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The Left Is Calling the Capitol Riot An ‘Insurrection’ and a ‘Coup Attempt’ for a Reason
Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2021 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 02/05/2021 3:45:15 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: PghBaldy
The other reason is here in the Constitution: Amendment 14:

Section 2

"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."

Section 3

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

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They want to ban anyone from serving who is a Trump supporter, ban Trump from running again after, and scare any other non-globalists/populists like Trump from ever rising to serve.

21 posted on 02/05/2021 4:40:01 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

May I point out, while we’re not the topic, that what you have posted here is the Constitution basis for only counting citizens in the census.

If anyone (males only at the time)loses his privilege to vote after the census, than the apportionment calculated previously shall be recalculated to reflect the loss of the voting ability of the individual.

Thanks for the mini-civics lesson opportunity.


22 posted on 02/05/2021 4:53:58 AM PST by CaptainKip
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To: Kaslin

But using the national security apparatus against a civilian who had the temerity to beat TheBitch and then proceeding to undermine the 2016 election is perfectly fine.


23 posted on 02/05/2021 4:54:10 AM PST by nonliberal (Caput gerat lupinum)
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To: All

This morning my faith had a little dip.......I was scared a bit and in tears...
....praying for the Lord to have mercy on our nation!
...so I persevered in reading my devotional and Psalm 86 reinforced me.

Also my favorite...Philippians 4:6


24 posted on 02/05/2021 5:00:19 AM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: mo

By calling it an insurrection & extremism they sway public opinion to be more sympathetic to the Left and make it unfashionable to be a Conservative.

Saul Alinski - Personalize your enemy, isolate it and demonize it


25 posted on 02/05/2021 5:00:20 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake (He )
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It was Isaiah 52!!!!!

(The Psalms are lovely, but it was Isaiah 52)


26 posted on 02/05/2021 5:06:25 AM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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Actually Psalm 86 is very apropro!!!!!!!!!


27 posted on 02/05/2021 5:09:07 AM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: hank ernade
and those lawless dogs who murdered government troops on Concord Bridge?

Huge difference, The British troops came to deny their rights and they fought back. First, there's the issue of whose rights were denied with the Jan 6th vote. That's yet to be resolved, but certainly not the rights of the capitol rioters. Second, and more important, defense is a much better position against a tyrannical government for both tactical and PR reasons. What we saw on the 6th was a pathetic offense by a bunch of boneheaded hooligans. Not to be emulated or celebrated in any way.

28 posted on 02/05/2021 5:46:07 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Kaslin
How did this happen?

They seized the narrative, which is more advantageous than seizing the Capitol.

I’m not defending them. What they did was horrible, stupid and illegal.

Now you've conceded. Feel virtuous?

29 posted on 02/05/2021 5:46:16 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Guenevere
The Left Is Calling the Capitol Riot An ‘Insurrection’ and a ‘Coup Attempt’ for a Reason

Of COURSE they are!!

Words matter.


30 posted on 02/05/2021 5:49:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 21twelve
I can only imagine what a real protest by hundreds of thousands of Patriots might look like.

Imagination will have to suffice because Patriots are falling over themselves to forswear "real protest." It's horrible, stupid and illegal, and ugly, doncha know.

31 posted on 02/05/2021 5:51:03 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Jimmy The Snake

Who killed ASHLI???


Where are the marchers?

32 posted on 02/05/2021 5:52:05 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

Morainic talking heads still referring to it as a siege.

This was a siege.

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


33 posted on 02/05/2021 5:53:13 AM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: Kaslin

The more energy expended during the dividing portion; the less is required in the conquering part.


34 posted on 02/05/2021 5:53:36 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
The battle was lost by whoever pepper sprayed Sicknick twice, contributing to his death by (allegedly) a stroke later. That person alone set us back by a large amount and needs to be found and prosecuted.
35 posted on 02/05/2021 5:59:39 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: mo
...even more so since the Biden vote in reality was most probably somewhere south of 40 million.

I think we have to stop telling ourselves this. Though Biden undoubtedly would lose a genuine re-canvass of actual ballots cast by actual voters, there are a lot of idiots out there who let Hollywood and the MSM do their thinking for them. With the mail-in ballots making it so easy for them to actually vote this time, it wouldn't surprise me if Biden received 70 million actual votes.

36 posted on 02/05/2021 6:00:40 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Kaslin
The intent is to criminalize a peaceful protest,
while a violent protest occurred under the media's and Dim's contrivance,
which was instigated by BLM/ AntiFa fascists as a "false flag" incident.
37 posted on 02/05/2021 6:02:16 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“legitimate votes” -not “votes”

Blue hasn’t left an election unmolested since the Reagan-Mondale blowout in 1984.

They have been perfecting the Red-Purple-Blue process since then-the first step being the Immigration Act Teddy Kennedy passed in 1986


38 posted on 02/05/2021 6:04:15 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Kaslin
Of course the Left calls it an Insurrection and a Coup, they had probably planned to do just that and much worse if Trump had won.

39 posted on 02/05/2021 6:16:35 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

Yes going into the Capitol was wrong. However those involved were guilty of trespassing and vandalism; they certainly weren’t attempting to overthrow the government.

By contrast, suppose a “mostly peaceful” group asserts control over several square blocks of a major city and asserts that this area is an autonomous zone. They fail to recognize the authority of the city or state government. They refuse to allow police or paramedics into their zone, even to help a person in their zone who is busy bleeding to death from a gunshot wound. Just hypothetically, if something like that ever were to happen in a US city, say just off the top of my head, Seattle, would that constitute an attempted coup?

Yeah, yeah; I know. I’m such a racist. Blah blah.


40 posted on 02/05/2021 6:22:30 AM PST by stremba
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