Victor Davis Hanson's Sage Advice After Capitol Riots - "if you were decrying the nightly left-wing violence in our streets over the summer, principle demands you condemn the rioters at the Capitol as well. Of course, this has been a consistent view across the mainstream political Right since the Capitol attack happened. The frustration boiling among conservatives now is rooted in the fact that Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have not and never will heed Hanson’s next caution:
'If you are a person on the left, and night after night, and you quoted Chris Cuomo, but night after night you said we can contextualize the violence. Because ideology trumps accountability. Then you better say the same thing today. Do you really want to say, “Well you know what? These people have ideological causes so they should be exempt. I don’t think you want to do that.'
Of course, the problem is the Chris Cuomos of the world do want to do this. They have been waiting for a large gathering of people who claim to be right-wing to do something they could capitalize on since at least 2008. I am old enough to remember when Andrew Breitbart offered $10,000 for someone who could provide a video of a Tea Party member yelling a racial slur at a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. That had been reported across the media ecosystem as fact. No one could ever produce a video. Now, make no mistake. The staffers and journalists who smeared the Tea Party would have loved nothing more than to own Breitbart publicly. It never happened. Tea Party rallies were large, peaceful, aimed at fiscal conservatism, and often left the area cleaner than they found it. The same way gun crime goes down during an NRA conference. Or that absolutely nothing happens during open-carry protests like the recent large one in Virginia... Hanson also cautioned:
'By the same token everybody has to take a step back. You can’t have a civilization, a democracy, when the Speaker of the House tears up the State of the Union address on national television like Nancy Pelosi did. You can’t have a civilization when Joe Biden says he’s going to unite us, but when people show up that he disagrees with at his rally he calls them chumps, ugly folk, or earlier, the dregs of society. Earlier he said antifa was just an idea when it’s committing violence nightly. So, everybody on both sides has to take a step back”'
Democrats have taken nothing but a step forward. Freshman Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) submitted legislation to have Republican Congress members removed for “incitement.” On Twitter, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) resign. It is as if these women forget the roles they played in the riots nationwide this summer. Bush rose to fame as a Black Lives Matter activist and was involved in protests in St. Louis this summer that turned violent. Ocasio-Cortez, the Squad, and our vice-president-elect Kamala Harris raised bail for the rioters and arsonists in Minneapolis. Then Ocasio-Cortez lectured us all that marginalized people have a right to riot. Harris went so far as to say the “protests” were not going to stop and shouldn’t stop in a late-night appearance. Even host Stephen Colbert looked shocked. Once again, Republicans and conservatives police their own and the mainstream of the GOP holds a consistent position condemning political violence across the board. Democrats condemn the Capitol riots and pretend history started yesterday. As if radical Left groups didn’t burn and loot cities all summer, causing dozens of deaths. Then they fail to recall a multi-day siege on the White House that included arson and dozens of injured officers, requiring President Trump to be taken to the bunker. They had no harsh words for their shock troops. Instead, they mocked the president for following the Secret Service’s instructions. This has been the pattern for decades. However, now, the risks loom larger. With Democrats controlling all three branches of government for the next two years, the violence at the Capitol will be a pretext for limiting everyone’s civil liberties and painting every Republican with the same broad brush as the rioters. Their lapdogs in the corporate media will gleefully help them spin this narrative. We are already seeing dangerous words like “insurrection,” “sedition,” and “treason” being bandied about and applied to the president and other prominent Republicans."
Meme - The Hill: "A Capitol Police sergeant says he's reliving Jan. 6 as vistors return"
Jesse Kelly "So he's standing by and welcoming people inside again?"
Meme - Arthur Chu: "Ashley Babbitt feeding the worms is one of the few good things that happened as a result of the Capitol "protest" and if you feel the need to mourn her Nazi ass it'll be easier for both of us if you unfollow me now
When a bullet goes through the fatty tumor a Nazi has in the space where a human being would have a brain, nothing is lost A pile of meat that moved and spoke and acted like a person was made to stop moving, and thus could no longer fool people into thinking it was one of them"
Meme - Arthur Chu: "A Nazi is the opposite of a person, and therefore our morality to them must be reversed
To hate them is to love
To harm them is to heal
To kill them is to bring life
You should feel less bad than you do about putting down a rabid animal In that case the rabies virus and the host are separate entities, one was the victim of the other. A Nazi is the disease"
Naturally, he wasn't banned from Twitter, which is why liberals loved Twitter so much before Elon Musk bought it, despite their platitudes about hate speech and violent extremism
Über-woke former Jeopardy! champ Arthur Chu explains why we should all be glad that ‘Nazi’ Ashli Babbitt is ‘feeding the worms’ - "Regardless of how you may feel about Ashli Babbitt’s role in her own death, we’d like to think that civilized people could at least agree that Arthur Chu’s argument that anyone he decides is a Nazi deserves to be “put down” is seriously messed up"
So can we finally agree that rioting is bad? - "For almost a year, the US has witnessed probably the most sustained series of violent, large-scale urban riots since the time of Martin Luther King. But our major media outlets have had a… complex relationship with these events. Many incidents from the Riot Summer were just as shocking as the Capitol debacle. In Minneapolis, immediately following the death of Mr Floyd, rioters burned huge chunks of a largely minority business district, and burned down an active police station – even as cops were initially inside. In Seattle, even more remarkably, a group of Black Bloc fighters and black activists led by the SoundCloud rapper Raz Simone took over a busy urban neighborhood – coincidentally also called ‘Capitol Hill’ – and converted it into the anarchist city-state of CHAZ (the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone). Within CHAZ, American business owners were extorted regularly for protection money. Worse, six young black men were shot, two fatally. Not far down the West Coast highways, in Portland, Oregon, a federal court house was attacked by Antifa rioters and their allies for more than 100 consecutive days, including with M-80 fireworks used as mortar shells. In my hometown of Chicago, the legendary ‘Magnificent Mile’ was looted after the false claim that racist police had killed an innocent black boy. The city was forced to literally raise all bridges leading downtown, Batman Begins-style, to quell the violence. In the end, 400 officers were dispatched to the scene, 13 of whom were injured, and more than 100 people were arrested. The ‘victim’ who triggered the whole battle, as it turns out, was a 20-year old career criminal who shot first at police – and is actually still alive. While these incidents stand out because of their sheer scale, other tragedies at least as horrifying were common throughout the summer of 2020. In St Louis, Missouri, a decorated 77-year-old police captain, David Dorn, was murdered on Facebook Live as he attempted to defend a friend’s business from looters. In Atlanta, an eight-year old girl – little Secoriea Turner – was gunned down by rioters protesting the death of a man who had attempted to shoot a police officer with his own taser. Clashes between rival protesters also turned fatal at times. Portland Antifa fighter Michael Rienoehl was filmed shooting a right-wing Patriot Prayer activist dead, following massive city-wide brawls between the two groups. Rienoehl was himself killed just days later by police. In Kenosha, Wisconsin, a gun fight broke out between armed rioters, who had burned 36 buildings, and right-wing vigilantes. And so on. We can debate which examples of mob rule are worse. Although I am right-leaning, I would still rank the Capitol riot above any of the events just mentioned. But there was no such discussion about the violence of the summer of 2020. It is no exaggeration to say that much of the mainstream media openly endorsed the BLM riots. Unlike the blanket condemnation of the Capitol riot, you could read headlines such as ‘rioting is a nuanced and deeply misunderstood form of protest’ (the Daily Pennsylvanian) or ‘In defense of destroying property’ (the Nation). NPR hosted a mostly positive discussion of a book literally titled In Defense of Looting. Even the right-wing Fox News channel interviewed a BLM leader who justified the riots. Many reasons, of varying degrees of silliness, have been given by left-leaning reporters and politicians who have attempted to justify their very different treatment of radical and reactionary rioters. It can be, and has been, argued that attacking the US Capitol is a uniquely offensive act. True indeed! But so is attempting to burn hundreds of uniformed cops alive. And like the Capitol, the Portland courthouse is also US federal property, and 100 days is much longer than the Capitol riots lasted. You could argue that the Capitol riots were worse because they were encouraged by a powerful politician. There is some truth in this, although to a far lesser degree than is often contended – Big Orange originally encouraged his supporters to ‘peacefully’ confront Congress, not break in. Trump has truly disgraced himself during his last month in the Oval Office. But it is simply a fact that elected officials openly made excuses for and even supported some of the rioters last summer, too. For instance, incoming vice-president Kamala Harris infamously encouraged her followers to donate bail money to the controversial Minnesota Freedom Fund while Antifa members and others were destroying a diverse business district in Minneapolis. You could also argue that there is no proof of election fraud deciding the 2020 election, and protesting this is therefore a stupid and invalid reason for a public disturbance. But frankly speaking, there is just as little evidence for many of Black Lives Matter’s major claims. In the mainstream media, police violence against innocent black people is talked of as a major component of an ongoing ‘genocide’. And in my own experience, intelligent young black Americans often estimate the number of innocent black lives taken by law enforcement to be something between 2,000 and 3,000. But the total number of unarmed black individuals actually killed by American police during the most recent year fully on record was just 14. Most political causes, I strongly suspect, provide insufficient moral justification for the burning of a city. Perhaps the oddest attempt to distinguish the Capitol riot from the large-scale riots of last year is the repeated claim that the MAGA goons were treated more leniently than 2020’s looters and knuckleheads – because of their ‘white privilege’. Multiple press outlets argued confidently that pro-Trump rioters were handled with kid gloves while leftist activists would have been ‘killed’ under the same circumstances. President-elect Joe Biden said BLM protesters ‘would have been treated very differently’. There are several major problems with this claim. First and most importantly, no such police slaughter of rioters took place during CHAZ, the Minneapolis riots, the ‘100 days’ in Portland, the Chicago and Atlanta riots, or any of the other mass violent disturbances discussed in this piece... any honest reflection on the summer of 2020 would also have to include the hundreds of pictures of everyone from burly cops to suited politicians kneeling in approving solidarity with BLM, while doing everything they could to defuse violence. Second, multiple rioters did die during the Capitol violence... More individuals were killed during direct conflict with police at last week’s riots than during the summer of riots and protests the year before. Nor is there much chance of the Capitol rioters being let off the hook. More than 50 have already been charged with felonies or serious misdemeanors"
Months Ago, Democrats Blocked a Resolution Condemning Mob Violence - "those same congressional Democrats killed a resolution aimed at curbing mob violence. The bill, which was spearheaded by Utah Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, came about after an unarmed Utah man was murdered by a mob of left-wing activists. At least 30 people, ranging in age from 14-77, were killed in largely left-wing riots in summer 2020... Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who spoke immediately after Lee, alleged that “the resolution reeks of supremacism. Reeks of supremacist views. And it seeks to mischaracterize overwhelmingly peaceful protests across the nation.” He then proceeded to poison pill the legislation by announcing the bill would only be passed if it specifically condemned President Donald Trump. Lee attempted to compromise, saying he was willing to include the section condemning all politicians who incite any violence without specifically naming any. Menendez refused to budge, and the resolution died... Lee’s bill was not the only time anti-mob legislation was shut down by congressional Democrats last summer. A bill led by Republican Rep. Ken Buck this November, The Blocking Rioters and Insurrectionists from our Cities to Keep us Safe (BRICKS) Act, would have enabled a range of greater legal penalties for such crimes. It died in the Democrat-run House Judiciary Committee. Had the bill been passed, rioters could be sentenced to up to ten years in prison. Those whose acts lead to the “serious bodily injury” of others would have faced even harsher sentences. Instead, the rioters who stormed the Capitol will take a maximum of five years for rioting — an amount just between the U.S. sentencing laws for possession and sale of marijuana."
WATCH: Musician dropped by record label for attending Trump rally - "Musician Ariel Pink attended the now notorious Trump rally on Jan. 6 in Washington, DC. After the rally, he went back to his hotel room and took a nap. Shortly thereafter, his record label, Mexican Summer, publicly dropped him."
So if you attend a BLM protest that later becomes a riot...
University of Michigan regent faces calls to resign for not 'specifically denouncing' Trump - "Students at the University of Michigan have launched a petition calling for the recall or resignation of Regent Ron Weiser for not "specifically denouncing President Donald Trump for inciting violence" at the Capitol on Jan. 6... "The evidence is clear: Ron Weiser is complicit in Wednesday’s historic and horrifying events," the petition, which has over 4,600 signatures, reads. The petition claims that Weiser chose "to stand by the consciously destructive actions of President Trump," citing Weiser's response to a question about whether Trump bares any responsibility for the riot. "I don't know. I didn't read any of that stuff, and I didn't watch television," Weiser said. "I watched Michigan destroy Minnesota in basketball, and that kind of contest is something that I strongly support." Weiser later said that he "strongly condemn[s] those people who turned into a mob... after what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Those who broke the law should be held accountable."... hundreds of faculty members have signed an open letter calling upon Weiser to resign from his position. "You have to choose between supporting the University of Michigan and supporting the darkest factions of US political life. You cannot do both""
Ahh... compelled speech!
Marvel Faces Calls to Retire the Punisher After Capitol Rioters Were Seen Wearing His Logo - "The white skull emblem, as well as the Punisher himself, is a popular symbol among the Proud Boys and other extremists. This had led to even some ardent fans of the Punisher to call for Marvel to change the logo, halt Punisher projects for the time being, or even outright retire the character."
CNN’s deranged war on Trumpists - "in an extended monologue, anchor Brianna Keiler said the violence represented an ‘armed uprising’ by ‘terrorists’. She obsessively attacked Fox News’ Tucker Carlson for questioning whether it was an ‘insurrection’, branding him as an ‘enabler’ of terrorism and a ‘parasite’ – a chilling way to describe a fellow journalist. CNN was not alone. MSNBC joined in the madness, with host Joy Reid even comparing Trump to Osama bin Laden. ‘What has he done in terms of incitement that Osama bin Laden didn’t do?’... So there you have it: the US Capitol siege was an al-Qaeda-style terror attack, orchestrated by Trump."
Meme - Jesse Kelly: "Antifa/BLM loot, burn, and murder. The GOP response? Federal police reform bills and Juneteenth bills. MAGA people step out of line one time. The Democrat response? 20,000 troops brought in. Only one side is interested in winning."
The FBI has lost the plot - The Spectator World - "the agency emitted a Tweet that they must have picked up from East Germany circa 1960 or maybe from the pages of George Orwell: ‘Family members and peers are often best positioned to witness signs of mobilization to violence. Help prevent homegrown violent extremism. Visit blah, blah, blah to learn how to spot suspicious behaviors and report them to the #FBI. #NatSec.’... the FBI raided the Pennsylvania home of one Robert Morss, an army vet and sometime social studies teacher. Among the incriminating evidence recovered was a ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag and — I quote from the charging document — a ‘fully constructed Capitol Lego set’. Morss was arrested, and still languishes in jail, because he showed up at the Capitol on January 6... what about that ‘fully constructed Capitol Lego set’? At some point, the FBI released an addendum to its initial bulletin about Morss. ‘Please note that after a review of the photographs from the search, there appears to have been a miscommunication [!] and that the statement appears to be inaccurate.’ It turns out the model wasn’t ‘fully constructed’ after all. It was still in its box. The internet had a merry day or two with the Lego Set Threat. The Babylon Bee, that national treasure, even had a story about the FBI mounting an assault on Legoland, which probably does have a ‘fully constructed’ model of the Capitol or other important landmarks. Two points in conclusion. The FBI has rendered itself ridiculous. It has jumped the shark and it turns out the shark is only a mechanical, maybe a Lego, model. We have granted them unprecedented power, we have lavished money and other resources upon them, in order that they might find and neutralize the bad guys. They miss a lot of them — remember 9/11? — but they itch to perform the tricks they’ve been trained to do. I believe it was the Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz who first described the ‘vacuum effect’ among animals taken out of their natural habitat. A terrier confined to a city apartment, for example, will be found ‘digging’ in imaginary dirt on the carpet in order to ‘bury’ an imaginary bone. A dirt-less, boneless life is not to be borne, so the bow-wow practices its instinctual behavior in make-believe. The FBI is similarly domesticated. Its number is increasingly part of the shapeless swamp that controls our lives. Its actions are, seen from afar, often ridiculous. But that does not mean they are not also malevolent. That’s an important point: that the ridiculous often easily cohabits with the vile. Hence the dawn raids, the summary incarcerations, the identification of people they disagree with as ‘domestic extremists’, ‘terrorists’, etc."
The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot - "What took place at the Capitol on January 6 was undoubtedly a politically motivated riot. As such, it should not be controversial to regard it as a dangerous episode... But none of that justifies lying about what happened that day, especially by the news media. Condemning that riot does not allow, let alone require, echoing false claims in order to render the event more menacing and serious than it actually was. There is no circumstance or motive that justifies the dissemination of false claims by journalists. The more consequential the event, the less justified, and more harmful, serial journalistic falsehoods are... anyone who tries to correct these falsehoods is instantly attacked with the cynical accusation that if you want only truthful reporting about what happened, then you’re trying to “minimize” what happened and are likely an apologist for if not a full-fledged supporter of the protesters themselves. One of the most significant of these falsehoods was the tale — endorsed over and over without any caveats by the media for more than a month — that Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by the pro-Trump mob when they beat him to death with a fire extinguisher... It took on such importance for a clear reason: Sicknick’s death was the only example the media had of the pro-Trump mob deliberately killing anyone... But none of the other four deaths were at the hands of the protesters: the only other person killed with deliberate violence was a pro-Trump protester, Ashli Babbitt, unarmed when shot in the neck by a police officer at close range. The other three deaths were all pro-Trump protesters: Kevin Greeson, who died of a heart attack outside the Capitol; Benjamin Philips, 50, “the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo,” who died of a stroke that day; and Rosanne Boyland, a fanatical Trump supporter whom the Times says was inadvertently “killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line.” This is why the fire extinguisher story became so vital to those intent on depicting these events in the most violent and menacing light possible. Without Sicknick having his skull bashed in with a fire extinguisher, there were no deaths that day that could be attributed to deliberate violence by pro-Trump protesters... The problem with this story is that it is false in all respects. From the start, there was almost no evidence to substantiate it. The only basis were the two original New York Times articles asserting that this happened based on the claim of anonymous law enforcement officials. Despite this alleged brutal murder taking place in one of the most surveilled buildings on the planet, filled that day with hundreds of cellphones taping the events, nobody saw video of it. No photographs depicted it. To this day, no autopsy report has been released. No details from any official source have been provided. Not only was there no reason to believe this happened from the start, the little that was known should have caused doubt. On the same day the Times published its two articles with the “fire extinguisher” story, ProPublica published one that should have raised serious doubts about it. The outlet interviewed Sicknick’s brother, who said that “Sicknick had texted [the family] Wednesday night to say that while he had been pepper-sprayed, he was in good spirits.” That obviously conflicted with the Times’ story that the mob “overpowered Sicknick” and “struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher,” after which, “with a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.” But no matter. The fire extinguisher story was now a matter of lore. Nobody could question it. And nobody did: until after a February 2 CNN article that asked why nobody has been arrested for what clearly was the most serious crime committed that day: the brutal murder of Officer Sicknick with a fire extinguisher... With the impeachment trial now over, the articles are now rewritten to reflect that the original story was false. But there was nothing done by The New York Times to explain an error of this magnitude, let alone to try to undo the damage it did by misleading the public. They did not expressly retract or even “correct” the story. Worse, there is at least one article of theirs, the January 11 one that purports to describe how the five people died that day, which continues to include the false “fire extinguisher” story with no correction or update... In the days after the protest, numerous viral tweets pointed to a photograph of Eric Munchel with zip-ties. The photo was used continually to suggest that he took those zip-ties into the Capitol because of a premeditated plot to detain lawmakers and hold them hostage... the “zip-tie man’s” own prosecutors admitted none of that was true. He did not take zip-ties with him from home or carry them into the Capitol. Instead, he found them on a table, and took them to prevent their use by the police... (A second man whose photo with zip-ties later surfaced similarly told Ronan Farrow that he found them on the floor, and the FBI has acknowledged it has no evidence to the contrary)... Then, perhaps most importantly, is the ongoing insistence on calling the Capitol riot an armed insurrection. Under the law, an insurrection is one of the most serious crises that can arise. It allows virtually unlimited presidential powers — which is why there was so much angst when Tom Cotton proposed it in his New York Times op-ed over the summer, publication of which resulted in the departure of two editors... Though there is no controlling, clear definition, that term usually connotes not a three-hour riot but an ongoing, serious plot by a faction of the citizenry to overthrow or otherwise subvert the government... there is no evidence of a single protester wielding let alone using a firearm inside the Capitol on that day... For better or worse, the U.S. is a country where firearm possession is common and legal. And what we know for certain is that there is no evidence of anyone brandishing a gun in that building. That fact makes a pretty large dent in the attempt to characterize this as an “armed insurrection” rather than a riot. Indeed, the most dramatic claims spread by the media to raise fear levels as high as possible and depict this as a violent insurrection have turned out to be unfounded or were affirmatively disproven... it inherently matters if the media is recklessly circulating falsehoods about the most inflammatory and significant news stories. As was true for their series of Russiagate debacles, even if each “mistake” standing alone can be dismissed as relatively insignificant or understandable, when they pile up — always in the same narrative direction — people rightly conclude the propaganda is deliberate and trust in journalism erodes further."
Long after all the fake news stories were debunked, I still see liberals share them
The fact that the "credible" media keep sharing fake news has implications for all the studies supposedly showing that Republicans/conservatives share more fake news
Meme - Josh Campbell @joshscampbell: "Officer Hodges is asked why he uses the term "terrorists" to describe the Capitol insurrection. He responds by reading the federal code definition of terrorism, which includes dangerous acts intended "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.""
So much for 'mostly peaceful protests'
Official review of Trump phone logs from January 6 finds record is complete - "The mystery of the seven-hour gap has fueled furious speculation as to why calls are missing. That includes allegations that Trump was using "burner phones" (which he has denied) or that the logs were purposely suppressed."
Another nothingburger debunked
Meme - "Anonymous, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 7.5 hour gap in Trump's phone log that is missing."
BrooklynDad_Defiant!: "A lot of sedition can happen in 7 hours"
Scott Dworkin: "Trump phone logs have a 7 hour 37 minute gap on Jan 6. Probably because he was busy attempting a coup."
Susan Glasser: "Puts Nixon's 18 minute gap to shame"
The USA Singers: "Nixon erased 18 minutes. Trump erased 7 hours. Arrest that guilty motherfucker now"...
Molly Jong-Fast: "7 hours and 37 minutes is a very long time"...
Asha Rangappa: "We know the people who received calls or talked to Trump during the gap: Mike Lee, Jim Jordan, Mike Pence, etc. Get their records, identify the incoming number, and then you've got the phone(s) Trump was using."
MSNBC: 'Astonishing': Bob Woodward compares Trump call og gap to infamous Nixon tapes gap"
Aaron Rupar: "a gap in the tapes! appreciate the writers' callback to Watergate in this latest plot twist"
David Weissman: "Why is the 'but her emails' crowd silent about the seven-hour gap in Trump's phone logs?"
Manu Raju: "7 hour and 37 minute gap in Trump's phone records on Jan 6"
Occupy Democrats: "BREAKING: "January 6 Committee drops bombshell that Trump's phone records that the National Archives handed over show a glaring gap of nearly 8 hours - so the committee is now investigating Trump's suspicions use of "burner phones" that day. RT IF TRUMP 'MUST BE LOCKED UP!"
CNN Politics: "Official review of Trump phone logs from January 6 finds record is complete"
RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Comparison - "The one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot arrives this week with Americans still sharply divided over the afternoon-long episode’s significance and severity as Democrats, hemorrhaging support and facing the loss of Congress in this year's midterms, sternly present a media spectacle of public events to emphasize what they see as the threat posed to democracy by Donald Trump and his party, as represented by that day. There is no comparable scrutiny of the nationwide summer 2020 riots over George Floyd’s murder, protests endorsed by many on the left amid a virulent pandemic -- although polling has shown that a large majority of Americans support examining the circumstances of both events...
The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 23 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot.
Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases, and prosecutors and judges alike have weighed Capitol riot defendants’ political views in adjudicating their cases.
Dozens of accused Capitol rioters have been held in pretrial detention for months, where they have allegedly been mistreated.
In the summer 2020 riots, the vast majority of charges were dismissed, as they were in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. Prosecutors have dropped a single Capitol riot case."
‘Desperately seeking Stalin’: Rosanna Arquette’s legal philosophy sparks a few historical reminders - "Actress Rosanna Arquette started out by tweeting this about the January 6th committee and any attempts to claim executive privilege:
'Devious Corrupt criminals who worked against America and democracy should never have executive privilege... Innocent people have nothing to Hide'
Yikes! Even totalitarian dictators might advise dressing that up a little rather than just blurting it out... We can’t help but wonder how Arquette would have responded if Trump said the same thing she tweeted."
Glenn Greenwald on Twitter - "Why don't you post all your passwords to your email and social media accounts so we can all read through everything you've been saying and doing, along with a full call log list showing everyone with whom you've spoken, and then a list of everywhere you've gone?"
Escape The Echo Chamber - Posts | Facebook - "Those worried about a possible decline in civil liberties under Trump have been silent as civil rights abuses pile up in Washington... “Many are being held in unusually harsh and bizarrely cruel conditions, causing a federal judge on Wednesday to hold “the warden of the D.C. jail and director of the D.C. Department of Corrections in contempt of court,” and then calling on the Justice Department "to investigate whether the jail is violating the civil rights of dozens of detained Jan. 6 defendants.””... these defendants are subjected to one of the grossest violations of due process: they are being treated as if they are guilty of crimes — treason, sedition, insurrection, attempted murder, and kidnapping — which not even the DOJ has accused them of committing. And the fundamental precept of any healthy justice system — namely, punishment for citizens is merited only once they have been found guilty of crimes in a court of law — has been completely discarded"
Thread by @esilverman11 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Climate protesters are now rallying outside the Department of the Interior. They’re trying to get inside but police are blocking the entrance. I can see a few Indigenous women through the doorway who are sitting on the floor inside the building and linking arms.
Here’s the scene outside. A Park Police car recently pulled up. Climate protesters are in DC all week demanding Biden to stop approving fossil fuel projects & declare a national climate emergency...
Protesters are remaining on the steps and won’t move out of the doorway where several police are blocking passage into the building
“Let’s go!” one protester yells while trying to climb in through the door. People cheer in support and crowd the steps as police continue to physically block the one entrance that is not locked.
People appear to be able to walk through the entrance for a moment, but police are blocking the doorway again. Those inside are sitting in a circle and holding hands.
Climate protesters are pushing police, trying to force their way into the Department of the Interior where other activists have made it inside in an attempt to occupy the building.
“Put the tasers down!” protesters chant at police who are using tasers to clear the crowd around the doorway of the Department of the Interior. Some activists are walking away from the doorway hurt, and protesters are yelling for medics to help. Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos
Police are on scene with zip ties and are watching as climate activists link arms to protect those injured and in need of a medic. Other protesters are still trying to enter the doorway where police have blocked the entrance to the Department of the Interior
Police are on scene with zip ties and are watching as climate activists link arms to protect those injured and in need of a medic. Other protesters are still trying to enter the doorway where police have blocked the entrance to the Department of the Interior"
Storming government buildings is only bad when liberals disapprove