George W. Bush, whose administration used the 9-11 attack to usher in the era of restricted liberties, mass surveillance and endless wars, had the gall to use his speech in Shanksville, Pennsylvania yesterday to feed the narrative that the principal terrorist threat to the U.S. today comes “from violence that gathers within,” implicitly comparing the Jan. 6 Capitol affair to the 9/11 attack, without naming it. “There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home. But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit,” said Bush.
On cue came the expected supportive eruptions from Democratic tribalists such as former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann’s tweet: “Even George W. Bush now recognizes Trump, his supporters and those who directly participated in the 1/6 Coup attempt are terrorists—surely as the 9/11 ones were.”
President Biden jumped to support Bush’s speech, telling reporters it was “a really good speech…a genuinely good speech — about who we are.” Biden then used it to push his “we have to unite to show the world’s autocrats we aren’t dysfunctional” line. He posed the question of national unity as:
“Are we going to, in the next 4, 5, 6, 10 years, demonstrate that democracies can work, or not? Because I just had a long — I’m not going to discuss with you now, but I had a long conversation with President Xi for over an hour and a half — not last night; the night before last. And I’ve had that one-on-one summit with Putin. And I’ve spoken with others.
“There’s a lot of autocrats who truly believe that democracies can’t function in the 21st century. Not a joke. They think because the world is changing so rapidly and people are so divided, you can’t bring people together in a democracy to get a consensus, and the only ones that are going to be able to succeed are the autocrats.”
Four days before, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CBS Evening News that his department considers “the most serious terrorism related threat on our homeland” to now be “domestic violent extremists.” That was followed by a Sept. 8 address to the warmongering Atlantic Council on the subject of “The Future of the U.S. Counterterrorism Mission,” by Biden’s National Security Council Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall. She, too, spoke of the country’s first-ever “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” launched in June at Biden’s initiative, creepily referencing several times the U.S.’s “strong and effective counterterrorism enterprise.”
Right on cue, the London Guardian today plays up the Sept. 18 “Justice for J6” rally in DC as a major security danger. Citing “sources familiar with the matter,” the Guardian reports Congressional security officials want to reinstall the fence around the Capitol and authorize the use of deadly force for Sept. 18. Congressional leaders are to receive a briefing on security’s final recommendations on Monday.
