Manufacturing bad guys for the media narrative

Interesting follow-up. A week or two ago, there was a Second Amendment rally in Virginia protesting the new legislation against gun ownership. The rally was well anticipated by the mainstream media with speculation that there was likely to be confrontations and violence incited by white supremacists or white nationalists.

In the event, the rally was racially and ideologically diverse, there was no violence, there were no confrontations. A big bust from the MSM perspective, but good for everyone else.

From the MSM perspective, the saving grace was the arrest by the FBI of some white nationalist terrorists in the process of planning an attack.

This seemed suspect timing. There just aren't that many white nationalists and they tend to be closely monitored. How did they get through the monitoring net to plan this incident?

This felt like the hapless Coptic film producer and his convenient video which no one had seen, suddenly becoming the establishment patsy to blame for the Benghazi attack. It was all nonsense of course. Yes, the trailer existed but it was not the catalyst for the embassy attack by terrorists and was known not to be the catalyst. It was all a show to distract from the fact that the Ambassador had been calling for greater security, that ISIS terrorists had planned and executed the attack, and we left four Americans to their deaths for fear of escalation.

At the time it took 2-4 weeks before it became clear that the Coptic film producer was simply a deliberate distraction.

It felt very similar in the Virginia case. Lots of hysteria and at the last moment when there was no violence, snatching MSM victory from defeat by pulling a white nationalist terrorist group from the hat. All the big media outlets covered the arrests and then it immediately went radio silent. No follow-up, no elaboration. Just a convenient cover story.

As it now turns out because there was never a cover story in the first place. The three targets were under active surveillance. They never planned an attack. They planned to be in place to follow-up on a race war if one occurred.

Being stupid and racist are not a crime. You have to have a criminal act or transparent premeditation.

This appears to have been little more than a malcontented farce.

From Were White Nationalists Really Planning To Attack The Virginia Gun Rights Rally? According To Police Records, Not Exactly by Anders Hagstrom. As far as I am aware, none of the MSM outlets have addressed the reality of the FBI arrests.