(breaking into the Capitol, fighting with police, trespassing) Once they breached the building they can be considered terrorists. If it had been BLM, we would be demanding a similar investigation. What happened last year essentially gave them what they wanted (orchestrated) and the people who participated in it were incredibly stupid.
if the act appears to be intended to: Check
intimidate or coerce a civilian population; check
(ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or check
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.the now infamous photo of the guy with the zip-tie handcuffs that were conveniently left just laying around at the time.
Days afterward we watched as fencing went up, National Guard called out and every single one questioned to examine for 'extremist' views.
Look, I do not care if you like or not what I have written here. But we are moving into a time where things are going to start happening that we do not understand. At times we will not be able to tell friend from foe.
I have never particularly liked Cruz (a little too self-righteous), but he’s a smart man and in general he’s pretty good. I love his tweets because can be devastatingly witty in his remarks about Dem lunacy.
But sometimes he seems to back down in the face of the Dems and it’s as if he wants to prove to them that he’s just another spineless GOPer after all.
I think it’s very possible that he and other Senators and Reps who seemed to have been supporters of questioning the 2020 election but have come out with stupid statements about Jan. 6 recently are genuinely afraid that the Dems will try to accuse them of terrorism and prosecute them. I don’t think there’s any way that this would be Constitutional or go very far, but it would certainly be an unpleasant situation that would bog down everything else and impact the elections.
However, one thing he should know by now is that there is no reasonable approach in dealing with the Dems because they’re not rational and in fact they don’t even pretend to be. They know that their insane claims about Jan 6 are hyperbole and are intended solely to inflame their base (the media). Appearing to agree with them was a big mistake, even if he simply meant it to show that he was being evenhanded. He had declared Antifa riots to be terrorism, and I guess he wanted to show that he considered any riots to be terrorism, more as an expression of non-partisanship than anything else.
Cruz can redeem himself, however: he’s at least tried to call attention to the plight of the people arrested (and in some cases, held for months without charges) because of supposed connections to Jan 6, and he should pursue this. He should be demanding a genuine examination of the events of that day, and genuine accountability from Pelosi and the Capitol Police. Then maybe people would forget this stupid statement.
Good pair of posts. I expect our government and its law enforcers to act like they are, EVIL. Disguised as legitimate power, it is anything but legitimate. it is out of control, unanswerable, out of constitutional bounds, dishonest, and a danger to liberty.
King George was a piker compared with the US government.
The only thing keeping the DOJ from making the dishonest leap and charging congresspeople with domestic terrorism is the “protected class’ thing, and that “protected class” thing can be broken at will.
This is a great time to be alive. It is invigorating to witness history. Should drive people to their maker, and for some it will - while many reject the message and refuse to repent.
Breached?? You are going to crush those pearls. The Cap Police opened the doors for them. The Cap Police escorted them through the building making sure they did go past the razor wire velvet ropes.