It's in their own words. And they did make nooses.
That's not the same as actually doing it but those were their own words, so while they may not own an action that didn't take place --- they do own the words and thesentimentsediment behind them.
I like the "sediment."
Yeah, talkie-talkie. Lotsa big talk. I'm not interested in what people rattled on about, trying to make themselves important.
Which is not to say we should ignore the potential there. I know that in modern times ALL civil disorder has communists and anarchists flocking to join in, doesn't matter how rightwing the cause is supposed to be: they are after destroying the government, any government. A lot of people think that happened here, and some rightwingers may well have come for violence, too.
It's the Bastille I think of always --- supposed to be this great thing, July 14, 1789, suddenly overwhelming this big prison, but it was already closed, and they killed all the defenders (there weren't many, just like Wednesday at the Capitol, they were not expecting any attack!) and marched thru Paris with the heads of two of them cut off and stuck on pikes, thus instantly inventing the popular political phrase "heads on pikes." And it was hardly the last time they did this, either.
Sure, this kind of thing can happen. But until it does, it didn't.