Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald, in a March 5 posting, argued that the police state/news media/Democratic Party complex need the “domestic insurrection,” which refuses to materialize, to justify their own emergency rule. He reviewed the media hyping of warnings of threats and violence from Jan. 20 through March 4 not only in Washington but in all 50 state capitols buildings, while what was happened was nothing. “Perhaps the most significant blow to the maximalist insurrection/coup narrative took place inside the Senate on Thursday” on March 4, Greenwald wrote. Those who were not referring to the Jan. 6 events as a “coup attempt” were required to call it an “armed insurrection.” But no guns were actually seized from the rioters. “This formulation was crucial not only for maximizing fear levels about the Democrats’ adversaries but also, as I’ve documented previously, because declaring an ‘armed insurrection’ empowers the state with virtually unlimited powers to act against the citizenry,” Greenwald writes. “But this [formulation] was completely false.
“Yet the maximalist narrative of an attempted coup or armed insurrection is so crucial to Democrats — regardless of whether it is true — that pointing out these facts deeply infuriates them,” Geeenwald continued. “A television clip of mine from last week went viral among furious liberals calling me a fascism supporter even though it did nothing but point out the indisputable facts that other than [U.S. Capitol Police officer] Brian Sicknick, whose cause of death remains unknown, the only people who died at the Capitol riot were Trump supporters, and that there are no known cases of the rioters deliberately killing anyone.”
