I see a large demonstration that a few bad actors turned into a riot. I see some nutcases – not many – who like to produce and participate in violence – some presenting themselves as pseudo patriots and some infiltrating the demonstration from the left to provoke violence.
Among those few bad actors are people who may believe in a violent overthrow of the American government. They are dangerous, but the pathetic mission is absurd. No one – no group – has even come close to endangering the constituted authority of the Republic. There was no chance – none – of ever stopping the certification of the Biden election and the scheduled inauguration of Biden as President of the United States.
Hell … they did not even delay the congressional certification of the election by the Congress for more than a couple of hours. The idea that the events on Capitol Hill was an insurrection … coup d’état … sedition might make a good libretto for a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, but hardly describes what was going on.
But let us consider sedition.
By simple definition, it is inciting and organizing people to violently overthrow an existing government. The word generally describes SERIOUS efforts to take down the government – not merely protests against government.
If the riot we saw on Capitol Hill was seditious, then so were those many, many iconic left-wing riots that disrupted our major cities for generations.
Let us consider some of the recent violent outbreaks across America. If we do a comparative autopsy of the Capitol Hill riot, we notice that the vast majority of the protestors were peaceful. Only a small percentage went on the rampage — and it was localized and short lived. There were no Days of Rage and night-after-night of looting, burning and destroying.
There was significant physical damage and unfortunate deaths – as is too often the case with riots. Real insurrections, rebellions and acts of sedition are generally marked by open conflict and many deaths. Insurrectionists not only come armed to the teeth, they use those arms.
Those on Capitol Hill made no attempt at occupying the Capitol for more than a few hours. Even the most violent nutcases left the scene before nightfall. There were reports of explosive devices, Molotov cocktails and weapons of all kinds, but for some reason they went unused.
If you want to apply sedition to the riot on Capitol Hill, how do you not see sedition in the past summer’s civil unrest?
Look what happened on the west coast.
Violent mobs erupted in anti-government, anti-American protests. We could see that in the burning of the American flag and the toppling of statues symbolizing the history of our nation. They were attacking America – as they so often proclaimed.
Those mobs seized American territory and declared it their free state in which the laws of America did not apply. They took control of a police headquarters. They barred the municipal police from entering what they called their autonomous zone – meaning independent from the United States.
As part of their take-over, they rioted, burned and pillaged entire neighborhoods of good citizens – destroying businesses and homes. People were injured and killed.
When they attacked federal property with guns, rocks and Molotov cocktails, city officials demanded that federal law enforcement stand down – leave the city. In a bizarre twist of logic, they blamed the presence of police for provoking the rioters … ooops … I mean insurrectionists.
Public officials – who should have been protecting the public – were often out in solidarity with the rioters. For sure, they were enabling the progress and continuation of the assault on the government and the American rule-of-law by their passive reaction. Were they part of the insurrection like they say officials were in D.C.? The mayor of Washington, D.C. demanded that the National Guard get out of the federal district as mobs pillaged and destroyed. The St. Louis mayor refused to deploy the National Guard even though the governor called upon them. We saw the same pattern with Democrat mayors across the nation.
How many times have we seen scenes of rioters destroying entire neighborhoods as the local police were standing on the sidelines as observers – as ordered by city officials? And how many of those news reports laid blame on the police who were attempting to protect the innocent? How many Democrat prosecutors dropped all those cases against arrested rioters, looters, arsonists and vandals?
Thankfully, the riot on Capitol Hill was not as bad as many others we have witnessed across the nation.
The big difference is how Democrats and the media hypocritically described it.
Once the damage and death came to the establishment’s front door, the rhetoric and the reporting completely changed.
The Washington establishment did not give a damn about those poor folks in the riot ravaged neighborhoods – the business owners who lost their livelihoods and the people who worked for them, who lost their jobs. The establishment did not care about the neighborhoods that would suffer the physical and economic scars of the riots for decades.
Most of the looting, burning and deaths from rioting have occurred in Black neighborhoods. This shows how little the left really cares about the disadvantaged citizens who live in the ghettos they rule over. It is just more of the disturbing level of racism by the progressive left. As long as the violence and damage are confined to Harlem and not Park Avenue, the leftwing establishment does not care.
When CNN’s Chris Cuomo rhetorically asked, “Who said protests have to be peaceful?” Was he engaging in sedition? Were all those “occupation” events insurrections? Were the autonomous zones attempted coups?
While the left-wing media professes fealty to the truth, they engage in narratives based on political bias, disinformation, censorship and outright lies. The blatant hypocrisy seen in the reporting of the MANY violent riots and attacks on the people in the neighborhoods – compared to the mendacious sensationalized reporting of the Capitol Hill Riot — can easily be recognized by any person of average intelligence and an iota of intellectual integrity.
So, there ‘tis.
Very well put, everything was correctly put and all true!!!! TRUTH is what it’s all about. Thank You Sir. Have a great day!
Exactly what I have said said since I watched this go down! Only the brainwashed cannot see the truth!
It was Sedition, an Insurrection, and a Coup . Now the Communist/Democrats have taken over our Country. Freedom is going to be choked to Death !
The way the chicago mayor and the new york governor are wanting to re-open their businesses base purely on the fact that President Trump is leaving office would lead one to question if the left weaponized the virus for political gain!!!! That coupled with the FBI saying the capitol riot was a pre-planned event might lead one to question whether or not the left weaponized it and the portland and similar antifa and blm problems.
“There is a plot in this country to enslave every man woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot.”
Who said that?
President John F. Kennedy
7 days before his assassination.
There are 3 words absent from every lefty’s lexicon: irony, integrity and honesty. It will not take long for career politico Joey boy to destroy every good thing President Trump brought to “we, the people”. Sit back, grab a cold one and watch his self-immolation. And remember, 2022 is right around the corner.
**standing ovation**. The same thoughts crossed my mind and I was surprised at how the Capitol riot was blown out of proportion, and yet the previous out of control protests that were allowed to go on for as long as these protesters wished… where arson, looting, and multiple crimes were committed were condoned! The punished were the law enforcement! Your words speak truth! Thank you for your honesty!
The Left and Media have truly screwed the Nation . They and the Democrat’s painted the Riots as ok . Harris paid for some of their releases. But everything that happened Had only Trump to Blame what kind of idiots do they take us for. They must be held accountable for their double standards.
I also think Joe Biden, Nancy pelosi, and Chuck Schumer should all be put out to pasture. They are all responsible for what happened this past summer.
Hi I believe that the dems have been slowly sold out america look at all the foreigners that have been in our cities as dem in high places the same as governors mayors have stood back &let them riot & burn like Nancy’s nephew museum in California. & killing babies mainly black babies & us paid by dems .china has the bidens buying us property & the chinese billions to dems my openion bill
ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It pains me to see that my fellow American’s do not see what we see. That the terror that reigned down on cities over the summer were out of control and not one democrat that I can remember denied this as being anything other than acceptable. But, put their puny little lives at even the most minuscule of risk, and they scream like their little lives depend on it. I rooted for President Trump all the way and still believe what happened is not just. My wife is from Europe and this has been a tragic experience for her. Reagan foreseen this coming and yet the Republican Politicians sat back and just let this happen. I just hope that this country wakes up and realizes the jeopardy every Man, Woman and Child are in with all that is happening. In the words of a great man Paul Harvey, “Wake Up America!!” My prayer and thoughts are with President Trump and the First Lady and all Americans out there that are frightened of the road ahead!!