Fbi Now Says The Number Of People Involved In Pro-Trump Actions

[Paigntonian]

is, in their words, 'mind-blowing'.

[jno]

a rather vague number, that. Do they just mean the ones who invaded the Capitol?

[bednobs]

one might say it's a "tremendous" number ...

[Togo]

The smaller the "mind" the easier to blow.

[Peter Pedant]

golly - that's big !

[Ellipsis]

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-55629665
> FBI tells reporters 170 individuals identified, 70 charged so far, number will rise to 100s

Not exactly mind-blowing ... You can see it was hundreds on the telly.

The question is whether the ringleaders will be charged.

[Atheist]

Togo; do you have any info on how many are involved?

[Togo]

//Togo; do you have any info on how many are involved?//

Some estimates put it at about 80 million. Give or take about 10 million fake votes.

[Atheist]

Togo; are you really saying that there are 80 million Americans involved in pro-Trump actions?

[Peter Pedant]

// The question is whether the ringleaders will be charged.// you mean Pres trump - ter daah !

progress is slow on that one !

[Peter Pedant]

yes of course he is - 80m
this is AB for chrissakes not some venue of truth and honesty like Mme Petulegnros at the end of blackpool pier

[DTCwordfan]

all rather nervous stuff.

A close friend of my sister and bro-in law is a senior policeman in DC and, over dinner, he said that the police have been arming up 'for years' as they foresaw this sort of scenario developing, one where the very fundamentals of US democracy would be challenged - and in a militaristic way that would border on revolution.

[DTCwordfan]

This conversation was about two years ago.....

[Paigntonian]

Who said this and when?

[Atheist]

They (or their ancestors) took over the country with god in their hearts and guns in their hands, and did their best to exterminate the locals. They had no proper law and order apart from the Matt Dillons and grim-faced cigar-chomping gunslingers. They were given natives' land by the government and thought that that made them bold pioneers. They left old Europe to escape persecution from christian sects that were not their own. Now look at what they are.

[Paigntonian]

Sky, 10.45pm, tonight, have a special on the storming of The Capital.

[Buenchico]

It's actually the 'range of alleged crimes' that Steve D'Antuono has described as "mind-blowing", rather than the actual number of people carrying them out:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-13/fbi-warns-many-cases-to-come-from-capitol-attack/13053672

[Sunk]

// the [Washington DC] police have been arming up 'for years' as they foresaw this sort of scenario developing //

But on the day were totally ineffectual. They only started ejecting the mob two and a half hours after the building was invaded.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I wanna echo Sunk
if they armed up like y'all said
it was clear on the day they were locked away and forgotten about

and isnt 1968 the primaries, a prior example of something that Has Never Been Seen Before ?

also I misread
Sky, 10.45pm, tonight, have a special storming of The Capitol.

and thought wont they know what is happening or are their memories that short?