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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe election reinforces my Jan 6th opinion
We went way to soft on them. In fact the police treated them with kids gloves. The insurrection should have been put down by force.
GreenWave
(12,421 posts)And Trump would have capitalized on that making them martyrs. The guy who needed to be captured and charged with treason was Trump. But no way they would do that.
RandiFan1290
(6,688 posts)Don't forget the gentle treatment of the the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge terrorists in 2014.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,908 posts)Once they breached the building and were beating and crushing police in the hallways.
Ill always maintain that if what occurred on January 6th was done by a BLM protest, the Capitol would have been littered with corpses.
Garland fucked us all. They should have gone right after the top guys.
RJ_MacReady
(448 posts)The moment they broke through windows they should have opened fire.
malaise
(293,679 posts)Rec
SoCalDavidS
(10,599 posts)Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)Tried too. Still try Socaldavids
Montauk6
(9,319 posts)I mean, is ol' Merrick just the Federalist Society's answer to Alan Colmes or what?
HappyH
(188 posts)Was woefully inadequate by design. The authorities knew there was going to be a large unruly mob in DC and storming the Capital had been discussed publicly. I think a few water cannons would have been very effective at preventing the breech of the Capital.
I am very non-violent and loath the idea of bloody conflict with our MAGA countrymen. However, Mike Rogers recent comments have me reconsidering my stand.
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,261 posts)The organizers, the planners, the funders.
The members of congress who obviously knew about it and assisted with J6.
In fact some of them keep getting elected to congress over and over as a reward.
Who planted the bomb in the DNC?
Who detached the panic buttons in Dem leader offices?
FBI has some ideas.
There are no secrets in Washington DC.
TheRickles
(3,211 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,261 posts)There were meetings, pictures, reports, texts.
johnnyfins
(3,511 posts)"Career Officials", who TSF will fire, to spill some tea. Just sayin...
Evolve Dammit
(21,571 posts)we are shifting into a Russia style country or Hungary anyhow.
BigMin28
(1,826 posts)If that had been any other group of people attacking the Capitol in the same way, January 6th would have been a bloodbath. Nothing and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)lastlib
(27,719 posts)I will never forget or forgive that.
doc03
(38,904 posts)window entering the capital should have been shot. Once the first person was shot trying to get
in the House chambers their attack fell apart quickly. Instead of escorting them out of the building like a
bunch of rowdy teenagers they all should have been zip tied at the door. I don't buy that shit it wasn't possible.
If they would have been BLM it would have gone down like I just described or worse. P.S. that pos
Garland should have been fired the next day.
lastlib
(27,719 posts)bigtree
(93,602 posts)...on charges up to the rarely used and rarely successful crime of Sedition?
The stuff that gets said...
SoCalDavidS
(10,599 posts)But let's not be too harsh on Garland.
Lucky Luciano
(11,834 posts)Should have been 500 dead MAGAts.
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)The maximum for sedition. They knew they were there to overturn and take over the government. It was never about a protest.
They will all be pardoned, let out of prison and most likely given JOBS OF AUTHORITY.
ChazInAz
(2,998 posts)If, upon their release, their photos, names and addresses were doxed?
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)Tickle
(4,131 posts)or some kind of martyr. This is getting interesting to say the least
yardwork
(69,038 posts)I know some law and order types who still think Jan 6 was all Nancy Pelosi's fault, and the protesters were just patriots who were fed up with something something BLM something crime something something mumble glare...
So if more people had been killed that day those MAGAT idiots would get even angrier and more committed to putting Trump back in charge.
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)It may be possible for me to care less but I'm not sure how.
live love laugh
(16,228 posts)Because he had the reins to the necessary force.
JCMach1
(29,125 posts)Taken to Guantanamo at that point.
Legalism gave them political cover for the magnitude of their crime...
The equivalent of charging a 9/11.highjacker with illegal use of a weapon.
Or Timothy McVeigh for illegal possession of explosives.
The fuckers tried to kill democracy.
Bluethroughu
(7,215 posts)Stay awake.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,614 posts)so fast our heads will spin.
Gone will be the days of an AG Garland sitting on shit for years to preemptively dot all of the i's and cross all of the t's.
The pendulum swing from DOJ will be breathtaking.
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Ibapah
(9 posts)I always thought this goes back to the standoff at the Bundy Ranch. No consequences for training weapons on Federal agents trying to enforce the law. Those people should have been taken out.
Dem4life1234
(2,533 posts)More authorities should have come through and you know exactly what I will say.