a secretive email sent to the top brass in the bureau has said.
As expected, most of the headlines say it is a shocking revelation. Some others call it ‘chilling’. But is that actually shocking? Or should it be shocking?
The email was sent by someone in the know of things underway in the inner circles of the FBI, and the leaks have hidden the name of the sender. The email was sent to Paul Abbate, who is the second highest official at the FBI.
The FBI agents, who had second thoughts about the official policy on the insurrectionists, believed that the riot at the US Capitol was « no different than the BLM protests. »
The mail was sent off a week after the January 6 Capitol riot, and the sender wanted to ‘warn’ the FBI top officials that « sizable percentage of the employee population …..felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol. «
The letter presents evidence to support that these ‘acts of sympathy’ were not isolated events. « These are not one-off events — they are representative of a larger group within the organization, » the writer said.
The letter adopts a highly lenient view of the riots by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters while calling the January 6 rioters ‘domestic terrorists.’ « I literally had to explain to an agent from a ‘blue state’ office the difference between opportunists burning and looting during protests that stemmed legitimate grievance to police brutality vs. an insurgent mob whose purpose was to prevent the execution of democratic processes at the behest of a sitting president ….
