Jonathan Turley
EXCERPT By declaring the Jan. 6th riot an “insurrection,” some Democratic members of Congress and liberal activists hope to bar incumbent Republicans from running. Even support for court filings is now being declared an act of rebellion.
Speaker Pelosi helped fuel this movement — before Jan. 6 even occurred — by declaring that the Republicans supporting election challenges were “subverting the Constitution by their reckless and fruitless assault on our democracy which threatens to seriously erode public trust in our most sacred democratic institutions, and to set back our progress on the urgent challenges ahead.”
However, it has not been treated legally as an insurrection.
Those charged for their role in the attack that day are largely facing trespass and other less serious charges — rather than insurrection or sedition.
That’s because this was a riot that was allowed to get out of control by grossly negligent preparations by Capitol Police and congressional officials.
While the FBI launched a massive national investigation, it did not find evidence of an insurrection.
Demands For Secure Elections Do Not Constitute ‘Insurrection’
The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 03, 2022 | Jordan Boyd
Posted on 1/4/2022, 2:13:47 PM by george76
To corrupt media, Democrats, and Big Tech, anyone who protested the 2020 election is no different than the fools who stormed the U.S. Capitol.
On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the corporate media is working overtime to convince the American public that Republicans as a whole stormed the nation’s beacon of democracy at the beginning of 2021 and have waged a war on all that is good and decent.
While lunatics and fools did invade the Capitol last January, tens of thousands of Americans peacefully assembled to demand answers from the government about what they believed to be the sloppiest election in which they’ve ever voted.
Political violence should always be condemned, but a majority of the people present in Washington, D.C., and on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 weren’t violent.
Yes, hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in a riot, but tens of thousands of people of all ages, races, backgrounds, and lifestyles gathered together that day at the Save America Rally to protest the Democrats’ sleazy election manipulation and hear from President Donald Trump.
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The number of Americans lawfully assembled in D.C. on January 6th, 2021 was between one million and two million.