This sounds exactly like what the Canadian government did with the truckers and the invoking of the Emergencies Act. They twisted and mangled the spirit of the law stretching just enough to 'justify' invoking the EA. They were getting caught up in all the messy legalese to the point it became a joke. They, in the end, admitted they had to bypass the law because there was a threat to national security - even though there never was one as clearly stated by our national security apparatus (CSIS) and law enforcement. To this day, the 'inquiry' (called POEC) looking into it left more questions than answers.
The ruling judge (a lifelong Liberal activist) 'reluctantly' determined the government 'met the threshold' to invoke despite the entire inquiry pretty much concluding the opposite.
We're living in the bizarro world. Inverted realities.
President Trump cannot be an insurrectionist because there was no insurrection. There was no riot either. There was an election integrity protest, wherein the protesters were freely admitted to the Capitol by security and peacefully escorted as they paraded through the building. We've all seen the videos.
There was no riot, and they're was definitely no military or paramilitary activity. No one attempted to form a new government, nor was there any effort to seize & hold the Capitol. The only major criminal act was the theft of Enemy of the People Speaker Pelosi's lectern.
Anyone who calls the January 6 election integrity protest an insurrection is either cluelessly ignorant, or lying. That's it.
I continue to wonder how much money the Injustices of the Colorado Supreme Kangaroo Court accepted from hostile foreign agents and NGOs. Or perhaps it was blackmail?
When there is video of windows being broken and people climbing through them--and there is video of that in the archive released by Speaker Johnson, yes, it's a riot.
Nor can we say the protestors were "peacefully escorted"--the shooting (and arguably murder) of Ashley Babbitt by Capitol Hill Police cuts rather conclusively against that grain.
But a riot is not an insurrection. This riot certainly was not an insurrection.
I dunno. The videos I've seen, of a couple fairly obvious "Anti" Fascists breaking windows - to the dismay of nearby protestors - still didn't look like much of a "riot". Particularly given the context of very real, very large black supremacy riots that year.
Nor does the murder of an unarmed peaceful protestor by a trigger happy (& perhaps ideologically motivated?) copper somehow make the election integrity protestors into rioters.
Sorry, I just can't buy it. It looked a whole lot more like a traditional peaceful political protest than any sort of riot. A whole lot more.
This sounds exactly like what the Canadian government did with the truckers and the invoking of the Emergencies Act. They twisted and mangled the spirit of the law stretching just enough to 'justify' invoking the EA. They were getting caught up in all the messy legalese to the point it became a joke. They, in the end, admitted they had to bypass the law because there was a threat to national security - even though there never was one as clearly stated by our national security apparatus (CSIS) and law enforcement. To this day, the 'inquiry' (called POEC) looking into it left more questions than answers.
The ruling judge (a lifelong Liberal activist) 'reluctantly' determined the government 'met the threshold' to invoke despite the entire inquiry pretty much concluding the opposite.
We're living in the bizarro world. Inverted realities.
And it's not good.
President Trump cannot be an insurrectionist because there was no insurrection. There was no riot either. There was an election integrity protest, wherein the protesters were freely admitted to the Capitol by security and peacefully escorted as they paraded through the building. We've all seen the videos.
There was no riot, and they're was definitely no military or paramilitary activity. No one attempted to form a new government, nor was there any effort to seize & hold the Capitol. The only major criminal act was the theft of Enemy of the People Speaker Pelosi's lectern.
Anyone who calls the January 6 election integrity protest an insurrection is either cluelessly ignorant, or lying. That's it.
I continue to wonder how much money the Injustices of the Colorado Supreme Kangaroo Court accepted from hostile foreign agents and NGOs. Or perhaps it was blackmail?
When there is video of windows being broken and people climbing through them--and there is video of that in the archive released by Speaker Johnson, yes, it's a riot.
Nor can we say the protestors were "peacefully escorted"--the shooting (and arguably murder) of Ashley Babbitt by Capitol Hill Police cuts rather conclusively against that grain.
But a riot is not an insurrection. This riot certainly was not an insurrection.
I dunno. The videos I've seen, of a couple fairly obvious "Anti" Fascists breaking windows - to the dismay of nearby protestors - still didn't look like much of a "riot". Particularly given the context of very real, very large black supremacy riots that year.
Nor does the murder of an unarmed peaceful protestor by a trigger happy (& perhaps ideologically motivated?) copper somehow make the election integrity protestors into rioters.
Sorry, I just can't buy it. It looked a whole lot more like a traditional peaceful political protest than any sort of riot. A whole lot more.