I'm again posting this story from a little less than a year ago....
I presently treat a woman who is now the widow of a retired, very high ranking military man who was at one time a base commander. I have known them for over 25 years, and he died a Couple of years ago.
To make a long story short, these two individuals are and in his case were, extreme right wing activist political people, I found them to be potentially dangerous in many ways, not the least of which was his intimate knowledge of the workings of the federal government particularly the liaisons between the civilian and the military aspects. Unlike many of the miscreants who are interviewed on television, this man was by any standard academically and militarily brilliant and was fully cognizant of the world as it exists and how it affected his sphere. He was verbal, incisive, highly opinionated to say the least, analytical, and extremely shrewd. He was a formidable person, and quite frankly somewhat charismatic, although fascists don’t particularly appeal to me in that fashion.
About six weeks before 1/6, His widow came in for a visit and asked me if I would like to join her (don’t ask -it happens a lot and someday will be a subject of an article I’m writing) on a trip on January 6 to Washington DC to “take over Congress and Stop the Steal”. Her words exactly. . Now it should be said that whenever she or her deceased husband would come in and talk I would just listen carefully, occasionally nod, and then get on with my work. I would neither visually or verbally assent to their beliefs nor would I argue because that’s not my job number one, and number two I have no desire to get into these kinds of discussions with radicals who oppose everything that I was brought up to believe in. Nothing I say would have any effect upon their opinions or actions.
So I asked her if something was going to be occurring on that day which would be transcendental, and she smiled proudly and said yes this is the big one. Now I know that many people pretend to be close to the action and speak as though they are informed, but she and when he was alive, her deceased husband really is (and were) individuals who were almost certainly contacts in the Philadelphia area for their movement. As we are finding out it is much better organized than some people gave it credit for being.
So on that Wednesday which I happened at that time to have off, I sat in front of my television watching this nightmare unfold, and was thinking to myself this woman is almost certainly down there and part of the crowd and God only knows what’s going to happen to the country. For law-enforcement to state that they had no idea that this would metamorphose into a violent insurrection is pure specious bullshit. If I knew that something big was going to go down, and I’m a nobody, I guarantee you that there were people in the know who elected for whatever reason to allow it to happen.
Even if someone’s motives were to allow it in order to expose the insanity of this movement, it’s just not moral or ethical. This was a revolution which should have been quelled in its infancy. You know that if it been from the left, it would’ve been infiltrated and destroyed in its planning stages.
I saw the widow not too long ago and she was a bit evasive when I asked her about her goings-on these days. She used to wax “poetic“ about activities, but she was more than a bit coy so I’m not certain if she has ceased her activism or knows that she cannot discuss it in public. Either way I thought I would mention this again here, for what it’s worth, and we shall see what occurs between now and Election Day, and of course, beyond.
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With the husband's former contacts, this has the potential to blow the military involvement wide open!
