Posted on 01/08/2021 9:24:38 AM PST by Onthebrink
Four times I deployed into combat zones over my Army career. Twice more as a retired civilian have I ventured to Iraq and Afghanistan in an attempt to deepen my understanding of the sources of violence that undergirded those wars. Never in my wildest imagination did I believe I would live to see the day when the United States Capitol would be stormed by a wild mob, overpowering the police, disrupting both the House and Senate from performing a critical Constitutional duty.
This assault lays bare that it is time for some hard-core soul searching for both our political leaders as well as regular citizens. One of the most important topics to examine first should be to revisit what patriotism means.
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Burning cities, looting TVs, and killing Trump supporters has been declared patriotic by the democrats for years. They set the stage for the new politics. If what was said about John Roberts refusing to hear Texas v Pennsylvania is true then riots will continue because the highest court said they work.
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Yes.
I would live to see the day when the United States Capitol would be stormed by a wild mob, overpowering the police, disrupting both the House and Senate from performing a critical Constitutional duty......AntiFa is not to be dealt with. Just shot.
The oligarchs in DC are just lucky that I don’t own a nuclear weapon.
Was the storming of the Bastille patriotic? How far does the government need to go before violence is patriotic? I’d say the lack of a venue for Americans to adjudicate the legality of an election is the worst lack of representation that the country has ever faced. Far more egregious than the taxation issues that led to the Boston Tea Party.
A small group of working class Americans accomplished what the leftists have been trying unsuccessfully for the past 4 years.
I think they may be a tad jealous.
According to the preening feckless pukes, nope.
“Politicians should fear the People, not the other way round.”
Let’s hope that politicians fearing the people doesn’t automatically result in something like the French Revolution, where King Louis XVI and his family feared the poeple, and the “people” ended up creating a tyranny anyways without even a government, purely mob tyranny or anarchy in other words.
But I agree, it obviously shouldn’t be the other way around.
Agreed. ANTIFA just infiltrated the area and caused the carnage. It was no mob, and the patriots didn’t storm the capital. The most we (and by that, I mean the actual patriotic citizenry, NOT the antifa guys) got was just the same thing we had at a tour of the Vatican.
“Was the storming of the Bastille patriotic? How far does the government need to go before violence is patriotic? I’d say the lack of a venue for Americans to adjudicate the legality of an election is the worst lack of representation that the country has ever faced. Far more egregious than the taxation issues that led to the Boston Tea Party.”
Yeah, I wouldn’t use the storming of the Bastille as a comparison, because that’s more ANTIFA/BLM’s trademark. If anything, that’s more comparable to the crap in CHAZ and CHOP.
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