Extremists move to secret on-line channels to plan for inauguration day in D.C.

[DonViejo]

Source: NBC


Some pro-Trump extremists have used the platforms to suggest skipping local rallies to focus instead on a big turnout in D.C. at Biden's inauguration.

Jan. 12, 2021, 11:24 AM EST
By Anna Schecter

Right-wing extremists are using encrypted channels to call for violence against government officials on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, with some extremists sharing knowledge of how to make, conceal and use homemade guns and bombs.

The messages are being posted in Telegram chatrooms where white supremacist content has been freely shared for months, but chatter on these channels has increased since extremists have been forced off other platforms in the wake of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump rioters.

In the days since the Capitol attack, for example, a U.S. Army field manual and exhortations to "shoot politicians" and "encourage armed struggle" have been posted in a Telegram channel that uses "fascist" in its name.

Chris Sampson, chief of research at the defense research institute Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies, said his group is focused on and concerned about users of the channel and has alerted the FBI about it. (TAPSTRI is run by Malcolm Nance, an NBC News terrorism analyst.)

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/extremists-move-secret-line-channels-plan-inauguration-day-d-c-n1253876

[Wicked Blue]

1. Cockroaches will always find ways to squeeze in nt

[Siwsan]

2. I have little doubt that they've been 'infiltrated'.

We just have to hope that things don't stay secret for long.

[Richard58]

5. I hope you are right.

But it does seem logical that our intelligence agencies are monitoring this and hopefully are prepared for what these fascist morons are going to do.

[marie999]

3. I am sure the NSA and FBI are monitoring those chatrooms.

[Chainfire]

6. And would you be thinking that they did not monitor them over the past few months?

Knowing and acting are two different things.

We are coming to a fork in the road of history and we must decide which path we will take.

[marble falls]

7. You bet. No Federal Agency will be dropping the ball this time. I pray they are intimidated by ...

... their Federal reception, skirt the violence - but if there is any violence I hope the Feds stop it cold, harshly.

[Chainfire]

4. It may be good to have all of the worst ones in the same place at the same time

and confront them with overwhelming force. So many of them want a civil war, let them experience what war is really like.

People conspiring to commit sedition must be rooted out and dealt with. If they insist on being dealt with while using guns and bombs, so be it. Introduce them to Predator and Hellfire. We can not thrive as a nation with terrorists living among us. Bring them down.

History has shown us the two choices. We either stop them in this phase or get ready to be "relocated to the East."

[MissMillie]

8. chances are intelligence agencies already know where they are

Twitter isn't shut down, and parler was thoroughly archived.

I'm sure Grab is being watched closely

As well as FR and CU (does that one even exist anymore?).

No matter what, the alarm has already been sounded. State houses will be on alert. And I'm convinced that the inauguration security is on top of things.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. I hope they're as secure as Parler.

I'm using "as" in the most restrictive sense.

as adverb
əz, ( ˌ )az

Definition of as

(Entry 1 of 9)
1 : to the same degree or amount
//as soft as silk
//twice as long

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as

[Progressive Jones]

10. If they try, they should die. nt

[myohmy2]

11. I would hope...

...our intelligence services, that seem capable of dealing with Russian and Chinese governmental hacks, would be able to keep up with the planned action and location of Bubba and Earl...

...at least I hope so...