Thursday, January 07, 2021

What's the Difference Between a 'Mostly Peaceful Protestor' and a 'Rioter'?


You know what they didn’t do? They didn’t kill anyone. That was reserved for someone who shot through a door sidelight at a protester.  You know what else they didn’t do? Use live ammo.  You know what else they didn’t do? Trample the flag, which the capitol police did, while being begged not to. You know what else they didn’t do? shine lasers in cops eyes, set fire to the building, loot it, or shoot fireworks at people. [More]

Maybe someone with the time could find the right app to design a working widget...

[Via Michael G]

I see the "moderate" Republicans are doing their utmost to suck up to their Democrat overlords. A special "Cuck for Law and Order" award goes to CPAC’s Matt Schlapp, who looks like he'd also be Blubbering Cellmate Bitch of the Month if he ever runs afoul of the authoritarianism he so enthusiastically takes two knees for.

[Via gj54]

UPDATE:

BREAKING REPORT: Former FBI Agent on the Ground at US Capitol Says at Least One Bus Load of Antifa Thugs Infiltrated Trump Demonstration
UPDATE:
Video: Trump Supporters Stop ‘Antifa’ From Breaking Windows at Capitol
[Via bondmen]

UPDATE:
EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Reveals Some Individuals in the Capital Today Weren’t Trump Supporters
[Via bondmen]

UPDATE:
Mark Levin says people breaching the Capitol MUST be punished
This is my shocked face.

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE:
Could the Capitol Rioters Really Be Charged with Felony Murder for Death of Ashli Babbitt?
[Via Mack H]

UPDATES:

WTF Just Happened in D.C.?
[Via Michael G]

Classroom resource: Three ways to teach the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
I could think of a fourth way, but neither PBS nor public school systems would allow it.

[Via Mike F]

Not Making Headlines – Trump Supporters Pulled Violent Protesters Away from the Capitol Building When They Started Damaging It – Who Were These People?
[Via Michael G]

UPDATES:

AOC’s Comms Director Asks Twitter To Ban Users From Citing AOC’s Support For Violent Riots
[Via Michael G]

UPDATES:

UPDATES:

And:
Questions About The Chaos At The Capitol That Desperately Need To Be Answered

United States Capitol Police (USCP) officers and our law enforcement partners responded valiantly...
[Via Mack H]

More EVIDENCE, PHOTOS of Antifa Infiltration At Capitol
[Via Michael G]

ABC News Political Director Calls For Cleansing Of Trump Voters
[Via Michael G]


4 comments:

  1. This new aggregate has become a real eye-opener.

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  2. All events, all actions, have consequences that inevitably spread, sometimes in unexpected ways, like ripples in a pond. Yet one of the corollaries to "The Law of Unintended Consequences" is that these consequences often don't need much imagination to be rather predictable.

    Tom Clancy's novel "Debt of Honor" was published in 1994. In it a JAL pilot flies an empty 747 into the Capitol building during the State of the Union Address and decapitates the United States government.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_of_Honor

    Yet in 2001 when four bands of Islamic terrorists hijacked jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, some of our leaders said they had never imagined such a thing would ever happen. To me that sounds like a serious lack of imagination on the part of those we choose to lead our country.

    Yesterday we saw an entirely inevitable consequence to a long chain of missteps and provocations going back many years. Those who have joyfully predicted the "browning of America", those who proclaimed that the Democratic Party could now win nationally without the support of the white working class, those who tried to push the Bundy family off of land they had been grazing for generations, those who thought half of America could be branded as "bitter clingers" and "deplorables" without generating any pushback whatsoever were shocked at yesterday's entirely predictable events.

    I was not. What happened yesterday only showed me that those who lead our nation today have no more imagination than those who were leading it in 2001.

    In particular they should have paid more attention to this:

    https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/09/history-channel-to-air-appalachia.html

    with particular focus on "The Battle of Kings Mountain" where a force of men not allied with the Crown or the rebels just got fed up with not being left alone and changed the course of a war and history.

    History never repeats itself, but it does occasionally rhyme.

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  3. " Could the Capitol Rioters Really Be Charged with Felony Murder for Death of Ashli Babbitt? "

    Surely could if DC has a 'law of parties' wherein anyone associated with an act, however tangentially, can be charged as if he had pulled the trigger.

    But I was thinking of charging the cops.

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  4. "To me that sounds like a serious lack of imagination on the part of those we choose to lead our country."

    Really? It's not an exceedingly high bar among a collection of feckwits who cam't imagine why any American "needs" an AR-15.

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