Posted on 01/12/2021 6:04:42 AM PST by MtnClimber
There were a number of lessons to be learned from the DC events. Has anyone taken them to heart?
What a day! Or, rather, what media hysteria. In fact, what happened in D.C. was almost entirely safe, normal, peaceful, and constitutional.
(For that small percentage of the D.C. event that deviated from those standards, here’s hoping that an honest investigation will uncover the identities of all those who committed criminal acts and lead to their prosecutions. I believe that no true patriot at that event would have death, injury, or defiling the American flag with violence on his or her conscience.)
It’s been a long time since I was in the Capitol. I seem to recall, though, that there were places where one paused upon entry to have one’s identification checked, the purpose for visiting approved, bags searched, and person scanned with walk-through detectors. All the Trump supporters I know, if asked, would have completed this process before moving into the halls.
Where were those posts, and the guards that usually go with them? Why so few Capitol Police when all through this past two years of SCOTUS confirmation hearings, impeachment hearings, and spontaneous (or not) BLM uprisings, the city has been flooded with and protected by all sorts of federal and city law enforcement officers?
What was the message from Congressional leadership to those gathered Patriots and President Trump-supporters, including those we all know embedded themselves with them? Come on in, we’ll be waiting, we’ll be watching, and then we’ll make a spectacle of running for our lives from you. Was that it – to prove how scary we Trump supporters can be?
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The media who said Antifa and BLM burning cars and businesses, shooting police officers and throwing molotov cocktails were mostly peaceful. Now they are all over this orchestrated event as if patriots are a danger to the entire universe.
The one message is that many American are getting damned angry after a year of abuse and a stolen election.
Yep.
Just saw Nancy Mace for the first time and she speaks out of both sides of her mouth. What a phony? She is in this game for Nancy and to hell with the Constitution.
Why were the Capitol Police so woefully unprepared?
I don't buy into all the conspiracy theories suggesting that this was all a staged event intended to make Trump look bad. That may have been the motivation for a lot of the mutants who showed up to riot, but I don't think any government officials really had any part in that.
The simplest explanation is this:
The Capitol Police were unprepared for this because they knew damn well that a crowd of Trump supporters -- whether it's 5,000 people, 50,000 people or 5 million people -- are generally the most peaceful, normal human beings you'll ever meet.
Police showing people where to go
Capitol police escort them out
This is ridiculous and silly. I swear I can hear Al Gore or John Kerry's voice when I read this. There were plenty of Trump supporters in the Capitol just as I am confident there were a few Antifa agitators leading the "charge". In a number of videos taken as they are entering the building, there is what sounds like metal detectors going off and nobody was stopping to be wanded and have their bags searched. Not even the Trump supporters.
You can make plenty of good arguments for your case without having to sound like Al Gore the Bullshitter. This is not one of them.
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