Posted on 10/18/2021 5:54:42 AM PDT by euram
When a population is placed in a state of sufficiently grave fear and anger regarding a perceived threat, concerns about the constitutionality, legality and morality of measures adopted in the name of punishing the enemy typically disappear. The first priority, indeed the sole priority, is to crush the threat. Questions about the legality of actions ostensibly undertaken against the guilty parties are brushed aside as trivial annoyances at best, or, worse, castigated as efforts to sympathize with and protect those responsible for the danger. When a population is subsumed with pulsating fear and rage, there is little patience for seemingly abstract quibbles about legality or ethics. The craving for punishment, for vengeance, for protection, is visceral and thus easily drowns out cerebral or rational impediments to satiating those primal impulses.
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Civil liberties are also being trampled because of COVID fears. Where is the ACLU these days?
Where is the ACLU these days?
Probably spending most of their time defending the “right” of the “trans” gang to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the sex they are not.
Wait until the regime passes our very own Enabling Act. It is absolutely in the works. It will follow as surely as Germany’s did after it’s false flag Reichstag Fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Maybe when we can no longer afford to buy gas and groceries.
Maybe when DemonRatz openly campaign for other 'Ratz in Black churches.
Maybe when elections are no longer reliable.
Maybe when, like usual, it is too late.
I see Shiff has written a book about 1/6 called Midnight in Washington or some such. That ought to disqualify him from running this kangaroo court but, of course,it won’t.
With more than 600 people now charged in connection with the events of 1/6, not one person has been charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government, incite insurrection, conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping of public officials, or any of the other fantastical claims that rained down on them from media narratives. No one has been charged with treason or sedition. Perhaps that is because, as Reuters reported in August, “the FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result.” Yet these defendants are being treated as if they were guilty of these grave crimes of which nobody has been formally accused, with the exact type of prosecutorial and judicial overreach that criminal defense lawyers and justice reform advocates have long railed against.
Dozens of the 1/6 defendants have been denied bail, thus being imprisoned for months without having been found guilty of anything. Many are being held in unusually harsh and bizarrely cruel conditions,
With some exceptions placing horses in congress and the senate would raise the intelligence of both.
Was the Jan 6 protest the one where stores were burned and looted?
This is what happens when you don’t have an opposition party. The House GOP leader is greenlighting this bit of fascist thuggery. Dems are free to attack their MAGA opponents at their leisure and they know it.
You mean placing the entire horses instead of just their asses.
“How long before people wish that 1/6 had been an actual insurrection?”
That’s the whole point. When Democrat punkies and monkeys riot — doing actual damage and actually injuring and killing people — the Democrat media and Democrat politicians righteously cheer them on.
But when Republicans assemble peacefully on public property, destroying nothing — with no violence being incited aside from Democrat plants, and nobody being killed except for one protestor who was murdered by a Democrat operative — the reaction MUST be: “This was the most heinous crime in the history of the planet and far worse than anything Hitler ever did.”
Why? Because, what with the ballot box being thoroughly corrupted now, the only way for patriots to take America back is to do so by some other means. The powers-that-be can’t risk being on the receiving end of a successful insurrection (success = “where numerous liberals actually get what they have coming”) and so they need to make sure that nobody even THINKS about assembling another “January 6th” by punishing those who took part in the first one way beyond the maximum extent of the law.
Naw 1/6 is the one where Patriots are persecuted.
I could be easily persuaded to the asses. And we would get the same results.
Tip of the tyranny iceberg.
Bkmk
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