The air leaves the balloon.
The prospect of dozens of Jan. 6 rioters cutting deals for minor sentences could be hard to explain for the Biden administration, which has characterized the Capitol Hill mob as a uniquely dangerous threat. Before assuming office, Biden said the rioters’ attempt to overturn the election results by force “borders on sedition”; Attorney General Merrick Garland has called the prosecutions his top early priority, describing the storming of Congress as “a heinous attack that sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our democracy, the peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government.”
Justice Department prosecutors sent expectations sky-high in early statements and court filings, describing elaborate plots to murder lawmakers — descriptions prosecutors have tempered as new details emerged.[…]
There are also sensitive issues about precedent for the future, given the frequency of politically inspired demonstrations on Capitol Hill that run afoul of the law.
While violent assaults in the Capitol are rare, protests and acts of civil disobedience — such as disrupting congressional hearings or even House and Senate floor sessions, are more common. That means prosecutors and judges will have to weigh how much more punishment a Trump supporter who invaded the Capitol during the Electoral College count deserves than, say, an anti-war protester chanting at a CIA confirmation hearing or a gun-control advocate shouting in the middle of the State of the Union address. […]
That reckoning is coming sooner rather than later, lawyers say, putting prosecutors in the position of wrist-slapping many participants in the riot despite framing the crimes as part of an insurrection that presented a grave threat to American democracy.
Surprising no one who knows the basic facts of the “insurrection”. But it’s been written for a mainstream media audience, so there’s plenty of explaining.
I think prosecutors are going to have to do a lot of explaining when there are maybe pictures of a dozen people actively destroying things or assaulting people while there are endless videos of Capital Police waving endless people in. Also when Pelosi gets called to the stand to explain why she had Capital Police stand down, it will get interesting.
It was the mainstream media that changed the narrative from peaceful protest to full fledge riots and Insurrection.
Considering Congress were able to continue a few hours later shows what a nothing burger this actually was.
But the media needed to hype it to the maximum of narrative flipping.
Truly was the most peaceful riot that I have ever witnessed.
Related – AOC thinks “surge” and “insurgency” are the same thing, and it’s white supremacy to compare the surge at the border to the “Racists” in the Jan 6 “insurgency”
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/03/31/aoc-explains-why-saying-theres-a-surge-at-the-border-is-militaristic-and-wrong-because-theyre-not-insurgents/
Warning – watching her video may cause a temporary loss of IQ by viewers.
There will be as many trials against these *cough* *cough* … insurrectionists … as there were against “Russian co-conspirators” in muh Russiagate.
The Left tells a LIE, the media hyperventilates that LIE, repeating it like a Tourette’s patient off their meds … and their entire Potemkin village goes up in flames.
I can only imagine the Lawfare wing of the Communist Leftists in this country were licking their lips at the prospect of aiding and abetting the US Government going after our own people. But then, I suspect they became aware that conservative law groups were going to offer pro-bono defenses for these trespassers … starting with the absence of “No Trespassing” signs on the US Capital. And the Leftist Lawfare groups all dropped their stones.
Pretty hard to explain why you’re going after a felony and prison sentence for someone that walked into congress, looked around and maybe waved a flag after being waved in by police, when people who smashed windows, burned down buildings, killed people, and assaulted police officers were let off after a night in jail. If that.
I’m not sure when (or if) honest citizens will reach a breaking point, but I’d be worried about getting pretty close to that line. As of now, the far left rioters (aka “protesters”) have set a pretty liberal precedent as far as what you’re allowed to get away with when it comes to airing your grievances. And honest, hard working citizens in all western civilizations have an awful lot of grievances to air.
Pelosi colluded with ANTIFA to stir things up and had her Poodles in the media run with the story that it was MAGA types.
I’d bet defence lawyers we’re licking their chops in anticipation of the discovery phase…that’s when things would really get awkward.
They are about to be confronted with the demon after they brushed aside all the protections that where put in place to protect them from the same demon.
There is pictures of her son with buffalo boy on Jan 6 in dc. Was he arrested?
The “mainstream media audience” is expected to read and comprehend at a 5th grade level.
QAnon! Proud Boys! QAnon! Russia Russia Russia!
Justice Department prosecutors sent expectations sky-high in early statements and court filings, describing elaborate plots to murder lawmakers — descriptions prosecutors have tempered as new details emerged.[…]
A lie travels something something while the truth something something boots. Nobody will notice or care what eventually comes of these sensational charges, they’ll all remember the sensational charges – because the sensational charges are all they ever cared about. What I say three times is true.
Insurrection never sounded right. I’m half American, and the prospect of getting 500,000 of my brethren in one place with 0 firearms is prima facie evidence in my opinion that it was the furthest thing from one. In Texas, where my family is, if you have a group of 10 people, someone is likely armed, which is why random violence is so rare, way less fun for the perps when the intended victims shoot back….accurately. Unlike the sad story from Collingwood above, if that happens, the police apologize to the intended victims for not arriving sooner and having them have to expend their own ammo, and call the local municipality to clean up the mess.
God bless Texas.