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If you don't like the government, you make your own, no? How is it a crime? It's a suggested action.

• JumpCrisscross 6y ago
  > If you don't like the government, you make your own, no? How is it a crime? Because the Insurrection Act of 1807 [1] says it is. Less bluntly, the point of democracy is to give people peaceful means by which to affect their government. Storming the Capitol is not a peaceful mean. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807
  • DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
    The problem is that, in their heads, they were denied those peaceful means, so they think they're justified in resorting to violence as a last resort. Their premise might be completely ridiculous, but the logic that follows is sound. Then again, that line of thinking means the blame shifts from those doing the assaulting to those fabricating the accusations that justify it, which happens to be mostly users of precisely those platforms that got deleted.
    • klyrs 6y ago
      If you get defrauded, blackmailed, whathaveyou, into committing a crime, it's still on your head. Yes, the fraudster bears some responsibility, but it's not like the folks who stormed the capitol had guns to their heads. They knowingly, willfully, deliberately, with pre-planning, broke the damned law. Ironic how the folks involved are all "law and order" when it comes to most matters of policing but now that they're facing charges of sedition it's all "wait is it actually a crime if I believe that my righteous cause justifies violence?"