If I watch the left wing media (which I have in the last 48 hours to watch the Joe meltdown) it’s an everyday watch.

I certainly don’t want to play down the severity of the incident but the level of violence was nothing short of an old fashioned bank holiday dust up and nowhere near a BLM fracas, Brixton or poll tax riot etc!!

I do not recall a million years of prison sentences being handed out in these incidents!! Certainly charges are needed but as everything in US politics there seem equalities in how punishments are determined!

It is noted that now the mainstream are openly questioning Biden's fitness for office. Articles are being written in Democratic media, like Time, New York Times and most all sources that Biden isn't up to his role.

However, this has been what...these same people have called the 'far right' have been saying loudly since 2019. They were the ones telling the truth.

Yet the Democrats and their allies were willing to lie and distort to the public for years....and all their media outlets lied with them to go along with it. They curated Biden's appearances, ensured he had as soft a questions as possible and kept him away from scrutiny as much as possible.

This wasn't managing a sweet shop, this is the most important job in the world and affects all of us.

When you're manipulating and lying to retain power you no longer have a moral right to it.

That isn't of course held to anywhere within our money-power world. But we should have a media which holds politicians to the ethics they preach but don't live.

As I've said for years, people should have to live their principles.

It shows you exactly what these people are.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Was it a riot or an insurrection or a protest that got out of hand.

The democrats have said this was an insurrection the SC I believe will have to rule on this (I don't think they have yet). If they rule this was not an insurrection then quite a number of charges will have to be set aside.

For my mind it was a riot but I have heard constitutional experts argue both sides it seems the SC will have to provide a legal definition of an insurrection.

One more point

There are many different charges being labeled at Trump but I think comments are specific to the “January 6th riots”. Almost 500 people have been imprisoned for up to 20 years terms.

In the liberal society we live in at present that does seem excessive versus the crime!!!

Slap on the wrist is normally sufficient thee days!!

Do you not think that attacking a seat of government, in an attempt to stop the verification of a democratic election by the elected representatives, threatening extreme violence, using some violence and forcing the suspension of the democratic process and the retreat of the representatives to an inner sanctum, sets this apart from anything else?

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

However it gets legally defined it was an unacceptable attack, for unacceptable reasons, on the seat of government. Those orchestrating it deserve severe punishment, those encouraging it likewise. Those caught up in the emotion, or mislead by all the bs, less so. Show them mercy and understanding by all means but not on those behind it and that trail ends at only one door.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.