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BTW, that story about the cop being killed by protestors was a total fabrication.
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The U.S. Capitol Insurrection of 2021
Re: The U.S. Capitol Insurrection of 2021
by Plantagenet » Tue 09 Mar 2021, 21:43:59
It looked violent to me watching those videos. A mob can inflict damage without it being so organized, especially if they're assisted by an absent defense (also an act of insurrection IMO) and, get this, following EXPLICIT instructions to topple a duly elected leader of the country in order to allow a person to retain power that they lost through a legitimate election. I guess you have a different definition of INSURRECTION.
No....dissident is 100% right.
The NY Times reported that a policeman had been killed after he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the insurrection.
However, all of the video and all of the still photographs have been closely examined and there is no footage of a policeman being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher.
Furthermore, the policeman who was supposedly killed by being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher was alive and doing well after the insurrection----he called his family and said he was OK.
Then he seems to have suffered a stroke in the evening and he was taken to the hospital where he died the next day.
The autopsy report hasn't been released, for some mysterious reason, but the NY Times has already "corrected" their story to say the officer wasn't killed by a fire extinguisher. The report form the hospital is that there there was no bruising or damage at all to the man's head consistent with him being hit with a fire extinguisher.
It now appears that story was a complete fabrication by the NY Times, just as dissident says.
Curiously, the House leadership must've known it was a fabrication well before the impeachment trial for Trump, but the impeachment managers claimed over and over again that an officer was killed during the insurrection in their impeachment presentation, presumably because they liked the way it sounded.
Some have speculated that the reason the Ds suddenly flip-flopped and refused to allow any questions in the impeachment trial is they realized that one of the R Senators was going to ask them about their repeated phony claims that an officer had been killed in the insurrection, and they would've been forced to admit they had been lying about this matter all during the impeachment trial.....which is a violation of law since the impeachment managers were under oath.
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Re: The U.S. Capitol Insurrection of 2021
by aadbrd » Wed 10 Mar 2021, 11:29:52
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Apparently "stop the steal" has an undying ally in peakoil.com.
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Re: The U.S. Capitol Insurrection of 2021
by Pops » Wed 10 Mar 2021, 11:43:43
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aadbrd', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '
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Apparently "stop the steal" has an undying ally in peakoil.com.
The first thing I thought was "belief doesn't need evidence"
Then I thought: just like religion
Then... I saw this in the Atlantic:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Politics Is the New Religion
As faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption doom the American idea?
The united states had long been a holdout among Western democracies, uniquely and perhaps even suspiciously devout. From 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about 70 percent. Then something happened. Over the past two decades, that number has dropped to less than 50 percent, the sharpest recorded decline in American history. Meanwhile, the “nones”—atheists, agnostics, and those claiming no religion—have grown rapidly and today represent a quarter of the population.
But if secularists hoped that declining religiosity would make for more rational politics, drained of faith’s inflaming passions, they are likely disappointed. As Christianity’s hold, in particular, has weakened, ideological intensity and fragmentation have risen. American faith, it turns out, is as fervent as ever; it’s just that what was once religious belief has now been channeled into political belief. Political debates over what America is supposed to mean have taken on the character of theological disputations. This is what religion without religion looks like.
Drat! preempted again!
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The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
