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13 Dec 2021
Daniel Rodriguez was radicalized by InfoWars and participated in violent acts at the Capitol on January 6th.

Like Daniel Rodriguez, the guy who was arrested for tasing Officer Mike Fanone during the storming of the Capitol on January 6th. The FBI released a transcript of an interview with him, and in the conversation, he's asked about how, you know, prior to January 6th, he'd been at a Back the Blue rally, and he stood up for the cops, and then, on the 6th, there he was, assaulting a cop. The agent who was doing the interview is asking him what had happened. Quote, so how did the Danny that stood on the line in between law enforcement and Antifa and BLM, how did you get to that point? What happened in your life? Like, how did you start going to these rallies? Danny responds, InfoWars. InfoWars, so like Alex Jones stuff, the agent replies, and Danny nods. Later in the interview, Danny says, quote, I've been following InfoWars for, you know... 2008, 2009, maybe. He's the one. Alex Jones and Infowars were the ones who kind of put it out there, you know, that there's other news that's not on TV that they don't want you to know, you know? They don't tell you a lot of things. So it was just information is what it is. I was trying to find the truth and answers. And when I thought I found the truth and answers, I thought it was up to me to, I don't know, I just, it's like when, like, there's a saying, like, to know better is knowing better. To know better is to do better, you know? Because they really are, they were killing Trump supporters, shooting them in the head and beating them up in the school and public, everything, right? So I kept thinking that we were going to go to like a civil war and it's going to go hot and we're just, it's going to go, you know, I don't know. I don't know. We didn't, nobody knew. So we just thought it was going to, we were preparing for, we were preparing to save the country. We thought we were saving the country. I thought I was going to help save the country. Danny had decided to consider himself a three-percenter also, which is something that he told the agents that he had learned about from Infowars. In the interview, Danny tries to downplay his desire to do violent shit at the Capitol, which is great, but unfortunately, at the end of November, he got hit with some new charges involving a conspiracy to commit violence.

08 Nov 2021
The January 6th mob was murderous and deadly, evidenced by chants to hang Mike Pence, the use of zip ties, and deaths resulting from stress or trampling.

But like you're bringing up, even that's bullshit. When they play the clips of the broadcasters calling the mob murderous, that's kind of accurate. The term murderous doesn't require that someone has committed murder, just that they're capable of it or seem to be intending to murder. And I would say that a group of folks on January 6th, they qualify for that. Even if you just base it on the whole thing where they were chanting, hang Mike Pence. That one is definitely murderous. I would say just the existence of a regular old person holding plastic fucking zip tie cuffs, that's a murderous thing to do. I don't know. I've never seen those specific cups used without like an intent to harm seriously. I don't know. Yeah. So the mob was also absolutely deadly. Kevin Greeson died of a heart attack. His wife told reporters that he suffered from high blood pressure. And while I have no solid evidence to base this on, the excitement and stress of the unfolding riot could have easily raised his heart rate and blood pressure. And the same could be said for another person who died, Benjamin Phillips. Initially, it was believed that Roseanne Boyland was trampled to death by a bunch of people who were trying to storm the building. Her friend who was there told reporters that was how she died because he was there and watched the trampling. When the medical examiner's report came back, it turned out that she had actually died of, quote, accidental acute amphetamine intoxication. Each of these instances are fairly loose in terms of where you might want to assign real responsibility about the deaths, but this was a very deadly mob. And honestly, the only reason there weren't more deaths is probably dumb luck and coincidence.

12 Feb 2021
Violence against institutions is no longer righteous, but provocateurs triggered a few hundred people to enter the Capitol to label peaceful protesters as insurrectionists.

Look, we are well past the point of being able to righteously use violence against these institutions and organizations. But having a few Democrats and a few infiltrator groups trigger out of hundreds of thousands of peaceful people in D.C. a few hundred to go in the Capitol so you can be called insurrectionist and terrorist is not the place and the time for it.