jimjam wrote:Rioters are believed to have defecated in one of the bathrooms
Believed by who? Joe Biden Cultural Marxists types who "prefer truths over facts"? There might be all sorts of reasons for the excrement. It could well have been agent provocateurs. It could be that the protesters were just scared for their lives.
I remember on this forum a leftie Decky mocked me, because I said I had difficulty dealing with this mad woman round our place swinging a chair. Of course it was difficult because if I injured a woman in a confrontation it would have looked bad, would have possibly led to my prosecution. But of course Decky leftie hypocrite that he was, chose to play into sexist pig stereotypes that women are pathetic laughable creatures and that a real man should always be to disarm and control a woman without serious injury to himself or leaving so much as a mark on her.
Yet Ashli Babbitt was just shot cold. Protesters had good reason to feel terrified, if they were prepared to just shoot a woman like that. Now unlike leftie hypocrite Decky I'm not going to criticise the individual who shot her, any-more than I'm going to criticise the actions of our brave boys of 1st Para, who made such a robust response against the rioters on Bloody Sunday. I've done some gate and security at various levels of repsonsibility, I have some idea of how challenging it can be.
However the killing of Ashli Babbit was still a catastrophic failure of policing. I've been on many a leftist protests, I've been involved in the storming of a government building and I've been involved with protests described as riots. I've not been on a protest which successfully stormed Parliament or 10 Down Street, but I've sure been on protests where a lot of people wanted to storm them and I can assure you that if we had we would not have left a pretty picture. And I can also assure you that on any of those protests if a woman had been shot cold the way Ashli Babbit was there would have been uproar, absolute uproar.
The storming of the Capitol building was an absolutely normal protest from the protesters side. Of course some individuals will engage in more extreme actions. IRA prisoners painted their own prison cells with excrement, that gained them, not lost them political support. but even if this completely unproven allegation is true, even if one protester did engage in a rather repulsive act, since when has a mass protest movement containing millions of people been responsible for every individual that acts in its name. Its utterly absurd.
No what was abnormal about the capitol occupation, was the policing. Of course some protesters should be prosecuted for their actions, but these extreme prison sentences are disgusting. This attempt to scape goat the protesters for this catastrophic incompetence and negligence in policing is disgrace. Donald Trump is absolutely right to be talking about pardons. In talking about pardons it is Donald Trump that is actually trying to properly institute the rule of law.