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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1/6 was the redneck reverse of a BLM protest. And their savior Trump hasn't even tried to help any of his minions who got nto trouble. [/quote]
No, it was way more serious than that.  Sure some of the people there were just standard meal team six afficianados but others went much further.  They were specifically trying to stop the electoral count and overthrow the election.  It was straight up an attempted coup.[/quote]

So we had an insurrection/revolution where a bunch of gun owners left their firearms at home?  Is that how you’re seeing this?[/quote]
What you’re seeing is uninformed and incorrect.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capitol-rioters-were-armed-here-are-the-weapons-prosecutors-say-they-used[/quote]

You’re evading the issue. Is your position that we had an insurrection/revolution where a bunch of GUN OWNERS left their FIREARMS at home?

The NPR article details pepper spray, stun guns and baseball bats which is very consistent with some of the left riots we’ve seen, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. [/quote]
There were plenty who actually had guns there.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/capitol-riot-report-details-weapons-toted-by-28k-strong-trump-mob/[/quote]

“Plenty”?  Five firearms documented in the article, none at the Capitol, out of 28,000 people there that day.  My guess is the guys and gals who were armed with firearms knew to stay out of the cap building because most responsible gun owners are exceedingly careful about where they take their firearms.

This has to be the first revolution in history where a bunch of gun owners left their guns at home. [/quote]

You're right. This could be the first revolution in modern history where guns where left at home. It is what it is. Any other thoughts back on topic?[/quote]

Most reasonable people in a nonpartisan context would say if the gun owners leave their firearms at home, it wasn’t an insurrection/revolution. It was a riot.

Be careful about the standards you set. E.g., protestors storming the senate during the confirmation hearings of a SCOTUS nominee. [/quote]

bOtH sIDeS  :roll:

(IOW not the same)[/quote]

It’s not “both sides”. I’d be equally appalled at trespassing and interruption of government proceedings during the BK hearings  being stretched into insurrection/revolution charges. I’d feel the same way about the attacks on the federal courthouse in Portland. But believe me that it wouldn’t take many changes to the indictments in the Jan 6 cases to be applied to the people trying to stop the BK confirmation hearings. [/quote]

Except for that whole trying to overthrow the election part.  It's kind of a big distinction.[/quote]

Not if you expect equal justice under the law.  You’re kinda proving the allegation that this is political.

The law doesn’t say:  it is illegal to interrupt government proceedings to prevent an electoral count but it is okay to interrupt BK confirmation hearings.

The law doesn’t say: it is illegal to trespass and remain in the capitol building to stop and electoral count but it is legal to trespass and remain in the capital to prevent/protest BK hearings.

Again, this isn’t a defense of the J6 rioters. But your distinctions only matter if you bring politics into it. 
 [/quote]

This. [/quote]

Not, not really "this", because the PP was factually incorrect about the various laws that do, and do not apply to these different circumstances.[/quote]
+1 Just at its most basic level, the people at the hearings had been allowed into the Capitol and cleared by security. No one on January 6 had because the Capitol was closed to the public due to Covid.[/quote]

I’d love to know which laws I’m wrong about.  Prosecutorial discretion is a real thing. But political legitimacy of any government rests on the just treatment of the minority party. And that’s based on equal justice for all.

On the BK hearings, your comment is revisionist BS. There were at least 225 arrests at the BK senate confirmation hearings.  I remember that very clearly.  Some were arrested for blocking physical spaces and others for outbursts in the hearing room. 
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By elements of the crimes, the BK protestors could have been charged the same as about 75% of those charged for the J6 riots.[/b] But I think every single one paid a fine and moved on with their life.  Again, prosecutorial discretion is real, but if either party truly wishes to govern in this country, then equal justice under the law has to mean something.[/quote]

No, they couldn't Facts and laws matter. The BK people were prostesting and by your own admission, were arrested. The J6 people were literally staging a coup. It wasn't "riots" it was a freaking coup attempt. Hence the laws they are being charged under are related to disrupting a consitutional action, not just "a protest"[/quote]

How in the hell are several hundred people in the Capitol going to run a coup against TWO MILLION federal employees? Hullo?[/quote]

There was at least 3,000 of them, not “several hundred”.

The fact is, if they’d managed to get control of the building, they would’ve been in charge. Period.

Are you really this stupid? [/quote]
Also, there are not two million federal employees at the Capitol.[/quote]

But those two million federal employees are bound by oath to obey their orders. And if the Capitol had been seized, they’d be forced to follow the orders of the shaman guy with the horns and the racist with his feet on Pelosi’s desk. We came THAT close to losing the country. [/quote]

Federal employees are bound to [i]uphold the Constitution[/i] and follow [i]lawful[/i] orders.  J6 was none of that.  Those of us with any integrity would have resisted and would have done everything we could to oppose the coup attempt.  But sadly some within Secret Service, Pentagon, FBI and others at best fell down on the job and at worst were complicit in the coup attempt, even to the point of destroying text messages after the fact.[/quote]

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