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Libertas wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:12 pm Lemme guess, con giving cover to the fascists.
It is what they do.
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Libertas wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:12 pm Lemme guess, con giving cover to the fascists.
Con is a fascist.

Which of them aren't. :problem:
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sam lefthand wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:34 pm Glenn, Marindem, Bluedogdem, and X, guys the solution to your argument about that AP article and the term they used can be looked up in the AP book of style. Every large news publishing house maintains a book of style. Hot button issues surrounding the reporting they do are usually found there. I look up three or four of these a year.

I googled: AP Jan 6 book of style, it lead right to the specific policy statement which was issued by AP for their reporting on this topic. Here it is, they issued this guidance on the same day it happened, on Jan 6th:

How to describe the events at the U.S. Capitol
by John Daniszewski, Vice President for Standards on Jan. 6, 2021

https://www.apstylebook.com/blog_posts/17
If the January 6th riot were an insurrection why hasn't anyone been charged or convicted of any crimes related to an insurrection.
Instead they have all been charged or convicted of crimes related to a riot.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:48 am If the January 6th riot were an insurrection why hasn't anyone been charged or convicted of any crimes related to an insurrection.
Instead they have all been charged or convicted of crimes related to a riot.
Mostly because they're starting with the low level offenders. The conspirators come later.

But hey, you think it's no big deal to invade our capitol and try to kill our leaders. All for Trump. He told you it was no insurrection, so you carry his talking points.

But if that had been Black Lives Matter? You'd be singing a different tune.
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One point needs to be made.

https://www.foleygriffin.com/blog/2021/ ... -a-crime-/

The Office of the Attorney General is the only body that can bring insurrection and rebellion charges, but these charges are extremely rare.

[snip][end]

That's it. A lower federal court can't. (That's why in part the 2nd part of the sentence is true.) You're welcome.
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Charges for insurrection, if they come, are going to be against the higher up the food chain perps. The leaders and the planners. But make no mistake. This was an insurrection and attempted coup and it was planned. It was followed closely and developed soon after the election. With a trail left all over social media, podcasts, right wing radio, etc.
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Drak wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:40 am Charges for insurrection, if they come, are going to be against the higher up the food chain perps. The leaders and the planners. But make no mistake. This was an insurrection and attempted coup and it was planned. It was followed closely and developed soon after the election. With a trail left all over social media, podcasts, right wing radio, etc.
Instead of dealing in the reality that his party tried to take over the government and stop a duly elected President from being inaugurated, Glenn sets up a strawman of things he says - without attribution - MUST be followed for it not to be a riot.

What if they had made it into the chambers, taken the Congressmen and Senators hostage and started executions? What if they had killed Pence and Pelosi? What if Trump then declared the election null and void and gotten away with it?

"Oh, just a protest out of hand" he'd say. And he'd be cheering.
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gounion wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:47 am Instead of dealing in the reality that his party tried to take over the government and stop a duly elected President from being inaugurated, Glenn sets up a strawman of things he says - without attribution - MUST be followed for it not to be a riot.

What if they had made it into the chambers, taken the Congressmen and Senators hostage and started executions? What if they had killed Pence and Pelosi? What if Trump then declared the election null and void and gotten away with it?

"Oh, just a protest out of hand" he'd say. And he'd be cheering.
Yep. And they are STILL active with a coup attempt. Trump and his team of traitors are still claiming he’s the rightful President. That he will be reinstalled. That he will be House Speaker and Biden and Harris will be removed. That they have an army, etc. And the GOP are passing laws to throw out election results. And the local cons don’t care.

When video links start working it’s time to start posting on the ground video from that day, because apparently they haven’t seen it or choose to ignore it.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:48 am If the January 6th riot were an insurrection why hasn't anyone been charged or convicted of any crimes related to an insurrection.
Instead they have all been charged or convicted of crimes related to a riot.
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gounion wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:47 am

What if they had made it into the chambers, taken the Congressmen and Senators hostage and started executions? What if they had killed Pence and Pelosi? What if Trump then declared the election null and void and gotten away with it?

That wasn’t going to happen. The Capital Police would have shot then first to break through and the rest would have quickly run away.

I remember watching and seeing many armed and ready Capital Police. After a few rioters get dropped the rest run like cowards.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... b-n1253640

Note the picture with 5 armed Capital Police at the ready.
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Bludogdem wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:30 am That wasn’t going to happen.
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ProfX wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:26 am One point needs to be made.

https://www.foleygriffin.com/blog/2021/ ... -a-crime-/

The Office of the Attorney General is the only body that can bring insurrection and rebellion charges, but these charges are extremely rare.

[snip][end]

That's it. A lower federal court can't. (That's why in part the 2nd part of the sentence is true.) You're welcome.
Well Thank You X.

I just got up, Saturday is my day to sleep in, I haven't even had coffee yet. I'm sure glad you took care of answering Glenn's post for me.

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Bludogdem wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:30 amThat wasn’t going to happen.
Explain the Gallows that was erected? Capitol Police were overwhelmed and asking for assistance early on and it took hours for such assistance to arrive....interference from higher ups in the Traitor's cabal prevented early reinforcements from arriving.
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Semantics don't change the fact that an event similar to, though not as successful as, the taking of the Bastille happened in the United States. Semantics don't change the facts on the ground. Call it a William if it helps. Five were killed and the government was disrupted in a massive William at the national Capitol during a session certifying the fairly counted and enumerated vote of the people. The elected leaders of the nation were placed in mortal danger for a period of hours. The duly constituted authorities took their sweet time deciding what to do, perhaps on purpose. (That has yet to be determined.)

On the lower bottom up levels, the William was loosely organized, as most such Williams are. The William was caused by a lot of people who felt the same way getting together and seeing whether they could impose their will on everyone else, as most such Williams are. The William can be likened to many such incidents in history, though others have different names. They're still the same thing.

Losers of such Williams get arrested and wind up in jail, except in countries where they're shot on sight. It is assumed that someone had to be egging on the crowd, and that's who authorities, if they are still in power, seek out for prosecution, except in countries where they just disappear and are never seen again. Oops, I forgot that in some countries, such as this one, another thing often happens. The guilty parties who can afford it lawyer up, defy subpoenas, and demonstrate that the very rich and influential might very well actually be above the law. Here, the deluded foot soldiers take the fall and the leaders run for office.
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Drak wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:55 am Yep. And they are STILL active with a coup attempt. Trump and his team of traitors are still claiming he’s the rightful President. That he will be reinstalled. That he will be House Speaker and Biden and Harris will be removed. That they have an army, etc. And the GOP are passing laws to throw out election results. And the local cons don’t care.

When video links start working it’s time to start posting on the ground video from that day, because apparently they haven’t seen it or choose to ignore it.
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Bludogdem wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:30 am That wasn’t going to happen. The Capital Police would have shot then first to break through and the rest would have quickly run away.

I remember watching and seeing many armed and ready Capital Police. After a few rioters get dropped the rest run like cowards.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... b-n1253640

Note the picture with 5 armed Capital Police at the ready.
The Storming of the Bastille was by unarmed peasants. And then there was the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania.

We came very close to deaths and anarchy on Jan. 6th. But you're trying to pretend it was no big deal. We can see what side you were on. Denying reality in fealty to Trump.
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Bludogdem wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:30 am That wasn’t going to happen. The Capital Police would have shot then first to break through and the rest would have quickly run away.

I remember watching and seeing many armed and ready Capital Police. After a few rioters get dropped the rest run like cowards.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... b-n1253640

Note the picture with 5 armed Capital Police at the ready.
Yeah, and the Capitol Hill Police were doing to keep them out of the Capitol building.
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Five Armed Police against how many hundreds?
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FACT: The Capitol Hill Police Force called for reinforcements, it took hours for those reinforcements to arrive.

FACT: Ghouliani called for" Trial By Fire".

FACT: The Traitor called on his sycophantic followers to "Stand Down and Stand By".

FACT: The Secretary of The Army (Who had Command and Control of The Washington, D.C. National Guard delayed sending troops vital to the security of the U.S. Capitol Building for several hours.

FACT: For weeks leading up to the Insurrection, the Traitor and his cabal were violent language and imagery in regarding to demonstrators coming to the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

FACT: Traitor Loving/America Hating Q-Publicans were giving guided tours of the Capitol Building to known demonstrators the day before the attack on the Capitol Building.

FACT: By his own admission Bannon helped plan the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

FACT: Flynn's brother delayed sending troops to the U.S. Capitol Building on the day of the Insurrection.

FACT: The attack on the U.S. Capitol Building was planned with the knowledge and assistance of the Traitor and his cabal.

FACT: Q-Publicans are continuing to attempt to do their level goddamn best block, thwart and inhibit the Congressional Investigation in the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building. Going so far to block the original committee and having Screaming Red, White & Blue Shit Fits when Speaker Pelosi block two Q-Publicans from joining that Committee, knowing their own purpose to be on committee was block the investigation.

From the start of investigation, Q-Publicans have done whatever they can do to end it. Even after the attack on the Capitol Building, member of the Q-Publicans attempted block the certification of Joseph R. Biden as President of the United States.

A Gallows was erected to hang Pence, Pelosi and AOC (Among others).

NO CONS....it was NOT A RIOT. IT WAS AN INSURRECTION AND IT IS ONGOING.
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ZoWie wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 12:31 pm Semantics don't change the fact that an event similar to, though not as successful as, the taking of the Bastille happened in the United States.
Yeah but this is the same group of people whose relatives referred to a war that killed 3/4 of a million people "the recent unpleasantness."

They'll also chop somebody's head off over a statue. So they've got both a semantics issue and an irrationality issue.
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marindem01 wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:41 pm FACT: The Capitol Hill Police Force called for reinforcements, it took hours for those reinforcements to arrive.

FACT: Ghouliani called for" Trial By Fire".

FACT: The Traitor called on his sycophantic followers to "Stand Down and Stand By".

FACT: The Secretary of The Army (Who had Command and Control of The Washington, D.C. National Guard delayed sending troops vital to the security of the U.S. Capitol Building for several hours.

FACT: For weeks leading up to the Insurrection, the Traitor and his cabal were violent language and imagery in regarding to demonstrators coming to the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

FACT: Traitor Loving/America Hating Q-Publicans were giving guided tours of the Capitol Building to known demonstrators the day before the attack on the Capitol Building.

FACT: By his own admission Bannon helped plan the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

FACT: Flynn's brother delayed sending troops to the U.S. Capitol Building on the day of the Insurrection.

FACT: The attack on the U.S. Capitol Building was planned with the knowledge and assistance of the Traitor and his cabal.

FACT: Q-Publicans are continuing to attempt to do their level goddamn best block, thwart and inhibit the Congressional Investigation in the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building. Going so far to block the original committee and having Screaming Red, White & Blue Shit Fits when Speaker Pelosi block two Q-Publicans from joining that Committee, knowing their own purpose to be on committee was block the investigation.

From the start of investigation, Q-Publicans have done whatever they can do to end it. Even after the attack on the Capitol Building, member of the Q-Publicans attempted block the certification of Joseph R. Biden as President of the United States.

A Gallows was erected to hang Pence, Pelosi and AOC (Among others).

NO CONS....it was NOT A RIOT. IT WAS AN INSURRECTION AND IT IS ONGOING.
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Actor Arrested For His Role In The Jan. 6 Sedition Riot

Florida actor James D. Beeks, who goes by the stage name of James T. Justis, was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for his role in the January 6th Sedition Riot. Beeks was in Milwaukee performing in the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar:"

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/11/acto ... tent=53389
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Former New York Police Commissioner and Brown Nosing Buddy of Ghouli, Bernie Kerik Is Demanding An Apology From January 6th Committee, But He Is Also Plans To Comply With Subpoena.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/2 ... ogy-523259.
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gounion wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:12 pm The Storming of the Bastille was by unarmed peasants. And then there was the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania.

We came very close to deaths and anarchy on Jan. 6th. But you're trying to pretend it was no big deal. We can see what side you were on. Denying reality in fealty to Trump.
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“ Storming the Bastille (14 July 1789)[edit]

People in the Castle of Bastille, (Musée de la Révolution française).

An eyewitness painting of the siege of the Bastille by Claude Cholat[A]

A plan of the Bastille and surrounding buildings made immediately after 1789; the red dot marks the perspective of Claude Cholat's painting of the siege.
On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris was in a state of alarm. The partisans of the Third Estate in France, now under the control of the Bourgeois Militia of Paris (soon to become Revolutionary France's National Guard), had earlier stormed the Hôtel des Invalides without meeting significant opposition.[24] Their intention had been to gather the weapons held there (29,000 to 32,000 muskets, but without powder or shot). The commandant at the Invalides had in the previous few days taken the precaution of transferring 250 barrels of gunpowder to the Bastille for safer storage.[25]

At this point, the Bastille was nearly empty, housing only seven prisoners:[26] four forgers arrested under warrants issued by the Grand Châtelet court; James F.X. Whyte, an Irish born "lunatic" suspected of spying and imprisoned at the request of his family; Auguste-Claude Tavernier, who had tried to assassinate Louis XV thirty years before; and one "deviant" aristocrat suspected of murder, the Comte de Solages,[27] imprisoned by his father using a lettre de cachet (while the Marquis de Sade had been transferred out ten days earlier).[25]

The high cost of maintaining a garrisoned medieval fortress, for what was seen as having a limited purpose, had led to a decision being made shortly before the disturbances began to replace it with an open public space.[28] Amid the tensions of July 1789, the building remained as a symbol of royal tyranny.[29]

The regular garrison consisted of 82 invalides (veteran soldiers no longer suitable for service in the field).[30] It had however been reinforced on 7 July by 32 grenadiers of the Swiss Salis-Samade Regiment from the regular troops on the Champ de Mars.[31] The walls mounted 18 eight-pound guns and 12 smaller pieces. The governor was Bernard-René de Launay, son of a previous governor and actually born within the Bastille.[25]


Arrest of Launay, by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, 1790, (Musée de la Révolution française)

Arrest of Launay by an unknown artist. An analysis in 2013 of the Bastille's dimensions showed that it did not tower over the neighborhood as depicted in the paintings, but was a comparable height to other buildings in the neighborhood.[32]
The official list of vainqueurs de la Bastille (conquerors of the Bastille) subsequently compiled has 954 names,[33] and the total of the crowd was probably fewer than one thousand. A breakdown of occupations included in the list indicates that the majority were local artisans, together with some regular army deserters and a few distinctive categories, such as 21 wine merchants.[34]

The crowd gathered outside the fortress around mid-morning, calling for the pulling back of the seemingly threatening cannon from the embrasures of the towers and walls[35] and the release of the arms and gunpowder stored inside.[25] Two representatives from the Hotel de Ville (municipal authorities from the Town Hall)[36] were invited into the fortress and negotiations began, while another was admitted around noon with definite demands. The negotiations dragged on while the crowd grew and became impatient.[35] Around 1:30 pm, the crowd surged into the undefended outer courtyard.[37] A small party climbed onto the roof of a building next to the gate to the inner courtyard of the fortress and broke the chains on the drawbridge, crushing one vainqueur as it fell. Soldiers of the garrison called to the people to withdraw, but amid the noise and confusion these shouts were misinterpreted as encouragement to enter.[4] Gunfire began, apparently spontaneously, turning the crowd into a mob. The crowd seems to have felt that they had been intentionally drawn into a trap and the fighting became more violent and intense, while attempts by deputies to organise a cease-fire were ignored by the attackers.[4]

The firing continued, and after 3:00 pm, the attackers were reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises, along with two cannons. A substantial force of Royal Army troops encamped on the Champ de Mars did not intervene.[38] With the possibility of mutual carnage suddenly apparent, Governor de Launay ordered the garrison to cease firing[39] at 5:00 pm. A letter written by de Launay offering surrender but threatening to explode the powder stocks held if the garrison were not permitted to evacuate the fortress unharmed, was handed out to the besiegers through a gap in the inner gate.[39] His demands were not met, but Launay nonetheless capitulated, as he realised that with limited food stocks and no water supply[34] his troops could not hold out much longer. He accordingly opened the gates, and the vainqueurs swept in to take over the fortress at 5:30 pm.[39]

Ninety-eight attackers and one defender had died in the actual fighting, a disparity accounted for by the protection provided to the garrison by the fortress walls.[40] Launay was seized and dragged towards the Hôtel de Ville in a storm of abuse. Outside the Hôtel, a discussion as to his fate began.[41] The badly beaten Launay shouted "Enough! Let me die!"[42] and kicked a pastry cook named Dulait in the groin. Launay was then stabbed repeatedly and died. An English traveller, Doctor Edward Rigby, reported what he saw, "[We] perceived two bloody heads raised on pikes, which were said to be the heads of the Marquis de Launay, Governor of the Bastille, and of Monsieur Flesselles, Prévôt des Marchands. It was a chilling and a horrid sight! ... Shocked and disgusted at this scene, [we] retired immediately from the streets."[43]

The three officers of the permanent Bastille garrison were also killed by the crowd; surviving police reports detail their wounds and clothing.[44]

Three[45] of the invalides of the garrison were lynched plus two[31] of the Swiss regulars of the Salis-Samade Regiment. The remaining Swiss were protected by the French Guards[46] and eventually released to return to their regiment.[47] Their officer, Lieutenant Louis de Flue of the Salis-Samade Regiment wrote a detailed report on the defense of the Bastille, which was incorporated in the logbook of the Salis-Samade and has survived.[48] It is (perhaps unfairly) critical of the dead Marquis de Launay, whom Flue accuses of weak and indecisive leadership.[48] The blame for the fall of the Bastille would rather appear to lie with the inertia of the commanders of the 5,000[49] Royal Army troops encamped on the Champ de Mars, who did not act when either the nearby Hôtel des Invalides or the Bastille were attacked.[50]”

29,000+ muskets in need of ammo and powder.
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Muskets without ammo and gunpowder are sticks.
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