Whether or not you hate Trump is irrelevant. If America is to have a functioning and fair justice system, like the Devil to More, Trump and his supporters who entered the Capitol on January 6th must be given the benefit of the law. We know from Trump’s own speech calling for the suspension of the constitution that he would happily cut down the laws of the land to take down the Devil in his eyes. If the Washington establishment continues to ignore the law in hot pursuit of Trump, they may find themselves at the mercy of Trump himself, or even worse, a competent Trump, who not only spews crazy demagogic nonsense, but who puts that tyrannical nonsense into crushing action.
“The history of our time will show that the bravery of a handful of Americans, doing their duty, saved us from an even more grave Constitutional crisis.”[i]– Liz Cheney
“We’re gathered together in the heart of our nation’s capital for one very, very basic and simple reason: To save our democracy.”[ii]– Donald Trump
“Whatever the details, Hannibal, in his final act of defiance, would not allow his greatest enemy to take him alive. He would not be a prize for the vulgar amusement of the crowd in the Forum. He died alone far from his beloved Carthage, on his own terms, in a last, quiet battle against Rome.”[iii]– Phillip Freeman
The January 6 Committee has published its official final report, anticipated by the illiberal liberal class and the Biden administration, who have been licking their lips at the thought of Trump finally being donned in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit, an image we were promised repeatedly throughout his presidency and in the years since he left office, are chattering about the significance of the criminal referrals made by the committee in the report. Out of all the referrals, the obstruction of justice charge is likely the easiest case to make against Trump, however, like in the Russiagate investigation, to say Trump obstructed justice is an oversimplification, as this case against him is unjust both in its process and its motivations. This is not about indicting Trump; it is about indicting his supporters and those who oppose the Washington establishment. Everything that Trump is guilty of, so is his opposition, including Adam Schiff and others in the committee. Jamie Raskin challenged the electoral votes in the 2016 election, Schiff referred to Trump as an illegitimate president repeatedly, promising concrete evidence of Russian collusion, and Bennie Thompson challenged the electoral results of the 2004 election, and these three go on news shows every day and talk up the threat that Trump poses to democracy and how their work in the committee proves it.[iv]
Yet, despite all the money and time spent on investigating January 6th, many questions remain unanswered and outright ignored. For example, why was there so little security at the Capitol that day? There are protests at the Capitol every day, and there was foreknowledge about plans to march to the Capitol as the FBI infiltrated far-right groups like the Proud Boys.[v] This leads to another question, how involved were the FBI in the Capitol riot? Reporting by Darren J. Beattie that FBI informants were on site at the riot on January 6th was confirmed by the New York Times.[vi] In a senate hearing, senior officials for the FBI were questioned about the FBI’s involvement on January 6th by Republican senators and they said that they had no information or answers.[vii] Senator Tom Cotton asked one official if he knew about the hearing ahead of time.[viii]
Another important question is why the rioters are being given such harsh treatment, as many of them merely trespassed and brought no weapons of any sort. They are evidently being punished for having the wrong ideology rather than true felonies. This is not to say that they should be let off, they should simply be given community service, not months or years in federal prison. The J6 Committee is so partisan in its approach that these and other significant questions were not explored, and if they were, lackluster conclusions were drawn.
It is evident what occurred, and that is that the riot at the Capitol on January 6th was known about, as detailed in the report, and behind the scenes the Washington establishment set the stage for it to happen as ‘planned’, and the riot, or as it is called in illiberal liberal circles, the insurrection, is used to discredit Trump and his voters, as well as Republicans as a whole. The war on Trump is a proxy war in which the Washington establishment, terrified that it is losing control of the narrative, has crafted its own narrative depicting the Capitol rioters as deadly insurrectionists who were deployed by Trump to overthrow the US government. From then on leaders across the world were likened to Trump, notably Bolsonaro, who was touted as flirting with deeming the Brazilian presidential election rife with fraud.[ix] This turned out to not be the case, and it is more than likely that there will be a peaceful transition of power to Lula.[x]
The narrative, which is developed in the majority of the January 6th Report, is filled with plot holes, and is only meant to satisfy the cravings of the anti-Trump industry and audience. Of much interest is the recommendation section of the report, where a reference to Section 3 of the Fourteenth amendment is made.[xi] Trump and others have been referred to the DOJ for allegedly aiding or comforting an insurrection, and this would disqualify him from running for office again. There are three main problems with the J6 report, and these are the consequential questions not investigated by the committee, the hyperbole and furtherance of fear mongering around the supposed insurrection that almost tore down American democracy, and the true indictment that the J6 Committee and the Washington establishment is trying to lead to, which is an indictment of anyone who would dare vote for Trump or any figure who threatens its reign, and the purpose of this is to get Trump at any cost.
In the twilight of empires, dissenters must be squashed, and this must be done under a guise of justice. Consider the Roman Empire’s ruthless pursuit of Hannibal, driving him to poison himself. Some historical accounts say that Hannibal was not outraged at the Roman Empire as it pursued him even in his old age, he instead pitied it. Hannibal was so feared by Rome that “Hannibal is at the gates!” became a famous cry anytime the gates of Rome were under threat. Also consider the fate of Leon Trotsky, who was excised from the Soviet Politburo and was driven into exile by Stalin and after surviving multiple assassination attempts was eventually killed in 1940 under orders by Stalin. Trotsky was literally erased from history by Stalin, and it took many years for him to be reinserted into Russian history. Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin’s secret police, famously said to Stalin “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” This is the nature of injustice we are witnessing in the US. While many people who rioted or were on the grounds of the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, are being imprisoned and detained to the cheers of the liberal ruling class, while those who trashed cities and assaulted police officers during 2020, call for violence against supreme court justices over decisions they disagree with, and dehumanize their opposition at every turn, are seen as the heroes defending democracy against the threat of Trump and his movement. It is evident that there is a clamp down on dissent in America. For now, the target is Trump and his supporters, but tomorrow it could be an anti-war movement or an environmentalist group.
Revving Up the Domestic War on Terror
“We’re also fighting the enemy here at home. We’ve given our law enforcement and intelligence professionals the tools they need to stop the terrorists in our midst.”[xii]– George W. Bush
The FBI has a record of being dodgy in its surveillance and mistreatment of citizens. It spied on Martin Luter King Jr., it covered up investigations into the assassination of Malcom X, they kept a file on the hip hop group The Wu-Tang Clan, infiltrated Muslim fundamentalist groups during the first war on terror, they recently raided the offices and homes of the African People’s Socialist Party, it kept files on those suspected to have ties to communism, and hundreds of people were blacklisted from Hollywood, like Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin.[xiii] Chaplin fled the country and lived in Switzerland for most of his life, returning to the US late in his life to accept an Academy Award.[xiv] The FBI infiltrates various far right groups as part of the second war on terror, and they were so involved in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer that the two men on trial for the plot were acquitted.[xv] It is also still unknown how involved the FBI were in Capitol riot in 2021, and so far, we know there were at least two informants on site on January 6th. The right now distrusts the FBI, after four years of Russiagate, the recent raid on Trump’s home, and the criminal referrals in the January 6th Report. The left and liberals who once opposed the FBI now embrace them. This could be a moment where the populist left and right can come together and abolish the FBI, which merits contempt, not respect or adoration. Instead, those who criticize the FBI and their obvious political hit jobs against Trump are mocked and ostracized. Trump and his acolytes are accused of stoking violence against the FBI. This accusation is comical. The FBI is the arm of the state. Their objective is to quash dissent from Washington. The FBI has been involved in killings, assassinations, monitoring citizens, and crushing people’s civil liberties since its inception, however, according to clowns like Garland and Biden, we are supposed to respect these cretins?
Christopher Wray, the Trump appointed director of the FBI, said in 2021 that far right and white supremacist terrorism is currently the biggest threat to US national security.[xvi] The Biden administration has made statements condemning people’s mistrust and criticism of the FBI and the DOJ.[xvii] Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, defended the raid on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home, and he affirmed that the search was justified.[xviii] The warrant released shows that Trump is being investigated for violating the Espionage Act. The raid on his property alone sets a dangerous precedent. Trump being indicted for violating the Espionage Act, a draconian, archaic law that is used against whistleblowers, notably in the case of Daniel Hale, a former CIA analyst who broke the Drone Papers to The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill and was sentenced to 45 months in prison, sets an even more dangerous precedent. Whatever your feelings on Trump, the war on him and his supporters has reached a boiling point. The desperation of the Washington establishment is plain for all to see now. The cavalier attitude of the liberal corporate media towards charging a former president with the Espionage Act and for allegedly engaging in a legal insurrection is revealing.
Like Eliot Ness in his pursuit of Al Capone, it doesn’t matter what they get Trump on, it could be littering or bringing a box of documents to his home when leaving office, they need to get Trump. This is not justice, Trump, with all his craziness and unhinged rhetoric about the ‘stolen election’, is easy to turn into a clown. This is what happens to anyone who dissents from the Washington consensus. Those liberals, lefties, and conservatives who want to move on from Trump need to wake up and realize that Trump is not the cause of America’s constitutional crisis, nor is he the threat to democracy and the totalitarian ruling class and their band of geriatric goons are. What if they do get Trump? Who’s next? From the history of totalitarian regimes, whether it’s the Jacobins, Stalin, Hoxha, or Pol Pot, targets are conjured up from nothing, and the slightest dissent comes with grave consequences. I have been hesitant to refer to the Washington establishment and it’s ‘liberal’ ruling class with such terminology, however, recent events show a circle of elites so desperate to stop Trump and more importantly, to deny his supporters a place in politics that they will resort to methods commonly seen in states like China or Russia. Much of the criticism of political repression and crushing of dissent we hear about in China, Russia, Iran, and other countries is mere projection. America and the so called ‘liberal democracies’ of the world no longer have a moral high ground on the repression of political dissent and free speech. The endless persecution of Trump and his supporters, absurdly deemed a fantasy in an op-ed published in the Washington Post, is a frightening development and should scare anyone who dares dissent in the once free world.
Another Day in Inverted Totalitarianism
“It is the monstrous, yet seemingly unanswerable claim of totalitarian rule that, far from being “lawless,” it goes to the sources of authority from which positive Jaws received their ultimate legitimation, that far from being arbitrary it is more obedient to these suprahuman forces than any government ever was before, and that far from wielding its power in the interest of one man, it is quite prepared to sacrifice everybody’s vital immediate interests to the execution of what it assumes to be the law of History or the law of Nature.”[xix]– Hannah Arendt
When Richard Nixon was being impeached a book was written explaining the impeachment process and it sold out everywhere. People pored over its pages, engaging furiously with the momentous event. Similarly, the Espionage Act was one of the most searched terms on Google following the murmurings that Trump would be charged under it, with outlets like the BBC publishing pages explaining what the Espionage Act is.[xx] People are, like in the case of the Nixon impeachment, engaged with the immediate happenings of the day, involving a widely despised figure, from the Espionage Act to the Fourteenth Amendment. This is disturbing, as no one was as interested in the Espionage Act until it was related to Trump, not it being related to the cases of Assange, Chelsea Manning, Joshua Schulte, Daniel Hale, and countless others did not get such universal coverage and intrigue. Suddenly, people are obsessing over it and hoping that Trump’s actions somehow fit violation of the law. If this doesn’t work, these vultures will move onto the next thing. This is not justice, whatever you think of Trump or his supporters, you cannot be an advocate for justice and a fair hearing for anyone and everyone, and at the same time cheer this persecution of Trump and his movement. The face of the Democratic party and the ruling class in Washington is not Joe Biden, Barrack Obama, or Nancy Pelosi, it is Janus, where one face smiles and recites the soothing words of democracy and liberalism, and another face bears sharp fangs and is prepared to lash out at anyone who would dare dissent.
The embrace of Liz and Dick Cheney by liberals and Democrats who hated them during the Bush administration is also disturbing. Cheney has just been ousted from her seat in Wyoming, but not to worry, as apparently, she plans on running for president in 2024, against Trump.[xxi] Not only is her crusade against Trump undercut by her voting record during his administration, in which she followed his legislative agenda 90% of the time, she also represents the Republican party establishment that was rejected by voters in 2015-2016, when Trump soared to the nomination against figures like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.[xxii] The praise for Cheney and her ‘principles’ is a bad joke, as she was an advocate of torture, or as the Bush administration called them, ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’, even noting in 2018 that these techniques saved lives.[xxiii] This record does not matter, in the war on Trump, one thing matters, how do you feel about Trump? Do you hate him? Cheney hates him, so she is adored by the corporate media and the illiberal liberal class.
The Cheney’s, the Bush’s, the Clinton’s, the Obamas’, the Biden’s, they are all craven and power hungry, depraved, narcissistic, ghoulish, and authoritarian. They are what they call the Trump’s. What makes them hate Trump and his supporters is not an alleged threat to democracy or the coming of fascism, it is the fact that who they really are was exposed to the American people. They will do anything to stop Trump and his voters from participating in politics. The same fools cheering the draconian behavior of the FBI towards their political opponents will be targeted sooner or later. The security state in the US is not distinct. Inverted totalitarianism is our reality across the West. Everyday we come closer to resembling the strict, odious surveillance states we have resisted and criticized for decades. In America it is more pronounced. In the entire Western world, we may get to choose what to watch on Netflix or what flavor of chips to buy, but beyond that our choices are limited and diminishing at every turn. Today it’s Trump, tomorrow it will be us, By the time enough people recover from their outrage addiction and realize this it will be too late.
Conclusion
“It was ultimately populism that was found guilty for the crimes of January 6, especially in the stiff judgement of the media elites.”[xxiv]– Brendan O’Neill
Our current addiction to outrage and civil war porn has an inevitable result. That is Trump, or his likeness taking power in Washington. Perhaps his next manifestation will be more competent and better able to both weather the blows from his or her opposition, which Trump did, for the most part, and to wield the power of the executive office to complete the dismantling of the American Republic begun by the Clinton administration. Opposing Republicans or Democrats is a full-time job for many, but when the totalitarians have totally usurped the government, there will be no jobs in this field, only the rulers and the ruled. Civil war porn is all the Washington elites must keep the public enraged at each other. It is fitting that the ruling class are pornographers, crafting culture and civil war narratives, as they are sordid, manipulative, and crude- they are what they claim to hate. The caricature of Trump and his movement is a projection, and many are fixated on this projection, unable and unwilling to notice who is truly fleecing them.
What’s fascinating about Trump and the ire he sparks in his opposition is that although he is a threat to the establishment, he is an integral part of it and under his presidency the defense budget continued to balloon, drone strikes ramped up even more, and Julian Assange was indicted. He posed a threat in his mannerisms more than his actions. The promises he made in 2016 were mostly broken, and he may have kept some, like exiting the Paris Climate Accord or moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, but he promised to be a break from the hapless strategy of liberal hegemony pursued by his predecessors since the end of the Cold War. He failed in this. If Trump, a threat only in his rhetoric and aesthetic, can pose a threat to the Washington establishment, then a figure who poses an actual threat will face all the ruthless means the FBI, CIA, and the entire federal government and their media lackeys that Trump did. Those who cheered these agencies being unleashed on Trump, like those who cheered them for cracking down on alleged communists during the Red Scare, will be the ones facing the barrel of the gun eventually. It took until Trump’s presidency and the various attempts to sabotage it for the right to realize the reality of the intelligence agencies they once revered. For liberals to regain their justified distrust of the US security state that they had during the Bush presidency, a candidate who for example calls for major change in climate change policy or for decommissioning military bases around the globe will have to be sabotaged, however, by then it will probably be too late.
There are to be no winners in the war on Trump. To point to a well-worn reference, Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for All Seasons, which depicts the events leading up to the execution of Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor of England, presents More as a man of principle and he resists pressure to deviate from his principles.[xxv] All the individuals around him are power hungry and they make choices based on short term lust for power and status, resulting in long term consequences. A prime example of this conflict between More and those around him is when he is encouraged by Roper to arrest Richard Rich, whose lies will result in More’s execution, and More replies that “And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!”, and Roper, exasperated, says that he would cut down every law in England in pursuit of the Devil.[xxvi] More responds by arguing that with every law cut down, what will protect him when the Devil turns on him. This is the oft quoted dialogue from this play, but I think what is even more significant in relation to the war on Trump and the willingness of his executioners to set fire to the constitution in the name of bringing him to supposed justice, is Roper’s retort to More that “So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!”, and his subsequent disbelief that More would not break the law in pursuit of even the Devil.[xxvii] Although Trump is not the devil incarnate, people like Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney are evidently willing to forego the law to see Trump does jailtime.
Whether or not you hate Trump is irrelevant. If America is to have a functioning and fair justice system, like the Devil to More, Trump and his supporters who entered the Capitol on January 6th must be given the benefit of the law. We know from Trump’s own speech calling for the suspension of the constitution that he would happily cut down the laws of the land to take down the Devil in his eyes. If the Washington establishment continues to ignore the law in hot pursuit of Trump, they may find themselves at the mercy of Trump himself, or even worse, a competent Trump, who not only spews crazy demagogic nonsense, but who puts that tyrannical nonsense into crushing action.
[i] January 6th Select Committee. “Final Report.” Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, December 22, 2022. https://january6th.house.gov/final-report.
[ii] Naylor, Brian. “Read Trump’s Jan. 6 Speech, a Key Part of Impeachment Trial.” NPR, February 10, 2021. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial.
[iii] Freeman, Philip. Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy. New York: Pegasus Books, 2022.
[iv] CPAC. “Liberal Hypocrisy.” CPAC, June 9, 2022. https://www.conservative.org/2022/06/09/liberal-hypocrisy/.
[v] Lee, Lloyd. “FBI May Have Had up to 8 Informants in Proud Boys around the Time of the January 6 Riot, the New York Times Reported.” Business Insider, November 15, 2022. https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-may-have-had-up-to-8-informants-proud-boys-2022-11.
[vi] Feuer, Alan, and Adam Goldman. “Among Those Who Marched into the Capitol on Jan. 6: An F.B.I. Informant.” The New York Times, September 25, 2021, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/us/politics/capitol-riot-fbi-informant.html. and News, Revolver. “New York Times Confirms Revolver’s Claim of FBI Involvement in 1/6… But What Are They Still Hiding?” Revolver News, September 27, 2021. https://www.revolver.news/2021/09/new-york-times-confirms-fbi-involvement-jan-6/.
[vii] Forbes. “Cotton to Top FBI Official: ‘Did the DOJ or FBI Have Any Plainclothes Officers’ in Capitol on Jan 6?” http://www.youtube.com, January 12, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiDqA-X_-n4.
[viii] Forbes. “Cotton to Top FBI Official: ‘Did the DOJ or FBI Have Any Plainclothes Officers’ in Capitol on Jan 6?”
[ix] Phillips, Tom. “Fears Bolsonaro May Not Accept Defeat as Son Cries Fraud before Brazil Election.” the Guardian. The Guardian, October 27, 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-election-fraud-claim.
[x] Ricardo Varela, Julio. “Opinion | Brazil Just Showed the United States How to Do Democracy.” MSNBC.com, November 5, 2022. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/brazilian-president-jair-bolsonaro-ends-his-donald-trump-act-n1300536.
[xi] January 6th Select Committee. “Final Report.”
[xii] The White House. “Selected Speeches of President George W. Bush,” 2008. https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/bushrecord/documents/Selected_Speeches_George_W_Bush.pdf.
[xiii] ACLU. “The Dangers of Domestic Spying by Federal Law Enforcement: A Case Study of FBI Surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King.” American Civil Liberties Union, January 2002. https://www.aclu.org/other/dangers-domestic-spying-federal-law-enforcement-case-study-fbi-surveillance-dr-martin-luther., Freedom Socialist Party. “Protest FBI Raids on the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement.” Freedom Socialist Party, 2022. https://socialism.com/statement/the-freedom-socialist-party-joins-in-protesting-fbi-raids-on-the-african-peoples-socialist-party-and-the-uhuru-movement/., Hennelly, Bob. “Did the FBI Order Malcolm X’s Murder? New Revelations Raise an Old Question.” Salon, February 21, 2022. https://www.salon.com/2021/11/27/did-the-fbi-order-malcolm-xs-murder-new-revelations-raise-an-old-question/., The Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Charlie Chaplin.” FBI, 2022. https://vault.fbi.gov/charlie-chaplin., The Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Groucho Marx.” FBI, 2022. https://vault.fbi.gov/Groucho%20Marx., and Gray, Tim. “FBI, the President and Russia: Hollywood Blacklist in 1949 Has Parallels to D.C. Today.” Variety, June 8, 2017. https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/fbi-hollywood-blacklist-huac-1202434517/.
[xiv] Niland, Lauren. “1952: Charlie Chaplin Banned from the US.” The Guardian, February 17, 2012, sec. From the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2012/feb/17/charlie-chaplin-1952-communist.
[xv] Ciaramella, C. J. “It’s (Almost) Always the Feds: How the FBI Fabricates Schemes to Entrap Would-Be Radicals.” Reason.com, September 4, 2022. https://reason.com/2022/09/04/its-almost-always-the-feds/.
[xvi]Naylor, Brian, and Ryan Lucas. “Wray Stresses Role of Right-Wing Extremism in Hearing about Jan. 6 Riot.” NPR, March 2, 2021, sec. Politics. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972539274/fbi-director-wray-testifies-before-congress-for-1st-time-since-capitol-attack.
Nelson, Steven, and Callie Patteson. “AG Merric
[xvii] Sullivan, Kate. “Biden Condemns ‘Sickening’ Attacks on FBI Following Mar-a-Lago Search and Slams GOP over January 6 | CNN Politics.” CNN, August 30, 2022. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/biden-police-pennsylvania/index.html.
[xviii] Nelson, Steven, and Callie Patteson. “AG Merrick Garland Asks Federal Court to Unseal Search Warrant of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home.” New York Post, August 11, 2022. https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/ag-merrick-garland-asks-federal-court-to-unseal-search-warrant-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-home/.
[xix] Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace, 1985.
[xx] BBC. “Mar-a-Lago: Trump Investigated under Espionage Act, Says Warrant.” BBC News, 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-62527797/page/2.
[xxi] Cathey, Libby. “Rep. Liz Cheney Ousted from Wyoming GOP.” ABC News, November 17, 2021. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-liz-cheney-ousted-wyoming-gop/story?id=81206853.
[xxii] Mordowanec, Nick. “Liz Cheney Voted with Trump 93 Percent of Her Congressional Career.” Newsweek, August 16, 2022. https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-voted-donald-trump-93-percent-congress-1734186.
[xxiii] Barron-Lopez, Laura. “Liz Cheney Supports Waterboarding, Attacks CIA Torture Report.” HuffPost, January 25, 2017. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/liz-cheney-supports-waterboarding-attacks-cia-torture-report_n_588912cee4b0737fd5cb51cd.
[xxiv] O’Neill, Brendan. “A Showtrial of Populism.” http://www.spiked-online.com, December 23, 2022. https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/23/a-showtrial-of-populism/.
[xxv] Smith, Leonard. A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1993.
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