Every one who entered broke the law, but I see a lot more excusing than I do condemnation on this board…whether it’s denying the verifiable facts or calling those who broke in and assaulted the police patriots...that’s just reality here. You’ve seen this here.
They made a distinction between those who did not enter and those who did. Many were charged with minor offenses es as was appropriate. Nothing was exaggerated or demonized imo. Just talk to the police trying to protect lawmakers and beaten with metal poles and bats and sprayed with bear spray. Those people came prepared. Screw them. Their actions that day were enough to damn them.
We are not going to agree. My cousin is a capitol police officer. I believe his accounts and the videos of the people who were there.
A person who walks into the Capitol with the Capitol police holding the door open for them is NOT a terrorist nor a law breaker in my opinion. A person inside the Capitol with the Capitol police standing amicably among them and/or escorting them are NOT terrorists nor law breakers.
You apparently see that differently. But then you probably haven't seen the video I have seen or heard the testimony I have heard--of course video and testimony nobody watching the rigged J6 hearing saw or heard--and so oh well.
Will I continue to defend peaceful people who harmed or threatened absolutely nobody? Absolutely.
Nobody can find a single syllable I've uttered or written that condoned the violence or vandalism that day. I don't care if it was planned in advance and/or who planned it though Wray still refuses to say whether FBI agents were amidst it. We still don't know why Ray Epps who is recorded in video multiple times urging people to go into the Capitol was never arrested and is not in jail while others who did far less than that still are in jail.
On the other hand 'peaceful' is not blocking entrances to businesses and homes, obstructing traffic in streets or on bridges, disrupting meetings to the point they take over the podium and microphones or threatening people. It isn't occupying blocks of a city and dictating who can and cannot be there.
And it darn sure isn't assaulting, injuring, murdering innocent people, breaking and entering, looting, burning, vandalizing, destroying, terrorizing that was a component of so many of those rallies the media is fond of describing as 'mostly peaceful protests.' And I have yet to see a BLM organizer or leader condemn any of that or tell anyone to stop it.
Until those on the left can admit the summer of violence in 2020 was far worse than anything that happened at the Capitol on J6 we will never arrive at a point where all unnecessary or unlawful violence is condemned no matter who does it.