I too was at J6 and, the month before, the Jericho (prayer) March. For the same reasons and motivations cited by Mr. Faddis. I too went with peaceful intent, and was peaceful all day. I never entered the Capitol building - I didn't even know that folks had been inside until I got back to my hotel that evening and saw it on the news.
I did see plenty of Antifa / ShutDown DC types - FBI operatives? - within the crowd. Easy to spot: twenty-something males, black clothing festooned with some Trump accessories to mask their Antifa uniforms. Almost all with backpacks on. Later, many with helmets and some even with gas masks (which is probably what the backpacks were for).
Backpacks weren't allowed on the Ellipse grounds where the duly re-elected President Trump was speaking ... so those folks were not interested in his speech, and weren't there.
In November, 2020, this country was subjected to a coup d'etat, using color revolution techniques.
My daily prayer includes an entreaty to God that He "deliver us from the Satanic evil of Collectivism, that has seized control of our country ... that the evildoers responsible be identified and brought to justice ... and that the revelations, in turn, cause the scales to fall from tens of millions of my fellow citizens' eyes, and serves as the catalyst for a new Great Awakening in this land, and across the globe."
The preponderance of the many first-hand stories from that day I've read reveal the same thoughts and emotions of knowing and caring individuals. For those present, it was going to be a day to remember, but not the train-wreck version that would be continually displayed and focused on with such a vicious dedication to slander, deception, lies and a zeal for injustice. The Age of the Absurd arrived with Obama’s election, and we are in the woes and lamentations space now - waiting for the next shoe to drop. Can it get worse… but of course. Thank you for posting this fine piece of history.
I was there too, similarly concerned for the direction we were (and now are) apparently heading. Peaceful, concerned Americans not content to stay home when the earth was shaking beneath them. Believers in the Constitution who wanted to tell its shredders, "No more!" We are many. And we won't back down
I too was at J6 and, the month before, the Jericho (prayer) March. For the same reasons and motivations cited by Mr. Faddis. I too went with peaceful intent, and was peaceful all day. I never entered the Capitol building - I didn't even know that folks had been inside until I got back to my hotel that evening and saw it on the news.
I did see plenty of Antifa / ShutDown DC types - FBI operatives? - within the crowd. Easy to spot: twenty-something males, black clothing festooned with some Trump accessories to mask their Antifa uniforms. Almost all with backpacks on. Later, many with helmets and some even with gas masks (which is probably what the backpacks were for).
Backpacks weren't allowed on the Ellipse grounds where the duly re-elected President Trump was speaking ... so those folks were not interested in his speech, and weren't there.
In November, 2020, this country was subjected to a coup d'etat, using color revolution techniques.
My daily prayer includes an entreaty to God that He "deliver us from the Satanic evil of Collectivism, that has seized control of our country ... that the evildoers responsible be identified and brought to justice ... and that the revelations, in turn, cause the scales to fall from tens of millions of my fellow citizens' eyes, and serves as the catalyst for a new Great Awakening in this land, and across the globe."
The preponderance of the many first-hand stories from that day I've read reveal the same thoughts and emotions of knowing and caring individuals. For those present, it was going to be a day to remember, but not the train-wreck version that would be continually displayed and focused on with such a vicious dedication to slander, deception, lies and a zeal for injustice. The Age of the Absurd arrived with Obama’s election, and we are in the woes and lamentations space now - waiting for the next shoe to drop. Can it get worse… but of course. Thank you for posting this fine piece of history.
I was there too, similarly concerned for the direction we were (and now are) apparently heading. Peaceful, concerned Americans not content to stay home when the earth was shaking beneath them. Believers in the Constitution who wanted to tell its shredders, "No more!" We are many. And we won't back down