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“Attack”? With no weapons?

dTal 4y ago
https://globalnews.ca/news/8902503/us-capitol-riot-jan-6-charges-explainer/ https://globalnews.ca/news/8902503/us-capitol-riot-jan-6-cha... "More than 250 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement who were trying to protect the Capitol, including more than 85 accused of using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer. Others have been accused of assaulting members of the media, including one Associated Press photographer, or destroying media equipment." A trivial google search turns up this newsweek article, which lists half a dozen people indicted for firearms, including one who also had more guns than he could wield himself as well as molotov cocktails stashed in his van. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-were-there-armed-protesters-capitol-january-6-1715326 https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-were-there-armed-protest...
- coffeeblack 4y ago
  Typical deceptive article. It says “inside the Capitol or outside” and many paragraphs later concludes that none of the guns were actually taken inside. Also interesting that a handful of bad people carrying guns make everybody else a criminal. Is that the world you want to live in?
  - effingwewt 4y ago
    That is the world we live in. Every movement or protest has people who resort to violence. Whether actual protesters, or whether infiltrated by someone looking to discredit the movement. Law enforcement is famous for it, and there are quite a few vidoes of them trying to 'start shit' so they can escalate. I don't know whether guns were used at Capitol Hill, I don't really care. It was an attempted violent coup. By the protesters, not infiltrators. I think the world has lost its marbles.
    - coffeeblack 4y ago
      - effingwewt 4y ago
        coffeeblack 4y ago
  - nchi3 4y ago
    Storming the Capitol makes you a criminal though, whether you're carrying a gun or not.
  - dTal 4y ago
    What do you suppose would have happened if the angry mob equipped with zipties had actually got ahold of any of the public figures they were looking for? If Nancy Pelosi had been in her office, say? Or if they'd somehow cornered Mike Pence? Just because it was incompetent and disorganized doesn't mean it wasn't earnest, or planned. Anyway, I stand by my initial position that it is disingenuous to act so innocently amazed that people might regard an angry violent mob storming the capitol with a gallows chanting to hang the vice president as an insurrection.

dTal 4y ago

https://globalnews.ca/news/8902503/us-capitol-riot-jan-6-charges-explainer/ https://globalnews.ca/news/8902503/us-capitol-riot-jan-6-cha... "More than 250 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement who were trying to protect the Capitol, including more than 85 accused of using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer. Others have been accused of assaulting members of the media, including one Associated Press photographer, or destroying media equipment." A trivial google search turns up this newsweek article, which lists half a dozen people indicted for firearms, including one who also had more guns than he could wield himself as well as molotov cocktails stashed in his van. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-were-there-armed-protesters-capitol-january-6-1715326 https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-were-there-armed-protest...

coffeeblack 4y ago
Typical deceptive article. It says “inside the Capitol or outside” and many paragraphs later concludes that none of the guns were actually taken inside. Also interesting that a handful of bad people carrying guns make everybody else a criminal. Is that the world you want to live in?
- effingwewt 4y ago
  That is the world we live in. Every movement or protest has people who resort to violence. Whether actual protesters, or whether infiltrated by someone looking to discredit the movement. Law enforcement is famous for it, and there are quite a few vidoes of them trying to 'start shit' so they can escalate. I don't know whether guns were used at Capitol Hill, I don't really care. It was an attempted violent coup. By the protesters, not infiltrators. I think the world has lost its marbles.
  - coffeeblack 4y ago
    - effingwewt 4y ago
      - coffeeblack 4y ago
- nchi3 4y ago
  Storming the Capitol makes you a criminal though, whether you're carrying a gun or not.
- dTal 4y ago
  What do you suppose would have happened if the angry mob equipped with zipties had actually got ahold of any of the public figures they were looking for? If Nancy Pelosi had been in her office, say? Or if they'd somehow cornered Mike Pence? Just because it was incompetent and disorganized doesn't mean it wasn't earnest, or planned. Anyway, I stand by my initial position that it is disingenuous to act so innocently amazed that people might regard an angry violent mob storming the capitol with a gallows chanting to hang the vice president as an insurrection.