The Three-Year Charade of Federal Justice
Finally, after over a thousand days of scratching their heads and pretending the most surveilled city on the planet is some kind of unsolvable labyrinth, the Department of Justice finally dragged Brian Cole into the light (if you can even call it that) and the smell of the whole situation is worse than a DC swamp in mid-July. They want us to celebrate. They want us to applaud the ‘meticulous’ investigation that somehow took three whole years to find a guy who allegedly just walked up and confessed the second they knocked on his door. It’s a joke. It’s a complete and utter farce that reveals exactly how the gears of the establishment grind—slowly when it’s convenient and at light speed when they want to crush a political dissident who isn’t part of their pre-approved script. This isn’t about safety or justice. This is about maintaining a narrative of fear while proving that the people in charge couldn’t find their own shadows with a flashlight and a map (and they probably wouldn’t want to anyway if the shadow didn’t fit the current polling data). We are expected to believe that Brian Cole, a man from Virginia, just decided to plant explosives near the DNC and RNC because ‘something just snapped’ in his head. That is the kind of weak-sauce psychological defense that only works in a system where the truth is secondary to the spectacle.
The Psychology of the ‘Snapping’ Point
Let’s talk about this ‘something just snapped’ nonsense because it is the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for a society that has abandoned any sense of personal responsibility or objective reality. The DOJ claims Cole admitted his actions after his arrest, framing him as a lone wolf who just lost his grip on reality for a moment (as if planting pipe bombs is just a common side effect of a bad Tuesday). If something snapped, why did it take three years to trace that snap back to the source? We are living in a digital panopticon where every license plate, every cell signal, and every sneeze is recorded by a dozen different three-letter agencies, yet this guy was just chilling in Virginia while the feds put out grainy photos and pretended they were doing real detective work. It’s insulting. It’s a direct slap in the face to every person who actually believes in the rule of law. They don’t want you to ask why the bombs didn’t go off. They don’t want you to ask how he bypassed security cordons. They just want you to focus on the ‘confession’ and the ‘snap.’ (By the way, if my ‘snap’ involved doing something that disrupted the headquarters of both major political parties, I’m pretty sure the FBI would have been at my house before the sun came up on January 6th). The delay isn’t a failure of technology; it’s a failure of intent. They held this card until they needed a headline to distract from whatever other dumpster fire is currently consuming the administration.
The Dual-Target Paradox
One of the most telling details that the mainstream media is glossing over (shocker, I know) is that the bombs were placed at both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. If this was some partisan insurrectionist plot, why target both? The narrative that Jan. 6 was a monolithic movement of one specific ideology falls apart when the guy at the center of the explosive side-plot was targeting both sides of the aisle. Maybe it’s because both sides are part of the same corrupt coin? Cole allegedly told authorities he wasn’t trying to stop the certification of Biden’s victory. He was just mad. He was fed up. He was a product of a pressure-cooker environment that the media and the government created through years of divisive rhetoric and manufactured crises. (And let’s be real, who isn’t a little fed up with the DNC and RNC at this point?) But the DOJ needs to frame this as an attack on ‘democracy’ rather than an attack on the corrupt institutions that have failed the American people for decades. By focusing on his ‘mental state’ rather than his targets, they avoid the uncomfortable conversation about why so many people in this country feel like they have no voice other than the one that comes through a desperate, illegal act. They want to paint him as a crazy outlier instead of a symptom of a systemic rot that they are actively cultivating.
The Surveillance State’s Selective Blindness
Let’s get into the weeds here: how does a guy plant bombs in the heart of D.C. and just walk away for three years? We have facial recognition that can pick a face out of a crowd of ten thousand people in London, but we couldn’t find a guy in Virginia? It’s a total lie. The surveillance state is only ‘omnipresent’ when they want to target someone who is actually a threat to their power structure. If you’re just a guy with a pipe bomb who doesn’t fit the immediate political needs of the week, you can apparently just hang out and live your life until the news cycle needs a fresh injection of ‘domestic terror’ drama. It is a selective blindness that is both terrifying and deeply revealing. They had his DNA. They had his face on camera. They had his cell phone pings (presumably, because they have everyone else’s). To believe it took three years is to believe in a level of incompetence that would make a DMV employee look like a NASA engineer. No, they knew. Or they didn’t care until the timing was right. This is about control. This is about showing the public that ‘we can get you whenever we want,’ while simultaneously admitting they don’t give a damn about actual safety until it serves a purpose. The manifesto of the modern state is written in the blood of the people they failed to protect and the ink of the warrants they issue three years too late.
Predicting the Future of ‘Lone Wolf’ Narratives
Expect to see more of this as we head into the next election cycle. The ‘lone wolf’ who ‘just snapped’ will become the go-to archetype for every act of civil unrest. Why? Because it prevents us from looking at the bigger picture. If it’s just a crazy guy, we don’t have to talk about the economic collapse, the border crisis, or the fact that our leaders are more interested in funding foreign wars than fixing the potholes in our own streets. Brian Cole is a convenient distraction. His confession is a neatly wrapped gift for a DOJ that has been under fire for its partisan handling of Jan. 6 cases. See? They caught the bomber! Everything is fine now! (Except it’s not fine, and we all know it). They will use this case to justify even more surveillance, even more ‘pre-crime’ monitoring, and even more crackdowns on anyone who dares to speak out against the status quo. They aren’t catching criminals; they are managing a population. The bombs were duds, but the political impact is being detonated right now to see who stays in line. If you think this ends with one arrest in Virginia, you haven’t been paying attention to how the machine works. It’s hungry, it’s angry, and it’s looking for its next ‘snap.’
