This film shows how US white nationalist groups target veteran / experienced soldiers and police as the best material to absorb their conspiracy theories and provide muscle on the ground. Remember the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers assaulting the Capitol? This is how it happens; how those militias are built.

The film discusses how these veterans are especially easy prey because not much is done to ease their transistion back into civilian life, and they may already have a grudge against "the powers that be" for having been sent into action.

It also discusses how there are very few laws designed to deal with such militias or domestic terrorism in general.

As interviewer, Sadoff speaks not only with a variety of experts, politicians, and critics, but also a couple of out-and-proud extremists eg. Randy Ireland and Eric Braden, founder of the Southern Patriot Council. These parts are scary because these people completely believe the lies told about the 2020 election.

The photography is adequate and the editing is very good, making it easy to watch despite being a little long.

Very worthwhile.

At times, a bit repetitive and wordy, but overall engaging. News hounds who've been watching stories about Jan. 6th since, well... Jan. 6th, won't find a lot of new information here. What is new, is some insight into the history of Christian Right Nationalism in America, how it never really went away, and how (and why) American veterans are getting sucked into violent groups. What I found most surprising, is that the U. S. has no laws that allow these groups, or their members to be prosecuted as terrorists. There are plenty of knowledgeable people (on both sides) interviewed for this film, (including former & present members), and it gives an even-handed look at the problem of extremism. Most importantly, it exposes the important fact, that extremism isn't a "middle east" problem, it's a human problem, and there are American extremists in-country that are just as dangerous as those we fear from outside. Maybe even scarier, because some of them are our neighbors.

Feel free to fact check this: Steven D'Antuono was an FBI in Michigan, who had his agents infiltrate a patriot organization in 2019-2020. The FBI came up with a plan, and had CI's propose it, to ***storm the Michigan capital***. The plan was to set off a couple of incendiary devices to pull police away from the capital building, and then storm the Michigan capital. The group leaders refused, and eventually quit.

The folks left over were outnumbered by the FBI agents and informants - and the FBI paid for the training, materials, and transportation. They settled on "kidnapping Gov Whitmere" and most of the folks arrested for this were found not guilty due to "entrapment."

Steven D'Antuono, then left and went to DC and was put in charge of the FBI field office in DC in October of 2020, 3 months before Jan 6th.

Newly released video shows a very different picture. The people were mostly peaceful, until having a sustained assault by Capital police, for over a half hour, firing non-lethal munitions into the crowd over and over. I am trying to imagine this being done to BLM protesters and it being called anything other than a provocation.

Many folks arrested for Jan 6th were on the other side of the building and had no idea there was a riot at all. Meanwhile, many folks have been held, WITHOUT TRIAL for 3 years, on misdemeanor charges. No one has been charged with insurrection.