Posted on 02/11/2021 10:54:55 AM PST by grundle
In my opinion, left wing criminals and right wing criminals should be held to the same standard.
In my opinion, anyone, whether they are on the left or on the right, who smashes windows, commits arson, damages or destroys someone else’s property, commits assault, commits murder, or commits insurrection, should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
But that’s not how those on the left feel.
Those on the left have a huge double standard when it comes to wanting to prosecute people who commit these kinds of crimes.
For about half of last year, left wing rioters burned down city after city, destroyed many small businesses, turned neighborhoods into food deserts, murdered more than a dozen people, caused half a billion dollars of damage in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and declared that part of Seattle was an autonomous zone that was independent from the rest of the country. The mayors of these cities allowed, praised, and even encouraged many of these illegal activities. Charges against many rioters were dropped. Many other rioters had their bail paid for by left wing supporters, including the current Vice-President of the U.S.
But now that one right wing protest happens, where far less damage was caused, and far fewer people were murdered, the left is all of a sudden acting like they think rioting is now a bad thing.
This hypocrisy sucks.
Here are some examples, with links to sources:
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan defends insurrectionist ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ as ‘patriotic’
https://nypost.com/2020/06/11/seattle-mayor-defends-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-as-patriotic/
Nearly 70% of charges against Portland rioters were dropped by progressive District Attorney.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/portland-rioters-da-prosecuting-charges
Kamala Harris tweeted support for a bail fund that bailed out murderers, rapists, kidnappers, shooters, and looters.
$500 million in damage caused by protestors in Minneapolis-St. Paul area:
17 people killed by protestors between May 25, 2020 and June 8, 2020:
Left-wing insurrectionist CHAZ area responsible for 525% spike in Seattle crime. Compared to similar, previous time periods, the CHAZ area had 2 additional murders, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (include 2 additional non-fatal shootings).
https://summit.news/2020/07/02/left-wing-chop-zone-responsible-for-525-spike-in-seattle-crime/
Neighborhoods where stores were destroyed became food deserts overnight.
Forgive me, but what was “right wing” about it to begin with? Likely, it was Antifa people and the media and their Dem friends continue to deny that.
Left wing-—riots? I don’t see it. /S
What “right wing” riot??
So where was the right wing riot? I have seen nothing of right wing riots, just peaceful rallies.
Dear Dan,
That too was left-wing riot with some DJT supports along fore the ride.
After defending massive numbers of left wing riots for much of 2020, the hypocritical left is now upset about one right wing riot in 2021
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This simple fact needs to be screamed from the mountaintops repeatedly until Leftists reflexively respond “C’mon man!”
There was no right wing riot.
even worse, nobody has shown it was a “right wing” riot.
Yup... think of it as a self-guided tour of the Capitol that went bad.
the riots last spring and summer were real riots. The protest in DC was not.
Trump had dozens of rallies. Because he such an instigator of riots, dozens of cities must have burned down all across the country. Not to mention the slaughter in each and every town.
Either the lamest bunch of rioters in the history of the world or there was no riot. They stayed inside the velvet ropes! They walked through the rotunda where they could have knocked over the most iconic statues in the country but THEY STAYED INSIDE THE VELVET ROPES!!
Anyone else feel like we are on trial in the Senate?
We are at the last step of demonize-ostracize-criminalize.
We may be Domestic Violent Extremist at the end of this trial.
By their criteria, mostly peaceful protest
If any attempt is to be made to expose these hypocrites, then they needed to hire a qualified conservative movie producer in order to compete in the arena of perception. There is a gold mine to be had simply for the taking. No holds barred.
Trumps team needs to go all the way back to the marxist “occupy wall street” movement and move forward from there. They should actually be prepared to use hours of footage with little naration. These leftist operate by emotion, not by Constitution.
As well highlight the obvious takeover by deepstate when it comes to any unbiased investigative power.
But the biggest presentation should bring to the forefront the scandal which took place between 2001 & 2013. Nearly 700,000 fraudulent federal background checks were comitted and over 7 billion dollars in fraudulent charges to the taxpayers. When Blake Percival exposed this and caused the shutdown of United States Investigative Services, the media was largely silent. And congress quitely slid this under the rug. Despite this being the largest whistelblower case in U.S. history.
USIS was finally shut down when D.C. Navy yard shooter as well as Snowden were linked to this fraud. I strongly believe this was the outlet used to seat radical deepstaters within federal government. At all levels, in every branch and every agencie and every department.
The “riot” portion was (mostly) false flag, by ANTIFA and occupy types, to make decent folks look bad.
it wasn’t a right wing “riot”
those inciting most of the problems were antifa disguised as patriots
further how many rioters stay withing the velvet ropes
the right wing people were peacefully standing in line between velvet ropes, a few wandere3d off, but didn’t cause any kind of damage at all- one got shot in the neck simply climbing through a door window
Antifa on the other hand broke windows, smashed doors- etc They were there doing this while the patriots were far down the street at Trump’s rally-
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