4 historic attacks at the U.S. Capitol

Armed Resistance Unit bombing — Nov. 7, 1983 (A total of seven people said to be affiliated with the group, many who identified as Marxists or communists)

Bombing in protest of U.S. military in Laos — March 1, 1971 (Leftist militants the Weather Underground claimed responsibility)

Puerto Rican nationalists attack Congress — March 1, 1954 (push for nationhood for Puerto Rico and anger at U.S. colonialism spurred attacks)

Three sticks of dynamite — July 2, 1915 (suspect identified as a professor at Cornell University, Frank Holt)

Nice Article. It wasn’t a Cornell Professor with the dynamite, alas, but a Harvard Professor (as is evident in the excerpt below) who tried to frame the Cornell Professor (as a bit more digging shows.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1915/07/03/Morgan-assailant-gave-name-of-F-Holt-believed-unbalanced/5430311871529/

Which makes this thread at least a candidate for the “Ithaca is Evil” ping list. I wouldn’t put it past a Cornell professor, but Harvard deserves its fair share of the blame.

Three sticks of dynamite — July 2, 1915

Newspapers headlines across the U.S. blared about the frenzied attack of a suspect identified as a professor at Cornell University, Frank Holt, described by the New York Times as “an educator with a reputation among his associates as an easygoing man.”

The suspect had smuggled three sticks of dynamite in a suitcase into the Capitol on July 2, 1915. Finding the Senate chamber locked, he settled on an area in the Senate’s reception area. The bomb went off hours later, causing damage.

The attacker had sent a letter to a Washington paper under the moniker R. Pearce, expressing opposition to the U.S. selling arms and munitions to Germany’s enemies as the First World War progressed.

A day after the D.C. attack the same suspect proceeded to the Long Island home of financier J.P. Morgan Jr., — who he pegged as a war profiteer — injuring him with two shots before being subdued by Morgan’s butler.

Turns out, the man was neither Holt nor Pearce, but Erich Muenter, a German who was a Harvard professor suspected in the poisoning death of his wife in 1906. He had fled to Mexico and returned with an alias.

Cities all over the country were ravaged and burned. Good people died, livelihoods were destroyed and we did nothing. Their cause....Justice. Justice for what. It was a lie then and it remains a lie today.

On January 6th, men and women alike marched to the Capitol. There were rowdies who apparently lead their own little group to disrupt a peaceful demonstration. Others were "caught" in the crowd and had no choice but to move with it or be trampled. They were NOT willing participants in this riot.

Not a match was lit. Not a shot was fired. Not a person was killed excepting Ashli.

Was the riot part wrong? Of course. But was it an insurrection? Ridiculous. It's a simple matter of sorting out the few bad (700 is ridiculous) from the good.

And now the Biden administration wants it to be an annual celebration? Totally insane.

All of the media and political elites seem to ignore the Bonus Expeditionary Forces siege of the capital, riots, and the use of tanks and the army to drive them away from Washington.

At the time it was apparently a big deal:

"If the Army must be called out to make war on unarmed citizens, this is no longer America." -Washington Daily News

"By summer, at least 20,000 people had joined the camps, with some estimates putting the total number above 40,000. Many were joined by their families. But the camps attracted an undesirable element as well. President Hoover later claimed “the march was largely organized and promoted by the Communists, and included a large number of hoodlums and ex-convicts bent on raising a public disturbance.” Using scrap wood and other salvaged materials, the protesters constructed a vast field of shacks in view of the Capitol dome, prepared for a siege of Congress."

"On July 28, Attorney General William Mitchell ordered the DC police to remove the protesters from government property. At the time, about 50 protesters occupied buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue. When police arrived to move them out, a riot erupted, and police shot and killed two protesters. After that, the Army was called in to restore order."

"The camp was still inhabited by about 10,000 people, who were driven off by the cavalry with tanks and tear gas. Then the infantry followed, setting fire to the shanties. DC’s hospitals were overwhelmed with the wounded. Operationally, the exercise was seen as a success by the Army. The Bonus Expeditionary Forces had been dispersed permanently."