‘Know thy place’ - explaining what happened on Capitol Hill | Joseph Robertson

On September 18, 1793, President George Washington, surrounded by the founders of the new city of Washington, laid the cornerstone of the US Capitol Building. The man of note assisting him was Joseph Clark- the Freemasonic Grand Master of Maryland, and every Masonic ritual was carefully observed (Capitol Centennial Committee (U.S.), 1893).

In the ‘House of The Temple’, the Washington headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, hangs an accurately depicted oil painting of the ceremonial laying of the cornerstone (noted in “Lodge of the Double-Headed Eagle” by Fox, 1999). Its borrowing of artistic license lies only in making all dignitaries present visibly stoic, with a grandeur and dignity of expression that is both timeless and patriotic. This is in correlation to the symbolism mentioned in the following explanation of Masonic rituals: “The cornerstone also symbolizes sturdiness, morality, and truth. At his first initiation, the Mason is tasked with erecting a spiritual temple in his heart, drawing symbolic parallels to the strong, trusty cornerstone; without which, a building (symbolically, the Mason’s mind and heart) cannot stand.”

What can be stated certainly– beyond conflicting accounts, footage and evidence– is that on the 6th of January 2021, this Masonic symbolism of “sturdiness, morality, and truth” was at first glance nowhere to be found in the day’s happenings.

From the tragic death of Capitol Officer and veteran of the Air National Guard, Brian Sicknick, and the equally tragic, point-blank shooting of Ashli Babbit, herself a veteran of the US Air Force, to the as yet officially unexplained deaths of Benjamin Philips and Rosanne Boyland, we see a tragic loss of life that may have been avoidable.

We saw violence and the rule of mobs sweep across the US, and indeed the UK, over the course of 2020 in a manner that can be only described as unsettling. Perhaps more unsettling, however, were the incongruous levels of political response to these events. Antifa, now designated as a domestic terrorist threat in the United States, kicked off 2020 in style by holding the New York transport system to ransom in a move that, while supposedly targeting price hikes and increased security, was to all intents and purposes a precursor to the ‘Defund the Police’ movement that we would see in centre focus later on in the year.

The 26th of May 2020 was also a fateful date. This atmosphere of partly orchestrated and partly organic civil unrest would finally climax, spilling out into the mainstream with protests following the police-antagonised death of George Floyd, a serial criminal from Minneapolis.

Additional deaths and subsequent riots in Kenosha, further riots due to a continued breakdown in race relations in Minneapolis, and separate incidents brought levels of societal tension in America to a boiling point through August and beyond, in what one would be apt in describing the Summer of Hate.

Despite frequent independent calls by politicians and journalists across the world to look into what the ‘Black Lives Matter’ organisation actually stood for- the destruction of policing, capitalism and the family unit among other things- its vast groundswell support grew exponentially, quietly funded by Soros’s billionaire boys club of ‘philanthropic’, intensely liberal do-gooders.

While reports of the Metropolitan police force ‘taking the knee’ to BLM protestors were rife in the UK, across the pond high ranking officials in the US were welcoming such protests with open arms, to the point of participation. This surge in not-quite-defined desperation for a swift solution to perceived racial inequality, spearheaded in principle by the Black Lives Matter movement which came as far as Europe and beyond, led several reporters in the UK to observe what has been termed two-tier policing. Doing so during a period that saw the enforcement of mass lockdowns and restrictions as part of a global response to the Covid-19 crisis. In the US the bias of political action and media reflection on the riots grew ever greater.

  Yet it is significant to note when observing early reports of violence following the first wave of George Floyd protests this Summer, there are no incidents of police shootings. All deaths are caused either by defenders or mob-driven attackers, during a period when looting and chaos reigned in American streets. That is staggering, when considered in light of inordinate violence against police and abhorrent attacks against private individuals on both sides of the political spectrum. Perhaps law enforcement was too afraid of escalation, a perfectly reasonable consideration at the time.  The lack of authoritative Federal response to the situation left the mainstream commentary delighted in the fractured nature of the White House’s approach to the crisis. Trump sent the National Guard infrequently to dissolve riots, but not in immediate response and generally after days of looting and rioting had already occurred.

Even after the chaotic failure of ‘self-policing’ in Chop, policemen went in peacefully, with only normal measures of riot prevention engaged to break up the self-styled ‘autonomous’ zone. Tellingly, perhaps Ashli Babbit lies dead today, because there was no danger of further violent escalation from the crowd who invaded the Capitol. While terrible damage had been done in the death of Brian Sicknick, the violence against the crowd was not in response to that. The timelines do not add up. He was not reported injured immediately and died a day later.

Finally, after a year of deliberation, authority moved decisively in reaction to an anarchic situation, by shooting dead a woman who walked unarmed at the head of a misguided crowd. Though the crowd were off-limits she would not have been expecting to be singled out for death. Strangely enough the same authority allowed unarmed protestors into a well-guarded, key political building at an optically precise moment, before taking that course of action.

  The gathering, whether they were incited or not, had ascended to challenge, metaphorically speaking, that very cornerstone of the Capitol. They challenged not just the base level of democracy but the very top of the pyramid.

Regardless of who citizens of the American Republic support in their political aspirations, and regardless of happenings in the subcurrent of the general population, one must remember that any challenge to the most elite level of power, whether by optical assault or by physical approach, will surely be met with the severest penalties; carried out in the broadest of daylight.

The Eye that resides on every dollar bill saw the subordinate march of the crowd upon the Capitol and struck with a heavy warning. From the perspective of the Eye, such punishment was justly meted out to restore a semblance of “sturdiness, morality, and truth”.

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