Insurrection!?! Ron Johnson is correct.
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Was the riot at the Capitol on Jan 6th, an armed insurrection? The media like to point out that 5 people died. That molotov cocktails were carried by one man. That Service members who participated should not be allowed in uniform and the military as a result should be forced to go through re-education.
All this is political narrative, not truth, managed for political gain and a desire for control. Sen. Ron Johnson is correct, 20,000 protestors, 20,000!, maybe 800 entered the Capitol illegally. Entering the Capitol was wrong. The rest is a ‘false narrative’ to paint Trump supporters as violent.
But, if the media barrage on this subject is confusing, here is all you need to know about the Capitol Riot.
1. Was it a riot or a protest? It was a riot, because property was damaged and the crowd was breaking and entering. The summer protests did the same and worse, and as a result were also riots. If Jan 6th was an insurrection, then so were the summer riots. The fact that insurrection is not used for the summer riots reveals the political narrative.
2. Why are a few hundred people trespassing at the Capitol for a couple of hours an insurrection, when a few hundred people have taken over Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis not an insurrection?
3. How many Jan 6th rioters killed anyone? NONE!
4. Were people killed over the summer by protestors? Yes.
5. Was property damaged in both? Yes.
6. Was property destroyed in both? No, only the summer protests destroyed property.
7. Were protestors other than Trump supporters involved? Yes. Did the others breach the Capitol? Yes.
8. Were people accosted by protestors in both situations? Yes. One for hours, the summer protestors still continue their public assaults.
The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics. We should all be afraid.
I agree that the threat of political violence is real. But, the media political narrative, and that here in this WaPo headline, means we should only be afraid of the manufactured threat of violence from the right, not real, daily violence from the left. The threat of violence, left wing violence, is alternately covered up and incited by the media. That is a dangerous as the threat.
There is a glaring double standard in reporting on protests by the media. Facts show that the media prefer left wing protests and hate right wing protests. Therefore they call right wing protests riots and insurrections and their grievances lies. They call left wing protests justified and their demands must be met. The whole think is a ‘false & inconsistent, media narrative’.
No, the Jan 6 riot was not on a par with 9/11 and other mass-murder attacks driven by motive to levy war against the U.S. government … https://t.co/yy2jHZTnMb
— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) May 25, 2021