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This week on CounterSpin, two archival interviews: As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol by a crowd intent on preventing the declaration of Joe Biden as president. We spoke with organizer and strategist Dorothee Benz the next day about the import of the events of January 6.
Transcript: ‘This Violent Piece of Insurrection Was Planned Openly on Unencrypted Channels’
Also on the show: While response to the insurrection came slowly, states have been cracking down on peaceful protests. We talked about that worrying trend with the ACLU’s Vera Eidelman around the Fourth of July.
Transcript: ‘They Are Taking Aim at Our Fundamental American Right to Protest’
Any person who chooses to use the example of organized violence exhibited by a group with whom they disagree, merely to justify their own brand of organized violence, is little more than a duplicitous sociopath. Pretty sure Jesus never preached an eye for an eye.
The lessons of the Weimar Republic (and Nuremberg Trials) are wasted on many in the post-war generations, who appear either unable or unwilling to distinguish overt Neo-fascism whenever it decides to wrap itself up in Old Glory. In fact, not only has this brand of red, white, and blue camouflage been successfully marketed into an obscenity-laced Trump brand, but through widespread acceptance of intentionally offensive messaging in the name of “patriotism,” our public debate continues being poisoned into an early grave.