Thread by @capitolhunters

#SeditionHunters - meet #CapitolQuisling, a menacing figure wearing a Norwegian scarf (says "NORGE"). History lesson to follow explaining why Norwegian scarves are scarier than Swedish ones at this riot and what is a Quisling.

https://twitter.com/TwittsnTweets/status/1362602374158761984

So in WWII the Norwegian resistance fought the Nazis fiercely, operating bravely on skis. So famous that even Hollywood noticed.

So "Norway" sounds anti-Nazi! But every country has rotten people and Norway had Quisling, who first tried a coup and then ran the Nazi puppet government. So "quisling" = traitor.

Norway still has its Nazis in the form of alt-right terrorists. In 2011, Anders Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo that killed 8.

...but the bomb was really only to distract the police. While the police were occupied, he went and killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a summercamp. To "restore Norway" to its heritage. The children tried to swim for their lives.

On January 6, an organized group stormed up the Pennsylvania Walkway to the Capitol at 12:53. By 12:59 they were at the Plaza. Meanwhile in downtown DC, a bomb was set to detonate at 1 PM.

Extremism is global, and Breivik's strategy worked before. And like the U.S., Norway has a growing extremist movement. Maybe #CapitolQuisling is just a tourist who bought a soccer scarf. But it would be awfully nice to find him and be sure.

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