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Exactly the entire force should be dismissed (with no pension) and the senior leadership should be left alone in an office with a bottle of whisky and their sid

Exactly the entire force should be dismissed (with no pension) and the senior leadership should be left alone in an office with a bottle of whisky and their side arm

galangalalgol 6y ago
I hate authority as much as the next, but when they keep people out we complain about their brutality, when they let people in we urge them to suicide. No one in their right mind would want such a job, thus we get the people who aren't.
- tsimionescu 6y ago
  The GP is way off base suggesting both the dismissal and suicide of the entire police force responsible. There is a massive difference between police keeping people out of a public building and police actively attacking even quasi-peaceful protesters like we've seen a lot of times during the BLM protests. I, for one, don't have a real problem with police launching tear gas at BLM protesters trying to enter the Portland courthouse. I do have a problem with police shooting rubber bullets and throwing tear gas at protesters on the streets chanting.
  - jaybrendansmith 6y ago
    I'm really getting tired of the what-about-ism here. They should ALL be prosecuted. Any violent protestors. Anyone that does property damage. Anyone protesting in a non-violent way should be allowed to do so. What we are seeing instead is peaceful, non-violent BLM protesters and journalists are shot and teargassed. Violent protestors are allowed to get away without prosecution. And Trump insurrectionists are allowed to walk into the most important federal building in the country, and then walk out. This is insane. As a country, we no longer know wrong from right, or up from down, or true from false. That is the definition of a major mental pathology.
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- Mauricebranagh 6y ago
  That was dark humour - if the leader of that police force had any honour he would have personally apologised to both houses and resigned last evening.
  - InitialLastName 6y ago
    Have you heard any information about any of the thousands of legislators, Capitol employees, media members or any of the other legitimate occupants of the Capitol building being hurt, killed, or even being in unwilling contact with the insurrectionists? If not, than the Capitol Police did their primary job effectively, which probably hurt their ability to do their other job (maintaining a secure perimeter around the building).
tsimionescu 6y ago
This is way out of proportion, and you're suggesting this without even waiting for a formal investigation, which is almost hypocritical. The whole point is that we should re-establish the supremacy of the rule of law. What happened last night was an assault on this. Enacting your suggestion would be the same.
- Mauricebranagh 6y ago
  I wasn't suggesting do it without the law - Presumably the House and Congress are the employers and could pass the relevant motion/law very quickly And collective punishment of employees is perfectly valid in law.

Exactly the entire force should be dismissed (with no pension) and the senior leadership should be left alone in an office with a bottle of whisky and their side arm

galangalalgol 6y ago

I hate authority as much as the next, but when they keep people out we complain about their brutality, when they let people in we urge them to suicide. No one in their right mind would want such a job, thus we get the people who aren't.

tsimionescu 6y ago
The GP is way off base suggesting both the dismissal and suicide of the entire police force responsible. There is a massive difference between police keeping people out of a public building and police actively attacking even quasi-peaceful protesters like we've seen a lot of times during the BLM protests. I, for one, don't have a real problem with police launching tear gas at BLM protesters trying to enter the Portland courthouse. I do have a problem with police shooting rubber bullets and throwing tear gas at protesters on the streets chanting.
- jaybrendansmith 6y ago
  I'm really getting tired of the what-about-ism here. They should ALL be prosecuted. Any violent protestors. Anyone that does property damage. Anyone protesting in a non-violent way should be allowed to do so. What we are seeing instead is peaceful, non-violent BLM protesters and journalists are shot and teargassed. Violent protestors are allowed to get away without prosecution. And Trump insurrectionists are allowed to walk into the most important federal building in the country, and then walk out. This is insane. As a country, we no longer know wrong from right, or up from down, or true from false. That is the definition of a major mental pathology.
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Mauricebranagh 6y ago
That was dark humour - if the leader of that police force had any honour he would have personally apologised to both houses and resigned last evening.
- InitialLastName 6y ago
  Have you heard any information about any of the thousands of legislators, Capitol employees, media members or any of the other legitimate occupants of the Capitol building being hurt, killed, or even being in unwilling contact with the insurrectionists? If not, than the Capitol Police did their primary job effectively, which probably hurt their ability to do their other job (maintaining a secure perimeter around the building).

tsimionescu 6y ago

This is way out of proportion, and you're suggesting this without even waiting for a formal investigation, which is almost hypocritical. The whole point is that we should re-establish the supremacy of the rule of law. What happened last night was an assault on this. Enacting your suggestion would be the same.

Mauricebranagh 6y ago
I wasn't suggesting do it without the law - Presumably the House and Congress are the employers and could pass the relevant motion/law very quickly And collective punishment of employees is perfectly valid in law.