Comparing Riots

For John, BLUF:  Some of us think the "Worst since…" rhetoric regarding Occupy Capitol Hill is a little overblown.  My comparison is the 1 March 1954 shoorup of the House floor (30 shots fired).  The Blogger linked below picks the May 2020 assault on the White House.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Flashback May 2020 Assault On The White House:  60 Secret Service Agents Wounded, President Trump Taken to Secure Bunker

Here is the sub-headline:

Let’s put this crazy J6 “insurrection” lunacy into perspective.

From Legal Insurrection, by Fuzzy Slippers, 8 January 2022, 07:30 PM.

Here is the lede plus three:

The Democrats’ January 6 clown show was worse than even I expected.  Their hysterical, pearl-clutching, lie-filled response to the events on January 6th, what Democrats are clearly hoping will be their transformative Reichstag moment, is unseemly, phony to its core, and purely and solely political.

We know this because there was no outrage over the leftist rioters who attempted to stop the peaceful transition of power during President Trump’s inauguration.  Not only did anti-Trump leftists riot, attack and injure police, set cars and buildings on fire, but they were later rewarded for this attempt to “subvert Democracy” to the tune of $1.6 million in taxpayer money.

Do you know how many Congressional Democrats (or Republicans for that matter) wailed about our “democracy” on the brink?  Do you know how many of these inauguration rioters were hunted down by the FBI, arrested, beaten and mistreated, and held as political prisoners for over a year?  Do you know how many of them were harboring blueprints of the Capitol building . . . or wait, that was an unconstructed, still boxed, Lego set not a “model” used for terroristic purposes or whatever random lunacy the FBI preened at that time.  If you said zero, you’re right on all counts.

And honestly, I think this clear two levels of justice—one for “righteous” protesters, including those who burned, looted, and murdered their way through Democrat-run cities in 2020, and one for J6 “terrorists”—is the reason that Democrats will never amass anything close to majority support for their January 6th witch hunt.

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Nor did they condemn the multi-day May, 2020 assault on the White House that left at least 60 Secret Service agents wounded and forced President Trump to be whisked away to a bunker for his personal safety.

On 6 January demonstrators urned into rioters.  Rioting is bad, and should receive appropriate punishment.  The fact that it was Speaker Nancy Pelosi who was worried, rather than the Wife of Joe Sixpack, in Seattle or Portland or Kanosha or Waukesha should make no difference.  Ms Pelosi carries no title of nobility.

As to if 6 January was an Insurrection, if it was it was one of the worst in history.  No one brought weapons, not even pitch forks.  Who was going to run things?  Apparently not the man with the horned helmut.  Some people need some perspective.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff