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KY_EnviroGuy

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27. Here's Ronan Farrow's article on this woman again for those that may have missed it.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 08:05 AM
Feb 2021
A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection
How claims by Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones spurred a parent of eight to become one of the Capitol riot’s biggest mysteries, and a fugitive from the F.B.I.
By Ronan Farrow
The New Yorker
February 2, 2021

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-pennsylvania-mothers-path-to-insurrection-capitol-riot

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Last summer and fall, Powell said, she attended various protests, including anti-mask rallies. “If there was a protest in Harrisburg, I was there for almost all of them,” she told me. On July 4th, she drove for four hours to join members of several far-right groups, some of them armed, who gathered at the Gettysburg National Military Park, purportedly to protect Civil War monuments from desecration.
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At the July 4th demonstration in Gettysburg, Powell met Kevin Lynn, the founder of a group that advocates for the hiring of American workers in the U.S. technology industry. Last August, after Lynn’s group placed ads pressing Trump to restrict the outsourcing of jobs overseas, Lynn met with Trump at the White House. Lynn told me that he had attended the Gettysburg protest to document the event, and that he interviewed several participants, including Powell. Afterward, the two stayed in touch. “I would say we’re friends,” he said. Before Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., Powell told Lynn that she planned to attend, and they agreed to go together. On January 5th, Powell and Lynn met near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and drove to Washington in his car. At least two other friends, the owners of the bookstore where Powell works, drove in another car.

The article provides and excellent review on how she became radicalized. A while back, she was a fence-riding liberal but with strongly held libertarian thoughts, which appears to be the root cause of her transformation. She is rabidly anti-mask and anti-statue removal - therefore racist and staunchly libertarian.

KY..........

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I'll be curious to learn if she was ever a religious fanatic. Buckeye_Democrat Feb 2021 #1
Either that Ohiogal Feb 2021 #5
Powell, 40, a mother of eight children, told the magazine that she was the woman in the pink hat SharonAnn Feb 2021 #16
I can't read that article because of the paywall. Buckeye_Democrat Feb 2021 #18
8 abused children certainot Feb 2021 #23
Reminds me of the Jesus Camp movie aeromanKC Feb 2021 #25
I would guess yes spinbaby Feb 2021 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author vapor2 Feb 2021 #2
Me, too. Ohiogal Feb 2021 #4
Absolutely! SheltieLover Feb 2021 #21
Bye, kids n/t shanti Feb 2021 #3
She did not do any of this on her own. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #6
Absolutely Ohiogal Feb 2021 #7
I know, Ohiogal. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #9
Yes. Ohiogal Feb 2021 #12
He was the head cheerleader. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #14
This woman was supposedly teahing her children right from wrong malaise Feb 2021 #28
I read some commentary she made last week (here on DU) JDC Feb 2021 #17
Yup SheltieLover Feb 2021 #22
I thought pink hat was just given leave to go on a vacation to Mexico. dhol82 Feb 2021 #8
That one was from Texas, Ohiogal Feb 2021 #10
Pink hat is in jail.... sheshe2 Feb 2021 #11
No, pink cap is poor. Blue_true Feb 2021 #19
Pink hat is Rachel Powell; Mexico vacation is Jen Cudd. tblue37 Feb 2021 #20
Thank you. dhol82 Feb 2021 #26
She tried unsuccessfully thank Goddess to overthrow our government. MagickMuffin Feb 2021 #13
I think much will be written, researched, discussed about the insurrectionists Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #15
Unfortunately, these people are heros to a substantial portion of our population... Mazeltov Cocktail Feb 2021 #24
Here's Ronan Farrow's article on this woman again for those that may have missed it. KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2021 #27
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