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Zero elected officials were actually taken hostage. You saw a picture of a guy with zipties at the capital, and extrapolated all the way to the rest of your com

by zaroth 6y ago

Zero elected officials were actually taken hostage. You saw a picture of a guy with zipties at the capital, and extrapolated all the way to the rest of your comment. Antifa showed up at several state capitals with much worse than zipties. They firebombed Federal buildings and police districts. Chanted for the removal of elected officials. Constructed guillotines. Do you call them terrorists? More importantly, how many elected Democrats have been signing the praises of antifa rioters all summer, telling us we need to leave room for them to express their rage, that we are supposed to be uncomfortable, that property violence isn’t violence.... And now they’ve gotten exactly what they’ve been asking for the last 4 years, Trump’s account suspended.

willis936 6y ago
Just because they failed doesn’t mean they didn’t seriously try. A woman was shot in the neck and died because she climbed through a barricade towards men with guns pointed at her, telling her to stay back. What was her goal? To get to the senate floor that was still being evacuated. You don’t want to call it terrorism even though the entire legislative head was nearly at the mercy of a mob?
- zaroth 6y ago
  Actually the FBI said today they are still investigating if anyone actually tried at all to take hostages, and still investigating who the person was with the zipties and what they were doing there. The woman who was shot (elsewhere I posted the very graphic video of it happening) was surrounded on both sides of the door by police. My best guess is she was fully enthralled in a mob mentality and obviously not thinking clearly. Violent mobs are dangerous for this exact reason. We saw this play out again and again over the summer, and a lot of people died. From the video I saw there was no need to kill her, she was trying to gain access to a long hallway with a half dozen police in the far side of the door, and the snot fired could have very easily hit the police officer that was standing right by her on her side of the door at the time. I think all we can do is purely speculate on her mental state and her goals. There will be a lot of evidence if she actually went to the capital in order to hurt or capture public officials. None has yet to be shown. All we know basically is that she was a military vet.

by zaroth 6y ago

willis936 6y ago

Just because they failed doesn’t mean they didn’t seriously try. A woman was shot in the neck and died because she climbed through a barricade towards men with guns pointed at her, telling her to stay back. What was her goal? To get to the senate floor that was still being evacuated. You don’t want to call it terrorism even though the entire legislative head was nearly at the mercy of a mob?

zaroth 6y ago
Actually the FBI said today they are still investigating if anyone actually tried at all to take hostages, and still investigating who the person was with the zipties and what they were doing there. The woman who was shot (elsewhere I posted the very graphic video of it happening) was surrounded on both sides of the door by police. My best guess is she was fully enthralled in a mob mentality and obviously not thinking clearly. Violent mobs are dangerous for this exact reason. We saw this play out again and again over the summer, and a lot of people died. From the video I saw there was no need to kill her, she was trying to gain access to a long hallway with a half dozen police in the far side of the door, and the snot fired could have very easily hit the police officer that was standing right by her on her side of the door at the time. I think all we can do is purely speculate on her mental state and her goals. There will be a lot of evidence if she actually went to the capital in order to hurt or capture public officials. None has yet to be shown. All we know basically is that she was a military vet.