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Пара новостей, напомнивших о прошлых событиях.

1. Даг Дженсен, последователь культа QAnon из штата Айова, ставший лицом Пути-путча 6 января 2021, предстал перед судом присяжных и был признан виновным по всем пунктам обвинения.  По совокупности наказаний ему может грозить больше 50 лет заключения. Тюремный срок (менее суровый, но немалый) назначат в декабре.

Jensen was found guilty of five felony offenses: assaulting, resisting, or impeding a law enforcement officer, obstruction of an official proceeding, interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon, and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon. He also was found guilty of the misdemeanor offenses of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
Jensen is to be sentenced on Dec. 16, 2022. The felony charges carry a total statutory maximum of 53 years in prison and potential financial penalties. The misdemeanor offenses carry a combined statutory maximum of one year of incarceration and potential financial penalties. The Court will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/iowa-man-found-guilty-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges-related-capitol-breach

Дженсен бежал впереди толпы, одной из первых прорвавшихся в Капитолий, и искал там вице-президента Пенса. Он был близок к входу в зал заседаний Сената, но умелым маневром полицейский по имени Юджин Гудман (позже награжденный за это Золотой медалью Конгресса) увел его вместе со всей толпой в другую сторону https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Goodman

Combined with other tweets I’ve seen - this is Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman. Around :45 in, he glances to his left down a hallway. In between two nearby chairs is an entrance to the Senate chamber. Officer Goodman then LURES THE MOB AWAY.
Hero. https://t.co/k4i2usw0Vj
- Lori (@Kalottie1009) January 10, 2021

Интересные подробности о радикализации осужденного Дженсена всплыли в его показаниях ФБР. Он признался, что изначально был демократом, голосовал за Обаму и собирался в 2016 проголосовать за Хиллари Клинтон. Но был сбит с толку Интернет-пропагандой, основанной на сливах Викиликс (почты, взломанной хакерами ГРУ) и постепенно скатился в конспирологию, культ Трампа и QAnon.

The transcript is a tough read. It reveals (as the court filings associated with many of the January 6 defendants do) the urgency with which the US needs to address mental health treatment. It reveals how Trump’s propagandists won the allegiance of a blue collar union member who had previously voted Democratic.
But most vividly, it reveals how Jensen got radicalized into QAnon. And that started - as he repeatedly describes - from the files stolen from John Podesta released by WikiLeaks in advance of the 2016 election. He planned to vote for Hillary (!!!) until he came to believe the misrepresentations he read (pushed, in significant part, by accused Proud Boy leader Joe Biggs) of the Podesta files. When the flow of Podesta files ended, Jensen was left with a void, which Q drops filled shortly thereafter. After that, Jensen came to believe Trump’s lies that he had been shafted by the Deep State, by some guy (Peter Strzok) and his girlfriend whose name he couldn’t remember. Perhaps as a result, Jensen came to believe of Putin that, “this guy don’t seem so bad, you know.” <...>
This is a narrative of how an information operation started by Russia six years ago continues to poison American politics, up to and including persuading Americans to affiliate with the architect of that information operation.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/04/12/where-was-doug-jensen-radicalized-russias-2016-election-tampering/

Таким образом путинская атака на американские выборы не только повлияла на чашу весов в 2016, но и внесла свой вклад в атаку на Капитолий в 2021, отравив мозги некоторым из ее участников.



Бывший президент, который и до этого не особенно стеснялся поощрять культ QAnon, в последнее время делает это все более открыто.

The event he held on Saturday, in Youngstown, Ohio, was theoretically to rally voters behind candidates he has endorsed, including J. D. Vance, the Republican nominee for Senate, but, in fact, Trump used the occasion to demonstrate his dominance, remarking to the crowd, “J. D. is kissing my ass. He wants my support so bad.” As usual, Trump seemed to really be campaigning to soothe his own wounded ego; now that he’s been caught lifting classified documents from the White House, he needs to up the rhetorical ante if he wants to change the subject. And so he’s stopped saying that he knows nothing about what the QAnon conspiracy theory is and, instead, has begun to embrace it. Earlier in the week, he’d been ReTruthing (this, apparently, is what retweeting is called on Truth Social, his rickety social-media platform) images of himself wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid with the words “the storm is coming.” As the “PBS NewsHour” explained, “In QAnon lore, the ‘storm’ refers to Trump’s final victory, when supposedly he will regain power and his opponents will be tried, and potentially executed, on live television.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/watching-trump-embrace-qanon-from-the-historical-jewish-quarter-of-krakow



Вторая история, попавшая на этой неделе на заглавную страницу New York Times, рассказывает о том, как в 2017, после Женского марша (на сегодняшней день - самого массовой единовременной акции мирного протеста в американской истории) российские тролли из пригожинской фабрики приняли деятельное участие в том, чтобы раздуть раздоры среди организации и не допустить повторения подобных протестов.

More than 4,000 miles away, organizations linked to the Russian government had assigned teams to the Women’s March. At desks in bland offices in St. Petersburg, using models derived from advertising and public relations, copywriters were testing out social media messages critical of the Women’s March movement, adopting the personas of fictional Americans.
They posted as Black women critical of white feminism, conservative women who felt excluded, and men who mocked participants as hairy-legged whiners. But one message performed better with audiences than any other.
It singled out an element of the Women’s March that might, at first, have seemed like a detail: Among its four co-chairs was Ms. Sarsour, a Palestinian American activist whose hijab marked her as an observant Muslim.
Over the 18 months that followed, Russia’s troll factories and its military intelligence service put a sustained effort into discrediting the movement by circulating damning, often fabricated narratives around Ms. Sarsour, whose activism made her a lightning rod for Mr. Trump’s base and also for some of his most ardent opposition.
One hundred and fifty-two different Russian accounts produced material about her. Public archives of Twitter accounts known to be Russian contain 2,642 tweets about Ms. Sarsour, many of which found large audiences, according to an analysis by Advance Democracy Inc., a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts public-interest research and investigations. <...>
In January 2017, as the Women’s March drew nearer, they tested different approaches on different audiences, as they had during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. They posed as resentful trans women, poor women and anti-abortion women. They dismissed the marchers as pawns of the Jewish billionaire George Soros.
And they derided the women who planned to participate, often in crudely sexual terms. In coordination, beginning on Jan. 19, 46 Russian accounts pumped out 459 original suggestions for #RenameMillionWomenMarch, a hashtag created by a right-wing podcaster from Indiana:
The Why Doesn’t Anybody Love Me March
The Strong Women Constantly Playing the Victim March
The Lonely Cat Lady March
The Cramp Camp
The Bearded Women Convention
Broken Broads Bloviating
The Liberal Trail of Tears
Coyote Ugly Bitchfest
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html

На раздувание байки о том, что протест тайно проплачен Соросом, приходилось обратить внимание ранее, но, как выясняется, еще лучше сработала исламофобия, направленная на Линду Сарсур, одну из организаторов Марша, в том числе в исполнении виртуоза своего дела, супертролля под ником TEN_GOP.



Каким бы малым не был вклад путинских троллей, но Женские марши в итоге сошли на нет и не смогли повторить изначальный успех. Но участницы марша 21 января 2017 не забыли своих чувств. Исход образованных белых женщин из республиканской партии во многом определил результат выборов в Конгресс в 2018 и президентских выборов 2020. Неизвестно, чем закончатся выборы в этом году - дополнительного масла в огонь подлили запреты абортов и отмена Верховным судом решения Roe v. Wade. Если Байдену удастся сохранить контроль Конгресса, можно будет признать, что его самолет взлетел, и он стал одним из самых успешных президентов в истории.

Iranian women are cutting their hair and burning headscarves to protest their country's morality laws, following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Iran's President Raisi commented on the unrest, saying protesters should be "confronted decisively." pic.twitter.com/GFSS7cEW31
- DW News (@dwnews) September 25, 2022

А бесстрашное женское лицо протеста можно видеть сегодня в восставшем Иране.

The nationwide uprising was ignited by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of the morality police on Sept. 16. Ms. Amini was arrested on accusations of violating the hijab mandate. Women have led the past week’s demonstrations, some ripping off their head scarves, waving them and burning them as men have cheered them on.
For seven days and nights, Iranians have taken to the streets, facing bullets, tear gas, beatings and arrests to send a message to the clerics who have led the nation for 43 years. They have chanted for an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule, according to witnesses and videos shared on social media.
In Tehran, protests have changed shape from large gatherings at designated landmarks to smaller cells spread in most neighborhoods - including the affluent northern section and the working-class southern parts.
In the religious city of Qum, the power center of the Shiite faith and the government’s power base, videos posted on social media show scenes never seen before: young women stripping off their hijabs and crowds chanting against Ayatollah Khamenei, and calling him the nation’s “shame.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/world/middleeast/iran-protests.html

The same Iranian authorities that kill young Iranian women, also sell drones to russia that they use to kill Ukrainians - we have a common enemy. May equality and justice prevail in #Iran and across the world.
- 🇺🇦 Валерія Voshchevska (@Val_Voshchevska) September 20, 2022